Events



"Work and Be Happy": Craft, Slavery, and Social Reform in Philadelphia, 1783-1840

Brown Bag Session
Bethany McGlyn, University of Virginia
Apr 23, 2025 at -

Bethany McGlyn is a PhD candidate and Jefferson Scholars Foundation Fellow at the University of Virginia studying craft labor and material culture in early national Philadelphia. In spring and summer 2025, Bethany will…



Counterrevolution in Favor of Liberty: Abolishing Slavery in Loyalist Upper Canada

Seminar
Michael Blaakman, Princeton University
Apr 25, 2025 at -

Michael A. Blaakman is an associate professor in the Department of History at Princeton University. A scholar of the revolutionary and early national eras, he focuses on the histories of politics, political economy,…



Where is Early America?

Conference
May 1, 2025 - May 3, 2025 (All Day)

Call for Papers Where is Early America?



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

Seminar
Paul Musselwhite, Dartmouth College
May 1, 2025 at -

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…



Navigating the Past: Histories of the US Navy and Marine Corps, 1775-2025

Conference
Oct 9, 2025 - Oct 11, 2025 at -

The US Navy and the Marine Corps were founded in Philadelphia in 1775 and will mark their 250th anniversary in the city of their birth in October 2025 (see www.homecoming250.org). To coincide with the anniversary, this…