Moderator: James Hrdlicka, Assistant Teaching Professor, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, ASU.
Speaker: Brendan McConville, Professor, Boston University, “The Struggle for Imperial Constitutional Reform.”Speaker: Rachel Banke, Teaching Associate, University of Illinois Laboratory High School, “Whence the Crisis?: Disentangling the Notion of the Early Bute-Grenville Moment.”
Speaker: Patrick Griffin, Madden-Hennebry Family Professor, University of Notre Dame, “The Tipping Point or Magic Moment: When did the Empire Fail in British North America?”
2025 SCETL Annual Spring Conference: Panel One
Imperial reforms after the Seven Years' War set Britain and its American colonies on a path that led to conflict, but what concerns prompted those initiatives and how did they operate? Instead of a single coherent program, officials in London adopted various policies for different reasons. The eventual backlash among colonists made the reasons for failure seem clearer in retrospect than at the time.