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Boston Early American History Seminar

The Boston Area Early American History Seminar provides a forum for local scholars as well as members of the general public to discuss all aspects of North American history and culture from the first English colonization to the Civil War. Programs are not confined to Massachusetts topics.

Most seminar meetings revolve around the discussion of a precirculated paper. Sessions open with remarks from the essayist and an assigned commentator, after which the discussion is opened to the floor. After each session, the Society serves a light buffet supper. We request that those wishing to stay for supper make reservations in advance.

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2007-2008 Season

4 October 2007, 5:15 PM
Richard D. Brown, University of Connecticut, and Doron Ben-Atar, Fordham University
"Darkness in New Light New England: Punishing Bestial Acts in the 1790s"
Comment: Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College Law School

1 November 2007, 5:15 PM
Nian-Sheng Huang, California State University Channel Islands
"The Poor and the Minimum Cost of Living in Colonial Massachusetts"
Comment: Lisa Wilson, Connecticut College

6 December 2007, 5:15 PM
C. Dallett Hemphill, Ursinus College
"Founding Brothers and Sisters: Sibling Relations in the Era of the American Revolution"
Comment: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University

7 February 2008, 5:15 PM
Maya Jasanoff, Harvard University
"In Empire's Embrace: The Loyalists Who Left"
Comment: Eliga H. Gould, University of New Hampshire

20 March 2008, 5:15 PM
John Murrin, Princeton University
"Self-Immolation: Patterns of Historiography in the Coming of the American Revolution"
Comment: Pauline Maier, MIT; Woody Holton, University of Richmond; Brendan McConville, Boston University

3 April 2008, 5:15 PM
Susan Branson, Syracuse University
"American Women and Enlightenment Science"
Comment: Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University

1 May 2008, 5:15 PM
Benjamin Carp, Tufts University
"Partygoers: Recovering the Narratives of the Boston Tea Party Participants"
Comment: Jim Taylor, Adams Papers
Location: Boston College Department of History, 21 Campanella Way #429, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

19 June 2008, 5:15 PM
Linford D. Fisher, Harvard University
"Leaving the English: Joseph Johnson and the Pan-Indian Migration to Brotherton, N.Y., 1775-1785"
Comment: Neal Salisbury, Smith College



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