Starting off my Native American history course with this outstanding 2018 state-of-the-field essay by Alyssa Mt. Pleasant, Caroline Wigginton, and Kelly Wisecup. #NativeAmericanHistory #VastEarlyAmerica #teaching #WMQ

History blogs, #VastEarlyAmerica, an octopus named Conrad: the Octo has it all.

Eight blogs, countless histories to discover. Check out the Octo to discover the latest posts across the #VastEarlyAmerica blogosphere. Updated weekly and all sites linked to the Octo Archive. What can you learn from eight history blogs? https://blog.oieahc.wm.edu/the_octo/ #TheOcto

For all those who never throw out a document, have we got the post for you! At the Massachusetts Historical Society "Beehive" blog, Miriam Liebman writes on the Adams Family's directives to collect and preserve all family correspondence. Now linked on the Octo! https://blog.oieahc.wm.edu/the_octo/ #VastEarlyAmerica

Did you know that #Commonplace accepts submissions on a rolling basis? We accept submissions on a wide range of #VastEarlyAmerica topics up to 1900, and are especially interested in material and visual culture, critical reviews, and pedagogy! Learn more: #history #histodons http://commonplace.online/article/submissions/

The American Revolution was a war waged on multiple fronts beyond the battlefield. At Newport Historical Society’s blog, Sam Dinnie writes on the Patriot and Loyalist battles for the "hearts and minds" of would-be supporters. Now linked on the Octo! https://blog.oieahc.wm.edu/the_octo/ #VastEarlyAmerica

Say you’ve recently had a nerdy birthday without… you know. I’ve wanted my own set of Farrand forever, good time to have it. #history #vastearlyamerica
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“But even as many of our communities have houses that are remembered as enslaved spaces, like Ross-Thomson House, it is my impression that this is where (for many of us) our curiosity ends. There is a simultaneous impulse to remember shackles in the cellar and to distance ourselves from their implications.” Erin Isaac explores the implications of talking about slavery in Shelburne, Nova Scotia for #Borealia. #histodons #VastEarlyAmerica #CanadianHistory #slavery #museums https://earlycanadianhistory.ca/2023/08/23/whats-the-point-in-talking-about-it-community-responses-to-enslavement-in-shelburne-nova-scotia/

This week at #ScholarlyKitchen, @kawulf and Amanda Strauss underscore the important cross-disciplinary conversations about critical #archives, using a colonial map held in the Brown University Libraries. #histodons #VastEarlyAmerica https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/08/24/critical-archives/

A two-part blog series follows two women through the records of the North Carolina General Assembly. At the NC State Archives "History for All the People” blog, Hannah Nicholson shares the stories of Hannah Bowers and Margaret Gaston. Linked on the Octo. https://blog.oieahc.wm.edu/the_octo/ #VastEarlyAmerica

Super excited about Archives of Revolution, the JCBLibrary conference with the McNeil Center and UPenn's Kislak Center. We have some amazing proposals but were asked to extend the deadline to allow for more-- so we have! Until August 31. CFP here: https://jcblibrary.org/news/aor24-cfp #VastEarlyAmerica

On the Newport Historical Society blog, Amelia Yeager reads between the lines of Newport’s historical documents. Read her post to learn more about Obour Tanner, as well as her friendship with and letters received from Phillis Wheatley Peters. Now linked on the Octo. https://blog.oieahc.wm.edu/the_octo/ #VastEarlyAmerica

Do you know about the Octo? The Octo is the Omohundro Institute’s page dedicated to the online world of #VastEarlyAmerica. Each week, we refresh the page with links to #VastEarlyAmerica content across the history blogosphere. What can you learn from eight different blogs? https://blog.oieahc.wm.edu/the_octo/ #Octo

A new book "persuasively expands the conversation" on histories of slavery and Dutch settlement in the northeastern U.S.
@GothamCenter
blog, Emily Holloway reviews Nicole Saffold Maskiell's "Bound by Slavery." Now linked on the Octo. https://blog.oieahc.wm.edu/the_octo/ #VastEarlyAmerica

Many people know that @KenBurns attended Hampshire College (if not, it tries to make sure you learn).

Those who know his work may also know that his first #film was his undergraduate thesis project, about Old Sturbridge Village, which provides a living history experience of American social and material life c. 1790-1840.

Good news: It is now available online

Backgrounder, including an interview by A. O. Scott:

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/ken-burns-working-rural-new-england-hampshire-old-sturbridge-village-1235679013/

Video:
https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/unum/playlist/unum-chat-a-o-scott#working-rural-new-england

#VastEarlyAmerica

At the MA Historical Society "Beehive" blog, Christy Potroff drops a line about a Revolutionary Era post office account book from Newport, RI. Learn more about the account book, mail in the early U.S., and Newport's postal "super users." Linked on the Octo! https://blog.oieahc.wm.edu/the_octo/ #VastEarlyAmerica

@AmPhilSociety
blog looks at Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanac" in a whole new light. Check out Renée Wolcott's post all about a facsimile restoration and what she learned about Franklin as she examined the alamanac. Now linked on the Octo! https://blog.oieahc.wm.edu/the_octo/ #VastEarlyAmerica #Conservation

very happy that I signed up in time to take part in the workshops (starting tonight) on Documenting the Early #History of #Black Lives in the Connecticut River Valley

https://blogs.umass.edu/pvhn-blackhistory/

#NewEngland #massachusetts #VastEarlyAmerica

#OTD 1776 - General Benedict Arnold desperately requests anchors, paint and tarbrushes, spyglasses, speaking trumpets, fishnets, grape, canister & double-headed and chain shot, for America's first navy, which he is building on Lake Champlain, at Skenesboro (now Whitehall), which was then remote wilderness.

#USHistory #AmericanHistory #AmericanRevolution #histodons #vastEarlyAmerica #18thCentury #NewYork #Maritime #Diorama #Miniatures #Navy #LakeChamplain

It’s been anodd summer for me with reading, so I’ve o my just finished my first #AHAReads: Nicole Eustace’s Covered with Night. (I’m using my Free Space for this.)

If the Pulitzer isn’t enough of a hint, let me say that this is a fantastic book—beautifully written, deeply researched, sensitive to the politics and culture of Pennsylvanians, Susquehanna, and Haudenosaunee alike. Though framed around the story of a single murder, the book explores deep-seated issues in #VastEarlyAmerica.