“Research, Revise, Reinterpret: Legacies of the History of Indigenous People”

Moderated by Mariruth Leftwich (Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation) and featuring Joshua Piker (Omohundro Institute), Fallon Burner (Colonial Williamsburg), Martin Saniga (Colonial Williamsburg), and Buck Woodard (American University)

Session 4

“Global Legacies of the Revolution”

Dogwood Room

Chaired by Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire) and featuring Anthony E. Guidone (George Mason University), Rachel Tamar Van (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona), Heesoo Cho (Washington University in St. Louis), Tyson Reeder (University of Virginia), with a comment provided by Dael A. Norwood (University of Delaware)

Session 5

Roundtable: “Historians on the Constitution: The Past Faces the Present”

Holly Room

Moderated by Rosemarie Zagarri (George Mason University) and featuring

Kevin Arlyck (Georgetown University), “On the federal courts”

Holly Brewer (University of Maryland), “On the Constitution and empire”

Andrew M. Schocket (Bowling Green State University), “On the census”

Sarah L. H. Gronningsater (University of Pennsylvania), “On slavery”

Session 6

“Revolutionary Environments: New Approaches to Military History”
Classroom 1056

Moderated and with a comment by Lauren Duval (University of Oklahoma) and featuring

Woody Holton (University of South Carolina), “Infected Founders”

David C. Hsiung (Juniata College), “Environmental Legacies: How the War of Independence Affected the Natural World in Predictable and Surprising Ways”

Session 7

Roundtable: “Governing the Revolution”

Classroom 2060

Moderated by John A. Ragosta (University of Virginia) and featuring Jane E. Calvert (University of Kentucky), Liz Covart (Omohundro Institute), Sarah Beth Gable (Brandeis University), Donald F. Johnson (North Dakota State University), and Terrance Evans Rucker (U.S. House of Representatives)

Tour of the Bray School and First Baptist Church digs

Part of the Slate Seminar Series

With Matthew Webster (Colonial Williamsburg) and Maureen Elgersman Lee (William & Mary, Bray School Lab)

Starting Location: Bray School (524 Prince George Street)

Ending Location: FBC Dig

“Legacies of the History of Indigenous People” Walking Tour

With Fallon Burner (Colonial Williamsburg), Martin Saniga (Colonial Williamsburg), and Sacha Grant (Colonial Williamsburg)

Starting Location: Courthouse at Colonial Williamsburg, Duke of Gloucester Street

Ending Location: TBD

Session 8

“Legacies of the American Founding in the Light of Revolutionary France: Politics, Culture, and Religion”

Dogwood Room

Chaired by Doina Pasca Harsanyi (Central Michigan University) and featuring

Matthew Rainbow Hale (Goucher College), “Constitutionalism’s Fallout: Popular Sovereignty, Representation, Absolutism, and Democracy in Franco-American Context”

Nicole Mahoney (New York Historical Society), “Dangerous (Social) Liaisons: The Creation of American Political Culture During the French Revolution”

Mitchell E. Oxford (William & Mary), “‘The American Revolution was not like the French’: Catholic Americans, the French Revolution, and the Tradition of Ordered Liberty in the United States”

Comment by François Furstenberg (Johns Hopkins University)

Session 9

“Temporalities of Anti-colonial Resistance in the Literary and Visual Archives of Early America”
Holly Room

Chaired and with a comment by Sophie Hess (University of Maryland) and featuring

Alexander Mazzaferro (University of California, Los Angeles), “Ancient Planters”

Savannah L. Esquivel (University of California, Riverside), “Captive Images”

Elizabeth L. Polcha (Drexel University), “Bloodroot Ties”

Session 10

“The Test of Time: How We Commemorate Historical Monuments”

Introduction by Cliff Fleet, President and CEO of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Moderated by Barbara Hamm Lee (Host of “Another View” on WHRO) and featuring Christy Coleman (Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation), Tommy Norment (State Senate of Virginia), and Ed Ayers (University of Richmond)

This session will be simulcast. A recording will be available as well.

This session will be followed by a reception in the Café upstairs from the Hennage Auditorium.

“Research, Revise, Reinterpret: Legacies of African American History”

Part of the Slate Seminar series

Moderated by Cathy Hellier (Colonial Williamsburg) and featuring Jack Gary (Colonial Williamsburg), Janice Canaday (Colonial Williamsburg), James Ingram (Colonial Williamsburg), and Julie Richter (National Institute of American History & Democracy, William & Mary)

“Frameworks for Understanding the Eighteenth Century”

Moderated by Peter Inker (Colonial Williamsburg) and featuring Kelly Brennan (Colonial Williamsburg), Cathy Hellier (Colonial Williamsburg), Julie Richter (NIAHD William & Mary), and Ayinde Martin (Colonial Williamsburg)

Session 14

Roundtable: “Move Over, Bacon, Now There’s Something Meatier! New Perspectives on ‘Bacon’s Rebellion’ and Its Legacies”
Dogwood Room

Moderated by James D. Rice (Tufts University) and featuring Matthew Kruer (University of Chicago), Bradley J. Dixon (University of Memphis), Allison Madar (The Webb Schools), and Hayley Negrin (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Session 15

Roundtable: “The Full Legacy: William & Mary Confronts Its Complex Past”

Holly Room

Moderated by Hannah Rosen (William & Mary) and featuring Jody Allen (William & Mary, The Lemon Project), Maureen Elgersman Lee (William & Mary, Bray School Lab), and Sara Bon-Harper (William & Mary, James Monroe’s Highland)

Session 16

Roundtable: “Benjamin Quarles’s The Negro in the American Revolution at 50”

Classroom 1056

With Rebecca Brannon (James Madison University), Adam McNeil (Rutgers University), Stephen Hall (Independent Scholar), and Derrick Spires (Cornell University)

Tour of the Bray School and First Baptist Church digs

Part of the Slate Seminar

With Jack Gary (Colonial Williamsburg) and Maureen Elgersman Lee (William & Mary, Bray School Lab)

Starting Location: Bray School

Ending Location: FBC Dig

“Voices of Their Hands” Walking Tour

Part of the Slate Seminar

With Ayinde Martin (Colonial Williamsburg)

Starting Location: Courthouse

Ending Location: TBD

“Research, Revise, Reinterpret: Legacies of LGBTQ+ History”

Featuring Kelly Brennan (Colonial Williamsburg), Ren Tolson (Colonial Williamsburg), Mic Felter (Columbia University), Megan Victor (Queens College), and Marvin-Alonzo Greer (Maryland-National Capital Parks & Planning Commission)

Session 17

Roundtable: “New Perspectives on the Political Legacies of the American Revolution”
Dogwood Room

Moderated and with a comment by William Allen (Michigan State University), and featuring Jonathan Den Hartog (Samford University), Craig Bruce Smith (US Army School of Advanced Military Studies), Lindsay M. Chervinsky (George Washington University), and Kelsa Pellettiere (University of Mississippi)

Session 18

Roundtable: “Tracing the Antebellum Lives of George Washington”

Holly Room

Featuring Cassandra A. Good (Marymount University), Janine Yorimoto Boldt (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Derek Kane O’Leary (University of South Carolina), Steven C. Bullock (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Jill Vaum Rothschild (Smithsonian American Art Museum), and John C. Winters (Westminster College)

Session 19

“Juneteenth’s Revolutionary Roots”

Introduction by Katherine A. Rowe, President of William & Mary

Featuring Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University)

Part of the Slate Seminar

This session will be simulcast. A recording will be available as well.

This session will be followed by a reception in the Café upstairs from the Hennage Auditorium.