Sponsor: American Antiquarian Society (US@250 Series)
The theme and leader of each year's seminar change, but all provide a rare opportunity for undergraduates enrolled at one of the five participating institutions to do primary, in-person research in a major research library.
Admission to the seminar is coordinated by the following faculty representatives on each of the five participating campuses:
Worcester State University: Alison Okuda, aokuda@worcester.edu
Seminar Leader
Scott Gac is professor of history and American studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. As director of Trinity’s undergraduate and graduate programs in American Studies from 2013 to 2023, he led curriculum development, lectures, working groups, and public outreach for one of the nation’s most respected liberal arts programs in the field. Professor Gac's latest book, Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America (Cambridge University Press, 2024), expands on his popular lecture course, tracing the deep connections between race, slavery, and Indigenous dispossession in nineteenth-century American politics and culture. His first book, Singing for Freedom (Yale Press, 2007), explores interracial social activism in the pre-Civil War era through the Hutchinson Family Singers—abolitionist musicians, whose story was brought to life in a 2015 performance series by the Rose Ensemble in St. Paul, Minnesota. It was based on research he did at AAS as a Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellow in 2001-2.
LOCATION:American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA 01609 United States STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20260903T180000Z DTEND:20260903T200000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR