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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Thursday, March 26, 2009

10:30 AM

America's Global Reputation: Public Diplomacy and International History

The Washington State Women’s History Consortium: An Innovative Model for Women’s History

Developing a Teaching Style and Portfolio Before the Job Market -- GRADUATE STUDENT SESSION (SPONSORED BY OAH)

Civil Rights, Sexual Politics: Black, Queer, and Feminist Connections and Conflicts in the 1970s and 1980s

Memory, Narrative, and the Evolution of Feminism

Envisioning the Boundaries of Science: Natural History and Visual Culture in the United States

State of the Field: Latino History

Complicating the Picture: Oral History and the Study of the Rural South

Bureaucracies in the Nineteenth Century: Government Agents, Clerks, and Indian Reformers

Social Science and the Nation State From the New Deal to the Cold War

White Women Journalists: Transformations of Reportage and Audience in Early Twentieth-Century American Newspapers

Destroying Their Beloved Union: Politicians, Racism, and the Coming of the Civil War

Systems of Slavery on North American Borderlands: Comanchería, Louisiana, and the Industrial Chesapeake

Beyond Urban History: Suburbs and Small Towns in Postwar America

Native Diasporas: Blood, Disease, and Migration in the Pacific World

State of the Field: Borderlands History in Early America

Masculinity and Race in mid-19th Century America

12:30 PM

All The World’s A Stage: How to Use Simple Theatre Skills to Improve Your Teaching

Religion, Politics, and the Second Great Awakening

Southern Hospitality: Race, Leisure, and Tourism in the Twentieth-Century South

State of the Field: Food History

State of the Field: Sport History -- SPONSORED BY The Society for American Baseball Reseach

In the Shadow of LBJ: Education Politics Since the 1960s

Japanese Immigrants and Border Matters: Negotiations of North American Borders

How to Turn Your Daily Bread into History: Three Historians Outside the Academy

State of the Field: U.S. Women's History Beyond Borders -- SPONSORED BY THE COORDINATING COUNCIL FOR WOMEN IN HISTORY (CCWH)

Navigating the OAH: A Session for First-Time Attendees -- SPONSORED BY OAH

Creating Peoples: Publications and Power in the Atlantic World

SPONSORED BY THE CENTER FOR HISTORY AND NEW MEDIA AT GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: National History Education Clearinghouse

Myth, Memory, and History: Contested Legacies of the American War in Vietnam

Telling Stories: Negotiating the Oral History of the Black Freedom Movement from Activist and Scholarly Perspectives: Part I

Professional Development: Preparing for the Job Market -- GRADUATE STUDENT SESSION (SPONSORED BY OAH)

Teaching the Undergraduate Historiography/Methods/Research Course: Three Professors Share Their Approaches

Revolutions and the Law of Slavery

02:30 PM

Telling Stories: Negotiating the Oral History of the Black Freedom Movement from Activist and Scholarly Perspectives: Part II

Boundaries of Race and Sexuality in Postwar America

Crossing Borders: International Perspectives on Public History

German Historians’ Biographical Perspectives on Antebellum and Civil War America

The Arc of Chicano/a Postwar Activism: The Community and Struggle in MexAmerica

Facing History with Crazy Horse

Breaking Boundaries: Women and Politics in 19th Century America

Graduate Training in Women's History: Approaching Four Decades -- SPONSORED BY OAH WOMEN'S COMMITTEE

"No Time like the Present": Collecting, Preserving, Archiving, and Teaching the Army's Branch History in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT)

Before Global Feminism: U.S. Women at International Conferences, 1945-1975

Disrupted Boundaries: The Histories of Culture and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

American Ruins

Liberalism Without Boundaries: The Varieties of Liberalism in American Thought and Culture

Race and Social Belonging in Post-1965 Los Angeles

Including the Excluded: Seattle's Filipino and Japanese American Communities

White Burdens: Gilded Age and Progressive Era Whiteness at Home and Abroad -- SPONSORED BY SHGAPE

State of the Field: History Teaching and Learning -- SPONSORED BY H-TLH: TEACHING AND LEARNING HISTORY (http://www.h-net.org/~tlh)

07:00 PM

The 2008 Election as History

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