A New Look at Vast Early America: Lightning Round on Emerging Research
Solicited by the Omohundro Institute
Friday, April 3, 2020, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Type: Lightning Round
Papers Presented
The Night Watch of Boston: Law and Governance in Eighteenth-Century British America
Presented By
Nicole Alexis Breault
When Mail Arrived on Sundays
Presented By
Rebecca Brenner Graham, American University
Jonathan Edwards at War: Preaching and Practice on the Frontier of Inter-Colonial Warfare 1739–1756
Presented By
Christian Cuthbert, Crown College
Accounting for Revolution: The American Revolution, Currency, and the Making of Political Economic Culture in American Life, 1775–1896
Presented By
Jonah Peter Estess, American University
Creating Legal Marriage: Debating and Constructing Legal Matrimony and the State in Early Republican New York and the United States
Presented By
Lauren Brooke Feldman, Johns Hopkins University
The Revolutionary Atlantic of Elizabeth Beauveau and Marie Rose Poumaroux: Commerce, Vulnerability, and U.S. Connections with the French Atlantic, 1780–1834
Presented By
Carrie Glenn, University of Delaware
Under the Master’s Eye: Agricultural Improvement on the Virginia Plantation, 1750–1820
Presented By
Dominic Hennessy, University of Queensland
The Predatory Sea "The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking, Colonization, and Trade in the Greater Caribbean, 1530–1690
Presented By
Casey Schmitt, Center for Early American Studies
‘To the best of your knowledge and ability’: North American Ship Captains, Commerce, and the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1763–1812
Presented By
Bruce Spadaccini Jr., University of Delaware
Revolutionary Insults: A Moral History of Boston and the Stamp Act Crisis
Presented By
Grant E. Stanton, University of Pennsylvania
Session Participants
Chair: Simon P. Newman, University of Glasgow
Commentator: Karin Alana Amundsen, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Presenter: Nicole Alexis Breault
Presenter: Christian Cuthbert, Crown College
Presenter: Jonah Peter Estess, American University
Presenter: Lauren Brooke Feldman, Johns Hopkins University
Presenter: Carrie Glenn, University of Delaware
Presenter: Rebecca Brenner Graham, American University
Presenter: Dominic Hennessy, University of Queensland
Presenter: Casey Schmitt, Center for Early American Studies
Presenter: Bruce Spadaccini Jr., University of Delaware
Presenter: Grant E. Stanton, University of Pennsylvania