Dear all,
We are happy to share our March 2025 newsletter with all of you.
From now on, it will be available through our wonderfully-revamped website! Here are the announcements and reminders for this month:
AMERICA2026 Event: Summer Conference Students and scholars from all around the globe will gather at the University of Strasbourg this summer in the buzzing European city of Strasbourg, France. This unique experience will feature discussion- based sessions led by faculty members from the U.S. and the E.U. Strasbourg students and their peers from various countries and representing both two- and four-year intuitions will work in small groups to discuss the continued significance of texts that laid the foundations of modern republican governments. Guided by pedagogy developed by the Great Questions Foundation, which aims to help foster engaged citizens in functioning democracies, selected student participants will embark upon an intellectual journey to explore how the founding principles of the American Revolution continue to operate in the world today, and how people have come to understand them differently and more deeply. Submission Deadline: March 10, 2025 Find the CfP and more information on our website
Events of the Month
Uniformity and Individuality in Early America: A Conversation with Professors Sandra Slater and John McCurdy
In this presentation, Professors Sandra Slater and John McCurdy will discuss their recent books and how they highlight the roles of conformity and deviance in early British North America. Together, the works of Drs.Slater and McCurdy highlight the importance of uniformity and individuality at the beginning and the end of colonial America. Date: March 4, 2025; 4-6pm (Paris time) Location: The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris – Amphitheater, 1st Floor – 41 Rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris Also accessible online via Zoom
A King’s World: The Rise and Fall of Haiti’s King Henry Christophe Vast Early America Lecture with Marlene Daut Date: March 5, 2025; 5-6.30pm ET Location: Hennage Auditorium in Colonial Williamsburg, 301 S. Nassau Street, Williamsburg, Virginia Find more information on registration here.
Men at War and the Ties that Bind: Northeastern Revolutionary War Patriots of Color and their Concerns Along the Home Front
David Center for the American Revolution Seminar with Benjamin Remillard Date: March 12, 2025; 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. ET Location: online via Zoom Find more information on registration here.
The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life with Sophia Rosenfeld Date: March 12, 2025; 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET Location: Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19106 OR via Zoom Find more information on registration here
The Work of Boston’s Watch OI Colloq with Nicole Breault Date: March 18, 2025; 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT Find more information on registration here.
Job Announcements of Interest
Visiting Assistant Professor History/Revolutionary Studies Research Fellow for the academic year 2025-2026 (September 1, 2025-June 30, 2026) Siena College, Loudonville, New York, USA Find the job description, requirements, and info on the application process here. Direct all inquiries about this opportunity to Dr. Jennifer Dorsey, PhD, director Siena College’s McCormick Center for the Study of the American Revolution, at mccormickcenter@siena.edu or 1-518-783-2319 Application Review will begin after March 10.
Publications
Laurent Zecchini, Thomas Jefferson, Le président américain francophile, Paris, Perrin, published on Jan. 25, 2025 Virginie Adane, Des femmes en Amérique : une histoire des États-Unis de Pocahontas à #MeToo, Paris, Perrin, published on March 6, 2025 Remember to send us your publication news so we can spread the word!
Looking ahead: upcoming events
Call for Papers – DEADLINE APPROACHING
European views of the American Revolution, 1776-1804 – A Cooperation with AMERICA2026 University of Strasbourg Undergraduate Summer Conference Date: June 9-20, 2025 Location: Strasbourg University Submission Deadline: March 10, 2025 Find the CfP and more information on our website
Call for Papers: Wartime Transformations Omohundro Institute “For 2026” Series Date: October 23-25, 2025 Location: The William & Mary School of Education and at Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia Submission Deadline: April 15, 2025 Find the CfP and more information here
Call for Papers: Global 1776: Imperial Worlds in Upheaval– DEADLINE APPROACHING A joint University of Hong Kong / University of Chicago / David Center / American Philosophical Society. AMERICA2026 is also a partner! Date: March 12-14, 2026 Location: University of Hong KongSubmit a 250-word abstract and a c.v. (for each paper and presenter) to: global76@hku.hk (full CFP attached to this email)
Deadline for submission: April 20, 2025
Call for Papers: BrANCH/BGEAH Joint Annual Conference Date: September 12-14, 2025 Location: Leonardo Hotel in Cardiff, Wales Submission Deadline: April 25, 2025 Find the CfP and more information on our website
Let us know what you are up to in- and outside of America2026 (preferably by the 20th of the current month to be included in the upcoming newsletter) so we can spread the word here as well!
