Jonson Miller — Engineering Manhood: Race and the Antebellum Virginia Military Institute

In this podcast episode, we talk with Jonson Miller, author of Engineering Manhood: Race and the Antebellum Virginia Military Institute. In Engineering Manhood, Jonson Miller explores the development of the Virginia Military Institute and the engineering profession in the Antebellum United States. Miller delves into the ways in which VMI was a node in the struggle for political representation among lower and middle-class white men, while explicitly excluding women and black men from its egalitarian mission. Jonson Miller was a 2014 to 2015 Research Fellow at the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Find this podcast and further resources on the Consortium's website at: https://www.chstm.org/video/108