Dear all,
We hope you had the best Summer possible and are happy to resume our monthly newsletters of the AMERICA2026 program:
In memoriam
Trevor Burnard very sadly left us on July 19, 2024. Trevor was a primus inter pares historian, an indefatigable and prolific writer, a great teacher, a jovial and generous colleague, a world traveler, and, personally, a dear friend. Trevor was also a thorough Francophile, visiting France each time an opportunity occurred, and a steadfast supporter of the work of French Americanists. He was twice a guest professor at the Université Paris 8, where he shared his research with my graduate students and even spoke to my undergraduate classes. Students all listened to him very attentively! Trevor knew how to adapt to various publics and share his extensive knowledge of the British Empire, slavery, colonial and revolutionary America. Trevor was a key member of AMERICA 2026 and showed his support and enthusiasm for our work from the very beginning. We all very dearly miss him.
Bertrand Van Ruymbeke
Professor of American History, Université Paris 8, France. PI of AMERICA 2026 (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, 2023-2027)
Looking back: Summer events
Vast Early America: A Transcontinental Conversation Omohundro Institute’s 27th Annual Conference
June 19, 2024 – June 21, 2024
Université de Poitiers
Revise the full program here.
Founding members of our consortium, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke (Université Paris 8), Carine Lounissi (Université Rouen Normandie), and Eric Schnakenbourg (Nantes Université) took part in a roundtable chaired by Agnès Delahaye (Lyon 2) on “Recent French scholarship on the American Revolution” (session 5). Along with Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (Université Paris Cité), they presented a series of publications they have edited or published in the last five years, to illustrate the nature and the wealth of academic transatlantic conversation within and around the AMERICA2026 community.
Archives of Revolution: A Conference About How We Make the Past
A collaboration between the John Carter Brown Library, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, and Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts
June 20 – June 22, 2024
Brown University
Revise the full program here.
AMERICA2026 put together a panel on archives “on both sides of the Atlantic”. While Virginie Adane (Nantes Université) presented the EPSAR (European Printed Sources on the American Revolution) database project that is at the heart of our program, Iris de Rode (Mount Vernon), Leila Tnainchi (Université de Franche Comté) and Irma Toti (Université Paris 8) analyzed how overlooked archival material available in European
repositories can challenge how we frame the American Revolution.
Les colonies européennes d’Amérique et la naissance des États-Unis
A conference organized by Eric Schnakenbourg in Nantes, March 2024
All presentations are available here.
Events of the Month
The Scientist Turned Spy: André Michaux, Thomas Jefferson, and the Conspiracy of 1793
Book Launch
with Patrick Spero, new CEO of APS
Date: Sept. 4, 2024; Reception 5:00 p.m., Lecture 6:00 p.m.
Location: in person or online. For further details and registration information, see
here.
The Post-Revolutionary Credit Crisis and the Triumph of Market Time David Center for the American Revolution Seminar
with Dr. Justin Clark
Date: Sept. 25, 2024; 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. ET
Location: online. For further details and registration information, see here.
Lafayette: The Making of an American Icon. A commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Lafayette’s 1824 visit to Philadelphia and the American
Philosophical Society
with Dr. Laura Auricchio
Date: Oct. 1, 2024 Location: in person or online. For further details and registration information, see here.
Looking ahead: upcoming events
“1775”: A joint-conference by the Concord Museum, the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society, and the Massachusetts Historical Society, marking the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord.
Date: April 10-11, 2025
Location: the Concord Museum, Concord, MA.
To learn more about potential topics please see here. Proposals of no more than 250 words along with a cover letter and a short CV should be sent via email to Cassandra Cloutier, Assistant Director of Research, Massachusetts Historical Society at ccloutier@masshist.org. by October 15, 2024.
International conference celebrating the tricentenary of the birth of Jean Baptiste de Rochambeau.
Date: June 27-28, 2025
Location: Vendôme, France.
Summer Academy of Atlantic History: Revolutions in the Atlantic World
(1750-1840)
We are mourning the death of our founding member, great scholar and generous colleague Professor Trevor Burnard. We will miss him greatly and want to dedicate our next, the 9th, Summer Academy of Atlantic History, to his memory.
Date: 26-29 August 2025
Location: Casa de Retiros in Praia Grande, Portugal. Hosted by Professor Pedro Cardim
Full CfP available here. Applications were due Aug. 31st; participants will be notified by Sept. 30th, 2024.
Publications of interest
-Trevor Burnard, Emma Hart, Marie Houllemare (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the
Seven Years’ War, Oxford University Press
Published: 18 July 2024
-Michael D. Hattem, The Memory of ‘76: The Revolution in American History, Yale University Press
Published : 23 July 2024
Dee Andrews and Jason Daniels (CSU) are organizing a special issue of the
Journal California History (published by the U. of California Press) on the legacy of
the American Revolution in the state.
Please find the full CfP on this link (applications are due by December 15, 2024)
Partnership Reminder
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 the upcoming AMERICA2026 conference in Toulouse: November 13-14: “American Politics and the Memory of the Revolution (18th-21st
centuries)”, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès
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
