Join us Saturday, February 26th, for the fourth lecture in CFHA’s Quakerism in the Atlantic World series. We have had a wonderful series so far, and are excited to welcome our next speaker, historian and curator Emma Jones Lapsansky. She will present on her chapter, “Family, Unity, and Identity Formation: Eighteenth-Century Community Building.”
The virtual series runs every second Saturday. All lectures will take place at 0900 Pacific / 1200 Eastern / 1700 UK on Zoom. Following the chapters of the volume, each short lecture will run for thirty minutes and include a discussion period at the end. All are welcome to attend the lectures and are we encourage you to share the registration link with friends and colleagues who will find the series of interest.
Emma Jones Lapsansky is Emeritus Professor of History and Curator of the Quaker Collection at Haverford College, near Philadelphia, PA, where she continues to teach and to consult with students and with scholars who visit Haverford’s Quaker Collections.
After a one-year break in her undergraduate education to work in the Mississippi civil rights movement with the Delta Ministry of the National Council of Churches, she received her BA in History from the University of Pennsylvania, and her doctorate in American Civilization from the same institution. Her research interests and publications include Quaker history, African-American history and especially the intersection between the two, as well as Pennsylvania history, the American West, and various aspects of American social and material-culture history.
Some of her recent publications include Quaker Aesthetics (2003, with Anne Verplanck); Back to Africa: Benjamin Coates and the American Colonization Movement (2005, with Margaret Hope Bacon), and many articles and chapters in Quaker history. With Gary Nash and Clayborne Carson, Lapsansky has authored Struggle for Freedom, a college text on African American History, the third edition of which appeared in 2018. She is also a co-author on the Pearson Education high-school American History text. Lapsansky frequently consults to museums and to pre-collegiate curriculum developers on enriching and enlivening public history and classroom history presentations, as well as to authors seeking editorial and/or research advice. She is currently at work on two projects: a history of a Bryn Mawr Quaker family; and a study of a mid-twentieth-century Philadelphia multi-cultural intentional community.
In Quakerism and the Atlantic World, Lapsansky’s chapter points to the long eighteenth century as the period during which the aspirations of early Friends and the quest for human perfection were codified. Through this process, Quakers formed an identity based on a shared set of ideals that endures to this day.
Register for the fourth lecture here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cfha-lecture-series-quakerism-in-the-atlantic-world-tickets-241366051357
CFHA is dedicating this lecture series to Gordon Thompson in recognition of his enthusiasm for sharing Quaker history as a way to keep us connected during the pandemic. We rejoice in Gord’s tremendous contributions to CFHA. Always mentioning the great accomplishments and potential for CFHA, our Association is so much stronger because of Gord’s leadership and many contributions.
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