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Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica | Exec. Dir. @OIEAHC & Prof. @williamandmary | Chef @scholarlykitchn | Co-founder @womnknowhistory | Co-ch #Neurodiversity W&M.

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    1. Dr. Karin Wulf‏ @kawulf 19 Jul 2020

      Two challenges are at the center of professional practice for me as an early Americanist.

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    2. Dr. Karin Wulf‏ @kawulf 19 Jul 2020

      First, this is a field that for reasons we should all understand has a particular prominence in American history writ large, and that, since its founding, has been implicitly if not always explicitly about the history of the nation. 2/

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    3. Dr. Karin Wulf‏ @kawulf 19 Jul 2020

      Second, as a community and as a profession, it really matters what we say about what we have been and done, and what we want to be and do. But it really, really matters what we do, who is consulted about that work, and who is asked to carry out what. 3/

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      Dr. Karin Wulf‏ @kawulf 19 Jul 2020

      Let me take the first thing first. The stakes of historical research and analysis are always high, because they always implicate the past in our present. There is no version of the past that is not also about the present, because none of us exist outside our own time, and 4/

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        2. Dr. Karin Wulf‏ @kawulf 19 Jul 2020

          …because everything we can know about the past is made possible by our present. This does not make us poor historians; it makes us human, and cognizant of the real importance of our work. For early America/nists, investments in national origins are super charged. 5/

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        3. Dr. Karin Wulf‏ @kawulf 19 Jul 2020

          People all around us, our colleagues, journalists, politicians, our own families and communities, are invested in what kind of nation was founded out of what kind of era. Are Americans living in a country that reflects that founding? 6/

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        4. Dr. Karin Wulf‏ @kawulf 19 Jul 2020

          Literally decades of research show us some things very, very clearly, among the most salient for national origins that we can only understand the United States that was founded in the Revolution and then the Federal Constitution when we understand the essential histories 7/

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        5. Dr. Karin Wulf‏ @kawulf 19 Jul 2020

          of Native Americans, settler colonialism, and dispossession, the magnitude of Atlantic slavery and the enslaved, and the ways these phenomena and peoples were fundamentally entwined with the Br Am/ colonial focus of much of the traditional narrative. 8/

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        6. Dr. Karin Wulf‏ @kawulf 19 Jul 2020

          As shorthand, it matters that x% of signers of the DOI or the Fed Constitution were personally invested in slavery, but it profoundly matters that 100% of them were enmeshed in a political economy of slavery. 9/

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        7. Dr. Karin Wulf‏ @kawulf 19 Jul 2020

          I note decades of research because that is measured in traditional professional journals and venues. Really its centuries of knowledge and publication by Native and Black writers. It's been the work of many, many scholars, writers, more to make this as plain as it now is. 10/

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        8. Dr. Karin Wulf‏ @kawulf 19 Jul 2020

          What we do with this is the question that has been made more obvious by the #1619Project among others. The stakes could not be higher. 11/

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        9. Dr. Karin Wulf‏ @kawulf 19 Jul 2020

          The second issue is how early America/nists deal with those stakes, and how our professional practices have been embedded in the same dynamics that have made those histories at stake harder to know, harder to surface. 12/

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        10. Dr. Karin Wulf‏ @kawulf 19 Jul 2020

          We have largely relied on the scholars doing this research & writing to push it to the surface-- unethical & unsustainable. Our professional orgs must support the scholars whose research & interpretive work we need & have all benefitted fr --this is as urgent as the history. 13/

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        11. Dr. Karin Wulf‏ @kawulf 19 Jul 2020

          This is Twitter (obv). I have generalized and flattened very complex issues (obv). These two features have much deeper histories (obv). And I am not writing about #SHEAR2020 but about the field – my field in toto (likely also obv). 14/

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        12. Dr. Karin Wulf‏ @kawulf 19 Jul 2020

          We must be historians of our professional practice, the histories we read, the histories we are crafting & teaching, & the organizations we build & invest in. Attn to the histories of our histories sounds meta because it is- it may be the most important thing we do. finis//

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