Judith Ridner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1154915 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Ridner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Ridner |
| SIGNATURE | RIDNER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mississippi State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Chiefs Now in This City
Journal Article "The Chiefs Now in This City": Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America Get access "The Chiefs Now in This City": Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America. By Colin G Calloway. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xviii, 265 pp. $29.95.) Judith Ridner Judith Ridner Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hi…
Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais
Frontier Country
Spero’s Frontier Country is an ambitious book that aims to revise our understanding of early American frontiers using the history of colonial and revolutionary Pennsylvania as a case study. Spero poses a bold challenge both to the traditional, Turnerian view of the frontier as a safety valve and to more recent conceptions of it as a borderland.1 He argues that these analytic categories fail to account for eighteenth-century conceptions of the fro…
Using the Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s “Irish Immigrant Letters Home” to Teach Nineteenth-Century Irish Immigrant History
AS ANY FACULTY MEMBER who teaches American immigration history knows well, Irish Catholic famine-era immigrants command enormous attention in both the popular media and in scholarly literature. Popular and documentary films, popular and scholarly histories, as well as a host of memoirs and novels all tell various facets of their immigrant story; the Irish, it seems, are everywhere. Consequently, many students arrive in our classrooms with some un…
Taking Their Place Among the Giants
Oral history performance is an important tool for making history, but performing oral histories also raises important questions about what kind of history is being made, issues of particular relevance to the performed histories of underrepresented minority groups, such as African Americans. This article focuses on a case study of Another River Flows , an African American oral history performance staged in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley in 2008. It …
Indians and British Outposts in Eighteenth-Century America
I Don’t Cry, but I Remember
Joyce Lackie’s I Don’t Cry, But I Remember broadens our understanding of history and oral history in three key ways. As its title suggests, the book is most obviously an immigrant’s story. It tells...
Crossroads of Empire
Scholars have long defined the middle colonies of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by what they are not. With their distinct settlement histories, multiple native populations, ethnically diverse settler populations, and contentious politics, the middle colonies never fit the tidy characterizations of Puritan New England or the descriptions of a racialized slave South. Instead, scholars such as Patricia U. Bonomi cited pluralism, especially …
New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier
New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier. Migration and Settlement of Worthington, Ohio. By Virginia E. McCormick and Robert W. McCormick. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 356. Maps, illustrations, and appendices. $39.00.) Not that long ago, academic historians took a dim view of town histories. Such books were disparaged as mere chronicles assembled by antiquarians to celebrate the achievements of their town founders and the pr…
Taking Their Place Among the Giants
Oral history performance is an important tool for making history, but performing oral histories also raises important questions about what kind of history is being made, issues of particular relevance to the performed histories of underrepresented minority groups, such as African Americans. This article focuses on a case study of Another River Flows , an African American oral history performance staged in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley in 2008. It …
New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier
New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier. Migration and Settlement of Worthington, Ohio. By Virginia E. McCormick and Robert W. McCormick. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 356. Maps, illustrations, and appendices. $39.00.) Not that long ago, academic historians took a dim view of town histories. Such books were disparaged as mere chronicles assembled by antiquarians to celebrate the achievements of their town founders and the pr…
Crossroads of Empire
Scholars have long defined the middle colonies of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by what they are not. With their distinct settlement histories, multiple native populations, ethnically diverse settler populations, and contentious politics, the middle colonies never fit the tidy characterizations of Puritan New England or the descriptions of a racialized slave South. Instead, scholars such as Patricia U. Bonomi cited pluralism, especially …
Indians and British Outposts in Eighteenth-Century America
I Don’t Cry, but I Remember
Joyce Lackie’s I Don’t Cry, But I Remember broadens our understanding of history and oral history in three key ways. As its title suggests, the book is most obviously an immigrant’s story. It tells...
Using the Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s “Irish Immigrant Letters Home” to Teach Nineteenth-Century Irish Immigrant History
AS ANY FACULTY MEMBER who teaches American immigration history knows well, Irish Catholic famine-era immigrants command enormous attention in both the popular media and in scholarly literature. Popular and documentary films, popular and scholarly histories, as well as a host of memoirs and novels all tell various facets of their immigrant story; the Irish, it seems, are everywhere. Consequently, many students arrive in our classrooms with some un…
Taking Their Place Among the Giants
Oral history performance is an important tool for making history, but performing oral histories also raises important questions about what kind of history is being made, issues of particular relevance to the performed histories of underrepresented minority groups, such as African Americans. This article focuses on a case study of Another River Flows , an African American oral history performance staged in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley in 2008. It …
Frontier Country
Spero’s Frontier Country is an ambitious book that aims to revise our understanding of early American frontiers using the history of colonial and revolutionary Pennsylvania as a case study. Spero poses a bold challenge both to the traditional, Turnerian view of the frontier as a safety valve and to more recent conceptions of it as a borderland.1 He argues that these analytic categories fail to account for eighteenth-century conceptions of the fro…
Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais
The Chiefs Now in This City
Journal Article "The Chiefs Now in This City": Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America Get access "The Chiefs Now in This City": Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America. By Colin G Calloway. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xviii, 265 pp. $29.95.) Judith Ridner Judith Ridner Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hi…
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