
A Bell’s Journey through Texas History

Saline Survivance: The Life of Salt and the Limits of Colonization in the Southwest

Land that Could Become Water: Dreams of Central America in the Era of the Erie Canal

Atlantic World Accounting and The History of Mary Prince (1831)

Graduate Training: Where Digital Scholarship and Early American Studies Meet

An Uncertain Founding: Santa Fe

Imperial city of the Aztecs: Mexico-Tenochtitlan

A Promotional Map of Barbados, c. 1675

The Jamaica Maroons and the Dangers of Categorical Thinking

The Caribbean Game: Building Students’ Vision of European Power Dynamics ‘Beyond the Line’

The Displacement of the American Novel

Atlantic Thermidor

Routes and Revolutions

Reorienting Bermuda’s place in the eighteenth-century Atlantic

Capitalists of the Caribbean

Smoke on the Water

Who’s Afraid of American Epic?

The Birth of Population

Conjecturing Histories

“On the list of free nations”: Haitian Foreign Relations in the Revolutionary Atlantic

Revolutionary Neighbors

An Un-Founding Father

Capital in the Eighteenth Century

The Age of Revolution in an Atlantic Context

The Deep and Deeper South

“Barbadosed”: Class and Race in the British Atlantic

The Lost Histories of Past Futures: Revolution, Belonging, and the Times of Transnational Print Cultures

La felice victoria

Unsettling English Settlement

A Taste of Spanish America

The High Place: Potosi

Catastrophe and Colony: Looking South

The American Revolution, the West Indies, and the Future of Plantation British America

Naming the Pacific: How Magellan’s relief came to stick, and what it stuck to

A House in Vermont, a Caribbean Beach

The Adolescent Equinox

Finding Nunnacôquis: A Tale of Online Catalogs, Marginalia, and Native Women’s Linguistic Knowledge

Americans in the Tropics

Another Revolution in Need of Revising

The World in a Grain of Sand: Archival research in Dominica

Treasure City: Havana

Money of Moderate Size

Captors to Captives to Christians to Calabar

Pacific Overtures

A Story So Immense

Teaching 1492

Violence and Hope in a Space of Death: Paramaribo

From Minnesota to Barbados, Jamaica, Virginia, and Alabama

Electric Books of 1747

Remembering–and Inventing–the Alamo
Creative Writing
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