Seminars

Early American History and Culture

Year Founded 1966

Seminar # 491

StatusActive

This seminar is a forum for scholarly conversations and works-in-progress on early American history, broadly defined. It seeks both to support scholarship on the Anglo-American colonies and the early United States (pre-Civil War), and to situate these political entities within broader frameworks (e.g. global history, early modern history, the Age of Revolution, hemispheric history, and the Atlantic World). The seminar aims to involve a wide range of historians (including specialists in Native American history, Caribbean history, and Latin American history) in this discussion about early America. Scholars of literature, religion, slavery and African diaspora, Native American studies, anthropology, sociology, and related fields are also encouraged to attend.

Chair/s

John Blanton

jblanton@ccny.cuny.edu

Hannah Farber

haf2126@columbia.edu

Rapporteur/s

Richard Monastra

rm4083@columbia.edu

External Website

Early American History and Culture

Meeting Schedule

Scheduled

21

Jan

January 21, 20255:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Faculty House

TBA

Speaker/s

Tessa Murphy, Syracuse University

Scheduled

18

Feb

February 18, 20255:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Faculty House

TBA

Speaker/s

Michael Dickinson, Virginia Commonwealth University

Scheduled

11

Mar

March 11, 20255:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Faculty House

TBA

Speaker/s

Megan Cherry, North Carolina State University

Scheduled

15

Apr

April 15, 20255:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Faculty House

TBA

Speaker/s

Glenda Goodman, University of Pennsylvania

Rhae Lynn Barnes, Princeton University

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Past Meetings

Scheduled

10

Dec

December 10, 20245:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Faculty House

We do Not Want to Be Slaves: Emancipation and Empire in the North American West

Speaker/s

Ryan Quintana, Wellesley College

Scheduled

12

Nov

November 12, 20245:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Zoom

The Widow, the Orphan, and the Gunpowder Factory: Delaware’s High Court of Chancery, 1801-1830

Speaker/s

Hannah Farber, Columbia University

Scheduled

08

Oct

October 8, 20245:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Faculty House

‘Challenging the Purposeful Amnesia of American History’: Tek vs Tech

Speaker/s

Karen Kupperman, New York University

Scheduled

10

Sep

September 10, 20245:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Faculty House

The Federal Government’s First Slave Trade Acts, 1794–1800

Speaker/s

Andrew J. Fagal, Princeton University

Cancelled

16

Apr

April 16, 20245:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Faculty House

Speaker/s

Carolyn Roberts, Yale University

Scheduled

19

Mar

March 19, 20245:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Faculty House

Great Falls: Alexander Hamilton’s Vision of Industry and Work in Early America

Speaker/s

Brian Murphy, Rutgers University

Scheduled

20

Feb

February 20, 20245:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Faculty House

Reconsidering the ‘African Atlantic’: Castle Cormantine and the Early English Africa, 1632-1672

Speaker/s

Michael Jarvis, University of Rochester

Scheduled

23

Jan

January 23, 20245:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Faculty House

Freedom Round the Globe: A New History of the American Revolution

Speaker/s

Sarah Pearsall, Johns Hopkins

Scheduled

12

Dec

December 12, 20235:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Faculty House

From Dutch to English Property: Enslavement During Periods of Colonial Crisis and Change in Early America

Speaker/s

Andrea Mosterman, The University of New Orleans

Scheduled

14

Nov

November 14, 20235:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Faculty House

Colonial Print Culture in a Society With Slaves: The Example of British Jamaica

Speaker/s

Jordan Alexander Stein, Fordham University

Scheduled

17

Oct

October 17, 20235:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Faculty House

Some Thoughts About the Stamp Act Crisis

Speaker/s

Andrew Shankman, Rutgers University

Scheduled

19

Sep

September 19, 20235:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Faculty House

‘To Rebut a Presumption That She Was Born a Slave’: Practical Abolition and Its Opponents in New Jersey, 1793-1809

Speaker/s

Jonathan Sassi, College of Staten Island, CUNY

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