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ix Preface This volume emerged from a panel organized by the editor at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association held in San Francisco in January 2002. The panel, on “Classical Antiquity and the United States Senate,” contained earlier versions of the papers by Carl J. Richard, Caroline Winterer, Michael Meckler, and Robert F . Maddox that have been published in this volume. The panel was sponsored by the Association of Ancient Historians (AAH), and thanks are due to the then-president of the AAH, Richard Talbert, and the former AAH secretary-treasurer, Patricia Dintrone, for their assistance. Special thanks are also due to former AAH president Carol Thomas, who has long championed greater interaction between ancient historians and their Americanist colleagues. The fruits of such interaction include the essay in this volume by John Milton Cooper, Jr., which was originally delivered as a lecture at the annual AAH meeting held in Madison, Wisconsin, in May 2000. The other essays were solicited particularly for this volume. The editor also wishes to express his gratitude to Frank Coulson and Fritz Graf, the directors of the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at The Ohio State University; to the Center’s staff, Philip Forsythe and Wendy Watkins; and to the Chair of Ohio State’s Depart- ment of Greek and Latin, David Hahm. Personal thanks are also owed to my parents for their sufferance. This book is dedicated to the memory of Meyer Reinhold and Robert F . Maddox. Both men died within three months of each other in the summer and autumn of 2002, during the early development of this book. Meyer Reinhold passed away on July 2, 2002, at the age of ninety-two. Over the years he kindly offered his advice and assistance to several of this book’s contributors. His own research from the 1960s through the 1980s examining American classicism lit the way for further studies, and he eagerly shared his insights with younger scholars. He helped found the International Society for the Classical Tradition, and its journal, The International Journal of the Classical Tradition. The circumstances of his own career, which included a decade-long period of involuntary departure from college teaching, would have provided him a prominent place within the history of American academia and its interaction with American politics even without his valuable contributions to scholarship. Yet his perseverance and longevity allowed him to make up for lost time and then some, for he did not retire from his final academic appointment until the age of eighty-five. Robert F . Maddox did not get to enjoy such a long life. Maddox passed away on September 30, 2002, at the age of fifty-nine. A historian of twentieth-century America, Maddox was most concerned with chronicling the events and personalities of his native state of West Virginia. He spent nearly his entire life in the Mountain State, and had a distinguished career at Marshall University, where he served in several important administrative positions. But he was perhaps proudest of his role as a teacher and preserver of West Virginia history, which he fulfilled as director of Marshall’s oral history of Appalachia program and as president of the West Virginia Historical Association. Maddox was enthusiastic about participating in the AAH-sponsored panel in San Francisco, but deteriorating health prevented him from making the trip. Richard A. Baker, the historian of the United States Senate , kindly agreed to deliver Maddox’s paper in addition to serving as the panel respondent. Maddox passed away before plans for the volume were finalized. In preparing Maddox’s essay for publication, the editor is grateful for Richard Baker’s advice and assistance. x Preface ...

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