Triangle Early American History Seminar

Schedule for Papers, 2007-2008

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 Sept 7: Holly Brewer (NC State), "Marriages 'Under the Age of Consent': The Perils of Demography and the Power of Ideology" (in conjunction with Triangle Legal History Seminar)
Sept 21: Wayne Lee (UNC-Chapel Hill), "Subjects, Clients, Allies or Mercenaries?:  The British Use of Irish and Indian Military Power, 1500-1815"
Oct 5: Andrew Lewis (American Univ.), "Symbiotic Interests between Natural History and the New Nation"
Oct 12: Sally Hadden (Florida State), "Law Firm Partners of the 1790s: DeSaussure and Ford of Charleston" (in conjunction with Triangle Legal History Seminar)
Nov 16: Seth Rockman (Brown), "'Plantation Goods': The Textiles and Farm Implements that Cemented the Slaveholding Republic"
Dec 7: Theresa Campbell (UNC-G), "Political Friendships in Revolutionary America: Friendships between Radicals"
Jan 11: Georgina Gajewski (UNC-CH), "No Likeness - No Pay: The Market for Portraiture in North Carolina, 1790-1820" (canceled)
Feb 15: William Ryan (Duke), "The Greatest Hope and the Deepest Fear: Dunmore's Proclamation and the Afro-Carolinian Exodus to Sullivan's Island"
March 7: Maren Wood (UNC-CH), "A Consequence of Conquest: Anglo-American Narratives about the Origins of Venereal Disease"
April 18: Watson Jennison (UNC-G), "In Whose Name:  Contesting the Meaning and Consequences of the American Revolution in the Georgia Backcountry"
May 9: Elizabeth Fenn (Duke), "Encounter at the Heart of the World: The Rise and Fall of the Mandan People"