Friday,
June 2, 8:30-10:00 a.m.
Religious & Public Policy in Twentieth Century America
Chair:
JAMES REED, Rutgers UniversityPanelists:
JOSHUA ZEITZ, Cambridge University
Beyond the ‘Triple Melting Pot: Religious and Political Pluralism in the 1950sROBERT FLEEGLER, University of Rhode Island
The Immigration Act of 1965 and the Expansion of the ‘Nation of Immigrants’THOMAS CARTY, Springfield College
Popes and Presidents: Diplomatic Protocol and Religion Between the Vatican and the White House Since 1960Comment:
JAMES FISHER, Fordham University
JAMES REED, Rutgers University
Friday, June 2, 8:30-10:00 a.m.
Oil, Politics, and Business: A Century of Energy Policy
Chair:
DAVID PAINTER, Georgetown UniversityPanelists:
KAREN MERRILL, Williams College
Texas Oilmen’s Other Plays: Postwar Politics and the American PublicMEG JACOBS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A Grand Design: The Energy Crisis and the Challenge to American HegemonyComment:
ELIZABETH SANDERS, Cornell University
DAVID PAINTER, Georgetown University
Friday, June 2, 8:30-10:00 a.m.
Great Britain and France: Comparative Policy Perspectives
Chair/Commentator:
DANIEL BELAND, University of CalgaryPanelists:
JOSHUA HUMPHREYS, Rutgers University and
CHRISTOPHER CHIVVIS, Johns Hopkins University
Perspectives on Unemployment in Twentieth-Century FranceFRIEDA FUCHS, Wooster College
Institutional Autonomy, Legitimacy, and Political Legacies in the Creation of Early Welfare States: A Comparison of Britain and France
Friday, June 2, 8:30-10:00 a.m.
Production Controls, Soil Conservation, and Environmental Cross-Compliance:
Case Studies of U.S. Agricultural/Environmental Policy Development
Chair/Commentator:
OTTO DOERING, Purdue UniversityPanelists:
DAVID E. HAMILTON, University of Kentucky
Why Production Controls? The Case of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933ANNE EFFLAND, Economic Research Service, USDA and
CAROLYN DIMITRI, Economic Research Service, USDA
The 1936 Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act: Origin of U.S. Agri-Environmental Policy?DOUGLAS HELMS, Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA
Leveraging Farm Policy for Conservation
Friday, June 2, 8:30-10:00 a.m.
The Roots of Modern Conservative Politics
Chair:
DAVID GREENBERG, Rutgers UniversityPanelists:
ELIZABETH T. SHERMER, University of California, Santa Barbara
Repealing the Wagner Act: Barry Goldwater’s Early Senate Campaigns and the Assault on Organized LaborKIM PHILLIPS-FEIN, New York University
The Rise of the Economic Right: American Business and Conservatism in the 1970sJOSEPH CRESPINO, Emory University
Render Unto Caesar: Desegregation, Church Schools, and the Origins of the Religious RightComment:
DAVID GREENBERG, Rutgers University
JENNIFER BURNS, University of California, Berkeley
Friday, June 2, 8:30-10:00 a.m.
The West and Public Policy
Chair/Commentator:
ERIC RAUCHWAY, University of California, Davis
Panelists:
AMY BRIDGES, University of California, San Diego
Gilded Age State-Building in the WestTHOMAS KRAINZ, Framingham State College
Assistance for Progressive Era Refugees in the American WestKURT ANGERSBACH, Westernlabs and
JEANNE NIENABER CLARKE, University of Arizona
Presidential Use of the 1906 Antiquities Act and the Punctuated Equilibrium Theory
Friday, June 2, 10:15-11:45 a.m.
BOOK SESSION—Meg Jacobs, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship
in Twentieth-Century America
Chair:
EDWARD BERKOWITZ, George Washington UniversityPanelists:
ELLIS HAWLEY, University of Iowa
JENNIFER MITTELSTADT, Pennsylvania State University
PAULA BAKER, The Ohio State UniversityResponse:
MEG JACOBS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday,
June 2, 10:15-11:45 a.m.
Bringing Urbanization into American Political Development: Institutions, Power
Structures, and Identities
Chair/Commentator:
RICHARDSON DILWORTH, Drexel UniversityPanelists:
ROBERT C. LIEBERMAN, Columbia University
Cities in the Republic: The City and the State in American Political DevelopmentCLARENCE STONE, George Washington University
Power, Pluralism, and Political Development: A Revisionist ViewMATTHEW CRENSON, Johns Hopkins University
Rethinking Power and Organization in Black Politics: 250 Years in BaltimoreALETHIA JONES, University at Albany, State University of New York
Bootstraps and Beltways: The State’s Role in Immigrant Community Banking
Friday, June 2, 10:15-11:45 a.m.
When Markets Fail: Policy Thinking and Policy Responses in Depression and War
Chair/Commentator:
GUY ALCHON, University of DelawarePanelists:
VERONICA WOMACK, Georgia College and State University
The Politics of Race and the Failure of Governmental Intervention in the Black Belt RegionMICHAEL ACKERMAN, University of Virginia
Scientific Uncertainty and the Federal Regulation of Dietary Supplements, 1938-1976EVA BERTRAM, University of California-Santa Cruz
Muddled Mandates and Missed Opportunities: Policy Change in AFDC, 1935-1960
Friday, June 2, 10:15-11:45 a.m.
Globalization and American Policy
Chair/Commentator:
HERMAN SCHWARTZ, University of Virginia
Panelists:
DEBORAH R. MCFARLANE, University of New Mexico
World Population Growth: The Emergence of a Public Issue, 1950-1967
LUKE NICHTER, Bowling Green State University
Richard M. Nixon and the Transatlantic Alliance: Competition and Collaboration, 1969-1974
BARTHOLOMEW T. SPARROW, University of Texas, Austin
Present at the Mutation: U.S. Civil-Military Relations at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century
Friday,
June 2, 10:15-11:45 a.m.
The Divided State of Welfare: Voluntary Agencies, Social Services, and Race
in Postwar America
Chair/Commentator:
ALICE O’CONNOR, University of California, Santa BarbaraPanelists:
WILLIAM BUSH, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The Color of Childhood: Child Welfare and At-Risk Youth in Postwar HoustonANDREW MORRIS, Union College
Voluntary Agencies and Welfare ReformLAUREL SPINDEL, University of Chicago
Strategic Care: Voluntary Child Caring Agencies in Chicago and the ‘Discovery’ of the Emotionally Disturbed Child, 1945-1965
Friday, June 2, 10:15-11:45 a.m.
Sex, Drugs, and T.V.
Chair/Commentator:
CHRISTOPHER CAPOZZOLA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Panelists:JENNIFER POTOCNAK, Bowling Green State University
Whores as Entrepreneurs: The Economic and Social Ramifications of Prostitution in 1934 ToledoRICHARD A. BRISBIN, JR., West Virginia University
Ratings: Regulatory Change, Rights, and Sexual Portrayals on American Television
Friday, June 2, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION—Too Many Disciplines? Expanding American Political
Development
Chair/Commentator:
SIDNEY MILKIS, University of VirginiaPanelists:
BRIAN BALOGH, University of Virginia
BARRY CUSHMAN, University of Virginia
DAVID MAYHEW, Yale University
ELISABETH CLEMENS, University of Chicago
PETER TRUBOWITZ, University of Texas, Austin
Friday, June 2, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Economic Knowledge and the American State from New Deal to Cold War
Chair:
MICHAEL BERNSTEIN, University of California, San DiegoPanelists:
JESSICA WANG, University of California, Los Angeles
Social Knowledge and the New Deal State: Social Science and Policymaking at the SEC and the NLRBMARK R. WILSON, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Making the ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ Safe for Democracy: A Reconsideration of the Work of the Truman CommitteeJASON SCOTT SMITH, Cornell University
Exporting Capitalism and Democracy: The New Deal Goes AbroadComment:
DAVID M. HART, George Mason University
Friday, June 2, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Toys or Tools? The Johnson Presidential Recordings and Domestic Policy History
Chair/Commentator:
JAMES PATTERSON, Brown UniversityPanelists:
GARETH DAVIES, University of Oxford
Lyndon Johnson and the Passage of the Education and Secondary Education ActKENT GERMANY, University of Virginia
Revisiting Mississippi: The LBJ Tapes, Oral History, and the Politics of Race and MemoryGUIAN MCKEE, University of Virginia
A Wasteful and Dangerous Thing: Presidential Ideology, Community Action, and Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty Recordings
Friday, June 2, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
State-Building in the Early Republic
Chair/Commentator:
RICHARD R. JOHN, University of Illinois, Chicago
Panelists:
JEFFREY L. PASLEY, University of Missouri, Columbia
Midget on Horseback: American Indians and the Historiography of the American StateGAUTHAM RAO, University of Chicago
Mariners’ Health and National Wealth: The Political Economy of the Federal Marine Hospitals, 1799-1860KYLE G. VOLK, University of Chicago
Racial Amalgamation, the Protectionist State, and the Creation of the Racial ‘Minority’ in Antebellum Massachusetts
Friday, June 2, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Conservatives and American Political Development: New Deal to Late 1950s
Chair/Commentator:
BRIAN J. GLENN, Hamilton CollegePanelists:
EDWARD BERKOWITZ, George Washington University and
LARRY DEWITT, U.S. Social Security Administration
Old Age Pensions
MARC EISNER, Wesleyan University
EnvironmentKEVIN KOSAR, Congressional Research Service
Education
Friday,
June 2, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Gender, Race, and Rights
Chair:
JANE S. DE HART, University of California, Santa Barbara
Panelists:
SHEILA A. JONES, Bowling Green State University
Sexual Harassment and the EEOC: How an Unnamed Problem became Public Policy
TIMOTHY THURBER, Virginia Commonwealth University
Republicans: Congress, the President, and Busing, 1966-1974VESLA WEAVER, Harvard University
Dark Prison: Race, Rights, and the Politics of PunishmentComment:
WILLIAM A. LINK, University of Florida
Friday,
June 2, 3:15-4:45 p.m.
Political Parties in American Political Development
Chair:
DANIEL DISALVO, University of VirginiaPanelists:
HOWARD L. REITER, University of Connecticut
Factional Regimes and American Party DevelopmentDAVID MAYHEW, Yale University
Incumbency Advantage in Presidential ElectionsBYRON SHAFER, University of Wisconsin
The Long Goodbye of the Good Old Boys: Structure and Strategy in the Partisan Reconstruction of the American SouthKATHRYN PEARSON, University of Minnesota
Agenda Control, Majority Party Power and the House Committee on Rules, 1939-1965DANIEL DISALVO, University of Virginia
Post-New Deal Democratic Party Factions: Southerners, Laborites, and New Politics
Comment:
MICHAEL HOLT, University of Virginia
DANIEL DISALVO, University of Virginia
Friday, June 2, 3:15-4:45 p.m.
Morality and Politics in the Nineteenth Century
Chair:
HERMAN BELZ, University of Maryland, College ParkPanelists:
GAINES FOSTER, Louisiana State University
The Federal Government and GodMARK SUMMERS, University of Kentucky
Unwritten CodeELDON EISENACH, University of Tulsa
The Biblical-Hegelian Framework of Progressive Public Policy
Comment:
PAULA BAKER, The Ohio State University
Friday, June 2, 3:15-4:45 p.m.
Government, Business, and Sectionalism
Chair/Commentator:
NELSON LICHTENSTEIN, University of California, Santa BarbaraPanelists:
JOHN FARRIS, Georgia Perimeter College
Constructing a template for ‘bailing out’ American Industry: Federal Policy Approaches to the Footwear and Steel Industries during the Jimmy Carter Administration’s First Year
DAVID SELLERS SMITH, Northwestern University
A Politics for Professional Capitalists: ‘Credit Men’ and the Origins of Interest Group Politics
Friday, June 2, 3:15-4:45 p.m.
Strategic Thinking and Elusive Equality: Rights, Law, and Policy
Chair/Commentator:
NANCY MACLEAN, Northwestern UniversityPanelists:
CHRISTOPHER CAPOZZOLA, Masschusetts Institute of Technology
The Colonial Bond and the Wedding Band: Military Service, Marriage, and the Meanings of Filipino/a Citizenship,
1916-1948LEANDRA ZARNOW, University of California, Santa Barbara
Too Much Too Soon?: Bella Abzug’s Civil Rights Activism in Law and Policy Before BrownJANE S. DE HART, University of California, Santa Barbara and
JUAN CARLOS IBARRA, University of California, Santa Barbara
A New Look at the Uncertain Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s VMI Opinion
Friday,
June 2, 3:15-4:45 p.m.
Social Regulation as Social Politics in Twentieth-Century America
Chair:
MARIE GOTTSCHALK, University of PennsylvaniaPanelists:
CHRISTOPHER HOWARD, College of William & Mary
To Haves and to Have-Nots: Social Regulation as Social Policy in the 20th CenturyDANIEL GITTERMAN, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Politics of Making Work PayTHOMAS BURKE, Wellesley College
The Politics Litigation CreatesComment:
JENNIFER L. ERKULWATER, University of Richmond
Friday, June 2, 3:15-4:45 p.m.
Understanding the Policy Process
Chair/Commentator:
ANDREW POLSKY, Hunter College and Graduate Center, CUNY
Panelists:
GINA L. KEEL, State University of New York, Oneonta
Paying for World Wars: Presidential Leadership, Congressional Negotiations, and the Strength of Issue NetworksCHARLES SAMPSON, University of Missouri, Columbia
Merging the Advocacy Coalition Framework and Punctuated Equilibrium to Understand the Evolution of Voting Rights in the USA
WAYNE THORNTON, Harvard University
A Model of Bureaucratic Policy Innovation
Friday, June 2, 3:15-4:45 p.m.
Adjusting to Economic Change
Chair/Commentator:
KIM PHILLIPS-FEIN, New York University
Panelists:
DAVID KOISTINEN, American University of Beirut
Public Policies for Countering Deindustrialization in Postwar MassachusettsHEATHER WYATT-NICHOL, Stephen F. Austin State University
History of Government Investment in Job Training PoliciesJUNE PARK, University of Pittsburgh
A Judicial Explanation of Layoff Regulation: The Case of Federal Plant Closing Legislation