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Biopolitical frameworks have not yet received consistent or sustained attention in many subfields of early American studies. We therefore decided to include a forum to provide an opportunity for something of a prolegomenous discussion of new directions and possible interventions at the intersections of these spheres of inquiry. The forum comprises eight short pieces from scholars from a range of fields in the humanities, including literary studies, history, gender and sexuality studies, and the history of science, and who work on a range of historical periods. The intent of the forum was to create space in the special issue for writers to enact, or respond to, some of the provocations voiced by the introduction as well as a number of the full-length articles. Insofar as thinking with biopower introduces a framework to early American studies—and particularly to the study of the periods before 1800—that has not, historically, seen much integration into most early Americanist scholarship, the forum pieces offer a broad, but not comprehensive or exhaustive, representation of some of the unfinished...