Past Brown Bag Sessions



Citizens and Subjects: Gambling on Belonging in the Nineteenth Century Native Great Lakes

Brown Bag Session
Elena Ryan, Princeton University
Apr 3, 2024 at -

Papers are circulated in advance. For copies, please contact the McNeil Center office.



“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
Mar 20, 2024 at -

Papers are circulated in advance. For copies, please contact the McNeil Center office.



“Distressing the distressed”: Poverty and Rent Distraint in Early Republic New York

Brown Bag Session
Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Mar 6, 2024 at -

Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan is Assistant Teaching Professor and Coordinator of the Undergraduate Public History Program and Graduate Public Humanities Program at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. She holds a PhD in…



Roots of Building Culture in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1790s – 1850s

Brown Bag Session
Charlette Caldwell, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Feb 21, 2024 at -

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The “Comfortable Harbour” on the Schuylkill: Naval Asylum Construction and the Beginnings of Federal Veterans’ Care

Brown Bag Session
Moyra Williams Eaton, Pennsylvania State University
Feb 7, 2024 at -

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Uncle Tom Gets Religion: Evangelical Hymns in Nineteenth-Century Stage Productions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Brown Bag Session
Chase Castle, University of Pennsylvania
Jan 24, 2024 at -

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Interracial Feminist Abolitionism: Female Anti-Slavery Societies in Boston, Salem, and Philadelphia

Brown Bag Session
Kathryn Angelica, University of Connecticut
Nov 29, 2023 at -

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“110 Noirs Plus ou Moins Librement Engagés”: the Appropriation of Freedom and the Legacies of the Abolition of the Slave Trade

Brown Bag Session
Ana Paula Nadalini Mendes, University of Pennsylvania
Nov 8, 2023 at -

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Inhabitants, Residents, and Citizens: Asserting Belonging, 1776-1856

Brown Bag Session
Emily Yankowitz, Yale University
Oct 25, 2023 at -

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On the Margins: Black Women Food Sellers in the Antebellum North

Brown Bag Session
Carolyn Zola, Stanford University
Oct 11, 2023 at -

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