Spring 2007 Brown Bag Schedule

Bring your lunch and join us from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. in Seminar Room 105 at the McNeil Center, 3355 Woodland Walk (34th and Sansom Streets), on the University of Pennsylvania campus. Papers are circulated in advance. For copies, please contact the McNeil Center office.
 
17 January:  Joanna Cohen, University of Pennsylvania
“His Humble Production Is Entirely An American Production”: Domestic Manufactures and the Making of an American Marketplace in the Early Republic
31 January: Friederike Baer, Temple University
The Politics of Language in Philadelphia’s German Community, 1800-1820
14 February: Marla R. Miller, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Crafting Comfort: Betsy Ross and the Philadelphia Upholstery Trades
28 February: Maurizio Valsania, University of Torino
The Curse of History:  Leaders’ Distrust of American History, 1783-1828
14 March: Larry Skillin, The Ohio State University
From Proclamation to Dialogical Debate:  George Keith and the Opening of the Public Sphere in Colonial America
28 March: Erik Mathisen , University of Pennsylvania
Courtrooms, Muster Rolls and The Ties that Bind: Tracing the Rural Body Politic in the Slave South
11 April: Eric C. Stoykovich, University of Virginia
Woolly Sheep, Racial Science, and the Improvement of an Industrial Fiber in the United States, 1840-1855
25 April: Stephanie Schnorbus, University of Southern California
Instilling Identity:  The Relative Importance of Doctrine in Spelling Books, Pennsylvania, 1680–1815 
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