Past Brown Bag Sessions



The “Comfortable Harbour” on the Schuylkill: Naval Asylum Construction and the Beginnings of Federal Veterans’ Care

Brown Bag Session
Moyra Williams Eaton, Pennsylvania State University
Feb 7, 2024 at -

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Uncle Tom Gets Religion: Evangelical Hymns in Nineteenth-Century Stage Productions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Brown Bag Session
Chase Castle, University of Pennsylvania
Jan 24, 2024 at -

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Interracial Feminist Abolitionism: Female Anti-Slavery Societies in Boston, Salem, and Philadelphia

Brown Bag Session
Kathryn Angelica, University of Connecticut
Nov 29, 2023 at -

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“110 Noirs Plus ou Moins Librement Engagés”: the Appropriation of Freedom and the Legacies of the Abolition of the Slave Trade

Brown Bag Session
Ana Paula Nadalini Mendes, University of Pennsylvania
Nov 8, 2023 at -

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Inhabitants, Residents, and Citizens: Asserting Belonging, 1776-1856

Brown Bag Session
Emily Yankowitz, Yale University
Oct 25, 2023 at -

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On the Margins: Black Women Food Sellers in the Antebellum North

Brown Bag Session
Carolyn Zola, Stanford University
Oct 11, 2023 at -

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Colonial Conflict over the Trade in Indigenous Corn on the Connecticut River, 1637-1639

Brown Bag Session
Alice King, University of Virginia
Sep 27, 2023 at -

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Ekphrastic Intimacies: Fitz-Greene Halleck, Sagoyewatha, and Settler Sexualities of the Early Republic

Brown Bag Session
Chip Badley, American Antiquarian Society
Sep 13, 2023 at -

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INCIDENTS AND ENCOUNTERS: Figures for the self in Harriet Jacobs’s LINDA: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)

Brown Bag Session
Jared Robinson, University of California, Berkeley
Apr 26, 2023 at -

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"With an Infant at the Breast": Black Mothering and Penal Punishment under the Barbados Apprenticeship System

Brown Bag Session
Halle-Mackenzie Ashby, Johns Hopkins University
Apr 12, 2023 at -

Papers are circulated in advance. For copies, please contact the McNeil Center office.  -- Halle-Mackenzie Ashby is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the current African American…