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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.

All are welcome to participate in the seminars at no charge; you should, however, subscribe to the series if you wish to receive advance copies of the papers that will be discussed. The modest subscription fee for the series also underwrites the suppers that accompany each program.

If you do not require an advance copy of a paper and wish to leave reservations only, you may phone 617-646-0568. Please give your name, the name of the seminar you would like to attend, and the number of guests

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2010-2011 Season

16 September 2010, 5:15 PM
Francis J. Bremer, Millersville University
The Quinnipiac Jerusalem
Evan Haefeli, Columbia University

14 October 2010, 5:15 PM
Richard Alan Ryerson
The Creation of a Republican Orthodoxy, 1773-1776
Comment: Robert A. Gross, University of Connecticut

9 December 2010, 5:15 PM
Sharon Ann Murphy, Providence College
Banking on the Public's Trust: The Image of Commercial Banks after the Panic of 1819
Comment: Bruce Mann, Harvard Law School

3 February 2011, 5:15 PM
Jason T. Sharples, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Catholic University of America
The Politics of Fear: Slave Conspiracy Panics, Community Mobilization, and the Coming of the American Revolution
Comment: Benjamin Carp, Tufts University

3 March 2011, 5:15 PM
Rachel T. Van, Massachusetts Historical Society
The Woman Pigeon: Sociability, Sexuality, and the Anglo-American Community in Canton and Macao
Comment: Robert P. Forbes, University of Connecticut - Torrington

14 April 2011, 5:15 PM
Sarah Pearsall, Oxford Brookes University
"To give up having many wives": The Politics of Polygamy in Colonial North America
Comment: Lisa Wilson, Connecticut College

5 May 2011, 5:15 PM
Owen Stanwood, Boston College
Murder in Hadley: Crime and Community on the New England Frontier
Comment: Richard D. Brown, University of Connecticut







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