McNeil Center News
Where is Early America? | 1-3 May 2025
The McNeil Center for Early American Studies is pleased to announce a state of the field conference, to be held in May of 2025.
Upcoming Events
“Kikrevou”(kì ire aiku): Sickness, Death, and Survival in the Jamaican Smallpox Epidemic of 1768
Friday Seminar
Elise Mitchell, Princeton University
“Is Death Not Preferable to Slavery?”: Resistance and Diaspora in the Circum-Gulf Region, 1729-1769
Brown Bag Session
Leila K. Blackbird, University of Chicago
"Freedom: A Rashomon Effect"
Friday Seminar
Scott Heerman, University of Miami and McNeil Center for Early American Studies
About the McNeil Center
Established as the Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies in 1978, and renamed in honor of its benefactor Robert L. McNeil, Jr., in 1998, the McNeil Center facilitates scholarly inquiry into the histories and cultures of North America in the Atlantic world before 1850, with a particular but by no means exclusive emphasis on the mid-Atlantic region.