Karin Wulf
Biographic Data
| ID | 987881 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karin Wulf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karin |
| FAMILY NAME | Wulf |
| SIGNATURE | WULF K |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1414-7591 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Escaping Matrimony
What is 1776 in 2026? A Library (and University) Approach
IF 1776 seems like a legible year for the American Revolution, in many ways it was also just another year. In Providence, Rhode Island, Nicholas Brown and his brothers in business were attending to the lottery the new United States had launched to help finance its war against Great Britain, but also keeping accounts of the goods they were buying and selling around the Atlantic as well as right around the corner. In Lima, a Peruvian printer on San…
The Cambridge History of the American Revolution
The first volume delves into how the context of the American Revolution was set, taking readers across North America and the world to reveal the far-flung people, events, institutions, cultures, and ideas that led to its inception. Through a global lens, the volume shows how empires struggled with political and economic reforms, as well as popular protest, while competing and warring with each other. On a continental scale, long-term environmenta…
Tangled Journeys
Wilford Woodruff at the Crossroads of American Genealogy
In the mid-1830s, a New England man began to write the first of what would be volumes of journals covering more than six decades of his life and experiences, reflections, and family history. Born in 1807, he grew up in the Connecticut River Valley town where his great-great-great-great grandfather was an early seventeenth-century proprietor. Ample evidence of his family's prominence in the community and nearby, including the church a great uncle …
The 1619 Project Forum
Why has the American Historical Review commissioned nineteen scholars to review the 1619 Project? There is no precedent in the history of the journal for a review forum of this scope and magnitude. Without question, the 1619 Project has become a very public flash point within academic and public debates centered on the work history does in the world. Its creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones, won a Pulitzer Prize for her lead essay that opened the project…
Wicked Flesh
Reviewed by: Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World by Jessica Marie Johnson Karin Wulf Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World. By Jessica Marie Johnson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 328 pages. Cloth, paper, ebook. Three maps precede the Introduction to Wicked Flesh: “New Orleans’ Atlantic World, circa 1685–1810”; “The Gulf Coast and the Caribbean in the Eigh…
Introduction
Julie Hardwick, Sarah M. S. Pearsall, Karin Wulf, Introduction: Centering Families in Atlantic Histories, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 2, Centering Families in Atlantic Histories (April 2013), pp. 205-224
What's Colonial and Which America
Recent issues of the OAH Magazine of History have emphasized topics relatively new to academic inquiry—relative, that is, to the subject of this issue. For histories of colonial America are as old as colonization itself. From the perspective of the colonizers, for example, consider Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's General and Natural History of the Indies (1535), or Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana (1702). Colonial America compelled the in…
No Boundaries
In the last several decades, early American history has been one of the most dynamic and energetic fields in professional historical scholarship. Social history, cultural history, the new political and new imperial history, Native American history, analytical perspectives on class and gender, and studies of slavery and of race have produced a vitally expansive new understanding of the period. Thanks to this brisk outpouring, the early republic an…
Women and Families in Early (North) America and the Wider (Atlantic) World
This article is part of a History Compass cluster on ‘Rethinking Gender, Family and Sexuality in the Early Modern Atlantic World’. The cluster is made up of the following articles: ‘On Currents and Comparisons: Gender and the Atlantic ‘Turn’ in Spanish America’, Bianca Premo, History Compass 8.3 (2010): 223–237, doi: 10.1111/j.1478‐0542.2009.00658.x ‘Women and Families in Early (North) America and the Wider (Atlantic) World’, Karin Wulf, History …
Nothing Says "Democracy" Like a Visit from the Queen
Early plans for commemorating the four hundredth anniversary of the English founding of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 involved much discussion of the effort to brand Jamestown as “the birthplace of American democracy.” As it turned out, the slogan printed on souvenir T-shirts, caps, mugs, and tote bags was “America's 400th Anniversary,” though the theme of democracy remained central and was emphasized by a yearlong series of conferences titled “Th…
The Many Legalities of Early America
Legal historians were brought up short by Stanley Katz's 1984 essay “The Problem of a Colonial Legal History” (in Jack P. Greene and J. R. Pole's edited collection Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era, 1984), in which he decried the field's limited scope and teleological tilt toward the American nation. As Christopher L. Tomlins, a coeditor of this volume, puts it, Katz argued that “colonial legal history ha…
Not Your Grandmother's Genealogy
Not All Wives
Journal Article Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia. By Karin Wulf. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. xx, 217 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-3702-4.) Get access Sharon V. Salinger Sharon V. Salinger University of California, Riverside, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Pages 184–185, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674942 Published: 01…
Ye Heart of a Man
Journal Article Ye Heart of a Man: The Domestic life of Men in Colonial New England. By Lisa Wilson. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. xii, 255 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-300-07546-4.) Get access Karin Wulf Karin Wulf American University, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Pages 183–184, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674941 Published: 01 J…
Not All Wives
Not All Wives
Arguing that unmarried women shaped the city as much as it shaped them, Wulf examines popular literary representations of marriage, the economic hardships faced by women, and the decisive impact of a newly masculine public culture in the late colonial period
The Selected Letters of Mary Moody Emerson
Scholars have long recognized that Mary Moody (1774-1863) had a vital influence on the intellectual development of her nephew, Ralph Waldo Emerson, during his most formative years. extent of that influence--and the quality of Mary Emerson's own mind--are apparent, however, only through her extensive correspondence spanning seventy years.The Selected Letters of Mary Moody Emerson makes available for the first time this important collection of lett…
Life after Death
The Many Legalities of Early America
Legal historians were brought up short by Stanley Katz's 1984 essay “The Problem of a Colonial Legal History” (in Jack P. Greene and J. R. Pole's edited collection Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era, 1984), in which he decried the field's limited scope and teleological tilt toward the American nation. As Christopher L. Tomlins, a coeditor of this volume, puts it, Katz argued that “colonial legal history ha…
Nothing Says "Democracy" Like a Visit from the Queen
Early plans for commemorating the four hundredth anniversary of the English founding of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 involved much discussion of the effort to brand Jamestown as “the birthplace of American democracy.” As it turned out, the slogan printed on souvenir T-shirts, caps, mugs, and tote bags was “America's 400th Anniversary,” though the theme of democracy remained central and was emphasized by a yearlong series of conferences titled “Th…
Introduction
Julie Hardwick, Sarah M. S. Pearsall, Karin Wulf, Introduction: Centering Families in Atlantic Histories, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 2, Centering Families in Atlantic Histories (April 2013), pp. 205-224
The Selected Letters of Mary Moody Emerson
Scholars have long recognized that Mary Moody (1774-1863) had a vital influence on the intellectual development of her nephew, Ralph Waldo Emerson, during his most formative years. extent of that influence--and the quality of Mary Emerson's own mind--are apparent, however, only through her extensive correspondence spanning seventy years.The Selected Letters of Mary Moody Emerson makes available for the first time this important collection of lett…
Life after Death
The Selected Letters of Mary Moody Emerson
Scholars have long recognized that Mary Moody (1774-1863) had a vital influence on the intellectual development of her nephew, Ralph Waldo Emerson, during his most formative years. extent of that influence--and the quality of Mary Emerson's own mind--are apparent, however, only through her extensive correspondence spanning seventy years.The Selected Letters of Mary Moody Emerson makes available for the first time this important collection of lett…
Not All Wives
Arguing that unmarried women shaped the city as much as it shaped them, Wulf examines popular literary representations of marriage, the economic hardships faced by women, and the decisive impact of a newly masculine public culture in the late colonial period
Not All Wives
Journal Article Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia. By Karin Wulf. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. xx, 217 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-3702-4.) Get access Sharon V. Salinger Sharon V. Salinger University of California, Riverside, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Pages 184–185, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674942 Published: 01…
Ye Heart of a Man
Journal Article Ye Heart of a Man: The Domestic life of Men in Colonial New England. By Lisa Wilson. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. xii, 255 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-300-07546-4.) Get access Karin Wulf Karin Wulf American University, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Pages 183–184, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674941 Published: 01 J…
Not All Wives
The Many Legalities of Early America
Legal historians were brought up short by Stanley Katz's 1984 essay “The Problem of a Colonial Legal History” (in Jack P. Greene and J. R. Pole's edited collection Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era, 1984), in which he decried the field's limited scope and teleological tilt toward the American nation. As Christopher L. Tomlins, a coeditor of this volume, puts it, Katz argued that “colonial legal history ha…
Not Your Grandmother's Genealogy
Nothing Says "Democracy" Like a Visit from the Queen
Early plans for commemorating the four hundredth anniversary of the English founding of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 involved much discussion of the effort to brand Jamestown as “the birthplace of American democracy.” As it turned out, the slogan printed on souvenir T-shirts, caps, mugs, and tote bags was “America's 400th Anniversary,” though the theme of democracy remained central and was emphasized by a yearlong series of conferences titled “Th…
Women and Families in Early (North) America and the Wider (Atlantic) World
This article is part of a History Compass cluster on ‘Rethinking Gender, Family and Sexuality in the Early Modern Atlantic World’. The cluster is made up of the following articles: ‘On Currents and Comparisons: Gender and the Atlantic ‘Turn’ in Spanish America’, Bianca Premo, History Compass 8.3 (2010): 223–237, doi: 10.1111/j.1478‐0542.2009.00658.x ‘Women and Families in Early (North) America and the Wider (Atlantic) World’, Karin Wulf, History …
What's Colonial and Which America
Recent issues of the OAH Magazine of History have emphasized topics relatively new to academic inquiry—relative, that is, to the subject of this issue. For histories of colonial America are as old as colonization itself. From the perspective of the colonizers, for example, consider Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's General and Natural History of the Indies (1535), or Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana (1702). Colonial America compelled the in…
No Boundaries
In the last several decades, early American history has been one of the most dynamic and energetic fields in professional historical scholarship. Social history, cultural history, the new political and new imperial history, Native American history, analytical perspectives on class and gender, and studies of slavery and of race have produced a vitally expansive new understanding of the period. Thanks to this brisk outpouring, the early republic an…
Introduction
Julie Hardwick, Sarah M. S. Pearsall, Karin Wulf, Introduction: Centering Families in Atlantic Histories, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 2, Centering Families in Atlantic Histories (April 2013), pp. 205-224
Wicked Flesh
Reviewed by: Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World by Jessica Marie Johnson Karin Wulf Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World. By Jessica Marie Johnson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 328 pages. Cloth, paper, ebook. Three maps precede the Introduction to Wicked Flesh: “New Orleans’ Atlantic World, circa 1685–1810”; “The Gulf Coast and the Caribbean in the Eigh…
The 1619 Project Forum
Why has the American Historical Review commissioned nineteen scholars to review the 1619 Project? There is no precedent in the history of the journal for a review forum of this scope and magnitude. Without question, the 1619 Project has become a very public flash point within academic and public debates centered on the work history does in the world. Its creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones, won a Pulitzer Prize for her lead essay that opened the project…
Wilford Woodruff at the Crossroads of American Genealogy
In the mid-1830s, a New England man began to write the first of what would be volumes of journals covering more than six decades of his life and experiences, reflections, and family history. Born in 1807, he grew up in the Connecticut River Valley town where his great-great-great-great grandfather was an early seventeenth-century proprietor. Ample evidence of his family's prominence in the community and nearby, including the church a great uncle …
The Cambridge History of the American Revolution
The first volume delves into how the context of the American Revolution was set, taking readers across North America and the world to reveal the far-flung people, events, institutions, cultures, and ideas that led to its inception. Through a global lens, the volume shows how empires struggled with political and economic reforms, as well as popular protest, while competing and warring with each other. On a continental scale, long-term environmenta…
Tangled Journeys
Escaping Matrimony
What is 1776 in 2026? A Library (and University) Approach
IF 1776 seems like a legible year for the American Revolution, in many ways it was also just another year. In Providence, Rhode Island, Nicholas Brown and his brothers in business were attending to the lottery the new United States had launched to help finance its war against Great Britain, but also keeping accounts of the goods they were buying and selling around the Atlantic as well as right around the corner. In Lima, a Peruvian printer on San…
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