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>> one of the biggest conceptions, it's only a child deduction. something we get over by going to summer camp or college and in reality it's an adult condition. it has always played adults. we had to silence our home sickness. somebody told me it was named by a home six scottish immigrant. that's not part of any narrative by a covered about westward migration. people were thinking of places they have left behind. that got me thinking that maybe my experience was one that was widely shared. i moved out here to utah with my husband. we were both eager to come west

but i suddenly realized how much i miss my family in the midwest. i wondered if i was strange in that way because i have heard for generations of americans had set out west and never looked back and it was an easy process. suddenly i found that very difficult. why wondered if there was some sort of an anomaly. quite a prominent theme in american history. i found that in the archive file went to i could easily turn out people reflecting. how bin plus in the 19th century americans were very public talk of the church.

everybody seems to have been moving. ♪ so common and publicly discussed in motion. tremendous fan attached to being home sick. people who were acutely homesick were called nostalgic people thought you could die of it.

the killing nostalgic. seventy-two actually died of a stanza. >> fighting for the confederacy after reading your letter twice, i can hardly sleep. my thoughts were of my happy home. homesickness, absolutely typical black-and-white, north and south . there were all saying the same thing. never made all got killed in battle. >> most common, fevers, rapid pulses, dysentery, heart palpitations, all these were listed as well known. they kid gets so bad that people

could die of the condition as a result. both armies were known to discharge soldiers of their work surely homesick. the only cure was to return somebody home. failing that you might give furlough. temporarily recover. army bands were forbidden to play home sweet home. make soldiers pass out. nineteenth century. that mind body distinction. people really believe the psychological condition could have physical consequences. i think they're were a lot of imperatives. it became i global power. we needed a military that could deploy soldiers all over the world.

decreasing sympathy for the condition starting in world war one. still occasionally. a lot more impatience. mothers. too tightly wound. they're raising a generation who would be unable to fight. the homesickness, the rise of corporate capitalism, companies would need to deploy workers across the nation and across the world, the 1960's, people were relocated. organization man and loyal to the bureaucracy. you were supposed to cut loose

and go where needed. homesickness in that context became inconvenient emotion. a few workers are constantly going home, soldiers are leaving the battlefield guy that's not going to be a particularly effective work force. in the military, and populations on the move you see this as a recurrent problem. this is a kind of weakness to say that you want to be where your mom is or your husband is or your children are. i think it seems like a childish emotion. originally i thought my store would be that people and learned to repress this motion. what i found is that people have learned to repress the public expression of the emotion over time in their daily life mother was in the food they were eating or the sports teams there were rooting for from far. television programs they're

watching. streaming into their living rooms. they were still maintaining these very vital connections. even the people there were facebook kenwood and sexting and snap chatting with the mother was a real effort to maintain a connection to home. even when we celebrate this notion of americans, and our daily lives we don't propel that methodology. we are much more connected. ..