Tag: Mark Twain

Teaching With Tension & The Illusion of Postracialism with Philathia Bolton, Cassander Smith, & Lee Bebout

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Apple | Spotify | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | CastBox | ListenNotes A new episode of The American Vandal Podcast features the co-editors of Teaching With Tension: Race, Resistance, & Reality in The Classrooom (Northwestern, 2019). In their introduction to this collection, they write that the book “advances pedagogical scholarship by examining the discourse of race in a particular cultural moment when the idea of postraciality and color-blind logics […]

Mark Twain, Journalism, & The Search for Genus Americanus with Loren Ghiglione, Alyssa Karas, & Dan Tham

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Apple | Spotify | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | CastBox | ListenNotes In 2011, a Northwestern journalism professor invited two graduating students to join him for a three-month road trip. They loosely followed the path set by Mark Twain and it took them to 38 states, covering over 14,000 miles. Interviewing other journalists, scholars, immigrants, nomads, and many others, they were looking for what John Steinbeck had called Genus Americanus, or “what was uniquely American about Americans.” They reported their trip […]

Exterminate All The Brutes with Sheri-Marie Harrison, Andrew Hoberek, & Ignacio Sanchez Prado

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New episode of The American Vandal Podcast focuses on Raoul Peck’s HBO documentary series.

The Suez Canal, #Stuckboat, & The Sinews of War and Trade with Laleh Khalili

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On the past, present, & future of the Suez Canal.

The Apocryphal Twain: “America is built on a tilt and everything loose slides to California.” (Plus Things Mark Twain Really Said About California!)

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Is Mark Twain really responsible for this aphorism about curiously unhinged Californians?

A Music Box, Minstrel Songs, & Mark Twain’s Emo Playlist

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Mark Twain’s complicated relationship with music reveals much about his writing process, personality, politics, and family relationships.

Unsealing the Archive of T.S. Eliot’s Love Letters to Emily Hale

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In 2020, Princeton unsealed an archive left behind by a fairly anonymous teacher and dramatist with a very famous friend…

Project Huckleberry (a.k.a. The Mandalorian)

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New episode of The American Vandal Podcast focuses on The Mandalorian and Twainian SciFi

Robinhood, r/WallStreetBets, Who’s Yellen Now, & The GameStop-ification of Finance

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New episode of the American Vandal podcast with Michelle Chihara, Anna Kornbluh, & Leigh Claire La Berge.