Anne Fertig, Ph.D.

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Anne Fertig is the Digital Projects Editor at the Center for Digital History at the George Washington Presidential Library and the lead producer of the George Washington Podcast Network. A trained literary and book historian, Dr. Fertig completed her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2022. In addition to her work at the George Washington Podcast Network, she is the founder and former co-director of Jane Austen & Co.

Dec. 18, 2024

Episode 12: The Conspiracy

In the wake of the Stamp Act Crisis, the British chart a new course for empire in North America by imposing taxes on paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea, pitting British Americans against Parliament…and each other.
Guests: Zara Anishanslin, Ph.D. , Patrick Griffin, Ph.D. , Norman Rodger , Hayley Madl , Grace Mallon, Ph.D. , Anne Fertig, Ph.D. , Kathryn Gehred , Beau Robbins , Christopher Minty, Ph.D. , Melissa Gismondi, Ph.D. , Rosemarie Zagarri, Ph.D. , Evan D. McCormick, Ph.D. , Jeanette Patrick , Alexandra Miller
Oct. 22, 2024

Episode 11: The Resistance

With the Stamp Act defeated, the Sons of Liberty in New York City celebrate by raising a Liberty Pole in tribute to George III, William Pitt, and Liberty, provoking a violent confrontation with British soldiers quartered in …
Guests: Shira Lurie, Ph.D. , Wendy Bellion, Ph.D. , Patrick Griffin, Ph.D. , Jon Kukla, Ph.D. , John McCurdy, Ph.D. , Nate Sleeter, Ph.D. , Daniel Howlett , Anne Fertig, Ph.D. , Brad A. Jones, Ph.D. , Adam Smith, Ph.D. , Mills Kelly, Ph.D. , Christopher Minty, Ph.D. , Melissa Gismondi, Ph.D.
July 27, 2024

Episode 9: The Sugar

In the 1760s, Jamaica and the islands of the British Caribbean were the crown jewels of Britain's American Empire. And as King George III's ministers searched for solutions to a vexing imperial puzzle and moved to a counter …
Guests: Andrew O'Shaughnessy, Ph.D. , Norman Rodger , Nate Sleeter, Ph.D. , Trevor Burnard, Ph.D. , Daniel Howlett , Anne Fertig, Ph.D. , Beau Robbins , Brooke Newman, Ph.D. , Mary Draper, Ph.D. , Abby Chandler, Ph.D.
Jan. 31, 2024

Episode 5: The Uprising

As the British began to assert control over North America in the wake of the Seven Years' War, the actions of British American settlers and the messages of a native prophet convinced some Indigenous peoples throughout the Oh…
Guests: Fred Anderson, Ph.D. , Maeve Kane, Ph.D. , George Ironstrack , Norman Rodger , Hayley Madl , Anne Fertig, Ph.D. , Loren Moulds , Angel-Luke O'Donnell , Kathryn Gehred , David McKenzie
Dec. 12, 2023

Episode 4: The Empire

Great Britain's conquest of New France in North America and its victory in the Seven Years' War inspired British subjects on both sides of the Atlantic to look forward to a future they could see but through a glass darkly, a…
Guests: Fred Anderson, Ph.D. , Kathleen DuVal, Ph.D. , S. Max Edelson, Ph.D. , Patrick Griffin, Ph.D. , Jon Kukla, Ph.D. , Christian Ayne Crouch, Ph.D. , Norman Rodger , Spencer McBride, Ph.D. , Nicholas Cole, Ph.D. , John Turner, Ph.D. , Anne Fertig, Ph.D.