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November 14, 2022
An outdated Siouan language family tree (APS Mary R. Haas Papers, Series 2, Box 23). My dissertation investigates the linguistic history of the Siouan-Catawban language...
November 4, 2022
Before I began my internship, I knew I wanted to conduct research about Elsie Clews Parsons, a notorious anthropologist who conducted research in my Pueblo...
October 28, 2022
Love it or hate it, pumpkin beer’s appearance on drink menus is a perennial sign that fall has arrived. Today’s pumpkin beers are usually brewed...
October 24, 2022
Header Image: Image of Gerty Cori in 1949: Alfred Eisenstadt/ The LIFE Picture Collections/ Getty Images. Gerty Theresa Cori (née) Radnitz, an Austro-Hungarian and American...
October 16, 2022
In three recently digitized collections for the Revolutionary City portal, the James Hutchinson Papers (held at the American Philosophical Society), the Sarah Logan Fisher Diaries...
October 10, 2022
Background on the Project In the early 20th century, anthropologists descended onto Native American communities across Turtle Island to make a record of these supposedly...
October 3, 2022
Header Image: L'Enfant, Pierre Charles, Artist. Panoramic view of West Point, New York showing American encampments on the Hudson River. United States West Point New...
September 25, 2022
Nicole Breault received her Ph.D. in early American history from the University of Connecticut in 2022. She is currently the 2022-2024 Emerging Scholars Postdoctoral Fellow...