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See the session online!

2004 OAH Annual Meeting
Boston Marriott Copley Place
March 25-28, 2004

2004 OAH Annual Meeting Program

The 2004 Annual Meeting Program is online (PDF)

New for 2004!
Papers for some OAH sessions are available online.

For Exhibitors and Advertisors

Thank you to our meeting sponsors

Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities



  • Rockefeller Archive Center
  • Southern Historical Association
  • Tulane University, Department of History
  • University of Illinois Press
  • ABC-CLIO
  • Bedford St. Martins
  • University of North Carolina Chapel Hill: Center for the Study of the American South, Dean's Office, College of Arts & Sciences, Department of History, James Kenan Fund for History
  • University of North Carolina Press
  • Boston College Department of History
  • Boston University Department of History
  • Brandeis University Graduate Program in American History
  • Brandeis University Women's Studies Program
  • Harvard University Press
  • Palgrave Macmillan
  • Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
  • Tufts University Department of History
  • University of Rhode Island Department of History
  • Wellsley College Women's Studies Program

Listen to an excerpt from a recent Talking History epsiode about Boston.

Cover of The Public Historian
The latest issue of The Public Historian is a special issue on public history in Boston. Single copies are available through the University of California Press.

Common-place
The July 2003 issue of Common-place includes an article by OAH Executive Board member Laurel Thatcher Ulrich entitled, "Big Dig, Little Dig, Hidden Worlds: Boston."

American Revolutions

Registration Rates

(The deadline for online preregistrations has passed.)

$80
OAH Member
$35
OAH Member Student or Income under $20,000
$100
Non-member
$25
Guest*
$85
Non-member Teacher, meeting registration plus membership**

*Guest registration is for nonhistorians who would not otherwise attend the meeting except to accompany the attendee.

**Includes registration for the meeting plus a onetime only one-year History Educator membership.

New Tour Available!

Visit Minute Man National Historical Park on this ranger-guided bus tour to Lexington and Concord (and see how nearby commercial airport expansion is threatening this historic area). Watch the acclaimed “Road to Revolution” at the Visitor Center, a free multi-media presentation detailing the events of April 18-19, 1775. See where Paul Revere was captured, tour Hartwell Tavern, walk on the Old North Bridge, and view other historic sites along the old Battle Road. Tours will run Saturday, March 27 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Sunday, March 28 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30p.m. Reserve your ticket at ShhAir's booth in the OAH exhibit hall. For more information, see www.ShhAir.org, or call (781) 674-9755.

Hotels

Guest rooms are available at the Boston Marriott Copley Place at the OAH convention rate of $189 single or $209 double (plus 12.45% tax).

Please call the hotel directly to make your reservation. Be sure to mention that you are attending the OAH Annual Meeting in order to receive the discounted rates. The deadline for reservations at the Boston Marriott Copley Place is February 24, 2004.

Boston Marriott Copley Place
110 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02116
Phone: 617-236-5800
Toll-free: 800-228-9290

Especially for Teachers

OAH Professional Development Certificates
Professional Development Certficates will be offered at the annual meeting again this year. For more information call (812) 855-7311 or email the OAH Convention Manager,

Childcare at the 2004 Annual Meeting

Childcare during the meeting can be arranged with Parents in a Pinch, 45 Bartlett Crescent, Brookline, Massachusetts 02446; phone 617-739-5437; toll-free 800-688-4697. Parents in a Pinch provides childcare in all hotels in the greater Boston area. Parents and guardians may call to reserve a sitter Monday through Friday, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Babysitters are paid by parents directly: $10.00 per hour for one child, $1.00 for each additional child, plus reimbursement for the provider’s travel expenses and parking. There is a four-hour minimum. Parents also pay a referral fee by credit card: $60/day during the weekdays, $40.00/session for evenings and weekends. There is a $30.00 cancellation fee for childcare booked and cancelled. All caregivers are screened and must submit to background checks. More information about Parents in a Pinch is available at <http://parentsinapinch.com>. Please contact Parents in a Pinch directly for childcare. OAH is not responsible for arrangements.

Child Care Assistance Grants

Preregistrants for the meeting may apply for reimbursement of childcare costs associated with their attendance in Boston. This new OAH program, proposed by the OAH Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession, will provide ten grants of up to $200 reimbursement for parents or guardians. Grants will be made on a first-come-first-served basis to individuals who are members of OAH, have preregistered, and have a combined/household income of less than $40,000. The childcare may happen in the child's home or at the annual meeting. Grant recipients will be asked for receipts or other written documentation before receiving reimbursement. To apply, with your name, mailing address, telephone number, number of children needing care, and hours and days of child care (e.g., 6 hours on Thursday, 8 hours on Friday, etc.).

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