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WATCH HERE Join the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture (OI) and the Center for Black Visual Culture & Institute of African American Affairs (CBVC) at New York University, in partnership with the NYU Center for the Humanities, online for two conversations featuring Jennifer L. Morgan (New York University) and Jessica Marie Johnson […]
WATCH HERE Join the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture (OI) and the Center for Black Visual Culture & Institute of African American Affairs (CBVC) at New York University, in partnership with the NYU Center for the Humanities, online for two conversations featuring Jennifer L. Morgan (New York University) and Jessica Marie Johnson […]
“Material Worlds/Virtual Worlds: the Physical and the Digital in Vast Early America” June 17-19, 2021 Read the full program and REGISTER here. Program for Thursday, June 17, 2021 9:00 Registration Zoom Room opens. (Stop by and say Hello to Conference Registrar Beverly Smith, ask questions, and get help here.) 10:00-11:00 Session 1: ZOOM ROOM 1 […]
“Material Worlds/Virtual Worlds: the Physical and the Digital in Vast Early America” June 17-19, 2021 Read the full program and REGISTER here. Program for Friday, June 18, 2021 9:00 Registration Zoom Room opens. (Stop by and say Hello to Conference Registrar Beverly Smith, ask questions, and get help here.) 10:00-11:00 Session 7 : ZOOM ROOM […]
“Material Worlds/Virtual Worlds: the Physical and the Digital in Vast Early America” June 17-19, 2021 Read the full program and REGISTER here. Program for Saturday, June 19, 2021 9:00 Registration Zoom Room opens. (Stop by and say Hello to Conference Registrar Beverly Smith, ask questions, and get help here.) 10:00-11:00 Session 15: ZOOM ROOM 1 […]
OI Colloquium with Kenneth Banks Drawn from a biography (Ch. 5) of an angry, social ambitious Connecticut sea captain, Thomas Allen, and his family during the era of the American Revolutionary Atlantic, this chapter examines how a ‘middling’ free Settler like Allen escaped a massive debt load through illicit trade during the Seven Years’ War. […]
Join us for an OI Author Conversation with Hannah Farber and Michael Zakim The rise of capitalism and the expansion of the market economy transformed the early U.S. republic, reshaping relations within the labor force as well as the relationship between state and society. As contingent as it was unsettling, that transformation is often associated […]
OI Colloquium with Amanda Moniz The future philanthropist Isabella Graham was a still-new wife and young mother when she arrived in North America in 1768 with her husband, a British Army physician. She would spend the next several years in Montreal and Fort Niagara, establishing a family, adjusting to unfamiliar environments, and becoming an enslaver. […]
How do we incorporate scholarship on early America, both old and new, into our teaching–whether that teaching happens in a K-12 classroom, on a university campus, or at a museum? In this every-other-monthly reading group, teachers come together to think collaboratively about how to engage with audiences from a broad spectrum and in a wide […]