By Jeremy Dibbell
Join us today (Monday) at 12 noon in the Dowse Library for a brown-bag lunch with Deborah Kent, Assistant professor of Mathematics at Hillsdale College and research fellow at MHS [our first-ever mathematician research fellow]. Kent will discuss her current project: “Substituting Science for ‘the brooding omnipresence in the sky’? The Role of Expert Witnesses in Nineteenth-Century American Courtrooms.”
This event is free and open to the public.
By Jeremy Dibbell
Join us today (Friday) at 12 noon in the Dowse Library for a brown-bag lunch with Jennifer Egloff, Ph.D. candidate at New York University and research fellow at MHS. Egloff will discuss her current project: “Popular Numeracy in Early Modern England British North America.”
This event is free and open to the public.
[Note: For the curious, “numeracy” is like literacy, but with numbers]
By Jeremy Dibbell
Join us today (Wednesday) at 12 noon in the Dowse Library for a brown-bag lunch with Wendy Wong, Ph.D. candidate at Temple University and current Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at MHS. Wong will discuss her current project: “‘Diplomatic Subtleties and Frank Overtures’: Publicity, Diplomacy and Neutrality in the Early American Republic, 1793-1801.”
This event is free and open to the public.
By Jeremy Dibbell
Join us today (Wednesday) at 12 noon in the Dowse Library for a brown-bag lunch with Rachel Cope, Ph.D. candidate at Syracuse University and current Ruth R. and Alyson R. Miller Fellow at MHS. Cope will discuss her current project: “‘A New Course of Life was Begun’: The Religious Impact of Revivalism on Nineteenth-Century Women.”
This event is free and open to the public.
By Jeremy Dibbell
Join us today (Wednesday) at 12 noon in the Dowse Library for a brown-bag lunch with Megan Kate Nelson, Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Fullerton. Nelson will discuss the cultural and environmental frameworks that inform her book project, Ruin Nation: The Destruction of the South and the Making of America during the Civil War Era. She will explain how and why Americans destroyed southern cities, plantations, forests, and men, and how both soldiers and civilians responded to these different kinds of ruins between 1861 and 1900. Dr. Nelson will also talk about the importance that letters and diaries of New Englanders play in her research, with examples drawn from the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Nelson received five fellowships – including the Suzanne and Caleb Loring Fellowship in the Study of the Civil War and the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium Award – to support the research and writing of Ruin Nation in 2008-2009 and has presented her work as part of the Boston Environmental History Seminar Series at the Massachusetts Historical Society (10 Februrary 2009) and the Weirding the War Conference at the University of Georgia.
This event is free and open to the public.