Michael Barone
Brooke Barbier
Gerard Baker
Jeremy Black
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?”
Moderator: Andrew Porwancher, Director of Graduate Studies and Professor, SCETL, ASU. Speaker: Eliga Gould, Professor of History, University of New Hampshire, “‘A Firm League of Friendship’: The Expansionist Origins of Benjamin Franklin’s British American Union of 1775.” Speaker: Craig Yirush, Associate Professor of History, UCLA, “‘The Greatest Cause That Ever Was Heard’: The Mohegan Case and the Fate of Native Rights in the American Revolution.” Speaker: Jane E. Calvert, Director & Chief Editor, The John Dickinson Writings Project, “‘The Sense of America...is for Reconciliation’: John Dickinson and the Progress Towards Revolution, 1765–1776.”
Eric Kaufmann
Jane Kamensky