Sunday,
June 4, 8:30-10:00 a.m.
Race and Suffrage Policy in the United States
Chair:
RICHARD M. VALELLY, Swarthmore CollegePanelists:
SHAMIRA M. GELBMAN, University of Virginia
The New Deal Partisan Regime and the Voting Rights Act of 1965JULIAN M. HAYTER, University of Virginia
Strictly Political: The Rise of Black Political Participation in Richmond, Virginia, 1960- 1970CHRISTOPHER J. MALONE, Pace University
Race Formation and Voting Rights in the Antebellum NorthComment:
RICHARD M. VALELLY, Swarthmore College
WILLIAM J. RORABAUGH, University of Washington
Sunday,
June 4, 8:30-10:00 a.m.
Non-state Actors and the State: Forging American Political Culture in the 1960s
Chair/Commentator:
KENT GERMANY, University of VirginiaPanelists:
SETH OFFENBACH, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Power of Portrayal: The Media and the Young Americans for Freedom, 1960-1968LINDSAY SILVER, Brandeis University
The ‘Capitol Hill Players’: Local Participation in a National Political ProcessKATHERINE SCOTT, Temple University
'Watching Civilian Politics': Democracy, Dissent, and the Domestic Security
State, 1970-1972
Sunday, June 4, 8:30-10:00 a.m.
Personalities, Preconceived Ideals, and Policy Formation in Cold War America
Chair/Commentator:
JESSICA WANG, University of California, Los Angeles
Panelists:
JONATHAN L. CRISTOL, Bard College
President Truman and the Founding of the State of IsraelDAVID K. HECHT, Harvard University
A Precarious Perch: Robert Oppenheimer, Faith in Science, and Cold War Foreign Policy
REBECCA SLAYTON, Stanford University
An Epistemic Community Revisited: Scientists, Engineers, and Controversy over Missile Defense in the 1960s
Sunday, June 4, 8:30-10:00 a.m.
Serving the Sick, the Poor, and the Aged: Southern Health Care Policy and the
History of Twentieth-Century County Homes, Hospitals, and Nursing Homes
Chair/Commentator:
ELNA GREEN, Florida State UniversityPanelists:
JANNA DIECKMAN, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Long-Term Institutional Care for Indigent Elders, 1945-1965KAREN THOMAS, Florida State University
The Rise of the ‘Deluxe Jim Crow Hospital’: Transforming Segregation and Expanding Access in Southern HealthcareKATIE OTIS, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Senior Citizen Migration and Long-Term Care Policy in Greater Miami, 1950-1990
Sunday, June 4, 8:30-10:00 a.m.
Look at Mother Nature on the Run in the 1970s: U.S. Environmental Policy in
the Green Decade
Chair:
PAUL MILAZZO, Ohio UniversityPanelists:
BROOKS FLIPPEN, Southeastern Oklahoma State University
The Rise and Fall of the Council on Environmental Quality, 1970-1980JOSHUA ASHENMILLER, Scripps College
The Council on Environmental Quality under Nixon and FordFINN ARNE JORGENSEN, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Bottle Bills and Bottle Machines: The Practical Aspects of Beverage Container Recycling Policy in Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. in the 1980sComment:
RICHARD N.L. ANDREWS, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Sunday, June 4, 10:15-11:45 a.m.
The Self in Postwar America
Chair:
JAMES GILBERT, University of Maryland, College ParkPanelists:
ALAN PETIGNY, University of Florida
From Original Sin to Self-Actualization: New Conceptions of the Self in the Postwar EraCHRISTOPHER SHANNON, Christendom College
From Culture to Tradition in Postwar American Social Thought
Comment:
JAMES GILBERT, University of Maryland, College Park
Sunday,
June 4, 10:15-11:45 a.m.
Social Policy and the Lifecycle
Chair/Commentator:
SONYA MICHEL, University of Maryland, College Park
Panelists:
BRIAN J. GLENN, Hamilton College
The Lessons and Legacies of State Old Age Pensions
YUMI HIRATAI, Sapporo Gakuin University
Child Labor as a ‘National Evil’: Federalism and a Strategy of the National Child Labor CommitteeERIN MCKENNA, Bowling Green State University
Embryonic Policies: The Stunted Development of In Vitro Fertilization in the United States, 1975-1992
Sunday, June 4, 10:15-11:45 a.m.
What Difference Do the Rules Make? The Relationship Between Electoral Rules
and Policy Outcomes
Chair/Commentator:
AMY BRIDGES, University of California, San DiegoPanelists:
LORRAINE GATES SCHUYLER, University of Virginia
‘Greater Success than We had Reason to Hope For’: The Nineteenth Amendment and Policy Outcomes in the 1920sJULIAN HAYTER, University of Virginia
Strictly Political: The Rise of Black Political Participation in Richmond, Virginia, 1960-1970MICHELE DAVIS JONES, University of Virginia
The Rules of the Game and Who Governs: Institutional Reform and Policy Outputs
Sunday, June 4, 10:15-11:45 a.m.
State Ownership and Collective Bargaining
Chair/Commentator:
JOSEPH MCCARTIN, Georgetown UniversityPanelists:
JULES P. GEHRKE, University of Minnesota
Municipal Endeavor and the Emergence of Municipal Anti-Socialism in Britain, 1880-1907ERIC FURE-SLOCUM, St. Olaf College
Housing Politics and Political Housing: Social Democracy, Liberalism, and Conservatism in Milwaukee, 1937-1947MARTIN WEST, Harvard University
The Political Origins of Public Sector Collective Bargaining
Sunday,
June 4, 10:15-11:45 a.m.
Domestic Policy in an Age of Limits
Chair/Commentator:
GREGORY SCHNEIDER, Emporia State University
Panelists:
JAMES J. EPSTEIN, Ohio University
The Growth of Administrative Capacities in the Ages of Limits: Federal Crime Policy in the 1970sEDUARDO F. CANEDO, Columbia University
The Origins of Neoliberalism: Jimmy Carter and the Ideology of DeregulationJEFF BLOODWORTH, Ohio University
Jimmy Carter and Welfare Reform: The Program for Better Jobs IncomeMATT FIELD, University of Oklahoma
The Senate Judiciary Committee, Supreme Court Nominations, and Stare Decisis