September 30, 2026: Steve Pincus, "The South Asian Origins of American Independence"
October 21, 2026: Sarah Pearlman Shapiro, “'Much stressed with…pain': Privacy, Surveillance, and the Making of Marginalized Healing Spaces in Revolutionary New England"
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October 15, 2025: Mark L. Thompson, "Solving the American Paradox: Contested Conceptions of Slavery, 1763-1776"
November 05, 2025: Eran Zelnik, "A Nation of Minutemen: How The American Militia Became a Metaphor for the People"
February 25, 2026: Emilee N.K. Robbins, "Memoir of Elizabeth Munro Fisher: A Loyalist Mother"
May 06, 2026: John William Nelson, “A Renegades’ History of the Revolutionary Frontier: Contesting Race and Nation in the early American West"
September 25, 2024: Justin Clark, "The Post-Revolutionary Credit Crisis and the Triumph of Market Time"
October 30, 2024: Susan Branson, "Sheep Too Good To Eat: Merino Influenza and the Promotion of Economic Development in the Early Republic"
December 4, 2024: Chloe Chapin, "'The Simple Dress of an American Citizen': Fashioning the American Revolution"
February 12, 2025: C. David Carlson, “Transatlantic Finance Networks and American Development in the Early Republic"
March 12, 2025: Ben Remillard, "Men at War and the Ties that Bind: Northeastern Revolutionary War Patriots of Color and their Concerns Along the Homefront"
May 7, 2025: Ross Nedervelt, "British Security and American Sovereignty in Revolutionary Border-sea Spaces, 1783-1815"
2023-2024 David Center for the American Revolution Seminars
September 13, 2023: Rebecca Brannon, "'The Vale of Years into which I am very fast descending': Ideas and Realities of Aging in Revolutionary Times"
October 11, 2023: Grant Stanton, "The Tory and the Patriot: Ezekiel Russell, Isaiah Thomas, and the Problem of Antislavery in the American Revolution"
November 8, 2023: Evan Turiano, "Somerset, the State, and Reciprocal Rights in American Abolitionism"
December 6, 2023: Blake McGready, "'All Nature's Face, is dug, pitch'd up & tore': The Loyalist Environmental Imagination from Occupied New York City"
January 24, 2024: Jennifer Egloff, "Revelation and the American Revolution: Understanding and Justifying War with Britain through Personal Prophecy and Biblical Exegesis"
March 6, 2024: Dillon Streifeneder, "From Jamaica with Reform: Sir Henry Moore’s “Reformation” and the Coming of the Revolution in New York, 1765-1775"
April 10, 2024: Kieran O'Keefe, "Suffering for the Crown: The Hudson Valley Loyalists, Violence, and Forced Migration in Revolutionary North America"
2023-2024 David Center for the American Revolution Seminars
October 5, 2022: James Mackay (University of Edinburgh), "'Refuge in the English Army': Black Refugees and the Yorktown Campaign."
December 7, 2022: Christian Koot (Towson University), "Fashioning an Ornament to the Colony: Imperial Belonging and Crisis in the Governor’s Palace at New Bern."
January 25, 2023: Wayne Bodle (University of Pennsylvania), "To Husband a Better Liberty" The Constructive Widowhood of Jane Martin Bartram, c. 1790-1815."
April 12, 2023: Emily Sneff (William and Mary) "In the Eye of Enmity”: Censoring and Celebrating the Declaration of Independence in London"
May 24, 2023: Kevin Murphy (Stony Brook University) "Dueling Oaths in Colonial America, 1765-1773"
2021-2022 David Center for the American Revolution Seminars
October 27, 2021: Bryan Rindfleisch (Marquette University), “Metawney of Coweta, Muscogee Women, & Historical Erasure in the Eighteenth-Century Past and Our Present."
November 16, 2021: Matthew Mason (Brigham Young University), “Slavery and the Politics of Honor in the American Revolutionary Era."
December 15, 2021: Sarah Naramore (Northwest Missouri State University), “Finding American Medicine on the Battlefield: Doctors in Uniform and in the Classroom."
February 23, 2022: James M. Banner, Jr. (Independent Scholar), “The Election of 1801 and Marbury v. Madison."
March 16, 2022: Wolfgang Hochbruck (Albert-Ludwigs-University), "A Colonial Gentleman's Pastimes on the Brink of a Revolution."
April 13, 2022: Annette Joseph-Gabriel (Michigan), "The Pursuit of Happiness: Enslaved Children's Notions of Freedom in the Age of Revolution."
May 25, 2022: Samuel Wells (Southern Utah University & Dixie State University), "Dr. Miner's Heresy: Freedom of Conscience, Polygamy, and the American Revolution."
June 8, 2022: Grant Kleiser (Columbia University), "'To Have America a Free Port:' Revolutionary Responses to British Caribbean Free Ports, 1766-1784."