***Do not distribute, cite, or quote from any paper without the permission of the author.***

2008-2009 Seminar Program Coordinator:
Christian Crouch, Bard College

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

September 9: Christopher Brown, Columbia University. "The Planter Class: Rise and Fall of English Liberty in the British West Indies, 1580-1830."

October 14: Chris Bilodeau, Dickinson College. "The Economy of War: Perpetuating Violence in the Northeast, 1713-1722." Please also download map of Maine, New England, and the Maritime Provinces.

November 11: Charles Foy, Eastern Illinois University. "Coerced Maritime Labor: Dark-Skinned Mariners as Prize Goods, 1739-1783."

December 9: Patricia Bonomi, Professor Emerita, New York University. "The African Diaspora, Christianity, and the Law in Colonial British America."

February 10: Geoff Sanborn, Bard College. "Cooper's Death Song." (Chapter Two of Sanborn's manuscript, Grand, Ungodly. God-Like Men: The Last of the Mohicans, Moby-Dick, and the Maori. For additional context, you may also download Chapter One, "Te Ara's Scars." This reading is entirely optional.)

March 10: Barbara Krauthamer, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. “Slavery, Property and Race in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations.”

April 14: Sarah Cornell, University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. "An American Revolution: Southern Views of Mexican Independence." Please also read the abstract of Cornell's manuscript, “Americans in the U.S. and Mexico: A Transnational History of Race, Slavery, and Freedom."

May 12: Joanne van der Woude, Harvard University. "Such Stuff as Grief is Made On": Material Memory in Colonial America."