Brenda Wineapple
Author and literary biographer known for work on Hawthorne and American literary history, providing historical and biographical insight into Nathaniel Hawthorne's tales during the discussion.
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Mar 20, 2026 • 59min
Imagining Independence; or, Why Does Rip Van Winkle Sleep Through the Revolution?
Brenda Wineapple, literary biographer of Hawthorne; Wendy S. Walters, Columbia writing professor and poet; Michael Gorra, nineteenth-century literature scholar. They explore Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle, William Austin’s Peter Rugg, and Hawthorne’s Major Molineux. Short stories are read as imaginative responses to the Revolution. The panel probes myth, haunting pasts, civic awakening, and rites of belonging.
Feb 23, 2026 • 1h
American Masterpiece: The Civil War Diaries of George Templeton Strong with Brenda Wineapple and Geoff Wisner
Brenda Wineapple, historian of 19th-century American letters, and Geoff Wisner, editor of the Library of America Civil War diaries, discuss George Templeton Strong. They explore Strong's vivid wartime diary voice, his humorous and candid portraits of contemporaries, eyewitness accounts like the draft riots, editorial restorations, and how his views on race, duty, and posterity evolved during the Civil War.
