Editorial

Abstract

G at the dawn of the academic year, a season both forward-looking and recursive at the institutions of New England and beyond, when old traditions are made new. In this issue, we are pleased to introduce two special features and a first-of-its-kind book review that we believe carry forward the essential work of the Quarterly and enliven the conversation it represents with new perspectives. This issue contains the first of three sets of papers delivered on September 17, 2022, at the American Political Cultures Forum, a symposium co-sponsored by the Quarterly and the Massachusetts Historical Society. Distinguished historians Gordon Wood and Wim Klooster commence this three-part feature with papers on insurgent, emergent forms of equality in the Revolutionary period. They are introduced by the event’s organizer, historian Richard Brown, longstanding member of both our Editorial Board and Board of Directors. We are grateful for this opportunity to feature the work of such an eminent assemblage of scholars and eager to publish selections on the nineteenthand twentieth-century political cultures of New England in the next two issues. We thank our partners at the MHS and look forward to future collaborations. We also offer herein the first installment of a periodic feature we have titled “New England Now,” which will examine exhibitions, performances, and other public history projects that revisit and reinterpret aspects of New England history for contemporary audiences. Written by scholars working in museums, the creative arts, digital humanities, as well as in academia, these projects draw on the research in our fields but reach beyond the peer-reviewed essay to illuminate what matters about