Jane Hooper is Associate Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate History Programs at George Mason University. This interview is based on her new book, Yankees in the Indian Ocean: American Commerce and Whaling, 1786–1860 (Ohio University Press, 2022). JF:...
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The Author’s Corner with Michael Verney
Michael Verney is Assistant Professor of History at Drury University. This interview is based on his new book, A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic (University of Chicago Press, 2022). JF: What...
The Author’s Corner with Daniel Burge
Daniel Burge is Associate Editor of the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society and Coordinator of the KHS Research Fellowship Program at the Kentucky Historical Society. This interview is based on his new book, A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse...
The Author’s Corner with Edward Pompeian
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 Cameron Strang
Cameron B. Strang is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nevada-Reno. This interview is based on his recently released book Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850 (Omohundro Institute/University of North Carolina Press,...
Alfred Crosby, RIP
I just learned about this today. Crosby’s Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 was one of the first books I read in graduate school. Later I read The Columbian Exchange. Crosby‘s work continues to inform many of my lectures,...
Some Historical Context for the U.S. Response to Puerto Rico
As historian Marc-William Palen reminds us, Puerto Rico has always been in a “precarious position within the U.S. body politic.” The history of the relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico is indispensable to understanding the U.S. response to...
The Author’s Corner with Emily Conroy-Krutz
Emily Conroy-Krutz is Assistant Professor, Department of History, Michigan State University. This interview is based on her new book Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early American Republic (Cornell University Press, 2015). JF: What led you to write Christian Imperialism? ECK: It...
The Author’s Corner with Matthew McCullough
Matthew McCullough is Pastor at Trinity Church in Nashville, Tennessee. This interview is based on his book The Cross of War: Christian Nationalism and U.S. Expansion in the Spanish-American War (Studies in American Thought and Culture) (University of Wisconsin Press,...