Karin Wulf

@kawulf.bsky.social

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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)"

Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 2h

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.

Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13h

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.

Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 14h

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"

Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 14h

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!

Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you for sharing, Paige!!

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 23h

Really excited to talk w @csschmitt.bsky.social today about her intense, terrific new book. Join us at noon EST!

John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 1d

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...

Reposted by Karin Wulf

John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 1d

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...

Reposted by Karin Wulf

Paige Roberts @paige-roberts.bsky.social · 1d

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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Reposted by Michael A. Clemens, Michael Kevane, Rebecca Tushnet , and 5 more Michael A. Clemens, Michael Kevane, Rebecca Tushnet, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Dean Eckles, Brooke Harrington, Karin Wulf, Clark Gray

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 1d

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.

Reposted by Mary L. Dudziak, Susan Strasser, Raúl Pacheco-Vega , and 2 more Mary L. Dudziak, Susan Strasser, Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Kathleen Kennedy, Karin Wulf

Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social · 1d

🔔 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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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 1d

"By switching historical lenses, Juster reveals a panorama of colonial activity and expansion, a world teeming with Catholics." Great piece on Sue Juster's new book. Beginning with that remarkable reliquary at Jamestown.

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 1d

‘A Catholic who attended services held by Protestant clergy, and never doubted that the Eucharist was a sacramental miracle, was to all outward appearances a Protestant.’

@malcolmgaskill.bsky.social on Catholicism in colonial America.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Malcolm Gaskill · Bejesuited: America’s First Catholics

Readers familiar with the legend of Pocahontas – baptised an Anglican in the church at Jamestown – and the puritan...

www.lrb.co.uk

Reposted by Vaughan S. Roberts, Karin Wulf

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 1d

Malcolm Gaskill · Bejesuited: America’s First Catholics

Readers familiar with the legend of Pocahontas – baptised an Anglican in the church at Jamestown – and the puritan...

www.lrb.co.uk

Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 1d

Will look forward to it!!

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 2d

I’m so thankful for the chance to compile & share #ScholarSunday threads of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books. So let’s end the holiday weekend with my 252nd! Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️

blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

#ScholarSunday Thread 252 (11/30/25) – Black and White and Read All Over

I’m so thankful for the chance to compile & share #ScholarSunday threads of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. So let’s end the holiday weeke...

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 2d

Such a good episode. Roger and Mary Williams both w some v progressive positions (indigenous lands, separation of church & state) but also v much of their time and fully bigoted in misc contexts. Prof. C-F terrific both in her research and clear explication. Rhode Island: small state, big stories!

Globe Rhode Island @globeri.bsky.social · 11d

🎙️ On the Rhode Island Report podcast, Roger Williams University history Professor Charlotte Carrington-Farmer talks about her new book on Rhode Island founder Roger Williams, and a new exhibit highlighting the life of his wife, Mary Williams.

A more complex picture of Rhode Island’s first couple, Roger and Mary Williams - The Boston Globe

Roger Williams University history Professor Charlotte Carrington-Farmer talks about her new book about Roger Williams and a new exhibit about his wife, Mary Williams.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 2d

Archival containers 🤩

Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 2d

😀 Oh thank you, Steve, that's fantastic to see. Appreciate you!!

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 2d

“When you allow a machine to summarize your reading, to generate the ideas for your essay, and then to write that essay, you’re not learning how to read, think, or write.“

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 2d

Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize

The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.

www.theatlantic.com

Reposted by Timothy Snyder, Shannon Vallor, Jonathan M. Gilligan , and 8 more Timothy Snyder, Shannon Vallor, Jonathan M. Gilligan, Stacy D. VanDeveer, John Hogan, Mark Rice, Roger H. Brown, Greg O’Brien, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Karin Wulf, Jesse R. Lasky

Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 2d

Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize

The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.

www.theatlantic.com

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Karin Wulf

Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · 3d

Clio Digital Media is embarking on its first #GivingTuesday campaign this year—and we have a 2x matching donor! All donations up to $3,700 will be double-matched, tripling your impact. Can you help us reach our goal? @lizcovart.bsky.social @kawulf.bsky.social #VastEarlyAmerica #BenFranklinsWorld

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

Happy pub day!!! 🎉😊

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 3d

“Reclaiming the Declaration as reflective of historical thinking, Steve Sarson gives us an entirely new way of understanding why history matters—then and now." True story I did say this about @stevesarson.bsky.social’s new book! Grounding history in its history - it’s a thing I want for 2026.

UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 3d

Happy #pubday to "The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States" by @stevesarson.bsky.social !

How reading the Declaration of Independence as a document of history explains its intended meaning

www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10151/

Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 3d

If there’s anything I love more than reading, it’s reading about what other people are reading! Fascinating list, moved a few things from my should read to will read pile. 📚

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 3d

As you head out to your local favorite indie bookstore this weekend (because of course that’s what you’re doing, right?!), here is my list of my 25 favorite books of the year:

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/my-favorit...

My favorite books of 2025

25 books that changed the way I look at the world this year

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 3d

My favorite books of 2025

25 books that changed the way I look at the world this year

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 3d