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Jonathan Wilfred Wilson

Jonathan Wilfred Wilson

Jonathan Wilson holds a Ph.D. in American intellectual history from Syracuse University. His research focuses on the uses of national identity in the antebellum United States. A founding contributor to The Junto: A Group Blog on Early American History, he is working on a book about nationalist literary intellectuals in New York City. He teaches history at the University of Scranton and at Marywood University.

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Lafayette's Return: An Early American Media Event

November 2015 (Volume 10, Issue 4)
In summer 2015, a wooden frigate named the Hermione sailed from France to the United States. It was recreating one of the voyages that brought the Marquis de Lafayette to fight in the American War of Independence. The new Hermione was a painstaking replica of Lafayette’s ship, built with authentic...

The Resignation of John Russwurm: Individual Lives in Early American Newspapers

April 2013 (Volume 8, Issue 2)
Visiting archives to view old documents can stir strange emotions. Handling manuscripts, the historian sees not only the private words of someone else but even a physical presence: the quiver of an elderly hand, the smudge of a young thumb, the jagged strokes of impatient fingers flying across a page...

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