NDAH

New Directions in American History

The University of Chicago | Department of History

Upcoming Events

The Free Sea: An Antislavery Idea of Human Rights

Amy Dru Stanley

Associate Professor, History
University of Chicago

John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224)

The Work of "Perception and Imagination": The Creation of Value at MOMA in the Early 1970s

Rachel Horowitz

PhD Student, History
University of Chicago

John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224)

Fugitivity, Abolition, and Racial Capitalism in the Antebellum Black Pacific

Guy Emerson Mount

Assistant Professor, History
Wake Forest University

John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224)

Contracts and Credit: State-Making, Finance, and Resistance in Moskitia During the Scramble for Central America, 1824 –1842

Damian Clavel

SNF Ambizione Fellow, History
Universität Zürich

John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224)

About the Workshop

New Directions in American History (NDAH) is currently accepting submissions for the 2024-2025 academic year. We welcome works-in-progress from graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty in disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. We are especially interested in submissions that situate the United States in its Atlantic, hemispheric, and/or transnational context. If you are interested in presenting at some point during the upcoming year, please email your coordinators. This year, the workshop will meet at 4:30 PM on alternating Thursdays unless otherwise posted. Accepted presenters should plan on sharing their paper at least two weeks before their workshop date for pre-circulation. We look forward to your submissions and to what should be an exciting year!

NDAH focuses on themes and topics in North American history, serving as the primary home for the University of Chicago’s Americanists. We also welcome participation from outside students and faculty and are inclusive of projects which bring interdisciplinary methods and theoretical frameworks to bear on diverse historical questions and problems, while remaining mindful of their legal and sociocultural resonances in the present-day. This workshop is intended to be a constructive and supportive space for attendees to critically engage with a variety of projects on pre- and post-1900 U.S. & Atlantic History and its diversity of cultures, receive feedback on works-in-progress, and build collegiality across different disciplines and subfields.

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