McNeil Center News
Archives of Revolution: A Conference About How We Make the Past | 20-22 June 2024
As we approach a series of 250th anniversaries, the histories of the American Founding have never been more hotly contested. In the United States, historians regard 2026 with some trepidation and a lot of determination to educate a wary public about the importance of evidence to the interpretation of the past.
Upcoming Events
Citizens and Subjects: Gambling on Belonging in the Nineteenth Century Native Great Lakes
Brown Bag Session
Elena Ryan, Princeton University
‘Agent Greenhill taught his people better manners’: Masculine authority and subjection between stability and breakdown in the seventeenth-century Atlantic World
Friday Seminar
Phillip Emanuel, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
The Molasses Act's Long Shadow: Smuggling in the British Atlantic, 1733-1763
Brown Bag Session
Eva Landsberg, Yale University
About the McNeil Center
Established as the Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies in 1978, and renamed in honor of its benefactor Robert L. McNeil, Jr., in 1998, the McNeil Center facilitates scholarly inquiry into the histories and cultures of North America in the Atlantic world before 1850, with a particular but by no means exclusive emphasis on the mid-Atlantic region.