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Dr. Eve Kornfeld
Culture and Economy of Revolutionary America
What were our colonial and Revolutionary War ancestors living
conditions and challenges? For those with early American ancestors,
there are many blanks which we need to have filled in to give our stories
substance. Dr. Kornfeld will be presenting a program on our colonial
ancestors, their life and times, and providing an insight to these issues.
Dr. Eve Kornfeld (Harvard, 1983) is a cultural and intellectual historian
with training in American and European history since 1600, as well as
literature, art, music, psychology, and physics. Professor Kornfeld's
scholarly interests include early American history, gender in American
culture, the history of childhood, post-structuralist theory, intellectuals and
society in Europe and America , the cultural history of law, and the
construction of identities. Her recent publications include "Encountering
'the Other': American Intellectuals and Indians in the 1790s," William and
Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 52:2 (1995), Margaret Fuller (Bedford Series in
History and Culture, St. Martin's Press, 1997), and Creating an American
Culture, 1775-1815 (Bedford/St. Martin's Press, 2001).
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