Early American Studies

If you missed it, check out our latest featured author interview with Alisa van de Haar on EAS Miscellany! We discuss early modern print culture and multilingualism in New Netherland. Read more: https://shorturl.at/8wgqR

Our latest exhibit review, by Aaron Michael Hoggle, examines the Library of Congress’s new exhibit, “The Two Georges: Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution.” Read more here: https://shorturl.at/wMgnJ

Traveling this summer? Visiting a museum or exhibit or library? Consider contributing an exhibit review to EAS Miscellany and share your insights with a wider audience: https://tinyurl.com/5n76u2jv

Do you fear the coyotes? Nathan Motulsky’s new blog traces the unexpected and fascinating connections between Central Park’s recent coyote “invasion,” Haitian land crabs, nocturnal ecologies, and environmental history: https://shorturl.at/ULew2

Check out our featured author interview with Alisa van de Haar on EAS Miscellany! We discuss early modern print culture and multilingualism in New Netherland. Read more: https://shorturl.at/8wgqR

The American Revolution wasn’t a single event—it was a messy, contested process. Our EAS resource guide brings together scholarship that highlights its complexity & contradictions: https://tinyurl.com/y9826rje

Nathan Motulsky explores how Leonora Sansay’s Secret History used the Caribbean nighttime to unsettle ideas of autonomy, identity, and colonial order during the Age of Revolution.
Available here: https://bit.ly/4tCOJqf
McNeil Center for Early American Studies University of Pennsylvania Press Project MUSE

Katarzyna Lecky examines how Aphra Behn’s The Widdow Ranter used a powerful and socially fluid female character to expose anxieties about naturalization, colonial commerce, and English identity in early America.
Available here: https://bit.ly/4uFzei6
McNeil Center for Early American Studies University of Pennsylvania Press Project MUSE

Alisa Van De Haar uses a multilingual library in seventeenth-century New Netherland to trace how language learning, textual culture, and educational practices moved from the Dutch Republic to the colony.
Link: https://bit.ly/3P1RTWq
McNeil Center for Early American Studies University of Pennsylvania Press Project MUSE

Traveling for research or conferences this summer? Turn your trip into a publication. Write an exhibit review for EAS Miscellany! https://tinyurl.com/5n76u2jv