Tag: 19th century

Source Highlights, Special Features

Bible Translations and the Making of Early America – Benjamin M. Pietrenka

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

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Teaching EAS

Teaching EAS: Teaching Outside with Black Hawk – Lloyd Alimboyao Sy

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

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Special Features

Holy and Rich: Selling Christianity in Early America – James Dupey

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

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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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Facing the Archive from the Present, Roundtables, Special Features

The Language of Symbols and the Unspoken – Sherri V. Cummings

While reading Bradley’s and Michael’s pieces, I began to realize that as historians of early America we are driven to examine the lives and experiences of our subjects on their own terms while navigating the silences and erasures of the colonial archive. By using nuanced methodologies, we are able to remove the lens of western discourse to shed new light on Native American and African … Continue reading The Language of Symbols and the Unspoken – Sherri V. Cummings

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Contemporary Connections, Special Features

“Native Copper”: Exhibiting Anishinaabe Wealth at the U.S. National Museum – Gustave Lester, 2023 Murrin Prize Honorable Mention

Gustave Lester’s article, “Land, Fur, and Copper: The Union of Settler Colonialism and Industrial Capitalism in the Great Lakes Region, 1815–1842,” EAS 21, No. 1 (Winter 2023), received an honorable mention for the 2023 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 … Continue reading “Native Copper”: Exhibiting Anishinaabe Wealth at the U.S. National Museum – Gustave Lester, 2023 Murrin Prize Honorable Mention

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Special Features, Teaching EAS

Teaching EAS: Rachel Herrmann’s “Consider the Source: An 1800 Maroon Treaty”

EAS Miscellany encourages educators to integrate articles from our journal into the classroom. As a part of our new 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: … Continue reading Teaching EAS: Rachel Herrmann’s “Consider the Source: An 1800 Maroon Treaty”

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Source Highlights, Special Features

What is an Early American Treaty? – Rachel B. Herrmann

In the summer of 2011, I was in the National Archives in Kew, London, to read papers in the Sierra Leone Original Correspondence collection. I was researching a dissertation that became a book about hunger and the American Revolution, when I did something that most historians have done.1 I read a document that was peripherally related to my research, recorded some initial observations, and moved … Continue reading What is an Early American Treaty? – Rachel B. Herrmann

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Interviews

Interview with Rachel Walker, 2021 Murrin Prize Winner

Rachel Walker’s article, “Facing Race:  Popular Science and Black Intellectual Thought in Antebellum America,” EAS 19, No. 3 (Summer 2021), 601-40, won the 2021 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 awarded annually for … Continue reading Interview with Rachel Walker, 2021 Murrin Prize Winner

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