Political history rarely resolves cleanly into either pure ideas or pure economics alone Friday. Attended a public lecture tonight on colonial American print culture’s relationship …
Less cynical manipulation than a genuinely different relationship between self and political argument Sunday. Spent the afternoon writing the chapter’s most difficult section, connecting my …
The line between political theory and personal feud was considerably blurrier in this period Wednesday. Spent the morning at the archive going through a batch …
Months of archival fury and quiet resistance culminate in peer review that responds with real human recognition I Submitted the Paper and a Reviewer’s Report …
Commercial merchant interests, not colonial censorship, turn out to be the actual force behind the altered ending I Found the Publisher’s Correspondence and It Confirms …
A furious private letter reveals a woman author who kept her true ending alive for readers clever enough to see past the print I Found …
A minor comic aside turns out to carry the exact structural argument the author’s letters describe as her true intention The Close Rereading Revealed Something …
A reader’s handwritten claim about a true conclusion opens a two century old question about colonial era publishing pressure I Found a Marginal Note In …
Stephanie Curry on a stubborn bibliographic puzzle, a seminar disagreement that ran considerably longer than scheduled, and the satire that made a whole room laugh …
Stephanie Curry’s diary on eighteenth century polemics, modern politics, and one very confident footnote I want to open with the pamphlet, a genuinely obscure eighteenth …
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