The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions presents

andrew jackson at 250Race, Politics, and Culture in the Age of Jacksonian “Democracy”

friday-saturday, december 1-2, 2017Yale MacMillan Center • Henry R. Luce Hall, Room 202 and 203 • 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Bell & Brother, The Colossal Bronze Equestrian Statue of Gen. Andrew Jackson. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22679245

Generously funded by The Jack Miller Center, The Thomas W. Smith Fund, The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, The Yale History Department, and The Yale Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.

For more information and for the full conference program, please visit https://ycri.yale.edu

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 8:30–9:00 AM Breakfast

9:00 AM Introduction Steven Smith (Yale University)

9:00–10:30 AM Panel 1: Political Economy and the Jacksonian State (Luce 203) Naomi Lamoreaux (Yale University) Ariel Ron (Southern Methodist University)

10:30–11:00 AM Coffee

11:30 AM–12:30 PM Lunch

12:30–2:00 PM Panel 2: “Law and Order” in the Age of Jackson (Luce 202) Laura F. Edwards (Duke University) Giulia Oskian (Yale University) John Fabian Witt (Yale University)

2:00–2:30 PM Coffee

2:30–4:30 PM Roundtable: Jackson’s Legacy (Luce 202) Harry L. Watson (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Donald Margulies (Yale University) Stephen Skowronek (Yale University) Manisha Sinha (University of Connecticut)

Moderator: Joshua A. Lynn (Yale University)

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2 9:30–10:00 AM Breakfast

10:00–11:30 AM Panel 3: Jacksonian Political Thought Revisited (Luce 202) Alex Zakaras (The University of Vermont) Robert S. Richard (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Joshua A. Lynn (Yale University)

11:30 AM–1:00 PM Coffee and Lunch

1:00–2:30 PM Panel 4: Jacksonian White Male Supremacy (Luce 202) Kristofer Ray (Dartmouth College) Laurel Clark Shire (Western University) Jameson Sweet (Yale University)

2:30–3:00 PM Coffee

3:00–4:30 PM Panel 5: Slavery and Antislavery in the Age of Jackson (Luce 202) Matthew Mason (Brigham Young University) Emily A. Owens (Brown University) Gunther W. Peck (Duke University)

4:30 PM Closing Remarks and Reception