10 October 2003

John Barrington (History Dept., Furman University)

Anti-popery, Race, and National Identity in the Lower South, 1739-1763 PDF

5 December 2003

Michael Moran (English Dept., University of Georgia)

Explaining Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report on the New Found Land of Virginia HTML

23 January 2004, LeConte Hall Room 201, from 3-5 p.m.

Wythe Holt (University of Alabama Law School)

"The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794: A Democratic Working-Class Insurrection" PDF

5 March 2004, Tate Center, Room 143, from 3-5 p. m.

Eugene Genovese (Georgia Center Schools)

"The Most Boisterous Passions": Southern Responses to Thomas Jefferson's Critique of Slavery PDF

19 March 2004, Park Hall, Rm. 261, from 3-5 p.m.

Fran Teague (English Department, University of Georgia)

"Shakespeare and America" PDF

23 April 2004, Location, LeConte Hall, Rm. 102, from 3-5 p.m.

Peter Thompson (Oxford University, McNeil Center)

"New Perspectives on Bacon's Rebellion" PDF

27 August 2004, LeConte Hall, Rm. 201, from 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Peter Moore (Georgia Southern University)

"Reassessing the Religious History of the Eighteenth Century South" PDF

24 September 2004, LeConte Hall, Rm. 320, from 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Michael Winship (University of Georgia)

"Godly Republicanism and the Foundations of the Massachusetts Polity"

Please write to Professor Winship to

gain access to the lastest version of this essay.

12 November 2004, LeConte Hall, Rm. 320, from 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Jonathan Beecher Field (Clemson University)

"A Key for the Gate: Roger Williams, Parliament, & Providence" PDF

3 December 2004, LeConte Hall, Rm. 320, from 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Sally Hadden (Florida State University)

"DeSaussure and Ford: A Charleston Law Firm of the 1790s" PDF

21 January 2005, LeConte Hall, Rm. 201, from 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Kathleen DuVal (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

"Interconnectedness and Diversity in 'French Louisiana'" PDF

11 February 2005, LeConte Hall, Rm. 201, from 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Jane Kamensky (Brandeis University)

"Tower and Pyramid: The First Collapse of the Boston Exchange Coffee House"

Please write to Professor Kamensky to

gain access to the lastest version of this essay.

25 March 2005, LeConte Hall, Rm. 201, from 3:30-5:30 p.m.

"Overcoming Nausea: The Brothers Hesselius and the Great American Mystery."

Common-Place.org · vol. 4 · no. 2 · (January 2004) PDF

April 22, 2005, LeConte Hall, Rm. 201, from 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Laura Edwards (Duke University)

"Excavating the Local State from Beneath the Layers of Southern History:

Law and Governance in the Carolinas, 1787-1830." PDF

26 August 2005, LeConte Hall, Room 320, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Colleen E. Terrell (Georgia Institute of Technology)

“Beginning the World Anew: The Mechanics of Creativity in Early America” PDF

14 October 2005, LeConte Hall, Room 201, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Susan Branson (Syracuse University)

"Sex, Scandal, Violence, and other Middle-Class Pastimes in

The History of the Celebrated Mrs. Ann Carson" PDF

2 December 2005, LeConte Hall, Room 201, 2:00-4:00 p.m.

David Eltis (Emory University)

"The African Contribution to Rice Cultivation in the Americas" PDF

Co-Authored with Philip Morgan (Princeton) and David Richardson (University of Hull)

24 February, 2006, LeConte Hall, Room 320, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Keith Pacholl (West Georgia)

"'Something to please everyone:' Selling Religion in Eighteenth-Century America" PDF

31 March, 2006, LeConte Hall, Room 320, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Richard Dunn (American Philosophical Society)

"The Demographic Structure of American Slavery: Jamaica versus Virginia" PDF

5 May 2006, LeConte Hall, Room 320, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Kenneth Banks (Fellow, American Antiquarian Society)

"The Transformation of Contraband Commerce in the Late Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World" PDF

229 September 2006, LeConte Hall Room 201, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Josh Rothman (Univeristy of Alabama)

"The Hazards of the Flush Times: Gambling, Mob Violence, and the Anxieties of America's Market Revolution" PDF

10 November 2006, LeConte Hall Room 201, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Patrick Erben (Univeristy of West Georgia)

"'What will become of Pennsylvania?': English Quakers, German Sectarians, and the Common Language of Suffering For Peace" PDF

1 December 2006, LeConte Hall Room 320, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

David Hsiung (Juniata College)

"Food, Fuel, and the New England Environment in the War for Independence, 1775-1776."  

PDF

((Cosponsored by the Georgia Workshop in the History of Agriculture and the Environment)

26 January 2007, LeConte Hall Room 320, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Ed White (University of Florida)

"Crevecoeur in the Wyoming Valley" PDF

23 March 2007, LeConte Hall Room 320, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

"Domestic Rituals: Baptism and Marriage in British Plantation Colonies, 1650-1780"

Nicholas Beasley (Emory University) PDF

13 April 2007, LeConte Hall Room 320, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

"The Mysterious 1688 Journey of M. Lahontan"

Peter Wood (Duke University) PDF

Authors Note: The best way for people to see an English edition of the map in question is to Google "Lahontan Map" and then click on the Newberry Library item, which will take you to a brief discussion of six early maps.  The Lahontan map is at the bottom, number six, and it can be printed out from there.  

Page on Newberry site is: http://www.newberry.org/smith/slidesets/ss22.html

4 May 2007, LeConte Hall Room 320, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Mary Mitchell (University of New Orleans)

"As We Found Them and As They Are Now" PDF

Images for Paper PDF

12 October 2007, LeConte Hall Room 320, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Matthew Jennings (Macon State College)

"New Worlds of Violence in the Southeast" PDF

24 October 2007, LeConte Hall Room 320, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Allan Kulikoff (University of Georgia)

"Ben Franklin and the American Dream" PDF

7 December 2007, LeConte Hall Room 320, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Seth Rockman (Brown University)

"Political, Religious, & Moral Questions are Commodities

That We Do Not Deal In As A Co. " PDF