1997 OAH Annual Meeting Program

Bruce Schulman, Boston University

PAPERS:

The Value of Men: The Labor Question and the Idea of the Consumer-Citizen in Late Nineteenth-Century America

Rosanne Currarino, Rutgers University

"A Race of Peasants": American Experts Explain Russia and Russians, 1880-1917

David Engerman, University of California, Berkeley

The Decline of the Collectivist Ideal of Citizenship in the New Deal: F. A. Hayek, The Chicago School, and J. M. Clark

Charles Romney, University of California, Los Angeles

COMMENT:

Mary Furner, University of California, Santa Barbara

Mark Carnes, Barnard College

PAPERS:

Androgynous Fatherhood in Victorian America: The Case of John Shoebridge Williams

Bret E. Carroll, The University of Texas at Arlington

"The Art of Living with Others": The YMCA as Homemaker and Caretaker, 1880-1920

Jessica I. Elfenbein, University of Baltimore

Manhood and Inheritance in the Temperance Novel

Elaine F. Parsons, Johns Hopkins University

COMMENT:

Joan D. Hedrick, Trinity College

Mark Carnes

PRESIDING:

Francille Rusan Wilson, Afro-American Studies, University of Maryland at College Park

PAPERS:

"We Talked of Democracy": Class Identity and Citizenship for African-American Labor Women

Melinda Chateauvert, Afro-American Studies, University of Maryland at College Park

The Untold Story: Women's Labor and Gender Identity in the African American Community

Sharon Harley,Afro-American Studies, University of Maryland at College Park

Frances E.W. Harper: The Oratory of Citizenship

Shirley Wilson Logan, Department of English, University of Maryland at College Park

Who's Quoting My Sisters?: The Politics of Labor and the Work of Black Feminist Criticism in the Academy

Marilyn Sanders Mobley, Departments of English and Afro-American Studies, George Mason University

COMMENT:

Jonathan Holloway, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

Naomi Rogers, Yale University School of Medicine

PAPERS:

Health, Fitness, and Cultural Concepts of the Person: Neo-Social Darwinism in the Contemporary U.S.

Emily Martin, Princeton University

Dread Disease and Social Citizenship in the Progressive Period

Nancy Tomes, State University of New York at Stony Brook

COMMENT:

Keith Wailoo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Daniel T. Rodgers, Princeton University

PAPERS:

Reformed Drunkards' Narratives: Individuals, Institutions, and the Politics of Experience in Nineteenth-Century America

Katherine A. Chavigny, University of Chicago

The Strategic Language of Experience: Begging Writers and Slave Narratives in Antebellum America

Ann Fabian, University of California, Santa Cruz

Experience, Theory, and Professional Authority in Antebellum America

Stephen P. Rice, Ramapo College of New Jersey

COMMENT:

Daniel T. Rodgers

Lynn Dumenil, Occidental College

PAPERS:

Female, Catholic, and Progressive: The Women of the Brownson Settlement House of Los Angeles, 1901-1920

Michael E. Engh, Loyola Marymount University

Serving Two Masters: The Perils of an American Catholic in the Philippines, Governor James Francis Smith, 1898-1909

Judith Raftery, California State University, Chico

John Ryan and the Catholic Search for Respectability and Reform in Early Twentieth-Century America

Anthony Burke Smith, University of Maryland at College Park

COMMENT:

R. Scott Appleby, University of Notre Dame

Patricia Cline Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara

PAPERS:

Called to Court: Female Healers as Sexual Authorities in Early New England

Rebecca J. Tannenbaum, Yale University

"False, Feigned, and Scandalous Words": Sexual Slander and Racialist Thought Among Whites in Colonial North Carolina

Kirsten Fischer, University of South Florida

Through Our Bodies: Prostitution and the Reconstruction of Sexuality in Early National Philadelphia

Clare Lyons, University of Maryland at College Park

COMMENT:

Herman Bennett, Johns Hopkins University

Patricia Cline Cohen

James Gregory, University of Washington

PAPERS

From Deviant Bureaucrats to Homosexual Citizens: Shifting Images of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Civil Service, 1945-1965

David K. Johnson, Northwestern University

One Against the Other: Patronage Employees and Civil Service in the Bureau of Internal Revenue in San Francisco, 1933-1945

Edna Johnston, University of Virginia

Black and White Merit in the U.S. Civil Service

Margaret Rung, Roosevelt University

COMMENT:

James Gregory

Steven Hahn, University of California, San Diego

PAPERS:

Yeoman and Poor White Migration to the Southern Frontier: Class Conflict in Florida, 1821-1839

Edward E. Baptist, University of Pennsylvania

On the Margins: The Place of Tobacco Farmers in Colonial Bahian Society

Linda Wimmer, University of Minnesota_Morris

COMMENT:

John Edwin Mason, University of Virginia

Alida C. Metcalf, Trinity University

Louise C. Wade, University of Oregon

PAPERS:

Responsible Citizenship and the Politics of "Good Government": Women and Reform in Cincinnati, 1924-1955

Robert A. Burnham, Macon College

Dallas and its Planning Movements: From City Problem to the City as Problem

Robert B. Fairbanks, The University of Texas at Arlington

COMMENT:

Carl Abbott, Portland State University

Louise C. Wade

Peggy Pascoe, University of Oregon

PAPERS:

Ishi, "The Last Stone Age Man": Modernity, Masculinity, and the Pleasures of Scarcity

Rachel Adams, University of California, Santa Barbara

Engendering Modernist Visions of the "Primitive": American Indian Artifacts, Eastern Collectors and the Culture Market, 1900 to 1930

Erika Bsumek, Rutgers University

Primitives and Producers: Modernism, Masculinity and Cultural Production in the Harlem Renaissance

Martin Summers, New Jersey Institute of Technology

COMMENT:

Peggy Pascoe

Jacqueline Anne Rouse, Georgia State University

PAPERS:

Citizens of the Nation: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the "True" History of the South' s Patriotism, 1894-1920

Karen Cox, University of Southern Mississippi

Citizenship Inside the Veil: Notions of Civic Responsibility and Identity in Black Atlanta, 1875-1906

Allison Gloria Dorsey, Hamilton College

Claiming Citizenship in the New South: Black and White Women Reformers in South Carolina, 1900-1920

Joan Marie Johnson, University of California, Los Angeles

COMMENT:

William Link, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Emily S. Rosenberg, San Diego State University

PAPERS:

"Silent Partner of the Aggressor": Women's Organizations, U.S. Foreign Policy, and the Far Eastern Crisis, 1937-1941

Margaret Paton Walsh, University of Washington

In the Afterwash of Empire: Wayward American Women on the Pacific Frontier, 1860-1940

Eileen P. Scully, Princeton University

COMMENT:

Edward P. Crapol, College of William and Mary

David Moltke-Hansen, Center for the Study of the American South

PAPERS:

Sacred Mementos: Possessions of Refugee Women during the Civil War

Joan E. Cashin, The Ohio State University

The Last Fandango: Women, Work, and the End of the California Gold Rush

Susan Lee Johnson, University of Colorado at Boulder

Foreclosing Domesticity: Bankrupt Husbands, Burdened Wives, and the Tragedy of the Empty Parlor

Scott A. Sandage, Carnegie Mellon University

COMMENT:

Ronald Walters, Johns Hopkins University

Steven F. Lawson, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

PANELISTS:

Jeffrey S. Adler, University of Florida

Urban Violence and the Great Migration: African-American Homicide in Chicago, 1875-1920

Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, Saint Mary's College

Capital Flight and Grassroots Protest in Oakland's African American Community, 1945-1996

Alan C. Petigny, Brown University

Paper Tiger: Black Middle-Class Militancy and the Rise of the Urban Poor, 1965-1975

COMMENT:

Earl Lewis, University of Michigan

Joseph J. Corn, Stanford University

PAPERS:

The Federal Government and the Telegraph, 1840-1885

David Hochfelder, Case Western Reserve University

The Telephone as Political Instrument: Gardiner Hubbard and the Political Construction of the Telephone, 1875-1880

W. Bernard Carlson, University of Virginia

What is a Computer For? The Early Computer Industry and the Military Demand, 1946-1951

Pap Ndiaye, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

COMMENT:

Claude S. Fischer, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Melvyn Leffler, University of Virginia

PANELISTS:

Barton Bernstein, Stanford University

David Holloway, Stanford University

Norman Naimark, Stanford University

Kathryn Weathersby, Washington, D.C.

COMMENT:

The Audience

Susan Hartmann, The Ohio State University

PAPERS:

From Theodore Roosevelt to Gunnar Myrdal: The Troubled Racial History of America's Civic Nationalism

Gary Gerstle, Catholic University

The American Working Class and the Right to Vote: A Reinterpretation

Alex Keyssar, Duke University

COMMENT:

Eric Foner, Columbia University

Sanford Levinson, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law