McNeil Center News
The Local Archive and the Semiquincentennial: A Forum | 10 March 2023
With the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence just three years away, many archives and museums are turning their attention to planning for the United States’ semiquincentennial. Philadelphia institutions are, unsurprisingly, at the forefront of this activity.
Upcoming Events
“Postponed: How Three Weeks Changed the Declaration of Independence”
Brown Bag Session
Emily Sneff, William & Mary
The Conestoga “Commonwealth”: Indigenous Constitutionalism and Settler Counter-Sovereignty
Friday Seminar
Matthew Kruer, University of Chicago
New Orleans, the “Natural Depot” for Mexican Specie (1821-1861)
Brown Bag Session
Manuel A. Bautista González, University of Oxford
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.