About Hannah Nolan

I am currently a fifth year PhD candidate specializing in early American history at the University of Maryland, College Park. My dissertation – tentatively called "'Who Fears to Speak of 'Ninety-Eight?: The United Irishmen and the Legacy of Revolution in Irish America" – examines the collective memory of the failed uprising of 1798 within Irish America and its uses as a political and ethnic organizing tool throughout the early American republic. More broadly, I'm interested in memory, partisanship/politics, and identity in the United States and the Atlantic World following the Age of Revolutions.

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…