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| 29 May: | John Fea, Messiah College
J.M. Opal, Colby College C. Dallett Hemphill, Ursinus College “How Ya’ Gonna’ Keep ’Em Down on the Farm?” Rural Ambitions in Early America A discussion of Fea, The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America and Opal, Beyond the Farm: National Ambitions in Rural New England |
| 12 June: | Benjamin L. Carp, Tufts University
Teapot in a Tempest: The Boston Tea Party of 1773 |
| 19 June | Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor, University of
California, Davis
Marketplace Metaphors and the Gendered Early American Economy |
| 26 June: | Elizabeth Varon, Temple University
The Slaveholders’ Dilemma: Disunion Rhetoric and the Coming of the Civil War |
| 10 July: | Richard S. Dunn, The American Philosophical
Society
A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life in Jamaica and Virginia, 1762-1865 |
| 24 July: | Kristina Bross, Purdue University
A Wilderness Condition: The Captivity Narrative in American Literary History |
| 7 August: | David Kazanjian, University of Pennsylvania
“Please Read This in the Presence of All Your Servants”: Colonial Liberia’s Speculative Freedom |
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