David Waldstreicher

Dec 20, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | David Waldstreicher |Andrea Brady

The name​ given to Phillis Wheatley by her family is lost. She may have been born in modern-day Senegal or Gambia, and was called ‘Phillis’ after the ship in which she was forcibly transported to Boston in 1761.

Jul 25, 2023 | bostonreview.net | David Waldstreicher

Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America Nick Witham University of Chicago Press, $99.00 (cloth) It seems almost quaint—at a time when the academy is under systemic attack by those who talk of facts, faith, the greatness of the Founders, and the still greater power of “woke” educators—that during the 1990s, historians of the United States with decent job prospects started to beat themselves up over their failure to drop the jargon, engage the public,...

Jun 1, 2023 | audiobooks.com | David Waldstreicher

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Apr 18, 2023 | audible.com | David Waldstreicher |Harriet Jacobs |Jonathan Eig |Rachel Swarns

Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a noted poet at a young age.

Mar 22, 2023 | harvard.com | David Waldstreicher

presenting The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence in conversation with ANNETTE GORDON-REED Location Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 Tickets This event is free; no tickets are required. Harvard Book Store welcomes DAVID WALDSTREICHER—author and history teacher at the City University of New York Graduate Center—for a discussion of his new biography The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through...