Fall 2015
September 11
John Blanton (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“Britons Never Will Be Slaves”: The Passions and Interests of Late Colonial Slavery, 1715-1754
September 18
Zachary Bennett (Rutgers University)
Improvising Slavery’s Border: Nature, Navigation, and Sectionalism on the Ohio River
October 2
Michael Crowder (Graduate Center, CUNY)
The Great Diversion: African Colonization and American Abolitionism, 1816-1833
October 16
Dr. David Waldstreicher (Graduate Center, CUNY)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to The Amistad: John Quincy Adams, the Shutdown, and the Restart of Antislavery Politics, 1787-1836
October 30
Sean Griffin (Graduate Center, CUNY)
The Revolutionary Generation: Agrarian Conceptions of Free Labor, Property, and Slavery
November 6
Scott Ackerman (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“Give Me Only Such Men Who’s Hearts Are in the Work”: Lorenzo Thomas, War Department Recruiting Agents, and The Process of Emancipation, 1863-1865
November 20
Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens (Queens College, CUNY)
Irish Immigrant Women, Race, and American Gynecology
December 4
Dr. Ariel Ron (Yale University)
Economic Nationalism in the Greater Rural Northeast
Spring 2016
February 5
Nora Slonimsky & Michael Crowder (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Regulating the Trade(s): Slavery, Publishing, and The Gazette of the United States
February 19
Alisa Wade (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Women’s Inheritance, Social Networking, and Class Consolidation in Post-Revolutionary New York
February 26
Dr. Mark Boonshoft (NYPL, Manuscripts and Archives Division, Post-Doctorate)
The Failure of Educational Reform in Revolutionary America
March 4
Alexandra Montgomery (University of Pennsylvania)
The Division of Wabanakia: Speculators and Loyalists in Maine and Acadia After the American Revolution
March 11
Miriam Liebman (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Flirting with the French: America Female Travelers in Paris, 1828-1848
March 25
Kevin Vrevich (The Ohio State University)
Abolitionist Friends: New England Quakers and the Beginnings of Immediate Abolitionism
April 1
Tom Cutterham (New College, Oxford)
“A Very Promising Appearance”: Credit Networks and Controlling Information in the Revolutionary Transatlantic World, 1784-1792
April 8
Zach Conn (Yale University)
The Nineteenth-Century Afterlife of the Articles of Confederation
May 6
Andrew Lang (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Antislavery and the Numbers Game: The Congressional Bulwark and the Real Sentiment of the North
May 20
Meggan Farish (Duke University)
Violence and ‘Belonging’ in Early National New York, 1785-1822