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More than 600 scholars are on the program for the Ninetieth Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, to be held Thursday, April 17 - Sunday, April 20, 1997. "The Meanings of Citizenship" is the theme for the 1997 Annual Meeting. A listing of OAH committee meetings and activities is on page 28. A summary of the convention schedule can be found on page 29.
The San Francisco Hilton and Towers opened in 1964 with 900 rooms in one building.
In the 1970s, a 46-story tower was added and the meeting facilities increased. In
the late 1980s the hotel initiated a $210 million renovation and expansion which
lasted several years and included the entire hotel. The San Francisco Hilton now boasts
a dramatic flame-surfaced granite facade, impressive marble main entrance, and a
third building. Due to its ability to put into action a comprehensive emergency
plan following the 1989 earthquake, the hotel was able to hold the first convention in
the city just nine days after the quake. The San Francisco Hilton is located on
Hilton Square, only a few minutes from the famous San Francisco cable cars and just a
few steps away from the renowned American Conservatory Theater at the Geary Theatre.
The San Francisco Hilton offers the following dining possibilities:
The CaféMain Lobby Level Building 3Enjoy California Regional Cuisine in a contemporary
open-air restaurant and sidewalk cafe, open 6:00 A.M. - 10:00 P.M.;
Mason Street DeliMason Street EntranceFresh-made sandwiches and snacks, open 6:00 A.M. -
10:00 A.M.; IntermezzoLobby Level, Building 3Stand-up Euro-Italiano bistro
featuring pastries, panini, warm salads, focaccia pizzas and premium wines by the glass,
open from 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 a.m.; CityscapeForty Sixth Floor, Building
1Breathtaking 360-degree view of San Francisco, featuring California cuisine, open for
dinner from 5:30 P.M. - 10:00 P.M. with Sunday Brunch from 10:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M.;
and Lobby BarMain Lobby Levelopen for cocktail service 11:00 A.M. - 1:00
A.M.; Kiku of TokyoO'Farrell and Mason Street entranceAuthentic Japanese
creations, open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Guest rooms will be held for convention attendees until
March 10, 1997. Reservation requests received at the San Francisco Hilton after that date will be confirmed
subject to availability and current hotel rates. Special rates for the annual meeting of the
OAH at the San Francisco Hilton represent a savings of over thirty percent off regular rates.
The 1997 rates are: single $139, $149, $159; double $159, $169, $179. A
limited number of rooms are available on a first come-first served basis at each level for
each category of room. To reserve your room, please use the hotel reservation form
inserted in the front of this program, call the hotel at 415-771-1400, or call
1-800-Hiltons. Reserve your room early to ensure that you get the lowest possible rate.
The San Francisco Hilton and Towers is in full compliance with the Americans
with Disabilities Act. If you would like more information, please contact the OAH office
or check the appropriate space on your preregistration form.
REDUCED HOTEL RATES FOR STUDENTS AND UNEMPLOYED
MEMBERS. A special hotel rate has been negotiated at the San Francisco
Hilton for student and unemployed members. Please call the hotel and identify yourself as a student
or unemployed member to receive this special rate. There are only a small number
of rooms available. A list of those registered at this special rate will be checked
against the OAH membership roster.
PARKING. Valet parking and self-parking are available through the motor entrance
of the San Francisco Hilton on Ellis Street. Rates: first hour-$6.00; each additional
hour-$4.00; daily maximum-$27.00; overnight hotel guest-$24.00. Guests staying at the
San Francisco Hilton have in-out privileges.
GROUND TRANSPORTATION TO SAN FRANCISCO. Travelers arriving at
the San Francisco International Airport have a wide variety of ground
transportation options for travel to the San Francisco Hilton. The Airport sponsors a
nation-wide Transportation Hotline, 1-800-SFO-2008, and at the airport there are five
Information Booths located in the baggage claim area (lower level) of each terminal. The
booths are staffed between 8:00 a.m. and 12:00 midnight. The different means of
transportation include the following: 1) Taxilocated on the lower level, yellow
column, outside baggage claim areas of all terminals and available 24 hours, approximately
30 minutes, $21.00-$34.00 one-way (up to four people can ride for the price of
one person); 2) SFO Airporter Bus (415-495-8404)located on the lower level,
blue column, outside baggage claim area, $9 one way, $15.00 roundtrip, leaves every
thirty minutes from 6:15 A.M. - 12:00 midnight; 3)
Door-to-door Vanslocated on upper level, center island, outside of ticket counters at all terminals, walk-up curbside
service from 8:00 A.M. - 12:00 midnight. There are several door-to-door van
services available at the airport including: American Airporter Shuttle, $11
one-way/$16 roundtrip, 415-546-6689; Lorrie's Airport Shuttle, $9-$11, 415-334-9000;
Pacific Airport Shuttle, $9, 415-282-6088; SuperShuttle, $11 ($8 for second person in
same party), 415-558-8500. It is suggested that you call ahead for all services.
TRAVEL IN SAN FRANCISCO. BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), San
Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI), Taxi Cabs, and the famous San Francisco Cable Cars
are all ways to get around the city. Look for a map published in the Convention
Supplement for assistance on finding the best way to get around town.
Guest registration is intended for use by a non-historian who would not
otherwise attend the meeting except to accompany the attendee. Only the registered
attendee may pick up registration materials. Guests do not receive a separate
Pocket Program.
The OAH will accept checks, money orders, or traveler's checks in U.S. currency,
as well as Visa and MasterCard. No telephone or fax registrations will be accepted.
INFORMAL SESSIONS AND OTHER MEETINGS. The OAH program will
use nearly all the meeting space in the San Francisco Hilton and Towers during
the morning and afternoon session periods. Groups who wish to hold informal
sessions, committee meetings, meal functions, reunions, etc., should select times that will
not conflict with sessions. Limited space might also be available during the noon hours.
For information on scheduling these activities contact Sheri L. Sherrill,
Convention Manager, Organization of American Historians, 112 North Bryan Street,
Bloomington, IN 47408-4199; 812-855-9853; sheri@oah.indiana.edu. If requested, functions open
to the public may be listed in the Pocket
Program, distributed to all registrants at the Annual Meeting.
MEMBERSHIP. Attendance at the sessions and exhibits is not limited to
OAH members; however, membership is encouraged and applications will be accepted at
the registration counters. For your convenience, an OAH membership application can
be found on page 132 of this Program. OAH members receive the
OAH Newsletter, the Annual Meeting
Program, and either the Journal of American History
or the OAH Magazine of History.
FOCUS ON TEACHING DAY. Sessions on the 1997 program specifically related
to the teaching of American history at the middle and high school levels are part of
the Fourteenth Annual Focus on Teaching Day. Focus on Teaching Day sessions
are planned for Saturday, and Focus on Teaching Day registration includes attendance
at OAH sessions on that day as well as admittance into OAH Exhibits. For
information contact: Monica Hendren, Focus on Teaching Day Liaison, Organization of
American Historians, 112 North Bryan Street, Bloomington, IN 47408-4199; 812-855-7311.
CHILD CARE. The OAH has received information from Temporary Tot
Tending, Inc., 2217 Delvin Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, 415-355-7377.
They are licensed, bonded, insured, and have been in business since 1978. Please call
them directly to make arrangements for child care. The OAH can assume no
responsibility for any arrangements. Please let the OAH know if you would be interested in
on-site child care at future OAH Annual Meetings. If there is enough interest generated,
we may be able to provide that service at the 1998 Annual Meeting.
PARTICIPANT PAPERS. Copies of some of the participant papers will be sold in
the convention registration area for $2.00 each.
SESSIONS AVAILABLE ON TAPE. Unless otherwise noted, all sessions will
be recorded and cassette tapes will be available for purchase at the annual meeting
and through the OAH Newsletter following the Annual Meeting.
INTERNET SESSIONS. Some session participants have been gracious enough
to agree to make their sessions available via the Internet prior to the Annual Meeting.
Those papers will be published in January on the OAH web site so that discussion can
begin before the Annual Meeting. There you will be able to
read selected papers, comment on papers, and read the comments that have already
been made. Internet sessions are here.
The papers and commentaries published on the Internet are intended solely for
those wishing to participate in e-mail discussion of the papers. They should not be copied
or otherwise reproduced without the consent of the authors. Copying, or reproducing
a paper without the consent of the author may be a violation of common law
copyright and may involve the person copying or reproducing it in legal difficulties. Thank you to the
Oakland Museum of California
for hosting sessions during the
1997 OAH Annual Meeting.
PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR AMERICAN HISTORIANS Job Seekers!
Positions listed with the Organization of American Historians are now posted on
the World Wide Web site. This service has been in effect for over a year and
has been very successful. Members can access these listings and
contact employers directly to see who will be
conducting interviews at our 1997 meeting in San Francisco. (Please note that not all institutions listed on this site will be
conducting interviews at the convention.) The employer representative name, mailing
address, phone and fax numbers, and email address are included whenever possible.
JOB LISTINGS ARE NO LONGER POSTED AT THE ANNUAL
MEETING*
Out of courtesy to the interviewing employers and candidates, OAH will not
provide on-site listings of employers conducting interviews at the meeting.
Employers who are conducting interviews and reserve interview space will be
notified prior to the convention of their room location. Should you wish to schedule
an interview you must contact those employers
directly. There will no longer be an OAH staff person managing a job registry room during the annual meeting.
All questions regarding appropriate procedures for using our on-line system to place
a position listing, or reserve interview space at the meeting should be directed to
Ginger L. Foutz, 812-855-9851, or ginger@oah.indiana.edu.
OAH GUIDELINES FOR INTERVIEWING. The OAH
discourages interview activities in hotel bedrooms. If an interviewer feels it is
necessary to use a facility outside a pre-arranged interview room, the OAH
strongly advises that a parlor rather than a sleeping room be used and that a
third person always be present in the room with the candidate. Interviewers
using such facilities bear sole responsibility for establishing an
appropriate, professional atmosphere and should take special care to ensure that
all interviews are conducted courteously and in a proper manner.
* Employers wishing to reserve interview space at the San Francisco meeting,
please fill out the form on page 131 and return it to the OAH business office prior to
the March 27 deadline.
The National Park Service is offering a complimentary tour of the Presidio and
Sutro Historic District. All of these tours are limited to thirty people so please sign up
early to ensure your that you have a reservation.
Off-site sessions will be held at Alcatraz, the San Francisco Public Library, and
the Oakland Museum of California.
Please use the preregistration form inserted in the front of the program to register
for all tours and off-site sessions except the session at the San Francisco Public Library.
The deadline for tour registration is March 13,
1997, two weeks earlier than the preregistration deadline. So that all tours might be planned properly, please
return your form by this deadline. Tours and off-site sessions are noted by the
directional symbol throughout the Program.
Detailed information on tours and off-site sessions can be found on pages 24-26 of
the Program.
The OAH Convention Special Events and Publicity Committee has planned
two walking tours of San Francisco neighborhoods, the National Park Service has planned
a tour of the Presidio, and several off-site sessions have been arranged especially
for those attending the 1997 OAH Annual Meeting. All tours and groups departing for
off-site sessions will leave from the San Francisco Hilton. Details on point of
departure will be contained in the Pocket
Program distributed to all convention registrants.
Please use the preregistration form inserted in the front of the Program to register
for these events. The only event for which you do not need a ticket is the off-site
session at the San Francisco Public Library. Space is limited and reservations will be made
on a first-come, first-served basis. Advance purchase of tour tickets must be
postmarked by March 13, 1997, two weeks earlier than the preregistration deadline.
Tour and off-site session tickets will be inserted into your badge holder
and available at the convention registration area at the San Francisco
Hilton. OAH reserves the right to cancel any tour that has not met the minimum number of
participants required. Should this occur, complete refunds will be made following
the meeting. T1 - Chinatown/North Beach Walking Tour, 9:00 A.M. - 12:15 P.M., $15 per
person, Maximum: 30 people
Participants on this tour will walk north from the Hilton Hotel to Broadway, about
eleven blocks, with an appropriate coffee stop. The route explores two of San Francisco's
most famous districts. Chinatown's location and racial segregation were established in
the city's first decade. North Beach, built as a working class district, became known for
its concentration of Bohemian writers in the 1890s, and again in the 1950s when (along
with New York's Greenwich Village) it was a national center of Beat culture.
In Chinatown the themes will include historical patterns of Asian-American
employment; community development and differentiation between Chinese, Filipino, and other
Asian immigrants to the region; Asian-American versus Anglo-American land ownership
and building; and social and architectural ways of coping with high densities remaining
from pre-1960s segregation. In North Beach (by the 1920s known primarily as an
Italian neighborhood) themes will include ethnic institutions; pioneering sites of 1940s
and 1950s gay life; and some of the coffeehouses, bars, and bookstore sites important to
Beat writers such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. The tour will end at poet and
novelist Lawrence Ferlinghetti`s City Lights Bookstoreestablished in 1953 as the nation's
first all-paperback bookstorefor an informal talk with Ferlinghetti and Nancy J. Peters.
The tour guide will proceed directly back to the hotel on foot, for those who wish to do so,
but participants may choose to continue their tour on their own at museums, restaurants,
and coffee shops.
T2 - Hispanic and Other Migrations in the Mission
District, 12:00 - 3:15 P.M.,
$15 per person plus round-trip BART ticket, Maximum: 30 people
The Mission District is a large, nineteenth century, mixed-use addition to the original
core of San Francisco. Historian Randolph Delahanty rightly calls the succession of
peoples in the Mission district a microcosm of the city's general history. The initial Hispanic
and Yankee settlers displaced Native Americans, and, in turn, were overwhelmed by
Germans and Scandinavians. By 1900 Irish made up nearly fifty percent of the district's population.
Since World War II, Spanish speaking people have become the dominant group.
About forty percent of the Hispanic immigrants have come from Mexico.
Guides and participants will walk to the Powell Street BART station, and take BART
to the 16th Street station. The stops will include the Mission Dolores of 1791, the
oldest building in San Francisco (entrance will require a nominal fee). From there, the group
will study Mission and 24th streets, the two principal retail spines of the area, which
present a rich mosaic of Latin American commercial and social life. Other themes will
include gentrification and displacement along the Western Mission, and comparisons of
the Victorian city which survived the earthquake and fire of 1906, to blocks rebuilt after
the fire. After the tour, guides will return by BART with those participants who wish to
return directly; suggestions will also be made for coffee stops and further exploration on
your own.
T3 - NPS Tour of the Presidio, 8:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M., Free to the first thirty people
The Golden Gate National Recreation Area preserves an extraordinary collection
of historic sites and landmarks documenting San Francisco's rise from Spanish Presidio
to Gold Rush town to the twentieth-century's gateway to the Pacific. Concentrating on
the Presidio of San Francisco and the Sutro Historic District, this tour offers historians
the exciting opportunity to learn how the struggle for equal citizenship by indigenous
people and Japanese-Americans influenced the politics of the city, and how citizen action
sparked San Francisco's urban park movement of the past century.
SATURDAY, APRIL 19
O1 - Conversation: Alcatraz Revisited: Hopi History and Cultural
Preservation,
8:15 A.M. - 1:00 P.M., $15 per person, Maximum: 30 people
A bus will leave the San Francisco Hilton at 8:00 A.M. to catch an early morning ferry
to Alcatraz, where this session will be held. Once on the island, participants will be
given a brief orientation tour and then the session will begin. Following the session,
participants are free to tour the island and exhibits. A bus will leave the pier at 12:30 P.M. to
return to the San Francisco Hilton. Participants may also return on their own. See page 77 of
the Program for more information on this session.
O2-Oakland Museum of California Sessions, $15 for
transportation to and from the Oakland Museum of California
The Oakland Museum of California is located at 10th and Oak Streets, near the
shore of Lake Merritt and houses three levels of both permanent and changing exhibits
on California's art, cultural history, and ecology. Admission to all museum galleries
will be free to anyone with a convention badge from 10:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. on Saturday.
The cultural history exhibits will be a natural draw, but don't miss the
exquisitely displayed art collection which ranges from Bierstadt's expansive views of Yosemite
to Diebenkorn's Ocean Park series. Architectural critics call the 1969 Kevin
Roche museum building, with its series of cascading garden terraces, one of the Bay
Area's "justly famous" modern designs. The museum cafe, with its own outdoor
dining terrace, is also an excellent and moderately priced place for lunch.
The largest and most active, early African-American population in the Bay Area was
in Oakland, not in San Francisco. The East Bay continues to have several
important centers of black community life. Although blacks were among Oakland's
settlement pioneers in the 1860s, the number of jobs available to them burgeoned with
the completion of the transcontinental railroad (with its Western terminus in the
Southern Pacific Railroad yards in the neighborhood of West Oakland) and with the
large number of regional passenger trains outfitted there. By the 1920s, West Oakland
was home to a growing middle-class black community comprised primarily of the
families of Sleeping Car Porters, and West Oakland was known for its blues clubs and its
well developed black community institutions.
Three sessions will be held at the Oakland Museum:
Conversation: "Citizens" of Community and Neighborhood: From Documentary Photography and
Oral Testimony to Applied History in the Schools, 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 NOON;
Refashioning Identities through Clothes: Citizenship, Class, and
Consumption, 12:30 - 2:30 P.M.; East Bay African American History, including the Marlon Riggs film
Long Train Running, 3:00 - 5:30 P.M. See pages 87, 89, and 100 of the
Program for more information on these sessions. Shuttle buses will be traveling between the
San Francisco Hilton and the Oakland Museum of California. It is an easy BART trip
back to the San Francisco Hilton should anyone desire to leave before the next bus arrives.
San Francisco and the Dimensions of Diversity, 1:00 - 3:00 P.M., No charge and
no registration is required
This session will be held at the San Francisco Public Library which is easily
accessible via an Antique Street Car or BART. It is a single BART stop from the Powell
Street station which is just two blocks from the San Francisco Hilton. Detailed
information on getting to the San Francisco Public Library will be published in the
Pocket Program. See page 92 of the
Program for more information on this session.
Saturday, April 19, 9:00 P.M.
Grand Ballroom, Salon A
San Francisco Hilton and Towers A complete listing of functions and committee meetings and the rooms in which
they will be held will be printed in the Pocket
Program.
THURSDAY, APRIL 17
1998 Program Committee 8:00 A.M.-9:00 P.M.
SATURDAY, APRIL 19
OAH NOMINATING BOARD. The membership is urged to mail suggestions
and letters of support for 1998 OAH candidates for President-Elect, the Executive
Board, and Nominating Board to Professor Kenneth Jackson, Chair, OAH Nominating
Board, Department of History, 603 Fayerweather Hall, Columbia University, New York,
New York 10027.
THE OAH COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE
HISTORICAL PROFESSION invites all historians to a cash bar for conversation and
refreshment.
PRESIDENTIAL BANQUET, PRESENTATION OF AWARDS AND
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. Persons planning to attend the banquet must purchase their
tickets in advance; tickets may not be purchased at the door, and the registration counters
are not open after 5:00 P.M. on Friday. The banquet will begin at 7:00 P.M. The
Presentation of Awards and Presidential Address will begin at 8:30 P.M.
THE 1997 ERIK BARNOUW AWARD-WINNING FILM will be shown at this time.
THE OAH COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF MINORITY HISTORIANS
AND MINORITY HISTORY invites all historians, especially minority graduate
students and junior faculty, to a cash bar for conversation and refreshment.
HOTEL
The San Francisco Hilton and Towers (333 O'Farrell Street, San
Francisco, California 94102; telephone 415-771-1400) will serve as OAH convention
headquarters and will house convention registration, book exhibits, and most of the
program sessions. Meeting room locations are shown on floorplans on pages 28-30.
TRAVEL
The OAH is pleased to announce that Association Travel Concepts
(ATC) will serve as the official travel agency for the 1997 OAH Annual Meeting. ATC
is committed to providing quality service and the lowest possible fares.
Detailed information regarding travel to the annual meeting can be found on page 129 of
the Program. For travel reservations, please use the form on page 130 or call
Association Travel Concepts toll free at 1-800-458-9383. You may also use your own travel
agent, just be sure to use the special fare numbers located on page 129 of the
Program when making your reservation.
REGISTRATION
All persons attending the convention (including program
participants) are required to register. Therefore, you are urged to use the preregistration
form enclosed with this program to save money and avoid long lines. If your form
is missing, please contact the OAH office to receive another. Preregistration
forms postmarked on or before March 27, 1997, will be accepted.
Forms postmarked after March 27 will not be
processed, and you will be required to pay the regular
registration rate at the meeting. Preregistration materials will
not be mailed. All registrants, except guests, will receive a copy of the
Pocket Program, which lists the locations
of all sessions and functions. Safeguard your Pocket
Programlost or missing ones cannot be replaced. Preregistration is nontransferable and materials can only
be picked up by the person for whom the materials were prepared. All persons
attending are urged to supply a convention address for the locator file. Registration fees
are listed below.
Preregistration Fees
Postmarked on or
before March 27, 1997On-Site Fee
OAH Member
$55
$65
OAH Member-Student
$20
$25
OAH Member-Unemployed
$20
$25
Non-member
$75
$85
Guest
$10
$15
MEAL FUNCTIONS
Since we must provide the hotel with advance guarantees
for all catered functions, we urge you to order all of your meal tickets on the
preregistration form. If your form is missing, contact the OAH office for a replacement.
The cost of each ticket includes the required 19% gratuity and 8.5% sales tax.
Reserved tickets will be held at the preregistration desk; you may pick them up
only during the hours that the registration counters are open (see page 29 for schedule). The
1997 OAH Presidential Banquet will be held Friday, April 18, at 7:00 p.m. The
following functions require tickets:
Friday, April 18
Phi Alpha Theta Luncheon
$ 35.00 Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
$ 35.00 Women in the Historical Profession Luncheon
$ 35.00 OAH Presidential Banquet $ 52.00 Saturday, April 19
Oral History Association Breakfast
$ 25.00 Agricultural History Society Luncheon
$ 35.00
Focus on Teaching Day Luncheon
$ 35.00 Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Luncheon
$ 35.00
Urban History Association Luncheon
$ 35.00
TOURS AND OFF-SITE SESSIONS
Two walking tours, two off-site sessions, a
day of sessions at the Oakland Museum of California, and a special National Park
Service tour have all been arranged especially for attendees at the 1997 OAH meeting.
Tours include a walking tour of the Chinatown/North Beach area and the Mission District.
FRIDAY, APRIL 18
SATURDAY, APRIL 19
OAH COMMITTEE MEETINGS
AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
Executive Board 8:30 A.M.-5:00 P.M.
FRIDAY, APRIL 18
Nominating Board 8:00 A.M.-12:00 NOON
1998 Program Committee 8:00 A.M..-12:00 NOON
OAH Magazine of History Advisory Board 8:30 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Luncheon for Women Historians 11:30 A.M.- 1:30 P.M.
Membership 1:30 P.M.-3:30 P.M.
Research and Access to Historical Documentation 3:00 P.M.-5:00 P.M.
Public History 3:00 P.M.-5:00 P.M.
Status of Minority Historians and Minority History 5:30 P.M.-7:30 P.M.
Teaching 5:30 P.M.-9:30 P.M.
Status of Women Cash Bar Reception 6:00 P.M.-7:00 P.M.
Presidential Banquet 7:00 P.M.
Presentation of Awards and Presidential Address 8:30 P.M.
Journal of American History Editorial Board 8:30 A.M.-12:00 NOON
Status of Women in the Historical Profession 9:00 A.M.-11:00 A.M.
Focus on Teaching Day Luncheon 11:30 A.M.-1:00 P.M.
Nominating Board 12:00 NOON-5:00 P.M.
National Park Service Committee 1:30 P.M.-3:30 P.M.
Film: Winner of the 1997 Erik Barnouw Award 2:30 P.M.-5:30 P.M.
OAH Annual Business Meeting 5:30 P.M.
Status of Minority Historians and Minority History Cash Bar 5:30 P.M.-7:00 P.M.