Parting the “New World” with an “Oar”: The “Pleasures” of Taxonomy and Cartography in Early-Modern Colonial American Discourse
We should recall that the eighteenth-century pleasures of the imagination included the contemplation not only of the beautiful and the tasteful but also of the...
Appropriating Colonists’ Symbols: History from Below in Kickemuit and on Santiago’s Horse in New Spain
Christine DeLucia’s 2015 article, “Locating Kickemuit: Springs, Stone Memorials, and Contested Placemaking in the Northeastern Borderlands,” and William B. Taylor’s 1997 book chapter, “Santiago’s Horse:...
Where Micro and Atlantic Histories Meet
The three readings for this week—Andrew Port’s “History from Below, the History of Everyday Life, and Microhistory (2015), Lara Putnam’s “To Study the Fragments/Whole: Microhistory...
Bridging the Gap: Trans-Atlantic Tactics in Jesuits’ Writing of the Life and Death of St. Káteri Tekahkwí:tha
"Exploring Tekakwitha's life and narrative within the discourse of historical and personal trauma creates an intersection of both the historical record of Iroquoian experience and...
“Her mouth was filled with some unknown substance, so delicious, that she would experience that sweetness and pleasure during all the following day”: Sexual/Necro Politics in the Jesuit Relations, 1610-1791
The gender politics driving and focusing in on the "life" but actually death of a "Savage Girl 14 Years Old" intertwine with racial politics of...