Triangle Early American History Seminar 2009-2010 Schedule

Schedule of Papers, 2009-2010

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September 11: Al Young (emeritus, Northern Illinois U), “Retrospective: Doing Biography of Ordinary People: Rewards and Risks"

October 9: Mia Bay (Rutgers and NHC), "The Ambidexter Philosopher: Thomas Jefferson in Black Thought"

October 23: Jonathan Hancock (UNC),  " 'God is angry about this': Cherokees, Missionaries, and the Stakes of Earthquake Interpretation"

November 6: Elvira Vilches (NCSU),  "New World Gold"

December 4: Brett Rushforth (W &M), “Nit'aouakara: I make him my slave/my dog: Reconsidering Indigenous Slavery in the Pays d'en Haut”

January 29: Laurent Dubois (Duke), “The Banjo in the Caribbean"

February 12: Robert DuPlessis (Swarthmore), “Textiles and Imperial Cultures in the Early Modern Atlantic.”

March 19: Jack Greene (NHC, & Emeritus, Johns Hopkins),  "Not All Lemmings: A Reconsideration of the British Response to Colonial Resistance in the years before the American Revolution."

April 23:  Rosemarie Zagarri (George Mason),  "Calcutta on the Potomac: An East Indian Nabob in the Early American Republic”