"Reconceiving the American Revolution" Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Salon

Janet Polasky, Presidential Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire and author of Revolutions Without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World (Yale, 2015), and Alan Taylor, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair of History at the University of Virginia and author of American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 (Norton, 2016) will discuss how their reconceptions of the Revolution might provide a vantage from which to interpret more recent historical events.

The Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Salon final event of the year focuses on the theme of Reconceiving the American Revolution.  Join our guests, Janet Polasky, Presidential Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire and author of Revolutions Without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World (Yale, 2015), and Alan Taylor, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair of History at the University of Virginia and author of American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 (Norton, 2016),  who will be joining us via Zoom on Tuesday, May 18th from 2-4 CST to discuss how their reconceptions of the Revolution might provide a vantage from which to interpret more recent historical events. They will be happy to field questions pertaining to their pre-circulated book chapters (contact Anne Seul at anneseul@wustl.edu) and their presentations will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Alexandre Dubé, Lorri Glover, Mark Valeri, and Abram Van Engen. Please save the date, auspiciously placed between grading and graduation. Please register below for the ZOOM link.

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