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Explore presidential campaign propaganda…
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How did northern investors, financial markets, land speculation, and the law shape the dynamics of Indian dispossession, territorial expansion, and slavery in the Deep South during the late…
In New York City in 1793 Henry Bedlow was tried for, but not convicted of, the rape of Lanah Sawyer. This paper questions the success of the civil lawsuit for seduction that Sawyer’s step-father,…
This presentation stems from a larger dissertation project which investigates what was at stake in the contestations between Liberian sovereignty and American imperial formations in Liberia and…
The Merriam-Webster Thesaurus lists “prudish,” “straightlaced,” and “puritanical” as synonyms. But historical records challenge the stereotype of Puritans’ repressive views and behaviors. Don’t…
This project examines the political, economic, and social influence the revolutionary American colonies had on the British Atlantic islands of Bermuda and the Bahamas from 1763 through the 1780s…
This chapter is drawn from Professor Capó’s forthcoming book, Welcome to Fairyland, which chronicles the transnational forces that helped shape Miami's queer world from 1890 to 1940. In…
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The rapid rise of industrialization and…
As we approach an election that promises far reaching ramifications, we will look back at previous periods of tumult in American democracy. We find ourselves in a volatile moment in which…
This project examines how the natural world shaped and was shaped by the interactions between Native Americans and English settlers. Itsother major focus is on how the dynamics of empire…
The History and Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Tour is a 90-minute docent-led walk through our public rooms. The tour is free, open to the public, with no need for…
Senator, statesman, presidential advisor, and presidential candidate by popular demand, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and his national political career that stretched from the 1930s to the 1970s have up…