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  "textContent": "The **American Political History Conference** convenes this week in Washington, D.C., and the program includes many panels and events that may interest readers of this blog:\n\n_On Friday, June 5_ :\n\n**Roundtable: The Politics of Jurisdiction in 19th Century United States**\n\nModerator: Adam Rothman, Georgetown University\n\nPanelists:\n\n\n  * Cynthia Nicoletti, University of Virginia\n  * Heather Carlquist Walser, Southern Methodist University\n  * Cooper Wingert, Fordham University\n  * Edward Green, Pennsylvania State University\n\n\n\n**The Politics of Bodies and Sexuality: From the Antebellum Era to Modern America**\n\nModerator: Cassandra Good, Marymount University\n\nPanelists:\n\n\n  * Chris Del Santo, City University of New York. “The Politics of Bodies, Missing and Masonic: Gender and Visualizing Conspiracy in Antimasonry,\n  * 1826-1835.”\n  * Claire Simone Roth, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill. “Spartan Mothers No More: Yeomen Women, Desertion, and the Collapse of the\n  * Confederate State.”\n  * Christen Hammock Jones, University of Pennsylvania. “Sufficiently Entangled: The Legal and Political ‘State’ of Reproductive Rights in the 1970s.”\n  * Eva Baylin, Vanderbilt University. “The Right to Sex: Pick-Up Artists and the Crisis of Masculinity.”\n\n\n\n**America at 250 Roundtable: Executive Power from the Founding Era to Trump**\n\nModerator: Lindsay Chervinsky, George Washington Presidential Library\n\nPanelists:\n\n\n  * Julian Davis Mortenson, University of Michigan\n  * Jane Manners, Fordham Law School\n  * Garrett Graff, journalist\n  * Edward O. Frantz, University of Indianapolis\n  * Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Pomona College\n\n\n\n**America at 250 Roundtable: Debating Congress from the Founding Era to Today**\n\nModerator: Seth Blumenthal, Boston University\n\nPanelists:\n\n\n  * Katlyn Carter, University of Notre Dame\n  * Daniel Peart, Queen Mary University of London\n  * Kevin M. Baron, Siena University\n  * Abe Silberstein, New York University\n  * Sarah Rowley, Depauw University\n\n\n\n**Representation and Voting Rights from Reconstruction to Today**\n\nModerator: Frank Towers, University of Calgary\n\nPanelists:\n\n\n  * Eileen Cheng, Sarah Lawrence College. “Hijacking the Memory of Defeat: The Federalists and the Legacy of the Confederacy.”\n  * Alma Steingart, Columbia University. “The Mathematization of Representation: Rethinking United States Political Representation in the Twentieth\n  * Century.”\n  * Zachary Clary, Vanderbilt University. “‘You Can’t Kill an Idea’: The NAACP and the Martyrdom of Medgar Evers and Harry and Harriette Moore.”\n  * Robinson Woodward-Burns, Howard University. “Roll Back of State Constitutional Voting Rights, 1968-2025.”\n\n\n\n**America at 250 Roundtable: The Past, Present, and Future of Judicial Supremacy**\n\nModerator: Gautham Rao, American University\n\nPanelists:\n\n\n  * Jamelle Bouie, New York Times\n  * Stephen I. Vladeck, Georgetown University\n  * Nikolas Bowie, Harvard University\n  * Rachel Shelden, Pennsylvania State University\n  * Karen Tani, University of Pennsylvania\n\n\n\n _On Saturday, June 6:_\n\n**New History of Sex, Reproduction, and Anti-Discrimination Law in the 1970s and 1980s**\n\nModerator: Sara Matthiesen, George Washington University\n\nPanelists:\n\n\n  * Jennifer Holland, University of Oklahoma. “Lesbian-Homoville, CO: How Anti-Abortion Activists Started the Modern Anti-Queer Movement.”\n  * Sarah Milov, University of Virginia. “‘A Malformed Child Could Sue the Company’: Fetal Protection and the Specter of Childhood Cancer in the 1970s.”\n  * Karen Tani, University of Pennsylvania. “‘Productive Life or Tragedy’: Disability Rights, Deregulation, and Anti-Abortion Politics in the Reagan Era.”\n\n\n\n**Roundtable: Political History as Legal History and Legal History as Political History**\n\nModerator: Matthew Lassiter, University of Michigan\n\nPanelists:\n\n\n  * Sam Erman, University of Michigan\n  * Amanda Hughett, University of Illinois Springfield\n  * Kate Masur, Northwestern University\n  * Karen Tani, University of Pennsylvania\n\n\n\n**Book Roundtable: White Power: Policing American Slavery** [by Gautham Rao]\n\nModerator: Adam Malka, University of Oklahoma\n\nPanelists:\n\n\n  * Gautham Rao, American University\n  * Kellie Carter Jackson, Wellesley College\n  * Heather Ann Thompson, University of Michigan\n  * Anna O. Law, CUNY Brooklyn College\n  * Kevin Arlyck, Georgetown University\n\n\n\n-- Karen Tani",
  "title": "Legal History at the American Political History Conference, June 4-6",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-04T16:00:00.160Z"
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