Thanks to everyone who came out for the EAP reception at the American Historical Association meeting in Chicago. The editors look forward to seeing folks again at OAH this spring.

Diane Mutti Burke, author of ON SLAVERY’S BORDER, and Robert Paulett, author of the forthcoming AN EMPIRE OF SMALL PLACES.

This spring Georgia will publish two books in Early American Places — Kristen Block’s Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean and Linda Rupert’s Creolization and Contraband. Learn more at the links, and come by the EAP reception at AHA to meet series authors and editors.

The Early American Places member presses would like to welcome the University of Nebraska Press to the series.

The collaborating presses’ responsibilities are divided geographically, with the University of Georgia Press focused on the Southeast and the Caribbean, NYU Press covering the Northeast and eastern Canada, and Northern Illinois University Press covering the Old Northwest.  The University of Nebraska Press will publish books about the American Far West.

Please join us at the American Historical Association annual meeting for a reception to celebrate the latest volumes in the series–Saturday, January 7, 4:00-5:00 p.m., in booths 419, 421, 423.

AHR reviews On Slavery’s Border, the inaugural publication in the Early American Places series: “Diane Mutti Burke has written a wonderful book. It adds considerable depth, texture, and richness to our understanding of slavery in the relatively neglected area of the border South while also offering important insights into the institution of bondage as a whole.”

Ann Ostendorf, author of Sounds American, talks about music and national identity in the early nineteenth century:

Ostendorf on NPR