Mother of African American Literature - Phillis Wheatley
Civics & Coffee: A History Podcast
10/17/20
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This week I am going to talk about a woman who literally wrote her way to freedom, Phillis Wheatley. Kidnapped from Africa as a small child, Wheatley would gain fame and notoriety as a result of creative writing capabilities. Wheatley was able to meet some of the most infamous men of her time including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and John Hancock. So why is it we know so little about her? Listen to this weeks episode and find out.
Sources Used This Episode:
- Phillis Wheatley Historical Society
- LINK: phillis-wheatley.org/facts/
- Poetry Foundation - Phillis Wheatley
- LINK: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-wheatley#:~:text=(1770)%20was%20Wheatley's%20first%20published,Newport%2C%20Rhode%20Island%2C%20Mercury.
- Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage by Vincent Carretta
- The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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A History of Debates
October 10, 2020
•13m
I asked - you answered!
This week I am going to give you a run down of the history of political debates in American History. Did you know the first televised presidential debate was between two women and was 4 years before the infamous 1960 Kennedy / Nixon debates? Listen for this and much more on this week's listener requested episode of the history of debates.
Sources Used This Episode:
- The Commission on Presidential Debates: Debate History
- LINK: https://www.debates.org/debate-history/1960-debates
- Seven Things You May Not Know about Presidential Debates by Christopher Klein, History.com
- LINK: https://www.history.com/news/7-things-you-may-not-know-about-u-s-presidential-debates
- How Presidential Debates Work by Josh Clark & Melanie Radzicki McManus
- LINK: https://people.howstuffworks.com/debate1.htm
- PBS News Hour Extra
- LINK: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/app/uploads/2015/12/HANDOUT-4-HISTORY-OF-DEBATES.pdf
- The First Televised Presidential Debate, United States Sentate
- LINK: https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_First_Televised_Presidential_Debate.htm#:~:text=The%20typical%20answer%20to%20that,not%20appear%20in%20the%20debate.
- Campaign of 1960, The John F Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
- LINK: https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/campaign-of-1960
- The Kennedy-Nixon Debates by History.com Editors, History.com
- https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/kennedy-nixon-debates
- The League of Women Voters and Candidate Debates: A Changing Relationship
- LINK: https://www.lwv.org/league-women-voters-and-candidate-debates-changing-relationship
- These Truths by Jill Lepore
- Celebrating Women on Face the Nation, CBS Face the Nation
- LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhQRJNV_Rqc
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From Boycott to Bloodshed
October 24, 2020
•12m
This week I am going to talk about the actions - and reactions - that lead to the American Revolution. After experiencing success in the French and Indian war, Great Britain was in need of cash to help protect the new territory and pay for the costs of the extended war. The colonists, on the other hand, were not used to being asked for taxes from Parliament and rebelled at every turn - including smuggling to avoid the tax man. Did you know there was a Liberty Tree where people would protest the Crown and it's taxes? Tune in to the learn this - and more!
Sources Used This Episode:
- American Rebels: How the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy Families Fanned the Flames of Revolution by Nina Sankovitch
- 1774 by Mary Beth Norton
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