1996 OAH Annual Meeting Program--Friday Sessions

Friday, March 29, 1996 -- 9:00-11:00 a.m.

Suffrage Internationalism, 1876-1923: U.S. Women s International Networks and the Category of the Nation

PRESIDING: Leila J. Rupp, The Ohio State University

PAPERS:

The Persistence of the Nation in International Woman Suffrage: Carrie Chapman Catt and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, Cynthia Maria Powell, Yale University

Constructing National Citizenship in International Arenas: U.S. Women's Suffrage and the International Council of Women, 1876-1904, Allison Lee Sneider, University of California, Los Angeles

Jane Addams in Japan: Jane Addams and the Development of Feminist-Pacifism in Japan, Nagako Sugimori, Japan Women s University, Japan

COMMENT: Leila J. Rupp

Age and Sexuality in Late-Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century North America

PRESIDING: Mary Odem, Emory University

PAPERS:

Notions of Adolescence and the Sexualization of Delinquency in Postwar Toronto, Mary Louise Adams, Carleton College

Speak Like a Child: Age, Language, and Sexuality in New York City Rape Cases, 1886-1916, Stephen Robertson, Rutgers University

Schoolgirls and the "Dark Curriculum of Vice": Sexual Knowledge and the Age of Consent, 1889-1900, Sharon Wood, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

COMMENT: Mary Odem

Courts, Politics, and the Administrative State

MODERATOR: Morton Keller, Brandeis University

PANELISTS:

Margaret K. Holden, University of Washington, Seattle, Apathy and Insurgency at the Polls: Oregon Voters and the Courts in the Late-Nineteenth Century

Reuel E. Schiller, St. John s University, School of Law, Political Culture and Public Law: Changes in Administrative Law and the Rise of Interest Group Pluralism in Post-War America

COMMENT: Morton Keller

Art as History

PRESIDING: Elizabeth Johns, University of Pennsylvania

PAPERS:

Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting, Linda S. Ferber,

Memory and Identity in Recent Native American Art: Reifications of an "Alternative" History, W. Jackson Rushing, University of Missouri-St. Louis

COMMENT: Michael Leja, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Social and Behavioral Knowledge in A Liberal Key: Redefining Self, Society, and Culture in Twentieth-Century America

MODERATOR: Ellen Fitzpatrick, Harvard University

PANELISTS:

John T. McGreevy, Harvard University, Catholicism and Authority in the American Intellectual Imagination

Daryl M. Scott, Columbia University, Society Over Science: Liberal Social Science and Desegregation

William A. Tobin, St. Patrick s College, National University of Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Positive Government, Tractable Society: Pluralism and the Redefinition of State and Society in the New Deal Era

COMMENT: The Audience

The West, the Frontier, and American Memory and Identity

PRESIDING: David Thelen, Indiana University Bloomington

PAPERS:

A Need to Understand: Histories and Stories of the American Frontier, John Mack Faragher, Yale University

Chicana Identity Matters, Deena Gonzalez, Pomona College

Nationalizing Memory: History, Myth, Fiction, and the Creation of an American Past, Richard Slotkin, American Studies Program, Wesleyan University

COMMENT: David Thelen

Deep in the Heart of Dixie: Memory and The Construction of Southern Icons

PRESIDING: Charles Joyner, University of South Carolina-Coastal Carolina

PAPERS:

Hidden in the Landscape: Plantations, Resorts, and the Erasure of African-American History on the South Carolina Coast, Sara Nickel, University of California, Berkeley

Birthin' a Nation: Black Mammy and the Iconography of Race, Michael Thompson, University of California, Berkeley

COMMENT: Nell Painter, Princeton University and Cheryl Thurber, Union University

White Masculinities in the Postbellum South: Demagogues and South Carolina Politics

PRESIDING: Nancy MacLean, Northwestern University

PAPERS:

A Rage Well-Ordered: Whiteness, Masculinity, Violence, and the Public Faces of Postbellum Planter-Politicians, Steven Kantrowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Appeal of Cole Blease of South Carolina: The Politics of White Workers and Gender Anxieties in the New South, Bryant Simon, The University of Georgia

COMMENT: Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi and Nancy MacLean

The Lamentable Condition of Liberty in America after the American Revolution

PRESIDING: Michael Zuckerman, University of Pennsylvania

PAPERS:

The Ironies of Race and Slavery Among Federalists and Republicans in Early America, Paul Finkelman, University of Miami

Freedom Evaporated: The Nasty Contradiction in Pennsylvania s Emancipation Act, Leslie Patrick, Bucknell University

The Curious Course of Liberty in France, Britain, and the United States between 1793 and 1798, Larry E. Tise, The Franklin Institute

COMMENT: Jean R. Soderlund, Lehigh University and Michael Zuckerman

Comparing Racial and Ethnic Borderlands in American Cities

PRESIDING: Louise Kerr, University of Illinois at Chicago

PAPER:

Comparing Ethnic and Racial Borderlands in American Cities: Urbanization, Community, and Identity among African Americans, Euro-Americans, and Mexican Americans between the World Wars, Albert Camarillo, Stanford University

COMMENT: Marilyn Halter, Boston University, Kevin Leonard, Antioch University-Antioch College, Micaela di Leonardo, Northwestern University, Clarence Walker, University of California, Davis

Rethinking American History from the Lesbian and Gay Male Perspectives

PRESIDING: Robert Dawidoff, Claremont Graduate School

PAPERS:

Why Gay History Matters to U.S. History, George Chauncey, University of Chicago

The History of "Normal" People: Heteronormativity in Culture, Politics, and Law, Lisa Duggan, New York University

Theorizing Difference/Writing History, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, University of Pennsylvania

COMMENT: Barbara Smith, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and Robert Dawidoff

Religion, the State, and Popular Culture in Twentieth-Century America

PRESIDING: Paul Boyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison

PAPERS:

Evangelicalism and the Military: The U.S. Air Force's Use of Moody Bible Institute's "Sermons from Science" Films, James B. Gilbert, University of Maryland at College Park

Picturing Faith: Religion in the Farm Security Administration Photographs, Colleen McDannell, University of Utah

COMMENT: R. Laurence Moore, Cornell University and Grant Wacker, Duke University

The Civil War and National Identity

MODERATOR: John Bodnar, Indiana University Bloomington

PANELISTS:

Melinda Lawson, Columbia University, The Civil War and the Construction of National Identity

Amy J. Kinsel, Seattle, Washington, American Identity, National Reconciliation, and the Memory of the Civil War

COMMENT: Jeanie Attie, Washington UniversityMark E. Neely, Saint Louis University

Modern Translations: Machinery, Poetry, Sex

PRESIDING: David A. Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley

PAPERS:

The Dance of the Machine in Early Twentieth-Century America, John F. Kasson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Poetry, Modernism, and the Reading Public, Joan Shelley Rubin, University of Rochester

Free Love, Sexual Confessions, and Early Twentieth-Century Radicals, Christine Stansell, Princeton University

COMMENT: Casey Blake, Indiana University Bloomington

Working-Class Identity and Social Democracy in Post-World War II America

PRESIDING: Elizabeth Ann Fones-Wolf, West Virginia University

PAPERS:

"Our Desire for Peace and Home": Identity and Social-Democratic Politics among World War II's Working-Class Veterans, Roger Horowitz, Hagley Museum and Library

Working-Class Identity, Internal Union Conflict, and the Limits of Social Democracy, 1945-1955, Wilson J. Warren, Valley City State University

The Union and the Price System: The United Automobile Workers, Social Democracy, and the Postwar Order, Kevin Boyle, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

COMMENT: Elizabeth Ann Fones-Wolf

Balancing on the High Wire: Political Incumbents and the Politics of Survival

MODERATOR: LeRoy Ashby, Washington State University

PANELISTS:

Nadine Cohodas, Washington, D.C., Strom Thurmond: Southern Survivor

Henry Flores, St. Mary's University, Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez: A Survivor of the "Revolution"

Stephen C. Sturgeon, University of Colorado at Boulder, All the King's Men: The Political Downfall of Wayne Aspinall

COMMENT: Randall Woods, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

Friday, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

We Learned From Our Mother's Knee: Women, Identity, and Rural Values in the Twentieth-Century South

MODERATOR: Jack Temple Kirby, Miami University

PANELISTS:

Ann Short Chirhart, Emory University, "Work for the Night is Coming": African-American and White Female Teachers in the Georgia Upcountry, 1920-1945

Valerie Grim, Department of Afro-American Studies, Indiana University Bloomington, Black Rural Women and the Cult of "True" Womanhood: A Study of Women's Work in Brooks Farm, 1920-1960

Rebecca Sharpless, Baylor University, The Lady and the Field Hand: Gender Ideals and Cotton Cultivation in the Twentieth-Century South

COMMENT: Nan Elizabeth Woodruff, The Pennsylvania State University-University Park Campus

Regulating the American Economy

PRESIDING: Ellis W. Hawley, University of Iowa

PAPERS:

Which Side Should Give Way? Nuisance Doctrine and Conflict over the Control of Pollution in Nineteenth-Century America, Christine M. Rosen, University of California, Berkeley

The Texas Railroad Commission and the Cultural Implications of Economic Regulation, 1891-1920, William Childs, The Ohio State University

Deregulating the Transportation Industries, 1970-1980, Paul Barrett, Illinois Institute of Technology, Mark H. Rose, Florida Atlantic University, Bruce E. Seely, Michigan Technological University

COMMENT: Colleen A. Dunlavy, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Race," Blackness, and Identity in the Early Republic

PRESIDING: Philip Morgan, Florida State University

PAPERS:

Passing as Black/Passing as Christian: Race and Religion in Northern Delaware, 1789-1830, Liam Riordan, University of Pennsylvania

Gradual Emancipation, Race and Class in New York City, 1785-1827, Leslie Harris, Emory University

The Embodiment of "Race" in the Discourses of Emancipation and "Science," 1780-1830, Joanne Melish, Brown University

COMMENT: Shane White, University of Sydney, Australia and Philip Morgan

The National History Standards: What Now?

PRESIDING: Gary B. Nash, University of California, Los Angeles

PAPERS:

Preparing Teachers to Teach Standards-Based Curricula, Ross Dunn, San Diego State University

Obstacles to Making the Standards Effective in the Classroom, Maggie Favretti, Scarsdale High School

Putting the Standards To Work in Primary School, Jana Flores, University of California, Los Angeles and Pine Grove Elementary School

The History Standards in Baltimore, Jacqueline Frierson, Baltimore City Public Schools

The Standards at Work in Private School, Don Woodruff, Fredericksburg Academy

COMMENT: The Audience

The Underworld and the Other Half in Turn-of-The-Century New York City

PRESIDING: Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Loyola University of Chicago

PAPERS:

"Our Police Protectors": Authority and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York, Daniel Czitrom, Mount Holyoke College

Framing the Poor: The Irresistibility of How the Other Half Lives, David Leviatin, Portland State University

COMMENT: Maren Stange, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and Timothy J. Gilfoyle

Captivity Narratives: Memory, Ethnohistory, or Ethnocentrism?

MODERATOR: June Namias, University of Alaska, Anchorage

PANELISTS:

June Namias

Elise Marienstras, Universite Paris VII, France

Barry O Connell, English Department, Amherst College

Neal Salisbury, Smith College

Susan Schoelwer,

COMMENT: The Audience

Natural Resources and Social Conflict: Re-Thinking Public Property and Conservation in the American West

PRESIDING: Dan Flores, University of Montana

PAPERS:

The Destruction of the Bison: Indians and Whites in the Great Plains, Andrew Isenberg, Brown University

What s in a Fee? The Search for the Market on the Western Public Lands, 1920-1950, Karen Merrill, Princeton University

Common Lands, Common Conflicts: State Authority, Local Resistance, and the History of the American West, Louis Warren, University of San Diego

COMMENT: Dan Flores

The Demise of the New Deal Coalition: The Racial Divide

PRESIDING: Howard Shorr, Columbia River High School, Vancouver, Washington

PAPERS:

Liberation and Liberalism: The Politics of Black-Jewish Relations in the 1960s, Cheryl Greenberg, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

Gloria Richardson, the Cambridge Movement and the Renunciation of Liberalism: A Case Study of the Civil Rights Years, Peter B. Levy, York College, York, Pennsylvania

COMMENT: Barbara L. Tischler, Columbia University

Public Money, Private Profit: Financing Urban America

PRESIDING: Kenneth T. Jackson, Columbia University,

PAPERS:

Accommodating the Automobile: Reconstructing Urban Infrastructure, Owen D. Gutfreund, Columbia University

Public Money and American Cities, Eric Monkkonen, University of California, Los Angeles

COMMENT: Robin Einhorn, University of California, Berkeley and Joel Tarr, Carnegie Mellon University

Presidents and the Military in the Twentieth Century

PRESIDING: Charles F. Brower IV, United States Military Academy

PAPERS:

Theodore Roosevelt, Congress and the Military: U.S. Civil Military Relations in the Early Twentieth Century, Matthew M. Oyos, Triangle Institute for Security Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Poisoned Tree: Lyndon Johnson, Civil-Military Relations, and the Escalation of the Vietnam War, 1964-1965, H. R. McMaster Jr., United States Military Academy

The Military Voice in the Oval Office: The Cases of the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton Administrations, Peter J. Roman, Department of Political Science, Duquesne University and David W. Tarr, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

COMMENT: Anna K. Nelson, The American University

Lincoln and American Memory

PRESIDING: Jean H. Baker, Goucher College

PAPERS:

Lincoln and the Fathers, David Herbert Donald, Harvard University

The Great Emancipator Revisited: Lincoln and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle, Waldo E. Martin Jr., University of California, Berkeley

Lincoln, Jefferson, and the Classical Tradition, Drew R. McCoy, Clark University

COMMENT: Jean H. Baker

Pacifists and Civil Rights: Bayard Rustin and Maurice McCrakin

PRESIDING: Kay Mills, Santa Monica, California

PAPERS:

Peace, Civil Rights, and Bayard Rustin: A Study of Convergence and Conflict, Jo Ann O. Robinson, Morgan State University

Maurice McCrackin, Operation Freedom, and the Mississippi Movement, Jerry Thornbery, Gilman School

COMMENT: Constance Curry, Atlanta, Georgia

Friday, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.

Memory, Identity, and the Historian's Craft: Two Perspectives

PRESIDING: Howard I. Kushner, San Diego State University

PAPERS:

Erik Erikson's Biographical Life Stages: Memory and Identity, Lawrence J. Friedman, Indiana University Bloomington

Deciphering Memory: Schema Theory, Identity, and the Historian's Craft, Robert E. McGlone, University of Hawaii at Manoa

COMMENT: Eliane Leslau Silverman, University of Calgary, Canada and Howard I. Kushner

The Crisis of Early American Diplomatic History

MODERATOR: Emily Rosenberg, Macalester College

PANELISTS:

Doron Ben-Atar, Yale University, Benjamin Franklin and the Diplomacy of Industrial Development

Peter Onuf, University of Virginia, Federalism, International Law, and the New Diplomatic History

Bradford Perkins, University of Michigan, Early American Foreign Relations: Opportunities and Challenges

Jay Gitlin, Yale University, From Private Diplomacy to Private Property: French and M‚tis Traders and the Transition from Empire to Nation-State in the West, 1793-1831

COMMENT: The Audience

Teacher Militancy and Teaching: The Aspirations of Striking Teachers and the Impact of their Strikes

PRESIDING: Marjorie Murphy, Swarthmore College

PAPERS:

The Newark Teacher Strikes: Race, Class, and Classroom, Steve Golin, Bloomfield College

Teacher Power for Quality Education, Susan Martin Macke, Indiana State University

COMMENT: Wayne J. Urban, Georgia State University and Marjorie Murphy

Constitutions of Self: Law, Rights, and Morality in Nineteenth-Century America

PRESIDING: Reva B. Siegel, Yale University Law School

PAPERS:

The Phrenologist's Constitution and Our Own , Jacob Katz Cogan, Princeton University

The Wages of Work and the Wages of Sin: Infanticide and Political Powerlessness in the Case of Hester Vaughn, Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania

Jack Tar in the Courts: Emancipating Seamen in Antebellum America, Steven Robert Wilf, University of Chicago

COMMENT: James Henretta, University of Maryland at College Park and Reva B. Siegel

Civil Rights and Employment in the Midwest: The World War II Era

PRESIDING: Joe William Trotter, Carnegie Mellon University

PAPERS:

Continuing the Fight for Democracy: Civil Rights in St. Louis, 1945-1950, Patricia L. Adams, Missouri Historical Society

Challenging Discrimination During World War II: The United Electrical Workers in St. Louis, Rosemary Feurer, Northern Illinois University

A Tale of Two States: The FEPC in Illinois and Ohio, 1941-1945, Andrew E. Kersten, University of Cincinnati

COMMENT: Joe William Trotter

Unions in Crisis: Family, Marriage, and Identity in the Civil War

PRESIDING: Michael Burlingame, Connecticut College

PAPERS:

Salmon and Kate Chase, Peg Lamphier, Arizona State University

The Shermans and the Ewings, Michael Fellman, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Ulysses and Julia Grant, Brooks D. Simpson, Arizona State University

COMMENT: Anne C. Rose, The Pennsylvania State University-University Park Campus and Michael Burlingame

The Life of Bachelors in American Society, 1870-1930

PRESIDING: Kathy Peiss, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

PAPERS:

The Family Life of Bachelors, 1880-1920, Howard P. Chudacoff, Brown University

Safe, Sane, and Single: The Bachelor as Deviant, 1870-1930, Peter Laipson, University of Michigan

"Luxurious Bachelordom": Domesticity, Consumer Culture, and Single Manhood in 1890s New York, Katherine V. Snyder, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley

COMMENT: Anthony Rotundo, Phillips Academy and Kathy Peiss

William R. Taylor's Cavalier and Yankee: a Thirty-Five Year Retrospective

MODERATOR: Steven M. Stowe, Indiana University Bloomington

PANELISTS:

David Allmendinger, University of Delaware

Anne Goodwyn Jones, University of Florida

Michael O Brien, Miami University

COMMENT: William R. Taylor, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Athletics and Assimilation: The Promise and Problematics of the Sporting Ideal

MODERATOR: Patrick B. Miller, Northeastern Illinois University

PANELISTS:

Cindy Gissendanner, Towson State University, Progressive Reform, the Immigrant Woman, and Female Sporting Ideals, 1890-1930

Peter Levine, Michigan State University, Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience

Samuel Regalado, California State University, Stanislaus, "The Special Hunger": The Latino Experience in Major League Baseball

Jeffrey Sammons, New York University, "Blackballed": Golf as an African-American Assimilation Strategy

Susan Cahn, State University of New York at Buffalo, Strategies of Inclusion and Acceptance: Lesbians and Gay Men in Sport

COMMENT: The Audience

Latino History and The Politics of Cultural Representation

PRESIDING: David Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego

PAPERS:

"Classy Dames" and "Manly Workers": Commercial Images of Latinas/os During the Early Twentieth Century, M. Lorena Chambers, University of Michigan

The Politics of Representation: The Mexican Players and Padua Hills Theatre, 1931-1974, Matt Garcia, Claremont Graduate School

"To Be A Mexican in a Town Like This": Mexicana/o Representations in High Noon,Viva Zapata, and Giant, Anthony Macias, American Culture Program, University of Michigan

"Palaces of Pain"-American Dreams? Prizefighting and the Transformation of Mexican-American Identity, Gregory Rodriguez, University of California, San Diego

COMMENT: David Gutierrez

The Politicized Past: The Historian and American Museum Exhibitions in Times of Controversy

MODERATOR: Barbara Clark Smith, National Museum of American History

PANELISTS:

Barbara Franco, Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

Edward Linenthal, Department of Religious Studies, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Clement Alexander Price, Rutgers University, Newark Campus

Michael Wallace, John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY

COMMENT: The Audience

William Faulkner, Margaret Mitchell, Tennessee Williams, and Elvis Presley: Southern Identity Representing American Culture in the Global Context

PRESIDING: Thadious M. Davis, Vanderbilt University

PAPER:

William Faulkner, Margaret Mitchell, Tennessee Williams, and Elvis Presley: Southern Identity Representing American Culture in the Global Context, Joel Williamson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

COMMENT: Peter Guralnick, West Newbury, Massachusetts, Patricia Storace, New York, New York and Thadious M. Davis

Pacific Visions: Cold War Cultures on the West Coast, 1948-1960

PRESIDING: Mary Logan Rothschild,

PAPERS:

The Rand Corporation and the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Community, Janet Farrell Brodie, Claremont Graduate School

The Marine Cooks and Stewards Union on the Narrowing Path: Race, Class, and Gender in Cold War America, 1948-1956, Chris Friday, Western Washington University and Washington State University

Challenging High Brow Culture in the Bay Area: The Case of KPFA, 1949-1960, Matthew Lasar, Claremont Graduate School

COMMENT: Mary Logan Rothschild

Rethinking American Exceptionalism: Comparative Perspectives on Post-War Public Policy

MODERATOR: Alan Brinkley, Columbia University

PANELISTS:

Elizabeth Cobbs, University of San Diego, All You Need is Love: Comparative Perspectives on the Peace Corps

Bruce Schulman, Boston University, The Reagan Revolution and American Exceptionalism: Conservative Attacks on the Welfare State in Europe and the United States

COMMENT: Brian Balogh, University of Virginia and Alan Brinkley