The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute American Origins Seminar will host a meeting with Mark Peterson, Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History at Yale University, on Saturday, January 17, 2026.

Professor Peterson is a specialist in the history of early North America and the Atlantic world. He is currently working on two new books for Princeton University Press: The Long Crisis of the Constitution and Revolution's Ends: A History of the American Revolution for the 21st Century. His seminar paper, titled "Why the American Revolution Must End," relates to the latter book project. Revolution's Ends offers a new narrative history of the major conflicts of late-18th-century North America, designed to offer useful frameworks for understanding the processes that generated an independent and consolidated United States, in order to better grasp the prospects for the nation and its place in the world today.

RSVP by January 9 to receive the pre-circulated readings for this seminar. 

All EMSI events are free and open to the public.

This event is co-sponsored by the EMSI Linda and Harlan Martens Economic History Forum.