Teaching Removal with an Expanding Archive
Christina Snyder shares some of the expanding range of digitized sources available for reaching Removal.
What!?! Nudity in the Bible!?!
After an evangelical upbringing, Joseph Slaughter was surprised by the amount of nudity he found in early national Bibles.
Nativism, Conspiracy Theories, and Mobs in Federalist America
Sean Harvey uncovers the conspiratorial nativism of a 1798 mobbing of Albert Gallatin in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Engaging Historiography: An Interview with Andrew Shankman and Johann Neem
Will Mackintosh speaks with the JER co-editors about the origin story of the new “Engaging Historiography” series.
How Teaching Taught Me Why My Research on Early American Education Mattered
Mark Boonshoft’s latest JER piece emerged from a teaching conundrum, just at the moment when he was losing his place in the classroom.
Where Are the Women? Women Investors and Family Economic Networks in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Mandy L. Cooper reminds us that family financial networks included women as investors.
States, Not Nation
Naomi R. Lamoreaux and John Joseph Wallis argue that state institutional developments were more important for US economic and political development than national ones in the early republic.
Constructing Western Expansion: Reframing Settler Colonialism as a Negotiation
Elana Krischer explores the Senecas’ use of sovereignty claims to negotiate ongoing settler colonialism.
