1996 OAH Annual Meeting Program--Thursday Sessions

Thursday, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Thursday, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Plenary Session, 8:30 p.m.
Table of Contents

Family Violence in America, 1730-1930

PRESIDING: Michael Grossberg, Indiana University Bloomington

PAPERS:

Violence Against Wives in the United States: History's Contribution to Feminist Theory, David Peterson-del Mar, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada

Wife Abuse in the Public Eye, 1830-1930, Jerome Nadelhaft, University of Maine

"Unnatural Mothers": Infanticide, Child Abuse, and Motherhood in the Mid-Atlantic, 1730-1830, Merril Smith, Widener University

COMMENT: Pamela Susan Haag, Brown University and Michael Grossberg

The Social Production of Leisure: Contested Leisure Spaces, Times, and Activities

PRESIDING: Roy Rosenzweig, George Mason University

PAPERS:

Hanging Around the Firehouse All Night, Amy S. Greenberg, The Pennsylvnia State University-University Park Campus

A Month of Sundays, Alexis Macon McCrossen, Southern Methodist University

Efficient Leisure: The Taylorization of College Recreation, Kathleen Newman, Yale University

COMMENT: Roy Rosenzweig

Religion and Social Science at the Turn of the Century

MODERATOR: Ann D. Braude, Princeton University

PANELISTS:

Sam Elworthy, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Campus, Medium, Professor, Patient: Fictions of Psychology at the Turn of the Century

Kathi L. Kern, University of Kentucky, Resurrecting the Woman's Bible: The Conflicted Legacies of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Beryl Satter, Rutgers University-Newark Campus, The Muckraker and the Hypnotist: Alternative Religion and Progressive Reform in the 1890s

COMMENT: Ann D. Braude

The Oral and the Visual in Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture

Thursday, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.

Reflections on Slavery and Freedom in the Antebellum Upper South: The Case of Delaware and Missouri

PRESIDING: Allan Kulikoff, Northern Illinois University
PAPERS: The Meaning of Freedom: Contesting the Limits of Manumission in Antebellum Delaware, Patience Essah, Auburn University
"May we as one family live in peace and harmony": Relations Between Slaves and Slaveholders on Missouri s Farms, 1821-1865, Diane L. Mutti, Emory University
COMMENT: Julie Saville, University of Chicago

The Radical Right in The South: Three Perspectives from the 1950s/1960s
MODERATOR: John A. Andrew III, Franklin and Marshall College
PANELISTS:
Brady M. Banta, Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport Preventive Medicine, Shreveport Style: Organized Medicine and the Anticommunist Crusade in the Ark-La-Tex in the early 1960s
Lori Bogle, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, The U.S. Military, the Southern Radical Right, and Harding Colleges National Education Program: Propaganda Partners of the Cold War, 1958-1962
Elna Green, Sweet Briar College, Gender and the Origins of Anticommunism: The Conservative Career of Ida M. Darden
COMMENT: Michael Honey, University of Washington, Tacoma

Whose Civil War? The Battle for Historical Memory at the Fiftieth Anniversary of Gettysburg and Emancipation
MODERATOR: James Oliver Horton, The George Washington University and Smithsonian Institution
PANELISTS:
David W. Blight, Amherst College, Race, Reunion, and the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Civil War and Emancipation
Cecilia O Leary, The American University, Lost Histories and New Narratives: The Problems of National Identity Fifty Years after the Civil War
COMMENT: John David Smith, North Carolina State University and James Oliver Horton

Reordering the Metropolis: Urban Policing and Changing Conceptions of Race, Class, and Gender in Turn-of-the-Century America
PRESIDING: Gerda W. Ray, University of Missouri-St. Louis
PAPERS:
Working for the Committee: Women Vice Investigators Posing as Prostitutes in Early Twentieth-Century New York City, Elizabeth Clement, University of Pennsylvania
The Integration of the Urban Police: Politics and Race in American Law Enforcement in the Early Twentieth Century, W. Marvin Dulaney, Avery Research Center, College of Charleston
"Mere Tools of the Shylock Corporations": The Response of Workers to Anti-Labor Police Violence in Gilded Age New York, Edward O Donnell, Hunter College/CUNY
COMMENT: Mark H. Haller, Temple University

Women, Fetes, and Festivals in Early America
PRESIDING: Lawrence E. Klein, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
PAPERS:
The Meschianza: Sum of all Fetes, David S. Shields, The Citadel
The Meschianza s Meaning: "How will it sparkle page the future?", Fredrika J. Teute, Institute of Early American History and Culture
Women, Nationalism, and the Politics of Celebration in the Early Republic, David Waldstreicher, Bennington College

COMMENT: Rosmarie Zagarri, George Mason University and Lawrence E. Klein

Selling the Consumer Revolution at Home and Abroad, 1910-1930

PRESIDING: Dana Frank, University of California, Santa Cruz
PAPERS:
Creating Citizens for the Information Society: Retail Credit and the Mass Media, 1910-1930, Joe Arena, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University
When Carmen Goes Shopping: Gender and the Development of International Advertising, Jennifer Scanlon, State University of New York College at Plattsburgh
COMMENT: Jackson Lears, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Campus and Dana Frank

Conflict in the Community: the Civil War's Effect on Local Societies
PRESIDING: John F. Marszalek, Mississippi State University
PAPERS:
Prosperity and Tragedy: An Iowa Community and the Civil War, Kenneth Lyftogt, University of Northern Iowa
Bayou Society Embattled: The Civil War in Louisiana s LaFourche Region, Stephen S. Michot, Mississippi County Community College
That Losing Feeling: Confederate Lynchburg, Virginia Confronts Defeat, Steven E. Tripp, Grand Valley State University
COMMENT: Judith F. Gentry, University of Southwestern Louisiana and Christopher Phillips, Emporia State University

Policing the Social in the "Progessive Era"
(Co-sponsored by the Society for the History of Gilded Age and Progressive Era)
PRESIDING:Regina G. Kunzel, Williams College
PAPERS:
No Place for a Woman: Women at the Nevada State Prison, 1890-1930, Donna Crail-Rugotzke, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
"To Preserve the Family Circle": Law, Morality, and Mothers Pensions, David S. Tanenhaus, University of Chicago
Courting Gender: The Politics and Practice of the Chicago Morals Court, Michael Willrich, University of Chicago
COMMENT: Leslie J. Reagan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Regina G. Kunzel

From Individual Memory and Biography to Collective Memory and National History
MODERATOR: William S. McFeely, The University of Georgia
PANELISTS:
Salwa Nacouzi, Department of English, Universit‚ de Poitiers, France, Chinese-American Female Writes and Chinese-American Collective Memory
Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Department of English, Universit‚ Paris VII-Denis Diderot, France, Memorialists of the Lost Prairie: Naturalists in the American West, 1776-1830
Naomi Wulf, Department of English, Universit‚ Paris XII-Val de Marne, France, American Democracy in the Making Seen Through One Individual: Orestes Brownson and the American Idea
Nathalie Caron, Department of English, Universit‚ de Paris X-Nanterre, France, Thomas Paine and the American Collective Memory
COMMENT: The Audience

Beyond Revival and Reform: Religious Counter Currents in the Antebellum North

PRESIDING: Mark A. Noll, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois
PAPERS:
New Uses for Old Times in Antebellum American Theology, James D. Bratt, Calvin College
After the Revivals: The Resurgence of Freemasonry in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, David G. Hackett, University of Florida
Covenant History and American Identity in the 1850s, Laura L. Mitchell, Yale University
COMMENT: James H. Moorhead, Princeton Theological Seminary
Private Records, Public Use/Public Records, Private Use (Sponsored by the OAH Committee on Research and Access to Historical Documentation)
MODERATOR: Donald A. Ritchie, Senate Historical Office
PANELISTS:
Mary Dudziak, University of Iowa, What it Means to be a Secret: The Meaning of "Public" and "Private" under the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act
N.E.H. Hull, Rutgers University-School of Law Camden, Access to Lawyers' Files Confidentiality or Candor?
Dana Barron, University of Pennsylvania, One Woman's Secret: Case Records, Confidentiality, and Historical Inquiry
COMMENT: Maeva Marcus, Documentary History of the United States Supreme Court

Remembering the Black Panther Party: Scholars/Activists Reflect on Its Impact and Legacy Thirty Years Later

PRESIDING: Charles Jones, Georgia State University
PAPERS:
Memories of Love and War: A Memoir, Kathleen Cleaver, Emory University School of Law
Myth, Meaning, and Macho: Black Popular Culture and Remembrances of the BPP, Tracye Matthews, University of Michigan
State Repression and Social Movements: Image and Reality of the Black Panther Party, David Maurrasse, Northwestern University
Organizing the Black Community: Lessons from the Black Power Era, JoNina Abron, Western Michigan University
Sixties Reminiscences and Nineties Realities, Ahmad Abdur-Rahman, University of Michigan
COMMENT: The Audience

Southern Civil War Recollections in the Civil Rights Era
MODERATOR: Patricia Bell-Scott, The University of Georgia PANELISTS:
Robert Cook, University of Sheffield, England, From Shiloh to Selma: The Impact of the Civil War Centennial on the Black Freedom Struggle in the United States, 1961-1965
Peter J. Ling, University of Nottingham, England, Remembering Reconstruction on the Sea Islands: The Citizenship School Experience, 1957-1961
COMMENT: John Blassingame, Yale University

Historians and Preservationists
PRESIDING: Richard Allan Baker, Historical Office, United States Senate
PAPER:
Historians and Preservationists: A Partnership for the Centuries, Richard Moe, National Trust for Historic Preservation
COMMENT: Robert B. Stepto, Yale University and Yi-Fu Tuan, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Journeys Filled with Sweat and Prayer: Labor, Religion, and Community in Asian-American History
PRESIDING: David Yoo, Claremont McKenna College
PAPERS:
Confucianism, Moral Leadership, and Nationalism: The Makings of a Korean Immigrant Community, 1905-1945, Richard Kim, University of Michigan
Relocating Home: Filipino Nurses and Community Formation in Postindustrial America Catherine Pet, University of California, Los Angeles
American Protestantism, Filipino Evangelists, and Sakada Workers in Hawaii, 1910-1946 Steffi San Buenaventura, University of California, Riversie
Dr. Mabel Lee: The Interstitial Career of a Protestant Chinese American Woman, 1924-1950 Timothy Tseng, Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary
COMMENT: Gary Okihiro, Cornell University

PLENARY SESSION
8:30 p.m.
Choosing America's Presidents
MODERATOR: Mary Frances Berry, University of Pennsylvania
PANELISTS:
Allan Bogue, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Blanche Wiesen Cook, City University of New York
Newton Minow, Northwestern University
Kevin Phillips, The American Research Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland
Roger Wilkins, George Mason University
COMMENT: The Audience

1996 OAH Annual Meeting Program--Thursday Sessions

Family Violence in America, 1730-1930

The Social Production of Leisure: Contested Leisure Spaces, Times, and Activities

Religion and Social Science at the Turn of the Century

The Oral and the Visual in Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture

Reconstructing the Memory of the Civil War: Thomas Settle Jr., Zebulon B. Vance, and the Politics of Reconstruction

Real Indians and Indian Experiences

If All Cities Were Chicago . . . But They Aren't

The Art of Writing Historical Documentaries: The Popular History of the Twenty- First Century

Creating Communities: Gender, Region, and Progress in Three Small Towns

Open Secrets: An Interim Report of the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review

Intelligence and Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations

Memories of Bright Tomorrows Past: Youth Culture, Labor, and Identity in the PostIndustrial City

The Rhetoric of Separate Spheres: The Languages of Sentimentality and Law in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century United States

Reflections on Slavery and Freedom in the Antebellum Upper South: The Case of Delaware and Missouri

The Radical Right in The South: Three Perspectives from the 1950s/1960s

Whose Civil War? The Battle for Historical Memory at the Fiftieth Anniversary of Gettysburg and Emancipation

Reordering the Metropolis: Urban Policing and Changing Conceptions of Race, Class, and Gender in Turn-of-the-Century America

Women, Fetes, and Festivals in Early America

Selling the Consumer Revolution at Home and Abroad, 1910-1930

Conflict in the Community: the Civil War's Effect on Local Societies

Policing the Social in the "Progessive Era"

From Individual Memory and Biography to Collective Memory and National History

Beyond Revival and Reform: Religious Counter Currents in the Antebellum North

Private Records, Public Use/Public Records, Private Use (Sponsored by the OAH Committee on Research and Access to Historical Documentation)

Remembering the Black Panther Party: Scholars/Activists Reflect on Its Impact and Legacy Thirty Years Later

Southern Civil War Recollections in the Civil Rights Era

Historians and Preservationists

Journeys Filled with Sweat and Prayer: Labor, Religion, and Community in Asian-American History

Choosing America's Presidents