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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



Empire from the Ground Up: Fortification and Government in English Newfoundland

Seminar
Hannah Kaemmer, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Mar 28, 2025 at - | Location: McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk/Zoom

Hannah Kaemmer is the Barra Postdoctoral Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. Her research focuses on the built environments of empire and the intersection of science, environment, and architecture in…



Southern New England Absence and Presence in the Colonial Archival Record

Brown Bag Session
Lydia Curliss, University of Maryland
Apr 9, 2025 at - | Location: McNeil Center, Room 105/Zoom

Lydia Curliss (Nipmuc) is a PhD Candidate at the University of Maryland, College of Information.  Her research interests include Indigenous Knowledges, cultural heritage memory institutions and their collections,…



Empire of the Senses: The Creole Sensorium in Georgian London

Seminar
Natalie Zacek, University of Manchester
Apr 10, 2025 at - | Location: McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk/Zoom

Natalie Zacek is Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester, where she has taught since she received her PhD in history from Johns Hopkins University. Her first monograph, Settler Society in the…

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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