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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. 

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Upcoming Events



Attakullakulla and the Indian Wench: Cherokee-Anglo Diplomacy and Conspiracy in Great Tellico, Citico, and the Overhills

Brown Bag Session
Emily Dixon Magness, William & Mary
Jan 22, 2025 at - | Location: McNeil Center, Room 105/Zoom

Emily Dixon Magness (Cherokee Nation, Shawnee Tribe) is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at William & Mary, where she studies gender, war, and politics during the Anglo-Cherokee War. Emily is currently working on her…



Gardening and Botanical Thought in Early Colonial New Spain

Brown Bag Session
Marlis Hinckley, Johns Hopkins University
Jan 29, 2025 at - | Location: McNeil Center, Room 105/Zoom

Marlis Hinckley is a current PhD candidate in the Department of the History of Science at Johns Hopkins University, writing on botanical thought in 16th-century New Spain and Iberia. Her past publications include work…



That This Copy is Equal to the Other: John Singleton Copley and Multiplicity in Pastel

Brown Bag Session
Megan Baker, University of Delaware
Feb 26, 2025 at - | Location: McNeil Center, Room 105/Zoom

Megan Baker is a doctoral candidate in art history at the University of Delaware. Her dissertation, “Crayon Rebellion: The Material Politics of North American Pastels, 1758-1814,” considers the ascendent popularity of…

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.

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