Fall 2012
September 7
Roy Rogers (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“[S]o fettered by Laws”: Episcopalians and the Political Economy of Religion in Early National Virginia, 1785-1811”
September 21
Dr. Michael Rawson (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
The Nature of Water: Reform and the Antebellum Crusade for Municipal Water in Boston
October 5
Michael Crowder (Graduate Center, CUNY)
The Colonization Movement, Early Antebellum Politics, and the Missouri Crisis
October 18
Dr. Francois Furstenberg (Johns Hopkins University)
Settling in America: Philadelphia Speaks French
November 9
Dr. Zara Anishanslin (College of Staten Island, CUNY)
“Language is too feeble:” Making, Domesticating, and Remembering the American Revolution through Material and Visual Culture
November 14
Dr. Johann Neem (Western Washington University)
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November 30
Glen Olson (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Threats Within and Without: The Uses of American Nativism for Irish Revolutionaries and Catholic Leaders in 1850s New York
December 7
Alisa Wade Harrison (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“The Charms of a Lively, Enlightened and Cultivated Mind”: The Material Foundations of Learned Femininity in Early National New York City
Spring 2013
February 8
Dr. Andrew Shankman, Rutgers University at Camden
A Synthesis Useful and Compelling: Anglicization and the Achievement of John M. Murrin
February 22
John Blanton (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“This Species of Property”: Slavery and the Properties of Subjecthood in Anglo-American Law and Politics, 1619–1772
March 8
Andrew Fagal (Binghamton University)
Foreign Capital, Technological Innovation, and Military-Bureaucracy: The Rise of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
March 15
Cambridge Ridley Lynch (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Author(iz)ing Science: The Language of Professionalization in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 1769-1830
April 5
Paul Polgar (Graduate Center, CUNY)
An Unconquerable Prejudice? The American Colonization Society and the Response of Abolitionists to Black Removal
April 12
Michael Hattem (Yale University)
“Their History as a Part of Ours”: Some Thoughts on British Historical Memory in Colonial America, 1750-1776
April 19
Christopher Morell (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“What Must I Do to Be Saved?” The New York Orphan Asylum Society and Early National Female Benevolence in Transnational Perspective, 1806-1828
April 26
Michael Crowder (Graduate Center, CUNY)
National Politics and the Abolition of the Foreign Slave Trade, 1787-1808
May 10
Nora Slonimsky (Graduate Center, CUNY)
The Un-Revolution of 1800: Print, Property and the Evil Genius of America’s First Copyright Lawyer
