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 Dixon
john.dixon@csi.cuny.edu

Hannah Farber
haf2126@columbia.edu

Rapporteur
R. Grant Kleiser
rk2952@columbia.edu

Meeting Schedule

09/19/2023 Faculty House, Columbia University / Zoom
5:30 PM
‘To rebut a presumption that she was born a slave’: Practical Abolition and Its Opponents in New Jersey, 1793-1809
Jonathan Sassi, College of Staten Island, CUNY




10/17/2023 Faculty House, Columbia University / Zoom
5:30 PM
Some Thoughts About the Stamp Act Crisis
Andrew Shankman, Rutgers University




11/14/2023 Faculty House, Columbia University / Zoom
5:30 PM
Colonial Print Culture in a Society with Slaves: The Example of British Jamaica
Jordan Alexander Stein, Fordham University




12/12/2023 Faculty House, Columbia University / Zoom
5:30 PM
From Dutch to English Property: Enslavement During Periods of Colonial Crisis and Change in Early America
Andrea Mosterman, The University of New Orleans




01/23/2024 Faculty House, Columbia University
5:30 PM

Sarah Pearsall, Johns Hopkins




02/20/2024 Faculty House, Columbia University
5:30 PM

Michael Jarvis, University of Rochester




03/19/2024 Faculty House, Columbia University
5:30 PM

Brian Murphy, Rutgers University




04/16/2024 Faculty House, Columbia University
5:30 PM

Carolyn Roberts, Yale University