Though these gannenmono are often regarded as the first Japanese in Hawai’i, many of their countrymen had already visited the islands for at least sixty years, and probably much longer than that.

Maine passed its first abortion statute in 1840, not long after the pardon of Dr. Call. Could there be a connection?

When looking closer at the presence of marine specimens at American anti-slavery fairs, it becomes clear that these objects were more than items of natural curiosity. 

Freedom Seekers will show how all kinds of men, women, and children who escaped were important actors in the challenge not just to their own enslavement but to slavery more broadly.

Denials of Black humanity, free and enslaved, coexisted with explicit acknowledgment that enslaved Black people, though legally deemed “property,” were people.

It was a relentless circle of brutal exploitation in which the salt raked by Mary Prince and other enslaved people was sold to northern fishermen who sold it back southward in the form of salted fish with which to feed the enslaved who raked the salt.

Prince and the other enslaved men had no fondness for their fetters and felt acutely the contradiction between American ideals and their condition.

In a sense, within an imperial context, humanitarian assistance inadvertently provided some Acadian women refugees with a platform unlike they had ever had before. 

Four years on, a disability-informed reading of “Bartleby” seems to address even more urgently the crises our students face.

More importantly, our misappropriation of “puritan” has allowed scholars to ignore and the public to misunderstand religion.