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This project will expand an existing shipping database, Global Americas Shipping Database, that document the departures and arrivals of vessels, including their ports of origin and destinations, the goods imported and exported, the people who participated in these voyages (ship crews, passengers, and enslaved Africans), and the movement of ideas. Currently, the datasets include more than 4500 records. This project will continue to identify and catalog information from historical newspapers from the U.S. and Latin America and manuscript sources (port records from Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and Chile). The complete database will be made available online for scholars of Early America, Latin America, and students of globalization. Students working on this project will learn how to create and develop databases (SPSS), read, catalog, analyze historical newspapers (from Databases available at Swem), and acquire paleographical skills by working with manuscript sources. In addition to contributing to the Global Americas Shipping Database, students will read and discuss pertinent historiographical works on the history of the Atlantic World and globalization. More importantly, students will identify research topics of their interest (e.g., creation of vaccines and vaccination practices, shipwrecks, import and export of foodstuff, arms trade, etc.). All students will be credited as contributors to the database and write essays on the project’s website.
Current Contributors
Current Contributors
Bennett Snyder class of 2025, is a double major in History and Government at William & Mary. He is interested in trade connections between the U.S. South and Haiti in the years surrounding Haitian independence. For the lab, he has worked on datasets using the Charleston newspaper the Charleston Courier and the Haitian newspaper Gazette Politique et Commercial d'Haïti. Outside of the lab, Bennett spends his time hammocking, keeping up with American politics, and hanging out with friends and family.
Bennett Snyder class of 2025, is a double major in History and Government at William & Mary. He is interested in trade connections between the U.S. South and Haiti in the years surrounding Haitian independence. For the lab, he has worked on datasets using the Charleston newspaper the Charleston Courier and the Haitian newspaper Gazette Politique et Commercial d'Haïti. Outside of the lab, Bennett spends his time hammocking, keeping up with American politics, and hanging out with friends and family.
Alan Edwards class of 2024, majoring in history at the College of William & Mary. His area of historical interest includes the formation of the early American republic and her commercial ties with both the colonies and new countries of the New World. Specifically, he is researching the Port of Philadelphia in 1810 and 1811 primarily through the newspaper Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser. This is in conjunction with Katie Magee, whose research on Philadelphia takes place in 1800. Outside of academics, Alan enjoys soccer, fishing, and spending time with friends, family, and his beloved dog Stella.
Alan Edwards class of 2024, majoring in history at the College of William & Mary. His area of historical interest includes the formation of the early American republic and her commercial ties with both the colonies and new countries of the New World. Specifically, he is researching the Port of Philadelphia in 1810 and 1811 primarily through the newspaper Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser. This is in conjunction with Katie Magee, whose research on Philadelphia takes place in 1800. Outside of academics, Alan enjoys soccer, fishing, and spending time with friends, family, and his beloved dog Stella.
Katie Magee class of 2024, at The College of William and Mary. Her research includes global commerce and social connections in the Atlantic World. Specifically, her research in the Global Americas project centers on the Port of Philadelphia (1800) through the newspaper Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser. In addition, Katie works with Alan Edwards on the Port of Philadelphia; their research includes 1800 and 1810.
Katie Magee class of 2024, at The College of William and Mary. Her research includes global commerce and social connections in the Atlantic World. Specifically, her research in the Global Americas project centers on the Port of Philadelphia (1800) through the newspaper Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser. In addition, Katie works with Alan Edwards on the Port of Philadelphia; their research includes 1800 and 1810.
Ethan Meidinger class of 2025, is majoring in data science. His work for Global Americas involves working with optical character recognition software to optimize how data is gathered, and his research interests involve working with machine learning in the digital humanities. Outside of lab, Ethan enjoys reading, working out, and getting food with friends.
Ethan Meidinger class of 2025, is majoring in data science. His work for Global Americas involves working with optical character recognition software to optimize how data is gathered, and his research interests involve working with machine learning in the digital humanities. Outside of lab, Ethan enjoys reading, working out, and getting food with friends.
Jonas Konefal class of 2026
Jonas Konefal class of 2026
Benjamin Toyryla class of 2025 is majoring in History at the College of William & Mary. His research interest is in early Cold War propaganda and how America portrays itself in relation to the rest of the world, and is beginning an honors thesis on the topic this semester. He is a new contributor to the Global Americas project, but will be conducting research on the port of Baltimore (1816) through the newspaper Baltimore Patriot & Mercantile Advertiser.
Nick Vaughan is a History major in the class of 2026 with the Joint Degree Programme between William & Mary and the University of St Andrews. She is interested in myth-formation, specifically in conjunction with maritime sea-narratives and voyage stories. She is working with data from California shipping vessels to explore connections between the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds. Beyond her academic work, Nick is also a skier, sailor, rock climber and aspiring pool shark.
Past Contributors
Past Contributors
Sigi Macias class of 2023, was in the St. Andrews William & Mary Joint Degree Programme, majoring in History. Her research interests include global commerce, enslavement, and social connections in the Atlantic World. Her work for the Global Americas project centers on the Río de la Plata region (Argentina and Uruguay) and the newspaper El Semanario de Agricultura, Industria y Comercio (1802-1807). Sigi has expanded this research into an Honors Thesis, which traces the pathway of the smallpox vaccine into the Rio de la Plata, uncovering how the region's trans-imperial commercial networks and elites' pervasive agency shaped the vaccine's dissemination and publish health in the process of state formation. Outside of historical research, Sigi spends her time at the beach, with her cats, or with friends and family.
Sigi Macias class of 2023, was in the St. Andrews William & Mary Joint Degree Programme, majoring in History. Her research interests include global commerce, enslavement, and social connections in the Atlantic World. Her work for the Global Americas project centers on the Río de la Plata region (Argentina and Uruguay) and the newspaper El Semanario de Agricultura, Industria y Comercio (1802-1807). Sigi has expanded this research into an Honors Thesis, which traces the pathway of the smallpox vaccine into the Rio de la Plata, uncovering how the region's trans-imperial commercial networks and elites' pervasive agency shaped the vaccine's dissemination and publish health in the process of state formation. Outside of historical research, Sigi spends her time at the beach, with her cats, or with friends and family.
Beckett Hunecke class of 2022, was in the St. Andrews William & Mary Joint Degree Programme, majoring in History. His research interests include pre-colonial through early American foodways and early modern seafarers. Beckett enjoys topics that draw attention to subaltern communities and demonstrate that globalization is not a new development, but rather a process dating back to the late Middle Ages. His work for the Global Americas project centers on Boston and its publication the New-England Palladium (March 1803-December 1820). He intends to put the importation data gathered for the project in conversation with New England cookbooks and home recipe collections to see how imported goods were commonly used in Boston and New England kitchens. This investigation will be expanded into an Honors thesis. Outside of historical research, Beckett enjoys reading, learning Spanish and German, spending time with family and friends, and running or hiking in public parks.
Beckett Hunecke class of 2022, was in the St. Andrews William & Mary Joint Degree Programme, majoring in History. His research interests include pre-colonial through early American foodways and early modern seafarers. Beckett enjoys topics that draw attention to subaltern communities and demonstrate that globalization is not a new development, but rather a process dating back to the late Middle Ages. His work for the Global Americas project centers on Boston and its publication the New-England Palladium (March 1803-December 1820). He intends to put the importation data gathered for the project in conversation with New England cookbooks and home recipe collections to see how imported goods were commonly used in Boston and New England kitchens. This investigation will be expanded into an Honors thesis. Outside of historical research, Beckett enjoys reading, learning Spanish and German, spending time with family and friends, and running or hiking in public parks.
Xincheng (Andrew) Hou class of 2024, was a History major at St. Andrews William & Mary Joint Degree Programme. His research interest is the cultural exchanges behind the cross-ocean transnational trade system in the 18th and 19th centuries. Based on this interest, he researched the commercial activities between New England and Whampoa from 1800 to 1812, back in his freshman year. His most recent work for Global Americas focused on using historical GIS to present the dynamic process of transnational trades on mapping software. Besides his interest in history, Andrew also enjoys soccer, music, and film. He has played drums for ten years and participated in rock bands, jazz bands, and orchestras.
Xincheng (Andrew) Hou class of 2024, was a History major at St. Andrews William & Mary Joint Degree Programme. His research interest is the cultural exchanges behind the cross-ocean transnational trade system in the 18th and 19th centuries. Based on this interest, he researched the commercial activities between New England and Whampoa from 1800 to 1812, back in his freshman year. His most recent work for Global Americas focused on using historical GIS to present the dynamic process of transnational trades on mapping software. Besides his interest in history, Andrew also enjoys soccer, music, and film. He has played drums for ten years and participated in rock bands, jazz bands, and orchestras.
Amy Weitzman was a major in Government with a History minor in the class of 2024 at William & Mary. Her research and honors thesis focus on political journalism; honor culture; and values regarding gender, race, and sex in the early U.S. In her semester with the Global Americas Lab, she wrote descriptions of the featured newspapers within the political context of their editors and press freedom.
Our Advisor
Our Advisor
Fabrício Prado is an associate professor of history at the College of William and Mary where he teaches classes on Colonial Latin America and the Atlantic World. Prado is the author of Colonia do Sacramento: o extremo sul da América portuguesa (2002) and Edge of Empire: Atlantic Networks and Revolution in Bourbon Rio de la Plata (University of California Press, 2015). Fabrício has been a research fellow at the Instituto de Historia Nacional y Americana Emilio Ravignani, Buenos Aires, a member of the class of 2008 of the International Seminar for the History of the Atlantic World at Harvard University, and an exchange faculty fellow at the School of History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He also held fellowships at the Lilly Library, The Ohio State University Center for Historical Research (2009) and the John Carter Brown Library (2008 and 2013).
Fabrício Prado is an associate professor of history at the College of William and Mary where he teaches classes on Colonial Latin America and the Atlantic World. Prado is the author of Colonia do Sacramento: o extremo sul da América portuguesa (2002) and Edge of Empire: Atlantic Networks and Revolution in Bourbon Rio de la Plata (University of California Press, 2015). Fabrício has been a research fellow at the Instituto de Historia Nacional y Americana Emilio Ravignani, Buenos Aires, a member of the class of 2008 of the International Seminar for the History of the Atlantic World at Harvard University, and an exchange faculty fellow at the School of History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He also held fellowships at the Lilly Library, The Ohio State University Center for Historical Research (2009) and the John Carter Brown Library (2008 and 2013).
His research interests focus on cross-border dynamics, social networks, commerce, contraband trade, corruption, social and economic history of the Southern Cone of Latin America.
His research interests focus on cross-border dynamics, social networks, commerce, contraband trade, corruption, social and economic history of the Southern Cone of Latin America.
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