Oct. 13–15, 2016 Stanford University

Tools & Traditions in American Intellectual History 1

Welcome to the 2016 Society for United States Intellectual History (S-USIH)’s annual conference! Now in its eighth year, the S-USIH conference is already well known in the historical profession for its welcom- ing atmosphere, rigorous level of discussion, and wide ranging set of interests. In the program that follows, you will find scholars engaging everything from Darwin to Deconstruction, hip hop to the Whole Earth Catalog. Over 100 original papers will be presented, spanning all aspects of American thought, with plenary sessions on gender, Puritanism, technology, and presidential politics. We expect you’ll find plenty of food for thought.

Sincerely, 2016 S-USIH Conference Committee Jennifer Burns, Chair, Stanford University Claire Rydell Arcenas, University of Montana Lilian Calles Barger, Independent Scholar Jeffrey Sklansky, University of Illinois at Chicago Ethan Schrum, Azusa Pacific University 2 Schedule Overview

Thursday, October 13

4–5pm Welcome Reception, appetizers and drinks Conference registration opens

5:30–7pm Opening Keynote Address Fred Turner, Stanford University, “Network Celebrity: Entrepreneurship and the New Public Intellectuals”

7:15pm Shuttles to Cardinal Hotel, downtown Palo Alto 8pm Stanford Marguerite Shuttle service also available

Friday, October 14

8am Shuttle pickups from Cardinal Hotel, Stanford Guest House Stanford Marguerite Shuttle service also available departing from CalTrain Station (Y Limited and P Express)

8–8:30am Coffee and light breakfast Conference registration opens

8:30–10:15am Sessions I Panels 1–4

10:30am–12:15pm Sessions II Panels 5–8

12:15–1:30pm Lunch Break

1:30–3pm Afternoon Keynote Address David Greenberg, Rutgers University, “A History of Presidential Spin”

3:15–5pm Sessions III Panels 9–12 3

5–5:30pm Reception and Appetizers

5:30–7pm Evening Plenary Session “The Many Faces of Gender in American Thought: Considering Our Methods”

7:15pm Shuttle to Cardinal Hotel, downtown Palo Alto Stanford Marguerite Shuttle service also available

Saturday, October 15

8am Shuttle pickups from Cardinal Hotel (second shuttle 8:30am) and Stanford Guest House No Stanford Marguerite Shuttle service

8–8:30am Coffee and light breakfast Conference registration opens

8:30–10:15am Sessions IV Panels 13–16

10:30am–12:15pm Sessions V Panels 17–20

12:30–12:45pm S-USIH Prize Ceremony

12:45–2pm Lunchtime Plenary Roundtable “Whither Puritanism? Reflections on the State of the Field”

2:30–4:15pm Sessions VI Panels 21–24

4:30–6:15pm Sessions VII Panels 25–28

6:30 and 7pm Shuttles to Cardinal Hotel, downtown Palo Alto Limited Stanford Marguerite Shuttle service Thursday, October 13 Thursday, October 13 5

4 – 5pm Welcome Reception, appetizers and drinks Patio, Stanford Conference registration opens Humanities Center

5:30 – 7pm Opening Keynote Address Levinthal Hall (Stanford Humanities Fred Turner, Stanford University Center) “Network Celebrity: Entrepreneurship and the New Public Intellectuals”

7:15pm Shuttles to Cardinal Hotel, downtown Palo Alto 8pm Stanford Marguerite Shuttle service also available

processing unit processing ATi RadeonATi R300 graphics Friday, October 14 Friday, October 14 7

8am Shuttle pickups from Cardinal Hotel, Stanford Guest House Stanford Marguerite Shuttle also available departing from CalTrain Station (Y Limited and P Express)

8 – 8:30am Coffee and light breakfast Tresidder Lobby Conference registration opens

8:30 – 10:15am Sessions I

Roundtable: Traditions vs. Experiences in 1 American Foreign Affairs Chair: Raymond Haberski, Indiana University, Oak West Indianapolis (Tresidder) Elizabeth Cobbs, Texas A&M University Jeremi Suri, University of Texas, Austin Chritopher McKnight Nichols, Oregon State University

Troubling Gender in the Neoliberal Era 2 Chair/Commentator: Kimberly Hamlin, Miami University Cypress South (Tresidder) Sarah Potter, University of Memphis, “Women Rap about Sex: Feminism and Extramarital Sex in the 1960s and 1970s” Alison Lefkovitz, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark, “Protecting Housewives: The State, the States, Feminists, and Conservatives during the Long 1970s” Deborah Dinner, Emory University, “Maternity, Class, and Conservatism: Recasting Divides in Feminist Legal Theory during the 1980s” 8 Sessions 3–5

Counternarratives of the Urban Crisis 3 Chair/Commentator: Eric Porter, University of California, Santa Cruz Cypress North (Tresidder) Ryan D. Purcell, Cornell University, “‘A Place for Our Crowd’: Spatial Politics of Hip Hop in New York City, 1973-1977” Sam Klug, Harvard University, “Debating the Internal Colony: Decolonialization, Black Power, and a New Language of the Urban Crisis” Devin McGeehan Muchmore, Yale University, “‘Porno Fights Back’: Social Science, Adult Industry Entrepreneurs, and the Making of Urban Liberalism in the 1970s U.S.” Zenith R98 portable boombox portable R98 Zenith

Roundtable: The Work of Dorothy Ross and Its 4 Significance for American Intellectual History Chair: Daniel Wickberg, University of Texas Levinthal Hall at Dallas (Stanford Humanities Center) David Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley François Furstenberg, Johns Hopkins University Sarah E. Igo, Vanderbilt University Andrew Jewett, Harvard University Friday, October 14 9

10:15 – 10:30am Coffee Break in Tresidder Lobby Tresidder Lobby

10:30am – 12:15pm Sessions II

Expert Tools and Political Traditions in the 5 Twentieth Century Chair/Commentator: Sarah E. Igo, Vanderbilt Cypress North University (Tresidder) Glory Liu, Stanford University, “‘The Father of that Dismal Science:’ Adam Smith and the Chicago School, 1928-1980” Tom Arnold-Forster, Cambridge University, “Democracy and Expertise in the Lippmann- Terman Controversy, 1922-23” John Gee, Harvard University, “International Collaboration and Applied Social Science: The Smithsonian’s Schools of Anthropology, 1943-1952” Yukako Otori, Harvard University, “Child Labor and the U.S. Children’s Bureau, 1912-1924” 10 Sessions 6–8

The Roots of Conflicting Ideologies in American Democracy: Popular Constitutionalism, Liberal 6 Criminology, and the Psychology of Pragmatism Cypress South Chair: Claire Rydell Arcenas, University of (Tresidder) Montana Commentator: Kyle G. Volk, University of Montana Aaron Hall, University of California, Berkeley, “Conflicting Foundings: Learning, Loving and Litigating Popular Constitutional History in Antebellum America” Anthony Gregory, University of California, Berkeley, “The New Deal and the Twilight of Progressive Criminology: The Case of August Vollmer” Paul J. Croce, Stetson University, “Without Attention, Mental Tools Have No Use: William James’s Psychology of Philosophizing and Deliberation Across Values Differences”

Roundtable: Rethinking Religion and Politics 7 Chair: Katherine D. Moran, St. Louis University Christopher Grasso, The College of William and Oak West (Tresidder) Mary Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, Washington University in St. Louis Jonathan Sheehan, University of California, Berkeley Mark Valeri, Washington University in St. Louis Friday, October 14 11

Roundtable: The Revolution Will Be Blogged: 8 Founding Digital Worlds of Intellectual History Moderator/Chair: Sara Georgini, The Adams Levinthal Hall Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society (Stanford Humanities Center) Benjamin E. Park, Sam Houston State University Paul Harvey, University of Colorado Chernoh Sesay, Jr., DePaul University Jacqueline D. Antonovich, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Christopher Jones, Brigham Young University

12:15 – 1:30pm Lunch break

Sequoia Room S-USIH Business Meeting (Tresidder) All welcome No fixed location Mentoring lunches

1:30 – 3pm Afternoon Keynote Address Oak West (Tresidder) David Greenberg, Rutgers University, “A History of Presidential Spin”

StagePro Presidential teleprompter teleprompter Presidential StagePro with adjustable stand adjustable with 12 Sessions 9–12

3:15 – 5pm Sessions III

Religion at the Margins: Intellectual Syncretism and the Search for a Democratic Religion in 9 Twentieth Century America Cypress North Chair: K. Healan Gaston, Harvard Divinity School (Tresidder) Commentator: David Sehat, Georgia State University Amy Kittelstrom, Sonoma State University, “‘An Honest Man’: James Baldwin and African- American Religion(s)” Maggie Elmore, University of California, Berkeley, “Ahead of His Time: Raymond McGowan and the Catholic Struggle for Industrial Democracy” Natalie Johnson, Stanford University, “Unity Without Uniformity: Louis Finkelstein and the Search for a Democratic Moral System”

Literary Intellectuals as Public Intellectuals: From the Friendly Club to Greenwich Village to 10 the ‘Female’ School of Deconstruction Cypress South Chair/Commentator: Catherine O’Donnell, (Tresidder) Arizona State University Jonathan W. Wilson, University of Scranton and Marywood University, “Mirrors of the Age: Literary Representations and the Making of an American Public, 1794-1810” Patrick Redding, Manhattanville College, “The Egalitarian Sensorium: Democracy and the Body in American Poetry and Pragmatism” Gregory Jones-Katz, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, “Undoing Patterns of Effacement: The ‘Female’ School of Deconstruction and the Transformation of American Feminism, 1969-1991” Friday, October 14 13

Marxism, Americanism, Regionalism 11 Chair/Commentator: Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara Oak West (Tresidder) Andrew Hartman, Illinois State University, “Americans Reading Capital from the First Gilded Age to the Second” Leilah Danielson, Northern Arizona University, “Marxism and Americanism: Revisiting the Popular Front” Robert Greene II, University of South Carolina, “The 1970s Left and the American South: A Reappraisal”

Interpreting the Constitution: Early American 12 Practices and Modern Ramifications Chair/Commentator: Jeffrey L. Pasley, University Levinthal Hall of Missouri (Stanford Humanities Center) Jonathan Gienapp, Stanford University, “The Necessity of Intellectual History for Constitutional Originalism” Saul Cornell, Fordham University, “The Original Debate over Original Meaning Revisited” Rachel Shelden, University of Oklahoma, “The Supreme Court & the Politics of Constitutional Interpretation” 14

5 – 5:30pm Oak West Reception and Appetizers (Tresidder)

5:30 – 7pm Evening Plenary Session Oak West (Tresidder) “The Many Faces of Gender in American Thought: Considering Our Methods” Moderator: Caroline Winterer, Stanford University Mia Bay, Rutgers University Kimberly Hamlin, Miami University Deborah Dinner, Emory University Daniel Wickberg, University of Texas at Dallas

Heredity , 1913 Diagram from and Sex

7:15 pm Shuttle to Cardinal Hotel, downtown Palo Alto Stanford Marguerite Shuttle service also available Saturday, October 15 16 Sessions 13–15

8am Shuttle pickups from Cardinal Hotel and Stanford Guest House No Stanford Marguerite Shuttle service available

8:30am Second shuttle pickup from Cardinal Hotel

8 – 8:30am Coffee and light breakfast Tressider Lobby Conference registration opens

8:30 – 10:15am Sessions IV

Intellectual Bases of American Hegemony: Reconciling Democracy and Global Supremacy 13 in the Twentieth Century Cypress North Chair: Nils Gilman, University of California, (Tresidder) Berkeley Commentator: Elizabeth Borgwardt, Washington University in St. Louis Daniel Bessner, University of Washington, “Researching for Empire: Democracy, Crisis, and the Rise of Think Tanks from the 1930s-1950s” Anne Kornhauser, City College of New York, “The Concept of ‘Democratic’ Nation-Building and the Legacy of World War II’s American Occupations” Stephen Wertheim, University of Cambridge and Princeton University, “Undemocratic Debate: The Legitimation of American Global Supremacy in World War II”

Alex Haley’s Roots: A Fortieth Anniversary 14 Roundtable Chair: Benjamin L. Alpers, University of Cypress South Oklahoma (Tresidder) Erica Ball, Occidental College Sarah Gardner, Mercer University Robert Greene II, University of South Carolina Saturday, October 15 17

Imagining Political Change in the Gilded Age 15 Chair/Commentator: Charles Postel, San Francisco State University Oak West (Tresidder) Janine Giordano Drake, University of Great Falls, “The Holiness Movement, Eugene Debs, and the Possibility of Socialism, 1897-1901” Kyle G. Volk, University of Montana, “Sunday Law, the Right to Rest, and the Intellectual Origins of the Modern Liberal State” Jeremy C. Young, Dixie State University, “The Case for Emotional Politics: Charisma and Democratic Discourse”

. October 21, 1871. Boss Tweed." " Nast, Thomas. Nast, Harper's Weekly

18 Sessions 16–19

Beyond the Analytic Ascent: Forgotten Traditions of American Philosophy at 16 Mid-Century Levinthal Hall Chair/Commentator: Andrew Jewett, Harvard (Stanford Humanities Center) University Jonathan Strassfeld, University of Rochester, “Phenomenology in World War II America: Foundations to Isolation” P. MacKenzie Bok, Cambridge University, “‘Philosophical Analysis’ Arrives in America: Max Black and Postwar Cornell” Scott Pratt, University of Oregon, and Erin McKenna, Pacific Lutheran University, “The Roots of the 1960s: Pragmatism After the War”

10:30am – 12:15pm Sessions V

Wendell Berry, Rural Intellectual 17 Chair/Commentator: Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, Syracuse University Cypress North (Tresidder) Robert Corban, Columbia University, “‘Stay Out of the Nucleus’: Place, Limits and Biotechnology in the Work of Wendell Berry” Aaron Plasek, Columbia University, “On Necessity in Wendell Berry’s ‘Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer’” Matthew D. Stewart, Syracuse University, “Wendell Berry, Californian?” by Guy Mendes, 2011 Wendell Berry. Photograph Photograph Berry. Wendell Saturday, October 15 19

American and European Internationalisms, 18 1920s–1940s Chair/Commentator: Christopher Nichols, Cypress South Oregon State University (Tresidder) Giuliana Chamedes, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “The Pope vs. Wilson: How Catholic Internationalism Outlived the Wilsonian Moment” Gene Zubovich, Washington University in St. Louis, “Christian Internationalism and the Ambiguities of Anticommunism” Terence Renaud, Yale University, “The Socialist ‘Third Way’: A European Imaginary of the 1930s and ’40s”

As California Goes: The Golden State as Epicenter of Postwar Transformations in 19 American Thought and Culture Oak West (Tresidder) Chair/Commentator: Kerwin Lee Klein, University of California, Berkeley Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, The New School, “Golden State of Glowing Health: Forming a National Wellness Culture” Anthony Chaney, University of North Texas— Dallas, “A Case of the Greater Whim-whams: Stewart Brand from Catalog to Co-Evolution” L.D. Burnett, Collin College, “From the Foothills to the Grove: Stanford University, the Bohemian Club, and the Gender Wars of the 1980s”

Bohemian Club Club Bohemian mascot, 624 Taylor Street, San Francisco San 20 Sessions 20–21

The Religious Imagination in American 20 Antislavery Chair/Commentator: Dee E. Andrews, California Levinthal Hall State University, East Bay (Stanford Humanities Center) Ben Wright, University of Texas at Dallas, “Conversionist and Purificationist Antislavery” Jonathan D. Sassi, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Theologies of Slavery and Abolition in Eighteenth-Century New Jersey” Emily Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University, “Abigail Bradley Hyde’s Christian Approach to Antislavery” Gale L. Kenny, Barnard College, “‘A Monstrous Dogma’: Radical Abolitionists, Race, and Religious Liberty in the 1830s–1840s”

12:30 – 2pm Lunch Roundtable and Prize Oak West (Tresidder) Ceremony Box lunch, coffee/tea provided

12:30 – 12:45pm S-USIH Prize Ceremony 2016 S-USIH Annual Book Award (co-winners) Sarah Bridger, Scientists at War: the Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research (Harvard, 2015) Daniel Immerwahr, Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Development (Harvard, 2015)

Inaugural Dorothy Ross Prize, for best article published in an academic journal by an emerging scholar (graduate student or within five years of receiving the Ph.D) Michael G. Thompson, “Sherwood Eddy, the Missionary Enterprise, and the Rise of Christian Internationalism in 1920s America,” Modern Intellectual History 12:1 (April 2015), 65-93. Saturday, October 15 21 Plymouth rock Plymouth

12:45 – 2pm Lunchtime Plenary Roundtable “Whither Puritanism? Reflections on the State of the Field” Moderator: David Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley Chris Beneke, Bentley University David Hall, Harvard Divinity School Mark Peterson, University of California, Berkeley Sarah Rivett, Princeton University

2:30 – 4:15pm Sessions VI

Historicizing Morality in the Nineteenth-Century 21 United States Chair/Commentator: Amy Kittelstrom, Sonoma Cypress North State University (Tresidder) Margaret Abruzzo, University of Alabama, “‘The Worst of Sinners’: Sin in Theology and Moral Theory” Andrea L. Turpin, Baylor University, “Gender as a Tool for Analyzing the Changing Moral Purposes of American Higher Education” Laura Rominger Porter, University of Florida, “Sin, Self-Control and States’ Rights: The Problem of Moral Authority in the Antebellum South” 22 Sessions 22–25

'Symbolic Involvements': Artistic Modernism as 22 an Intellectual Tradition Chair: George Cotkin, California Polytechnic Cypress South University, San Luis Obispo (Tresidder) Commentator: Casey N. Blake, Columbia University Ana Isabel Keilson, Columbia University, “America Dancing Europe: Isadora Duncan in Germany, 1902-13” Clay Matlin, University of Rochester, “’We actually…began from scratch’: Postwar Abstraction as Realism” Martin Woessner, City College of New York, “Between Golden Earth and Crimson Sky: The ‘Metaphysical Vision’ of Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven”

Future Shocked: Histories of Forward-Looking 23 Technology Ideas and Institutions Chair: Jennifer Petersen, University of Virginia Oak West (Tresidder) Commentator: Fred Turner, Stanford University Benjamin Peters, University of Tulsa, “Thought Labs: Steps toward a History of Computing” Jeff Pooley, Muhlenberg College, “How to Become a Dominant Media Thinker: The Case of Marshall McLuhan” Devon Powers, Temple University, “Thinking in Trends: The Birth of Trend Forecasting in the United States” Stephanie Schulte, University of Arkansas, “Rethinking Leadership: Obama’s Start Up Patches HealthCare.gov and Reboots Government” Saturday, October 15 23

Roundtable: Law and Intellectual History 24 Commentator: Christopher Tomlins, University of California, Berkeley Levinthal Hall (Stanford Humanities Susanna Blumenthal, University of Center) Minnesota, “The Testimony of Consciousness” Holly Brewer, University of Maryland, College Park, “Legitimacy and Property in People in the 17th Century” Steven Wilf, University of Connecticut, “Of Networks and Novelty: The Problem of Collective Creation in the Making of Intellectual Property in the Long 19th Century” David Rabban, University of Texas, “The History of Legal Ideas: The Variability of External and Internal Influences”

4:30 – 6:15pm Sessions VII

Deprivation, Opportunity, and Mobility: Theorizing Inequality and its Opposites in Mid- 25 Twentieth Century Social Thought Cypress North Chair/Commentator: Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, (Tresidder) The New School Ethan Hutt, University of Maryland, College Park, “Surveying the Nation: Federal Longitudinal Surveys and the Construction of the American Education System” Leah Gordon, Stanford University, “Equality of Opportunity and its Critics in the Post-Civil Rights Act Era” Paul A. Kramer, Vanderbilt University, “What’s International about the US Intellectual History of Poverty?” Ray McDermott, Stanford University, “Culture, Learning, and Poverty in the 1960s and 1970s” 24 Sessions 26–27

Christian Apologetics after Darwin: American 26 Protestant Engagement with Secular Modernity Chair/Commentator: Kathryn Gin Lum, Stanford Cypress South University (Tresidder) Daniel K. Williams, University of West Georgia, “Rational Faith in the Age of Darwin: Christian Apologetics among Liberal Protestants in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries” Carl R. Weinberg, Indiana University, “‘Dangerous Triplets’: John R. Rice, Anticommunist Creationism, and the Continuity of Christian Conservatism” Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Proof Texts, Presuppositions, and Politics: Evangelical Apologetics as a Mode of Culture War” biological evolution biological Ichthys symbol variation, promoting a version of Old Earth Creationism that rejects

Roundtable: Mark Greif, The Age of the 27 Crisis of Man Chair: Angus Burgin, Johns Hopkins University Levinthal Hall Casey N. Blake, Columbia University (Stanford Humanities Center) David Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley Lisa Szefel, Pacific University Mark Greif, The New School

6:30 and 7pm Shuttles to Cardinal Hotel, downtown Palo Alto Limited Stanford Marguerite Shuttle service available With generous funding from School of Humanities and Sciences Department of History Stanford Humanities Center Hoover Institution Library and Archives Stanford University Press Clayman Institute for Gender Research Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Stanford Graduate School of Education Education and Jewish Studies Bay Area Consortium for the History of Ideas in America Department of Communication