McNeil Center for Early American Studies

McNeil Center for Early American Studies The McNeil Center facilitates scholarly inquiry into the histories and cultures of North America in the Atlantic world before 1850.

Follow us on Twitter The Center offers pre- and post-doctoral fellowships to encourage use of the Philadelphia area’s magnificent manuscript, rare book, and museum collections, conducts a seminar series to promote intellectual community among local and visiting faculty and graduate students, and organizes occasional national conferences to foster interdisciplinary research.

11/24/2025

The issue is now openly accessible on Project MUSE!
Link: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55938
McNeil Center for Early American Studies University of Pennsylvania Press

11/19/2025

If you are in the Delaware Valley area, an interview with MCEAS Director Emma Hart will air today on WHYY (91 FM) at noon !

The biennial Daniel K. Richter Summer Writing Retreat will convene for the first time in June 2026 at the McNeil Center....
11/18/2025

The biennial Daniel K. Richter Summer Writing Retreat will convene for the first time in June 2026 at the McNeil Center. The purpose of the retreat is to broaden the range of early Americanists who can benefit from the Center’s research amenities while making important contributions to the field. Each participant will be awarded $4,000, office space at the Center, and access to the University of Pennsylvania’s digital library holdings for one year. Applications open until Jan 15–apply here: https://www.mceas.org/awards/daniel-k-richter-summer-writing-retreat

Join us at the Library of Congress on November 21st for a symposium reconsidering the principal scholarly work of the Am...
10/21/2025

Join us at the Library of Congress on November 21st for a symposium reconsidering the principal scholarly work of the American Revolution's 1926 sesquicentennial commemoration, J. Franklin Jameson's "The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement." Registration and more details here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1797806179679

09/25/2025

This week Emma Hart, Director of the McNeil Center, participated in Penn's "60-Second Lectures" series for Constitution Day, and concisely presented the history of compromises in the drafting of the US Constitution.

The McNeil Center, Penn Press, and the editors of Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal welcome Tracy L. ...
09/16/2025

The McNeil Center, Penn Press, and the editors of Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal welcome Tracy L. Barnett, who is joining our staff as the Digital and Social Media Editor of EAS Miscellany. Learn more about Tracy's scholarship and her approach to academic communications in the interview with Tracy now published on Miscellany: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/earlyamericanstudies/2025/08/07/interview-with-tracy-barnett/

Join us tomorrow virtually for a conversation between Whitney Martinko and Mark Humphries on the topic of generative AI ...
08/12/2025

Join us tomorrow virtually for a conversation between Whitney Martinko and Mark Humphries on the topic of generative AI and the teaching of early American studies. Q&A to follow.

Congratulations to our 2023-2025 postdoc Phillip Emanuel, who was recently awarded the Penn Postdoctoral Association's "...
08/08/2025

Congratulations to our 2023-2025 postdoc Phillip Emanuel, who was recently awarded the Penn Postdoctoral Association's "Postdoctoral Mentoring Award!" This award recognizes a Penn postdoc who has gone above and beyond in mentoring peers, students, or others in the academic environment. We thank Phillip for his exceptional mentorship of our dissertation fellows over the last two years and wish him the best as he moves on to The Huntington Library.

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