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Material Histories of Politics in the Nineteenth-Century United States — Panel Debrief from the 2026 OAH Conference

In this special OAH conference panel debrief episode, we revisit a conversation from the panel, “Material Histories of Politics in the Nineteenth-Century United States,” between panel chair Laura F. Edwards (Princeton University), Moyra Williams Eaton (Pennsylvania State University), Whitney Martinko (Villanova University), and Hope McCaffrey (Pennsylvania State University). Tune in to hear them discuss why material history matters, what material archival sources can reveal, and where the fields of legal and material history are headed.

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