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2007-2008 Seminar Program Coordinator:
Andrew Shankman, Rutgers University, Camden

All meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month at 5:30 unless otherwise noted.

The April 15th and May 13th meetings will be held in the first floor lounge of the Heyman Center for the Humanities, which is located near the Faculty House on the upper level of East Campus.
Click here for directions to the Heyman Center.

September 11: Will Slauter, Columbia Society of Fellows. “Constructive Misreadings: Adams, Turgot, and the American State Constitutions.”

October 9: John Murrin, Princeton University. "Self-Immolation: Schools of Historiography and the Coming of the American Revolution."

November 13: Jessica Lepler, Case Western Reserve University. " 'The News Flew Like Lightning' : Spreading Panic in 1837."

December 11 Doug Montagna, Grand Valley State University. " 'Choked Him Til His Tongue Protruded': Violence, the Code of Honor, and the Methodist Clergy in the Antebellum Ohio Valley."

February 12: Maya Jasanoff, Harvard University. Introduction to untitled book and "The Other Side of Revolution: Loyalists in the British Empire." Please be sure to download both documents.

March 11: Terry Bouton, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. "Beardian Babies and Bathwater: A Clean Look at Economic Interests and State Creation."

April 15: Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Law School. "Thomas Jefferson and St. George Tucker: The Makings of Revolutionary Slaveholders." (Meeting will be held in the first floor lounge of the Heyman Center.)

May 13 Jeremy Stern, Princeton University. " 'Loyalty and Joy on this Happy Occasion' or Massachusetts Politics at the Moment of Stamp Act Repeal." (Meeting will be held in the first floor lounge of the Heyman Center.)