Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Location: Zoom Virtual Lecture
Time: 7:00 pm (EST)
Why did the English come to America? By 1592, a century after Columbus first claimed parts of America for the Spanish monarchy, the growing size and wealth of Spain’s overseas empire had begun to make other European powers jealous. In England, Queen Elizabeth I began soliciting plans from the country’s venture capitalists to claim some of that bounty for the English crown. But what sort of outposts could thrive? Trading posts? Plantations? Settler colonies? And how would Native peoples respond to these English newcomers? Over the next fifty years, English settlers built a string of outposts on the other side of the Atlantic, first in the Chesapeake, then in New England, and later in Pennsylvania, creating three wildly different visions of what English settlement in the New World could look like.
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Cost: FREE
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About Our Presenter: Dr. Richard Bell is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland and author of the new book Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home. He has won more than a dozen teaching awards, including the University System of Maryland Board of Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest honor for teaching faculty in the Maryland state system. He has held major research fellowships at Yale, Cambridge, and the Library of Congress and is the recipient of the National Endowment of the Humanities Public Scholar award. He serves as a Trustee of the Maryland Historical Society, as an elected member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and as a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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