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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Saturday, March 28, 2009

08:30 AM

Rethinking Psychohistory

Talking in the Margins: Challenges in Communication and the Making of US Foreign Policy in the Cold War

Genealogy and Social History: New Horizons

"Integration must never mean the liquidation of Black Colleges"

The War on Poverty: Grassroots Struggles for Racial and Economic Justice

The Lincoln Legacy: Bicentennial Reflections

Transforming Working-Class Spaces in Washington State

New Writing on the New Deal

Race and Beauty from the Antebellum U.S. to Apartheid South Africa

Who Were the Black Progressives? SPONSORED BY SHGAPE

Making and Remaking Memory: Native Commemorations in Western Canada and the United States

A Cold War South: Economy, Government Policy, Social Relations, and the Military-Industrial Complex

State of the Field: School Desegregation and White Flight

State of the Field: Gender and Sexuality in Early American History -- SPONSORED BY THE STEVEN J. SCHOCHET ENDOWMENT FOR GLBT STUDIES AND CAMPUS LIFE

The Black Diaspora: Local and Global

Female Desire without Boundaries: Helen Gurley Brown and Gypsy Rose Lee

From the Reservation to the "Indian City": Indigenous Political Landscapes in Twentieth-Century America

09:00 AM

TOUR -- Seattle Queer History

09:45 AM

American Cities and Public Spaces -- SPONSORED BY THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE HUMANITIES ASSOCIATION

10:30 AM

Work, Success, and "Indianness" in the Twentieth Century

Sources of Silence? New Approaches to Finding Latina/o Subjectivity in the Archives

Oral History Workshop -- SPONSORED BY PUBLIC HISTORY COMMITTEE

Internationalizing American History: The Mutual Influence of American and Japanese Women Reformers, 1869-1950

SPONSORED BY IEHS: Sex, Race, and Empire Across the West and Pacific

The Many Boundaries of Law Enforcement History

International Child Labor: How a Teaching American History Project Confronts History

State of the Field: Queer History

Competing Women’s Rights Alternatives at the League of Nations and United Nations, 1930-1950

Connections and Boundaries: The Legacy of Race and Ethnicity in Irish America (COSPONSORED BY IEHS)

Legal Thinking and its Limits: Citizenship, Segregation, and the Corporation

American Student Activism in the Post-War Era

Universities Confronting their Racial Histories: Slavery, Jim Crow and Unsettled Accounts -- SPONSORED BY THE JOHN NICHOLAS BROWN CENTER AT BROWN UNIVERSITY

Revisting Jack Willis’s “Lay My Burden Down”: Civil Rights in Post-1965 Alabama

Visualizing "Bleeding Kansas," the "Yellow Peril" and "Crimes of Passion"

German Ethnicity in Central North America: Immigration and Identities across National Boundaries

A Common Dilemma: History and Self Image in the Classroom

Rules of Warfare: The History of Ethics and Behavior in Conflict

Manifest Destiny in the Pacific Northwest

12:15 PM

Does Women's History Have a Future: Breaking the Cycle of Revisionism (LUNCHEON TALK BY MARY P. RYAN) -- SPONSORED BY OAH WOMEN'S COMMITTEE

01:30 PM

TOUR -- Indigenous Seattle

01:45 PM

Film screening and panel discussion. "American Idealist: The Story of Sargent Shriver"

Gendering the Silent Majority

Uncertain Traditions: Reconsidering Constitutionalism and Southern History

State of the Field: Disability History

AP ROUNDTABLE: 2008 AP Exam Questions -- SPONSORED BY AP

Networks of Labor and Socialist Solidarity between the United States and Europe, 1933-1945.

Transatlantic Slavery, Culture, and National Identity: Comparative Museum Case Studies

Patriotism, Citizenship, and Civil Rights in the War Years

Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century Military: The Confluence of Military and Domestic Culture

A Hundred Years of Struggle: Histories of the NAACP, A Roundtable Sponsored by the OAH

Flawed Crusade: The CIO's Operation Dixie (CO-SPONSORED BY LAWCHA)

The Struggle in Black and Brown: Comparing African American/Mexican American Civil Rights Efforts

Colonial Space and Place: Maps, Movement, and Meaning in the 18th Century Southeast

State of the Field: American Indian History

OAH/JAAS Historians Collaborative Committee 2009 Panel: Civil Rights Movements

04:00 PM

Presidential Address: Tobacco Culture: Marion Post Wolcott's FSA Photographs

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