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
“Of virtue becoming their situation”: The Making of Refugee Women's Religious Communities in the 19th-Century Mid-Atlantic
Brown Bag Session
Taneil Ruffin, Princeton University
1758: War and Trade on the West African Coast
Friday Seminar
Christopher L. Brown, Columbia University
“American and British Indians": Inventing National Citizens in the Post-1812 Great Lakes
Brown Bag Session
Elena Ryan, Princeton 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.