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Sunday, June 10 (Sessions: 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66)
9:00 a.m. Book exhibits open
8:30–10:00  

* Session 58 * Imagining La Florida
Chesapeake B, Level 3

Chair: Thomas Hallock, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg

Competing Images of
La Florida: Audience and Experience in the Portrayal of Place
E. Thomson Shields, Jr., East Carolina University

Anglo-Spanish Rivalries and the Effects of
La Florida on the Exploration and Settlement of Virginia and Carolina, 1600–1670
 Timothy P. Grady, University of South Carolina, Upstate

Franklin’s Gulf

Michael Drexler, Bucknell University

Comment: The Audience

* Session 59 * Moderation in Late–Eighteenth– and Early– Nineteenth–Century America

Chesapeake C, Level 3

Chair: Elaine Crane, Fordham University

Augustan Moderation: The Whig Loyalism of the Two William Smiths

Robert Calhoon, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Moderation in Practice: William White and the Formation of the American Episcopal Church
William Pencak, Pennsylvania State University

Moderation Portrayed: Charles Willson Peale’s Portrait of John Philip de Haas of Lancaster, Pennsylvania
David J. Steinberg, Independent Scholar

The Moderation of Mutual Hatred: The Anti-Ecclesiastical Origins of James Madison’s National Political Science
Sam Haselby, The New School

Comment: Historians of Moderation: Richard Hofstadter and His Successors
David S. Brown, Elizabethtown College

Comment: Moderation and Early American Religious Culture
Chris Beneke, Bentley College

* Session 60 * War, Empire, and Religious Revival

York Room, Level 2

Chair: Jane T. Merritt, Old Dominion University

Breaking Down Barriers: Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia in Revival and War
Marie Basile, University of California, Davis

“Do Not Make Medicine But Pray”: Nativist Religious and Cultural Revivalism Among the Eastern Woodland Indian Peoples, 1755–1765
 John Howard Smith, Texas A&M University, Commerce

Revivalism, Racial War, and the Remaking of Moravian Spirituality
Katherine Carte Engel, Texas A&M University

Comment: Peter Silver, Princeton University
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* Session 61 * Teaching Early American Studies Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Tidewater B, Level 3

Chair: Lisa M. Gordis, Barnard College

The True and Interesting Narrative of Team-Teaching an Interdisciplinary Honors Course on Captivity Narratives,
which we did for three semesters, and all that we learned therefrom, written by ourselves
Lisa Logan, University of Central Florida, and Rosalind Beiler, University of Central Florida

Natural Adventures: Explorations in Interdisciplinary Teaching
 Brooke Hunter, Rider University

Emphasizing Disciplinary Differences: Celebrating the Clash of Perspectives in Interdisciplinary Teaching
Douglas R. Egerton, LeMoyne College, and Ann Ryan, LeMoyne College

Comment: The Audience
10:15–11:45  

* Session 62 * Power on Native Grounds
Chesapeake B, Level 3

Chair: James L. Axtell, College of William and Mary

La Florida’s Light in the Darkness of the Indian Slave Trade
Joseph Hall, Bates College

“These are peoples who call each other Red Men”
 George Milne, University of Oklahoma

Texts and Contexts for Sanctified Suffering: Catherine Tekakwitha: Her Life as Captivity Narrative
Kathleen Hankinson, State University of New York, Stony Brook

Comment: Allan Greer, University of Toronto
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* Session 63 * The Theory and Practice of Atlantic Cosmopolitanisms
Chesapeake C, Level 3

Chair: Mark L. Thompson, Louisiana State University

They Never Were Stay-At-Homes: The Mid-Atlantic Indian Scene around A.D. 1600
Helen C. Rountree, Old Dominion University

Atlantic Cosmopolitanism and the Project of Colonial North Carolina
Bradford J. Wood, Eastern Kentucky University

Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Philanthropy and the Concept of Cosmopolitanism
Amanda B. Moniz, University of Michigan

The Fate of Atlantic Cosmopolitanism
Christopher P. Iannini, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Comment: The Audience

* Session 64 * Tropical Tangents: The West Indies and the Wider World
James Room, Level 2

Chair: Thomas W. Krise, University of Central Florida

Intra-Caribbean Networks and the Rise of the English Leeward Islands, 1624–1713
Christian J. Koot, Colgate University

The Haitian Revolution, the Reign of Terror, and the Circumatlantic Roots of Romanticism
Larry F. Kutchen, Trinity University

Cod and Slaves: The Commercial Connections between New England and the British and French West Indies
Christopher P. Magra, California State University, Northridge

Comment: Sean X. Goudie, Vanderbilt University
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* Session 65 * Transatlantic Correspondences
Tidewater A, Level 3

Chair: Eve Tavor Bannet, University of Oklahoma

Towards a Transatlantic Edwards: The Scottish Correspondence and Edwards’s Experiential Theology

Douglas Harrison, Florida Gulf Coast University

Attending the “Publick Ball”: On the Publication of Private Letters, 1771–1812
Mark Alan Mattes, University of Iowa

Reciprocal Advantages: Transatlantic Address in Jefferson’s Notes and Crévecoeur’s Letters
Ezra Tawil, Columbia University

Corresponding Identities and Identifying Correspondences in Early America
Chiara Cillerai, St. John’s University

Comment: The Audience

* Session 66 * Time and Space
Tidewater B, Level 3

Chair: Robert Blair St. George, University of Pennsylvania

Commerce, Time, and Debt: Reading the Newspaper ca. 1787
Matthew Garrett, Stanford University

Temperance, Temperature, and Time in Thomas Cole’s Course of Empire
Guy Jordan, University of Maryland, College Park

“Real Views taken on the Spot”: Landscape Painting and Mercantile Networks in Baltimore, ca. 1800
 Anna Marley, University of Delaware

Comment: Robert Blair St. George
12:00 p.m. * Conference Adjourns
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