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The Revolutionary Age: France, Haiti, and America

We invite proposals from scholars in any discipline working on the French and Haitian Revolutions in an Atlantic context. 

April 9-11, 2026.

Call for Proposals

Upcoming Events



Artificial Intelligence and Teaching Early American Studies

Whitney Martinko, Villanova University
Mark Humphries, Wilfrid Laurier University
Aug 13, 2025 at - | Zoom

Join us for a webinar conversation between Whitney Martinko (Villanova University) and Mark Humphries (Wilfrid Laurier University) on the use of generative artificial intelligence in the teaching of early American…



“Christian Hahn…has been with one of the board of health to complain of Lee’s Necessary”: Neighbors, Landlords, Bureaucrats, and the Politics of Privies

Brown Bag Session
Donald Dostie, Temple University
Sep 17, 2025 at - | Location: McNeil Center, Room 105/Zoom

Donald Dostie is a PhD candidate in history at Temple University. His dissertation, “Necessary Steps: Urban Privies, Social Anxieties, and the Remaking of Philadelphia, 1793-1854” looks at urban Philadelphians’…



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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