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