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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



Sentimentalism Aside: Child Labor and the Youthful Realities of Elleanor Eldridge, 1785-1830”

Friday Seminar
Sherri Cummings, Rhode Island College
Nov 22, 2024 at - | Location: McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk/Zoom

Dr. Cummings is jointly appointed in History and Africana Studies at Rhode Island College. Her research interests include Africa and the Atlantic World, Early African American History and Africana Intellectual History. …



Atlantic Relics: The Art of Devotion in the Early Afro-Iberian Atlantic

Brown Bag Session
Nathalie Miraval, Yale University
Dec 4, 2024 at - | Location: McNeil Center, Room 105/Zoom

Nathalie Miraval is a PhD Candidate in the Art History Department at Yale University. Her research focuses on the spiritual expressive cultures of the early modern Afro-Iberian Atlantic, with a focus on gender and race…



Building Wealth, Building Slavery: On the Terrain of Feelings

Friday Seminar
Sasha Turner, Johns Hopkins University
Dec 6, 2024 at - | Location: McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk/Zoom

Sasha Turner is Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing and Slavery in Jamaica which examines the struggles for control over biological…

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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