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Gold coins and jewelry spilling out of a chest.

The Pirate as Conquistador: Plunder and Politics in the Making of the British Empire

As the British Empire's power expanded, piracy became criminalized.
by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra via Arcade on May 6, 2019
Statue memorializing Irish immigrants.

No, the Irish Were Not Slaves Too

The myth of Irish slavery has found fertile ground in Internet memes as a way to derail conversation about the need for affirmative action today.
by Liam Hogan, David M. Perry via Pacific Standard on March 15, 2018
Pope Gregory with his hand on the globe.

On New Year’s, Our Calendar’s Crazy History, and the Switch That Changed Washington’s Birthday

In 1752, the Brits and Americans lopped 11 days off the calendar in one fell swoop.
by Steve Hendrix via Washington Post on December 31, 2017
Lithograph book illustration of pirates of America.

A Treasure Trove of Trials

This collection of piracy trials comprises documents that were published before 1923 and that are part of the holdings of the Law Library of Congress.
by Francisco Macías via Library of Congress on September 5, 2017
Civil War rifles mounted on wall

A World of Weapons: Historians Shape Scholarship on Arms Trading

The early history of American arms trading is missing from most of the scholarship on guns.
by Kritika Agarwal via Perspectives on History on September 1, 2017
Drawing of Swedish colonists landing on the Atlantic shores of Delaware during the 1600s.

America’s Forgotten Swedish Colony

For nearly 20 years in the 17th century, Sweden had a little-known colony that spanned parts of Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
by Evan Andrews via HISTORY on July 25, 2017
Drawing of lightning breaking the chains of a woman on trial for witchcraft in Salem.

The Actual 'Single Greatest Witch Hunt of a Politician' in American History

It happened long before a special prosecutor was appointed to investigate the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. 
by Mary Beth Norton, Yasmeen Serhan via The Atlantic on May 18, 2017
Portrait of justice Samuel Sewall

Affable, He Convicted Salem Innocents

In a novelized biography of Samuel Sewell, a greater mystery than what bedeviled the girls is what motivated a righteous man to condemn them for witchcraft.
by Stacy Schiff via New York Review of Books on February 16, 2017
Drawing of Native Americans on a boat

Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America

Michael A. McDonnell’s book is a wonderfully researched microhistory of the Michilimackinac area from the mid-17th to the early 19th century.
by Adam Nadeau via Borealia: Early Canadian History on June 27, 2016
1675 map of New England

Cross-Cultural Colonial Conflicts

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Adena Barnette via Digital Public Library of America on January 15, 2016
Smiling porcelain salt and pepper shaker figures called "the Pilgrim Pair," and their children, "Lilgrims," atop two academic books about Puritan history entitled "The Barbarous Years" and "Seasons of Misery."

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
cannabis plant

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
Woodcut illustration of "Witches Apprehended" showing the water test accused witches would undergo. Stamford has its own history of witch trials.

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 via 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
Sheep.

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
A painting by J. M. W. Turner depicting a slave ship throwing its dead into the stormy waters.

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 map of the United States divided into regions.

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.
via Nationhood Lab

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