Tag: Early American politics

Call for Submissions, Journal Issues, Special Features

Call for Posts: Early American Politics and our Modern Era

We at Early American Studies would like to invite you to contribute to our newest EAS Miscellany election year theme – Early American Politics and our Modern Era. During presidential election years, discussions of the Constitution and its interpretation come into the spotlight. We are reaching out to scholars who specialize in early American politics and political culture to engage in conversation regarding the evolution of elections, gender and politics,…

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Special Features, Teaching EAS

Teaching EAS: Asheesh Kapur Siddique’s “The Ideological Origins of ‘Written’ Constitutionalism”

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: “The Ideological Origins of ‘Written’…

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Roundtables, Special Features, Teaching EAS, Teaching with Games

Gaming the Framing: To Teach the Convention, the Constitution, and the Founding – John Patrick Coby

A Convention delegate—who shall go unnamed—while researching the backgrounds of his colleagues in Philadelphia, has uncovered information of a compromising nature; and being something of a scoundrel himself, he resolves to use that information in ways that will advance his own interests. One by one he approaches his targets, intimating that, for considerations, he might be willing to keep quiet about their secrets. When he comes upon Alexander Hamilton and…

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