3:00pm Welcome & Introductions
3:15pm - 4:15pm Panel One
Hands On the Revolution: Documents, Objects, and Methods
Speakers — Scott Casper (American Antiquarian Society), Sara Martin (Massachusetts Historical Society), and Kyera Singleton (The Royall House & Slave Quarters)
Scott Casper is the president of the American Antiquarian Society and a historian of the nineteenth-century United States. Formerly, he was the dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Foundation Professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Sara Martin is a public historian and Editor in Chief of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society. She holds a PhD in History at the University of Melbourne.
Kyera Singleton is the Executive Director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters. She holds a PhD from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the Department of American Culture.
4:30pm - 5:30pm Panel Two
“The Decisive Day is Come”: Boston on the Brink of Siege
“Perhaps the decisive Day is come on which the fate of America depends.” -- Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, June 1775
Speakers — Benjamin Carp (CUNY Graduate Center), Brendan McConville (Boston University), Jacqueline Jones (UT Austin), and Cedric Woods (UMass Boston)
Benjamin Carp is a professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center who focuses particularly on urban politics, society, and culture in eighteenth-century America.
Jacqueline Jones is Professor Emerita at UT Austin, formerly holding positions as the Ellen C. Temple Chair in Women’s History and Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of five books about the colonial-era and Antebellum South.
Brendan McConville is a professor of History at Boston University who focuses on the intersection of politics and social developments in early America.
Cedric Woods is a member of Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and the director of Institute for New England Native American Studies at UMass Boston. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Connecticut.
5:30pm-6:30pm Reception