Sessions convene with refreshments at 5:15 p.m.

An informal talk and discussion begins at 5:45, followed by a buffet supper ($5 for graduate students, $10 for others).

Schedule for Summer 2007

31 May: John Demos, Yale University
The Historian as Collector: Objects, Evidence, and “Antiques”
14 June: Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Northern Illinois University
Liam Riordan, University of Maine
William Pencak, The Pennsylvania State University
New Directions in Mid-Atlantic Historiography
A discussion of Fogleman, Jesus is Female and
Riordan, Many Identities, One Nation
28 June Dee E. Andrews, California State University, East Bay
Abigail Mott’s Biographical Sketches: Making Black History in the New Republic
12 July: Alison Games, Georgetown University
Going Global: Early America and the World in the Seventeenth Century
26 July:  John Murrin, Princeton University
Self-Immolation: Schools of Historiography and the Coming of the American Revolution
9 August: Cathy Matson, University of Delaware
The Material World of Philadelphia’s Commerce in the 1790s
23 August: Robert C. Ritchie, The Huntington Library
The Advent of Beach Culture in America
All sessions will be held at 3355 Woodland Walk (34th and Sansom Streets) on the University of Pennsylvania campus
(map 1 | map 2 | building view).

Supper reservations are appreciated. Phone 215-898-9251 or e-mail mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu by noon on Tuesday.


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