For 2021 I'm reading, reading... #ReadVast2021
Want more refs for #VastEarlyAmerica books, #museum exhibits, #archives collections, #digitalhumanities projects, #blogs, more? My thread of threads fr #VastEA2019 and #VastEA2020 ++ ⬇️🧵🧵🧵
A summary of #VastEA2019 and some of my other #VastEarlyAmerica threads 🧵is here, including #1619Project. Also, I like to FN threads & online writing, so there are some of those in here, too: https://x.com/kawulf/status/1212549541700022277?s=20
And the #VastEA2019 🧵started here: https://x.com/kawulf/status/1080079150533230592?s=20
Thread of threads! Wondering about #VastEarlyAmerica, scholars' research over the last decades that illuminates the vast, diverse, complex early American past? For #VastEA2020, a regular 🧵of 1 sentence fr books &essays. #VastEA2019 was a 🧵w exhibits & other resources. 1/
That's a wrap on #VastEA2019!
But #VastEarlyAmerica is, as ever, a reflection of the extraordinary energy and capacious intellectual framing of a field that is ... vast. In my view, in all good ways. So, onward to 2020!
And a follow-up on #1619Project #VastEA2019 #VastEarlyAmerica https://x.com/kawulf/status/1209451528500785153?s=20
On the #1619Project, #VastEA2019 #VastEarlyAmerica https://x.com/kawulf/status/1208807766170701824?s=20
For #thanksgiving2019, #VastEA2019 #VastEarlyAmerica https://x.com/kawulf/status/1200085638067957761?s=20
For 2019 I did a long thread abt #VastEarlyAmerica, highlighting scholarship & resources, archives, exhibits, digital projects, & more, adding to it most weeks.
I'm adding a few extra threads here to the long one, fr #Thanksgiving & abt #1619Project, to wrap up #VastEA2019.
Dear Twitter, since my #Twittercation you seem different. Among other things making it v hard to deselect ppl from a long twitter thread! Sorry folks who are getting dragged along on my #VastEA2019 thread...I'll figure it out! @samhaselby @agordonreed
This is the 35th feature in the #VastEA2019 thread abt the vast geography, chronology, people & politics of early North America & beyond. Each gestures at places, people & events to explore. (v late) May: public writing about vital #VastEarlyAmerica
So much public writing by historians is abt modern eras, but the earlier set the stage. This by @samhaselby for incomparable @aeonmag is really abt the ways and whys of what we "know" abt #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEA2019...
This is the 34th feature in the #VastEA2019 thread abt the vast geography, chronology, people & politics of early North America & beyond. Each gestures at places, people & events to explore. (late) May: public writing about vital #VastEarlyAmerica
On the last day of May, appreciating this piece fr last year by @allisonradio for @SmithsonianMag abt Af Am genealogy, DC, Mount Vernon, and slavery. Arlington House (pictured) is a key link. #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEA2019...
This is the 33rd feature in the #VastEA2019 thread abt the vast geography, chronology, people & politics of early North America & beyond. Each gestures at places, people & events to explore. (late) May: public writing about vital #VastEarlyAmerica
For @werehist Salvatore Cipriano wrote abt Harvard 1642 commencement, w commentary on similarities & differences to 21st c & a ref to the "First Fruits" text I noted above ^ - much more to say abt that commencement & text ... #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEA2019...
Commencement season! As we ponder the history of #highered, race & colonialism, a pamphlet account of Harvard's 1st commencement in 1643. nb "First Fruits" a title of <200 items in EEBO for 1600-1700. #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEA2019
For those reading the @nytopinion piece, I also/ **highly** recommend @MaggieBlackhawk's @HarvLRev article, "Federal Indian Law as Paradigm Within Public Law": harvardlawreview.org/2019/05/federal-indian-l... #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEA2019
This is the 32nd feature in the #VastEA2019 thread abt the vast geography, chronology, people & politics of early North America & beyond. Each gestures at places, people & events to explore. (late) May: public writing about vital #VastEarlyAmerica
"We are long overdue to confront the abuses of Native Americans and the failure of American colonialism."@MaggieBlackhawk in @nytopinion about #VastEarlyAmerica history/ context of federal Indian law, inc 1790-95 Indian Wars in NW Territory. #VastEA2019...
My fav place to read up on #VastEarlyAmerica blogging? The @OIEAHC Octo, curated by @jmadelman - 8 blogs w changing cast! #VastEA2019 Check it out: https://blog.oieahc.wm.edu/the_octo/
This is the 31st feature in the #VastEA2019 thread abt the vast geography, chronology, people & politics of early North America & beyond. Each gestures at places, people & events to explore. (late) May: public writing about vital #VastEarlyAmerica
Newman's blog post about Quoshey, who ran to freedom in turn of the 18th c London, is related to the work of the @RunawaySlavesGB project - read more here: https://www.runaways.gla.ac.uk #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEA2019
Lots of #twitterstorian public writing is abt modern stuff, but v important work on #VastEarlyAmerica is shared on blogs/ news sites. Highlighting this is my #VastEA2019 focus for late May. Simon Newman @FolgerLibrary research on slavery in Britain:...
This is the 30th #VastEA2019 thread abt the vast geography, chronology, people & politics of early North America & beyond. Each gestures at places, people & events to explore. (late) May: public writing about vital, #VastEarlyAmerica (NB: Wish WaPo image was of Logan!!)
I also really appreciate Kate Davies's 2006 essay on @CommonplaceJrnl act Amelia Barry, Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson & others of the Logan et al circle in late 18th c. Philadelphia. #VastEA2019 #VastEarlyAmerica www.common-place-archives.org/vol-07/no-01/tales/
George Logan was mostly significantly imho the spouse of Deborah Norris Logan. Lots written about her (& I've got more coming!) but worth look at Stenton's collections of material culture & the @historicalpa mss #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEA2019 https://www.stenton.org/deborahs-diaries
Looking at #VastEarlyAmerica in public writing - last week @PubliusorPerish on the #loganact w discussion of a personal fav, George Logan. Hapless, feckless or just misunderstood? Read abt founding origins of a little used, much discussed law #VastEA2019...
This is the 29th feature in the #VastEA2019 thread abt the vast geography, chronology, people & politics of early North America & beyond. Each gestures at places, people & events to explore. (late) May: public writing about vital, #VastEarlyAmerica
Fell off the #VastEA2019 wagon a bit here, but for the end of May some spectacular #VastEarlyAmerica in public writing. Starting with the gold standard blog @BlkPerspectives - a piece fr @kbphd08 on "Black Women's Fugitivity in Colonial America...
