The Philadelphia Society’s Fall Regional Meeting
October 13-14, 2006
Sheraton Station Square Hotel – Pittsburgh, PA
The Contested Roots of American Liberty

Program and Speakers and Their Web Links

(To be invited as a guest, you must be personally invited by a Member)

Friday

6:00 – 7:00    Reception  
7:00 – 9:00   Dinner
George H. Nash, Historian and Author, Chairman
Good Brief Biography from the Kirk Center: http://www.kirkcenter.org/bios/georgenash.html
Amazon page for The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/188292620X/002-4491189-4584011?v=glance&n=283155
George Nash on Herbert Hoover for the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies:
http://www.gvsu.edu/hauenstein/index.cfm?id=92612F14-A6D7-BFCD-5C2C89A45FB4DF8A
George Nash on the Crunchy Cons: http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110007996
George Nash on Hayek for ISI Seminar: http://www.isi.org/lectures/text/pdf/hayek4-3-04.pdf

Invocation, Charles Hull Wolfe, President, Plymouth Rock Foundation 
Wolfe's fine essay which can set the stage for the weekend proceedings: "Who Were The Pilgrims?"  http://www.plymrock.org/who_were_the_pilgrims.htm

Bill Campbell, Print Exhibition and video presentation, Portrait of Liberty
Short ISI Biography: http://www.isi.org/bios/bio.aspx?id=6EFF7B9B-71B7-49EC-8614-9394E99FAFA9&source=General&select=true&detail=1
Exhibition on Classical Republicans, Whigs, and Tories: http://www.phillysoc.org/classic.htm
LSU Vitae: http://www.bus.lsu.edu/economics/facultywebpage.asp?autoid=115

Keynote Speaker: The Rt. Hon. William Hague, MP, Shadow Foreign Secretary 
Amazon site for his book on William Pitt: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400040523/002-4491189-4584011?v=glance&n=283155
Michael Barone on Hague's book on Pitt: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/baroneblog/archives/060801/doom_and_gloom_1.htm
Hague on William Wilberforce, the subject of his next major book: http://www.ccfwebsite.com/world_display.php?ID=7&type=speech
Barton Swaim review in the Claremont Institute of Hague's book on Pitt: http://www.claremont.org/writings/050805swaim.html
Light Biography of William Hague: http://www.nyt.co.uk/william-hague.htm
Conservative biography of Hague with reference to recent speeches and activities: http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=people.person.page&personID=4680

Saturday

8:30 – 10:00  Christianity, Liberalism, and the Coming of the American Revolution

Paul Kengor, Chairman, Grove City College
Grove City College biography of Paul Kengor: http://gcc.savvior.com/Paul_Kengor,_Ph_D_.php
Paul Kengor on the evening of April 6, 2006, "Reagan, Bush and the March of Freedom": http://gcc.savvior.com/Dinner_with_Paul_Kengor.php?view_all=1
Paul Kengor columns in The American Spectator: http://www.spectator.org/search.asp

Thomas Kidd, Baylor University, The Great Awakening
Complete Vitae on Baylor website: http://www3.baylor.edu/~Thomas_Kidd/
Short Vitae on Baylor website: http://www.baylor.edu/vision/index.php?id=9774
Yale University Press, information on Kidd's important book for our meeting, The Protestant Interest New England After Puritanism: http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300104219

Patrick Mullins, Saginaw Valley State University, Jonathan Mayhew
Patrick is a recently minted Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky, working under Lance Banning and writing his dissertation on the work of Jonathan Mayhew.  He has been at the Liberty Fund this past year as a Post-Doctorate Fellow.  
Curriculum vitae.

Jeffry Morrison, Regent University, John Witherspoon
Regent University vitae: http://www.regent.edu/acad/schgov/faculty/morrison_bio.htm
Notre Dame Press release on Jeffry's Book on Witherspoon: http://www3.undpress.nd.edu/exec/dispatch.php?s=isbn,0268034850
Roger Kimball's full review of Jeffry's book in the Wall Street Journal: http://www.opinionjournal.com/federation/feature/?id=110008512 

10:15 – 11:45  American Independence: the View from Britain

Linda Raeder, Palm Beach Atlantic College, Chairman
Brief Biography: http://www.yorktownuniversity.com/faculty/raeder.html

Peter Stanlis, Rockford College, Edmund Burke
The Best of Burke edited by Peter Stanlis: http://www.nrbookservice.com/products/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=c4595#continue
Peter Stanlis on Frost: http://www.caxtonclub.org/reading/2001/Jan2001/reminiscence.htm
Modern Age article: http://www.mmisi.org/ma/02_01/stanlis.pdf

Ronald Hamowy, University of Alberta, The View from Scotland
Short biography on Cato Institute: http://www.cato.org/people/hamowy.html
Ron Hamowy's book on Amazon, The Political Sociology of Freedom: Adam Ferguson and F.A. Hayek: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1845421086/sr=8-3/qid=1155261453/ref=sr_1_3/103-3817491-7129401?ie=UTF8
Ron Hamowy Remembers Rothbard and Hayek: http://blog.mises.org/archives/000414.asp
Ron Hamowy's edited edition of Cato's Letters for Liberty Fund: http://www.libertyfund.org/details.asp?displayID=1595
Ron Hamowy on Rothbard and Hayek: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/hamowy1.html
Transcript of Ben Wattenberg show on PBS with Hamowy et. al. on Hayek: http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/show_726.html

Luncheon
12:00 – 1:30 The Religious Roots of American Liberty

Gary L. Gregg, McConnell Center for Political Leadership, Chairman
Gary Gregg's brief biography: http://www.louisville.edu/mcconnellcenter/faculty/vita.html
Gary Gregg' ISI edited book on The Vital Remnants: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882926315/sr=1-1/qid=1155306158/ref=sr_1_1/103-3817491-7129401?ie=UTF8&s=books
Gary Gregg's book on the Presidency, Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0742543374/sr=8-1/qid=1155306032/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-3817491-7129401?ie=UTF8

Bradley Thompson, Executive Director, The Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism 
Brief biography and articles online:
http://www.capmag.com/author.asp?name=46

2:30-4:30 Roundtable Discussion: The American Revolution: Fulfillment of or Departure from the British Legacy?
William Anthony Hay, Mississippi State University, Chairman
Complete vitae: http://www.msstate.edu/dept/history/whay.htm
William Hay's book on Whig Revival: http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=140391771X

John Willson, Hillsdale College
Brief biography courtesy of the Center for the American Idea: http://www.americanidea.org/speakers/willson/
John Willson addresses our topic at an earlier 1996 meeting in Williamsburg: http://www.phillysoc.org/willson.htm
John Willson, previous presentation to The Philadelphia Society: http://members.cox.net/wcampbell14/2006natwillson.htm

J.C.D. Clark, University of Kansas
Brief bio from the University of Kansas: http://www.history.ku.edu/faculty/jclark/index.shtml
Short biography and listing of several of his major works: http://www.answers.com/topic/j-c-d-clark
For those of you who have access to Jstor, there are innumerable references to his books, articles, and reviews.  

Ellis Sandoz, Eric Voegelin Institute
Brief Bio from LSU: http://appl003.lsu.edu/artsci/polisci.nsf/$Content/G.+Ellis+Sandoz/$file/sandoz06.pdf
Essays honoring Ellis Sandoz, U. of Missouri Press: http://www.umsystem.edu/upress/spring2005/embry%20&%20cooper.htm
Two previous talks to The Philadelphia Society: http://www.phillysoc.org/sandoz.htm and http://www.phillysoc.org/sandoz99.htm

Michael Zuckert, University of Notre Dame 
Short biography, Notre Dame: http://politicalscience.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/michael-zuckert/
Amazon's treatment of Natural Rights Republic: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0268014876/103-3817491-7129401?v=glance&n=283155
First Things review by Christopher Wolfe of Natural Rights Republic: http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9805/reviews/wolfe.html
Zuckert's book on Launching Liberalism: On Lockean Political Philosophy, http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/zuclau.html

Saturday Night Special Dinner Session - Duquesne Club
Master of Ceremonies: M. Stanton Evans, Education and Research Institute
Brief Biography: http://www.conservative.org/pressroom/speakers/evans.asp
Very good bio by ISI with links to talks and articles on their website: http://www.isi.org/bios/bio.aspx?id=50a9f104-75ce-4694-a6f4-36a8dc8d483f&source=Spotlight&select=none
Amazon information on his book, The Theme is Freedom: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895264978/sr=8-1/qid=1155308792/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-3817491-7129401?ie=UTF8
Random House's initial information on Blacklisted by History, Stan's forthcoming book on Joe McCarthy: http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400081059

Recognition of Distinguished Members, Peter Stanlis (cf. above) and 
Stephen Tonsor, University of Michigan
Brief ISI Bio: http://www.isi.org/bios/bio.aspx?id=546bfde3-802d-4781-8173-c38b2d215df4&source=Spotlight&select=none
Cleveland talk to The Philadelphia Society which has great Pittsburgh and thematic materials:
http://www.phillysoc.org/tonsorclev.htm
Tonsor's book, Equality, Decadence, and Modernity The Collected Essays of Stephen J. Tonsor, Edited by Gregory L. Schneider:
http://www.isi.org/books/bookdetail.aspx?id=7616bdaf-2491-42dd-9dd3-f479516618b2

Ian Crowe, Director, Edmund Burke Society of America, Chairman
Short Bio from the Kirk Center: http://www.kirkcenter.org/bios/iancrowe.html
Table of Contents of Edmund Burke His Life and Legacy, edited by Ian Crowe:  http://www.four-courts-press.ie/cgi/bookshow.cgi?file=Burke.xml

Gregory Schneider, Emporia State University
Short biography, Emporia State University: http://www.emporia.edu/socsci/faculty/greg.htm
Schneider edited Stephen Tonsor's book, Equality, Decadence, and Modernity The Collected Essays of Stephen J. Tonsor:
http://www.isi.org/books/bookdetail.aspx?id=7616bdaf-2491-42dd-9dd3-f479516618b2

7:00 – 9:00 Dinner: M. Stanton Evans (cf. above), Education and Research Institute, The Theme is Still Freedom