Fall 2018
September 7
Dr. Sean Griffin (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
Paine, Democratic-Republican Radicals, and the Agrarian Reconsideration of Property Rights
September 21
Dr. Mark Boonshoft (Norwich University)
Education, Race, and the Transformation of Suffrage in the Early Republic North
October 5
Michael Crowder (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Tom Paine’s Political Economy of Abolitionism: The Case of Slavery in the Louisiana Territory, 1803-1805
October 19
Matthew White (The Ohio State University)
“Under the Influence of the Excitement Then Universal”: Pennsylvania’s Missouri Crisis and the Viability of Antislavery Politic
October 26
Dr. Hannah Farber (Columbia University)
Market Readers, Market Makers: American Marine Insurers at War, 1793-1815
November 2
Andrew Lang (Graduate Center, CUNY)
A Second Compromise?: Antislavery Politics, Black Citizenship, and the Inconclusive End to the Missouri Crisis
November 16
Arinn Amer (Graduate Center, CUNY)
A “New-Fashioned Jacket”: Dress and Undress in the Practice and Depiction of Tarring and Feathering, 1768-1776
November 30
David Campmier (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Confederate Diplomatic Failures, “King Cotton,” and Slavery
Spring 2019
February 1
Bennett Parten (Yale University)
“Blow Ye Trumpet, Blow:” The Idea of Jubilee in Slavery and Freedom
February 8
Dr. Nora Slonimsky (Iona College and the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies)
Oil, Elephant Bones, and An Act of Parliament: Mapping America’s Earliest Copyright Claim
February 22
Dr. Anna Law (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
The United States of America’s ‘Pre-History’: Colonial Era Immigration Policy
March 1
Dr. Matthew Karp (Princeton University)
The People’s Revolution of 1856: Radical Populism, National Politics and the Emergence of the Republican Party
March 8
Dr. John Blanton (City College, CUNY)
First Enslavements and First Emancipations: Slavery and Capitalism in Early Colonial Virginia, 1547-1660
April 5
Miriam Liebman (Graduate Center, CUNY)
The Ambassadress Abroad: Abigail Adams in London and Paris
April 12
Dr. Michael Blaakman (Princeton University)
The Logic of Land Mania
May 17
Dr. Thomas Wickman (Trinity College)
Black Fertile Earth: Governing Land and River at Suckiaug/Hartford, 1633-1650
