Fall 2017
September 15
Dr. David Waldstreicher (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“Hamilton” as Founders Chic: A Neo-Federalist, Antislavery Usable Past? (coauthored with Dr. Jeffrey L. Pasley)
October 6
Alexander Gambaccini (Graduate Center, CUNY)
No Simple Democracy: Swiss History in John Adams’s “Defence of the Constitutions of the Government of the United States”
October 20
Michael Crowder (Graduate Center, CUNY)
The Fruits of Northern State Abolition, I: Visions of Economic Development in the Greater Northeast in the Early Republic
October 27
Sean Griffin (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
Towards a “Union of Reformers”: The National Industrial Congress, the Mexican-American War, and the Origins of the Antislavery-Land Reform Alliance
November 3
Dr. Scott Gac (Trinity College)
To 1877: American Capitalism and the Geography of Violence
November 10
Dr. John Blanton (City College, CUNY)
Antislavery Before Empire: The Problem of Freedom in Early English Colonization, 1547-1642
December 1
David Campmier (Graduate Center, CUNY)
The Union Army and the Rape of African American Women: A Comparative Analysis
Spring 2018
February 2
Dr. Sarah Gronningsater (University of Pennsylvania/New-York Historical Society)
“Expressly Recognized by Our Elections”: Certificates of Freedom and the Multiple Fates of Black Citizenship
February 23
Lauren Duval (American University)
“Their Own Perticuliar Spot”: Masculinity, Honor, and Domestic Space under British Military Rule
March 2
Michael McLean (Boston College)
“Sufficient to Make an Empire”: The Politicians, 1861-1870
March 9
Michael Hattem (New-York Historical Society/The New School)
“Creating a Deep Past for a New Nation”
March 23
Cody Nager (Graduate Center, CUNY)
The Naturalizations of Dominick Lynch: Creating Citizens in New York, 1783-1789
April 13
Maddy Lafuse (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“The Departure of the Fathers”: Navigating Declension with Emotions in Funeral Sermons
April 27
Helena Yoo (Graduate Center, CUNY)
William Smith, Jr. and the Future of Empire