Early American Places

Interview with Kenneth H. Wheeler about his book, Cultivating Regionalism

EAPeditors — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:34:06 +0000

In Cultivating Regionalism, Kenneth H. Wheeler revises our understanding of the nineteenth-century American Midwest by reconsidering an institution that was pivotal in its making — the small college. During the antebellum decades, Americans built a remarkable number of colleges in the Midwest that would help cultivate their regional identity. Through higher education, the values of people living north and west of the Ohio River formed the basis of a new Midwestern culture.

This is the third video featuring EAP authors. In each video, the authors are asked three questions:

1) Why did you focus your research on this particular place/area/region?

2) Please tell us a little more about your book.

3) Is your study specific to your area or is it applicable to other places/area/regions?

Early American Places on Facebook

EAPeditors — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:39:31 +0000

Early American Places now has a Facebook page. Please check us out, “like” us, and recommend us to friends!

Interview with Michele Reid-Vazquez about her book, The Year of the Lash

EAPeditors — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:28:08 +0000

The Year of the Lash reveals the untold story of the strategies of negotiation used by free blacks in the aftermath of the “Year of the Lash”—a wave of repression in Cuba during the mid-1800s that had great implications for the Atlantic World for two decades. Drawing on archival material from Cuba, Mexico, Spain, and the United States, Michele Reid-Vazquez provides a critical window into understanding how free people of color challenged colonial policies of terror and pursued justice on their own terms using formal and extralegal methods.

This is the second video featuring EAP authors. In each video, the authors are asked three questions:

1) Why did you focus your research on this particular place/area/region?

2) Please tell us a little more about your book.

3) Is your study specific to your area or is it applicable to other places/area/regions?

Interview with Diane Mutti Burke about her book, On Slavery’s Border

EAPeditors — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:25:38 +0000

On Slavery’s Border is a bottom-up examination of how slavery and slaveholding were influenced by both the geography and the scale of the slaveholding enterprise. Diane Mutti Burke focuses on the Missouri counties located along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers to investigate small-scale slavery at the level of the household and neighborhood.

This interview with Diane Mutti Burke is the first in a series of videos with EAP authors. In each video, the authors are asked three questions:

1) Why did you focus your research on this particular place/area/region?

2) Please tell us a little more about your book.

3) Is your study specific to your area or is it applicable to other places/area/regions?

Stay tuned for our next video which will feature Michele Reid-Vazquez talking about her book, The Year of the Lash.

AHA wrap-up

EAPeditors — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:31:46 +0000

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.

New titles for Spring 2012

EAPeditors — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:05:37 +0000

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.

EAP Welcomes the University of Nebraska Press

EAPeditors — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:29:39 +0000

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.

Mutti Burke reviewed in the American Historical Review

EAPeditors — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:30:28 +0000

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.”

Now available: THE YEAR OF THE LASH: FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR IN CUBA AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ATLANTIC WORLD

EAPeditors — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:47:09 +0000

: Michele Reid-Vazquez

The latest book in the Early American Places series, Michele Reid-Vazquez’s The Year of the Lash, is now available from the University of Georgia Press. Ben Vinson III of Johns Hopkins calls it “a major accomplishment in deepening our knowledge of free-colored life in the Americas during the first half of the nineteenth century.” Find out more here.

Ann Ostendorf interviewed on public radio

EAPeditors — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:23:05 +0000

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

Ostendorf on NPR