Tag Archive for: Companion Reading for the JER

Print of a room full of men in 18th century dress sitting at desks deliberating the constitution.

Back to the Future; Or, Whenever I Show up to Talk about the Past, My Audience Can Only Hear about the Present

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A miniature portrait of a thin white man with dark hair wearing a formal black coat and a white shirt with a high collar.

The Creoles’ Magician: States’ Rights and Nullification in Louisiana

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A line drawing of a large building set back from a grassy waterfront with small figures moving about in the foreground.

An “Asylum for Mankind”? Migration in the Early American Republic

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Tinted lithograph of a blacksmith in a bowler hat in his shop striking iron on the anvil while a boy works the bellows and another man shoes a horse

The Ghost of the Colonial Master: Modern Political Dimensions of the Wage Paradigm

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An engraving of a man bound, blindfolded, and seated in a chair facing a firing squad, with a priest on one side of him and a solider on the other.

When Filibustering is Not a Waste of Time

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Black and white aerial photograph of a brand new sprawling subdivision

A Note on the Strange Career of “Consensus History”

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A round printed emblem with an enslaved woman kneeling with her wrists shackled and the words "Am I Not a Woman and a Sister"

Politics in the Archives of Abolition

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A modified early 19th century cartoon of a sailor standing on a dirt road. He has a question mark over his face and his speech bubbles says "Are you looking for me?"

John Pierce: International Man of Mystery

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A grayscale photo of an old portrait of James D'Wolf

What Else I Learned from James D’Wolf’s Letters

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An image of a legal form, partly printed and partly handwritten, with a seal in the lower right corner.

The Possibilities and Perils of Slavery’s Digital Archive

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A lithograph of a girl about 10 years old sitting and holding a small chalkboard for doing figures.

Go Figure: Why the Female Arithmetic Whizzes Were Invisible

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Engraving showing a bird's-eye view of Eastern State Penitentiary from 1855

The Trauma of Writing about Black Children’s Death and Criminalization

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Engraved portrait of John Jay

Historical Concepts and Biographical Research

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Image of Athanasius Kircher's Turris Babel from 1679, which is an engraving of the Tower of Babel.

Unity in Diversity?: Babylon in Early America

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Tecumseh Helped Me Find My Voice

Tecumseh Helped Me Find My Voice

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The Past Becomes Personal: Writing and Teaching During a Global Pandemic

The Past Becomes Personal: Writing and Teaching During a Global Pandemic

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Teaching Removal with an Expanding Archive

Teaching Removal with an Expanding Archive

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What!?! Nudity in the Bible!?!

What!?! Nudity in the Bible!?!

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