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Calendar of Events
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| ONMAP 2007/08 GUEST LECTURERS |
October 5, 2007
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| Daniel K. Richter |
“The Peopling and Re-peopling of North America: The Native American Perspective”
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Dr. Richter, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, is the author of The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization (1992) and Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (2003), the latter a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002. He is also coeditor with William A. Pencak of Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods: Colonists, Indians, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania (2004). His talk focuses on the impact of migration on America’s first peoples. |
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December 11, 2007
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| Alison Games |
| “America’s Global Origins: Another Perspective on Jamestown” |
| Dr. Alison Games is the Professor of History at Georgetown University and author of Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World (1999), winner of the Theodore Saloutos Prize in Immigration and Ethnic History, and co-author of The Atlantic World: A History 1400-1888 (2007). Her lecture examines how Jamestown’s leaders and inhabitants brought experiences from around the world to the shores of the Chesapeake. Drawing on contemporary accounts and images, Games explains how the history of one tiny colony in North America was connected to and affected by places as far away as South America, Spain, India, and the Ottoman empire. |
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| Roderick A. McDonald |
| “Forced Migration: The African Slave Trade” |
Dr. Roderick A. McDonald is Professor of History at Rider University. He is the author of several books on African American and Afro-Caribbean history and the history of slavery, including Between Slavery and Freedom: Special Magistrate John Anderson’s Journal of St. Vincent during the Apprenticeship (2001), West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy (1996), and The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Sugar Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana (1993). He is currently the editor of the Journal of the Early Republic, published for the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) and the leading journal in early national history. |
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