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 […]
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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 […]