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Living portraits of the dead and dead portraits of the living: “Posthumous...
Baby in Blue, ca. 1845, William Matthew Prior.National Gallery of Art, Washington. Max Nelson offers a fascinating overview of a current exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum in New York,...
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#AHA17: No longhorns, but plenty of splinters up my skirt.
That old snag again? I’m just back at the ranch after half a week at the American Historical Association’s annual meeting 2017. I didn’t have a minute to blog or tweet about much of anything, seeing as...
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Girls! Girls! Girls!
University of Illinois Press, 2016 The Junto is on fire this week! First, they published Casey Schmitt’s review of Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea, and then followed it up with Rachel Herrmann’s...
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From the mailbag: it’s an old-fashioned, Historiann round-up!
A belated Valentine to all my readers! Oh, my friends: so much is happening globally, nationally, regionally, locally, and even here at the Black Cat Ranch that it’s hard to find time to blog even...
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The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright TONIGHT in South Berwick, Maine!
Yale University Press. 2016 Friends, if you’re in New England anywhere near the Piscataqua River, come out and see me talk about my book, The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright*, at the Berwick...
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Neil Gorsuch is a plagiarist.
Neil Gorsuch, plagiarist. I was alerted to this via a Storify that Kevin Gannon posted this morning. Here’s the original Politico article–you be the judge, but I agree with Kevin that it’s “theft and...
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My review of Adele Perry’s Colonial Relations (2015) is live at Borealia!
Cambridge University Press, 2015 Hello friends–today’s post is just a little bagatelle from my review of Adele Perry’s excellent Colonial Relations: The Douglas-Connolly Family and the...
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Call for Papers: Women and Religion in the Early Americas
Mary Maples Dunn, 1931-2017 Howdy, friends–I’ve got a big announcement today! Many of you may know that Mary Maples Dunn, a prominent early American women’s historian, died in March. Nicole Eustace...
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#StanfordSausageFest: “A return to history’s dark age as a gentlemen’s...
Sausage fest! I’ve been asked by the authors of this statement by the Coordinating Council for Women Historians at the American Historical Association to republish their response to the...
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