2004-2005 Program

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September 14: Michael Zuckerman, University of Pennsylvania. "Introduction to Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, 1743-1790."

October 12: Matthew Backes, Columbia University. "The Language of Patriarchal Revival and Fictions of the Father in Early Nineteenth-Century America."

November 9: Robert Gross, University of Connecticut. "No Treason Against Heaven." (Chapter Three of The Transcendentalists and Their World.)

December 14: Travis Glasson, Columbia University. "The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts of the World and the Creation of Race in the Atlantic World." (Dissertation abstract available here.)

February 8: David Hall, Harvard University. "Chapter One" of work-in-progress on seventeenth century New England. Please also read his introductory letter.

March 8: Steven Bullock, Worcester Polytechnic University. "The Rages of Governor Francis Nicholson: Anger, Politeness, and Politics in Provincial America."

April 12: Lisa Gordis, Barnard College. "'Redeemed out of Languages': George Fox and the Babel of Human Language." Please also read her introductory letter.

May 10: Richard Brown, University of Connecticut. "'No harm to kill Indians': Equal Rights in a Time of War."