Using two journals from Firestone Library, we explore the impact of gender on Manifest Destiny and westward exploration. Listen below:

This episode was written by Hope Perry and Sophie Goldman and produced by Hope Perry as a part of a final project for HUM 331: A History of Words at Princeton University. Special thanks to Gabe Robare and Aleeza Schoenberg for lending their voices to the podcast, and to Professor Melissa Reynolds for all of her help and support.
This podcast features the journals of Thomas Adams and Nellie Martin Wade. Some journal entries were edited for length.

Transcript

Read the Original Journals

Here’s the pages from Thomas’s journal:

October Weekend, page 81

June 24, page 24

And here’s the pages from Nellie’s journal:

Chapter 12, pages 144-146

Chapter 12, pages 156-158

Note the inserted text in the margins on page 157!