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Insurrect! Radical Thinking in Early American Studies
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Insurrect! publishes writing related to the historical and cultural legacies of colonialism in the Americas and Atlantic World, broadly defined.
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"Through Mary’s Eyes: Enslavement, Marriage, and Black Women’s Subjectivity"
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Through Mary’s Eyes: Enslavement, Marriage, and Black Women’s Subjectivity — INSURRECT!
“In providing a compelling microhistorical lens into the intersections of enslavement, marriage, Christianity, and women’s subjectivity, the Mary-Hylas case exemplifies the layered experiences of Blac...
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July 31, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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"A Transgressive Revolution: America 250 and the Public Universal Friend"
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A Transgressive Revolution: America 250 and the Public Universal Friend — INSURRECT!
“A political administration dedicated to pretending there is no room for complexity or self-discovery in people’s experiences of gender must erase the stories providing evidence to the contrary.”&nbsp...
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June 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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📣 ICYMI: Insurrect! has an open call for a summer roundtable, organized by one of our graduate student editors. We are hoping to publish reflections from early career researchers, contingent scholars, and public humanists. We pay our editors and writers. 📣
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Insurrect! is soliciting writers for Imagining Survival, which will examine the emotions of survival in our present through pre-1900 contexts in the Americas and Atlantic. We invite nuanced and accessible reflections on communal care, solidarity, and courage amidst violence.

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May 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Insurrect! is soliciting writers for Imagining Survival, which will examine the emotions of survival in our present through pre-1900 contexts in the Americas and Atlantic. We invite nuanced and accessible reflections on communal care, solidarity, and courage amidst violence.

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Call for Writers: Imagining Survival — INSURRECT!
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May 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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"Who Tells Your Story? Philip Schuyler’s Legacy of Enslavement and Freedom Beyond Hamilton"
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Who Tells Your Story? Philip Schuyler’s Legacy of Enslavement and Freedom Beyond Hamilton — INSURRECT!
“While Northern slavery does not get as much coverage in historical remembrance, it was still significant. Census records note that nearly 14% of New York's population were slaveholders in 1790, amoun...
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"Is Repair Possible in the University Museum?"
by Fallon Murphy
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Is Repair Possible in the University Museum? — INSURRECT!
Inside the white-walled, vitrine-filled museum, it is easy to assume that the objects within it neutrally represent history’s many turns. Conservation shapes how those objects are preserved, displ...
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December 4, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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🗃️ Friends, check out the @richardscenter.bsky.social CFA for the Mark & Ann Persun Visiting Scholar's Program, this cycle in Civil War Era political history. This fellowship is designed for mid-career scholars & does not require relocation. Apps due Feb 15, 2025. Details below; email or DM w/ Qs.
Text on this picture reads: Call for applications: Mark and Ann Persun Visiting Scholars Program The Richards Civil War Era Center invites applications for the Mark and Ann Persun Visiting Scholars Program for tenured faculty in history at the rank of Associate Professor. The fellowship is open to scholars of the Civil War Era, broadly conceived, who study military or political history. In 2025-2026 academic year, the fellowship will be held to a scholar of political history. This fellowship is designed to provide mid-career faculty with time, support, and resources to devote to a book-length work-in-progress. The Visiting Scholar will also become an important member of the Richards Center community and will workshop sections of their book project, in addition to participating in Center events and programs. There is no teaching or service associated with this fellowship. The successful applicant will have the option to move to State College or to remain at their home institution and make several short visits to Penn State over the course of the year. A candidate's potential to relocate will have no impact on the fellowship selection process. The fellowship includes $80,000 in salary replacement funds, $7,500 in research/ conference travel, and $7,500 in moving /visit funds. The Richards Center will coordinate payment of the fellowship through the recipient's home institution. The successful applicant must receive approval from their home institution to accept the fellowship. To apply for this position, please submit an application packet including a letter of interest, a CV, a book proposal (max 10 pages), and 2 letters of recommendation to Barby Singer at bgs6@psu.edu by February 15, 2025.
December 3, 2024 at 11:22 PM
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"Is Repair Possible in the University Museum?"
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Is Repair Possible in the University Museum? — INSURRECT!
Inside the white-walled, vitrine-filled museum, it is easy to assume that the objects within it neutrally represent history’s many turns. Conservation shapes how those objects are preserved, displ...
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December 4, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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November 29, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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June 4, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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Reminder, we're looking for a summer intern to write and edit with us! This is a paid opportunity with mentorship, we'd love to have you!
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Applications are open for our summer 2024 internship in partnership with the McNeil Center. More info here:

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March 25, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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Reminder, we're looking for a summer intern to write and edit with us! This is a paid opportunity with mentorship, we'd love to have you!
March 22, 2024 at 10:33 PM
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Reminder, we're looking for a summer intern to write and edit with us! This is a paid opportunity with mentorship, we'd love to have you!
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If anyone (especially Haitians and Haitians in diaspora) is considering writing any editorials concerning the current crisis that touch on the pre-1900 history of Haiti please consider submitting to @insurrecthistory.bsky.social - we pay our writers and editors.
March 6, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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Applications are open for our summer 2024 internship in partnership with the McNeil Center. More info here:

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Call for Applications for the C. Dallett Hemphill Summer Insurrect! 2024 Internship — INSURRECT!
The McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is co-sponsoring a summer internship with Insurrect! The stipend for the internship is $3,000. This internship is open ...
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March 4, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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Insurrect! is partnering with The McNeil Center to host an undergraduate summer intern this year!

Applications are open until April 19, 2024.

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C. Dallett Hemphill Summer Internship Program | The McNeil Center for Early American Studies
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March 1, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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'I Always Dressed This Way:' Surfacing Nineteenth Century Trans History Through Mary Jones — INSUR...
Transness is a theory of change, of futurity. As trans people, we reject pre-written narratives to build more livable futures. Maybe this is why transsexuality is a recurring trope in science fictio...
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December 21, 2023 at 5:41 PM
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Refusing Berdache, Becoming Two-Spirit — INSURRECT!
In the summer of 1990, the spirit-name Two-Spirit was gifted to the growing community of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer Indigenous people of North America. In addition to giving a nam...
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December 21, 2023 at 12:35 AM
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Early American Disability Studies: Teaching (and Confronting) Internalized Ableism — INSURRECT!
How might college instructors introduce students to disabled people in an earlier America who expressed negative views about disability? How can we discuss ableism and internalized ableism in the cl...
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December 21, 2023 at 12:11 AM
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Check out our summer fellow, Thai-Catherine Matthews’ piece about Black Expats.

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Taking One’s Place:  Affirmative Action and the Legacy of Academia’s Black Expats — INSUR...
Opponents of ‘Affirmative Action’ frame the policy as something that is given, defining it as an unfair advantage extended to the undeserving. For example, Roger Clegg, former president and gene...
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December 18, 2023 at 6:45 PM
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Check out this piece by Insurrect! Summer Fellow Alejandra Marquez

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Injustice and Romance: Critical Reflection on Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona — INSURRECT!
Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona, first published in 1884, was initially met with mixed reviews by readers of the time. The novel is set after the Mexican-American War throughout the state of Californi...
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December 17, 2023 at 12:15 PM
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Check out our latest roundtable about mutual aid in the early Americas!

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Mutual Aid in Early America: A Roundtable — INSURRECT!
This roundtable includes reflections from four scholars who presented on a panel, “Mutual Aid in Early America” at the Society of Early Americanists (SEA) Biannual Meeting in June 2023, chaired ...
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December 16, 2023 at 1:14 PM
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We are an online publication devoted to anti-colonial frameworks and critiques of racial capitalism in Early American Studies.
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