Penn Conference: Histories of Voting in America

We have word of a one-day conference, A More Perfect Union: Histories of Voting in America, to be held on October 18 at the University of Pennsylvania, organized by Hardeep Dhillon and William Sturkey of the Department of History.  Here is the schedule:

10:30am.  Breakfast

10:45am.  Opening Remarks
Dr. Hardeep Dhillon, Penn

11am.  The Promise and Limits of Electoral Democracy in the Early United States
Dr. Mark Boonshoft, Virginia Military Institute
Chair, Dr. Karen Tani, Penn

11:45am.  The Rise and Fall of Black & Woman Suffrage During Reconstruction
Dr. Manisha Sinha, University of Connecticut
Chair, Dr. Mia Bay, Penn

1:15pm.  Disenfranchisement and the Fight for Chinese American Suffrage
Dr. Beth Lew-Williams, Princeton
Chair, Dr. Fariha Khan, Penn

2pm.  Purging the Electorate
Dr. Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, Cornell University
Chair, Dr. Chenoa Flippen, Penn

3pm.  Student Voices
Moderator, Dr. William Sturkey, Penn

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--Dan Ernst