The American Historical Association is holding its 127th Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Here is this afternoon's tax panel:  Taxation and American Politics: A Roundtable to Commemorate the One-Hundredth Anniversary of the Income Tax in America:

The year 2013 marks the 100^th anniversary of the ratification
of the Sixteenth Amendment, which gave Congress the power to create a
federal income tax and forever altered how the federal government raises
revenue.  As anniversaries go, this one will likely pass without much
notice, swamped as it will be by commemorations of the Battle of
Gettysburg and the Emancipation Proclamation.  Yet the nation’s politics
are increasingly shaped by the partisan politics of taxation.  The
purpose of this roundtable session, which gathers together a
distinguished group of political and economic historians, is to use this
anniversary to consider the historical importance of taxation to
American politics and to provide historical perspective on our current
taxation debates.  Panelists will draw from their research on taxation
and American slavery, the Progressive era origins of income taxation,
the postwar politics of taxation, and the relationship between tax
policy and America’s second Gilded Age to discuss the history of
taxation, its role in American state-building, and its contemporary
valences in the immediate wake of the 2012 national election.

Chair:  Alan Brinkley (Columbia)

Panel:

Robin Einhorn (UC-Berkeley)

Ajay K. Mehrotra (Indiana)

Alice M. O'Connor (UC-Santa Barbara)

Julian Zelizer (Princeton)