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The Triangle Early American History Seminar meets several times each semester to discuss pre-circulated works in progress on early American history.

We define “early America” broadly: the history of all of the Americas including their interactions with the Atlantic and Pacific worlds to about 1820.

Many thanks for the support of UNC’s Carolina Seminars, the Duke University History Department, the North Carolina State University History Department, the UNC History Department, and the National Humanities Center.

Juliana Barr, Megan Cherry, and Kathleen DuVal, co-organizers

If you would like to join the TEAHS listserv, e-mail Kathleen DuVal at duval@unc.edu.

2023-2024 Schedule

Unless noted, all seminars are at the National Humanities Center, 7 TW Alexander Dr, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (in the Franklin Conference Room)

Thursday, September 28, 5-7 p.m., Welcome Back Happy Hour with other Triangle History Seminars, Kathleen DuVal’s house, Durham (RSVP on Google Form or to duval@unc.edu)

Friday, October 27, 4-5:30 p.m., Javier Etchegaray (UNC-CH), “World’s End, Words End: Sustaining Cross-Cultural Interaction over Very Long Distances in the Western Patagonian Archipelagoes, 1760-1767,” UNC-Chapel Hill History Department room 569 (on maps as Hamilton Hall).

Friday, November 17, 4-5:30 p.m., Reeve Huston (Duke), “To Rule Ourselves: Cherokees and Northern Black Americans and the Remaking of American Politics, 1818-1830,” National Humanities Center

Friday, December 1, 4-5:30, Sally Hadden (Western Michigan University and National Humanities Center), “Many Legalities: The English and Colonial American Judicial Predecessors,” National Humanities Center

Friday, February 2, 4-5:30, Daniel Dupre (UNC-C), “The Geopolitics of Murder on the Anglo-Creek Frontier, 1760 to 1812,” National Humanities Center

Friday, February 23, 4-5:30, Vivien Tejada (Duke), “Unfree Soil: Empire, Labor, and Coercion in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, 1812-1861,” National Humanities Center

Friday, March 1, 4-5:30, Sarah Pearsall (Johns Hopkins), “Freedom Round the Globe” (co-sponsored by the Working Group in Feminism and History), National Humanities Center

Friday, March 22, 4-5:30, Nathan Gill (UNC), “No Te Pido Guachalá: Political Conquest and Environmental Change in the Amazonian Andes of Colonial Quito,” History Department room 452 (note the room change: on the 4th floor), UNC Chapel Hill campus (on maps as Hamilton Hall, known as Pauli Murray Hall)

Friday, April 5, 4-5:30, Peter Wood and Virginia McGee Richards, “‘To and Fro by Canoo and Boat’: How Slave-Made Canals Fostered South Carolina’s Profitable Gulag, 1670-1720,” History Department room 569 (on maps as Hamilton Hall). Please stay for dinner after the seminar.

(The seminar originally scheduled for April 26 has been rescheduled for Fall 2024.)