Tag: sporting metaphors
Somatic Podcast – Ep 17 – The ‘Final Stretch’ of the Election ‘Race’: American Politics and Sporting Metaphors
In the episode, we talk with Dr. Kenneth Cohen, Associate Professor of History and Director of Museum Studies and Public History at the University of Delaware. Dr. Cohen discusses the history of sporting political discourse during the antebellum period, a history he covers in his 2017 book They Will Have Their Game: Sporting Culture and the Early American Republic (Cornell University Press).