Sunday, January 5, 8:30–10:30 a.m.
American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions
128. New Perspectives on the New Political History: Periodicity vs. Plasticity in the Gilded Age
Hilton, Marquette Room
Joint session with the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Chair: Michael Les Benedict, Ohio State University
Papers: "The old party organizations are broken up." The Fragility
of the Party System in the Early Gilded Age
Andrew L. Slap, Penn State University
"Is not the pen mightier than the sword?" Liberal Republicans and the
Election of 1872
Robert W. Burg, Purdue University
The Significance of an Insignificant Election: The Great Debate of
1888
Joanne Reitano, La Guardia Community College, City University of New
York
Comment: Paula Baker, University of Pittsburgh
2003
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