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I am a graduate student at Penn State researching print culture in the early republic, particularly the career of James Thomson Callender, and what he shows us about early American honor culture and perceptions of gender, sex, and race.
I collect Thomas Jefferson biographies and have at least 60.
The fascinating story of a British army chaplain's buggery trial in 1774 reveals surprising truths about early America. On the eve of the American Rev…
A joke is never just a joke—not even in the eighteenth century. In American Laughter, American Fury: Humor and the Making of a White Man's Democracy, …
Amy Weitzman interviews Emily Sneff on her new book When the Declaration of Independence Was News and the graduate school experience. In 1776 peopl…