***Do not distribute, cite, or quote from any paper without the permission of the author.***
2009-2010 Seminar Program Coordinator:
Michael LaCombe, Adelphi University
All meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month at 5:30 unless otherwise noted.
September 8: Andrew Newman of Stony Brook University, "Punic Bargains and Native Histories," a chapter from a book in progress, with accompanying images.
October 13: Claire Levenson, "Mary Musgrove, Gifts, and the Clash Between British and Creek Sovereignty"
November 10: Jenny Shaw, "Regulating Difference: Religion and Race in the Early Modern English Caribbean"
December 8: Marcy Norton, “Food and the Columbian Exchange” or “People and Animals in the Early Modern World”
February 9: Faren Siminoff, "The Migration of James Robert Lee"
March 9: Douglas Winiarski, “The Great Newbury Prayer Bid Hoax: Devotion & Deception in New England’s Era of Great Awakenings”
April 13: Richard Dunn, “Two Thousand Slaves”
May 11: Stephen Mihm, “The Dollar Divided: Monetary Sovereignty and National Identity in the Early Republic”