easmisc.bsky.social
EAS Miscellany is the digital companion to Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
👤 Joined on 19 November 2024
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@easmisc.bsky.social"Rainy Road" - my oil painting
Show PostIt is April 20th, so on this 420 day, I am posting a colorful Civil War era bank note that includes this fascinating vignette of an African American man breaking hemp on a cutting machine. It also includes a portrait of Florence Nightingale. Union Bank of Missouri, St Louis, MO, $1, July 1, 1861. 🗄️
Show Post"Hampshire was one of the final bastions of boomer utopian thinking — the idea that if you just followed your passions, everything else would click into place . . . In this unsettled moment, . . . we might need its kind of unruly thinking now more than ever." nymag.com/intelligence...
Show PostIn early New England homes, indenture contracts shaped everyday power. In "Fraught Forms," Caylin Carbonell explores how servants and masters alike learned to wield these documents to negotiate labor, obligation, and authority in both formal and personal ways. muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/... #EAS #EASMisc
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