May 2012
2 posts
Fanny Fern in the New York Ledger. →
Fanny Fern and the New York Ledger: 1856-1857 explores one of the most successful periods in the career of Fanny Fern, who in the mid-nineteenth century became the highest-paid newspaper columnist in the United States, writing for the widest-circulated publication of its day.
Crime and Other Forms of Cozenage: Crime on Fleet... →
February 2012
1 post
"What Do the Simple Folk Do?": Adventures in Early... →
“…So, if the simple folk truly “sit around and wonder what Royal [or at least genteel] folk would do,” then Wood, with Bailyn’s help, and Bushman have painted a convincing picture of American identity…”
January 2012
1 post
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Calling Jenny, or My Blogging Reservations
I feel like I’m in ninth grade. I pick up the phone to call Jenny, the upperclassman who I’m “hardcore crushing on” (ninth grade Jake’s words). As I dial each number and my finger hovers over the final digit of her phone number I think of all the things that could go wrong. Perhaps I’ll stammer myself into a near-immediate awkward silence. When I tell her...