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.
Open Twitterversity
Concluding our Digitally Engaged Historians roundtable, Karin Wulf reflects on Twitter as a space for listening and learning.
More Than Just a Pretty Space: History on Instagram
Zara Anishanslin uses Instagram to explore and communicate early American material culture.
Building an Archive in Public: Websites as a Strategy for Generating Research
Michael J. Gagnon organizes his research on a public-facing website as a tool for collaboration and innovative pedagogy.
The Young America Movement and the Crisis of Household Politics
For Mark Power Smith, the famous 1859 murder of Philip Barton Key reveals the gender politics of the Young America movement.
Slavery, Freedom, and the Fourth of July
Matthew Clavin meditates on the symbolic importance of the Fourth of July for American movements of liberation.
Marietta Falls: Rufus Putnam, Big Larry, and White Settler Nostalgia
Honor Sachs celebrates the new TV series Rutherford Falls as a satirical antidote to McCullough’s hagiography.
Vilification and Erasure: The Story of Indigenous History in The Pioneers
Michael John Witgen sees a through line between McCullough’s erasure of Indigenous history and the modern right wing’s ethnocentric gaslighting.
