10:30am Breakfast/Coffee Available
11am: Welcome: Doug Winiarski, University of Richmond
Presentation:
Sharon Leon, Director of Pubic Projects, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, “The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media: Work from the first twenty years and signals for the future.”
12-1pm: Lunch
*Workshop Session 1a: Religion and Early America
Chair: Alan Taylor, University of Virginia
Presentations:
Spencer Wells, “’Here is the Reformation that is so Much Wanting’: The Society of Free Quakers and Renovation of American Quakerism”
Rivi Feinsilber, “Interpreting the ‘Jew Doctor’ of Seventeenth-Century Maryland: Jacob Lumbrozo’s Court Cases.”
*Workshop Session 1b: Economy and Early America
Chair: Rebecca Brannon, James Madison University
Presentations:
Richard Chew, “Teaching a New Dog Some Old Tricks: Credit and Commercial Networks in the Early National Backcountry”
Scott Miller, “A Merchant’s Republic: Independence, Depression, and the Development of American Capitalism, 1760-1807”
2:15-2:30: Break
2:30-4pm: Workshop Session 2 Relationships in Early America
*Workshop Session 2:
Chair: Brett Rushforth, College of William & Mary
Presentations:
Holly White, “’Forget what age and law have entitled me:’ Guardians, Wards, and Chronological Age in the Early Republic”
Alexi Garrett, “‘I have yet much to say about the Negroes’: Catharine Flood McCall’s Slave Enteprises in Early Republican Virginia”
Lindsay Chervinsky, “The Governor of Virginia and the President’s Cabinet: How Thomas Jefferson and Edmund Randolph Helped Shape the First Cabinet in George Washington’s Administration”
5pm: Happy Hour
