A History of Our Own: Celebrating the OAH CentennialJuli A. Jones |
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The OAH Centennial Committee invites you to attend our special series of sessions celebrating the one-hundredth anniversary of the MVHA and OAH. Please take this occasion to recognize our contributions, struggles, goals, and ongoing discussions about history and historians. Whether you are a longtime OAH member or a scholar beginning your career, the centennial offers all a unique opportunity to make meaning of our profession and our place in it. We hope that you will join in our conversations and add to the perspectives of past presidents, leading scholars, teachers, and public historians. In creating these sessions, the committee has sought to acknowledge the contributions of historians to our discipline and profession, to recognize changes and challenges in the fields of history, teaching, and the profession, and to encourage historians to consider how our history can inform our future. We were particularly interested in examining diversity in fields, teaching, and our profession. In three sessions leading scholars will explore changes in American history fields: military, political, diplomatic, and economic history; social, intellectual, immigration and ethnicity, and African American history; and sexuality, women’s, Native American, and environmental history. Other sessions will examine our support of teaching and public education. The Teaching of History panel will discuss our long history in promoting teaching at all levels, K-12 through university, while the Public History session will focus on our support for public history in the National Park Service, historical societies, the National Archives, and other parts of the federal government. Our institutional history will be addressed in exhibits and three sessions that include four JAH editors, seventeen OAH presidents, and three executive secretaries. A look at changes in the JAH will be offered by three past editors and the current editor, and the institutional and political history of the MVHA/OAH will be explored by three former presidents and two former executive secretaries. Finally, a special plenary session on Saturday evening will feature eight former presidents who will reflect on their presidencies and their involvement in OAH. Other centennial-related activities include a session sponsored by the OAH Community College Committee in honor of Nadine Ishitani Hata: The OAH & Community Colleges: History and Opportunity. And don’t miss the Friday evening Centennial Celebration reception at the Minnesota History Center. We hope to see you there!
Thursday Sessions ▪ The MVHA, the OAH, and Public History Spencer Crew, Heather Huyck, David McMillen, Donald A. Ritchie, Otis L. Graham, Jr., and Marla R. Miller. ▪ The MVHA-OAH and the Fields of History, Part I William E. Leuchtenburg; James T. Patterson, Political History; Robert H. Ferrell, Diplomatic History; Gavin Wright, Economic History; Edward M. Coffman, Military History; and Joan Hoff. Friday Sessions ▪ The MVHA-OAH and the Fields of History, Part II Juli A. Jones; Stephanie Shaw, Social History; David A. Hollinger, Intellectual History; John Bodnar, History of Immigration and Ethnicity; Arvarh Strickland, African American History; and Ira Berlin. ▪ Editing the Journal of American History Edward T. Linenthal, Lewis C. Perry, David Thelen, and Joanne Meyerowitz. ▪ The MVHA-OAH and the Fields of History, Part III Suzanne Lebsock; Alice Kessler-Harris, Women’s History; Frederick E. Hoxie, Native American History; Karl Brooks, Environmental History; Kathy Peiss, History of Sexuality; and Thomas Bender.
▪ A Centennial Session in Honor of Nadine Ishitani Hata: The OAH & Community Colleges: History and Opportunity (sponsored by the OAH Committee on Community Colleges) Doris Dwyer, David Trask, Gloria Miranda, and Juli A. Jones. ▪ Friday Evening Centennial Celebration Reception at the Minnesota History Center Saturday Sessions ▪ The MVHA, the OAH, and the Teaching of History in the Schools and Colleges Gary B. Nash; Ron Briley, MVHA and History Teaching; Marjorie Bingham and Howard Shorr, Focus on Teaching Day; Charles Zappia, History in the Community Colleges; Timothy Thurber, The Recent Years; and Leon Litwack. ▪ The Institutional and Political History of the MVHA-OAH Stanley N. Katz; Michael Kammen, MHVA, 1907-1952; Richard S. Kirkendall, From MVHA to OAH, 1951-1981; Arnita Jones, Recent Years; and William Chafe ▪ Presidential Memories Mary Frances Berry; David Montgomery; Carl Degler; Vicki Ruiz; Eric Foner; Anne Firor Scott; John Hope Franklin; Richard White; and Richard Leopold, represented by his biographer, Steven J. Harper.
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