Frontier Seaport by Professor Catherine Cangany & Marche du Nain Rouge Pre-Party

Let's pre-party at HopCat before the Marche du Nain Rouge and enjoy a history presentation about life in early Detroit from author and University of Notre Dame Professor, Catherine Cangany.

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"Cangany is one of a trio of young historians who are finally providing a new portrait of one of colonial America’s most fascinating places—Detroit! At once a frontier town, a seaport connected to the Atlantic World, and a bustling trading center with an incredibly diverse population, Detroit at the end of the eighteenth century was a city-in-waiting where one might see a bear ambling down the main street or find the latest Paris fashions. Anyone interested in frontier history, native studies, urban history, and the period of transition from empire to republic will profit mightily from reading this sparkling portrait of early Detroit. This is history at its best: surprising, entertaining, fresh, and informative. It will challenge your stereotypes about Detroit and reaffirm your interest in the frontier." -Jay Gitlin, Author.

Our event will be in the wonderful Huma Room, upstairs at HopCat in Midtown Detroit. Gathering starts at 11:00am, history presentation at 11:30am, Q&A at 12:00pm and leave for the parade at 12:45pm.

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Professor Cangany studies the economies, cultures, and material cultures of the French and British Atlantic Worlds, focusing on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century North American colonies.

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Her first project, Frontier Seaport, charts colonial Detroit's transformation into an Atlantic entrepôt. Her second project, a study of the underground economy, is entitled An Empire of Fakes: Counterfeit Goods in Eighteenth-Century America. Cangany offers courses at the University of Notre Dame that focus on commerce, religion, and social and cultural practices in the North American colonies, including "Colonial America," "Atlantic Revolutions," "The Consumer Revolution," "Puritans in Popular Culture," "The City in Early America," and graduate seminars on American history before 1700.

CASH BAR, CASH FOOD, $5 RESERVATION REQUIRED.