{"id":920,"date":"2016-01-27T21:01:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T21:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/?p=920"},"modified":"2016-01-27T21:01:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T21:01:41","slug":"scott-gac-featured-in-hartford-installment-of-c-spans-cities-tour-to-discuss-his-book-singing-for-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/2016\/01\/27\/scott-gac-featured-in-hartford-installment-of-c-spans-cities-tour-to-discuss-his-book-singing-for-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Gac Featured in Hartford Installment of C-SPAN\u2019s \u2018Cities Tour\u2019 to Discuss His Book, \u2018Singing for Freedom\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trinity College Associate Professor of History and American Studies <a href=\"http:\/\/internet2.trincoll.edu\/facProfiles\/Default.aspx?fid=1299444\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Gac<\/a> was featured in the recent installment of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/series\/?citiesTour\" target=\"_blank\">C-SPAN\u2019s \u201cCities Tour\u201d<\/a> series that focused on Hartford.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/files\/2016\/01\/Scott-Gac-CSPAN-Cities-Tour450.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-921\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-921 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/files\/2016\/01\/Scott-Gac-CSPAN-Cities-Tour450-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Gac CSPAN Cities Tour450\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/files\/2016\/01\/Scott-Gac-CSPAN-Cities-Tour450-300x193.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/files\/2016\/01\/Scott-Gac-CSPAN-Cities-Tour450.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Gac discussed his book, <em>Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth Century Culture of Antebellum Reform<\/em> (Yale University, 2007), about one of the most famous American family singing groups of the 1840s and its impact on the abolitionist movement. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?403677-1\/book-discussion-singing-freedom\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>to watch the 16-minute video, which includes art, photographs, and music from the era.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/files\/2016\/01\/Scott-Gac-CSPAN-Cities-Tour-Vehicle.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-922\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-922 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/files\/2016\/01\/Scott-Gac-CSPAN-Cities-Tour-Vehicle-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Gac CSPAN Cities Tour Vehicle\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/files\/2016\/01\/Scott-Gac-CSPAN-Cities-Tour-Vehicle-300x219.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/files\/2016\/01\/Scott-Gac-CSPAN-Cities-Tour-Vehicle.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>According to C-SPAN, \u201cthe \u2018Cities Tour\u2019 brings C SPAN programming to your community, interviewing local figures and visiting area sites using specially outfitted Local Content Vehicles (LCVs).\u201d Gac was interviewed on campus in Seabury Hall\u2019s History Library when one of C-SPAN\u2019s LCVs came to Hartford last fall.<\/p>\n<p>Each installment of the series features the history and literary life of a different community. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events\/non-fiction author segments air on Book TV on C-SPAN2. The Hartford segments were broadcast on January 16 and 17, and are now available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/series\/?citiesTour\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinity College Associate Professor of History and American Studies Scott Gac was featured in the recent installment of C-SPAN\u2019s \u201cCities Tour\u201d series that focused on Hartford. Gac discussed his book, Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth Century Culture of Antebellum Reform (Yale University, 2007), about one of the most famous American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1424,"featured_media":921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[220,273,274,275,51,20,219],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}