3-6pm: Registration
4pm Tea
5.45pm Reception Gallery
7pm Dinner
8.30pm Opening Address
Saloon
Chair: Donald Ratcliffe (University of Oxford)
William R. Brock (University of Cambridge):
1870-1900: The Democratic Age?

9.30pm-midnight Bar

Saturday
7.45-8.45am Breakfast

9.00-10.45am: Plenary Session Saloon
1. New Perspectives on Race, Class and Gender on the Women and Social Movements Website, 1870-1930
Chair: Elizabeth Clapp (University of Leicester)
Kathryn Kish Sklar (State University of New York, Binghampton, and Oxford):
Documenting New Perspectives on White Women in the Freedmen’s Aid Movement, 1870-1890
Thomas Dublin (State University of New York, Binghampton):
Documenting a Multiracial Movement in Baltimore’s YWCA, 1880-1930
Jay Kleinberg (Brunel University):
Creating a Document Project on Mothers’ Pensions, 1899-1939

10.45am Coffee

11.15am-1.00pm: Plenary session Saloon
2. Transatlantic Perspectives
Chair: Axel Schaeffer (Keele University)
William Jones (Cardiff University):
‘ Going into Print’: Published Emigrant Letters in Wales in the Nineteenth Century
Murney Gerlach (Fremont, Ohio):
William E. Gladstone and the United States: Ideas of American Progress
Howell John Harris (University of Durham):
Between Convergence and Exceptionalism: Americans and the 'British Model' of Industrial Relations, c. 1870-1920

1pm Lunch

2-2.30pm BrANCH Annual General Meeting Saloon
FREE AFTERNOON
4pm Tea

4.15-5.45 Parallel sessions
3. Richard Hofstadter’s Age of Reform after Fifty Years
Saloon
Chair: Alan Lessoff (Illinois State University)
Robert Johnston (University of Illinois at Chicago):
Age of Reform and the Progressive Era
Gillis Harp (Grove City College):
Age of Reform in the 1950s

4. Rethinking Reconstruction
Hickson Room
Chair: Heather Cox Richardson (University of Massachusetts) TBC
Nichola Clayton (University of Sheffield):
Henry Wilson’s Southern Tour and the Question of Confiscation in 1867
William G. Merkel (Columbia University):
New Constitutional Perspectives on Reconstruction, the Militia, and the Right to Arms

5.45pm Gala Reception

7pm Banquet

8.30pm After-dinner Address
Saloon
Chair: Peter Argersinger (Southern Illinois University)
Constance Schultz (University of South Carolina):
Virgins or Vamps? Images of Women in Late Nineteenth Century American Stereographs

9.30pm-midnight: Bar

Sunday

8-9am Breakfast

9.15-10.45am Plenary session:
Saloon
5. Coming of the Civil War
Chair: Richard Carwardine (University of Oxford)
John Ashworth (University of Nottingham):
The Kansas-Nebraska Act Revisited

10.45am Coffee

11.15-1pm Parallel sessions

6. Learning the Lessons of Nineteenth-Century America
Hickson Room
Chair: Susan-Mary Grant (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
Thomas Knoles (American Antiquarian Society):
Boiling the ‘Monkey’ and Other Educational Experiences in the Journal of a Student of John and Henry Thoreau
Lucia Knoles (Assumption College):
‘For the want of Knowledge We Are Killed All the Day’: The Larger Lessons of Freedmen’s Schools
John McClymer (Assumption College):
The Americanization of Shockheaded Peter: Nineteenth-Century Cautionary Tales

7. New Perspectives on Reform and Activism
Saloon
Chair: Wanda Hendricks (University of South Carolina)
Lewis Perry (St. Louis University):
Abby and Julia Smith and the American Tradition of Civil Disobedience
Ruth Crocker (Auburn University):
New Perspectives on the Settlement Movement
Elisabeth Israels Perry (St. Louis University):
The Progressives and the Prostitute: Anna Moscowitz Kross and the Campaign against New York City’s ‘Women’s Court’

1pm Lunch

2.15-3.45pm Parallel sessions

8. Rethinking Political Movements
Hickson Room
Chair: Jo Ann Argersinger (Southern Illinois University)
Charles Postel (California State University, Sacramento):
Populist Moderns: Rethinking Rural Protest in the Gilded Age
Edward Rafferty (Boston University):
W.J. McGee, American Conservation, and New Liberalism in the United States, 1870-1910

9. Race and Memory in the Progressive South
Saloon
Chair: Michael O’Brien (University of Cambridge)
Robert J. Norrell (University of Tennessee, Knoxville):
Rehabilitating Booker Washington: How Historians Have Wronged the Wizard
Bruce Baker (Royal Holloway College, London):
Reconstruction and Public Memory in Anderson County, South Carolina, 1905-1920

3.45 Tea

4.15-5.45pm Plenary session: Hickson Room

10. The United States in the World
Chair: John A. Thompson (University of Cambridge)
Jay Sexton (University of Oxford):
The Greater Aberration: Hamilton Fish, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Multilateral Initiative of 1875
Eric Rauchway (University of California, Davis):
Globalization and the Roots of American Exceptionalism