Seminar Leader:
Adam Arenson, Associate Professor of History and Director of Urban Studies, Manhattan College
2014-2016
September 12, 2014
Ann M. Little, Colorado State University
“Writing a Biography of an Almost Undocumented Person: Ester Wheelwright (1696-1800)”
October 31, 2014
David Hall, Harvard University
“Re-imagining ‘Community’ in Early America as a Foil to Our Times”
November 21, 2014
Matthew Fisher, UCLA
“Medieval English Manuscripts in the Hands of Early Modern Collectors”
January 30, 2015
Christopher Kyle, Maxwell Syracuse University
“News Travels Fast? Learning about Information Networks from the Death of Queen Elizabeth”
February 20, 2015
Susan Green, Huntington Library
“Editing History at the Huntington Library Press”
March 18, 2016
Johnny Faragher, Yale University
“The Problem of Homicide in Los Angeles County, 1840-1874”
2013-2014
September 13, 2013
Julie Orlemanski, University of Chicago
“Example and Exception: Explaining the Extraordinary Margery Kempe”
October 4, 2013
Jon T. Coleman, University of Notre Dame
“Bear Facts and Damn Liars: Adventures with Shifty Characters”
November 22, 2013
Susan Straight, UC Riverside
“Making Story from History: Novels and Character”
February 14, 2014
James Simpson, Harvard University
“Cultural Etymology”
March 14, 2014
Alison Games, Georgetown University
“Navigating Massacre and Conspiracy in the Story of Amboyna”
May 2, 2014
Frederick E. Hoxie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Will People Read About What They Don’t Already Know?”
2012-2013
September 28, 2012
“Telling China’s Story, One Life at a Time”
James Carter, St. Joseph’s University
Angilee Shah, Journalist
Jeff Wasserstrom, University of California, Irvine
October 19, 2012
Steve Hindle, Huntington Library
“Reducing the Scale of Historical Observation: Micro-history, Alltagsgeschichte, Local History”
December 14, 2012
Jenny Price, Independent Scholar
“Stop Saving the Planet, Already!: Rachel Carson, History, and the Future of Environmentalism”
February 1, 2013
Joshua Wolf Shenk, Huntington Library
“Understanding Inner Lives, from Lincoln to John Lennon”
March 8, 2013
Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis
“‘The Internal Enemy’: Narrating Slavery in Post-Revolutionary Virginia”
April 19, 2013
Ruth Livesey, University of London
“Writing the Stagecoach Nation: Thinking through Locality, Communication and the Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Britain”
2011-2012
October 28, 2011
Adam Arenson, University of Texas, El Paso
“This is Not How My Book Starts: Looking Back at Writing and Farming”
November 18, 2011
“Writing and New Media”
Douglas Dechow, Chapman University
Anna Leahy, Chapman University
Elizabeth Losh, University of California, San Diego
Jana Remy, Chapman University and University of California, Irvine
December 9, 2011
Carla Zecher, Newberry Library
“Writing about Early Modern Writing About Music”
January 20, 2012
Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania
“What is a Book? And how do we write about it?”
February 17, 2012
David Adams, Cleveland State University
“Writing the Personal and Historical in the Southwest Borderlands”
March 23, 2012
Susan Juster, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“Writing about Violence”
April 27, 2012
Workshop: Creatively Writing a Huntington Object
May 4, 2012
Tom Mullaney, Stanford University
“Chinese Typewriters at the Huntington”
2010-2011
October 5, 2010
David Blight, Yale University
“James Baldwin and the Civil War Centenniel, Fifty Years Later”
November 1, 2010
Daniel Richter, University of Pennsylvania
“Colonial Stories and a 21st Century Readership”
December 6, 2010
Tara Nummedal, Brown University
“Narrating the Impossible: A Tale of a Sixteenth-Century Alchemist”
February 10, 2011
Martha Sandweiss, Princeton University
“Writing around Absence”
March 22, 2011
Marcia Norton, George Washington University
“Writing the Longue Duree”
April 21, 2011
Miriam Pawel, Journalist
“The Journalist as Historian”
2009-2010
December 10, 2009
Donna Shuele, University of California, Irvine
“At the Boundaries of Property and Culture: Californio Families and American Rule of Law”
April 28, 2010
Thomas Slaughter, Rochester University
“When Did the American Revolution Begin?”
2008-2009
November 19, 2009
Jenny Price, Independent Scholar
Graduate Student Writing Workshop
2007-2008
January 16, 2008
Samuel T. Zipp, Brown University
“History as Literary Art: Two Experiments”
April 29, 2008
Lynn Hunt, UCLA
“Writing for the In-Between Public”
2006-2007
February 26, 2007
Martha Hodes, New York University
“The Historian’s Voice and the Challenge of Speculation”
March 27, 2007
Robert A. Rosenstone, California Institute of Technology
“Innovative Historial Writing”
