Events



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…



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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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



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

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

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Debility, Impairment, and Settler Colonialism in the Antebellum United States

Friday Seminar
Elaine LaFay, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Nov 3, 2023 at -

Elaine LaFay is an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She is a historian of climate and the body, specializing in the nineteenth century United States. Her current research seeks to…



Mapping Minisink: An Ambiguous Center in New Netherland

Brown Bag Session
Molly Leech, University of Pennsylvania
Nov 8, 2023 at -

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“But not citizens” - The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship Under the Constitution

Friday Seminar
Derek Litvak, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Nov 17, 2023 at -

Derek Litvak is a Barra Postdoctoral Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, where he works at the intersections of African-American, constitutional, and intellectual histories. His current project,…



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

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

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“She says she will leave him… but will go first to his father”: Private Resolutions to Marital Dysfunction

Friday Seminar
Lindsay Keiter, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona
Dec 1, 2023 at -

Lindsay Keiter is an assistant professor of history at the Pennsylvania State University’s Altoona campus. Her current research focuses on the economic functions of marriage in the late eighteenth through early…



Archives of Revolution: A Conference About How We Make the Past

Conference
Jun 20, 2024 - Jun 22, 2024 at -

Archives of Revolution:  A Conference About How We Make the Past June 20-22, 2024 The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University Call for Papers