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Seminar Leader:
\nAdam Arenson<\/strong>, Associate Professor of History and Director of Urban Studies, Manhattan College<\/p>\n

2014-2016<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

September 12, 2014
\n<\/strong>Ann M. Little, Colorado State University
\n“Writing a Biography of an Almost Undocumented Person: Ester Wheelwright (1696-1800)”<\/p>\n

October 31, 2014
\n<\/strong>David Hall, Harvard University
\n“Re-imagining ‘Community’ in Early America as a Foil to Our Times”<\/p>\n

November 21, 2014
\n<\/strong>Matthew Fisher, UCLA
\n“Medieval English Manuscripts in the Hands of Early Modern Collectors”<\/p>\n

January 30, 2015
\n<\/strong>Christopher Kyle, Maxwell Syracuse University
\n“News Travels Fast? Learning about Information Networks from the Death of Queen Elizabeth”<\/p>\n

February 20, 2015
\n<\/strong>Susan Green, Huntington Library
\n“Editing History at the Huntington Library Press”<\/p>\n

March 18, 2016
\n<\/strong>Johnny Faragher, Yale University
\n“The Problem of Homicide in Los Angeles County, 1840-1874”<\/p>\n

2013-2014<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

September 13, 2013
\n<\/strong>Julie Orlemanski, University of Chicago
\n“Example and Exception: Explaining the Extraordinary Margery Kempe”<\/p>\n

October 4, 2013
\n<\/strong>Jon T. Coleman, University of Notre Dame
\n“Bear Facts and Damn Liars: Adventures with Shifty Characters”<\/p>\n

November 22, 2013
\n<\/strong>Susan Straight, UC Riverside
\n“Making Story from History: Novels and Character”<\/p>\n

February 14, 2014
\n<\/strong>James Simpson, Harvard University
\n“Cultural Etymology”<\/p>\n

March 14, 2014
\n<\/strong>Alison Games, Georgetown University
\n“Navigating Massacre and Conspiracy in the Story of Amboyna”<\/p>\n

May 2, 2014
\n<\/strong>Frederick E. Hoxie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
\n“Will People Read About What They Don’t Already Know?”<\/p>\n

2012-2013<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

September 28, 2012
\n<\/strong>“Telling China’s Story, One Life at a Time”
\nJames Carter, St. Joseph’s University
\nAngilee Shah, Journalist
\nJeff Wasserstrom, University of California, Irvine<\/p>\n

October 19, 2012
\n<\/strong>Steve Hindle, Huntington Library
\n“Reducing the Scale of Historical Observation: Micro-history, Alltagsgeschichte, Local History”<\/p>\n

December 14, 2012
\n<\/strong>Jenny Price, Independent Scholar
\n“Stop Saving the Planet, Already!: Rachel Carson, History, and the Future of Environmentalism”<\/p>\n

February 1, 2013
\n<\/strong>Joshua Wolf Shenk, Huntington Library
\n“Understanding Inner Lives, from Lincoln to John Lennon”<\/p>\n

March 8, 2013
\n<\/strong>Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis
\n“‘The Internal Enemy’: Narrating Slavery in Post-Revolutionary Virginia”<\/p>\n

April 19, 2013
\n<\/strong>Ruth Livesey, University of London
\n“Writing the Stagecoach Nation: Thinking through Locality, Communication and the Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Britain”<\/p>\n

2011-2012<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

October 28, 2011
\n<\/strong>Adam Arenson, University of Texas, El Paso
\n“This is Not How My Book Starts: Looking Back at Writing and Farming”<\/p>\n

November 18, 2011
\n<\/strong>“Writing and New Media”
\nDouglas Dechow, Chapman University
\nAnna Leahy, Chapman University
\nElizabeth Losh, University of California, San Diego
\nJana Remy, Chapman University and University of California, Irvine<\/p>\n

December 9, 2011
\n<\/strong>Carla Zecher, Newberry Library
\n“Writing about Early Modern Writing About Music”<\/p>\n

January 20, 2012
\n<\/strong>Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania
\n“What is a Book? And how do we write about it?”<\/p>\n

February 17, 2012
\n<\/strong>David Adams, Cleveland State University
\n“Writing the Personal and Historical in the Southwest Borderlands”<\/p>\n

March 23, 2012
\n<\/strong>Susan Juster, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
\n“Writing about Violence”<\/p>\n

April 27, 2012
\n<\/strong>Workshop: Creatively Writing a Huntington Object<\/p>\n

May 4, 2012
\n<\/strong>Tom Mullaney, Stanford University
\n“Chinese Typewriters at the Huntington”<\/p>\n

2010-2011<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

October 5, 2010
\n<\/strong>David Blight, Yale University
\n“James Baldwin and the Civil War Centenniel, Fifty Years Later”<\/p>\n

November 1, 2010
\n<\/strong>Daniel Richter, University of Pennsylvania
\n“Colonial Stories and a 21st Century Readership”<\/p>\n

December 6, 2010
\n<\/strong>Tara Nummedal, Brown University
\n“Narrating the Impossible: A Tale of a Sixteenth-Century Alchemist”<\/p>\n

February 10, 2011
\n<\/strong>Martha Sandweiss, Princeton University
\n“Writing around Absence”<\/p>\n

March 22, 2011
\n<\/strong>Marcia Norton, George Washington University
\n“Writing the Longue Duree”<\/p>\n

April 21, 2011
\n<\/strong>Miriam Pawel, Journalist
\n“The Journalist as Historian”<\/p>\n

2009-2010<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

December 10, 2009
\n<\/strong>Donna Shuele, University of California, Irvine
\n“At the Boundaries of Property and Culture: Californio Families and American Rule of Law”<\/p>\n

April 28, 2010
\n<\/strong>Thomas Slaughter, Rochester University
\n“When Did the American Revolution Begin?”<\/p>\n

2008-2009<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

November 19, 2009
\n<\/strong>Jenny Price, Independent Scholar
\nGraduate Student Writing Workshop<\/p>\n

2007-2008<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

January 16, 2008
\n<\/strong>Samuel T. Zipp, Brown University
\n“History as Literary Art: Two Experiments”<\/p>\n

April 29, 2008
\n<\/strong>Lynn Hunt, UCLA
\n“Writing for the In-Between Public”<\/p>\n

2006-2007<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

February 26, 2007
\n<\/strong>Martha Hodes, New York University
\n“The Historian’s Voice and the Challenge of Speculation”<\/p>\n

March 27, 2007
\n<\/strong>Robert A. Rosenstone, California Institute of Technology
\n“Innovative Historial Writing”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":608,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5021","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPast Tense - USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/past-tense\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Past Tense - USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/past-tense\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-06-29T20:28:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dornsife.usc.edu\\\/emsi\\\/past-tense\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dornsife.usc.edu\\\/emsi\\\/past-tense\\\/\",\"name\":\"Past Tense - 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