Podcast appearances and mentions of elizabeth fenn

Guest: Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell Professor in American History and Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History at the University of Georgia. He is the author of such books including, West of the Revolution (2014), Black, White, and Indian (2005), and A New Order of Things (1999). His most recent book, Unworthy Republic (2020), was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has developed several online projects, including the Invasion of America and, with Elizabeth Fenn, Pox Americana. The post Dispossession: The Indian Removal Act of 1830 appeared first on KPFA.

What comes to mind when you think of the 1770s? The Revolutionary War, probably. As the war for independence from Great Britain raged, so did the worst epidemic in colonial American history. From 1775 through the early 1780s, more than 130,000 people -- European colonists, enslaved African-Americans, Native American tribes -- died from smallpox as the virus spread across the continent. The outbreak was so terrible it compelled General George Washington to require inoculations of all Continental Army soldiers, even though inoculations carried their own risks. In this episode historian Elizabeth Fenn, the author of Pox Americana, discusses how people coped with the ravages of the disease, and why most people know so little about it today. 

On the craft of historical writing and the process of expanding our understanding of American history by incorporating an ethnohistory of its native peoples, with Drs. Elizabeth Fenn and Matthew Makley.  Further Reading (direct links at anchor.fm/dphi): Washoe, Go Fast Turn Left, Shop Class as Soulcraft, Whither the Rest of the Continent?, Mandan, Ethnohistory, Virgin Soil Epidemics, There There. The Plague, Horsemen on the Roof. By our guests: Cave Rock, The Small Shall be Strong, Encouters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People, Pox Americana.  Episode Image Thanks to Kelsey Percival, and Hannah Warner, and Gabriel Grinsteiner. For more info on D-phi live events, visit dphi.org

Professor Elizabeth Fenn, the Walter and Lucienne Driskill Professor of Western American History at CU Boulder, discusses her book, "Pox Americana," and the history of epidemics in America. The book centers around a smallpox epidemic that took place around the time of the American Revolution. Originally recorded on April 17, 2020. Interview by News Director John Boughey.

CU history professor Elizabeth Fenn shares her opposition to Mark Kennedy, the sole finalist in CU's search for a new systemwide president. Fenn equates Kennedy to a "lemon," saying his lack of good leadership makes him ill-suited for the job. A couple hundred students, staff, faculty and Boulderites gathered on Norlin Quad on Monday, April 15 to voice their frustration with the CU Board of Regents in choosing Kennedy through what many have described as an opaque process.

On this episode of Muse Room you get to meet Mary Elizabeth Fenn. She is a choreographer, dancers, weirdo, creative, my friend, and a mentor to me. I hope you enjoy the conversation! Some notes from the show: -We mention Lacy Phillips who is a manifestation advisor and founder of Free+Native. Check out her work here: https://www.freeandnative.com/ -Books we mention: -Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion -The Alchemist by Paul Coelho (Her favorite) -She also mentions her rolfer as someone who keeps her inspired and it just so happens that this person is a future podcast guest. Check her work out here: http://clevelandrolfing.com/ Follow Mary Elizabeth on Instagram: @maryelizabeth.ruthann Her fiance has a really cool coffee roasting company. Check it out: https://www.odddogcoffee.com/ Connect with me: Instagram: @museroompodcast E-mail: museroompodcast@gmail.com

This week, we replay two amazing interviews with Pulitzer Prize winners. First, Elizabeth Fenn tells the story of her work recovering the forgotten history of a nearly extinct Native American tribe. Then, Sarah McConnell speaks with award-winning author Junot Diaz about his experiments in language and storytelling.

While most Americans know Native American tribes like the Lakota or Cherokee, the Mandan are less well known. In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book Encounters at the Heart of the World, historian Elizabeth Fenn recounts the story of the Plains Mandan tribe as they rose to a population of 12,000, before being nearly wiped out in a few short years. Fenn turns to untraditional sources from archeology to climatology to tell a history that supposedly couldn’t be written. Later in the show: It’s been a year since the mass shooting of churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina by a gunman whose online manifesto includes photos of himself with emblems of white supremacy. The shooting sparked national conversation about the removal of Confederate battle flags and monuments from public spaces. In a candid conversation, Chioke I’Anson and Kelley Libby share their thoughts on Richmond, Virginia’s Confederate monuments, racism, and growing up in the Deep South.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Elizabeth Fenn and Alan Taylor engage in a scholarly conversation on the contemporary relevance of historical writings on the American past. Why do we need historical perspective on our times? What do history, and the humanities more generally, have to teach us about point of view, context, and the rights and wrongs of our past and our present? These scholars and the audience will explore the answers to these questions. This program, which helps mark the centennial of the Pulitzer Prize, is co-sponsored by The Huntington, the Huntington–USC Institute on California and the West, and California Humanities.