Dear all,
Here are the activities to look out for this coming month:
Events of the Month
AMERICA2026 Event: The French and the Creation of the United States
Exhibition at Musée du Nouveau Monde
Date: June 19-November 16, 2026
Location: Musée du Nouveau Monde, La Rochelle, France
For more information, see here.
Plongez dans le passé : la France et la Révolution américaine.
Date : June 27-28, 2026
Location: Museum d’histoire naturelle & Musée du Nouveau Monde, La Rochelle, France
Attached to the exhibition, a public history event organized by Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber will be held in La Rochelle inviting the public to rediscover all aspects of the American Revolution through a variety of interactive formats. More information here.
AMERICA2026 Event: The Strasbourg Summer School
European views of the American Revolution, 1776-1804.
Date: June 22-July 4, 2026
Location: University of Strasbourg, France
For more information and the program, see here and here.
Other events
America’s 1776: Independence and its Enduring Legacies
Conveners: David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society
Date: June 4-6, 2026
Location: hybrid
For more information and registration, see here.
Women in Revolution: From the Margins to the Centre
webinar organized by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland, the Irish Historical Society, the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies, and the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute
Speakers: Prof. Jane Ohlmeyer (TCD), Dr Catriona Kennedy (York), and Prof. Lindsey Earner-Byrne (TCD)
Date: June 4, 2026; 7:00-8:15pm UTC+1
Location: Online on MS Teams
For more information and registration, see here.
Revolutionary Connections & Revolutionary Orbits, Revolutionary Arcs
The Omohundro Institute’s Oberg Workshop for Junior Scholars and 29th annual conference
Date: June 10; June 11-13, 2026
Location: Vanderbilt University
For more information and participation, see here and here.
We Hold These Truths’? 250 Years Later
Student Conference at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies
Date: June 19-20, 2026
Location: JGU Mainz, Germany (in-person event)
For more information, see here.
Communicating Disease: Assessing Benjamin Rush’s Public Health Legacies at America’s 250th
with Paul Offit
Date: June 23, 2026; 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET
Location: Museum of the American Revolution, 101 South Third Street Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA (in-person)
For more information and the program, see here
Publications
Petroff, Florence. La Révolution Américaine et l’Écosse: Regards croisés et identités hybrides. Preface by Bertrand van Ruymbeke. Honoré Champion, 2026. More information here.
Garcia, Javier, Le Chirurgien de l’Hermione, Éditions La Geste
The book traces the life of Adrien Pierre Fabré, a surgeon-major in the Marine royale aboard the Hermione during Lafayette’s voyage to America in 1780. Through this long-overlooked figure, the book explores maritime history, naval medicine, Rochefort, and the Franco-American alliance during the American Revolution.
Kytspotter, Général Vincent de, Yorktown, Octobre 1781: la victoire franco-américaine qui a consacré l’indépendance des États-Unis, Paris, Perrin, 2026
Remember to send us your publication news so we can spread the word!
Calls for Papers and Submissions
Call for Contributors: Digital Exhibits on Revolutionary-Era Texts: forgingUS with the Center for Digital Editing
from the Call: “The Center for Digital Editing would like to invite you to take part in forgingUS, a new project that brings together leading documentary editing projects, scholars, educators, and technologists to expand access to primary sources from the Founding Era and Early Republic. Centered on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, forgingUS aims to create a free, public website featuring curated, document-based exhibits, interactive maps and timelines, and more.”
For more information, see here and here.
Looking Ahead
26th National Book Festival in August 2026
Part of the Library of Congress’s celebrations around “America 250: It’s Your Story”
Date: Aug. 22, 2026
Location: Washington Convention Center; 801 Allen Y. Lew Place NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA.
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Revolutionary Women
A New-York Historical Society Exhibition
How did the Revolution and living through the experience of war impact New York’s women—and how did women impact the Revolution in New York and beyond?
Date: May 29th-October 25th, 2026
Location: New-York Historical Society (NY)
More information here
To Begin the World Over Again: The Life of Thomas Paine
Performance
Date: June 28, 2026; 2-4 pm
Location: Central Library – Taper Auditorium, 630 W 5th St., Los Angeles, CA, USA (in-person)
For tickets, see here.
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!
