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Historian Pearl Ponce presented a paper at a symposium in London.

On June 21, 2019, Queen Mary University London held its Biennial Symposium in American History.  The theme for 2019 was “In Pursuit of Law and Order:  American Governance in Historical Perspective.”  Pearl Ponce was one of nine historians invited to present papers.  For a panel entitled (In)visible Empire:  The American State Beyond Border, she presented “Territorial Terrorism and American Governance in the 1850” in which she considered the implications of six, named massacres for American democracy in the territories.  The paper is part of her current manuscript project, “‘A Strange System of Terrorism’:  Federal Power and the Fraying of Democracy in Utah, Washington, and Kansas Territories in the 1850s.”