Scholar Lecture with Historian David Waldstreicher, PhD

Date: Thursday, April 18, 2024
Time: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Where: Cold Spring Harbor Library, 95 Harbor Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY and via Zoom
Cost: Free

Recording Available HereScholar Lecture with David Waldstreicher

David Waldstreicher is a historian of early and nineteenth-century America with particular interests in political history, cultural history, slavery and antislavery, and print culture. He is the author of The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journey American Slavery and Independence (2023); Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification (2009); Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery and the American Revolution (2004); and In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 (1997).

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