Triangle Early American History Seminar 2008-2009 Schedule

Schedule of Papers, 2008-2009

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September 26: Georgina Gajewski (UNC-CH), “'Adventurers in the Brush Line': Itinerant Artists as Entrepreneurs in Early North Carolina”

October 10: Wayne E. Lee (UNC-CH), "Peace Chiefs and Blood Revenge: War with the North American Indians"

November 7 (jointly with TLHS): Phil Stern (Duke), "'A Sort of Republic for the Management of Trade':  Imagining a Company State (in East India Company vs. Sandys, 1682-1684)"

December 12: Kathleen Duval (NHC and UNC), "The Siege of Pensacola"

January 23: Trevor Burnard (NHC and Univ. of Warwick), "American Transformations: The Development of Plantation Societies and Planter Elites in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1660-1720"

February 20: Pauline Maier (MIT), "The People and the Constitution, 1787-88"

March 20: Katy Smith (UNC-CH), "’Authors of Their Being’: The Enactment of Elite Southern Motherhood, 1750-1820"

April 24: Randy Browne (UNC-CH), "The 'Bad Business' of Obeah: Power, Culture and the Politics of Slave Religion in the Pre-Emancipation British Caribbean"

May 8: Marjoleine Kars (UMBC), “Rebellion, Civil War, and Revolution in Dutch Berbice, 1763-1764"