Participant Info
- First Name
- Emily
- Last Name
- Sneff
- Country
- United States
- State
- VA Virginia
- ejsneff@email.wm.edu
- Affiliation
- College of William & Mary
- Website URL
- declaration.fas.harvard.edu
- Keywords
- Declaration of Independence, Early America, Founding Era, Material Culture, Print Culture, Book History, Newspapers, Public History, Museums
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am Ph.D. candidate at William & Mary with an interest in early American print and material culture. My dissertation explores the dissemination of the Declaration of Independence in the United States and abroad in the summer and fall of 1776. I earned my MA in History from William & Mary in 2019. Before graduate school, I was the research manager of the Declaration Resources Project, part of the Democratic Knowledge Project at Harvard University.
- Recent Publications
Allen, Danielle, and Sneff, Emily. “The Sussex Declaration: Dating the Parchment Manuscript of the Declaration of Independence Held at the West Sussex Record Office (Chichester, UK).” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America vol. 112, no. 3 (September 2018): 357-403. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/698701.
Allen, Danielle, and Sneff, Emily. “Golden Letters: James Wilson, the Declaration of Independence, and the Sussex Declaration.” Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy vol. 17, no. 1 (Winter 2019).
- Media Coverage
- The New York Times, CBS This Morning, Fox News, CBS Philly, Harvard Gazette, Washington Post, WGBH All Things Considered, C-SPAN
- @emily_sneff
- Country Focus
- Early United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Revolution, American Founding Era, Book History, Material Culture, Museums, Public History
