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Pod-Textualizing the Past is a podcast that explores U.S. history from pre-colonization through the U.S. Civil War. Produced at the University of Texas at El Paso, Professor Susan Stanfield talks with experts about specific aspects of U.S. history and their cultural impact.
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Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Sarah Jencks (History Co-Lab, A non-profit company) will discuss traveling in the 1820s. While we may just hop in a plane or take our cars for travel, in the 1820s traveling around for pleasure was much more difficult. It could involve steam ships, canal boats, or a stage coach and in the case of Ellin Curson it entailed all three. Ellin left behind a diary that traces her 6 week trip from Baltimore to New York which reveals what it was like to be a young woman on a trip at this time.
You can read a transcription of the diary and also find links to a map and the travel guide used on the trip here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XU_PhqsCkL-91reSQ950RL-vEUYUaWn7B1v9HnCGhuQ/edit?invite=COa3lJIK
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