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Come On, Lilgrim
The gap between academic and popular understandings of early American topics is an enduring challenge for early Americanists.
by
Jonathan Beecher Field
via
Commonplace
on
December 16, 2015
Marijuana's Early History in the United States
Smokeable pot's proliferation in North America involves the Mexican Revolution, the transatlantic slave trade, and Prohibition.
by
Barney Warf
,
Mark Hay
via
Vice
on
March 31, 2015
Haunted Stamford: 1692 Witch Trial
In the same year as the Salem Witch Trials, a more common and lesser known witch hunt occurred in Stamford, Connecticut.
by
Maggie Gordon
via
Stamford Advocate
on
October 31, 2013
Is Corned Beef Really Irish?
The rise and fall and rise of the traditional St. Patrick's Day meal.
by
Shaylyn Esposito
via
Smithsonian
on
March 15, 2013
Mohawks, Mohocks, Hawkubites, Whatever
Down and dirty in eighteenth-century London and Boston.
by
Roger D. Abrahams
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Commonplace
on
January 1, 2008
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The Truth About Thanksgiving Is that the Debunkers Are Wrong
A response to claims that the First Thanksgiving was not a "thanksgiving" as the Pilgrims understood it.
by
Jeremy Bangs
via
HNN
on
September 1, 2005
Gems in the Pasture
Heritage animal breeding has transformed living history museums and challenged both the public and historians to reconsider colonial Americans’ animal world.
by
Pamela H. Sacks
via
Commonplace
on
April 7, 2003
Bringing Rapes to Court
How sexual assault victims in colonial America navigated a legal system that was enormously stacked against them.
by
Sharon Block
via
Commonplace
on
April 1, 2003
The Slave Trade and the Jews
Jews have long been feared as the power behind inexplicable evils. Responsibility for the African slave trade has recently been added to this list of crimes.
by
David Brion Davis
via
New York Review of Books
on
December 22, 1994
A Balkanized Federation
Without a shared civic narrative – the pursuit of liberal democratic self-government – the rival regional cultures of the United States agree on very little.
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