In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the American theater emerged as a crucial cultural space for debates around gender stereotypes, gendered conduct, sex
Elite men and women in America's founding era formed friendships with one another that were vibrant, intimate, and politically significant. These relationships
Susanna Rowson--novelist, actress, playwright, poet, school founder, and early national celebrity--bears little resemblance to the title character in her most f
Cultivated by Hand aligns the overlooked history of amateur musicians in the early years of the United States with little-understood practices of music book mak