In the first of our four-lecture summer history talk series, Associate Professor of History at Florida International University, Kirsten E. Wood, will discuss her recent book Accommodating the Republic: Taverns in the Early United States. This talk will explore how entrepreneurial, improvement-minded men went to taverns to raise capital and rally support for favored causes. Their unrivaled freedom to use taverns in their pursuits of happiness helped flesh out the evolving meaning of citizenship in the young United States. But, they often shared these taverns with other Americans not of European descent and this intensified their struggles to define what, and for whom, taverns—and the nation–should be. Pre-registration is required to attend via Zoom.