Dear all,
Here is our monthly newsletter of the AMERICA2026 program. We hope you are settling into 2024 and to see you at one of our events this year!
Events of the month:
CfP: manifesto NOW! Purposes and Effects of an Escalating Form in the US and Beyond.
Conference at TU Dresden, Germany
Date: July 22-24, 2024
Submission deadline: February 5, 2024
More information here.
Colonial Anarchy, Indigenous Power. ‘Bacon’s Rebellion’ and the Susquehannock Nation.
With Matthew Kruer
Omohundro Institute 2023-2024 William and Mary Quarterly Lecture
Date: February 6, 2024, 5:00pm ET, William & Mary’s Blow Hall, room 334
Please note that this is an in-person event.
Registration required. More information here
The Queen’s Silence: Tracing the British Monarchy’s Ties to Slavery in the Archives.
With Brooke Newman
Organized by the APS
Date: February 22, 2024, 6:00 p.m. ET (reception at 5:30 p.m.); in person or online
Registration and further information here.
Transcribing The Revolutionary City.
Organized at and by the APS
Date: February 28 , 2024, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. ET, Library Hall
Please note that this is an in-person event.
Registration required. More information here.
Publications of interest:
Early American Studies. An Interdisciplinary Journal VOLUME 22, NUMBER 1 (WINTER 2024), Understanding the American Revolution in Twenty–First–Century France, eds. Kevin Butterfield and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke. Soon to be announced here.
Other Events of Interest:
“Les colonies européennes d’Amérique et la naissance des États-Unis”
AMERICA2026 / CRHIA workshop organized by Eric Schnakenbourg (Nantes Université)
Date: March 28-29, 2024. More information and full program soon.
CFP: The Origins of Revolution
Organized by David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society, and the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
Date: July 24-25, 2024 at George Washington’s Mount Vernon
For more information and possible deadline extensions, see here.
AMERICA 2026 and new research:
Hugo Toudic just defended his PhD Dissertation at Université Paris-Sorbonne, under the supervision of Pr. Céline Spector, congratulations!
Inventing the Republic. Montesquieu’s Legacy in the Constitutional Ratification Debate (1787-1789)
Could it be that the influence of Montesquieu on the Founding Fathers’ ideas has been largely overlooked? That is what this dissertation aims at both proving and correcting. A mere historiographic study of influential philosophical thought in the late eighteenth century shows that the predominant importance of Montesquieu’s philosophy is not met with extensive and careful academic works capable of finding and then analyzing the way in which the Founding Fathers borrowed from his philosophy. Yet, such an analysis would permit us to understand why Montesquieu was considered an authority and even, according to the very words of the Founding Fathers, an oracle of the science of politics. Furthermore, this research would finally allow to lend cachet within the European academic world to a masterpiece of political philosophy, The Federalist, whom no less than Tocqueville once praised and which remains the very secular bible of the American Republic.
On November 10, 2023, recent publications on the American Revolution were presented during a joint AMERICA2026-REDEHJA Event at Campus Condorcet, in Paris. More information here.
