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The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Council of
Independent Colleges
Announce a Seminar for Historians
"Political History of the Early Republic:
New Challenges, Old Strengths"
June 22-27, 2003, Columbia University
Nomination Deadline: Friday, March 7, 2003
Led by Joyce Appleby, Professor of History Emerita,
University of California, Los Angeles
The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and the Gilder Lehrman Institute
of American History are pleased to announce a week-long seminar for college
teachers of history and related fields on the recent historiography and
interpretation of the history of the early years of the American Republic.
The seminar will be held on the campus of Columbia University in New York
City and is open only to faculty members in history and related disciplines
at CIC member institutions. For those accepted to participate in the seminar,
all expenses of participation except travel to and from New York will
be covered by the Gilder Lehrman Institute.
The seminar will be led by Joyce Appleby, Professor of History Emerita,
University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Appleby is the author
of—among other works—Inheriting the Revolution: The First
Generation of Americans, which has, since its publication in 2000,
stimulated a wave of reinterpretation of American history through the
first five presidential administrations. The seminar should be valuable
for all teachers of American history, as well as others.
The nation-building years that stretch from the American Revolution through
the first five presidential administrations have always attracted historians—not
surprisingly, for in them we witness the tumultuous years of the sovereign
states, the start of constitutional government, the eruption of partisan
politics, and the institutionalization of a two-party system. Political
scientists and historians writing about these momentous developments have
usually followed the American historiography sequence: patriotic boosterism,
the Beardian prism of economic interest, consensual democracy, and the
Republican revision of the 1790s. Now a group of scholars has introduced
the perspective of political culture. Adding rhetoric, public rites, commemorations,
and the influence of the new print medium to the staples of elections,
party systems, and presidential relations with Congress and the courts,
they have greatly enriched our appreciation of the play of participation
and power in American politics.
Professor Appleby has been a student of early American history since
1959 when she first entered graduate school. Broadly trained in the histories
of England, France, and the American colonies during the early modern
centuries, she has carried her research into the 19th century with her
Inheriting the Revolution. Curious about the origins of the liberal
paradigm, which has contained American politics for two centuries, she
began her investigations with the French use of American political thought
in the opening months of the French Revolution and moved backward to 17th-century
England to capture the impact of observations of market relations upon
the conceptualization of human nature. This has been her abiding question:
How did actual relations among people in the English-speaking world influence
the theories that observers created to explain modern society? Her publications
include Thomas Jefferson, 2003; The Political Writings of
Thomas Jefferson, 1999; “The Power of History” (American
Historical Association Presidential Address), 1998; Recollections
of the Early Republic: Selected Autobiographies, 1997; Telling
the Truth About History, 1994; Liberalism and Republicanism in
the Historical Imagination, 1992; “Without Resolution: The
Jeffersonian Tension in American Nationalism” (Harmsworth Inaugural
Lecture), 1991; Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican
Vision of the 1790s, 1984: and Economic Thought and Ideology
in Seventeenth-Century England, 1978.
Click here to view the Gilder
Lehrman History Seminar Announcement. (This is
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2002 Gilder
Lehrman History Seminar
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