I’m researching and typing reading notes about unions this morning. This project reminds me that I am still very curious about the origins of union and government in the early United States. I think we’ve done a disservice to limit origins only to England. - ThreadSky

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lizcovart.bsky.social • 17 hours ago

I’m researching and typing reading notes about unions this morning. This project reminds me that I am still very curious about the origins of union and government in the early United States. I think we’ve done a disservice to limit origins only to England.

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lizcovart.bsky.social•17 hours ago

After I finish my Articles of Confederation and Union book (still years out), I am going to circle back to my original dissertation idea: A comparative study of the American Revolution and the Dutch Revolt. I think I also need to fit the Swiss Confederation in there too.

lizcovart.bsky.social•17 hours ago

I am positive the Founders of the U.S. and their progenitors knew of these governments and modeled aspects of the U.S. government on them—New Englanders who migrated from the Netherlands certainly knew about them.

lizcovart.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Plus, I’m already an established scholar of early America so I no longer have to worry about peers wondering if I’m an early Americanist or Early Modern Europeans, which was my advisor’s argument against pursuing this as a dissertation topic.

lizcovart.bsky.social•17 hours ago

I can see in some of the early literature I’m reading on unions that scholars thought about these connections too, but they left them as unexplored rabbit holes. I wonder if this non-exploration is a product of American exceptionalism.

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