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Join us April 9–11, 2026

Upcoming Events



Black Resistance and Black Powder: Gunpowder and Medical Resistance in the Black Atlantic

Brown Bag Session
Adia Eshe Cullors, New York University, Department of History
Mar 4, 2026 at - | Location: McNeil Center, Room 105/Zoom

Papers are circulated in advance. For copies, please contact the McNeil Center office.  Adia Cullors is a PhD candidate in the History Department at New York University. She broadly studies medicine, race,…



Money and the Making of the American Revolution as Myth

Seminar
Andrew David Edwards, University of St Andrews, Scotland
Mar 5, 2026 at - | Location: McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk/Zoom

Andrew David Edwards is the Lecturer in Early American History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He received his PhD and MA with distinction from Princeton University in 2018. Before arriving at St Andrews…



Stephen Girard’s Mended Stockings: Labor, Maintenance, and Material Lives in Philadelphia, 1790-1831

Brown Bag Session
Emily Whitted, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of History and Library Company of Philadelphia
Mar 18, 2026 at - | Location: McNeil Center, Room 105/Zoom

Papers are circulated in advance. For copies, please contact the McNeil Center office.  Emily Whitted is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and she is currently the…

About the McNeil Center

Established as the Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies in 1978, and renamed in honor of its benefactor Robert L. McNeil, Jr., in 1998, the McNeil Center facilitates scholarly inquiry into the histories and cultures of North America in the Atlantic world before 1850, with a particular but by no means exclusive emphasis on the mid-Atlantic region.

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