Panel 1

Event Details

Panel 1 includes presentations of “Switchman of American Citizenship: Senate Distinctiveness, Dred Scott, and Ironies of the Citizenship Clause” by Richard Valelly (Swarthmore College) and “Between Reconstructions: Congressional Action on Civil Rights, 1891–1940” by Jeffery Jenkins, Justin Peck, and Vesla Weaver (University of Virginia), followed by discussant Richard Bensel (Cornell University).