2009 OAH Annual Meeting
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2009 OAH Exhibitor Information

2009 Poster Session Proposals

Request an advanced copy of Gary Gerstle's paper to be presented at the meeting

2009 TAH Symposium

2009 Workshops
Workshop for Community College Historians

Oral History Workshop

National Historic Landmarks Workshop

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Friday, March 27, 2009

08:30 AM

Guerrillas, Unionists, and Copperheads: Resistance and Dissent on the Civil War Home Front

Negotiating the Bounds of Ethnic Identity: Religious Communities and Race in the Turn-of-the-Century United States (COSPONSORED BY IEHS)

Grassroots Conservatism: From the Bottom Up or the Top Down?

Oral Histories on the Web: A Workshop

New Orleans Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries: Race, Hurricane Katrina, and the Re-imagining of an American City

Rejection, Selection, and Adaptation: New Perspectives on United States Immigration History

Children and Youth in History: A New Media Workshop

Race, Gender, and Antislavery Activism, 1780-1860

Radicalism in the Antislavery Movement

Blacks and Latinos/as in the Nuevo South: Race, Labor, and Civil Rights, 1948-Present (COSPONSORED BY LAWCHA )

Forestry, Federal Indian Policy, and Native Response

Cornering Abundance: Struggles for Meaning in Politics, Culture, and Class in the United States, 1880-1935 -- SPONSORED BY SHGAPE

The U.S. and the World: Imagining the Near and Far East in the Era of the Early Republic

Guilt, Amnesty, and Pardon after the American Civil War

Creating Collaborative Partnerships: Schools, Scholars, and Cultural Institutions

Decoding the West through Documents

10:00 AM

Ethnic Diversity in the International District

10:30 AM

Food Power: The Politics of American Agribusiness in a Global Economy

A New Look at Old Narratives: Official Historians and the Vietnam War

Governing America: A History of the State from the Revolution to the New Deal

The Immigrant's Dilemma: Japanese, Koreans and Mexicans in Urban America, 1880-1940

Multiple Visions: Photography and the American West

Oral History and the Creation of Public Memories -- SPONSORED BY THE OAH INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE

Doomsday Scenarios: Hollywood and Nuclear Radiation in the Cold War Era

Celebrating the Centennial of the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition

Networks of Exchange and Communal Health: Fishing and Commerce among Native People in the Pacific Northwest

Struggles for Economic Justice in the post-1960s American South

History Online: Resources Available from the Federal Government

Crossing the Boundaries of Ethnicity and Race: The Irish in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

Seattle/Puget Sound Industrial History

Designing and Teaching the U.S. History Survey -- SPONSORED BY OAH (GRAD SESSION)

Visions of Women, Visions of Progress

Borrowed Landscape: History, Preservation, and the Management of the National Park Service’s Blue Ridge Parkway

Evaluating Public History Scholarship for Promotion and Tenure -- SPONSORED BY OAH COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC HISTORY

Transparency and the Obama Administration -- SPONSORED BY NATIONAL COALITION FOR HISTORY

Storytelling and the Sectional Conflict

The 1947 Lynching of Willie Earle: Three Perspectives on South Carolina's Last Known Lynching

State of the Field: History of Conservatism

12:00 PM

Strike Out for the Klondike: A Tour of Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park-Seattle

12:15 PM

Public History Town Meeting -- SPONSORED BY COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC HISTORY

01:45 PM

Identifying Strangers and Regulating Migration in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

Thinking with Empire in U.S. History

Pushing the Boundaries: Teaching American History as if the Pacific Mattered (a Lot)SPONSORED BY THE OAH COMMITTEE ON COMMUNITY COLLEGES

Blogging History: Explorations in a New Medium

Public History: The Dutch Reception of an American Idea

Representing Slavery

Prohibition and Prostitution in the Borderlands

State of the Field: Asian Pacific American History

Navajo Religious Encounters in the 20th Century

Our Endangered Children: American Childhood and Adolescence, 1965-1980

Families across Boundaries: Race, Migration, and Memory in the Americas

Solving the “Labor Question”: Responses to the Loss of Workplace Harmony During the Era of American Industrialization

State of the Field: Sound Studies and the History of the Aural Environment

Women in the Old Left: Feminism and radical working-class politics

Neither Citizens Nor Aliens: Consequences of American Immigration Policy

/Telling Histories/: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower -- SPONSORED BY THE ALANA COMMITTEE

Pacific Northwest Radicalism -- SPONSORED BY LAWCHA

02:00 PM

Seattle in Flight: the History of Boeing

03:45 PM

Sponsored by The Labor and Working-Class History Association; the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association; and the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies -- From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks

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