Seminars

Early American History and Culture

  • Founded
    1966
  • Seminar Number
    491

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.

Seminar Website

Co-Chairs
John Blanton
jblanton@ccny.cuny.edu

Andrew Lipman
alipman@barnard.edu

Rapporteur
R. Grant Kleiser
rk2952@columbia.edu

Meeting Schedule

09/20/2022 Faculty House, Columbia University / Zoom
5:30 PM
The Politics of Pity: Native Diplomacy and Anglo-American Paternalism in the 1820s
Elspeth Martini , Montclair State




10/18/2022 Faculty House, Columbia University / Zoom
5:30 PM
The Capacious Sacrament of Necessity: Community Formation in Early American Godparentage Networks
Maeve Kane, SUNY Albany




11/15/2022 Faculty House, Columbia University / Zoom
5:30 PM
The Transformation of Smallpox Inoculation in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Elise Mitchell , Princeton




12/06/2022 Faculty House, Columbia University / Zoom
5:30 PM
Gradual Manumission and the Struggle for Liberty on Long Island
Jennifer Anderson , Stony Brook University




01/24/2023 Faculty House, Columbia University / Zoom
5:30 PM
No other than an artificial and harmless contrivance
Simon Middelton, William and Mary




02/21/2023 Faculty House, Columbia University / Zoom
5:30 PM
to save the Benefit of the Act of Parliamt’: Mapping an Early American Copyright
Nora Slominsky, Iona College




03/21/2023 Faculty House, Columbia University / Zoom
5:30 PM
Whither Rape in the History of Sexuality?
Greta Lafleur, Yale University