2007-2008 Schedule

September 20, 2007

April Hatfield, Associate Professor of History, Texas A & M University:
“Fragile Alliances: The Spanish and English Caribbean
at the End of the Seventeenth Century”

October 18, 2007

Dallett Hemphill, Professor of History, Ursinus College:

“Founding Brothers and Sisters:  Sibling Relations in the Era of the American Revolution”

November 29, 2007

Mark Peterson, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley:
“The City-State of Boston: An Atlantic History”

February 12, 2008

Benjamin Irvin, Assistant Professor of History, University of Arizona:
“‘Freaks’ and ‘Sneaks’: The Continental Congress Unmanned, 1774-1776”

March 13, 2008

James Rice, Associate Professor of History, SUNY Plattsburgh
“Bacon’s Rebellion in Indian Country”

2006-2007 Schedule

 September 14, 2006

David Hsiung, David and Shirley Knox Professor of History, Juniata College

“Food, Fuel, and the New England Environment in the War for Independence, 1775-1776”

 October 26, 2006

Kathleen DuVal, Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina

“Indian Métissage Policies in Colonial Louisiana”

 February 1, 2007

Peter Mancall, Professor of History, University of Southern California,
Director, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute

“The Visual World of Richard Hakluyt”

 April 16 , 2007

Christopher Grasso, Associate Professor of History, College of William and Mary,
Editor, William and Mary Quarterly

“Deist Hero, Deist Monster: Religion in the Wake of the American Revolution”