September 2, Elizabeth Fenn (Duke), “Upheavals: Eighteenth-Century Transformations of the Mandan World”

November 4, Nora Doyle (UNC–CH), “Living and Writing the Body: American Childbearing Narratives, 1750–1850″

November 18, Molly Warsh (Texas A&M and Omohundro Institute), “American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492–1700″

December 9, Jonathan Hancock (UNC–CH), “Earthquakes and the Problem of Indian Unity in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1811–1814″

January 20, Jake Ruddiman (Wake Forest), “‘Feared by many, loved by none’: Relationships among Young Continental Soldiers and Civilians”

February 24, Vincent Brown (Duke), “Apongo aka Wager, Prince of Guinea and Rebel of Jamaica: Locating African Authority in the Atlantic World”

March 23, John Roche (UNC–CH), “Governing the Good Americans”

April 13, James Roberts (Johns Hopkins), “Planting People for a Secure Jamaica:  Environment, Climate, and a Settlement Proposal in Edward Long’s History of Jamaica (1774) “

April 27, John Sweet (UNC–CH), “The Captive’s Tale: Venture Smith and the Roots of the American Republic”