Past Workshops

2024-2025

Featured
Stephanie McCurry / history @ Columbia / Money and Debt in the South during Reconstruction
May 14
Stephanie McCurry / history @ Columbia / Money and Debt in the South during Reconstruction
Christoph Nitschke / business history @ Stuttgart / Boom Diplomacy: Reconstructing the United States for Global Markets, 1857-1880
Apr 30
Christoph Nitschke / business history @ Stuttgart / Boom Diplomacy: Reconstructing the United States for Global Markets, 1857-1880
Allison Powers Useche / history @ Wisconsin-Madison / Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law
Apr 2
Allison Powers Useche / history @ Wisconsin-Madison / Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law
Brendan Greeley / history @ Princeton / The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World’s Most Powerful Money
Mar 12
Brendan Greeley / history @ Princeton / The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World’s Most Powerful Money
Emily Zackin / political science @ John Hopkins and Chloe Thurston / political science @ Northwestern / The Political Development of American Debt Relief
Feb 12
Emily Zackin / political science @ John Hopkins and Chloe Thurston / political science @ Northwestern / The Political Development of American Debt Relief
Dillon Banis / history @ Columbia / The Roots of Modern Sugar: Sugar Beets, Globalization, and Geopolitics in Prussian Central Europe
Dec 4
Dillon Banis / history @ Columbia / The Roots of Modern Sugar: Sugar Beets, Globalization, and Geopolitics in Prussian Central Europe
Mary Shi / sociology @ Michigan / Settlers’ Republic: Land, Infrastructure, and the Emergence of New Technologies of Government
Nov 13
Mary Shi / sociology @ Michigan / Settlers’ Republic: Land, Infrastructure, and the Emergence of New Technologies of Government
Caitlin Tully / law @ NYU / The Silent Power: Federal Incorporation as Constitutional Finance
Oct 23
Caitlin Tully / law @ NYU / The Silent Power: Federal Incorporation as Constitutional Finance
Samantha Payne / history @ College of Charleston / The Last Atlantic Revolution: Reconstruction and the Struggle for Democracy in the Americas
Oct 16
Samantha Payne / history @ College of Charleston / The Last Atlantic Revolution: Reconstruction and the Struggle for Democracy in the Americas
Seth Rockman / history @ Brown / Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery
Sep 25
Seth Rockman / history @ Brown / Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery

2023-2024

Featured
Ann Daly / history @ Mississippi State / Minting America: Labor and the Political Economy of Making Money in the Early United States
May 8
Ann Daly / history @ Mississippi State / Minting America: Labor and the Political Economy of Making Money in the Early United States
Max Edling, history@ King's College & Daniel Peart, history @ Queen Mary / The Contours of North American Federalism: An Analysis of Patterns of US Congressional and State Legislation, 1789-1809
Apr 10
Max Edling, history@ King's College & Daniel Peart, history @ Queen Mary / The Contours of North American Federalism: An Analysis of Patterns of US Congressional and State Legislation, 1789-1809
Sofia Valeonti, econ @ AUP & Ariel Ron, history @ SMU / Central Monetary Services without Centralization: Stephen Colwell and the Political Economy of Monetary Architecture in the US Civil War Era
Mar 13
Sofia Valeonti, econ @ AUP & Ariel Ron, history @ SMU / Central Monetary Services without Centralization: Stephen Colwell and the Political Economy of Monetary Architecture in the US Civil War Era
Emilie Connolly / history @ Brandeis / A Fiscal Empire Divided: War and the Reconstruction of Fiduciary Colonialism
Feb 21
Emilie Connolly / history @ Brandeis / A Fiscal Empire Divided: War and the Reconstruction of Fiduciary Colonialism
Anton Jäger / politics & international relations @ Oxford / The Political Theory of American Populism
Feb 1
Anton Jäger / politics & international relations @ Oxford / The Political Theory of American Populism
Samantha Iyer / history @ Fordham / Agrarian Superpower: Empires and Economies in Egypt, India, and the United States, 1870s-1970s
Dec 5
Samantha Iyer / history @ Fordham / Agrarian Superpower: Empires and Economies in Egypt, India, and the United States, 1870s-1970s
Mary Bridges / history @ SAIS / Branching Out: Banking and the Globalization of US Power
Nov 8
Mary Bridges / history @ SAIS / Branching Out: Banking and the Globalization of US Power
Mark Peterson / history @ Yale / The Domesday Machine in Action: The US Constitution and the Creation of a Developmental State
Oct 12
Mark Peterson / history @ Yale / The Domesday Machine in Action: The US Constitution and the Creation of a Developmental State
Sebastian Mazzuca and Adam Sheingate  / poli sci @ Hopkins / Pathways to State Capacity: The United States in Comparative Perspective
Sep 20
Sebastian Mazzuca and Adam Sheingate  / poli sci @ Hopkins / Pathways to State Capacity: The United States in Comparative Perspective

2022-2023

2021-2022

2020-2021

Featured
Yuen Yuen Ang (Michigan): “China's Gilded Age”
Jun 11
Yuen Yuen Ang (Michigan): “China's Gilded Age”
Joe Francis (Independent): “King Cotton the the Munificent”
May 12
Joe Francis (Independent): “King Cotton the the Munificent”