Knowledge Bank

Interview with Sean E. Andres, who works on an array of public history projects, especially in the Cincinnati area, with a focus on preserving and empowering the voices of historically marginalized populations. His work on Piatt has been published in The New Territory Magazine’s Literary Landscapes and Paideuma, the National Poetry Foundation journal. Sean talks about how he initially found Sarah through her work speaking out against social norms of her time, including those about indigenous peoples; about connections between her poems and the deep history of the Cincinnati area, where Sarah and her husband J.J. long made their family home; and about the practicalities and challenges of conducting original archival research. Interview conducted in Columbus, Ohio, by Dr. Elizabeth Renker from the Department of English at The Ohio State University.