Past Fireside Chats
Elizabeth Powel and the Founding of the Republic
Samantha Snyder, Reference Librarian, Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington
Kayla Anthony, Executive Director, Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks
July 30, 2020
America’s First Celebrity Preacher and How He Perfected the Protestant Art of Talking About Yourself
Seth Perry, Assistant Professor of Religion, Princeton University
July 23, 2020
How Parson Weems Remade George Washington-and Made the Nineteenth Century
Steven C. Bullock, Professor of History, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
July 16, 2020
Writing Across the Color Line (Book Talk)
Dr. Lucas A. Dietrich, Adjunct Professor of Humanities at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 9, 2020
Lawyers in Early American Cities: Loyalists as Clients
Dr. Sally Hadden, Associate Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies, Western Michigan University
July 2, 2020
Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of Revolution (Book Talk)
Dr. Tyson Reeder, Assistant Professor of History and Assistant Editor of the Papers of James Madison, University of Virginia
June 25, 2020
Juneteenth Seminar: Unfreedom: The Limits of the Fourteenth Amendment
Dr. Walter D. Greason, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Counseling and Leadership at Monmouth University
June 18, 2020
Nonviolent Protest and the American Revolution
Dr. Michael Goode, Associate Professor of History and Political Science, Utah Valley University
June 11, 2020
Lincoln and Viruses: Past and Present Collide
David J. Kent, Abraham Lincoln Historian, Lincoln Group of DC
June 4, 2020
Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement
Allison K. Lange, Assistant Professor of History, Wentworth Institute of Technology
May 28, 2020
The Long Reach of the Great Depression of the 1780s
Scott C. Miller, International Center for Finance postdoctoral fellow in Economic and Business History, Yale School of Management
May 21, 2020
An Archive of Taste (Book Talk)
Lauren F. Klein, Associate Professor of English and Quantitative Theory & Methods, Emory University
May 14, 2020
Joseph Lancaster and the ‘Delusion’ of Public Schools, 1818-1838
Adam Laats, Professor of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership, Binghamton University, State University of New York
May 7, 2020
Protestant Images of Other Religions in the Eighteenth Century
Mark Valeri, Reverend Priscilla Wood Neaves Distinguished Professor of Religion and Politics, Washington University in St. Louis
Apr 30, 2020
Mediterranean Quarantine: Perspectives of a Person of Privilege
Etta M. Madden, Assistant Department Head and Professor of English, Missouri State University
Apr 23, 2020
African Voices from the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Aaron Fogleman, Presidential Research Professor of History, Northern Illinois University
Apr 16, 2020