McNeil Center for Early American Studies Fall 2009 Friday Seminar Schedule

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11 September:
Kathleen DuVal, University of North Carolina
“The Gulf Coast and the Coming of the American Revolution.”

18 September:
Andrew Shankman, Rutgers University, Camden
“Neither Infinite Wretchedness Nor Positive Good: Matthew Carey and Henry Clay on Political Economy and Slavery During the Long 1820s.”

25 September
Bryan Waterman, New York University
“Coquetry and Correspondence in Revolutionary-Era Connecticut: Elizabeth Whitman’s Letters to Joel Barlow”

2 October:
Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg, Louisiana State University
“The Odd Couple: The Unlikely Partnership of Madison and Jefferson”

9 October:
Nan Goodman, University of Colorado
“To Look Your Bloody Laws in the Face”: The Banishment of the Quakers in Early New England”

16 October:
Jessica Choppin Roney, Ohio University
“A Borrower and a Lender Be: Philadelphia’s Voluntary Associations and the Evolution of Commercial Credit, 1750-1775.”

6 November:
Eleanor McConnell, Library of Congress
“The Persistence of Scarcity: Controlling Property and Economic Opportunity in New Jersey, 1780-1820”

13 November:
Brian Phillips Murphy, Baruch College and 2007-2008 Monticello-McNeil Dissertation Fellow
“A Man, a Plan, a Canal: Erie”

4 December:
Sarah Dennis, University of Illinois and 2007-2008 MCEAS Barra Foundation Fellow
“The Standard of Taste”: Disseminating Aesthetics in the Early Republic.”

11 December:
Kenneth Cohen, St. Mary’s College of Maryland and 2007-2008 MCEAS Consortium Fellow
“The Entreaties and Perswasions of Our Friends”: Gambling on Sports and Politics in Early America”