{"id":49931,"date":"2015-08-25T08:49:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T13:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=49931"},"modified":"2026-10-27T11:47:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:47:51","slug":"podcast-132-the-history-of-the-american-bachelor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/culture\/history\/podcast-132-the-history-of-the-american-bachelor\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast #132: The History of the American Bachelor"},"content":{"rendered":"

While it might not seem so at first blush, the history of the bachelor in America<\/a> is complex and truly fascinating. When colonists first settled America, the bachelor as an identity didn\u2019t even exist. But as time passed, bachelors became one of the driving forces shaping our concept of manliness in America. In fact, many of the popular ideas we have about manliness today (and that we talk about on the site), emerged out of bachelor culture, particularly from the late 19th century.<\/p>\n

My guest today on the podcast delved deep into this often overlooked part of history to show that many of the qualms that society has about single men today have in fact existed since the founding of the country. Howard Chudacoff is a professor of history at Brown University and the author of The Age of the Bachelor: Creating an American Subculture<\/a>. <\/em>In today’s podcast, Professor Chudacoff and I discuss the evolution of the bachelor throughout American history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While it might not seem so at first blush, the history of the bachelor in America is complex and truly fascinating. When colonists first settled America, the bachelor as an identity didn\u2019t even exist. But as time passed, bachelors became one of the driving forces shaping our concept of manliness in America. In fact, many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":195901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42376,42385,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-history","category-podcast"],"featured_image_urls":{"large":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/132-538x280.png","medium_large":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/132-768x432.png","aom":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/132-372x230.png","reactor-320":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/132-320x180.png","reactor-640":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/132-640x360.png"},"yoast_head":"\nPodcast #132: The History of the American Bachelor | The Art of Manliness<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/culture\/history\/podcast-132-the-history-of-the-american-bachelor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Podcast #132: The History of the American Bachelor | The Art of Manliness\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While it might not seem so at first blush, the history of the bachelor in America is complex and truly fascinating. 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