Communicating Credibility: Diplomatic Agents and Information Strategies in Early America with Ethan Gonzales
In this episode of Historians & Their Histories, we sit down with Ethan Gonzales, a PhD candidate at the University of Virginia. Ethan discusses his dissertation project, which examines the "information ecosystem" of the 1790s and how the early federal government utilized diplomatic agents to gather and control information abroad. He explains how the United States, as a young republic in a world of monarchies, faced a barrage of state-sponsored disinformation and rumors.
Ethan Gonzales is a recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship from the Massachusetts Historical Society.
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Episode Special Guest:
Ethan Gonzales is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. He is interested in early U.S. politics, diplomacy, information, and the early American state. His work will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of the Early Republic.
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