EAS Miscellany is the digital companion to Early American Studies, a peer-reviewed journal encompassing North America and the Atlantic world to 1850.
The journal is sponsored by The McNeil Center for Early American Studies and published by Penn Press. Sponsored by The McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
06/12/2026
Historians, archivists, and curious minds: your summer travels count as research. If you're visiting a museum, exhibit, or library this season, consider turning that experience into an exhibit review for EAS Miscellany. Your perspective matters and so does sharing it. https://tinyurl.com/5n76u2jv
06/11/2026
What if the critic's job isn't to repair a text but to attend to it? If you missed our interview with John M. Murrin Essay Prize winner Lloyd Sy, it's well worth the read. He talks methodology, close reading, and what we owe neglected texts. https://bit.ly/3QyKzSy
06/10/2026
What does the modern tradwife have in common with early republican debates about women's education? More than you'd think. Sara Rambold traces a cultural logic that's older, and more persistent, than Harrison Butker's commencement speech. Read more: https://bit.ly/4ve5w4k
06/08/2026
Our latest exhibit review, by Aaron Michael Hoggle, examines the Library of Congress’s new exhibit, “The Two Georges: Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution.” Read more here: https://shorturl.at/wMgnJ
06/04/2026
If you missed it, check out our Nathan Motulsky’s new blog, which traces the unexpected and fascinating connections between Central Park’s recent coyote “invasion,” Haitian land crabs, nocturnal ecologies, and environmental history: https://shorturl.at/ULew2
06/01/2026
If you missed it, check out our latest featured author interview with Alisa van de Haar on EAS Miscellany! We discuss early modern print culture and multilingualism in New Netherland. Read more: https://shorturl.at/8wgqR
05/22/2026
Traveling this summer? Visiting a museum or exhibit or library? Consider contributing an exhibit review to EAS Miscellany and share your insights with a wider audience: https://tinyurl.com/5n76u2jv
05/20/2026
Do you fear the coyotes? Nathan Motulsky’s new blog traces the unexpected and fascinating connections between Central Park’s recent coyote “invasion,” Haitian land crabs, nocturnal ecologies, and environmental history: https://shorturl.at/ULew2
05/18/2026
Check out our featured author interview with Alisa van de Haar on EAS Miscellany! We discuss early modern print culture and multilingualism in New Netherland. Read more: https://shorturl.at/8wgqR
