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Karin Wulf
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Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U

#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine. .. more

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Karin A. Wulf is an American historian and the Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island. She was the executive director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia from 2013 through 2021. She is also one of the founders of Women Also Know History, a searchable website database of women historians. Additionally, Wulf worked to spearhead a neurodiversity working group at William & Mary in 2011. She is currently writing a book about genealogy and political culture in Early America titled, Lineage: Genealogy and the Politics of Connection in British America, 1680-1820. Her work examines the history of women, gender, and the family in Early America. .. more

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · Dec 28
It’s been a long time coming… so thrilled to share the cover (and Oxford UP website last in 🧵) for my book, _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_, pub date 7.2.25 (but will ship, so they say very enticingly, mid-June. 1/ #VastEarlyAmerica 🗃️
Book cover with various kinds of evidence of family history arrayed around the author and title, the latter is _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_. The kinds of materials include printed texts, manuscripts, a red book (shhhhh that figures largely in the Introduction!), a watercolor family record, Fraktur, gravestone, and a sampler. One repeated text says "born free, born free (etc)"

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 1h
There is also an angle here about manuscripts dealers... 🥸

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 1h
Fantastic, thank you!

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 1h
When I say that the bastards are getting me down, what I mean is I submitted a revised essay abt the family histories that single moms spoke into the late 18thc court record on behalf of their babies. And how those histories are occluded not by shaming rituals but records practices then and since.
Screenshot for the first paragraph of an essay "'Saith she is with child": Family Histories in the Fornication Archive."

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 1h
Indeed.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 1h
For anyone reading with even a little background, this article tells us a bit more about what's happening at the National Archives: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
At the National Archives, a Deep Dive Into the American Story
www.nytimes.com

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 3h
America stares down erasure of Black history and progress www.axios.com/2025/11/29/f... "The cuts and deletions are, paradoxically, drawing more attention to Black history [and the need for it to understand and respond to this moment], says National Urban League president Marc H. Morial."
America stares down erasure of Black history and progress
In the last year, federal, state and institutional decisions have gutted pillars of America's civil rights protections.
www.axios.com

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 1d
This evening! 😃🤓
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Some of the most meaningful materials I worked with for _Lineage_, conveying the infrastructural role of genealogy & the power of family, is at the American Antiquarian Society.

Excited to be there tomorrow night (& online) to talk abt the book! Info ⬇️
www.americanantiquarian.org/programs-eve...
A manuscript 18th century family record in the background, with program title and time (7-8pm) with book cover in the foreground.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you!!

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 2d
Some of the most meaningful materials I worked with for _Lineage_, conveying the infrastructural role of genealogy & the power of family, is at the American Antiquarian Society.

Excited to be there tomorrow night (& online) to talk abt the book! Info ⬇️
www.americanantiquarian.org/programs-eve...
A manuscript 18th century family record in the background, with program title and time (7-8pm) with book cover in the foreground.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 2d
I try not to express my reactions online but.

Every. Single. Aspect of this situation is through the looking glass. The drivers, ppl and stated principles, the levers and rationales, the perversity. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Why Trump and Harvard Have Not Reached a Deal
www.nytimes.com

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 2d
Brown 2026 is sponsoring and partnering on a lot of work across the university and beyond this year and next and into early 2027. Check it out! 5//

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 2d
And a podcast that my co-chair, Kevin McLaughlin, did about the state and fate of universities in/ for democracy: 4/ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Podcast logo for Rhodes Center and "the role of universities in a democratic society with Brown 2026."

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 2d
Some of our events featured, including our fantastic kickoff weekend in Jan 2025 w Daveed Diggs in conversation w Tricia Rose and 2 fab students --oh, and then Jon Batiste. 😀 3/
Daveed Diggs holding mic sitting on a stage w Brown 2026 in background, professor Tricia Rose and 2 students.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 2d
Info on the application for the fellowships for Brown2026: apply.interfolio.com/175860 2/
Brown2026 logo brown and yellow with a star in the 6...

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 2d
Friends, please share? Brown2026 is advertising for its 3rd year of fellowships. Would love to have you consider this opportunity to work with us as we face 2026. Link to position and application info in the thread: And more info about the initiative is here: brown2026democracy.brown.edu 1/
Text description in a screenshot of the Interfolio ad.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 2d
The Society currently invites applications for its David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People.

The Fellowship, for up to £2500, supports research by historians of Scotland at any career stage: bit.ly/4ns6LJj

Closing date: Friday 6 March 2026 #Skystorians
David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People - RHS
Launched in 2023, the David Berry Fellowship provides an annual award of up to £2,500 to undertake research on the history of Scotland and the Scottish people worldwide. Applications for the 2026 Fell...
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 2d
I got behind the mic to host @bfworld.bsky.social (thanks, @lizcovart.bsky.social!) for a conversation between leaders of the 250th in my two favorite states -- Virginia & Rhode Island. Carly Fiorina (honorary chair of VA250) and Gregg Amore (RI Sec State). benfranklinsworld.com/episode-427-...
Episode 427: How States Are Planning the 250th: Commemorating the American Revolution in 2026
Discover how states are preparing for the 250th anniversary of American independence in 2026.
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 3d
The hardback of HUMANS: A Monstrous History is gorgeous! If you're gift-shopping for nerds with a conscience, this may be just the thing for them.
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Row of copies of Humans: A Monstrous History, a red hardback with yellow lettering visible on the spine. One copy in the centre faces outwards. The red cover shows an oval, silver-coloured mirror with a black frame comprised of sci-fi and fantasy monsters, with "Humans" in yellow lettering in a stylized font with details that resemble whale-tails and bats’ wings at the top, curving around the mirror. Just inside the top curve is the subtitle: A Monstrous History. Along the bottom curve of the mirror: Surekha Davies. Hardback book open to colour plates, with one large plate on each page. The plates show richly coloured scenes of people. Left: Seven African-descended people and one Indigenous American (dressed in feather garments and with a bow and arrow) are arranged in three tiers. All but one figure is in fine European clothing; most are short and stocky, or proportioned like children. Right: Turbaned soldiers, some on horseback, watch a naked woman scaling a wall between two cliffs; a male figure, naked from the waist up, rises out of a river. Open hardback book with copies of the. same lined up behind it, with red covers and HUMANS visible in yellow on the spines. On the left-hand open page: A naked figure with a long, almost elephantine nose and eyelashes, open-mouthed and looking vaguely alarmed; with monkeys’ heads at the armpits, dogs’ heads at the elbows and knees; claws for fingers and toes; and a tail. A stream, a tree, and a cute ye olde city with towers appear in the background. Book on a book chair on the left open to the table of contents. On the right is a row of copies of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, red spines with yellow and black lettering visible. Text on table of contents includes: List of Illustrations Introduction 1. On the Ecology of Monsters 2. Human or animal? 3. Race-nations I 4. Race-nations II 5. Gender, Sex, and Monstrous Births 6. Monstrous Performance and Display 7. Gods, Magic, and the Supernatural 8. Machines 9. Extraterrestrials 10. Monstrofuturism Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social · 3d
It’s Giving Tuesday! From now through Dec 25 (or until we reach $3,700), every $1 you give is matched twice—your gift becomes $3.
👉 www.benfranklinsworld.com/givingtuesday

Here’s the story of how we got here and why your support matters…
Giving Tuesday 2025
This Giving Tuesday, every dollar you give—up to $3,700—will be matched twice, tripling your impact. Your generosity fuels Clio Digital Media’s mission to make trustworthy, engaging early American his...
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 3d
What if I told you none of it was accidental. (Yes, she's a mastermind.)
Small scruffy white dog with brown ears and one eye patch wearing a jaunty pirate bandana.

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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · 3d
Next week, Séverine Angers will present her research on women's patriotism during the American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars, based on letters from military families. Sign up for the Prize Papers Talks Special Edition with the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven with the link below!

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 3d
When I was in Girl Scouts a million years ago we had a warm fuzzies economy of positive reinforcement - produce and consume regularly! It reminded me of that.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 3d
This was a terrific talk this afternoon on Dr. Jelani Cobb's new book, which I'm making my way through and is such a terrifically bracing blend of his own expertise as journalist and historian. His essays from The New Yorker over a decade-- with postscript reflections on each. Highly recommend.
Two men on a stage sitting beneath a screen with an image of the book, and the title "Three or More is a Riot: A Kaleidoscope Portrait of the Last Decade"

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 3d
Today I got a funny and affirming email about my book from a scholar I admire a lot. It felt GREAT.

Resolution to keep sending enthused emails to people whose books I read and appreciate!

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 3d
Thank you for sharing, Paige!!

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 4d
Really excited to talk w @csschmitt.bsky.social today about her intense, terrific new book. Join us at noon EST!
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Join us TODAY at 12 p.m. for a virtual discussion of Casey Schmitt's The Predatory Sea, part of JCB Reads.

Details at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
The image shows the JCB logo and the cover of Schmitt's book, which depicts islands and the ocean.

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 4d
Join us TODAY at 12 p.m. for a virtual discussion of Casey Schmitt's The Predatory Sea, part of JCB Reads.

Details at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
The image shows the JCB logo and the cover of Schmitt's book, which depicts islands and the ocean.

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Paige Roberts @paige-roberts.bsky.social · 4d
Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America
talk by @kawulf.bsky.social
Thurs Dec 4 7-8pm
online & in person
American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, Mass)

www.americanantiquarian.org/programs-eve...

#genealogy
Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America | American Antiquarian Society
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 4d
We first note that hand-wringing about the decline in US college enrollments has mistakenly linked such declines to the price of four-year colleges.

But the decline is entirely driven by two-year community colleges (and by for-profit colleges). The four-year sector is the dog that didn't bark.

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Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social · 4d
🔔 We’re honored to open a new round in the @susih.bsky.social -IU Community Scholars Program, which unlocks onsite + remote library access for 3 years for contingent scholars + historians working beyond the academy. Please apply + share! CFP due 2/1. Onward! 🗃️ s-usih.org/2025/12/cfp-...
CFP: USIH-IU Community Scholars Program | Society for US Intellectual History
In partnership with the Institute for American Thought at Indiana University, the Society for U.S. Intellectual History is pleased to announce the continuation of a new opportunity to support continge...
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