EAS Miscellany sat down recently to chat with John Ryan Fischer, author of “‘The Mississippi Was Our River’: Sauk and Meskwaki Geopolitical Strategies on the Nineteenth-Century Prairie,” our featured article from our Fall 2025 issue. What drew you to focus on the experiences of the Sauk and Meskwaki Nations as they worked to preserve their sovereignty and way of life? My first book was on … Continue reading Interview with John Ryan Fischer
EAS Miscellany, the digital companion to Early American Studies, is seeking qualified reviewers at all levels (graduate students, public humanities professionals, community college instructors, tenure-track faculty, and tenured faculty) to complete online reviews of digital and physical exhibits on a wide range of topics relating to the early American studies. As sites of interpretation, scholarship, and debate, public exhibits raise important questions for our field as … Continue reading Call for Exhibit Reviewers
Which Bible did early Americans read? Which translations were available, what did they look like, and how were they used? These questions point to deeper insights about religious and cultural life in British North America. Bible translations used in the New World were rooted in the Reformation project of making scripture more accessible to a broader audience. Protestant colonists in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries brought … Continue reading Bible Translations and the Making of Early America – Benjamin M. Pietrenka
EAS Miscellany, the digital companion to Early American Studies, seeks submissions for a blog series on “Teaching in the Age of AI.” In recent years, the rapid development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to transform practices of knowledge production, pedagogy, and curriculum design across higher education. As tools such as “ChatGPT,” “Claude,” “Gemini,” and “Midjourney” enter classrooms, they are reshaping not only how … Continue reading “Teaching in the Age of AI” Call for Blog Posts
The Fall 2025 issue of Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is out now and available on Project MUSE. Continue reading Fall 2025
EAS Miscellany encourages educators to integrate articles from our journal into the classroom. As a part of our series “Teaching EAS,” we invite you to use this lesson plan as a model for designing your curriculum and teaching Early American Studies articles. If you would like to create other lesson plans using EAS articles, please download our template here and share your plan with us. Teaching EAS: “In … Continue reading Teaching EAS: Teaching Outside with Black Hawk – Lloyd Alimboyao Sy
The Summer 2025 issue of Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is out now and available on Project MUSE. Continue reading Summer 2025
When Jean Baptiste “La Chaume” Chevalier entered the New Orleans courtroom in July 1743 his puncture wound must still have been hurting. Few would have extended this soldier much sympathy since he had stabbed himself less than three weeks earlier. After months of laboring at the Natchez Post for an abusive commandant (a punishment he was serving for a prior desertion attempt), La Chaume had … Continue reading De-Silencing the Archive: The Benefits of Microhistory for Romani American History – Ann Ostendorf
On September 28, 1808, Jane Campbell and her seven children boarded the ship Hibernia in Lough Foyle, Ireland, bound for Philadelphia to reunite with her husband, Thomas Campbell. They waited several days for favorable winds before setting sail. At first, a gentle breeze carried them north, but changing winds soon forced the captain to take in the sails and float. By morning, the ship had … Continue reading Holy and Rich: Selling Christianity in Early America – James Dupey
Douglas Winiarski’s article, “Revisioning the Shawnee Prophet: Revitalization Movements, Religious Studies, and the Ontological Turn” EAS 22, No. 2 (Spring 2024), is the winner of the 2024 Murrin Prize. The Murrin Prize is named for John Murrin (1936-2020), Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton University, who was a scholar of early American history and an active member of the McNeil Center community. The prize is … Continue reading Interview with Douglas Winiarski, 2024 Murrin Prize Winner
