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The Palgrave series Genders and Sexualities in History (edited by Joanna Bourke, Sean Brady and Matthew Champion) is seeking proposals for monographs, edited collections and collections of source material relating to the history of premodern genders and...
This summer, I have been researching account books, day books, ledgers and logbooks at the Phillips Library and found the following of interest. The first part of the log is from a logbook kept from Boston to Havana on the Bark Altorf with Captain...
I wanted to share some examples of the work of the Salem artist George F. White, Jr., better known as George Merwanjee White (1849-1915), but I wish I could also share more details about his life. He’s a bit mysterious, particularly his chosen middle...
I like to craft my own walking tours for every major holiday just for myself, so that I can get in the proper celebratory or thoughtful frame of mind. This weekend, I put together my first Juneteenth tour and it really took some time: I wasn’t sure...
This is going to be an odd post which will start out sweet and end up a bit sour, but I can promise you that it will be colorful throughout. There’s one aspect of Salem’s history that I never seem to be able to cover completely, despite the longevity...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “He is determined to be undersold by none.” Philip Godfrid Kast, an apothecary in Salem, regularly placed advertisements in the Essex Gazette in the early 1770s. He also distributed...
GUEST CURATOR: Kelsey Savoy What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Every Article in the Apothecary Way.” Nathaniel Dabney owned a shop called “Head of HIPPOCRATES” in Salem, Massachusetts. In an advertisement...
GUEST CURATOR: Thomas Ross What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “The handsomest Horse in America.” This advertisement describes “The famous Bellsize Arabian,” a horse considered “the handsomest Horse in...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “MULBERRY TREES.” Loammi Baldwin did much more than advertise mulberry trees for sale in Woburn, Massachusetts, in a notice that ran in the May 5, 1772, edition of the Essex...
Walking is my preferred form of transportation in Salem, but I tread carefully: I want my path to be lined with beautiful old houses, colorful shops and lovely green (or white) spaces. Attractions exploiting the terrible tragedy of 1692 and out-of-town-yet-territorial...
For the most part, this blog has been an academic release for me rather than academic engagement: I consider most of the history I’ve offered up here more pop-up than professional. But there is one academic field with which I have been engaging (mostly...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “It would be expensive to the Advertiser, and troublesome to the Reader, to mention every Article.” In the spring of 1772, John Appleton took to the pages of the Essex Gazette...
The Peabody Essex Museum has opened a new integrated exhibit of items from its American and Native American collections entitled On This Ground: Being and Belonging in America and I made my first visit last weekend. This is an “ongoing” exhibition,...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “An interesting Anecdote of Sheehen’s Life, not before published.” In addition to publishing the Essex Gazette, printers Samuel Hall and Ebenezer Hall devised others means...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Yesterday was published in Boston … An ORATION … to commemorate the BLOODY TRAGEDY.” As soon as Benjamin Edes and John Gill informed readers of the Boston-Gazette that...
GUEST CURATOR: Matthew Holbrook What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “A large ASSORTMENT of Hard-Ware GOODS.” I found that this advertisement interesting because Jacob Ashton owned a shop in Salem, Massachusetts,...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “The Preservation of these Papers for the Benefit of Posterity.” A subscription notice for a “second Volume of Collection of Papers relative to the History of Massachusetts-Bay”...
The Phillips Library of the Peabody Essex Museum, steward of so much of Salem’s printed, written and visual history amongst its many collections, has recently digitized over 5000 images from the “Samuel V. Chamberlain Collection of Photographic Negatives,...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding eight or ten Lines are inserted for Three Shillings.” How much did advertising cost? How much did advertising cost compared to subscriptions? ...
Leonie Rau Historians of medicine might know him as Abulcasis, the ‘Father of Surgery,’ but Andalusian physician Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf Ibn al-‘Abbās al-Zahrāwī (936–1013) wrote about much more than the inner workings of the human body. As Katarzyna...
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