Schedule
All meetings at 2:30 pm in Room 5114
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Titles Forthcoming
Fall 2019
September 6
Dr. David Waldstreicher (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“The Preachers” and “The Monarch, the Poets, the Subjects, the Enslaved” from The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley
September 20
Kellen Heniford (Columbia University)
Imagining a “Non-Slaveholding” State: The Missouri Crisis and the Invention of a Free New Jersey
September 27
Dr. Christopher Minty (The Adams Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society)
“The Eve of the Doom”: Revolutionary Allegiance in Manhattan from “The Sons of Britain”: The Revolutionary Origins of Loyalism in New York City, 1768–1778
October 11
Alexander Baltovski (Graduate Center, CUNY)
The Moralist, the Catechist, the Seeker, and the Society
October 25
Dr. Benjamin Carp (Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, CUNY)
“Catching Perpetrators” and “The Commandant’s Conundrum” from The Night Broadway Burned: The New York City Fire of 1776
November 1
Dr. David Reynolds (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“Preface” and “The Lincoln Tree” from Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
November 15
Catherine Treesh (Yale University)
Controlling the Narrative of Resistance, 1774-1776
November 22
BJ Lillis (Princeton University)
Slavery and the Family in the Colonial Hudson Valley
Spring 2020
January 31
Dr. Eileen Cheng (Sarah Lawrence College)
February 7
Dr. Nicole Eustace (New York University)
February 14
Grant Stanton (University of Pennsylvania)
February 28
Dr. Susanah Shaw Romney (New York University)
March 6
Dr. Andrew Shankman (Rutgers University – Camden)
Interrupted by COVID
March 27
Dr. Brett Palfreyman (Wagner College)
April 3
Harrison Diskin (University of Southern California)
April 24
Dr. Andrew Lipman (Barnard College)
May 8
Sixth Annual Graduate Student Conference
