Ithaca College

Pearl Ponce (History) presented a paper at a conference hosted by Lebanon Valley College’s Center for Political History.

The Second Annual Conference on American Political History drew political historians from across the United States and Canada and featured twenty-five sessions, including one on “The Political Impact of Judicial Decisions.”   For that panel, Ponce presented her paper, “Treason and the Territories:  A Comparative Study of Utah and Kansas Territories in the 1850s.” This paper drew on the research for her current project, a monograph entitled “‘A Strange System of Terrorism’:  Federal Power and the Fraying of Democracy in Utah, Washington, and Kansas Territories in the 1850s.”