Sunday, January 11, 2004

8:30–10:30 a.m.

142.Restriction of Civil Liberties in Hot and Cold War America
Omni Shoreham, Embassy Room

Chair: Janet Golden, Rutgers University at Camden
Papers:

Quarantining Prostitutes: Rapid Treatment Centers for Venereal Disease in World War II America
John Parascandola, National Library of Medicine

The False Dichotomy of Security and Civil Liberties: Wartime Profiling in the U.S. Internment of Germans from Latin America, 1941–45
Max Paul Friedman, Florida State University

Scientific Security: Robert Oppenheimer, Anti-Communism, and the Public Debate over Individual Liberties
David Hecht, Harvard University


Comment: Susan Reverby, Wellesley College