The Triangle Legal History Seminar will not convene for the 2017-2018 academic year, in part due to changes in leadership and departures by longtime organizers. While this is unfortunate, the timing coincides with a one-year seminar on corporations and international law at Duke University. Those in the Triangle area seeking legal-historical events should check out this seminar while awaiting the return of TLHS in fall 2018.
The next meeting of the Triangle Legal History Seminar will be this Friday, April 21, at the National Humanities Center from 4-6 pm. Our presenter will be Mandy Cooper, PhD Candidate in History at Duke University. Her paper is entitled "The Family State: Family Credit and the Public Good in the Antebellum U.S.": What you'll be reading is the fourth chapter of my dissertation. My dissertation as a whole uses emotions as a lens to examine the economic and political work done by elite families in building the U.S. in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. I focus on two large family networks - the Coles and the Camerons - which were centered in the South, spread across the U.S., and extended across the Atlantic. My introduction will have the main historiographical points as well as introduce the different individuals in these large families. Since there won't be much background on many of the individuals in this chapter, I've included the attached