Overview
Explore how Enlightenment ideals reshaped daily life in the American colonies, inspiring both men and women to engage in new forms of political expression. This talk uncovers how these shifting ideas on both sides of the Atlantic helped propel the Revolutionary generation—from household conversations to public debate—toward independence.
Sally
Charnow is a
Professor of Modern European and Postcolonial History, and Women and Gender
Studies at Hofstra University. She brings together her interdisciplinary
training in Performance Studies and History in her research and writing on
issues related to cultural production, art and politics, and minority
subcultures in modern France and beyond. She is the author of Edmond
Fleg and Jewish Minority Culture in Twentieth-Century France (Routledge,
2021); Theatre, Politics and Markets in Fin-de-Siècle Paris: Staging
Modernity (Palgrave, 2005); and the editor of Artistic
Expressions and the Great War, A Hundred Years On (Peter lang, 2020)
Her articles and reviews have appeared in Revising Dreyfus: Art and Law (2013), Radical
History Review, American Historical Review, French
History, Modern and Contemporary France, and H-France.