With the industrial revolution came a revolution in the education of Americans. In this episode, Connie Goddard discusses her latest book on the industrial education system that taught Americans how to do trades, skilled labor activities, and generally find work in factories and industrial jobs.

Essential Reading:

Connie Goddard, Learning for Work: How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic Opportunity (2024).

Recommended Reading:

Kelly Ann Kolondy, Normalites: The First Professionally Prepared Teachers in the United States (2014).

Christopher J. Lucas, Teacher Education in America: Reform Agendas for the Twenty-First Century (1997).

Helen Proctor and Kellie Burns, The Curriculum of the Body and the School as Clinic: Histories of Public Health and Schooling (2023).

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Presidential elections often serve as periodic demarcations from one historical epoch to another. 1876 has often been seen as the beginning of the Gilded Age. This roundtable episode brings together leading scholars of American law and politics to discuss the virtues and vices of this approach with the aim of determining if we can make sense of American political history from the Gilded Age to the present.

Essential Reading:

Richard Slotkin, A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America (2024).

Cynthia Nicoletti, Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis (2017).

Recommended Reading:

Heather Cox Richardson, "Reconstruction and the Gilded Age and Progressive Era" in A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (2017).

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What do philanthropist Jane Stanford, author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln have in common? They all conducted séances. Spiritualism was popular in the Gilded Age, and Lily Dale, NY is the epicenter of the movement. From the voices that gave you Dig: A History Podcast comes Spiritualism's Place: Reformers, Seekers, and Seances in Lily Dale. One of the authors - Dr. Elizabeth Garner Masarik - joins the show to discuss their new book.

Essential Reading:

Averill Earls, Sarah Handley-Cousins, Marissa Rhodes, and Elizabeth Garner Masarik, Spiritualism’s Place: Reformers, Seekers, and Seances in Lily Dale (2024).

Recommended Reading:

Robert S. Cox, Body and Soul: A Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism (2003).

Molly McGarry, Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America (2008).

Bret E. Carroll, Spiritualism in Antebellum America (1997).

Cathy Gutierrez, Plato's Ghost: Spiritualism in the American Renaissance (2009).

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