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...
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The Author’s Corner with Amanda Hendrix-Komoto
Amanda Hendrix-Komoto is Assistant Professor of History at Montana State University. This interview is based on her new book, Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific (University of Nebraska Press, 2022). JF: What led...
Iliff School of Theology and a book bound with the skin of a murdered Lenape man
I was unaware of this story until I ran across Carol McKinley’s reporting today at The Denver Gazette. I’ll let her explain: Nearly a half-century ago, a patch of human skin, stretched and tanned like an animal hide, was hand-carried to...
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...
Does Harvard possess the remains of 7,000 Native Americans and enslaved people?
Here is Gillian Brockell at The Washington Post: Harvard University holds the human remains of thousands of Native American people, despite a 1990 federal law requiring their return, according to a draft report leaked to the student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson....
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,...
Dealing with the painful past of a Native boarding school in Missouri
St. Regis Seminary opened on March 11, 1824 in Florissant, Missouri. Here PBS News Hour: In the last two years, Canada and several U.S. states have begun to recognize their histories with Native American boarding schools, institutions that set out...
Dartmouth College will give Samson Occam’s papers to the Mohegans
In 1999 I published an essay on Dartmouth College founder Eleazar Wheelock‘s role in the “First Great Awakening.” My piece, “Wheelock’s World: Letters and the Communication of Revival in Great Awakening New England,” appeared in Proceedings of the American Antiquarian...
The Author’s Corner with Lance Greene
Lance Greene is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Wright State University. This interview is based on his new book, Their Determination to Remain: A Cherokee Community’s Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina (University of Alabama Press, 2022)....
The Author’s Corner with Matthew Kruer
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 Wall Street Journal will run its traditional Thanksgiving editorials
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...
The Author’s Corner with Fay Yarbrough
Fay Yarbrough is Professor of American History at Rice University. This interview is based on her new book, Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). JF: What led you to write Choctaw Confederates?...
The Author’s Corner with Bryan Rindfleisch
Bryan Rindfleisch is Associate Professor of History at Marquette University. This interview is based on his new book, Brothers of Coweta: Kinship, Empire, and Revolution in the Eighteenth-Century Muscogee World (University of South Carolina Press, 2021). JF: What led you...
Rick Santorum is out at CNN
Here is The New York Times: Rick Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator and Republican presidential candidate, has been dropped from his role as a CNN political commentator amid controversy over recent remarks in which he seemed to erase the role...
Preserving the Great Dismal Swamp
The Great Dismal Swamp is a massive swamp located along the border of Virginia and North Carolina. George Washington was a shareholder in the Dismal Swamp Company, a venture in land speculation that tried to drain the swamp and turn...
Winners of the 2021 Bancroft Prize announced
Andy Horowitz won for Katrina: A History, 1915-2015. Claudio Saint won for Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory. Here is the press release from Columbia University: Columbia University Libraries has announced that two...
The Author’s Corner with Richard Boles
Richard Boles is Assistant Professor of History at Oklahoma State University. This interview is based on his new book, Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North (NYU Press, 2020). JF: What led you to...