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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">The Boston-Area Early American History Seminar & Boston Environmental History Seminar</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">
at the <span style="color:black">Massachusetts Historical Society</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">Christopher Pastore, State University of New York at Albany; Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut at Storrs;
Conevery Valencius, Boston College<br>
<b>Panel Discussion: Common Spaces: Environmental History and the Study of Early America</b><br>
<i>Moderator: Matthew McKenzie, University of Connecticut at Avery Point</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">This panel takes the opportunity to bring the fields of environmental and early American history into closer conversation.
Environmental historians are concerned with concepts such as ecological imperialism and non-anthropocentric empires, built and natural environments, controlling and organizing space, and the relationship between borders and frontiers. How does or might this
influence scholarship on early America? How can work on early American history enrich environmental historians’ understanding of empire, metropoles and borderlands, movement and colonization?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">Email <a href="mailto:seminars@masshist.org" target="_blank" title="mailto:seminars@masshist.org">
seminars@masshist.org</a> or call <a href="tel:(617)%20646-0579" target="_blank">
617-646-0579</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">Unless stated, all seminars take place at the Society,
<a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=1154+Boylston+St.,+Boston&entry=gmail&source=g" target="_blank">
1154 Boylston St., Boston</a>, and commence at 5:15 PM. After each session the Society will provide a light buffet supper. In case of inclement weather, phone
<a href="tel:(617)%20536-1608" target="_blank">617-536-1608</a> for information. There are no pre-circulated papers for this joint session; please see our website,
<a href="http://www.masshist.org/research/seminars" target="_blank">www.masshist.org/research/seminars</a>, for more details on our seminar series.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">We look forward to seeing you at the seminar!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<i>Yankees in the West</i> is on display at the MHS Monday through Saturday from 10 AM to 4 PM through 6 April, 2018. More information is available at www.masshist.org..<br>
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Alexis Buckley, Research Coordinator & Book Review Editor<br>
Massachusetts Historical Society<br>
1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215<br>
Phone: 617-646-0577, Fax: 617-859-0074<br>
Email: abuckley@masshist.org<br>
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