The New England Quarterly
is Pleased to Announce its Forum on
AMERICAN POLITICAL CULTURES
September 16 and 17, 2022
Friday, September 16
Reception and Dinner, Somerset Club
Keynote Address: Sean Wilentz
George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of History, Princeton University
Saturday, September 17
Massachusetts Historical Society
First Session
Panel Discussion: Gordon Wood, Mark Peterson, Wim Klooster, Rebecca Spang
Second Session
Douglas Egerton, “’Hereafter there will be no intimacy:' Charles Francis Adams, Charles Sumner, and the Emerging Divisions Within the Republican Party.”
John Stauffer, “Charles Sumner’s Political Culture and the Foundation of Civil Rights.”
Third Session
Hannah Farber, “On Economy, the Law, and the State in the Early Republic”
Margaret O’Mara, “Silicon Politics, from Big Science to Big Tech”
Fourth Session
Lizabeth Cohen, “Making a Post-Industrial New England”
General Discussion of American Political Cultures—Regional and Chronological
Further Details to Follow
Jonathan M. Chu
Bernard Bailyn Editor of the New England Quarterly