Selected Media
Dr. Natalia Doan recently appeared on C-SPAN discussing her research on the transnational influence of samurai, in a lecture entitled “Samurai at the White House: Harriet Lane and the 1860 Japanese Embassy” and given at LancasterHistory in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.https://www.c-span.org/program/american-history-tv/samurai-at-the-white-house-1860/669037
5/2024. Natalia Doan no Nihon tanbō Man’en gannen kenbei shisetsu.
Japanese documentary about Natalia Doan and her research on the 1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States, revealing never-before-aired artifacts from 1860 and interviews with the descendants of the samurai embassy members.
Directed by Haruo Inoue.
Produced by HUGMACHINE Inc.
1/2023. Interviewed for “Who Was Yasuke, Japan’s First Black Samurai?” Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-was-yasuke-japans-first-black-samurai-180981416/.