Group blog
The Junto is a group blog made up of junior early Americanists dedicated to providing content of general interest to other early Americanists and those interested in early American history, as well as a forum for discussion of relevant historical and academic topics.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
academia American Revolution Commentary Slavery Historiography Pedagogy Recent Scholarship Public History Roundtables Book Review conferences Special Features teaching Guest Posts Digital History Opinion Interview The Week in Early American History From the Archives research
CFP: Materializing Race in #VastEarlyAmerica
20 July 2020
Materializing Race: An Unconference on Objects and Identity in #VastEarlyAmerica August 24 and 25, 2020 1 PM EST both days (Zoom) Proposals due by August 1, 2020 Organized by Cynthia...
14 July 2020
Today at The Junto, we share a guest post by Marta Olmos on colonists' appropriation of Native American clothing in the American Revolution
5 May 2020
A special edition of #ColonialCouture, a Junto roundtable on fashion as history in early American life. Protective face coverings have emerged as a potent, multifaceted metaphor...
Q&A: Brooke N. Newman, author of A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica
16 March 2020
Q&A with Brooke Newman on her book, A Dark Inheritance: Blood, race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica.