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Thomas Paine and the Haitian Revolution: The Transformation of an Anecdote – Anthony Rizzuto

In 1802, the political writer Henry Redhead Yorke went looking for Thomas Paine in Paris. Asking after the erstwhile celebrity revolutionary in a bookstore, he was upbraided by a chorus of four individuals cursing the English American radical. They had just heard troubling news out of the Caribbean: the French attempt to master the uprising of formerly enslaved Blacks in their colony of Saint-Domingue (soon … Continue reading Thomas Paine and the Haitian Revolution: The Transformation of an Anecdote – Anthony Rizzuto

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Interviews, Special Features

Interview with Tracy Barnett

EAS Miscellany sat down recently to chat with Tracy Barnett, our new Digital & Social Media Editor. What inspired you to specialize in American history? Growing up in an historic Pennsylvania town, I have always been interested in understanding how the people and social dynamics of the past shaped my present surroundings. As an undergraduate, I found that I particularly enjoyed the process of historical … Continue reading Interview with Tracy Barnett

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Roundtable Introductions, Roundtables, Special Features, Tribute to Stevie Wolf

Roundtable — A Tribute to Stephanie “Stevie” Grauman Wolf, 1931‒2024 – Sarah Barringer Gordan and Dan Richter

EAS Editors’ Note: We were saddened to learn of the recent death of Stephanie “Stevie” Grauman Wolf, a founding member of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies who served for many years on EAS’s editorial board. We offer this collection of tributes in her honor and to acknowledge the many contributions she made to early American studies. In Memoriam: Stephanie Grauman Wolf, 1931-2024 Stephanie … Continue reading Roundtable — A Tribute to Stephanie “Stevie” Grauman Wolf, 1931‒2024 – Sarah Barringer Gordan and Dan Richter

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Roundtables, Special Features, Tribute to Stevie Wolf

A Stevie Wolf Testimonial – George W. Boudreau

I knew of Stephanie Grauman Wolf years before I knew her. When I started graduate school at Indiana University in 1987, I was fascinated by town studies and what they revealed about early American life and communities. I scooped up everything I could read in the field, going from New England town to town. But one day I came across a reference to a non-New … Continue reading A Stevie Wolf Testimonial – George W. Boudreau

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Roundtables, Special Features, Tribute to Stevie Wolf

A Memory of Stevie Wolf – Michael Zuckerman

There are hundreds of Stevie stories. Let me tell you one. 1973 was not a good year to finish a doctoral dissertation in early American history. The market was dismal enough for the great majority of newly minted Ph.D.s, young men who’d gone straight from college to graduate school and were then in their later twenties and mobile enough to go wherever a job offered. … Continue reading A Memory of Stevie Wolf – Michael Zuckerman

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Roundtables, Special Features, Tribute to Stevie Wolf

Stevie Wolf, A Treasured Friend – Sandy Mackenzie Lloyd

As my second year of graduate school opened in the Winterthur Program for Early American Culture, we welcomed our new director – Dr. Stephanie G. Wolf, a graduate of Wellesley with a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. She greeted us in a seminar room and our journey together began as she masterfully guided us through our studies of early American history. As luck would have … Continue reading Stevie Wolf, A Treasured Friend – Sandy Mackenzie Lloyd

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Roundtables, Special Features, Tribute to Stevie Wolf

Stevie Wolf’s Fine Legacy – Shan Holt

Lots of people will not know Stevie’s fine legacy as a scholar in her splendid community studies, as a teacher and mentor at Winterthur and elsewhere, and as an incisive, thoughtful contributor to McNeil Center discussions from the Center’s founding year. I remember and honor her also as a model of professional womanhood. Stevie let me know early that I was welcome in the intellectual … Continue reading Stevie Wolf’s Fine Legacy – Shan Holt

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Roundtables, Special Features, Tribute to Stevie Wolf

Stevie Wolf, A Lynchpin Indeed! – Wayne Bodle

The sad news of Stevie Wolf’s death could not have been conveyed or written any better, but I guess it can be annotated or e-mended. Stevie pulled me into the McNeil Center for Early American Studies orbit on a crisp October evening in 1985 at her house, or really manse, on West Hortter Street in Germantown, in her characteristically decisive way(s). (I think it was … Continue reading Stevie Wolf, A Lynchpin Indeed! – Wayne Bodle

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