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
"With an Infant at the Breast": Black Mothering and Penal Punishment under the Barbados Apprenticeship System
Brown Bag Session
Halle-Mackenzie Ashby, Johns Hopkins University
Staking Claims: Founding Myths and Property Formation on Seventeenth-Century Long Island
Friday Seminar
Michael LaCombe, Adelphi University
EQUIANO, OR--! on truth and lying in a non-white sense
Brown Bag Session
Jared Robinson, University of California, Berkeley
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.