2:30–4:30 p.m.

Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Session 5
New Perspectives on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Science and Faith
Marriott, Wardman Towers, Thomas Paine Room

Chair:	Alan Kraut, American University
Papers:	Some Protestants are More Equal Than Others: The Exclusion of White Southerners from the Protestant Mainstream Mary Elizabeth Swetnam Mathews, University of Virginia “ I have Pride in the Old Stock”: Immigration Restriction and Progressive Era Science Michael John Mezzano, Boston College Useful Knowledge for the People: Science and State Development in the Central West, 1880–1920 Jeremy Vetter, University of Pennsylvania
Comment:	Timothy Meagher, Catholic University of America