Luxurious Tipping Points in Early Massachusetts
Today’s #ColonialCouture post is by Ben Marsh, senior lecturer in history at the University of Kent and author of Georgia’s Frontier Women: Female Fortunes in a Southern Colony (University of Georgia...
View ArticleFragmented Stories: Cloth from the Colonies in a 19th-Century Dress Diary
Dear Junto readers, Thank you for joining us for two weeks of all-new scholarship tracing the historical patterns of #ColonialCouture! Read the whole roundtable here. Today’s #ColonialCouture finale...
View ArticleGuest Post: Fashion from Japan and France: Nightgowns in Colonial Brazil
Today’s guest post comes from Rachel Zimmerman (Ph.D., University of Delaware), Assistant Professor of Art History at Colorado State University-Pueblo. She has been studying the art and architecture of...
View ArticleMy Experience at OxEARS 2019
Adam McNeil describes his presentation experience in early February at OxEARS.
View ArticleRoundtable: Food and Hunger in Vast Early America
Dams that powered grain mills but choked off fish migrations. Cassava bread that replaced wheat. A breakfast that turned into an ambush. The lenses of food and scarcity can transform our views of...
View ArticleDamming Fish and Indians: Starvation and Dispossession in Colonial Massachusetts
Today’s post in the Roundtable on Food and Hunger in Vast Early America is by Zachary M. Bennett, who is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Connecticut College this autumn. He is a Ph.D....
View ArticleBleds de froment or cassave? Bread in the French Tropics during the...
Today’s post in the Roundtable on Food and Hunger is from Bertie Mandelblatt, who is the George S. Parker II ’51 Curator of Maps and Prints at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island....
View ArticleFood and Friendship in Early Virginia
The final post in the Roundtable on Food and Hunger in Vast Early America is by Rachel Winchcombe, a cultural historian of early modern England and America. She joined the University of Manchester in...
View ArticleRoundtable Conclusion: Food and Hunger in Vast Early America
Today at The Junto, Rachel Herrmann concludes our food roundtable with some questions for the field of early American food history
View ArticleEarly American Women Unmasked
A special edition of #ColonialCouture, a Junto roundtable on fashion as history in early American life. Protective face coverings have emerged as a potent, multifaceted metaphor for the Covid-19...
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