Tag: Political science

Interviews, Special Features

Interview with Katie Moore, Winner of the American Society for Legal History’s Cromwell Article Prize

EAS Miscellany sat down recently to talk with Katie Moore about the research for her Spring 2023 EAS article, “To Counterfeit Is Death? Money, Print, and Punishment in the Early American Public Sphere,” which recently won the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Article Prize from the American Society for Legal History (ASLH). Congratulations Katie! Why did you choose to research paper money, counterfeiting, and colonial politics? … Continue reading Interview with Katie Moore, Winner of the American Society for Legal History’s Cromwell Article Prize

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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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French Perspectives on the American Revolution, Roundtables

Our Shared Legacy – Hugo Toudic & Céline Spector

Self-knowledge sometimes requires complete distance from the familiar. Such is the famous method used in the Persian Letters, the epistolary novel that was a landmark of the Enlightenment and brought fame to the young Montesquieu. In this tale, two young Persians travel to Paris and observe, half amused, half dismayed, the delights of life in an already decadent capital. Their outsider’s view enables the European … Continue reading Our Shared Legacy – Hugo Toudic & Céline Spector

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

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

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