CFP: Materializing Race in #VastEarlyAmerica
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by The Junto Moderator
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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Guest Post: “Natives of the Woods of America”: Hunting Shirts, Backcountry Culture, and “Playing Indian” in the American Revolution
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by The Junto Moderator
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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Early American Women Unmasked
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by Philippe Halbert
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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Q&A: Brooke N. Newman, author of A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica
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by Lindsay Keiter
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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ANN: Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellowship in Revolutionary Era Studies
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by The Junto Moderator
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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Review: Kacy Tillman, Stripped and Script
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by Emily Yankowitz
4y ago
Emily Yankowitz reviews Kacy Tillman's Stripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution ..read more
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The Long Game of U.S. Historiography: A Century of Competing Interpretations
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by Rachel Herrmann
4y ago
Today at The Junto, we share a programme from our friends at Temple ..read more
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The 1619 Project and the Work of the Historian
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by Joseph M. Adelman
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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Guest Post: Professional Motherhood: A New Interpretation of Women in the Early Republic
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by The Junto Moderator
4y ago
Guest poster C.C. Borzilleri writes about professional motherhood in the early American republic ..read more
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Guest Post: Teaching the Caribbean in the Age of Vast Early America
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by Casey Schmitt
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
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