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Carolyn Eastman is Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is an historian of early America with special interest in eighteenth and nineteenth-century histories of political culture, the media, and gender. Her research often begins with questions about the uses and meanings of early American media—print, oral, and visual cultures—focusing especially on non-elite readers, listeners, and viewers. Carolyn is the 2025-2026 President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR)
What was it like to live in a city experiencing occupation by a foreign army? What did it mean when a family had to quarter an officer in their home? …