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American history
Convenors: Dr Bruce Baker (RHUL), Dr Jonathan Bell (Reading), Dr Elizabeth Clapp (Leicester), Jo Cohen (QMUL), Dr Joel Isaac (QMUL), Prof John Kirk (RHUL), Prof. Iwan Morgan (ISA), Dr Kendrick Oliver (Southampton), Dr Adam Smith (UCL), Emily West (Reading).
Venue: Pollard Room, IHR.
Time: Thursday, 5.30pm.
Venue: Pollard Room, IHR.
Time: Thursday, 5.30pm.
| 21 January | Brian Kelly, (Queen's) Jubilee, then Despair: The Reverend Elias Hill and Black Political Mobilization in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1865-1880 |
| 4 February | Simon Middleton (Sheffield) The Culture of Credit in Eighteenth-Century New York City |
| 18 February | Ross Nicolson (Columbia) Youthquake: The Politics of Youth in the Post-War United States |
| 4 March | Jo Cohen (Queen Mary) 'We the people, the consumers':Cultures of consumption and the politics of free trade, 1832-1860 Please note: this session will take place in the Ecclesiastical History Room, 1st Floor, right, right again. |
| 18 March | David Brown (Manchester) "The Poor and Loafering Class of Whites are about on a Par with the Slaves": Slave-Poor White Relations in the Old South |
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| 6 May | Nichola Clayton (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid) The Problem of Emancipation: Ideology and the Fate of Land Redistribution during the Civil War and Reconstruction |
| 20 May | Roundtable discussion of Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) Please contact Adam Smith for further information: a.i.p.smith@ucl.ac.uk |