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Dr. J's American Passages
by Fireside Poems
Each episode Dr. J selects a passage from American literature, reads it aloud, and discusses what the passage contributes to our understanding of what America and being an American mean.
Episodes
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Episode 22: American Beauty
What is America's attitude toward beauty? Is it something valuable for itself alone? Or does it require some other more moral vrtue? Or is it merely something to be shown off? Or something to be disapproved of? Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth asks us to consider this question.
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Episode 21: Pocahontas
Is John Smith's account of his rescue by Pocahontas true? Does it mater?
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Episode 20: Sweet Thunder
The Calvinist preacher Jonathan Edwards describes his own discovery of he seetness of God.
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Episode 19: Self-Reliance
Self-reliance doesn't mean selfishness as much as it means self-confidence.
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Episode 18: Atalanta
W.E.B. Du Bois reflects on the threat to the soul of thiniking of the world in terms of dollars.
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Episdode 17: Remember the Ladies
As her husband John Adams participates in the writing of the founding documents of the United States of America, Abigail Adams asks him to consider too the wrongs done to women and the rights they should have in the new United States.
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Episode 16: A is for Antinomian
Hester presented as the embodiment of the American antinomian spirit.
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Episode 15: State Colleges and Universities
The value of state clleges and universities to America.
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Episode 14: Rip Van Winkle
Writing in 1819, over two hundred years ago, Washington Irving uses the image of a rickety wooden buildiing to represent the United States of America. Why?
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Episode 13: Jane Addams and Hull-House
The beginning of social work and social reform in America.
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Episode 12: The Namesake
An aAmerican born teen wishes to change the name his Indian-born parents gave him
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Episode 11: Not Easy
Guided by the Inner Light of the Quakers, John Woolman in the mid-1700s begins is work as an abolitionist against slavery.
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Episode 10: Mr. Ives’ Christmas
A man faces bleak Christmas memories.
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Episode 09: Natty Bumppo
On the American frontier the rifle must yield to the law even when carried by such a likeable guy as Natty Bumppo.
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Episode 08: Reading a Book
Frederick Douglass tells of the first book he read, The columbian Orator. What we can learn about what books should be taught in schools and what books should be in libraries. The importance of books and the importance of libraries and librarians.
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Episode 07: Two Ships
Should America be a land of religious liberty? or should it be the land of God's chosen people?
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Episode 06: Playing Army
A family in the 1950s visits the beach, with a storm in the offing.
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Episode 05: 3 Puffy Rolls
Ben Franklin provides a model for becoming part of ghte 10%.
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Episode 04: The Awakening
European maturity and American immaturity as they relates to sexuality and feminism
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Episode 03: Stick to the Boat
A passage showing the universal relevance of Herman Melville's classic
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Episode 02: Discovering New Faculties
In America, one can discover within new faculties that elsewhere aren't known to exist.
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Episode 01: What Is An American
J. Hector St. John de Crevecouer plces side by side American idealsand American slavery in pre-Revolutionary America.
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How many episodes does Dr. J's American Passages have?
Dr. J's American Passages currently has 23 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Dr. J's American Passages about?
Each episode Dr. J selects a passage from American literature, reads it aloud, and discusses what the passage contributes to our understanding of what America and being an American mean.
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Dr. J's American Passages has 23 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
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Dr. J's American Passages is created and hosted by Fireside Poems.
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