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).