Fall 2016
September 2
Dr. David Waldstreicher (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Ancients, Moderns, and Africans: Phillis Wheatley and the Politics of Slavery
September 16
Alisa Wade (New-York Historical Society)
Investing in Social Networking
September 30
Scott Ackerman (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“It Will Rival My Kansas Work of 1856 and 7″: George Stearns, Reuben Mussey, and the United States Colored Troop Recruiting Office in Nashville, Tennessee
October 7
Dr. John Blanton (City College, CUNY)
“The First Stone of Universal Liberty”: Slavery, Subjecthood, and Military Emancipation in the American War of Independence
October 21
Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson (Hunter College, CUNY)
Black Leadership: The Silent Partners of Harpers Ferry
November 11
Dr. Thomas Balcerski (Eastern Connecticut State University)
The Bachelor’s Mess: James Buchanan and the Domestic Politics of Doughfacery
November 18
Katy Lasdow (Columbia University)
When Hippos Dredged the Delaware: The Origins of Improvement in America
December 16
Michael Crowder (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Abolition Unleashed: The American Revolution and Northern State Abolition, 1776-1788
Spring 2017
February 24
Anthony di Lorenzo (Lapidus Center for Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery)
French Emancipation and Antislavery Politics in the Early United States
March 3
Sean Griffin (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Antislavery Utopias: Communitarian and Cooperative Experimentation and the Abolitionist Movement, 1825-1850
March 10
Tara Bynum (The American Antiquarian Society and the College of Charleston)
David Walker’s Good News
April 7
Joseph Murphy (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“A Foundation of Human Rights”: Slavery, U.S. Coastal Waters, and the Making of Antislavery Nationalism
April 28
Evan Turiano (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Reinterpreting the Means and Meanings of Non-Enforcement of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law in the Rural North
