Dear all,
Here is our monthly newsletter of the AMERICA2026 program.
Event of the month:
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. Full program here.
Other events:
“From Jamaica with Reform: Sir Henry Moore’s “Reformation” and the Coming of the Revolution in New York, 1765-1775”
With Dillion Streifeneder
David Center for the American Revolution Seminar
Date: March 6, 2024, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. ET
Registration and further information here.
Author Conversation with Sara E. Johnson and Ada Ferrer Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World (Omohundro Institute/University of North Carolina Press, 2023)
Organized by the Omohundro Institute
Date: March 6, 2024, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST
Registration and further information here.
Partnerships
The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon (GWPL) and AMERICA2026 are thrilled to announce a new fellowship program to facilitate the greater international exchange of scholars studying the era of the American Revolution.
In 2024, the GWPL has special travel fellowship funds available for scholars who are interested in either presenting at or have a reason to attend and participate in one
of the following conferences AMERICA2026 is hosting.
These conferences are:
- May 16-17 in Normandy, “New Perspectives on French and American Revolutionary”;
- November 13-14 in Toulouse, “American Politics and the Memory of the Revolution (18th-21st centuries)”
Full presentation about the fellowship available here.
Applicants should submit paper proposals of up to 750 words and a CV to gwfellows@mountvernon.org
Please submit any questions about the program to gwfellows@mountvernon.org
Publications of interest:
The latest issue of Early American Studies. An Interdisciplinary Journal: Special Issue: The American Revolution in 21st Century France, vol. 22/1, Winter 2024 Eds. Kevin Butterfield, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, with contributions by Edmond Dziembowski, Leïla Tnaïnchi, Olivier Chaline, Emilie Mitran, Carine Lounissi, Iris de Rode, Hugo Toudic & Céline Spector, Joseph F. Stoltz III, François Furstenberg
Available here.
Ellen R. Cohn (ed.), The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 44: March 16 through September 13, 1785; Supplementary Documents, December, 1776, through July, 1785, Yale University Press (more info here)
Other Events of Interest:
Revolutionary Narratives, Parts I – III
via the Omohundro Institute Blog. Read up here.
A three-part blog series reviewing the OI Coffeehouse titled “Revolutionary Narratives:
Reconsidering Commemorations at the U.S. 250th” from 2023.
Archives of Revolution, June 20-22, 2024
Organizers: Emma Hart (McNeil Center) and Karin Wulf (John Carter Brown Library)
Full program available soon, including an AMERICA2026 panel, entitled “Archives of
Revolution on both sides of the Atlantic”
