Upcoming Programs & Events

AAS programs include a variety of in-person, virtual, and hybrid public programs. Advance registration is required.

Some seminars have limited space and require advance application. Please check each event's page for more information.

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Becoming Lunsford Lane: The Lives of an American Aeneas
Thursday, May 29, 2025
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Hybrid
Evening Public Tour
Thursday, May 29, 2025
5:45-6:30pm EDT
In-Person
The Inaugural Harry and Jane Dewey Lecture with Jeffrey Rosen
Thursday, June 5, 2025
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Hybrid
Miss M. A. Gannon. Lithograph
Sex, Gender, and Print
Sunday, June 8-Friday, June 13, 2025
All day
Seminar
Revisiting Jonathan Edwards and the "Bad Books" Controversy
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Hybrid
Artist in the Archive: New Works with Jazzmen Lee-Johnson
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Hybrid
Chat with a Curator: Finding William Lewis
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
5:00-6:30pm EDT
In-Person
The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Hybrid
A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Thursday, July 24, 2025
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Virtual
Chilkat chief with blanket, Alaska 1891
Nineteenth-Century American Photography in the World
Sunday, July 27-Friday, August 1, 2025
All day
Seminar
Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Virtual
American Studies Seminar for Undergraduates: Poetry in the Press
Thursday, September 4, 2025
2:00-4:00pm EDT
Seminar
Politics and Memory: Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York
Thursday, September 4, 2025
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Hybrid
War Power: Literature and the State in the Civil War North
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Virtual
A Journey North: Jefferson, Madison, and the Forging of a Friendship
Thursday, September 18, 2025
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Virtual
Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Hybrid
“I Am So Tired of Waiting, Aren’t You?”: Revisiting Black Majority"
Thursday, October 16, 2025
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Hybrid
Phobia and American Literature, 1705-1937: A Therapeutic History
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Virtual
Edgar Allan Poe: A Life
Thursday, October 30, 2025
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Hybrid