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1997 OAH Annual Meeting Program

The Meanings of Citizenship

"Internet Sessions"

San Francisco Hilton
April 17-20, 1997
San Francisco California

1. Whose City Is It? Memory and Historical Space in America (Thursday, April 17, 2:00p.m.)
   • Other People's History: Slumming and the Shaping of the American Metropolis, 1870-1915 Catherine Cocks, University of California, Davis

   • Transforming Market Square: Community Identity and Historic Preservation in Portsmouth, New Hampshire Paige Roberts, The George Washington University

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2. Reconstructing Identities: Social Dimensions of Addiction Treatment in the Twentieth Century (Thursday April 17, 4:30 p.m.)
   • Addict Careers and Life at the Lexington Narcotic Hospital Caroline Jean Acker, Carnegie Mellon University

   • Compelled to Behave: The Treatment of Tuberculous Alcoholics in Seattle, 1949-1960 Barron H. Lerner, Columbia University

   • Re-Educating the Inebriate: Therapeutic and Civic Ideals in the Institutional Reform of Alcoholics, 1890-1920 Sarah Whitney Tracy, Rutgers Institute for Health Care Policy and Aging Research

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3. Conversation: Motherhood and Citizenship (Friday April 18, 1:00 p.m.)
   • Appealing to a Mother's Instinct, a Citizen's Duty: Adoption in the United States, 1890-1920 Julie Berebitsky, Temple University

   • Mothering the Peace: Concepts of Motherhood and Citizenship in the Nineteenth Century Peace Movement Wendy Chmielewski, Swarthmore College Peace Collection

   • Workers, the State, and Motherhood: The New York State Factory Investigating Committee and Working Mothers, 1911-1915 Richard Greenwald, State University of New York College at Morrisville

   • Motherhood and Social Citizenship in the U.S. Public/Private Welfare State Sonya Michel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

   • Essential Patriotic Service: Mothers and Day Care in World War II Philadelphia Elizabeth Rose, Vanderbilt University

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4. Prison History from the Inside Out (Friday April 18, 1:00p.m.)
   • Prison Radicalism and the Return of Civil Death in California-Where Are We Now? Eric Cummins, California Prisons Project

   • Slideshow: Domesticating Women at the Illinois State Reformatory for Women, 1930-1962 Mara Dodge, History and Women's Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago

   • Books Behind Bars: Prisoners, Reformers, and Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts Larry Goldsmith, Hiram College

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5. Struggle on Many Fronts: Inerpretations and Reinterpretations of Japanese Americans in the Pacific War (Friday April 18, 3:30p.m.)
   • The Role of National Japanese American Historical Society in the Movement for Redress Shigeya Kihara, Defense Language Institute

   • Nisei Linguists in World War II James C. McNaughton Defense Language Institute

   • The Meanings of Citizenship: Japanese Americans in America's Wars Kaoru Oguri, Japanese American National Museum

   • The Meaning of Citizenship to Americans of Japanese Ancestry Clifford I. Uyeda, National Japanese American Historical Society

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6. Languages of Rebellion (Saturday, April 19 9:00 a.m.)
   • Children, Citizenship, and the American Revolution Holly Brewer, North Carolina State University

   • Non-attribution and the Problem of Printed Discourse in Revolutionary Politics John Howe, University of Minnesota--Twin Cities

   • "Simple Facts, Plain Arguments": Rethinking "Common Sense" Peter Messer, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Campus

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