Ithaca College

Historian Pearl Ponce presented a paper at the BrANCH conference held October 3-5, 2018, at the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom

Her paper, entitled “The Fraying of Democracy in Utah, Washington, and Kansas Territories,” focused on cases of martial law and treason charges in each territory and made a case for the importance of comparative history in understanding the disorder these three territories experienced in the decade prior to the American Civil War.  She presented part of her current research, a manuscript project entitled “A Strange System of Terrorism”:  Federal Power and the Fraying of Democracy in Utah, Washington, and Kansas Territories in the 1850s.  This was the 25th anniversary conference of BrANCH (British American Nineteenth Century Historians) and was funded in part by the United States Embassy in London , the Andrew W. Mellon Fund (University of Cambridge), and The British Association for American Studies.