Reading, Writing, and Remembering: Presidential Address for the Eighth Biennial Society of Early Americanists (SEA) Conference in Savannah, Georgia, 2013

Perhaps there is nothing different about this after all, but having re- cently heard Barack Obamas rousing inaugural address, and having heard the rhetoric of the Tea Party for all these years, it strikes me that there is something about this moment that makes us early Americanists particu- larly germane to the conversations that have consumed American public policy for a while now. [...]my thanks go to David Shields, who has spear- headed the Lowcountry Heritage Food event with Glenn Roberts on Fri- day evening.