Event
Archives of Revolution: A Conference About How We Make the Past
June 20-22, 2024
The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University
"Archives of Revolution: A Conference About How We Make the Past" is a collaboration among the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the John Carter Brown Library on the campus of Brown University, and the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts. The conference is chaired jointly by Emma Hart of the McNeil Center, Sean Quimby of Penn Libraries, and Karin Wulf of the JCB.
June 20: Keynote address
Chair: Anthony Bogues, Director of the Simmons Center, Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory, Professor of Africana Studies
“The Treasurer’s Tale: A Lost Account of War, White Supremacy, and Black Radicalism in the Haitian Revolution”
Manuel Covo, University of California, Santa Barbara
Christopher Hodson, Brigham Young University
June 21: Panels and roundtables
Looking at America 2026: Archives of Revolution on both sides of the Atlantic
Making Institutional Archives
Archives of Revolution Roundtable
Beyond Battles: Reconsidering the Military Archive of the American Revolution Rountable
Local Archives in Revolution
June 22: Panels and roundtables
How Collectors Shape Archives
The Founders’ Archive(s)
Digital Archives of Revolution
Archives Beyond Borders
Archives in Translation
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