Friday, July 20
10:30-11:45: Citizens: Membership and Political Identity in the American Republics
PRESIDING: Christopher Tomlins, University of California, Irvine
PANELISTS:
Erika Pani, El Colegio de México
Nancy Isenberg, Louisiana State University
Douglas Bradburn, SUNY-Binghamton University
Holly Brewer, University of Maryland
Louise Pubols, Oakland Museum of California
COMMENT: the Audience2:00-3:45: The Revolution in Religion: Loyalism, Disestablishment, and Politics
PRESIDING: Ruth Alden Doan, Hollins University
The Landscape of Belief: Disestablishment and Property
Sarah Barringer Gordon, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Politics of Faith: The Loyalism of Rev. John Stuart
Stephanie Corrigan, University of Delaware
Spiritualism and Social Action: Alliances for Social Change in the Early Republic
Mark McGarvie, University of Richmond
COMMENT: Peter C. Hoffer, University of GeorgiaSaturday, July 21
9:00-10:45: Land, Labor, and War: The Emergence of America’s Central State, 1780-1840
(pre-circulated paper available at conference website)
PRESIDING: Harry Watson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Land, Labor, and War: The Emergence of America’s Central State, 1780-1840
Gary Gerstle, Vanderbilt University
COMMENT: Elizabeth Blackmar, Columbia University
Adam Rothman, Georgetown University
11:00-12:45: The Law and Post-Colonial America: Structures and Misadventures
PRESIDING: Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University
“The Means of Preventing Disputes with Foreign Nations”: The Federal Courts and Foreign Relations in the 1790s
Kevin Arlyck, New York University
Being Seen Like a State: The Constitution and Its Foreign Audiences at the FoundingDaniel Hulsebosch, New York University
The Liberal Filibuster: Anglo-Mirandistas and Atlantic Imperialism on TrialTimothy A. Milford, St. John’s University
COMMENT: Deborah Rosen, Lafayette College
11:00-12:45: Slavery, Movement, and the Law: New Approaches to Gradual Abolition
(hopefully close to the session above)
PRESIDING: Daniel Hamilton, University of Illinois
“Not very Fanatical on the Subject of Slavery:” Fugitive Slaves and the Persistence of Slavery in New Jersey, 1804-1846
James Gigantino, University of Arkansas
The Conflict of Laws in the Crossing of Borders: Slavery and Antislavery Movement in Early Republican New York
Sarah Levine-Gronningsater, University of Chicago
Gradual Immediatism: The Abolition of Baltimore’s Transatlantic Slave Trade Craig Hollander, Johns Hopkins University
COMMENT: Gautham Rao, American University
Daniel Hamilton
2:00-3:45: Nationalism and Partisanship in the Antebellum Era
9:00-10:45: Law in the Early Republic
PRESIDING: Michael Birkner, Gettysburg College
“Fidelity and Firmness”: Northern Democrats and the Crises of 1850
Michael Landis, Sacred Heart University
Republican Brotherhood
Martin Herschock, Univ. of Michigan-Dearborn
Proslavery Nationalism and Antislavery States' Rights Activities: Why the South was Really Opposed to States' Rights on the Eve of the Civil War
Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School
COMMENT: Chandra Manning, Georgetown UniversitySunday, July 22
9:00-10:45: Law in the Early Republic
Presiding: Ben Brown, University of California, Berkeley
Murder in the Shenandoah: The Case of Commonwealth v. John Crane, the Younger
Jessica K. Lowe, Princeton University
A Slave’s Only Legal Right: Freedom Suits in the American States
Peter Wallenstein, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
The Indians’ Constitution: Uncovering the Native History of the Framing
Gregory Ablavsky, University of Pennsylvania
COMMENT: Alfred Brophy, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
(As you can see, I'm hoping a few of you can tough it out until Sunday morning, so there are at least as many people in the audience as on the panel). There are many other great papers, and I hope to bring some of the highlights from the panels in subsequent posts. Hope to see many of you there!)
