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The ‘old questions’, re-rewritten: BJ Lillis, ‘Rewriting the Old Questions’, Journal of the Early Republic, 44, 3, 2024, pp. 471-474

23Sep24

Excerpt: Take those farmers. On the one hand, “the exception to the rule of early American history as virtually a theory-free subdiscipline is the recent, intense, and growing interest in the Antipodean export of the idea of settler colonialism as an overarching methodology” (13). On the other hand, evidently early American historians no longer write about white farmers at all—Burnard claims that only one out of 393 surveyed articles “touches on the lives of White people involved in agriculture” (8). Have we embraced settler colonialism as a key frame for early American history—and simultaneously lost all interest in settlers?


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