264: When You Just Want to be Alone: The History of Solitude in America
We all have times when we want to be alone, but what is the history
of solitude in America? How are experiments on dolphins connected
with consciousness raising and isolation tanks? And what does
Thoreau’s solitary experiment at Walden Pond have to teach
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BackStory is a weekly public podcast hosted by U.S. historians Ed Ayers, Brian Balogh, Nathan Connolly and Joanne Freeman. We're based in Charlottesville, Va. at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
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We all have times when we want to be alone, but what is the
history of solitude in America? How are experiments on dolphins
connected with consciousness raising and isolation tanks? And
what does Thoreau’s solitary experiment at Walden Pond have to
teach us all in the digital age?
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