The Republics of Benjamin Rush Conference Brings Historians from All Over to Carlisle

The Republics of Benjamin Rush, a conference sponsored by Dickinson College and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, took place from March 20-22. Scholars of Dickinson College founder Benjamin Rush gathered on Dickinson's campus for an academic conference that examined the prominent Philadelphia physician's contributions to the politics and culture of the early American republic. The conference attracted more than 20 Rush scholars from institutions throughout the U.S., U.K., and Canada, including Yale and Columbia universities and the University of Cambridge.