John W. Jones's guest appearances

John W. Jones

C19: America in the 19th Century

The American Vandal, from The Center for Mark Twain Studies

Kyla Schuller

Emily Dickinson

Ethan Hawke

Frederick Douglass

Herman Melville

John Brown

Steve Webb

Leigh Claire La Berge

David Graeber

Emily Hale

Marshall Steinbaum

Charles Chesnutt

Keri Leigh Merritt

Karen Tongson

Erin Bartram

OwlTail

Jill Spivey Caddell

Shirley Samuels

On a special Emancipation Week episode, three scholars with both personal and professional ties to the Southern Tier of New York, discuss the recently-reconstructed speech by Frederick Douglass which was part of the Emancipation Day celebration which took place in Elmira in August of 1880.For more information about this episode, visit MarkTwainStudies.com/InvisibleHomeTo read Frederick Douglass's "Lessons of Emancipation To The New Generation" &amp; other Emancipation Week materials, visit MarkTwainStudies.com/LessonsOfEmancipation

On a special Emancipation Week episode, three scholars with both personal and professional ties to the Southern Tier of New York, discuss the recently-reconstructed speech by Frederick Douglass which was part of the Emancipation Day celebration which took place in Elmira in August of 1880.<br><br>For more information about this episode, visit <a href="http://MarkTwainStudies.com/InvisibleHome" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MarkTwainStudies.com/InvisibleHome</a><br><br>To read Frederick Douglass's "Lessons of Emancipation To The New Generation" &amp; other Emancipation Week materials, visit <a href="http://MarkTwainStudies.com/LessonsOfEmancipation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MarkTwainStudies.com/LessonsOfEmancipation</a>

The Invisible Home of Frederick Douglass, John W. Jones, & Mark Twain with Jill Spivey Caddell & Shirley Samuels

This episode uses a monument to unravel the story of John W. Jones, a self-emancipated Black activist, civic leader, and entrepreneur living in nineteenth-century Elmira, New York. Jones is most often remembered for the “caring” way he buried nearly 3,000 bodies of Confederate soldiers who died in a Civil War prison camp in Elmira. Jillian Spivey Caddell describes how her scholarly interest in Elmira and the life of John W. Jones (along with his connections to another famous visitor to the city, Mark Twain) led her to discover that her own ancestor was among the Confederates buried by Jones. To get a full sense of Jones’s character, Caddell interviews Talima Aaron, president of the Board of Trustees of the John W. Jones Museum; Rachel Dworkin, archivist for the Chemung County Historical Society; and Mary Wheeling, who also shares a personal connection with Jones and Elmira. The episode meditates on questions of how personal histories and scholarly interests collide and suggests ways that knowing the story of Jones can influence our teaching of C19 American literature and culture. Finally, it resituates Jones as central to conversations about Civil War memory and forms of nineteenth-century Black citizenship. This episode was produced by Jillian Spivey Caddell (University of Kent). Additional production support from Rachel Boccio (LaGuardia Community College/CUNY). Full episode transcript available here: http://bit.ly/C19PodcastS03E06

This episode uses a monument to unravel the story of John W. Jones, a self-emancipated Black activist, civic leader, and entrepreneur living in nineteenth-century Elmira, New York. Jones is most often remembered for the “caring” way he buried nearly 3,000 bodies of Confederate soldiers who died in a Civil War prison camp in Elmira. Jillian Spivey Caddell describes how her scholarly interest in Elmira and the life of John W. Jones (along with his connections to another famous visitor to the city, Mark Twain) led her to discover that her own ancestor was among the Confederates buried by Jones. To get a full sense of Jones’s character, Caddell interviews Talima Aaron, president of the Board of Trustees of the John W. Jones Museum; Rachel Dworkin, archivist for the Chemung County Historical Society; and Mary Wheeling, who also shares a personal connection with Jones and Elmira. The episode meditates on questions of how personal histories and scholarly interests collide and suggests ways that knowing the story of Jones can influence our teaching of C19 American literature and culture. Finally, it resituates Jones as central to conversations about Civil War memory and forms of nineteenth-century Black citizenship. This episode was produced by Jillian Spivey Caddell (University of Kent). Additional production support from Rachel Boccio (LaGuardia Community College/CUNY). Full episode transcript available here: <a href="http://bit.ly/C19PodcastS03E06" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/C19PodcastS03E06</a>

S03E06 | Monumentalizing John W. Jones