Fall 2011
September 16
Brendan O’Malley (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Title Not Available
September 26
Dr. Saul Cornell (Fordham University)
The People’s Constitution vs. The Lawyer’s Constitution: Popular Constitutionalism and the Original Debate over Originalism
September 30
John Blanton (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Timbucto: An Experiment in Abolitionist Politics, 1845-1859
October 14
David Gary (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Title Not Available
October 21
Dr. Jonathan Sassi (College of Staten Island/Graduate Center, CUNY)
Religion, Race and the Founders
November 4
Alisa Wade Harrison (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“Conversing in the Epistolary Way”: Class Identity and the Elite Female Correspondence Network in New York City, 1783-1815
November 7
Dr. Brian Murphy (Baruch College, CUNY)
Incorporating Interests: The Bank of New York, Coalition Building, and the Civic Commerce of Capital, 1784-1790
November 11
Cambridge Ridley Lynch (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Title Not Available
December 9
Nora Slonimsky (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Jeffersonian Ends by Hamiltonian Means: The Significance of Federalism in the Evolution of Copyright and the Free Press in the Early Republic
December 12
Dr. Andrew Robertson (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Jeffersonian Parties, Politics and Participation: The Tortuous Trajectory of American Democracy
Spring 2012
January 27
Laura Ping (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Throwing Off the “Dragging” Dresses: Dress Reform, 1848-1898
February 3
Josh Canale (Binghamton University)
New York’s Revolutionary Executive Bodies, 1775-1776
February 21
Dr. Martin Burke (Lehman College/Graduate Center, CUNY)
Anti-Popery and American Political Culture, 1775-1860
March 16
David Gary (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Gentility and the Society of the Cincinnati: A Cultural History of Early American Military Associating
March 23
Dr. Nicole Eustace (New York University)
Liberty, Slavery, and the Burning of the Capital
March 30
Glen Olson (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Revolutionary Consensus: The Illinois Staats-Zeitung and Coalition Building among Chicago German Americans during the Civil War
April 20
Joseph Murphy (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“A Cordon Sanitaire”: The Political Objectives of Second-Wave Abolitionists, 1830-1837
May 4
Michael Crowder (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“Fair and Flattering Promises and Anticipations”: Northern Colonizationism and its Complications, 1817-1834