Past Conferences of the Program in Early American Economy & Society
2019: Making a Republic Imperial
2016: A Re-Union of Interests
2015: Port Cities: 1500-1800
2014: Economic History’s Many Muses
2013: Ligaments: Everyday Connections of Colonial Economies
2012: Foreign Confidence: International Investment In North America, 1700-1860
2011: Ireland, America, and the Worlds of Mathew Carey
2011: Motives of Honor, Pleasure and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1765
2010: Representations of Economy: Lithography in America from 1820-1860
2009: Scraping By: Wage, Labor, Slavery, and Survival in the Early Republic
2008: Markets & Morality: Intersections of Economy, Ethics, and Religion in Early North America
2007: The Panic of 1837: Getting By and Going Under in a Decade of Crisis
2005: Connection, Contingency, and Class in the Early Republic’s Economy
2004: Women’s Economies in Early America
2003: The Atlantic Economy in the Era of 18th-Century Revolutions
2002: Risk & Reputation: Insecurity in the Early American Economy
2001: The Past and Future of Early American Economic History: Needs and Opportunities