Scott Spillman is an American historian. His book, Making Sense of Slavery: America’s Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today, will be published by Basic Books in March 2025.
Scott Spillman
Articles
The Hazards of Slavery
Scott Spillman reviews Seth Rockman’s “Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery.”
Casaubon’s Humanities
James Turner’s Philology makes a case for the comparative mode that gave birth to the modern humanities — but what does his argument say for the state of the humanities now?
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