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Lost Ladies of LitFrances Wright — A Few Days in Athens with Tristra Yeager and Eleanor RustSend us a textHow do you engage with others in a polarized society? Early 19-century writer and freethinker Frances “Fanny” Wright offers an ostensible how-to manual in the witty didactic novel she penned at age 19, A Few Days in Athens. Wright’s radical ideas garnered her the praise of Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette and Walt Whitman, to name a few, but detractors dubbed her “The Red Harlot of Infidelity.” Tristra Yeager and Eleanor Rust, hosts of the 2024 podcast “Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten Radical,” join us to discuss Wright’s historical importance and relevance to today’s politic...2025-03-0441 min
Proofing StageDefund, Dismiss, Delete: Business Lessons from Forgotten RadicalsDr. Eleanor Rust and Dr. Tristra Newyear YeagerProducers, Writers & Hosts of Frances Wright: America's Forgotten RadicalWomen have - and do - play significant roles in shaping history, yet their stories are often never recorded in the first place or simply erased. By answering the question "Frances who?" Eleanor and Tristra provide insights into how some women-owned businesses are also forgotten - if they were acknowledged at all. Tired of battling algos? Navigating the troubled waters of modern journalism?Let's redefine success and shed light on women while...2025-01-291h 01
Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten RadicalErasure: Why Brilliant Women DisappearOver this series, we’ve learned how famous Frances Wright was in her lifetime: influential, well-connected, notorious, scandalous. So how could her star fade so quickly? Where are the Broadway shows, biopics, and bestsellers about her? In this episode, we trace Frances Wright’s later years, her death and burial in Cincinnati, Ohio, and what happened to her legacy.
Some of the people closest to Wright didn’t keep her fame alive, which is heartbreaking, but it’s also part of a bigger pattern. Why do women keep slipping out of the historical record, even when they are lege...2024-09-2542 min
Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten RadicalPriestess of Beelzebub: Going Viral in 1830s AmericaFrances Wright’s public speaking caused riots, raised hackles, and won over fans across the country. We’d call it going viral: reaching a level of fame that gets everyone talking, whether they react with revulsion or adoration.
In this episode, we ask Ashley Rattner (Jacksonville State University) to dig into the American media landscape in the 1830s: how could someone go viral for giving public lectures? Why was it so provocative to have a woman speak her mind that way, and how did people respond?
Then Lori Ginzberg (Pennsylvania State University) traces what happens to ra...2024-09-1148 min
Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten RadicalRed Harlot: Sexuality and MotherhoodWho (or even what) is a woman and who gets to say? What are women supposed to do in society? How should we as individuals and as a society relate to sex? We’re asking many of the same questions folks in Fanny’s day asked about the nature of womanhood, femininity, sexuality, and mothering. Our answers may differ, but one thing’s clear: Motherhood (or cat-loving lack thereof) and sexuality are still messing with us in America and are still prone to become political footballs.
In this episode, we explore what Frances Wright may have experienced as she...2024-08-2850 min
Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten RadicalAmalgamation and what really made people hate Frances WrightNashoba, Frances Wright’s intentional community designed to end slavery, went sideways for reasons we’ll cover in this episode. The physical abuse of the enslaved there might be what we find most upsetting nowadays, but what really got people worked up about Nashoba at the time?
It’s something called “amalgamation,” the mixing of people of different racial backgrounds. Frances Wright openly advocated this mixing and saw it as the future of America. Many people were outraged.
For this episode we go deep into the context of this tension, a long-standing source of anxiety for white...2024-08-141h 00
Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten RadicalThe Trouble with NashobaOne of Frances Wright’s most famous? notorious? undertakings was founding an intentional community of her own inspired by New Harmony (for more about New Harmony, listen to Episode 3).
Located in what was then the wilds of Western Tennessee, Wright called her community Nashoba and crafted a plan that would use the economic power of cooperation to prove that slavery could be undone step by step. Enslaved people and free (mostly white) people would work side by side. The enslaved would receive skills training and education, while the group effort would lead to decent profits from raising co...2024-07-3144 min
Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten RadicalWhy Utopian Experiments MatterFrances Wright imagined a community system that would accomplish the seemingly impossible, and she was a product of her times in this. Communities like the one Wright tried to establish at Nashoba were all the rage in the early 19th century. What did Frances Wright learn from the Harmony Society and Robert Owen’s New Harmony in Indiana? What did Wright learn from her friend and supporter George Flower’s earlier experiences in Illinois? How do these communities fit into the history of American life, if we stop labeling them as quirky anomalies or foolish disasters? As we face our...2024-07-1750 min
Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten RadicalWriting While Female: How Women Wrote in Wright’s TimeIt’s easy to forget the limitations put on women’s basic intellectual development in Wright’s era, and how women experienced these limits. How did women write and speak publicly when this was very much discouraged—yet often practiced? Reflecting on educational literature of Wright’s time that articulated limited ambitions for girl’s intellects, how did real women navigate the tensions, contradictions, and hidden opportunities of these limitations? Our expert guest this week is Etta Madden, emerita professor at Missouri State University.
This is a podcast about Frances Wright, reformer, philosopher, writer, activist, abolitionist before it was cool. Feminist long...2024-07-0340 min
Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten RadicalFrances Who?If you visit Frances Wright’s grave in Cincinnati's gracious Spring Grove cemetery, you’d never know that Wright set the tone for an era. Even in a decade filled with mavericks and firebrands, she broke boundaries unlike anyone else and inspired some of the most powerful political and literary figures of her times. Feminist, abolitionist, and one of the first female newspaper editors in the US, she advocated for everything from interracial relationships to women’s rights to new economic relations. Why doesn’t anyone talk about her?
This is a podcast about Frances Wright, reformer, philosop...2024-06-1933 min
Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten RadicalIntroducing Frances WrightHow did America forget about Frances Wright, reformer, philosopher, writer, activist, abolitionist before it was cool, feminist long before the word existed?
Find out from scholars, history researchers, and the writings of her friends and enemies.
We’re historians who love America’s overlooked firebrands. Join Tristra Yeager and Eleanor Rust as we explore the life and time of a Forgotten American Radical on a new documentary podcast series, out late June 2024.
Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten Radical is a co-production of Newyear Media and Her Reputation for Accomplishment, written and ho...2024-06-0503 min
Music Tectonics2024 Music Innovation Forecasts You Should Be Paying Attention ToJoin Tristra Newyear Yeager and Eleanor Rust to unpack the fascinating intersection of music, media, and technology. In this episode, we take a stroll through forecasts that other analysts are making for 2024, in the music industry and its borderlands. the future of sonic branding. Imagine a world where brands harmonize with our lives through distinct audio identities, especially on platforms like TikTok where the auditory experience reigns supreme. We also shine a light on the budding trend of live shopping, likening it to the familiar QVC format but revitalized with the pulse of user-generated content. T...2024-01-1832 min
Music Tectonics200th Episode! Live News Roundup from HopinReporting live from Hopin - the voices of the Music Tectonics Podcast come together for a very special 200th episode! On this week’s live news roundup, Dmitri Vietze, Tristra Newyear Yeager, Eleanor Rust, and Shayli Ankenbruck dive into breaking news and emerging trends in the music industry. Learn more about fan tipping and how platforms are monetizing “first comment energy”. With nearly unlimited entertainment options, from Netflix to Disney+ to Spotify, how do platforms compete for our attention? Find out how users are returning to pre pandemic levels and forms of content consumption. What is the “attention recession” and how ar...2022-05-1030 min
Music TectonicsNews Roundup with Eleanor Rust and Tristra Newyear YeagerIt’s time for a news roundup! In this week’s episode, Eleanor Rust, head of marketing at Rock Paper Scissors, and Tristra Newyear Yeager explore the latest music industry news and trends. Learn how artist-founded and fan-centric platforms are changing the way people interact with music, bringing fan creativity to the foreground. Find out how the latest developments in blockchain-powered financial and creative tools are streamlining artist workflows. Discover the potential of spatial audio and enhanced audiobook experiences. How will artists continue to integrate live-streaming and hybrid tours in a post-pandemic world? What went wrong with Groovy? Find out...2021-09-0241 min
Music TectonicsThe Art and Craft of Remote Communication and CollaborationWith isolation and remote work looming last week, we recorded a podcast conversation about communication and collaboration. Irregular host Tristra Newyear Yeager (and rock paper scissors writer / strategist) tells Eleanor Rust, rps marketing director, about essential lessons she’s learned from collaborating with people scattered around the globe, and how to maximize listening while minimizing distraction. How could music creation change as tech solutions for synchronous collaboration develop? What might the future of music creation and collaboration share with our past? Peek into rabbit holes ranging from traditional blind minstrels in Ukraine to Soundwhale to Breughel paintings. Th...2020-03-1926 min