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Elizabeth Fries Ellet’s The Women of the American Revolution and the Politics of Historical Appropriation

Posted on April 27, 2014 by Cassandra Berman

Our final symposium of the semester featured Jill Lepore, Laurent Dubois, and Howard Brown, with each scholar addressing the broad theme of the “ends of revolution.”  In her talk, Lepore interrogated the ways in which the American Revolution has been … Continue reading →

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Who Counts?: Women and the Title of “Traitor”

Posted on March 22, 2014 by Jeanna Kadlec

While researching primary documents for my bibliography, I stumbled upon a “Black List” of Tories printed in Pennsylvania in 1802. Though I doubted there would be any women among them, there was still that small seed of hope—and simple curiosity … Continue reading →

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People, Sources, and Counterrevolution: Or, What to Do with Molly Brant

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Cassandra Berman

One of our seminar meetings last semester featured Kathleen DuVal, Amy Freund, and Emma Rothschild, who all shared work dealing with different aspects of “people and revolution.” In introducing her work, Kathleen DuVal spoke of the intrinsic appeal of biography … Continue reading →

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Spinning Revolution

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Cassandra Berman

In our last seminar meeting of the semester, we focused on material culture, discussing the ways in which the study of “things” can deepen and nuance our understanding of revolution. I found this seminar theme particularly useful in complicating the … Continue reading →

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Newspapers and Revolution

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Cassandra Berman

In his excellent essay “Reading the Republic: Newspapers in Early America,” historian Jeffrey L. Pasley – an upcoming guest in our seminar – engages in a curious exercise.  In order to contextualize the political and social world of the Early … Continue reading →

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William Henry Drayton and the Meaning of Revolution

Posted on October 8, 2013 by John Hannigan

One of my broader intellectual goals in this seminar is to track down the origins of the term “American Revolution.” In other words, when did eighteenth-century Americans begin using the phrase to describe what they were about, and what meaning … Continue reading →

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