Sean M. Kelley is Professor of History at the University of Essex. This interview is based on his new book, American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865 (Yale University Press, 2023). JF: What led you to […]
early American history
The Author’s Corner with Alejandra Dubcovsky
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 […]
Stephen Wolfe’s book on Christian nationalism “is worth a read only in the same sense that rubbernecking at a car crash counts as sightseeing”
Recently the Christian nationalist historian Stephen Wolfe tweeted several passages from my book Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?: A Historical Introduction. Here is the tweet: Here is the entire tweet: I don’t have the time or inclination to […]
The Author’s Corner with Christian Goodwillie
Christian Goodwillie is Director and Curator of Special Collections at Hamilton College, Burke Library and Associate Editor of the Richard W. Couper Press. This interview is based on his new book, Richard McNemar: Frontier Heretic and Shaker Apostle (Indiana University […]
Patrick Spero is the new Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
Big news in the world of presidential and revolutionary-era American history: The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association is proud to announce the appointment of Patrick Spero, Ph.D., as the Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library housed within the Fred W. Smith National Library […]
The Author’s Corner with Thomas Sheppard
Thomas Sheppard is Assistant Professor of Military History at the Marine Corps University Command and Staff College in Quantico, Virginia. This interview is based on his book, Commanding Petty Despots: The American Navy in the New Republic (Naval Institute Press, […]
The Author’s Corner with Mark Dillon
Mark Dillon is Associate Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court, Second Judicial Department. This interview is based on his book, The First Chief Justice: John Jay and the Struggle of a New Nation (State […]
The Author’s Corner with Christen Mucher
Christen Mucher is Associate Professor of American Studies at Smith College. This interview is based on her new book, Before American History: Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession (University of Virginia Press, 2022). JF: What led you to write Before American […]
The Author’s Corner with Philip Levy
Philip Levy is Professor of History at the University of South Florida. This interview is based on his new book, The Permanent Resident: Excavations and Explorations of George Washington’s Life (University of Virginia Press, 2022). JF: What led you to […]
The Author’s Corner with Patrick Luck
Patrick Luck is Assistant Professor of History at Florida Polytechnic University. This interview is based on his new book, Replanting a Slave Society: The Sugar and Cotton Revolutions in the Lower Mississippi Valley (University of Virginia Press, 2022). JF: What […]
The Author’s Corner with Maurizio Valsania
Maurizio Valsania is Professor of American History at the University of Turin. This interview is based on his new book, First Among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022). JF: What led you […]
The Author’s Corner with Lori J. Daggar
Lori J. Daggar is Associate Professor of History at Ursinus College. This interview is based on her new book, Cultivating Empire: Capitalism, Philanthropy, and the Negotiation of American Imperialism in Indian Country (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). JF: What led […]
The Author’s Corner with Holly A. Mayer
Holly A. Mayer is Professor Emerita of History at Duquesne University. This interview is based on her new book, Women Waging War in the American Revolution (University of Virginia Press, 2022). JF: What led you to write Women Waging War […]
The Author’s Corner with Jeffers Lennox
Jeffers Lennox is Associate Professor of History at Wesleyan University. This interview is based on his new book, North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution (Yale University Press, 2022). JF: What led you […]
The Author’s Corner with Jeroen Dewulf
Jeroen Dewulf is Queen Beatrix Professor in the Department of German & Dutch Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. This interview is based on his new book, Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America’s First Black Christians (University of Notre Dame Press, 2022). […]
Babylon in early America
Kristopher Stinson, a graduate student at George Mason University, is the author “American Babel: History and Empire in the Early American Republic,” an essay in the Summer 2022 issue of the Journal of the Early Republic. In a short post […]
The Author’s Corner with Claire Arcenas
Claire Arcenas is Associate Professor of History at the University of Montana. This interview is based on her new book, America’s Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life (University of Chicago Press, 2022). JF: What led you to write America’s […]
The Author’s Corner with Matthew Dougherty
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
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
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 […]