"America's 1776: Independence and its Enduring Legacies," Papers

**All times listed in ET**

1:00PM-2:45PM, Panel 1: The Origins of Independence Reconsidered

• Andrew Shankman, Rutgers University, “The Stamp Act Conversation: Transatlantic Empire-Men and the Resolution of an Imperial Conflict”
• Karen Barzilay, Massachusetts Historical Society, “‘An Assembly as never before came together’: A Second Look at the First Continental Congress”
• Eva Landsberg, Library Company of Philadelphia , “The Sugar Act Revisited: Merchants, Planters, and the Politics of Imperial Prioritization”

3:00-4:45PM, Panel 2: Ideological Structures of Independence

• Helena Yoo-Roth, The McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, “Breaking the Imperial Clock: Information, Delay, and the Temporal Politics of Independence”
• Sarah Pearsall, Johns Hopkins, “Pursuing Happiness”
• Evan Haefeli, Texas A&M University, “The Declaration of Independence as Conspiracy Theory: Anti-Popery and the Origins of American Nationalism”

9:00AM-11:00AM, Panel 3: The Declaration as Text, Declaration as Icon

• Emily Sneff, Independent Historian and Consulting Curator, “Time, Truth, and the ‘African Trade’: The Hidden History of Thomas Jefferson’s Fair Copies of the Declaration of Independence”
• Hannah Spahn, Freie Universität Berlin, “The African American Declaration of Independence and the Emergence of Modern Universalism”
• Christina Carrick, Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University, “Edits and Editions: Publishing the Drafts of the Declaration of Independence”
• Nicholas Mauer, United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri, “The Declaration of Independence and the Possibilities for Constitutional Faith”

11:15-12:00PM, Panel 4: Power of Representation

• Chloe Chapin, Harvard University, “Plain Ordinary Men: the Founding Fathers and the Un-Fashioning of America”
• Arinn Amer, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Birth of a Nation: Tar and Feathers, 1775-1776”
   

1:30-3:15: Panel 5, War and Society

• Andrea Miles, Middle Tennessee State University, “The Birth of North Carolina’s Black Citizen Soldiers”
• Sveinn Johannesson, University of Iceland, “‘Scientia in Bello Pax’: Rethinking Military Power in the American Revolution”
• Blake McGready, The Graduate Center, CUNY, "Petite Guerre upon the Land: A Revolutionary Myth from an Environmental Perspective"

3:30-5:15PM, Panel 6, Independence Across Cultures

• Sandra Rebok, Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California San Diego, “Friends or foes? The Spanish Borderlands and the American Revolution"
• Richard Tomczak, Stony Brook University, “Canadian Women and the Politics of Insurgency in the Saint Lawrence, 1775-1776
• Taylor Gibson, Deyohahá:ge: Indigenous Knowledge Centre, Richard W. Hill, and Talena Atfield, University of Waterloo, “Displaced by Independence: Hodihnohso:ni’ Migration to the Grand River and the Unfulfilled Promises of the American Revolution”
• Kristofer Ray, College of the Holy Cross, “Interpreting the American Revolution from Native Country: The View from Trans-Appalacia, 1763-1783”

9:00-10:15AM, Panel 7: Meeting Independence, Public History and the Declaration

• Anna Danziger Halperin and Tessa Bangs, The New York Historical, “Bringing Revolutionary Women to Public Audiences”
• Elizabeth Allan and Jesse Gordon Simons, Morven Museum & Garden, “Morven: A House on the Brink of Revolution"
• David Gary, American Philosophical Society, "Where Science and Liberty Met: The Persistence and Ambiguity of the Reading of the Declaration of Independence on the APS Observatory" 

10:30-12:30PM, Panel 8: The Problems of Peace

• Mary Bilder, Boston College Law School, “George Washington at Valley Forge: The Constitutional Convention as Revolutionary Remembrance”
• Travis Perusich, University of Arkansas, “A Legacy of Freedom: How Black Revolutionary War Veterans Shaped Abolitionism”
• James Fichter, University of Hong Kong, “American Caribbeans”