Past Events



New Legal Histories of the American Revolution

Conference
Martha S. Jones, The Johns Hopkins University
Oct 19, 2023 - Oct 21, 2023 at -

New Legal Histories of the American Revolution October 19-21, 2023 Co-sponsored by Penn Carey Law and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies



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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Venus or Louisa or Mimah or Rose: Marronage and Lurking as Relation

Friday Seminar
SJ Zhang, University of Chicago
Oct 6, 2023 at -

SJ Zhang is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago. Professor Zhang’s current project, Going Maroon and Other Forms of Family, considers how reproduction and carceral forces shaped the decisions…



Colonial Conflict over the Trade in Indigenous Corn on the Connecticut River, 1637-1639

Brown Bag Session
Alice King, University of Virginia
Sep 27, 2023 at -

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Mr. Peale's Corporation: The Invention of the Permanent Collection

Friday Seminar
Whitney Martinko, Villanova University
Sep 22, 2023 at -

Whitney Martinko is an associate professor of History at Villanova University and the author of Historic Real Estate: Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States (Early American Studies…



Ekphrastic Intimacies: Fitz-Greene Halleck, Sagoyewatha, and Settler Sexualities of the Early Republic

Brown Bag Session
Chip Badley, American Antiquarian Society
Sep 13, 2023 at -

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Yellow Fever and the Rage for Data in the Founding Era: Municipal Efforts to Understand and Prevent Epidemics in the Northeast

Friday Seminar
Carolyn Eastman, Virginia Commonwealth University
Sep 8, 2023 at -

Carolyn Eastman is Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, and the new book review editor for the William and Mary Quarterly. Her research focuses on the cultural and intellectual history of early…



Facing the Future of Early American Studies

Conference
Jul 10, 2023 - Jul 12, 2023 at -

Facing the Future of Early American Studies Please join us for “Facing the Future of Early American Studies,” a conference reflecting on the scholarship and mentorship of Daniel K. Richter, director emeritus of the…



Obour Tanner’s Archive

Friday Seminar
Tara Bynum, University of Iowa and the McNeil Center
May 5, 2023 at -

Tara A. Bynum is an Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Iowa and a Barra Sabbatical Fellow at the McNeil Center. Her new book, Reading Pleasures (University of Illinois Press…



INCIDENTS AND ENCOUNTERS: Figures for the self in Harriet Jacobs’s LINDA: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)

Brown Bag Session
Jared Robinson, University of California, Berkeley
Apr 26, 2023 at -

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