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Episode 87: Religion and the American Revolution

John Fea   |  July 18, 2021

In her new book Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History, historian Katherine Carte offers a major reassessment of the relationship between Christianity and the American Revolution. She argues that religion helped set the terms by which Anglo-Americans encountered the...

The Author’s Corner with John Oldfield

Annie Thorn   |  November 16, 2020

John Oldfield is Professor of Emancipation and Slavery at The University of Hull. This interview is based on his new book, The Ties that Bind: Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820-1866 (Liverpool University Press, 2020). JF: What...

The Author’s Corner with Michael Turner

Annie Thorn   |  October 29, 2020

Michael J. Turner is the Roy Carroll Distinguished Professor of British History at Appalachian State University, North Carolina. This interview is based on his new book, Stonewall Jackson, Beresford Hope, and the Meaning of the American Civil War in Britain...

The Author’s Corner with Hannah-Rose Murray

Annie Thorn   |  October 8, 2020

Hannah-Rose Murray is Early Career Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She is also the creator of a virtual Black Abolitionist tour of London, highlighting six important sites where African American activists made an impact on the UK...

The Author’s Corner with David Hall

Annie Thorn   |  November 25, 2019

David Hall is Bartlett Professor of New England Church History Emeritus at Harvard Divinity School. This interview is based on his new book, The Puritans: A Transatlantic History (Princeton University Press, 2019). JF: What led you to write The Puritans? DH: The Puritans: A...

The Author’s Corner with James Delbourgo

John Fea   |  August 28, 2017

James Delbourgo is Associate Professor of History of Science and Atlantic World at Rutgers University. This interview is based on his new book, Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum (Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press,...

Ben Franklin: Revolutionary or London Intellectual?

John Fea   |  March 2, 2016

The answer is both. Over at the website of Smithsonian Magazine, George Goodwin, the author of the brand new book Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of an American Founder, argues that Franklin was an intellectual in the British Atlantic world...

The Author’s Corner with Carla Mulford

John Fea   |  July 6, 2015

Carla J. Mulford is Associate Professor of English at Penn State University (University Park) and the Founding President of the Society of Early Americanists. This interview is based on her new book, Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire (Oxford...

The Author’s Corner with Jordan Landes

John Fea   |  July 2, 2015

Jordan Landes is Research Collections Librarian for History at the Senate House Library, University of London.  This interview is based on her recent book London Quakers in the Trans-Atlantic World: The Creation of an Early Modern Community (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015). JF: What...

The Author’s Corner with Stephen Hague

John Fea   |  June 25, 2015

Stephen Hague teaches British, British imperial and modern European history at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey.  This interview is based on his new book, The Gentleman’s House in the BritishAtlantic World, 1680-1780 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) JF: What led you to...

The Author’s Corner with Lindsay O’Neill

John Fea   |  October 20, 2014

Lindsay O’Neill is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Southern California. This interview is based on her new book, The Opened Letter: Networking in the Early Modern British World (University of Pennsylvania Press, October 2014). JF: What led you...

William Wilberforce Centenary

John Fea   |  May 29, 2014

1933: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7h4_6jLNaQ] From British Pathe videos...

“The Making of the English Working Class” Turns 50

John Fea   |  March 8, 2013 Leave a Comment

The Guardian is running a nice piece by Emma Griffin on the 50th anniversary of E.P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class, a classic work of English social history.  Griffin is most impressed by the way Thompson’s canonical […]

What is the Diference Between the United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England?

John Fea   |  February 2, 2011 2 Comments

HT: Joe Carter [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10&w=640&h=390]

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