McNeil Center News
Where is Early America?| 1-3 May 2025
The McNeil Center for Early American Studies is pleased to announce a state of the field conference, to be held in May of 2025.
Upcoming Events
Domestic Carceral Labor: Race, Gender, and the Transformation of Punishment at Eastern State Penitentiary
Brown Bag Session
Whitney Fields, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Sentimentalism Aside: The Youth of Eleanor Eldridge and the Realities of Child Labor in Rhode Island, 1784-1830
Friday Seminar
Sherri Cummings, Rhode Island College
Mutable Materiality: The Art of Devotion in the Early Modern Afro-Iberian Atlantic
Brown Bag Session
Nathalie Miraval, 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.