The Age of Jacksonian Democracy Teaching Antebellum America in Schools sponsored by: 46th Northeast Regional Conference on the Social Studies Wednesday, April 6, 2016 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM 185 Devonshire Street, Suite 1101, Boston, MA 02110 T: 617.723.2277 Sturbridge Host Hotel & Conference Center F: 617.723.1880 | www.pioneerinstitute.org 366 Main St., Sturbridge, MA 01566 AUTHORS AGENDA David & Jeanne Heidler are co-authors or editors of 12 books, including 8:00 – 8:15 Old Hickory’s War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire, the award- winning Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, Daily Life in the Early Welcome and Awarding Student Essay Winners American Republic: Creating a New Nation, The Mexican War, Henry Tom Birmingham Clay: The Essential American, and most recently, Washington’s Circle: The Creation of the President. David is retired from the classroom, and Distinguished Senior Fellow, Pioneer Institute Jeanne is Professor Emeritus of History at the U.S. Air Force Academy where she was Chief of the American History Division. The Heidlers 8:15 –9:15 have been interviewed by numerous media outlets, including C-SPAN and NPR. They received Ph.D.s in U.S. history from Auburn University, Co-Keynote Remarks specializing in the period from 1789 to 1865. They are currently working Daniel Walker Howe on a book about the political rise of Andrew Jackson. Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus, Oxford University Daniel Walker Howe is Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus and UCLA, and Author, What Hath God Wrought: at Oxford University in England and Professor of History Emeritus at the The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 University of California, Los Angeles. He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for History for What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848. He also wrote Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln David & Jeanne Heidler and The Political Culture of the American Whigs. Howe graduated magna cum Co-Authors, Old Hickory’s War: Andrew Jackson laude in American history and literature from Harvard College and received his Ph.D. in history at the University of California, Berkeley. and the Quest for Empire Fred Kaplan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Queens College and the 9:15 – 9:25 Graduate Center, City University of New York. A biographer, literary scholar, Audience Q&A and historian, he is the author, among other books, of biographies of Thomas Carlyle (a Pulitzer Prize finalist), Charles Dickens, Henry James, Gore Vidal, and Mark Twain. His Lincoln, the Biography of a Writer, a Lincoln Prize finalist, was 9:25 - 10:25 published in 2008 and John Quincy Adams: American Visionary in 2014. He is Roundtable Panel Discussion currently writing Lincoln Plain: John Quincy Adams, Lincoln, Slavery, & the Civil War, and preparing Thomas Jefferson, the Biography of a Writer. A long-time Moderator: resident of New York City, he now lives in Boothbay, Maine. Alan Taylor, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History, University of Virginia, and Author, The Internal Enemy: R. Kent Newmyer is a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, specializing in the political, constitutional and legal history of the early Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 national period. He has received several awards for teaching, including a Distinguished Alumni Professor, the highest faculty honor bestowed by Panelists: the University. Newmyer has authored several books, including Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic, John Marshall and Carolyn Barrows, Teacher, History & Social Studies, the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court, and The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr: Law, Boston Public Schools Politics, and the Character Wars of the New Nation. Newmyer received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Nebraska. Laura Honeywood, High School History Teacher, Academy of the Pacific Rim Charter Public School Theda Perdue is the Atlanta Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Perdue has published sixteen books including R. Kent Newmyer, Professor of Law and History, UConn School of Law, Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, “Mixed Blood” Indians: Racial and Author, John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court Construction in the Early South, Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895, The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents, and The Cherokee Theda Perdue, Atlanta Distinguished Term Professor Emerita Nation and the Trail of Tears. She has held fellowships from the Rockefeller of Southern Culture, UNC, Chapel Hill and Author, Foundation, the Newberry Library, the National Humanities Center, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History Perdue has served as president of the Southern Association for Women Historians, the American Society for Ethnohistory, and the Southern Historical 10:25 – 10:35 Association. Audience Q&A Alan Taylor is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He taught previously at the University 10:35 – 10:50 of California, Davis and Boston University. Taylor has authored seven books, Closing Remarks including The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia: 1772-1832, which Fred Kaplan, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Queens College and was a National Book Award for Nonfiction finalist in 2013 and won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in History. His book William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion the Graduate Center, CUNY and Author, John Quincy Adams: American Visionary on the Frontier of the Early American Republic won the 1996 Bancroft, Beveridge, and Pulitzer prizes. Taylor is a graduate of Colby College and 10:50-11:00 received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University. Book Signing.