BiblioFiles #92: Literary History with Dr. Sam Negus

Are we allowed to talk about history on a literature podcast?? We’re speaking with historian Dr. Samuel Negus to find out and to discuss the similarities between the two disciplines. What should the study of history look like? Why do we study it at all? We’re talking about all this and more, but be sure to stick around until the end of the podcast for a very special announcement from CenterForLit!

Learn more about Dr. Negus’s classes here!

Referenced Works:

– The Storykeepers (1995-1997), Shepherd Films

– Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

– The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

– Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James McPherson

– Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson

– Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 by Linda Colley

– Harry Potter read by Jim Dale

– 1776 by David McCullough

– Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke

– Hamlet by William Shakespeare

– Mr. Churchill’s Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer by Peter Clark

– Gone with the Wind (1940), directed by Victor Fleming

– The Civil War (1990), directed by Ken Burns

– Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.

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