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2006-2007 Seminar Coordinator:
Evan Haefeli, Columbia University

September 12: Owen Stanwood, Catholic University. "The Panic of 1700: Indians, Jesuits, and the Politics of Fear in Bellomont's New England."

October 10: Kevin Sweeney, Amherst College. "Guns Along the River: Possession and Use of Firearms in the Connecticut Valley from 1640-1800."

November 14: Brendan McConville, Boston University. "Regicide and Remembrance: The Dixwell Family's Struggle for Place in the Atlantic World, 1700-1750." Please also read the introductory note. (Meeting will be held at the New York Historical Society.)

December 12: Lou Roper, SUNY New Paltz. "New Albion: Anatomy of an English Colonization Failure, 1632-1655."

January: NO MEETING

February 13: Alyssa Mt. Pleasant, Yale University. "After the Whirlwind: Settling Buffalo Creek in the Wake of the Sullivan Campaign"

March 20: Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Bryn Mawr College. (Meeting on third Thursday due to Spring Break.) "Interpreting the War of Vallano and Sixteenth-Century Panamá’s Rebellious Slaves"

April 10: Heather Miyano Kopelson, McNeil Center Fellow. "Transgressing the 'Law of God & Man': Religion and Regulating Interracial Intimacy in Bermuda and New England."

May 1: Christian Crouch, Bard College. "Un Honneur Jaloux: Nobles, Honor, and War in France and New France, 1748-55"