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
Venus or Louisa or Mimah or Rose: Marronage and Lurking as Relation
Friday Seminar
SJ Zhang, University of Chicago
On the Margins: Black Women Food Sellers in the Antebellum North
Brown Bag Session
Carolyn Zola, Stanford University
New Legal Histories of the American Revolution
Conference
Martha S. Jones, The Johns Hopkins 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.