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The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright on the Ben Franklin’s World podcast!
Yale University Press. 2016 I feel like I’m dancing into a funeral wearing a party dress and a lampshade on my head, but in case you’re interested in a break from the general gloom, click on over to...
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Teaser Tuesday: Gender, race, and intellectual authority in the Ursuline Convent
Yale University Press. 2016 Teaser Tuesday is back, my friends. Today’s excerpt from my new book, The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright, focuses on the education of girls and the racial and...
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Teaser Tuesday: the return of Nabby Adams, nuns’ clothing ceremonies, and a...
Yale University Press. 2016 Today’s Teaser Tuesday excerpt from The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright features one of the more dramatic passages in the book–Esther’s clothing ceremony (or Vêture)...
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Who’s doing all that domestic work inside the convent? Teaser Tuesday returns...
Yale University Press. 2016 Teaser Tuesday is back with more secrets of the convent from chapter four of my new book, The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright, namely: who’s doing all of the...
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Teaser Tuesday: missing men & missing trousers! Whaaaaat?
Yo yo—What time is it? Showtime! OK, I’ll stop setting everything that goes through my head to the tune of various Hamilton: An American Musical songs. Sometimes it makes me wonder why I even bring...
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Teaser Tuesday: Puritan, Captive, Catholic, Spy?
Yale University Press. 2016 Teaser Tuesday is back after a three-week holiday hiatus with a penultimate post, this one from the penultimate chapter of my book, The Many Captivities of Esther...
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From the mailbag: it’s an old-fashioned, Historiann round-up!
A belated Valentine to all my readers! Oh, my friends: so much is happening globally, nationally, regionally, locally, and even here at the Black Cat Ranch that it’s hard to find time to blog even...
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My review of Adele Perry’s Colonial Relations (2015) is live at Borealia!
Cambridge University Press, 2015 Hello friends–today’s post is just a little bagatelle from my review of Adele Perry’s excellent Colonial Relations: The Douglas-Connolly Family and the...
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Call for Papers: Women and Religion in the Early Americas
Mary Maples Dunn, 1931-2017 Howdy, friends–I’ve got a big announcement today! Many of you may know that Mary Maples Dunn, a prominent early American women’s historian, died in March. Nicole Eustace...
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Esther, encore, and farewell to the U.S.A.
Yale University Press. 2016 Friends, I know it’s been a quiet month on the blog. What can I say? The news moves at the speed of light these days, and it’s difficult for me sometimes to conceptualize...
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