Participant Info
- First Name
- Betsy Golden
- Last Name
- Kellem
- Country
- United States
- State
- CT Connecticut
- betsy@betsykellem.com
- Affiliation
- Independent Scholar
- Website URL
- www.drinkswithdeadpeople.com
- Keywords
- Barnum, Circus, Media Studies, Law, Intellectual Property, Oddities, Museums, Public History
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Historian and attorney, currently at work on a book about P.T. Barnum’s impact on modern popular culture.
Over more than a decade in practice as a media and technology lawyer, I have been interested (as Barnum was) in mass media and how we regulate and consume it. I’ve taught at Yale University and the University of Connecticut School of Law; regularly write for public outlets about law, history and media (with special attention to their weirder aspects); and blog regularly at Drinks With Dead People.
- Recent Publications
The 19th-Century “Golden Hours” Convention Brought Young Readers Together to Meet Their Literary Heroes, Smithsonian, March 9, 2018
The Greatest Showman: The True Story of P.T. Barnum and Jenny Lind, Vanity Fair, December 22, 2017
In 1859, a Murderous Congressman Pioneered the Insanity Defense, Narratively, September 12, 2017
The Dramatic Courtroom Demo Designed to Expose Arsenic Murders, Atlas Obscura, May 26, 2017
How P.T. Barnum Helped the Early Days of Animal Rights, The Atlantic, May 10, 2017
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Law, Museums, Public History
