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Roundtable: Ambassador in a Hat: The Sartorial Power of Benjamin Franklin’s...
This Colonial Couture post is by guest contributor Joanna M. Gohmann, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in 18th– and 19th-Century Art, at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. While acting...
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Roundtable: Telling the Story of the Declaration
How do we get kids to read and comprehend the Declaration of Independence?
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Roundtable: A Letter to Dear America
"My history books mostly shared facts about the lives of men–and rarely in great detail"-- Lindsay Chervinsky on how one children's series changed all that.
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Roundtable: Q & A with Laurie Halse Anderson
The Junto concludes its Founding Fiction roundtable with an interview with Laurie Halse Anderson, the author of a number of successful works of historical fiction for young adults.
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IOTAR50: Paper Politics
'To put revolutionary ideas in context, as Bernard Bailyn did, look for signs of use.'-@sarageorgini on how #IOTAR50 shapes public #history
View ArticleWhy We Doubt Capable Children: Constructing Childhood in the Revolutionary Era
Julia M. Gossard discusses how we inherited our modern understandings of childhood and adulthood from the 18th century.
View ArticleA President, a Cardinal, and a Soldier walk into a bar…
Roy Rogers reviews the video game "The Council, Episode One: The Mad Ones" by Big Bad Wolf.
View ArticleQ&A: Craig Bruce Smith, author of American Honor
Ben Park interviews Craig Bruce Smith about his new book "American Honor."
View ArticleQ&A: Erin M. Greenwald, author of New Orleans, the Founding Era
Phillipe Halbert interviews Erin M. Greenwald about her exhibition, New Orleans, the Founding Era, on view at The Historic New Orleans Collection through May 27, 2018.
View Article“A curious font of porphyry”
Working on material culture, my research has taken me to some interesting, if unexpected places. Last summer, it involved waiting outside Saint John’s Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, founded in...
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