This event is closed to the public.Student Presenters:Jonathon Booth, Harvard University (jonathonbooth@g.harvard.edu) The Birth of Policing in Post-Emancipation JamaicaLauren Feldman, Johns Hopkins University (lauren.feldman@jhu.edu) Constructing Legal Matrimony and the State in New York and the United States: Debating New York's Marriage Act of 1827 and its EffectsJamie Grischkan, Boston University (jgrisch@bu.edu) Banking, Law, and… [read post]

The performance was to celebrate the king’s recovery from an illness. 18th century * 1751: Julien Offray de La Mettrie, the author of L’Homme machine, a major materialist and sensualist philosopher died of overeating at a feast given in his honor. [read post]