{"id":1016,"date":"2013-02-26T02:31:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T02:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2013-11-11T20:19:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T20:19:46","slug":"at-trinity-and-around-the-world-pulitzer-winner-joan-hedrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/2013\/02\/26\/at-trinity-and-around-the-world-pulitzer-winner-joan-hedrick\/","title":{"rendered":"At Trinity and around the world: Pulitzer Winner Joan Hedrick"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By Serena Elavia \u201914 for <\/span>The Trinity Tripod<\/em><\/p>\n

“Not every university can boast about having a Pulitzer Prize winning author, but Trinity can. Over winter vacation, the Charles A. Dana Professor of History Joan Hedrick was featured in a three part PBS special called \u201cThe Abolitionists.\u201d The special was a docudrama, meaning that it was part documentary and part historical reenactment. Given that Hedrick wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Stowe, she is a go to source of information on Stowe and was chosen for the PBS special and Hedrick happily accepted the offer. \u201cStowe was so influential in the debate on slavery and to be represented in a series on abolition was important for me to do,\u201d says Hedrick on why she accepted the offer to be interviewed in the series. Hedrick\u2019s interviews were featured in the second episode, which focused on Stowe, of the three part series. Hedrick describes the process of filming as \u201cvery good.\u201d The director, producer and writer of the series Rob Rapley was an \u201cexcellent interviewer\u201d according to Hedrick. She says that it was helpful to work with someone very skilled and low key and that the overall interviewing process went well. Before the special aired on Tuesday Jan. 8, the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, Conn. held a panel discussion featuring Hedrick and other professors at Connecticut universities. Many do not know that Stowe spent her retirement in Hartford. The Center has converted Stowe\u2019s home into a museum that offers educational programs and has a library that includes many letters that Stowe wrote to her husband Calvin Ellis Stowe.”<\/p>\n

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“Wesleyan Professor Lois Brown and Rapley participated in the panel discussion. Brown and Hedrick will present a Common Hour lecture on March 7 at Trinity on women\u2019s abolition. The panel discussion started with the host asking a question of each panelist and then opened questions to the audience that consisted of approximately 300 people. Hedrick\u2019s fascination with Stowe is certainly not a random one. In the 20th century, Stowe\u2019s reputation and status was lower than it was in the 19th century and Hedrick wondered what caused that difference. According to Hedrick, 19th century female writers were underwritten and she wanted to see and appreciate Stowe in her own time. Her decision to write a biography on Stowe was to place Stowe in a literary context that presented her more accurately than in the 20th century. Modernists of the 20th century viewed Stowe\u2019s work as not good art, instead of viewing her writing as a tool for social and political purposes; Hedrick uses her biography to show how women, and in particular Stowe, used writing as a channel to express themselves, as they did not have the right to vote. Hedrick notes that writing a biography is not for the faint-hearted, as it took her 10 years to complete her biography.”<\/p>\n

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By Serena Elavia \u201914 for The Trinity Tripod “Not every university can boast about having a Pulitzer Prize winning author, but Trinity can. Over winter vacation, the Charles A. Dana Professor of History Joan Hedrick was featured in a three part PBS special called \u201cThe Abolitionists.\u201d The special was a docudrama, meaning that it was … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}