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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



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

Seminar
Michael Blaakman, Princeton University
Apr 25, 2025 at - | Location: McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk/Zoom

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) | 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 the Policing of Labor in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic

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

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…

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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