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I'm a historian of early America, specifically of family and politics, the director of a rare books library, the John Carter Brown Library, and a history professor at Brown University. I love to read and write about history, libraries and archives. I can't think of many things I love more than reading in general and I'm always looking for more time to read! I'm usually reading several non-fiction and fiction books at once. I also keep extensive (analog!) reading journals, which are a conversation with myself about what kind of thinking my reading is prompting. ...more

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	Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia 3.93 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Milcah Martha Moore's Book: A Commonplace Book from Revolutionary America by Catherine La Courreye Blecki (Editor), Karin Wulf (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Diary of Hannah Callender Sansom: Sense and Sensibility in the Age of the American Revolution by Susan E. Klepp (Editor), Karin Wulf (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roe v. Wade: Fifty Years After by Deirdre Cooper Owens, Catherine Clinton (editor), Rhae Lynn Barnes (editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revolutionary Women’s Eighteenth-Century Reading and Writing -U.S 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World

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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity

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Lively writing and a crucial story I thought I knew something about but really didn’t. The summaries of immigration polices and political combat excellent, but the final chapter about how and why FP was so publicly sidelined in her own life (a choice ...more
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