Fall 2013
September 20
John Blanton (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Servants, Subjects, Citizens: Slavery and Subjecthood in Early English Colonization, 1607-1640
October 4
Laura Ping (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Throwing off the “Dragging Dresses:” Women and Bifurcated Clothing, 1820-1900
October 16
Cambridge Ridley Lynch (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Political Science: Alexis de Tocqueville and the Myth of Non-Theoretical Scientific Practice in Jacksonian America
November 1
David Houpt (Graduate Center, CUNY)
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November 15
Glen Olson (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Dysfunctional Empire: The 1857-58 Utah Expedition and Sectional Politics
December 6
Dr. Nic Wood (University of Virginia)
The Jefferson Image, Racial Science, and Antislavery Violence: A Mulatto’s Dinner at Monticello: in Jabez Hammond’s Abolitionist Fiction
December 13
Dr. Rosemarie Zagarri (George Mason University)
Imagining Empire: Thomas Law, British India, and the Early American Republic
Spring 2014
January 31
Alisa Wade Harrison (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“Commencing [Women] of Business”: The Properties of Upper-Class Female Market Participation in Early National New York City
February 14
Joe Murphy (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“Free in Law, Though Slaves in Fac’t”: The Politics of Slavery on the High Seas, 1840-2
March 14
Sean Griffin (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Wage Slavery, Free Labor: Workers, Slavery, and the Ideology of Labor in the Antebellum Republic
February 28
Nora Slonimsky (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“Exempting Great Numbers from the Necessities of Labour”: Connecting Copyright, Anti-Slavery and Federalists in the Early National Era
March 21
Kevin Waite (University of Pennsylvania)
The Great Slavery Road: California, the Pacific, and Southern Visions of Empire
April 11
John Winters (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“I have advised my children all to go to their own Country”: Eastern Choctaw after Removal
April 25
Michael Crowder (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Defining the Boundaries of Slavery: The Politics and Legalities of the Slave Trade to North America, 1765-1820
May 9
Roy Rogers (Graduate Center, CUNY)
To “become the pride of your patrons and the boast of religion”: Reputation, Law, and Gender in Ministerial Recruitment in the Early National Chesapeake
May 16
Michael Blaakman, Yale University
The Marketplace of American Federalism: Land Speculators, Governments, and the Post-Revolutionary Mania in Lands
May 23
Katy Lasdow (Columbia University)
“Encroachment upon a public right may be beneficial to a town”: Corporations and the Public Good along the Boston Waterfront, 1803-1810
