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The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute (EMSI) supports advanced research and scholarship on human societies between 1450 and 1850.

 Los Angeles, CA
dornsife.usc.edu/emsi
Joined March 2012
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Through June 9, get 40% off all titles (plus free U.S. shipping) from our friends @PennPress. Enter discount code SUMMER23-FM on the shopping cart page. For more: pennpress.org
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A new piece by Peter Mancall: Was the 1623 Poisoning of 200 Native Americans One of the Continent's First War Crimes? smithsonianmag.com/history/w…
Was the 1623 Poisoning of 200 Native Americans One of the Continent's First War Crimes?

Was the 1623 Poisoning of 200 Native Americans One of the Continent's First War Crimes?

English colonists claimed they wanted to make peace with the Powhatans, then offered them tainted wine

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Join us tomorrow for the Linda and Harlan Martens #EconomicHistory Forum: "Empires, Market-Building, and the Origins of Capitalism" Register below:
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Saturday, February 18, 2023 Linda and Harlan Martens Economic History Forum "#Empires, #MarketBuilding, and the Origins of #Capitalism" IN-PERSON Event @TheHuntington Stewart R. Smith Board Room Register: forms.gle/edkHq62WCddT6HRi7
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USC EMSI@USC_EMSI15 Feb 2023
Saturday, February 18, 2023 Linda and Harlan Martens Economic History Forum "#Empires, #MarketBuilding, and the Origins of #Capitalism" IN-PERSON Event @TheHuntington Stewart R. Smith Board Room Register: forms.gle/edkHq62WCddT6HRi7
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Saturday, February 18, 2023 Linda and Harlan Martens Economic History Forum "#Empires, #MarketBuilding, and the Origins of #Capitalism" IN-PERSON Event @TheHuntington Stewart R. Smith Board Room Register: forms.gle/edkHq62WCddT6HRi7
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Valentine’s Day originated as a feast to celebrate the decapitation of a third-century Christian martyr — or perhaps two. So, how did we get from beheading to betrothing on Valentine’s Day? Hear more from a @USCDornsife expert below! bit.ly/3YhRKgU
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#EarlyModern #IberianVoices This Saturday @TheHuntington Register below:
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Saturday, February 11, 2023 #EarlyModern Iberian Voices Annual Symposium: "Sound and Vision in Early Modern Spain & Beyond" IN-PERSON Event @TheHuntington Stewart R. Smith Board Room Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Interview with Prof. Jacob Soll (USC) about his new book Free Market - The History of an Idea (Basic Books, 2022). intellectualhistory.net/new-…

Free Market – The History of an Idea — Institute of Intellectual History

The Nobel-prize winning economist Milton Friedman famously argued in Capitalism and Freedom (1962) that free markets were a necessary condition for political freedom, as well as being the only true...

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Saturday, February 11, 2023 #EarlyModern Iberian Voices Annual Symposium: "Sound and Vision in Early Modern Spain & Beyond" IN-PERSON Event @TheHuntington Stewart R. Smith Board Room Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Saturday, February 11, 2023 #EarlyModern Iberian Voices Annual Symposium: "Sound and Vision in Early Modern Spain & Beyond" IN-PERSON Event @TheHuntington Stewart R. Smith Board Room Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Like other Pilgrims who crossed the Atlantic, William Bradford interpreted events as part of a preordained plan. wsj.com/articles/plymouth-co… via @WSJ
‘Plymouth Colony’ Review: This Must Be the Place

‘Plymouth Colony’ Review: This Must Be the Place

Like other Pilgrims who crossed the Atlantic, William Bradford interpreted events as part of a preordained plan.

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Op-Ed: End the romance of Thanksgiving, as a great Pequot scholar argued two centuries ago latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
Contributor: End the romance of Thanksgiving, as a great Pequot scholar argued two centuries ago

Contributor: End the romance of Thanksgiving, as a great Pequot scholar argued two centuries ago

That three-day meal in the autumn of 1621 was less a predictor of future goodwill among all Americans than a historic aberration.

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Thank you to @anne_goldgar & @USC_EMSI & @TheHuntington for hosting me. My gratitude to the audience for such thoughtful questions on The Rise of the West End. And compliments to my clever duchess @Hannah_Greig for coming up with the ideas! x
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USC EMSI@USC_EMSI17 Nov 2022
#AmericanOrigins this Saturday, November 19 with: Alan Malfavon "Afro-insurgents vs Afro-royalists: Early Mexican War of Independence and Cádiz liberalism, 1810-1813" @TheHuntington Seaver Classrooms 1 & 2 10:30 am – 12:00 pm RSVP: forms.gle/8DhTnbtcHDF5w7oP6
EMSI American Origins with Alan Malfavon

EMSI American Origins with Alan Malfavon

Please fill out this form to register for the American Origins on Saturday, November 19, 2022 Alan Malfavon, Washington State University "Afro-insurgents vs Afro-royalists: Early Mexican War of...

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#AmericanOrigins this Saturday, November 19 with: Alan Malfavon "Afro-insurgents vs Afro-royalists: Early Mexican War of Independence and Cádiz liberalism, 1810-1813" @TheHuntington Seaver Classrooms 1 & 2 10:30 am – 12:00 pm RSVP: forms.gle/8DhTnbtcHDF5w7oP6
EMSI American Origins with Alan Malfavon

EMSI American Origins with Alan Malfavon

Please fill out this form to register for the American Origins on Saturday, November 19, 2022 Alan Malfavon, Washington State University "Afro-insurgents vs Afro-royalists: Early Mexican War of...

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Friday Nov.18th 12 noon, Huntington Library, Seaver Classrooms 1-2. ⁦@Amanda_Vickery⁩ on “The Rise of the West End: London, the Season, and Metropolitan Shopping.” ⁦@USC_EMSI⁩
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FRI 18 November! ⁦@Amanda_Vickery⁩ will speak at ⁦@USC_EMSI⁩ Europe seminar, 12 noon: “The Rise of the West End: London, the Season, and Metropolitan Shopping.” Huntington Library Seaver classroom 1-2. For free lunch register at this link docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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NACBS@TheNACBS13 Nov 2022
The 2022 Snow Prize is awarded to Keith Pluymers for No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic. @KDPluymers @PennPress pennpress.org/9780812253078/… #nacbs2022
No Wood, No Kingdom – Penn Press

No Wood, No Kingdom – Penn Press

Explores the efforts to knot together woods around the Atlantic basin as resources for an English empireIn early modern England, wood scarcity was a widespre...

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I’m truly honored and so grateful to everyone who chatted with me and read chapters and offered encouragement over the many years this book took to write.
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The 2022 Snow Prize is awarded to Keith Pluymers for No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic. @KDPluymers @PennPress pennpress.org/9780812253078/… #nacbs2022
No Wood, No Kingdom – Penn Press

No Wood, No Kingdom – Penn Press

Explores the efforts to knot together woods around the Atlantic basin as resources for an English empireIn early modern England, wood scarcity was a widespre...

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NOV 18th 12 noon Huntington Library @Amanda_Vickery will speak at @USC_EMSI European History Seminar on “The Rise of the West End: London, The Season, and Metropolitan Shopping.” Sign up at this link by Nov 14th for seminar and free lunch docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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