9:30–11:30 a.m.

Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Session 4
New Perspectives on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Labor, Race, and the State
Marriott, Wardman Towers, Ethan Allan Room

Chair:	Karin A. Shapiro, Duke University
Papers:	The Texas Prison Farm System Theresa Jach, University of Houston Struggles for the Public Interest: Organized Labor and State Mediation in Postwar America R. Todd Laugen, University of Colorado at Boulder Radicalism on Wisconsin’s Eastern Shore: Socialism in Manitowoc, 1905–17 Thomas F. Jorsch, Oklahoma State University
Comment:	Karin A. Shapiro