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The Author’s Corner with Matthew Dougherty

Rachel Petroziello   |  May 11, 2022

Matthew Dougherty is Assistant Professor of History at Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto. This interview is based on his book, Lost Tribes Found: Israelite Indians and Religious Nationalism in Early America (University of Oklahoma Press,...

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...

The Author’s Corner with Olivier Zunz

Rachel Petroziello   |  May 3, 2022

Olivier Zunz is James Madison Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Virginia. This interview is based on his new book, The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville (Princeton University Press, 2022). JF: What led...

The Author’s Corner with Edward Pompeian

Rachel Petroziello   |  April 27, 2022

Edward Pompeian is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tampa. This interview is based on his new book, Sustaining Empire: Venezuela’s Trade with the United States during the Age of Revolutions, 1797–1828 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022). JF:...

The Author’s Corner with Joan DeJean

Rachel Petroziello   |  April 19, 2022

Joan DeJean is Trustee Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania. This interview is based on her new book, Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast (Basic Books, 2022). JF: What led you...

The Author’s Corner with Kristin A. Olbertson

Rachel Petroziello   |  March 27, 2022

Kristin A. Olbertson is Associate Professor of History and Pre-Law Program Coordinator at Alma College. This interview is based on her new book, The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776 (Cambridge University Press, 2022). JF: What...

The Author’s Corner with Gerard Magliocca

Rachel Petroziello   |  March 24, 2022

Gerard Magliocca is Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law at Indiana University McKinney School of Law. This interview is based on his new book, Washington’s Heir: The Life of Justice Bushrod Washington (Oxford University Press, 2022). JF: What led you to...

Was West Ford the enslaved son of George Washington?

John Fea   |  March 12, 2022

Who was West Ford? What was his relationship to George Washington? (Teaser: He was not his son). What role did Ford play at Mount Vernon? Jill Abrahamson covers it all in a recent piece at The New Yorker. Here is...

Penn Today features Emma Hart, new director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies

John Fea   |  March 12, 2022

We covered this back in June 2020, but Penn Today is finally getting around to covering the appointment of Emma Hart, the new director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. (She has also appeared at The Author’s Corner!)...

The Author’s Corner with S. Scott Rohrer

Rachel Petroziello   |  March 10, 2022

S. Scott Rohrer is a historian of early America. This interview is based on his new book, The Folly of Revolution: Thomas Bradbury Chandler and the Loyalist Mind in a Democratic Age (Penn State University Press, 2022). JF: What led...

The Philadelphia Inquirer remembers Richard S. Dunn

John Fea   |  March 6, 2022

Here is the obituary: Richard S. Dunn, 93, formerly of Philadelphia, an award-winning professor emeritus of American history at the University of Pennsylvania, director emeritus of the groundbreaking McNeil Center for Early American Studies, co-executive officer emeritus of the American...

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)....

The Author’s Corner with Mark Tabbert

Rachel Petroziello   |  February 15, 2022

Mark Tabbert is Director of Archives and Exhibits at the George Washington Masonic National Memorial Association. This interview is based on his new book, A Deserving Brother: George Washington and Freemasonry (University of Virginia Press, 2022). JF: What led you...

Richard Dunn, RIP

John Fea   |  January 29, 2022

My scholarly genealogy runs through Richard S. Dunn. I was a student of one of his students. I guess you could say he was my scholarly grandfather. I first met Richard Dunn in 1995 at the first Omohundro Institute for...

The Author’s Corner with Samantha Seeley

Rachel Petroziello   |  January 21, 2022

Samantha Seeley is Associate Professor of History at the University of Richmond. This interview is based on her new book, Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States (Omohundro Institute and University of...

The Author’s Corner with Mark Chambers

Rachel Petroziello   |  January 11, 2022

Mark Chambers is Professor of Africana Studies at Stony Brook University. This interview is based on his new book, Gray Gold: Lead Mining and Its Impact on the Natural and Cultural Environment, 1700–1840  (University of Tennessee Press, 2021). JF: What...

The Author’s Corner with Robert Gross

Rachel Petroziello   |  January 10, 2022

Robert A. Gross is Emeritus Draper Professor of Early American History at the University of Connecticut. This interview is based on his new book, The Transcendentalists and Their World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021). JF: What led you to ​write The Transcendentalists...

The Author’s Corner with Sandra Moats

Rachel Petroziello   |  December 14, 2021

Sandra Moats is Professor of History at University of Wisconsin-Parkside. This interview is based on her new book, Navigating Neutrality: Early American Governance in the Turbulent Atlantic (University of Virginia Press, 2021). JF: What led you to write Navigating Neutrality?...

The Author’s Corner with Andrew O’Shaughnessy

Rachel Petroziello   |  December 9, 2021

Andrew O’Shaughnessy is Vice President of The Thomas Jefferson Foundation and Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies. This interview is based on his new book, The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind: Thomas Jefferson’s...

The Author’s Corner with Hannah Farber

Rachel Petroziello   |  December 6, 2021

Hannah Farber is Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University. This interview is based on her new book, Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding (Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 2021). JF: What...

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