Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic
The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis
By Jan Ellen Lewis, Edited by Barry Bienstock, Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter Onuf
Edited by Barry Bienstock, Annette Gordon-Reed, and Peter Onuf
with contributions by Carolyn Eastman, Nicole Eustace, and David Waldstreicher
432 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 5 halftones, notes, index
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Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-6563-4
Published: October 2021 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-6564-1
Published: October 2021 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-6130-6
Published: October 2021
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
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Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic collects thirteen of Lewis’s most important essays. Distinguished scholars shed light on the historical and historiographical contexts in which Lewis and her peers researched, wrote, and argued. But the real star of this volume is Lewis herself: confident, unconventional, erudite, and deeply imaginative.
About the Authors
Jan Ellen Lewis (1949-2018) was professor of history at Rutgers University, Newark.
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Barry Bienstock teaches history at Horace Mann School, Bronx, New York.
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Annette Gordon-Reed is Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard Law School.
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Peter S. Onuf is Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History, Emeritus at the University of Virginia and Senior Fellow at Monticello’s Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies.
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Reviews
“This volume amply demonstrates the power of Lewis’s careful readings of texts, nuanced, interpretations, and meticulously constructed arguments. Seeing the full span of Lewis’s work and the way she often began pulling on threads that later scholars continued to unravel made me wish for an entire second volume exploring her legacy in these fields. Her influence will continue both through her published works and the many, many publications of scholars who build upon them."—Journal of Southern History
“The affection and admiration felt toward Lewis emanate from every contributor. . . It is a fitting tribute to Lewis’s scholarship and will also be of use to those interested in the history of the Early American Republic and how investigations of race, gender, and emotions provided insight into politics, the constitution, and Thomas Jefferson himself.”—The Middle Ground Journal
"A masterful tribute to Lewis . . . . In a time when political divides over school curricula threaten to erase the complicated, messy contradictions of the nation’s founding in favor of a polished yet limiting triumphal perspective Lewis’s scholarship, once again, is a timely and necessary intervention."—H-Net Reviews
“Learned, lucid, insightful, and humane, these essays aptly reflect Jan’s qualities as an inspirational mentor and pathbreaking scholar with a dazzling range of expertise. They collectively remind us of how much we have lost with her passing.”—Alan Taylor, author of American Republics
"An indefatigable researcher and a masterful essayist, Jan Lewis revealed how gender, slavery, and emotions converged within the early Republic’s political experiment and showed us why that convergence mattered. Like a well-curated retrospective exhibit, this volume displays Lewis’s creative and wide-ranging reinterpretation of the founding era."—John Lauritz Larson, Purdue University
“When Lewis began her career, the early American Republic was a moribund field; this volume shows us the magic by which she brought it back to life. Field changing when it was first published, her work has maintained its relevance ever since.”—Serena Zabin, Carleton College