About Hannah Nolan

Hannah Nolan is a postdoctoral teaching fellow at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy and the Honors College at the University of Missouri, where she co-teaches courses on revolution and constitutions. Her research focuses upon the creation of ethnic and national identities through collective memories and partisan politics in the early national period. She recently completed her PhD at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she wrote a dissertation examining the collective memory of the failed United Irish Uprising of 1798 within Irish America and its uses as a political and ethnic organizing tool throughout the early American republic.

NBN Episodes hosted by Hannah:

Eric R. Schlereth, "Quitting the Nation: Emigrant Rights in North America" (UNC Press, 2024)

October 14, 2024

Quitting the Nation

Eric R. Schlereth
Hosted by Hannah Nolan

Perceptions of the United States as a nation of immigrants are so commonplace that its history as a nation of emigrants is forgotten. However, once th…

Michael D. Hattem, "The Memory of '76: The Revolution in American History" (Yale UP, 2024)

September 15, 2024

The Memory of '76

Michael D. Hattem
Hosted by Hannah Nolan

Americans agree that their nation’s origins lie in the Revolution, but they have never agreed on what the Revolution meant. For nearly two hundred and…