Dear all,
Welcome back from the summer break. We hope you have spent a few weeks offline, maybe took a vacation, and are returning to your desks refreshed and ready for the new academic year. Here is our September newsletter, ringing in the final months of America2026.
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.
Dancing Liberty: The Forgotten History of How Ballet Became American
Colloq with Olivia Sabee
Date: September 10, 2026, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT
Location: online
For more information and registration, see here.
A New History of the Early Colonial Period
Vast Early America Lecture with Peter C. Mancall
Date: September 14, 2026, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDT
Location: Omohundro Institute, Blow Hall, room 201.
For more information and registration, see here.
Kingdom of Devils: A Tale of Murder in the Shadow of the American Revolution
Lunch at the Library presentation with Katherine Grandjean
Date: September 18, 2026; 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET
Location: hybrid, Benjamin Franklin Hall 427 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19106 Or online
For more information and registration, see here.
The South Asian Origins of American Independence
David Center for the American Revolution Seminar
Date: September 30, 2026; 3-4 PM ET
Location: online
For more information and registration, see here.
Teaching White Brother to Listen: The Ambiguous Incorporation of Samuel Kirkland in Kanadasaga, 1765-1766
Colloq with Glenda Goodman
Date: October 1, 2026, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT
Location: online
For more information and registration, see here
Publications
50 ans de recherches nord-américaines**,** Revue française d’études américaines, n° 187, 2026/2, https://america2026.eu/collective-volumes/.
With numerous contributions from America2026 members!
Remember to send us your publication news so we can spread the word!
Looking Ahead
University of Chicago and America2026 Roundtable
The American Revolution and the Atlantic World, Europe, and the Wider World
Date: Tuesday, October 13, afternoon
Location: John W. Boyer Center of the University of Chicago in Paris
The American Revolution, Europe, and the World
International conference organized by the consortium/ANR America2026
Date: October 14-16, 2026
Location: Campus Condorcet, Paris, France
Registration: https://forms.gle/ThvSqeEdKGRZLfhE9
For more information, see here
For 2026: New Republic, New Worlds
For 2026 in 2026–A Five-Year Conference Series
Date: October 23-24, 2026
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
For more information and registration, see here.
Varia
Hartmann, Alexandra, and Antonia Purk (eds), The Cultural Politics of 1776: Rethinking an American Moment, Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies, vol. 71, no. 2, 2026, https://amst.winter-verlag.de/issue/AMST/2026/2.
“Rethinking the American Revolution from California: A Q&A with Dee E. Andrews and Jason Daniels,” UC Press Blog, Aug. 4, 2026, https://www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/rethinking-the-american-revolution-from-california-a-q-a-with-dee-e-andrews-and-jason-daniels
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!
