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colonial America

The Author’s Corner with Scott Douglas Gerber

Rachel Petroziello   |  August 28, 2023

Scott Douglas Gerber is Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University and Associated Scholar at Brown University’s Political Theory Project. This interview is based on his new book, Law and Religion in Colonial America: The Dissenting Colonies (Cambridge University Press,...

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The Author’s Corner with Mairin Odle

Rachel Petroziello   |  August 18, 2023

Mairin Odle is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in American Studies at the University of Alabama. This interview is based on her book, Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America (University...

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The Author’s Corner with Mark Valeri

Rachel Petroziello   |  July 31, 2023

Mark Valeri is the Reverend Priscilla Wood Neaves Distinguished Professor of Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. This interview is based on his new book, The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty (Oxford...

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The Author’s Corner with Dennis Todd

Rachel Petroziello   |  July 11, 2023

Dennis Todd is Professor Emeritus of English at Georgetown University. This interview is based on his new book, Patriarchy in Peril: William Byrd II and Slavery in Early Virginia (University of Tennessee Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write...

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The Author’s Corner with Alejandra Dubcovsky

Rachel Petroziello   |  June 6, 2023

Alejandra Dubcovsky is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. This interview is based on her new book, Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South (Yale University Press, 2023). JF: What led you...

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The Author’s Corner with Adrian Chastain Weimer

Rachel Petroziello   |  May 11, 2023

Adrian Chastain Weimer is Professor of History at Providence College. This interview is based on her new book, A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023). JF: What...

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Historian Barbara Fields on the 1619 Project

John Fea   |  April 27, 2023

Here is the Columbia University historian on how to think historically about 17th-century Virginia:...

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The Plymouth settlers were pilgrims, not patriots

John Fea   |  November 23, 2022

The Pilgrims would not recognize themselves in the rhetoric of so-called Christian patriots. Here is a taste of Wheaton College historian Tracy McKenzie‘s piece at Religion News Service: Certainly, the English Christians we call the Pilgrims were searching for an...

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The Author’s Corner with Carla Cevasco

Rachel Petroziello   |  May 5, 2022

Carla Cevasco is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Rutgers University. This interview is based on her new book, Violent Appetites: Hunger in the Early Northeast (Yale University Press, 2022). JF: What led you to write Violent Appetites? CC: In grad...

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The Author’s Corner with Matthew Kruer

Rachel Petroziello   |  February 27, 2022

Matthew Kruer is Assistant Professor of Early North American History at the University of Chicago. This interview is based on his new book, Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America (Harvard University Press, 2022)....

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The Wall Street Journal will run its traditional Thanksgiving editorials

John Fea   |  November 24, 2021

Here is the Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal: Since 1961 we’ve run a pair of editorials written by our former editor Vermont Royster. The first is a historical account about the Pilgrims in 1620 as related by William Bradford, a...

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Thomas Maule’s words were a stinging and prophetic critique of the Salem witch trials; they also landed him in jail for twelve months

John Fea   |  October 27, 2021

I recently finished a lecture in my Colonial America class at Messiah University on the historiography of the Salem witch trials. We discussed all the major interpretations: Boyer and Nissenbaum, John Demos, Carol Karlson, Elizabeth Reis, Richard Godbeer, Mary Beth...

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The Author’s Corner with Jared Hardesty

Rachel Petroziello   |  October 21, 2021

Jared Hardesty is Assistant Professor of History at Western Washington University. This interview is based on his new book, Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate (NYU Press, 2021). JF: What led you to...

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The Author’s Corner with Jonathan Barth

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 23, 2021

Jonathan Barth is Assistant Professor of History at Arizona State University. This interview is based on his new book, The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America (Cornell University Press, 2021). JF: What led you to write The...

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History Essentials: “Rethinking Colonial America”

John Fea   |  August 11, 2021

Back in 2019, I spent a week traveling up and down the eastern seaboard with with a film crew from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History as part of the Institute’s “History Essentials” series, online lectures for the professional...

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Snakes and late colonial America

John Fea   |  July 24, 2021

My first or second year at Messiah College, the student history club produced t-shirts with Ben Franklin’s famous “Join or Die” snake image (see above) on the front. It was partly an attempt to raise the club’s membership. Messiah is...

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Harvard’s Houghton Library digitizes its early American manuscripts

John Fea   |  June 15, 2021

Here is Anne Buress at The Harvard Gazette: In a recent virtual curatorial discussion, Houghton librarian John Overholt took an item from the Colonial North America collections to share with his audience. Rather than highlighting a letter from John Hancock or a...

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The Author’s Corner with Kate Mulry

Annie Thorn   |  April 19, 2021

Kate Mulry is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Bakersfield. This interview is based on her new book, An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic (NYU Press, 2021). JF: What led you to write...

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History teachers: sign-up for a Gilder-Lehrman summer seminar!

John Fea   |  March 6, 2021

I am back again this summer with my “Colonial North America” seminar. There are a lot of other great options this year, including: Carol Berkin on the Alexander Hamilton’s America Denver Brunsman on Revolutionary America Caroline Winterer on the American...

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The “conspiratorial style” of American politics: colonial Pennsylvania edition

John Fea   |  December 10, 2020

Historian J.L. Tomlin writes, “the historiography of the conspiratorial style in American politics is well-known but tends to start at the American Revolution and move forward.” Here is a taste of his Age of Revolutions piece, “‘They Chase Specters’: The...

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