19th-Century U.S. History Workshop
Co-sponsored by the Georgetown College Americas Initiative.
Co-chairs: Chandra Manning cmm97@georgetown.edu and Adam Rothman ar44@georgetown.edu
Seminars are held on Monday afternoons, with occasional exceptions, at the Intercultural Center 462 on Georgetown University campus, 4:30-6:00 followed by reception 6:00-7:00 with light refreshments.
Schedule 2011-2012
(please check back at this webpage for updated information)
September 12, Richard White, Department of History, Stanford University, to discuss his recent book Railroaded
October 17, John Brooke, Department of History, Ohio State University, “Forging the Civil War North: Political Crisis, Fugitive Slaves, and Liminal Rupture in Antebellum America, 1850-1854”
December 8, Tera Hunter, Department of History, Princeton University, "Bound as Fast in Wedlock as a Slave Can Be: Slavery and Marriage Entanglements" This seminar is held on Thursday, 8 December, in ICC 662.
January 23, Seth Rockman, Department of History, Brown University, “Negro Cloth: Mastering the Market for Slave Clothing in Antebellum America”
February 6, Amy S. Greenberg, Pennsylvania State University, “Imperial Amnesia: Forgetting the U.S. Mexico War and Its Veterans"
March 19, Millington Bergeson-Lockwood, George Mason University, " A Woman's Place is Where She is Needed: African American Women and the Politics of Gender, Race, and Party in Boston MA during the late 19th Century"
April 16, Thomas Andrews, Department of History, University of Colorado at Denver, "Slaves and Non-Human Animals in the Antebellum US South"
