Scholars Bookshelf

Featured Titles (Pictured Above)

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• Michael Blaakman (HSP fellow 2013–14; 2016–17), Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic, 2023. View in HSP's catalog.

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• Nicole Eustace, Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America, 2021. Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History. View in HSP's catalog.

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• Susan H. Brandt (HSP fellow 2011–12), Women Healers: Gender and Medical Authority in Early Philadelphia, 2022. Honorable Mention, 2022 Library Company of Philadelphia First Book Award. View in HSP's catalog.

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Additional Titles

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Slavery and Race

• Michael Dickinson (HSP fellow 2015–16), Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680–1807, 2022. Winner of the 2023 Paul E. Lovejoy Prize from the Journal of Global Slavery.

• Katherine Johnston (HSP fellow 2013–14), The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World, 2022.

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Health, Science, and the Body​

• Elizabeth Kelly Gray (HSP fellow 2008–9), Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776–1914, 2022.

• Lynn Matluck Brooks, Dance and Science in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Articulate Body, 2025.

• Meghan Crnic, The Beach Cure: A History of Healing on Northeastern Shores, 2025.

• Mairin Odle (HSP fellow 2012–13), Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America, 2022.

• Sara Naramore (HSP fellow 2017–18), Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic, 2023.

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American Revolution and the Early Republic​

• Ashli White (HSP fellow 2011–12), Revolutionary Things: Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, 2023.

• John Wood Sweet (HSP fellow 1991, 2002–3), The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America, 2022.

• Kirsten Wood (HSP fellow 2005–6), Accommodating the Republic: Taverns in the Early United States, 2023.

• Michael D. Hattem (HSP fellow 2016–17), The Memory of '76: The Revolution in American History, 2024.

• Sara Naramore (HSP fellow 2017–18), Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic, 2023. (Also in Health)

• Shira Lurie (HSP fellow 2017–18), The American Liberty Pole: Popular Politics and the Struggle for Democracy in the Early Republic, 2023.

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Politics and Global Affairs​

• Edward P. Pompeian (HSP fellow 2011–12), Sustaining Empire: Venezuela’s Trade with the United States during the Age of Revolutions, 1797–1828, 2022.

• Franco Sciannameo, The Journey of Phil Trajetta: From Italian Political Prisoner to Free American Citizen, 2024.

• John Suval (HSP fellow 2014–15), Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy, 2022.

• Lindsay Schakenbach Regele (HSP fellow 2015–16), Flowers, Guns, and Money: Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism, 2023.

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Biography, Family, and Social History

• Andrew Sillen, Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White, 2024.

• Lori D. Ginzberg (HSP fellow 2001–2), Tangled Journeys: One Family’s Story and the Making of American History, 2024.

• Woody Exley, An Unexpected Man: The Life and Times of an Erstwhile Charity Boy, 2023.

• Commerce, Communication, and Everyday Life
  Aaron W. Marrs (HSP fellow 2010–11), The American Transportation Revolution: A Social and Cultural History, 2024.

• Dael Norwood (HSP fellow 2010–11), Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America, 2022.

• Jeffrey Makala (HSP fellow 2014–15), Publishing Plates: Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture, 2023.

• David Thomson (HSP fellow 2014–15), Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union, 2022.

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Religion

• Gail Rodgers McCormick, Charity, Change, and Community: Frankford's Swedenborgians and Their Circle, 1817–1971 (2 vols), 2024.

• Jamie L. Brummitt (HSP fellow 2016–17), Protestant Relics in Early America, 2024.