Past Events

Arianne Sedef Urus, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, is an environmental and legal historian of the eighteenth-century Atlantic World. Her current book project, provisionally…

The McNeil Center facilitates scholarly inquiry into the histories and cultures of North America in the Atlantic World before 1850. Interested in learning more, or thinking of applying to our fellowships? Come meet some…

Cory James Young is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Young is a historian of abolition and slavery in the American North. He received his Ph.D. from Georgetown…

"Somerset v Steuart @ 250: Facts, Interpretations, and Legacies" Conference 1-2 December 2022

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Donna Rilling is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook where she focuses on the history of the early American republic. She completed her doctoral work at the University of…

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Emilie Connolly is an Assistant Professor of History at Brandeis University. She specializes in the nineteenth-century U.S., with a focus on the history of political economy, colonialism, and the Indigenous peoples of…