Sunday, January 11, 2004

8:30–10:30 a.m.

127.Empire, Environment, and Travel: Gender and Political Culture in the United States, 1880–1920
Marriott, Kennedy Room

Joint session with the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Chair: Robyn Muncy, University of Maryland at College Park
Papers:

American Populism and the British Empire: The Problem of Mary Lease’s The Problem of Civilization Solved
Rebecca Edwards, Vassar College

“ Political Hermaphrodites”: Gender and Environmental Reform in the Progressive Era
Adam Rome, Pennsylvania State University

Girdling the Globe: U.S. Women and the Fictive Travel Movement, 1880–1920
Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Comment: Maureen Flanagan, Michigan State University