Elizabeth Shippen Green
Happily, summer revives that treasured list of must-reads that we shoved aside for coursework, research, grading, and gaming. Here are a few new releases in early American history that I plan to check out. What’s on your summer reading list? What can you recommend for us to review here at The Junto?
James Corbett David, Dunmore’s New World
Denver Brunsman, The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Andrew R.L. Cayton, Love in the Time of Revolution: Transatlantic Literary Radicalism and Historical Change, 1793-1818
Robert Beverley, The History and Present State of Virginia: A New Edition with an Introduction by Susan Scott Parrish
Daniel K. Richter, Trade, Land, Power: The Struggle for Eastern North America
Nathaniel Philbrick, Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution
Karen A. Weyler, Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America
Brenda Wineapple, Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877
Teresa Anne Murphy, Citizenship and the Origins of Women’s History in the United States
Harold Holzer and Eric Foner, The Civil War in 50 Objects
Robert Englebert and Guillaume Teasdale, eds., French and Indians in the Heart of North America, 1630-1815
Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire
Marie Arana, Bolivar: American Liberator
Timothy M. Costelloe, The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein
Christopher Hanlon, America’s England: Antebellum Literature and Atlantic Sectionalism
Susan Hardman Moore, Abandoning America: Life-Stories from Early New England
Peter S. Onuf and Nicholas P. Cole, eds., Thomas Jefferson, the Classical World, and Early America
Barry Levy, Town Born: The Political Economy of New England from Its Founding to the Revolution
Today’s post is by guest blogger, David J. Gary, who received his MLS from Queen’s College (CUNY) in 2011 and his PhD in History from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2013. He is currently an adjunct assistant professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College (CUNY). He blogs at 
Following on from last week’s 
The three or four minutes between when my qualifying exam ended and when I found out I had passed rank among the weirdest of my life. Not because I feared I had failed. In fact, immediately following the exam, which I took last Tuesday and which consisted solely of a two-hour oral interrogation, I encountered a calm and a confidence that I hadn’t known in months. Instead, the moment’s weirdness stemmed from a sort of whiplash. Ideas, arguments, and anxieties had been cramming themselves into every corner of my brain for over a year. Suddenly, they were free—unleashed and dissipated in the space a two-hour conversation. It felt more than a bit anticlimactic. A disappointing question seemed to cloud out any sense of accomplishment or pride: “That was it?” A week later, I’m feeling prouder—and still celebrating—but the question remains. 
On this—the 223rd anniversary of the death of Benjamin Franklin—I thought I would use this space to say a few words about my experience over the last year working at the 
