Events
The Spirit of America Research Symposium - 2025
Pictured from left to right for the first photo:聽 Arya Martinez (University of New Hampshire), Charlotte Biggs (University of California, Riverside), and Collin Bonnell (Concordia University).
Learn How Scholars are Using the Weiner Collection聽
Scholars from across the U.S. are visiting to conduct research in the Marvin and Sybil Weiner Spirit of America Collection! The Weiner Collection of rare books reflects the personal libraries of such founders as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. In this symposium, the Visiting Fellows will present their research and discuss how it relies on examining the treasures of the Spirit of America Collection. This event is made possible by the generous underwriting of Dr. Howard and Judith Weiner in conjunction with the support of the 麻豆精品视频Libraries and the Department of History. This event is free and open to the public.
Past
2024
Presentations by the 2024 Fellows
Women and Science in 17th- and 18th-Century Ireland | Katharine Beene, University of Connecticut
Trading with the Enemy: The English, the Dutch, and Commerce in Time of War | Dr. Elizabeth Hines, University of Chicago
Apocalypse, Puritans, and Politics in the Empire of Oliver Cromwell | Courtney MacPhee, Stanford University
A Constitutional Culture:New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the 17th Century聽| Dr. Adrian Weimer, Providence College
Sponsored by the聽Society of Colonial Wars Fellowship in Memory of Kenneth R. LaVoy Jr.
2022
Captive Exchanges: Prisoners of War in the 18th Century聽| Dr. Adrian Finucane, Florida Atlantic
Sponsored by the Society of Colonial Wars Fellowship in Memory of Kenneth R. LaVoy Jr.
Colonial Wars as the 'Wrath of God': The Origins of American Antislavery聽| Dr. Nicholas Wood, Spring Hill College
Sponsored by the聽Society of Colonial Wars Fellowship in Memory of Kenneth R. LaVoy Jr.
Weiner Spirit of America Symposium聽
Sponsored by Dr. Howard and Judith Weiner, the 麻豆精品视频Libraries, and the聽Associates of the Spirit of America Collection
- 聽鈥淎 man of so much money and power, justice might not be done鈥�: Gender Violence, Power,
聽and聽Print in the Revolutionary Atlantic聽| Joan Jockel, College of William and Mary - 聽Ingredients for Revolution: The Political Economy of Molasses, Sugar, and Rum聽| Eva Landsberg, Yale University
- Networking Nature: John Bartram and the Market Economy of 18th-Century Science聽|聽Shannan聽Mason, University of Missouri
- 'What must Strangers think of such a Law?': Scalp Bounties in Colonial America聽| Dr. Mairin Odle, University of Alabama
Sponsored by the Society of Colonial Wars Fellowship in Memory of Kenneth R. LaVoy Jr.
2021
Weiner Spirit of America Symposium聽
Sponsored by Dr. Howard and Judith Weiner, the 麻豆精品视频Libraries, and the聽Associates of the Spirit of America Collection
- 18th-Century Mourning Customs: Life, Death, and the American Revolution聽| Dusty Dye,聽 University of Maryland
- Bodies of Empire: The Political, Religious, and Corporeal Makings of Subjecthood in聽聽Seventeenth-Century New England聽| Makiki Reuvers, University of Pennsylvania
- Food Anxieties and the Development of Colonial Hybrid Identities in the 18th-Century British聽聽Atlantic聽| Elizabeth Schmidt, UC Santa Barbara
- The People Behind the First Colony: How English Society Established Jamestown, Virginia聽| Dr. Misha Ewen, Historic Royal Palaces, UK
Sponsored by the Society of Colonial Wars Fellowship in Memory of Kenneth R. LaVoy Jr.
2019
Weiner Spirit of America Symposium
Sponsored by Dr. Howard and Judith Weiner, the 麻豆精品视频Libraries, and the聽Associates of the Spirit of America Collection
- Beast of Many Names: Cattle, Conflict, and the Transformation of Native Florida, 1585鈥�1858聽|聽 Jason Herbert, University of Minnesota
- The Spyglass and the Mirror: Competitive Intelligence and Trans-imperial State Formation in聽聽聽 the War of Spanish Succession聽| Brandon Munda, College of William and Mary
- Abolition and the Making of Scientific Racism in the Anglophone Atlantic聽| Sean Morey Smith,聽 Rice University
2018
Weiner Spirit of America Symposium
Sponsored by Dr. Howard and Judith Weiner, the 麻豆精品视频Libraries, and the聽Associates of the Spirit of America Collection
- Political Philosophy of 鈥淩epublicanism鈥� from the English Civil War to the American Revolution聽|聽聽聽 Deborah Charnoff, CUNY Graduate Center
- Consent and Gender Roles During the Enlightenment聽| Hannah Jorgenson, University of Minnesota
- 鈥淎merican鈥� Identity in the Nation鈥檚 First Periodicals聽| Jordan Wingate, UCLA