Episode 11: Biography: an Appraisal
The Way of Improvement Leads Home: American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic life. - Un pódcast de John Fea
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Perusing the shelves of your local bookstore, it’d be easy to assume that historians love biographies. However, historians have long wrestled with the problems of hero worship that are so often present within biographical literature. Join host John Fea and producer Drew Dyrli Hermeling as they discuss this genre of historical writing. They are joined by historian Ann Little, who discusses her latest work on the eighteenth-century life of Esther Wheelwright. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
