Between War and Peace: New Narratives of U.S. Militarization in the Twentieth Century (co-sponsored by the Society for the History of American Foreign Relations)
10:15 to 11:45 am
Professional Militarism in a Global Age: Naval Elites and the Remaking of the United States before World War I
Dirk Bonker, Duke University
Warfare States, Welfare States: World War II’s Demobilization and the Peace Dividend
Laura McEnaney, Whittier College
Normalcy, New Deal, and the Spectre of Total War: A Reconsideration of U.S. Political History, 1920–1940
Mark R. Wilson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Also of particular interest:
State of the Field: Critical Race Histories, Friday, 3:30-5:00 pm
Chair: Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University
Ariela Gross, University of Southern California
Thomas Guglielmo, George Washington University
Kenneth Mack, Harvard Law School
Erika Lee, University of Minnesota
State of the Field: Atlantic World and Beyond, Saturday, 1:30-3:00 pm
Chair: Holly Brewer, North Carolina State University
Pacific and Trade
Alison Games, Georgetown University
Indigenous America
Rebecca Horn and Eric Hinderaker, University of Utah
Law and Power
David T. Konig, Washington University
And I hope to see you at the very end of the program, when I'm chairing a roundtable:
Rethinking Anti-Communism, Sunday at 10:15 am.
The full program is here. If you can't be there, you can follow HNN, which always has excellent coverage of major panels, and other conference-related news.
