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Booze Fueled Bar Fights: American Elections in the 19th Century
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In this last episode before the election, I reflect on, and take comfort in, what I know about American elections in the 19th century. I offer some thoughts on why Edgar Allan Poe was calling out for Jeremiah Reynolds on his deathbed, I discuss writers and artists like Herman Melville, George Caleb Bingham, Rebecca Harding Davis, Sojourner Truth and I even sing a little bit of a Bobby Bare song.
Enjoy and be well!
Booze Fueled Bar Fights
Some of the cultural references made in this episode:
Edgar Allan Poe. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.
Rebecca Harding Davis. Life in the Iron Mills.
George Caleb Bingham. “The County Election”
Sojourner Truth. “Ain’t I a Woman?”
Jeremiah N. Reynolds. Mocha Dick: or the White Whale of the Pacific
Herman Melville. Moby-Dick; or, the Whale
John Cleve Symmes Jr.
Richard Henry Dana. Two Years Before the Mast
Bobby Bare/Gram Parsons. “Streets of Baltimore”
“Drunk History” Baltimore
John Winthrop
Andrew Jackson
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