Seminar Leader:
Carole Shammas, University of Southern California
2026-2027
Saturday, September 26, 2026
“Popular Cosmography in a Land of Wonders: Visions of Sixteenth-Century North America”
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Steven’s Classroom
10:30 am – 12:00 noon
Register by September 19 to attend and receive the pre-circulated reading.
Saturday, October 24, 2026
Discussion of Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c. 1000-1680 (Oxford University Press, 2026) & the Experience of Writing a Volume in the Oxford History of the United States
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Smith Board Room
10:30 am – 12:00 noon (PT)
Register by October 17 to attend and receive the pre-circulated readings.
Thursday, February 4, 2027
“Peace and Independence: The Turbulent History of the U.S.’ Founding Treaty”
University of Southern California
Room TBA
4:30 – 6:00 pm (PT)
Register by January 28 to attend and receive the pre-circulated readings.
Saturday, March 6, 2027
“‘Settled amongst them by Permission & Desire:’ Indigenous Discourses of Aboriginal Title in the eighteenth-century St. Lawrence River Valley”
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Stevens Classroom
10:30 am – 12:00 noon (PT)
Register by February 27 to attend and receive the pre-circulated readings.
Thursday, April 8, 2027
“Militias and the Making of the Second Amendment”
University of Southern California
Doheny Memorial Library, DML 110C
4:30 – 6:00 pm (PT)
Register by April 1 to attend and receive the pre-circulated readings.
Image Credit: H. Wilcox, Winthrop Eager Acrostic “Portrait” (detail), 1811, watercolor and ink on paper. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Jonathan and Karin Fielding. © Courtesy of The Huntington Art Museum, San Marino, California.
