Summer 2025
Brown 2026 has been busy this summer. Through UTRA, students have been working on Brown 2026-related projects. Michael Yuze ’26 is researching Brown University during the bicentennial. Aiden Flores ’27 is working in the Brown University Archives reading correspondence of President Keeney, who chaired the national committee culminating in the creation of the National Endowment for the Humanities. History education is a key theme for Brown 2026, scheduled to host National History Day for Rhode Island middle school and high school students in March 2026. During the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) annual meeting held this year in Providence, historians presented “Ten Things” about the American Revolution for local educators and partnered on a professional development workshop with Rhode Island Historical Society. More Brown 2026 courses and events are under way. On Friday and  Saturday, September 26-27, Brown 2026 will be collaborating with the English Department on “Fictions of the American Revolution,” a conference at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study. Brown 2026 also welcomes three senior fellows at the JNB Center for the upcoming academic year: Joseph M. Adelman, Professor of History at Framingham State University; Katherine Jewell, Professor of Economics, History and Political Science at Fitchburg State University; and Irene Peirano Garrison, Director of Graduate Studies and Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Harvard University. Additionally, Katy Telling joined the John Carter Brown Library as Postdoctoral 2026 Coordinator. For an engaging conversation on Brown 2026, check out Karin Wulf and Kevin McLaughlin on the Rhodes Center Podcast, now rebroadcast on Trending Globally: Politics and Policy. Look for our accelerating events and programming, including dedicated opportunities for alumni, on the Brown 2026 website.

June 2025
Brown 2026 is accelerating into a year of robust programs and opportunities for Brown University community members in 2025-2026. In addition to larger events engaging the campus and beyond, we have a set of curricular and other programs for alumni and students. For example, the next installment of Brown 2026 Reads picks back up in the fall with faculty-author-led discussions in September and October. To learn more about the Brown 2026 mission and objectives, check out the website and co-chairs Karin Wulf and Kevin McLaughlin’s recent appearance on the Rhodes Center podcast with Mark Blyth. Please keep an eye on our events calendar and stay tuned for monthly updates forthcoming on our website. 

May 2025
Brown 2026 is a university-wide initiative exploring the relationship between the university and democracy while engaging the fullest histories of the American Revolution and its legacies. Building on some early programming from the fall, Brown 2026 publicly launched in January 2025, with a signature event “Carrying ‘The Great Force of History’ Within Us” featuring Daveed Diggs ‘04. Brown 2026 Reads kicked off with seven student reading groups that met with faculty authors for energetic discussions about history, politics, and poetry. A few of the other events through the spring semester included Letters from the Corporation of Brown University by Lauren Zalaznick, Creation of the American Republic by Gordon Wood, and Reading the Constitution by Justice Stephen Breyer, the latter which was a Krieger Memorial Lecture in partnership with the Taubman Center. Looking forward to fall 2025, Brown 2026 is excited to partner with a growing list of internal and external partners, while also compiling an interdisciplinary Brown 2026 curriculum. If you’d like your course listed with Brown 2026, or if you’d like to partner with Brown 2026, please contact brown2026democracy@brown.edu.