FOC Member Lecture Series
Reimagining the Educated Citizen: Creole Pedagogies in the Transatlantic World, 1685-1896

Join Friends of the Cabildo for a virtual evening with Petra Munro Hendry as she discusses her book Reimagining the Educated Citizen: Creole Pedagogies in the Transatlantic World, 1685-1896 (University of Michigan Press, 2023). This program is provided free to members of the Friends of the Cabildo. Tickets for non-members are $10 per lecture or $25 for access to all lectures in the yearly series. The program will take place virtually on Zoom. Please register and/or purchase tickets for the lecture at the Friends of the Cabildo website.

About the Book
Reimagining the Educated Citizen contends that the constructs of public education and citizenship in the struggle to constitute a U.S. national identity are inseparable from the simultaneous emergence of transatlantic constructs of an educated citizen along transnational and transracial lines. The nineteenth century is commonly understood as the age of nationalism and nation formation in which the Anglo-Protestant Common School movement takes center stage in the production of the American democratic citizen. Ironically, the argument for public, Common Schools privileged whiteness instead of equality. This book suggests that an alternative vision of the relationship between education and citizenship emerged from a larger transatlantic history. Given shape by the movement of people, ideas, commodities, and practices across the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi Valley, this radical egalitarian vision emerged at the crossroads of the Atlantic-colonial and antebellum Louisiana.

About the Author
Petra Munro Hendry is Professor Emeritus at Louisiana State University.