“A New Order for the Ages?  Rethinking the American Confederation, 1776-1789”

Eliga Gould, University of New Hampshire 

Location: 211 Dickinson Hall & Zoom

This seminar will be offered in hybrid format both on Zoom and in-person. Registration is only required for those who plan on attending via Zoom. 

Zoom Registration (Please Note: If attending virtually the organizers request that cameras be turned on.) 

We kindly ask that all in-person attendees follow the current University Covid-19 guidelines. 

Eliga Gould is Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire.  His books include The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution (2000), winner of the Jamestown Prize from the Omohundro Institute; Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World (2005), co-edited with Peter S. Onuf; Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire (2012; Japanese trans, 2016), which won the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Book Prize and was a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize and a Library Journal Best Book of the Year; and The Cambridge History of America and the World (2021), volume 1, co-edited with Paul W. Mapp and Carla Gardina Pestana.  His current book project, Crucible of Peace, is a global history of the least studied of the United States’ founding documents: the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War.