Private Voices Podcast
by Benjamin Roy
Private Voices podcast features interviews with professionals working in Civil War Era studies. Based on the Private Voices digital archive (altchive.org) this program features long form conversations based on the transitionally literate experience of the American Civil War. Guests are invited to discuss their research on the Civil War through letters and diaries featured on Private Voices, or discuss how their recent published scholarship reflects the transitionally literate experience of the Civil War.
Episodes
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Episode 3: James Scythes
Professor James Scythes is an Assistant Professor History at West Chester University. He is the author of "This Will Make a Man of Me": The Life and Letters of a Teenage Officer in the Civil War and Letters to Lizzie The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the One Woman Who Connected Them...
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Episode 2: Andrew Turner
Andrew Turner is a PhD student at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. His dissertation is on underage soldiers and sailors during the American Civil War, focusing on their conceptions of gender and manliness. To view the letters discussed during this program, visit altchive.org or the...
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Episode 1: Garrett Kost
Garrett Kost is a Park Ranger at Ford's Theatre, an installation of the National Mall in Washington D.C. Kost graduated from Gettysburg College, specializing in military history and public history. In this conversation, Kost explores the spring of 1865, Washington D.C., and the assassination of...
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Introduction: Welcome to Private Voices
Benjamin Roy, host of the Private Voices podcast, introduces the program, describes its objectives, relationship to the Private Voices digital archive (altchive.org), future guests, and the sponsors who made the podcast possible.
About this show
Private Voices podcast features interviews with professionals working in Civil War Era studies. Based on the Private Voices digital archive (altchive.org) this program features long form conversations based on the transitionally literate experience of the American Civil War. Guests are invited to discuss their research on the Civil War through letters and diaries featured on Private Voices, or discuss how their recent published scholarship reflects the transitionally literate experience of the Civil War.
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Benjamin Roy
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