What was haunting the American nation in the 1850s? The three writers treated in this program — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson — use poetry and prose to explore the dark side of nineteenth-century America.
CUNY TV, the 24/7 professionally staffed television station offered to metro-area viewers by the City University of New York, is broadcast over-the-air in the New York metropolitan area (NY-NJ-CT, within a 35-mile radius from Times Square) on digital Ch. 25.3, and cablecast in the five boroughs of New York City on Ch. 75 (Time Warner and Cablevision Brooklyn), Ch. 77 (RCN Cable), and Ch. 30 (Verizon FiOS).
