The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions presents a two day conference:
“Andrew Jackson at 250: Race, Politics, and Culture in the Age of Jacksonian “Democracy””
On the 250th anniversary of Andrew Jackson’s birth, the Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions (YCRI) invites you to a conference reassessing the “Age of Jackson” and Jacksonian “Democracy.” Join us for two days of panels, with presentations by historians and political scientists, as well as a special roundtable discussion of Andrew Jackson’s legacy.
Friday, December 1, 2017
8:30-9:00 a.m.: Breakfast
9:00 a.m.: Introduction. Steven B. Smith (Yale University)
9:00-10:30 a.m.: Panel 1. Political Economy and the Jacksonian State (Luce 203)
- Naomi Lamoreaux (Yale University): “Fixing the Machine that Would Not Go of Itself: State Constitutional Change and the Creation of an Open Access Social Order in the Jacksonian Era”
- Ariel Ron (Southern Methodist University): “‘King Hay’: Nationalism, Energy History, and Economic Development in the Nineteenth-Century Northern United States”
- Chair: Isaac Nakhimovsky (Yale University)
10:30-11:00 a.m.: Coffee
11:30-12:30 p.m.: Lunch
12:30-2:00 p.m.: Panel 2. “Law and Order” in the Age of Jackson (Luce 202)
- Laura F. Edwards (Duke University): “The Hidden World of Governance in Jacksonian America and the Artificial Line Between Legal History and Political History”
- Giulia Oskian (Yale University): “Tocqueville and the Legal Culture of Jacksonian America”
- John Fabian Witt (Yale University): “Capitalism, Slavery, and the Law in the Age of Jackson”
- Chair: Bryan Garsten (Yale University)
2:00-2:30 p.m.: Coffee
2:30-4:30 p.m.: Roundtable: Andrew 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)