Upcoming Appearances

2026

* June 5, 2026-January 17, 2027, Curator, “The Second American Revolution,” based on The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, 250th Exhibition at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield

* December 13, ”Abolition Democracy: The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic,” Annual William Lloyd Garrison Lecture, Newburyport, Massachusetts

* October 10, Keynote, “The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic,” 2026 BrANCH Annual Conference, University of Warwick, UK

* August 4, ”The History of American Republicanism and the First and Second Emancipations,” The Chautauqua Institution

* September 30, ”The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic,” OAH Distinguished Lecture, Abraham Lincoln Watchorn Association, University of Redlands

* July 19, Chair, “Black Feminist Community Activism in the Nineteenth Century,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Philadelphia

* July 17, ”Past Liberal Crises and Lessons: Overcoming Hurdles to Reconstruction,” Conference on Liberalism for the 21st Century, Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism, Washington DC

* June 30, “Pennington and Transatlantic Abolition,” Book Launch, University of Heidelberg, Germany

* June 25, Keynote Panel, Conrad E. Wright Research Conference on Reconstruction, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston

* June 19, ”A New History of Abolition and Emancipation,” Juneteenth Lecture, National Abolition Hall of Fame, Peterboro, New York

* June 16, Roundtable on “Heroes and Villains: Reconciling the Legacies of our Country’s Historical Leaders,” Stubblefield Institute for Civil Political Communications at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia,

* April 17, Roundtable on “Government and Corruption in the First Gilded Age,” Annual Conference on American History, Organization of American Historians, Philadelphia

* March 24, “The Abolitionist Fight for Black Citizenship,” Conference on The Cause of America: Recovering Our Nation’s Revolutionary Promise, Brennan Center for Justice and NYU School of Law

* March 12, “The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic,” Globalizing the American Revolution, History Speaker Series, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti

* March 10, Panel discussion, “In Search of Phillis Wheatley Peters: A Short Historical Documentary,” American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA

* February 26, Mueller Fellow, “The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic,” Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

* February 18, “Reconstruction and Mass Incarceration,” Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, Philadelphia (Via Zoom)

* February 17, “Stop the Trains, Shake the Nation: The Railroad Strike of 1877,” Hidden Histories of Rebellion in the United States, The People’s Forum, New York (Via Zoom) 

* February 11, Book Talk, “The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic,” New South Bookstore, Montgomery, Alabama

* February 3, “The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic,” Speakers Circle, The Groton School

* January 8-11, Chair, “New Histories of Atlantic Slavery and Emancipation,” Chair & Commentator, “Reconstruction Freedom Seekers: Race, Gender and Emancipation Following Slavery’s Collapse in the United States,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago

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