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SUMMARY:American Revolution(s) in Word and Action: A Conversation with David Waldstreicher and Benjamin Carp
DESCRIPTION:On 10/24/2023 at 6:00 PM\, join us for a special discussion and Q & A with Dr. Waldstreicher (CUNY Graduate Center) and Dr. Benjamin Carp (Brooklyn College\, CUNY) about the intersections between their recent works. In-Person at Ryan Library 800\, Iona University\, and virtual via Zoom. ITPS Public Historian Dr. Michael Crowder will moderate the Q & A. Find more info about in-person registration and Zoom registration.
URL:http://theitps.org/event/american-revolutions-in-word-and-action-a-conversation-with-david-waldstericher-and-benjamin-carp/
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SUMMARY:Quaff & Quill: Book Talk with Eran Zelnik
DESCRIPTION:Join the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies for a talk with Professor Eran Zelnik (California State University\, Chico) about his new book\, American Laughter\, American Fury\, to explore how humor helped to define whiteness and masculinity in early North America. \nLight refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\n\nRyan Library\non the campus of Iona University\n715 North Ave.\nNew Rochelle\, NY 10804\nMap and Directions \nREGISTER HERE \nPresented in partnership with the Huguenot & New Rochelle Historical Association
URL:http://theitps.org/event/quaff-quill-book-talk-with-eran-zelnik/
LOCATION:Ryan Library\, 715 North Ave\, New Rochelle\, NY\, 10801
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SUMMARY:Book Talk by Dr. Jeanne Sheehan Zaino
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of Professor Jeanne Sheehan Zaino’s new book (Primus Press) about one of the most underappreciated figures in 20th Century South Asian history and politics\, Sikander Hyat-Khan. In honor of Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage month the History\, ITPS (Institute for Thomas Paine Studies)\, Office of the Provost and COD\, Pi Sigma Alpha (Political Science Honor Society)\, & Political Science/International Studies Departments are proud to sponsor this book talk – moderated by Prof. Josh Leon – which challenges us to reflect on what we know about the figures who participated in the struggle for independence and freedom in South Asia. \nAll students\, faculty\, and staff are invited to attend. \nDr. Sheehan Zaino is the author most recently of Sikander Hyat-Khan: Collected Papers of the Premier of United Punjab\, 1928-1942 (Primus) and professor in the Political Science Department. \nThis program will be presented in person in Henry Lecture Hall (105) in the LaPenta School of Business and virtually via Zoom here.
URL:http://theitps.org/event/book-talk-by-dr-jeanne-sheehan-zaino/
LOCATION:LaPenta School of Business\, Henry Lecture Hall\, Iona University & Virtual via Zoom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250919
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SUMMARY:Taking Stock and Setting Agendas: A Workshop on Data\, Digital Humanities\, and Early American Studies
DESCRIPTION:CALL FOR PAPERS\nOver thirty years of digitally informed scholarship have proven that the digital humanities have much to offer the field of early American studies. The Institute for Thomas Paine Studies at Iona University\, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania\, the Open U.S. History Lab at the University of Texas at Dallas\, and the journal\, Early American Studies\, invite proposals for a workshop exploring the intersection of the digital humanities (DH) and early American studies. The hybrid workshop will be held in person at the campus of Iona University in New Rochelle\, New York\, and virtually through Zoom from Friday\, September 19th\, 2025\, to Saturday\, September 20th\, 2025. \nParticipants in the workshop will precirculate papers of approximately 5\,000 words and be expected to read and comment on the work of three other participants. All papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of Early American Studies that will attempt to both historicize digital scholarship in early American studies and consider where the field should go from here. We welcome scholars from a host of disciplines including\, but not limited to: literature and literary studies\, history\, computer science\, anthropology\, religious studies\, art history\, library and information science\, area studies\, communication\, Native American and Indigenous studies\, geography\, media studies\, and all others who explore how the digital humanities offer new insights to the study of early America. \nProposals should fall into one of two categories: 1) “taking stock\,” or reflections\, broadly defined\, on different aspects of digitally informed scholarship in the field of early American studies\, and 2) “setting agendas” or considerations of where to go next. Accepted participants in both categories will be expected to submit papers of approximately 5\,000 words by August 1\, 2025. \nAuthors who contribute to the “Taking Stock” section will write surveys of how scholars have used a given digital method or tool over the last several decades. Examples of these methods or tools may include digital mapping\, text mining\, data visualization\, network analysis\, augmented/virtual reality\, digital curation\, podcasting\, transcription\, artificial intelligence\, and more. We envision these pieces as examinations of the use of these methods across the field of early American studies\, not as individual project profiles. \nAuthors who write for “Setting Agendas” will write argument-driven\, “thought” essays which use the digital humanities to offer a scholarly intervention in the field of early American Studies or pieces that demonstrate how deeper insights into early America change our understanding of the digital world. We envision these papers as more future-oriented works. \nTo submit a proposal\, please send a single document including a brief biographical statement and abstract of no more than 300 words in one document to bgw@utdallas.edu by June 1\, 2025. We will notify presenters of acceptance by June 15th\, 2025. The program committee includes the editors of Early American Studies\, Rosalind J. Beiler\, University of Central Florida\, and Judith Ridner\, Mississippi State University; along with Emma Hart and Peter Olsen-Harbich of the McNeil Center and the University of Pennsylvania; Mark Boonshoft\, Virginia Military Institute; Nora Slonimsky\, Iona University and the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies; and Ben Wright\, the University of Texas at Dallas and the Open U.S. History Lab. \nJoin us for a dynamic conversation on the evolving relationship between the digital humanities and Early American Studies. We look forward to your contributions! \nFor inquiries\, please contact Ben Wright at bgw@utdallas.edu. \nCLICK HERE FOR THE PROGRAM
URL:http://theitps.org/event/taking-stock-and-setting-agendas-a-workshop-on-data-digital-humanities-and-early-american-studies/
LOCATION:LaPenta School of Business\, Henry Lecture Hall\, Iona University & Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Quaff & Quill: Book Talk with Emily Conroy-Krutz
DESCRIPTION:Join the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies for a talk with Professor Emily Conroy-Krutz (Michigan State University) about her book Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations (Cornell\, 2024) to learn about the crucial place of religion in 19th-century American diplomacy. \nLight refreshments will be served. \n  \n\n\n\n\nThis is a hybrid event. Please join us in person or online via Zoom. \nIN PERSON REGISTRATION\nHenry Lecture Hall\, LaPenta School of Business\non the campus of Iona University\n715 North Ave.\nNew Rochelle\, NY 10804\nMap and Directions \nCLICK HERE TO JOIN THE ZOOM WEBINAR \nPresented in partnership with the Huguenot & New Rochelle Historical Association
URL:http://theitps.org/event/quaff-quill-book-talk-with-emily-conroy-krutz/
LOCATION:LaPenta School of Business\, Henry Lecture Hall\, Iona University & Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251029T180000
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SUMMARY:Quaff & Quill: Book Talk with Alec Zuercher Reichardt
DESCRIPTION:Join the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies for a talk with Professor Alec Zuercher Reichardt (University of Missouri) about his book Roads to Power\, Roads to Crisis: The War for the American Interior and the Infrastructural Routes of Revolution (2025) to learn about imperial competition to control communication networks during the Seven Years’ War and the American Revolution. \nLight refreshments will be served. \n  \n\n\n\n\nThis is a hybrid event. Please join us in person or online via Zoom. \nIN PERSON REGISTRATION\nRyan Library\non the campus of Iona University\n715 North Ave.\nNew Rochelle\, NY 10804\nMap and Directions \nCLICK HERE TO JOIN THE ZOOM WEBINAR \nPresented in partnership with the Huguenot & New Rochelle Historical Association
URL:http://theitps.org/event/quaff-quill-book-talk-with-alec-zuercher-reichardt/
LOCATION:Ryan Library and via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251106T170000
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SUMMARY:Lapidus Lecture in Paine Studies
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Annual Lapidus Lecture in Paine Studies featuring Joyce Chaplin\, Ph.D.\, the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History in the Department of History at Harvard University. Professor Chaplin will deliver a lecture titled “Tom Paine’s Sunshine Patriotism: Telling the Truth About the Weather” on Thursday\, November 6\, 2025 beginning at 5:00 p.m. in Henry Lecture Hall\, LaPenta School of Business\, on the campus of Iona University. Attendees may also watch the lecture via Zoom webinar. A reception will follow. \nAt Harvard University\, Professor Chaplin teaches the histories of science\, climate\, colonialism\, and environment. She is also an Affiliated Faculty Member in Harvard’s Department of the History of Science\, an affiliate of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design\, a Faculty Member of Harvard’s American Studies Program\, and is on the Faculty Steering Committee for the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. She serves on the Faculty Executive Board of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture and is a Trustee of the Massachusetts Historical Society\, the first historical society in the United States (1791). A former Fulbright Scholar to the United Kingdom\, she has taught at six different institutions on two continents\, an island\, and a peninsula\, and in a maritime studies program on the Atlantic Ocean. Back on dry land\, she was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019 and of the American Philosophical Society in 2020. \nAn award-winning author\, Professor Chaplin’s major works include An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South\, 1730-1815 (1993)\, Subject Matter: Technology\, the Body\, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier\, 1500-1676 (2001)\, The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius (2006)\, Round about the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit (2012)\, and (coauthored)\, The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Rereading the Principle of Population (2016). She is the editor of Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography: A Norton Critical Edition (2012) and An Essay on the Principle of Population: A Norton Critical Edition (2017)\, and is a coeditor of two essay collections\, Food in Time and Place (2014) and Genealogies of Genius (2016). Her work has been translated into French\, Japanese\, Korean\, Portuguese\, Estonian\, and\, forthcoming\, into Chinese. Her reviews and essays have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement\, the New York Times Book Review\, the London Review of Books\, the Wall Street Journal and Aeon. Her most recent book is The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution (2025)\, for which she received a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship. \nFor in person registration\, click here. \nTo register for the Zoom webinar\, click here.
URL:http://theitps.org/event/lapidus-lecture-in-paine-studies/
LOCATION:LaPenta School of Business\, Henry Lecture Hall\, Iona University & Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Sponsored Events
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SUMMARY:Quaff & Quill: Book Talk with Whitney Nell Stewart
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with historian Whitney Nell Stewart\, the Executive Director of Coastal Georgia Historical Society on St. Simons Island\, about her award-winning book This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations (2023). \nThis hybrid program will be hosted at the American Irish Historical Society\, 991 5th Avenue\, New York City\, and a livestream will be made available via Zoom. Light refreshments will be served. \nClick here to register to attend the event in person at the American Irish Historical Society. \nClick here to register to watch the livestream via Zoom webinar.
URL:http://theitps.org/event/quaff-quill-book-talk-with-whitney-nell-stewart/
LOCATION:American Irish Historical Society\, 991 5th Avenue\, New York City\, 991 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260111
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SUMMARY:Common Sense at 250: Legacies of Democracy from Paine to Today
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn-person Registration Links \nFRIDAY\, JANUARY 9\, 2026 at the University of Sussex — In-person registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/common-sense-at-250-legacies-of-democracy-from-paine-to-today-tickets-1760714497459?aff=oddtdtcreator.   \nSATURDAY\, JANUARY 10\, 2026 at Bull House\, Lewes — In-person registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/common-sense-at-250-legacies-of-democracy-from-paine-to-today-tickets-1769369715449?aff=oddtdtcreator.  (please note in-person registration is currently limited to conference presenters at this time\, virtual registration is open to all). \nSATURDAY\, JANUARY 10\, 2026 at the White Hart\, Lewes — In-person registration for the evening reception: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/common-sense-at-250-day-two-closing-reception-tickets-1838344390559?aff=oddtdtcreator.    \n*Please note that due to the historic nature of the buildings\, in-person registration capacity is limited for the sessions at Bull House on Saturday\, January 10\, and for the closing reception that evening at the Headstrong Room at the White Hart. Please  notify us if you are no longer able to attend so the spot may be opened to others on the waitlist.   \nConference Program\nFriday\, January 9\, 2026: The University of Sussex \nCoffee and tea: 9:00am- 9:30am  \nSponsored by the University of Sussex  \n  \nSession One: 9:30am – 11:00am   \n“Paine\, Commemoration\, and the Politics of Memory”  \nChair and Commentator: Scott Cleary   \nVirtual registration: https://iona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2xSvh8BqTUKQ63NdnerNUw  \n\nJosh Dight\, “Common Sense as Cultural Memory in the radical ‘paper pantheon’\, 1831-1849”  \n\n\nLyne Hervey-Passée\, “Ink\, Imagination\, and Algorithm: Returning to Common Sense” (virtual) \n\n\nAnthony Kalume\, Title forthcoming\n\n\nRobert Wolff\, “America at 250: Historical Originalism\, Fractured Imagination\, and Public Memory”\n\n  \nSession Two: 11:15am – 12:45pm  \n“Paine and the Lasting Language of Revolution”  \nChair and Commentator: Michael Jonik \nVirtual registration: https://iona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d55nn8qWQ7SVYzWNjDjiBQ   \n\nLucas Barcos Rodrigues\, “From Swine to Citizens: The Radical Afterlives of Paine in the British Swinish Multitude” \n\n\nSilvia Guselli\, “Liberty Applied and Contested: Twain\, Callahan\, and the Ideological Afterlife of Paine’s Common Sense” \n\n\nCatherine Packham\, “‘Words of sound’: Common Sense\, Mary Wollstonecraft\, and Legacies for Political Speech” \n\n\nEmily Sneff\, ““Es ist jetzt unter der Presse”: German Translation in Philadelphia in 1776” (virtual) \n\n\nLunch break: 12:45pm – 2:15pm (on your own)   \n  \nSession Three: 2:30pm to 4:00pm  \n“Common Sense in Conversation: Influence and Authorship in the Atlantic World”  \nChair and Commentator: Liz Covart   \nVirtual registration: https://iona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Xr31hmB8Rzm9iy35ESacXQ   \n\nJon Chandler\, “Continental Republicanism: Paine\, Print\, and the Politics of Place\, 1775–1777″\n\n\nTom Cutterham\, “Common Sense\, Civil Liberty\, and the Transatlantic Revolutionary Tradition” \n\n\nAdam Lebovitz\, “Thomas Paine’s Maritime Imagination”  \n\n\nKaren Racine\, “The Cause of All Mankind: Thomas Paine and Spanish American Independence” \n\n  \nSession Four: 4:15pm to 5:45pm  \nPlenary with Greg Claeys: “Thomas Paine and the Three Revolutions that Weren’t”  \nChair and Commentator: Iain McDaniel  \nVirtual registration: https://iona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_49kf0Om2RgK_iuUknw3a-g   \n  \nReception: 5:45pm – 7:00pm  \nSponsored by the University of Sussex  \n  \nSaturday\, January 10th\, 2026: Bull House\, Lewes \nCoffee and tea: 8:30am- 9:00am  \nSponsored by the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies at Iona University \n  \nSession Five: 9:00am – 10:30am  \n“A Template for Democracy: Common Sense and Civic Life”   \nChair and Commentator: Joseph Adelman  \n\nLeanne O’Boyle\, Common Sense and Public History \n\n\nNicole Mahoney\, Common Sense and Women’s and Gender History \n\n\nJeanne Sheehan Zaino\, Common Sense and Contemporary Politics  \n\nPlease note that this session includes a live recording for a special episode of the Ben Franklin’s world podcast that will be publicly available and there is no virtual option.  \n  \nSession Six: 10:45am – 12:15pm   \n“Common Sense and Evolving Democratic Institutions”   \nChair and Commentator: Emma Hart   \nVirtual registration: https://iona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wWiilXotRq20KVbLmS5IqQ   \n\nSamuel Burry\, “Paine and Intergenerational Rights: From Common Sense to Agrarian Justice” \n\n\nDaniel Gomes de Carvalho\, “From Common Sense to Constitutional Balance: Thomas Paine and the Bicameral Turn after the French Revolution” (virtual)  \n\n\nColin Manton\, “Reform\, Radicalism\, and Reaction: Bright Politics\, 1832” \n\n\nDavid Williams\, “Democracy and the Two Times of Common Sense”  \n\n  \nLunch break: 12:15pm – 1:45pm (on your own)  \n  \nTour of the Town of Lewes: 1:45pm-2:15pm (please meet at the entrance to Bull House)  \n  \nSession Seven: 2:30pm – 4:00pm   \n“Revolutionary Legacies in Lewes”  \nChair and Commentator: Leanne O’Boyle   \nVirtual registration: https://iona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rnRk1eZSTR6Vh_qw7bxCFQ   \n\nDeborah Gage \nRebecca Stott \nPaul Myles \nBarbara Keal\n\n  \nSession Eight: 4:15pm to 5:45pm  \nKeynote with Danielle Allen\, “Thomas Paine: The Junius Years” \nChair and Commentator: Nora Slonimsky  \nVirtual registration: https://iona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_81-mpDJ1SjS9_vXD3rK3Aw   \n  \nReception: 6:00pm – 7:30pm  \nThe Headstrong Room at the White Hart  \nSponsored by the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies at Iona University  \n  \nRead the Call for Papers here. \n  \nThis conference has been generously supported by the Lapidus Initiative for Early American Inquiry at the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies\, the University of Sussex\, and Thomas Paine: Legacy. The contributions of these organizations play a vital role in advancing our understanding of Thomas Paine and the early Atlantic world in which he lived and worked.
URL:http://theitps.org/event/common-sense-at-250-legacies-of-democracy-from-paine-to-today/
LOCATION:Lewes and Sussex\, England and virtually via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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SUMMARY:Quaff & Quill: Book Talk with Zara Anishanslin
DESCRIPTION:The war that we now call the American Revolution was not only fought in the colonies with muskets and bayonets. On both sides of the Atlantic\, artists armed with paint\, canvas\, and wax played an integral role in forging revolutionary ideals. Zara Anishanslin charts the intertwined lives of three such figures who dared to defy the British monarchy: Robert Edge Pine\, Prince Demah\, and Patience Wright. From London to Boston\, from Jamaica to Paris\, from Bath to Philadelphia\, these largely forgotten patriots boldly risked their reputations and their lives to declare independence. \nJoin the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies for a talk with Professor Zara Anishanslin (University of Delaware) about her new book The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution (Harvard\, 2025) to learn about an extraordinary cohort of artists whose experiences testify to both the promise and the limits of liberty in the founding era. \nLight refreshments will be served. \n  \n\n\n\n\nThis is a hybrid event. Please join us in person or online via Zoom. \nCLICK HERE FOR IN PERSON REGISTRATION\nThomas Paine Cottage Museum\n20 Sicard Avenue\nNew Rochelle\, NY 10804\nDriving Directions \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE ZOOM WEBINAR \nPresented in partnership with the Huguenot & New Rochelle Historical Association
URL:http://theitps.org/event/quaff-quill-book-talk-with-zara-anishanslin/
LOCATION:Thomas Paine Cottage Museum\, 20 Sicard Drive\, New Rochelle\, NY\, 10801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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SUMMARY:Quaff & Quill: Book Talk with Jacqueline Beatty
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Women’s History Month program with Professor Jacqueline Beatty (York College of Pennsylvania) about her new book In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America (2023) to learn about women’s agency in early America and how their dependent status – rather than their independent status – enabled them to achieve financial and legal protections. \nIn Dependence explores the ways in which women in Boston\, Philadelphia\, and Charleston manipulated their legal\, social\, and economic positions of dependence and turned these constraints into vehicles of female empowerment. Although the law and social custom established restrictions on women’s rights and behavior\, early American women were not completely powerless in their dependent state. By using legislative petitions\, divorce cases\, marriage settlements\, equity cases\, probate records\, manumission deeds\, freedom suits\, almshouse records\, and charitable institutional files\, In Dependence demonstrates that women defined their relationship with the patriarchal state—the colonial\, revolutionary\, and early national governments and organizations helmed by elite men—in terms of their multifaceted dependencies. \nLight refreshments will be served. \n  \nThis is a hybrid event. Please join us in person or online via Zoom. \nCLICK HERE FOR IN PERSON REGISTRATION\nThomas Paine Cottage Museum\n20 Sicard Avenue\nNew Rochelle\, NY 10804\nDriving Directions \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE ZOOM WEBINAR \nPresented in partnership with the Huguenot & New Rochelle Historical Association
URL:http://theitps.org/event/quaff-quill-book-talk-with-jacqueline-beatty/
LOCATION:Thomas Paine Cottage Museum\, 20 Sicard Drive\, New Rochelle\, NY\, 10801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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SUMMARY:Quaff & Quill: Book Talk with Jordan B. Smith
DESCRIPTION:Join the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies for a talk with Professor Jordan B. Smith (Widener University) about his new book\, The Invention of Rum: Creating the Quintessential Atlantic Commodity (2025) to learn the complex history of rum\, from its production to its consumption\, and from its origins in the Caribbean to its impact on the Atlantic world. \nIt was strong. It was cheap. It was ubiquitous. Fermented and distilled from the refuse of sugar production\, rum emerged in the seventeenth-century Caribbean as a new commodity. To conjure something desirable from waste\, the makers\, movers\, and drinkers of rum arrived at its essential qualities through cross-cultural experimentation and exchange. Those profiting most from the sale of rum also relied on plantation slavery\, devoured natural resources\, and overlooked the physiological effects of overconsumption in their pursuit of profit. Focusing on the lived experiences of British colonists\, Indigenous people\, and enslaved Africans\, The Invention of Rum shows how people engaged in making and consuming this commodity created a new means of profit that transformed the Atlantic world. \nLight refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\n\nPresented in partnership with the Huguenot & New Rochelle Historical Association. \nFor in person registration\, click HERE. \nTo register for the Zoom webinar\, click HERE. \n  \nThis program is produced with support from the Lapidus Initiative for Early American Inquiry and the “Common Sense and the Constitution: Civic Engagement in the Spirit of 1776” initiative from the American History and Civics Education – Seminars (AHC-Seminars) Program at the Department of Education.
URL:http://theitps.org/event/2526/
LOCATION:LaPenta School of Business\, Henry Lecture Hall\, Iona University & Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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SUMMARY:Quaff & Quill: Book Talk with Emily Sneff
DESCRIPTION:Publishing for the 250th anniversary of the United States\, When the Declaration of Independence Was News focuses on the nation’s founding document at the moment of its creation in 1776\, before anyone knew what the legacy of the Declaration would be or if the United States would win the war against Great Britain. It explores how the Declaration was communicated to people in the new nation and around the Atlantic world and reveals the stories of the many people involved in the process of declaring independence\, from printers to soldiers to diplomats to translators. \n\n\nDr. Emily Sneff is an early American historian and leading expert on the Declaration of Independence. She earned her Ph.D. in History from William & Mary. She is a consulting curator for exhibitions marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration at the Museum of the American Revolution and Historic Trappe.\n\n\n\nLight refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\n\nPresented in partnership with the Huguenot & New Rochelle Historical Association. \nFor in person registration\, click HERE. \nTo register for the Zoom webinar\, click HERE. \nThis program is produced with support from the “Common Sense and the Constitution: Civic Engagement in the Spirit of 1776” initiative from the American History and Civics Education – Seminars (AHC-Seminars) Program at the Department of Education.
URL:http://theitps.org/event/quaff-quill-book-talk-with-emily-sneff/
LOCATION:LaPenta School of Business\, Henry Lecture Hall\, Iona University & Virtual via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Quaff & Quill: Book Talk with Jack Kelly
DESCRIPTION:Join the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies for a talk with historian Jack Kelly about his new book\, Tom Paine’s War: The Words That Rallied a Nation and the Founder for Our Time (2026) to explore two of Paine’s essays–Common Sense and The American Crisis–that turned a rebellion over taxes into a true revolution. Kelly’s tribute to 250th anniversary of American independence\, the book is a riveting reflection on the power of words and belief. \nLight refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\n\nPresented in partnership with the Huguenot & New Rochelle Historical Association. \nFor in person registration\, click HERE.
URL:http://theitps.org/event/2534/
LOCATION:Ryan Library and via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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