2005-2006 Program
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2005-2006 Seminar Coordinators:
Nicole Eustace, New York University
David Jaffe, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
September 20: Francois Furstenberg, The Library Company. "French Emigres in Philadelphia: A Preliminary Essay on the United States and the French Atlantic, c. 1789-1803."
October 11: Benjamin Carp, University of Edinburgh. "The Flames of War: Pyromachy and Destruction during the American Revolution."
November 15: Wendy Bellion, University of Delaware. "Looking for the 'Invisible Lady': Gender and Illusion in Jeffersonian America."
December 13: Andrew Shankman, Rutgers University. "We Must not Despair of the Republic: Second Generation Jeffersonians on Political Economy, Slavery, and the State."
January: NO MEETING
February 14: Chris Clark, University of Connecticut. "Jefferson in Tokyo?: Independent Farmers in American Visions of Society, From the Revolution to the Cold War."
March 14: Karen O'Brien. Ramapo College. "American Brethren: Religious Culture and the Creation of a Revolutionary People."
April 11: Sharon Braslaw, Drew University. "Towards Marginality: Poor Children's Education after the Revolution."
May 9: Sam Haselby, Eugene Lang College. "An Asylum for Those Who Were Cast Out': The Limits and Potential of Frontier Revivalism."