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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. 

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Upcoming Events



Where is Early America?

Conference
May 1, 2025 - May 3, 2025 (All Day) | Philadelphia, PA

Where is Early America? The McNeil Center for Early American Studies will host “Where is Early America?," a state of the field conference, on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania from May 1-3, 2025. The…



Plantation, Mobility, and Labor Regulation in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic

Seminar
Paul Musselwhite, Dartmouth College
May 1, 2025 at - | Location: Kislak Center at Penn Libraries, 3420 Walnut Street

Paul Musselwhite is Associate Professor of History at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on the cultural, intellectual, and political histories of settler colonial societies in the seventeenth century. He is the…



Taking Stock and Setting Agendas: A Workshop on Data, Digital Humanities, and Early American Studies

Conference
Sep 19, 2025 - Sep 20, 2025 (All Day) | Location: Iona University, New Rochelle, NY, and Virtual

Call for Papers Over thirty years of digitally informed scholarship have proven that the digital humanities have much to offer the field of early American studies. The Institute for Thomas Paine Studies at Iona…

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.

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