The Junto
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The Junto is a group blog made up of junior early Americanists dedicated to sharing new questions and ideas with others interested in early American history.
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4y ago
Materializing Race: An Unconference on Objects and Identity in #VastEarlyAmerica August 24 and 25, 2020 1 PM EST both days (Zoom) Proposals due by August 1, 2020 Organized by Cynthia Chin and Philippe Halbert In a commitment to fostering nuanced interpretations of early American objects and meaningful dialogue on historical constructions of race and their ..read more
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4y ago
Today at The Junto, we share a guest post by Marta Olmos on colonists' appropriation of Native American clothing in the American Revolution ..read more
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4y ago
A special edition of #ColonialCouture, a Junto roundtable on fashion as history in early American life. Protective face coverings have emerged as a potent, multifaceted metaphor for the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite inconsistent examples set by elected leaders and conflicting recommendations made by public health officials, unisex masks have steadily assumed a greater role in social ..read more
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4y ago
Q&A with Brooke Newman on her book, A Dark Inheritance: Blood, race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica ..read more
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4y ago
Siena College’s McCormick Center for the Study of the American Revolution will award a one-year Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellowship for the academic year 2020-2021. The fellowship supports an early-career scholar whose research and teaching advance the McCormick Center’s mission to foster greater appreciation, interest, and awareness of the events and ideals behind the struggle ..read more
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Emily Yankowitz reviews Kacy Tillman's Stripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution ..read more
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4y ago
Joseph M. Adelman explores how the craft of historical research can help us understand the interpretive debates about the 1619 Project and the American Revolution ..read more
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4y ago
Guest poster C.C. Borzilleri writes about professional motherhood in the early American republic ..read more
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4y ago
In today’s guest post, R. Grant Kleiser, a PhD candidate at Columbia University discusses his experience with teaching the Caribbean as a part of Vast Early America. Kleiser studies the early modern Atlantic world and his proposed dissertation examines the establishment of free ports in eighteenth-century British, Spanish, French, Danish, and Dutch Caribbean islands, investigating ..read more