The Newberry Seminar in Early American History and Culture

*2007 Schedule*

January 18, 2007—‘The Nation’s Property’: Merchant Sailors and the Rise of Liberal Political Economy in the Atlantic World, 1800–1870
Leon Fink, University of Illinois at Chicago

February 15, 2007—A Cultural History of Natural Rights, 1689–1789
Eric Slauter, University of Chicago

March 15, 2007—Black Radicalism in the Revolutionary Era: Freedom, Equality, and Cosmopolitanism, 1770–1780
Chernoh Sesay, DePaul University

April 19, 2007—The Stuff of Democracy in Political Literature of the 1820s and 1830s
Sandra Gustafson, University of Notre Dame

May 10, 2007—Reflections on America’s Insurgency: Local Revolutions and Ideological Enforcement, 1774–1776
Tim Breen, Northwestern University

Co-sponsored by the University of Chicago, DePaul University, the University of Illinois at Chicago,
Northern Illinois University, and Northwestern University

Seminars are held on Thursdays from 5:30–7:00 PM
at the Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL.
Papers are pre-circulated. For a copy e-mail scholl@newberry.org