Schedule:
8:30 Coffee and Welcome

9-10:15
18th Century Political Violence

‘Great and rich Men, Merchants and others’: Power and Violence in Philadelphia, 1726-1750
A. Michal McMahon, West Virginia University

Fear and Loathing in 1790s Philadelphia
Sally Heffentreyer, Pennsylvania State University

Comment: David Waldstreicher, Temple University

10:30 – 12:30
20th Century Racial Violence

The 1917 Race Riot in Chester, Pennsylvania
Eric Ledell Smith, PHMC

‘It Takes Riots to Swell the Ranks’: The Role of Violence in the Rise and Fall of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s in Western Pennsylvania
John M. Craig, Slippery Rock University

The Making of MOVE: Journalism and Popular Memory
Nicole Maurantonio, University of Pennsylvania

Comment: Rachel Batch, Widener University

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch on your own

1:30 – 3:15
Bad Girls: Women and Criminality

Hanging Hucksters out to Dry: The Criminalization of Philadelphia’s Enterprising Women
Candice Harrison, Emory University

Fannie Smiley: ‘A Negress…Thoroughly Bad’
Kali N. Gross, Drexel University

‘There are Plenty of Women on the Street’: Commercial Sex in Philadelphia, 1910-1920
Michael Kahan, Stanford University

Comment: Leslie Patrick, Bucknell University

3:30 – 5:30
Bad Boys: Youth, Masculinity, and 19th Century Authority

‘Don’t Tell Sarah’: Transgressive behaviors in the public and private memories of a WestmorelandCounty Guard in occupied Mexico, 1847-1848
Kelly Sisson, University of Michigan

Abolitionism, Civil Disobedience, and Parental Authority: The Kane Family and the Fugitive Slave Act
Matthew J. Grow, University of Notre Dame

Answering the Charges: Philadelphia Medical Students Behaving Badly
F. Michael Angelo, Thomas Jefferson University

Comment: Bruce Dorsey, Swarthmore College