Events

UPCOMING

The Spirit of America Research Symposium

 Learn How Scholars are Using the Weiner Collection 

 

Presentations by the 2024 Fellows

  • Women and Science in 17th- and 18th-Century Ireland | Katharine Beene, University of Connecticut
  • Trading with the Enemy: The English, the Dutch, and Commerce in Time of War | Dr. Elizabeth Hines, University of Chicago
  • Apocalypse, Puritans, and Politics in the Empire of Oliver Cromwell | Courtney MacPhee, Stanford University

Tuesday, October 29, 4 pm, 5th Floor, Wimberly Library, FAU

Scholars from across the U.S. are visiting to conduct research in the Marvin and Sybil Weiner Spirit of America Collection! The Weiner Collection of rare books reflects the personal libraries of such founders as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. In this symposium, the Visiting Fellows will present their research and discuss how it relies on examining the treasures of the Spirit of America Collection. This event is made possible by the generous underwriting of Dr. Howard and Judith Weiner in conjunction with the support of the FAU Libraries and the Department of History. This event is free and open to the public.

4pm Thursday, October 28, 2021

 

PAST

2024

A Constitutional Culture:New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the 17th Century | Dr. Adrian Weimer, Providence College
Sponsored by the Society of Colonial Wars Fellowship in Memory of Kenneth R. LaVoy Jr.

 

2022

Captive Exchanges: Prisoners of War in the 18th Century | Dr. Adrian Finucane, Florida Atlantic
Sponsored by the Society of Colonial Wars Fellowship in Memory of Kenneth R. LaVoy Jr.

Colonial Wars as the 'Wrath of God': The Origins of American Antislavery | Dr. Nicholas Wood, Spring Hill College
Sponsored by the Society of Colonial Wars Fellowship in Memory of Kenneth R. LaVoy Jr.

Weiner Spirit of America Symposium 
Sponsored by Dr. Howard and Judith Weiner, the FAU Libraries, and the Associates of the Spirit of America Collection

  •  “A man of so much money and power, justice might not be done”: Gender Violence, Power,
     and Print in the Revolutionary Atlantic     | Joan Jockel, College of William and Mary
  •  Ingredients for Revolution: The Political Economy of Molasses, Sugar, and Rum | Eva Landsberg, Yale University
  • Networking Nature: John Bartram and the Market Economy of 18th-Century Science | Shannan Mason, University of Missouri
  • 'What must Strangers think of such a Law?': Scalp Bounties in Colonial America | Dr. Mairin Odle, University of Alabama
     Sponsored by the Society of Colonial Wars Fellowship in Memory of Kenneth R. LaVoy Jr.

 

2021

Weiner Spirit of America Symposium 
Sponsored by Dr. Howard and Judith Weiner, the FAU Libraries, and the Associates of the Spirit of America Collection

  • 18th-Century Mourning Customs: Life, Death, and the American Revolution | Dusty Dye,  University of Maryland
  • Bodies of Empire: The Political, Religious, and Corporeal Makings of Subjecthood in  Seventeenth-Century New England | Makiki Reuvers, University of Pennsylvania
  • Food Anxieties and the Development of Colonial Hybrid Identities in the 18th-Century British  Atlantic | Elizabeth Schmidt, UC Santa Barbara
  • The People Behind the First Colony: How English Society Established Jamestown, Virginia | Dr. Misha Ewen, Historic Royal Palaces, UK
    Sponsored by the Society of Colonial Wars Fellowship in Memory of Kenneth R. LaVoy Jr.

 

2019

Weiner Spirit of America Symposium
Sponsored by Dr. Howard and Judith Weiner, the FAU Libraries, and the Associates of the Spirit of America Collection

  • Beast of Many Names: Cattle, Conflict, and the Transformation of Native Florida, 1585–1858 |  Jason Herbert, University of Minnesota
  • The Spyglass and the Mirror: Competitive Intelligence and Trans-imperial State Formation in    the War of Spanish Succession | Brandon Munda, College of William and Mary
  • Abolition and the Making of Scientific Racism in the Anglophone Atlantic | Sean Morey Smith,  Rice University

 

2018

Weiner Spirit of America Symposium
Sponsored by Dr. Howard and Judith Weiner, the FAU Libraries, and the Associates of the Spirit of America Collection

  • Political Philosophy of “Republicanism” from the English Civil War to the American Revolution |    Deborah Charnoff, CUNY Graduate Center
  • Consent and Gender Roles During the Enlightenment | Hannah Jorgenson, University of Minnesota
  • “American” Identity in the Nation’s First Periodicals | Jordan Wingate, UCLA