1996 OAH Annual Meeting Program--Saturday Sessions

Saturday, 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Neighborhood History and the Politics of Memory

MODERATOR: Barbara Scheier, Chicago Historical Society

PANELISTS:

Scott La France, Chicago Hitorical Society

Olivia Mahoney, Chicago Historical Society

Patricia Mooney-Melvin, Loyola University of Chicago

Dominic Pacyga, Columbia College Chicago

COMMENT: Barbara Scheier

This session will be held at the Chicago Historical Society. Please register for this session using the preregistration form inserted in the front of the Program. Transportation will be provided to the Chicago Historical Society. Once sessions have begun, a continuous shuttle will operate between the Society and the Palmer House Hilton.

Race and Gender in the Twentieth-Century American West: Agriculture, Education, and the Urban Environment

PRESIDING: Judith L. DeMark, Northern Michigan University

PAPERS:

The African-American Experience in Wichita, Kansas, During the Early Cold War Era , Judith Johnson, Wichita State University

Out of the Home and into the Fields: Ranch and Farm Women in the Contemporary American West Sandra Schackel, Boise State University

Closing the Circle: Four Generations of Race and Ethnicity at the University of New Mexico, 1889-1995, Michael Welsh, University of Northern Colorado

COMMENT: Joan M. Jensen, New Mexico State University

The Personal Politics of Biography

MODERATOR: Alice Wexler, University of California, Los Angeles

PANELISTS:

John D Emilio, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Estelle B. Freedman, Stanford University

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Smith College

COMMENT: The Audience

Lieux de Memoire in the United States during the first half of the Twentieth Century: Changing Projections of American Identity on Cultural Icons

MODERATOR: Miles Orvell, Department of American Studies, Temple University

PANELISTS:

Divina Frau, University de Paris III, Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Institut du Monole Anglophone-CNET, A Technological Memorial: The Television Receiver, 1923-1945

Jean Kempf, Universite de Savoie, France, And What did Lincoln say at Gettysburg?: Hollywood's "Ruggles of Redgap" Addresses American Memory

Mark Meigs, Universite de Paris Nord , France, The Barnes Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Two Rival High Cultural Contexts for American Artifacts in the 1920s

Michael O Malley, George Mason University, Fort Knox, Memorial to the Gold Standard

COMMENT: Miles Orvell

The Mobilization of Civil War Memory: Veterans, the Literary Marketplace, and the Election of 1896

PRESIDING: Russell Duncan, John Carroll University

PAPERS:

Veterans and the Published Memory of War: Regimental Histories in the Postwar Literary Marketplace, Alice Fahs, University of California, Irvine

Union Veterans, Civil War Memory, and the Election of 1896, Patrick Kelly, Tufts University

COMMENT: Russell Duncan

Revisioning the American South

PRESIDING: Thavolia Glymph, The Pennsylvania State University-University Park Campus

PAPERS:

Revising the South's Colonial Story for a Postcolonial Audience, Patricia Kay Galloway, Mississippi Department of Archives and History

International and Southern Regionalism: The Concept of the South in Recent Literature, Lothar H”nnighausen, Nordamerikaprogramm, Universit„t Bonn, Germany

The Early Construction of Southern Identity: Analytical Choices, Historiographical Challenges, David Moltke-Hansen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

COMMENT: Jon W. Anderson, The Catholic University of America

Articulating Male Identity and the Social Construction of Class and Race, 1877-1922

PRESIDING: Gregory L. Kaster, Gustavus Adolphus College

PAPERS:

Constructing a Usable Past: Fraternalism, Americanism, and Working-Class Identity, 1877-1922, Paul M. Taillon, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The YMCA, Workingmen, and Imagining the Male "Other," 1877-1920, Thomas Winter, University of Cincinnati

COMMENT: Patricia Ann Cooper, University of Kentucky and Kathryn Jane Oberdeck, University of Illinois

The Needy Elderly: Historical Responses to Poverty and Infirmity

PRESIDING: Thomas R. Cole, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

PAPERS:

The Evolution of Long-Term Care, 1935-1975, Martha Holstein, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Old Age Poverty in Early-National Connecticut, Paula A. Scott, University of California, Los Angeles

COMMENT: Terri Premo, University of Cincinnati

Race, Law, and Political Power in the Nineteenth-Century American South

PRESIDING: Gerald Smith, University of Kentucky

PAPERS:

Black Political Power and Justice: The Case of Washington County, Texas, 1865-1900, Donald Nieman, Bowling Green State University

Black Political Leadership: The Case of Warren County, Mississippi, 1863-1880, Christopher Waldrep, Eastern Illinois University

Federal Enforcement in Post-Redemption South Carolina: The Ellenton Riot Case, Lou Falkner Williams, Kansas State University

COMMENT: Judith Kelleher Schafer, Murphy Institute, Tulane University

Race and the American Way of War, 1865-1945

PRESIDING: John Shy, University of Michigan

PAPERS:

Hard War in the West: U.S. Conduct Toward Southern Civilians and Native Americans in Comparative Perspective, Mark Grimsley, The Ohio State University

The Savage Wars of Peace: The U.S. Army and Pacification in the Philippines, Brian M. Linn, Texas A & M University

Yellow Men and White Lies The Legacies of Race in the Pacific War, Craig M. Cameron, Old Dominion University

COMMENT: Tami Davis Biddle, Duke University

Making the Ties that Bind: Sexuality, Violence, and Marriage in Mid- to Late-Nineteenth-Century United States Law

PRESIDING: Ellen DuBois, University of California, Los Angeles

PAPERS:

Law and the Politics of Domestic Violence in Postemancipation North Carolina, Laura Edwards, University of South Florida

Explaining a Man Who Would Kill His Wife's Lover, Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University

Homosociality and Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Legal Sanction of Male Heterosexual Aggression, John Pettegrew, Lehigh University

COMMENT: The Audience

Gender, Nativism, and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century North American Reform

PRESIDING: Lynn D. Gordon, University of Rochester

PAPERS:

Reform and Nativism, Gender and Politics: The Case of Philadelphia's Female Nativists, Judith A. Hunter, State University of New York College at Geneseo

Daughters of Paradox: Imperialism and Nativism in Women's Reform Activity in Nineteenth-Century Ontario, Margaret M. R. Kellow, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Indian Women, Intermarriage, and Ethnic Identities in New England, Daniel Mandell, State University of New York College at Oswego

COMMENT: Roger D. Hall, University of Western Ontario, Canada and Lynn D. Gordon

Redefining American Identity: U.S. Citizens in the Early Cold War

MODERATOR: Andrew Rotter, Colgate University

PANELISTS:

Carol Anderson, The Ohio State University, Eyes of the Prize: African Americans, Human Rights, and the Cold War

Mary Ann Heiss, Kent State University, Culture, National Identity, and Oil in the Early 1950s: The United States and Mohammad Mosaddeq

Amy L. S. Staples, The Ohio State University, Constructing International Identity: The World Bank, 1945-1963

COMMENT: Walter L. Hixson, University of Akron and Andrew Rotter

The Postmodernist Impact on History Writing

PRESIDING: Jean-Christophe Agnew, Yale University

PAPERS:

Cultural Studies, Lynn Hunt, University of Pennsylvania

Science Studies, Margaret Jacob, New School for Social Research

Intellectual History, Joyce Appleby, University of California, Los Angeles

COMMENT: The Audience

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

Mothers and Radicals: Contested Meanings of Feminism in Post-World War II America

PRESIDING: Joanne Meyerowitz, University of Cincinnati

PAPERS:

"What You Call Me Doesn t Scare Me Anymore": Radical Feminists and the Construction of a Feminist Identity, Theresa Kaminski, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

"I Still Like to Be Treated As a Lady": Responses to Work and Feminism among Mid-Life Women, 1968-1982, Jessica Weiss, University of California, Berkeley

COMMENT: Wini Breines, Northeastern University

Institutions of Memory in Historical Perspective

PRESIDING: Michael Kammen, Cornell University

PAPERS:

Massachusetts Historical Society, Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

Smithsonian Institution, Pamela Henson, Smithsonian Institution

Chicago Historical Society, Douglas Greenberg, Chicago Historical Society

The Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, John Hope Franklin, Duke University

COMMENT: The Audience

This session will be held at the Chicago Historical Society. Please register for this session using the preregistration form inserted in the front of the Program. Transportation will be provided to the Chicago Historical Society. Once sessions have begun, a continuous shuttle will operate between the Society and the Palmer House Hilton.

Reforming American Democracy: Intellectuals and Politics in the Gilded Age

(Co-sponsored by the Society for the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era)
PRESIDING: David Brion Davis, Yale University

PAPERS:

Democracy, American Identity, and the Transatlantic World of the Mugwumps, 1860-1900, Leslie Butler, Yale University

Progress and Property: Economic Development and the Administrative Mandate in Gilded Age Liberal Ideology, Nancy Cohen, Columbia University

COMMENT: Michael McGerr, Indiana University Bloomington and Daniel Walker Howe, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, England

The Political Economy of Empire: Money, Labor, and Expansion in Eighteenth-Century British America

PRESIDING: Joyce Chaplin, Vanderbilt University

PAPERS:

Civilizing South Carolina: The Political Economy of Family Labor in the Lower South, 1712-1743, Gary L. Hewitt, Grinnell College

A Revolution in Economic Thought: Currency and Development in Provincial New England, Margaret E. Newell, The Ohio State University

"One Acre of Ground Well-Manured": Political Economy in Massachusetts and Opposition to Territorial Expansion during King George's War, Geoffrey Plank, University of Cincinnati

COMMENT: Daniel Vickers, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

The Practice of Military History in the Federal Government: The Department of Defense

MODERATOR: Richard H. Kohn, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

PANELISTS:

Elizabeth A. Muenger, Department of History and English, United States Air Force Academy, Activities

Alfred Goldberg, Historical Office, Department of Defense, United States Government, Accomplishments

Harold W. Nelson, United States Army (Retired), Problems

COMMENT: The Audience

Perverse Methodologies: Interpretive Problems in the Historical Representation of Queer Identities

MODERATOR: Evelynn Hammonds, Program in Science, Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

PANELISTS:

Nan Alamilla Boyd, University of Colorado at Boulder, Queer History: Methodologies in the Recuperation of Lesbian and Transgender Subjects

Julian Carter, University of California, Irvine, The Hall of Women: Evolution, Display, and the Delineation of the Sex Variant Object

Susan O Neal Stryker, Oakland, California, The White Lady of Dachau: Transsexual Autobiography as Epistemological Critique

COMMENT: Evelynn Hammonds

Left, Center, and Right: The Changing Political Culture Since the 1970s

PRESIDING: Sarah J. Stage, Women's Studies, Arizona State University West

PAPERS:

Conservatives and Conservation in the Reagan-Bush Era, Patrick Allitt, Emory University

Michael Harrington and the End of American Socialism, Maurice Isserman, Hamilton College

From Carter to Clinton: The Latest Crisis of American Liberalism, Leo P. Ribuffo, The George Washington University

COMMENT: Nelson Lichtenstein, University of Virginia

Mainstream Media and Black Protest in the 1960s

MODERATOR: Michael West, Brandeis University

PANELISTS:

Scot A. French, University of Virginia, Black Power in Hollywood: The Making and Unmaking of Nat Turner, the Movie

Catherine E. Kerr, Johns Hopkins University, Representing Race: Life on the Front Lines, From Little Rock to Watts

COMMENT: William Van Deburg, Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Michael West

Southern Identity in the Era of the Dixiecrats

PRESIDING: John T. Kneebone, The Library of Virginia

PAPERS:

The Dixiecrat Banner: The Emergence of the Confederate Battle Flag in American Popular Culture, John M. Coski, The Museum of the Confederacy

"As a man, I am interested in States Rights": An Exploration of Gender, Race, and the Family in the States Rights Movement, 1948-1950, Kari Frederickson, Rutgers University

COMMENT: Glen Jeansonne, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Defining Consumerism: Activism and Culture Since 1830

PRESIDING: Lizabeth Cohen, New York University

PAPERS:

Connecting the History of Consumer Society to Broader Themes in U.S. History, Lawrence Glickman, University of South Carolina-Columbia

Connecting Women's Activism to the Changing Relationship Between Consumption and Production in U.S. History, Kathryn Kish Sklar, State University of New York at Binghamton

Connecting Household Life to Corporate Development in U.S. History, Susan Strasser, Takoma Park, Maryland

COMMENT: Daniel Horowitz, Smith College

Perspectives on the Job Market: Where to Look, What to Expect

MODERATOR: Myron Marty, Drake University

PANELISTS:

Jean Lee, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Nadine Hata, El Camino College, Torrance, California

Donald A. MacPhee, State University of New York College at Fredonia

David Shi, Furman University

COMMENT: The Audience

(Re-) Imagining Communities: Ethnic Nationalisms in the United States

MODERATOR: Michael Salman, University of California, Los Angeles

PANELISTS:

Ernesto Chavez, The University of Texas at El Paso, The Imagined Mexican Immigrant Worker: The Centro de Accion Social Autonomo (CASA) and the Construction of Chicano (Inter-) Nationalism

Arleen deVera, University of California, Los Angeles, Identity, Nationalism, Inter-Ethnic Relations: Philippine and Japanese Immigrants During the Anti-Filipino Exclusion Movement

Matthew Jacobson, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Between Whiteness and Anglo Saxondom: Irish-American Nationalism and the Cross Currents of Race

Michael Miller Topp, The University of Texas at El Paso, "I Senza Patria"? [Those Without a Country?]: Ethnic Nationalities and Internationalities and The Italian Socialist Federation's Search for Italian-American Community

COMMENT: Michael Salman

Perspectives on Religion and Reform in the Transatlantic World, 1550-1750

PRESIDING: Richard Gildrie, Austin Peay State University

PAPERS:

Usury and Discipline from Anglican London to Puritan Boston, Mark Valeri, Lewis and Clark College

Early Themes of Trans-Atlantic Moralism: The Anglo-American Reformation of Manners Joel Bernard, Portland, Oregon

COMMENT: Ava Chamberlain, Wright State University and Richard Gildrie

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

Race, Gender, and Nationality in American Popular Music, 1890-1945

PRESIDING: Kathy Ogren, University of Redlands

PAPERS:

Lester Young: His Critics and Colleagues, Douglas Daniels, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Politics of Race and Culture in the Swing Era, Lewis A. Erenberg, Loyola University of Chicago

Women and the Phonograph, 1890-1930, William Kenney, Kent State University

COMMENT: John Gennari, University of Colorado at Boulder

Women, the Domestic Realm, and the Construction of National Memory

PRESIDING: Michael Schudson, Department of Communication, University of Califoria, San Diego

PAPERS:

Historic Memory, Cultural Identity, and Women Aesthetes, Mary W. Blanchard, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis

"Home and Country": The Daughters of the American Revolution and the Construction of National Memory, 1890-1930, Francesca Morgan, Columbia University

COMMENT: Joy Kasson, American Studies Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Michael Schudson

"Politic Management": Marriage Strategies and Political Culture in Colonial America

MODERATOR: Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof, University of Kansas

PANELISTS:

Nuran Cinlar, Johns Hopkins University, "Bachelor's Hope" and "Widow's Lott": Constructing Marriage in the Early Chesapeake

Kim Klein, Johns Hopkins University, Prospects of Power: Marriage Strategies and Elite Consolidation in Colonial New Brunswick

Muriel Nazzari, Indiana University Bloomington, Substantial Inducement: The Role of Dowries in Marriage Strategies of Property Owners of Colonial Sao Paulo, Brazil

COMMENT: Kenneth Lockridge, University of Montana

The Civil War and Southern Children

PRESIDING: Elliott West, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

PAPERS:

On the Border: Children and the Civil War in Maryland, Peter W. Bardaglio, Goucher College

The Boy Gangs of Richmond: A Juvenile Search for Manhood After the Civil War, Mary Elizabeth Glade, University of Colorado at Boulder

Fathers Know Best: Confederate Soldiers as Parents during the Civil War, James Marten, Marquette University

COMMENT: Jane Turner Censer, George Mason University

The Discordant Chorus of the Nineteenth-Century Union: Nation and Section in Early Memories of the American Revolution
PRESIDING: Lewis Perry, Vanderbilt University

PAPERS: Sectional Nationalism: Massachusetts Conservatives Interpret the Revolution, 1815-1836, Harlow Walker Sheidley, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Whose Father, Whose Country?: Southern Struggles over Washington s Legacy, 1845-1877, Robert Bonner, Yale University

COMMENT: George Forgie, The University of Texas at Austin and Peter Knupfer, Kansas State University

Family Regulation in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century U.S.

MODERATOR: Jane Sherron De Hart, University of California, Santa Barbara

PANELISTS:

Anna R. Igra, Carleton College, Working-Class Gender Relations in the Family Law of the Poor in New York, 1910-1935

Megan McClintock, University of Washington, Tacoma, Federal Regulation of Marital Relations in the Civil War Pension System

COMMENT: Donald T. Critchlow, Saint Louis University and Jane Sherron De Hart

Sexual Bodies, National Bodies: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Construction of National Identity

MODERATOR: Ramon Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego

PANELISTS:

Donna Penn, Department of American Civilization, Brown University, Notions of Nation in Gay Political Life

Jessica Shubow, Women's Studies Program, Wesleyan University, "Nature Knows No Color Line": Race, Sexology, and the Reinvention of National Identity

Laura Briggs, Brown University, "A Cage of Ovulating Females": Idioms of Race and Citizenship in Puerto Rican Birth Control Politics

COMMENT: Ramon Gutierrez

Biography and the Study of Labor History: Three Perspectives on the Place of Leadership Studies in Today's Profession

PRESIDING: David Montgomery, Yale University

PAPERS:

Belle Moskowitz, Progressive-Era Industrial Pacifist

Elisabeth Perry, Sarah Lawrence College

Sidney Hillman, Labor's Machiavelli

Steven Fraser, HarperCollins and Basic Books

Arthur J. Goldberg, New Deal Liberal

David L. Stebenne, The Ohio State University

COMMENT: David Montgomery

Why Study Democracy?

MODERATOR: Robert Wiebe, Northwestern University

PANELISTS:

James T. Kloppenberg, Brandeis University

Earl Lewis, University of Michigan

R. Sean Wilentz, Princeton University

COMMENT: The Audience

Discourses of Nature in American Culture

PRESIDING: William Cronon, University of Wisconsin-Madison

PAPERS:

Urban Crisis: Past, Present, and Virtual, Julian Bleecker, University of California, Santa Cruz

Nature, Memory, and Identity in Popular Culture, Susan G. Davis, University of California, San Diego

Constructing Rivers and Persons: Explorers and Experts on the Skagit, Linda Nash, University of Washington

COMMENT: William Cronon

American Conservatism During the 1960s

PRESIDING: Bruce Nelson, Dartmouth College

PAPERS:

"Law and Order": The Conservative Critique of Street Crime and Civil Disorder, Michael W. Flamm, Columbia University

From the Quest for Community to the Quest for Authority: Robert A. Nisbet and the Traditionalist Response to the Sixties, Charles B. Forcey, Columbia University

"Support Our Boys in Vietnam": Prowar Activity in New York City and Grassroots Conservatism, Deborah A. Gershenowitz, Indiana University Bloomington

COMMENT: David Hoeveler, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee