Today, I have an interview for you with George Miles, curator of the Western American Collection at the Beinecke Library at Yale. We spend a lot of time talking with and about the work of historians, but ungirding that work is the work of librarians and archivists who diligently assemble collections that scholars can draw on to original research. Miles has a wealth of knowledge to share about the historiography of the west, the relationship between photography and the creation of the myth of the west, curating archives to be more inclusive, and much more.
Today, we have an interview with Dr. Matt Seybold. Dr. Seybold is on the faculty Elmira College faculty and is the Editor-in-Chief of MarkTwainStudies.org....
In this final episode, we discuss the end of the Civil War, and I recommend some further reading.
Today we have Chris McGilvray on the show to talk about his new documentary film Eden, a beautiful story about the succession of a...