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
The Muscogee Crisis: The Treaty of Indian Springs and Tribal Politics in the Native South, 1825-1827
Brown Bag Session
Tanner Allread, Stanford University
“A Distant People”: The History of Slavery and Race in the US Declaration of Independence
Friday Seminar
Steve Sarson, Université Jean Moulin
A Gendered Frontier: Métissage and Indigenous Enslavement in Eighteenth-Century Basse-Louisiane
Brown Bag Session
Leila K. Blackbird, University of Chicago
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.