November 7, 2008

 

 

 

About the
Program in Early American Economy & Society:

The Library Company’s Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) is dedicated to promoting scholarship in, and public understanding of, the origins and development of the early American economy, broadly conceived, encompassing business, finance, commerce, manufacturing, labor, political economy, households and gender, and technology. PEAES programs include research fellowships for both junior and senior scholars, a monograph publication series with Johns Hopkins University Press, publication of conference proceedings as special issues of scholarly journals, seminars throughout the academic year, a regional survey of manuscript and printed resources in economic history, and the acquisition, cataloging, and conservation of thousands of printed materials to augment the Library Company’s existing rich collections. With its public programs such as the annual conference PEAES wishes to extend these resources to as wide an audience as possible, and to engender a broad discussion of the Program’s themes. For more information please visit www.librarycompany.org/Economics.

Above: [Friedenstahl in St. Croix]. Plate in Christian Georg Andreas Oldendorp’s Geschichte der Mission der Evangelischen Brüder auf den caraibischen Inseln S. Thomas, S. Croix, und S. Jan (Barby: Bey Christian Friedrich Laux, und in Leipzig in Commission bey Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1777), n.p.

Above Left: Lithograph of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Philada. Founded in 1794 by the Revd. Richard Allen, Bishop of the first African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. Rebuilt in 1805. / Drawn on stone by W. L. Breton (Philadelphia: Kennedy & Lucas, 1829).

 

Seventh Annual Conference of the
Program in Early American Economy and Society

For more information contact Cathy Matson, PEAES Director at cmatson@udel.edu

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