Conference on Teaching the Social Studies
Presidential Elections in History
Friday, October 12, 2012
Brewer Hegeman Conference Center, UCA
Time: 9:00-2:30
8:00-8:45
Registration and coffee
Hippo-Crafton Conference Room 111 & 113
9:00
Welcome and Introduction of speaker
Keynote Address by Dr. Allan Lichtman, “The Keys to the White House: Forecast for 2012”
Conference Room 112 & 114
10:20
Break
10:30 -11:45
George Washington: The Election was Easy, the Presidency was Hard,” Dr. Wendy Castro
Conference Room 101
“Arkansas’s Governor Bill Clinton and the 1992 Presidential Election,” Skip Rutherford
Conference Room 112 & 114
12:00
Luncheon Session and speaker, Dr. Lichtman, “The 1928 Election: The First Catholic to Run for President” This lecture concerns Democratic Nominee Al Smith, Catholic Governor of New York, whose vice-presidential running mate was Joe T. Robinson, a Methodist Senator from Arkansas.
Hippo-Crafton Conference Room 111 & 113
1:15 – 2:30
“Lincoln’s Elections of 1860 and 1864: One Straight-forward and one Problematic,” Dr. Lorien Foote
Conference Room 112 & 114