Over at Professor Park’s Blog, historian Benjamin Park calls our attention to a historian’s roundtable on Hamilton published in the latest issue of The Journal of the Early Republic. Joanne Freeman, Andrew Shocket, Heather Nathans, Marvin McAllister, Benjamin Carp, and Nancy Isenberg...
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Revolutionary America: An Update on Textbook Selection
In the past I have spent a lot of time stressing over readings for my 300-level course on the American Revolution at Messiah College. How many monographs should I assign? How should I balance new works with classics in the...
Benjamin Carp on Edmund Morgan's "Slavery and Freedom"
As some of you may recall, Edmund Morgan’s 1972 Journal of American History article “Slavery and Freedom” won the 2016 Junto Blog “March Madness” tournament for the best journal article in early American history. Over at Process: A Blog for American History...
Edmund Morgan at 100
Michael Hattem of Yale writes at Storify: The hashtag #edmorgan100 was started by Ben Carp in anticipation of his article on Morgan being published in the academic journal, Reviews in American History. Other historians have joined in to note and discuss...
Ben Carp Responds to My Academic History Post
I have long admired the work and ongoing career of Benjamin Carp. In case you don’t know Ben, he is the Daniel M. Lyons Professor of American History at Brooklyn College. He is also a prolific historian and public scholar....
Ben Carp Reviews Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton”
I have been waiting for this musical ever since I saw (via You Tube) Lin-Manuel Miranda in this performance at The White House:[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNFf7nMIGnE]“Hamilton” is now playing at the Public Theater until May 3. Good luck landing a ticket. All the...