Annual Meeting 2020 Session Listing

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Capital in the Nineteenth Century
Tags: Business and Economy, Legal and Constitutional, 19th Century

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Still Indian Country: The Indigenous Northern Plains in the Twentieth Century
Tags: Midwest, Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples, West, 20th Century

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Black Radicalism and the New Left, 1955–1970
Tags: African American, Politics, Social and Cultural, 20th Century

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

New Perspectives on the Archival Recovery of Black Women's History
Tags: African American, Biography/Memoir, Women's History, 20th Century

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Race and Place: Thinking through Immigrant (In)Equalities in 1970s Washington, D.C.
Tags: Immigration and Internal Migration, Nationalism and Transnationalism, Race

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Race, Religion, and Inequality in the Twentieth-Century United States
Tags: Politics, Race, Religion, 20th Century

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Producing Intimate Labors: Domesticity, Inequality, and Racial Capitalism
Tags: Gender and Sexuality, Labor and Working-Class, Women's History, Survey

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Free, Associated, Unequal: Reframing Puerto Rican Histories of Struggle
Tags: Immigration and Internal Migration, Latino/a, Nationalism and Transnationalism, 20th Century

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Social Movements and Progressive Inequalities, 1850–1930
Tags: Gender, Women's History

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Hope and Struggle for the Inner City: Race, Crime, and Urban Revitalization in the Metropolis
Tags: African American, Crime and Violence, Gender, Labor and Working-Class, Politics, Social and Cultural, Social Welfare and Public Health, Women's History, 20th Century

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Popular Music and the Culture Wars
Tags: Music, Popular Culture, 1980s to the Present

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Women and Public Space in the Urban United States
Tags: Social and Cultural, Urban and Suburban, Women's History, 20th Century

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

From the Consent of the Governed: The State of (In)Equality for Mexicans, Vietnamese, and the LGBTQ Community in Texas
Tags: Immigration and Internal Migration, Latino/a, LGBTQ History and Queer Studies, 20th Century

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

New Perspectives on National Park History
Tags: Environment, National Park Service, Public History and Memory, 20th Century

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Education and the Politics of Global Capitalism: Tracing Imperial Trajectories from the Late 19th through the Mid-20th Centuries
Tags: Business and Economy, Education, International Relations

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Nuclear Inequalities in the American Century
Tags: Environment, Science and Technology, Social and Cultural, 20th Century

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Traces of Monarchy in Early U.S. Political Culture
Tags: Politics

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Encounters with Natives and Nature: Travel Narratives and American Ideologies
Tags: Environment, Transportation, Travel, and Exploration, West, 19th Century

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Black, White, and Red: Antebellum Party Politics on the Ideological Margins
Tags: Labor and Working-Class, Politics, Race

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Agricultural History: Emerging Scholarship
Tags: Agricultural and Rural

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

New Histories of Social Security
Tags: General/Survey, Intellectual, Social and Cultural

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Wellness, Bodies, and Selfhood in the Modern United States
Tags: Gender, Science, Medicine, and Public Health, Social and Cultural, 20th Century

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

The Emergence of Immigration “Specialists”: Ideas about Inclusion and Exclusion of Immigrants in the Early to Mid-20th Century
Tags: Immigration and Internal Migration, 20th Century

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Slavery, Freedom, and Family Networks: New Approaches and Methods
Tags: African American, Slavery, Antebellum

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Homeward Bound: The Mexican State and Attempts to Root Migrants Back in their Homeland, 1930–1990
Tags: Immigration and Internal Migration, Labor and Working-Class, Latino/a, 20th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Because of Her Story: Women’s History and the Public
Tags: None

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

A “Promising Problem” Indeed: New Methods and Interpretations in Chicana/o Educational History
Tags: Education, Latino/a, Theory and Methodology, 20th Century

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Challenging Inequality in America’s Civil Courts: African American Litigants in the Era of Jim Crow
Tags: African American, Legal and Constitutional, Race, 20th Century

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Racism, Repression, and the Freedom Struggle: Memphis after 1968
Tags: African American, Politics, Social and Cultural, 20th Century

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

“Streets Are for People Too!”: Community, Infrastructure, and Contested Spaces in 20th-Century America
Tags: Science and Technology, Transportation, Travel, and Exploration, Urban and Suburban, 20th Century

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Race, Recreation, and the National Park Service in the Mid-20th Century
Tags: African American, National Park Service, 20th Century

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Business and (In)equalities
Tags: Business and Economy, Legal and Constitutional, Politics, 20th Century

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Queer Public Histories/Queer Public Service
Tags: Gender and Sexuality, LGBTQ History and Queer Studies, Public History and Memory, 20th Century

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

A New Look at Vast Early America: Lightning Round on Emerging Research
Tags: Early America

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Policing Social Movements in the Twentieth Century
Tags: African American, Politics, Urban and Suburban, 20th Century

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Sanctuary: Defending the Vulnerable and Challenging the State from the Nineteenth Century until the Present
Tags: Immigration and Internal Migration, International Relations, 20th Century

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Diverse Women, Diverse Paths: Woman Suffrage and Equal Citizenship in Modern America
Tags: Biography/Memoir, Politics, Women's History, 20th Century

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Sexual Healing? Race, Religion, and Purity in the 20th Century
Tags: Gender and Sexuality, Race, Religion, 20th Century

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Calculating Inequality: Science, Health, and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation
Tags: African American, Print Culture, Science, Medicine, and Public Health

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Trouble in Trucking Country: Truck Drivers and Their Histories
Tags: Business and Economy, Labor and Working-Class, LGBTQ History and Queer Studies, 20th Century

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

American Silk, Transnational Commerce, and Geographies of Identity
Tags: Business and Economy, Material Culture and Architecture, Nationalism and Transnationalism, Survey

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

State Repression in the Black Power Era
Tags: African American, Crime and Violence, Race, Postwar

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Teaching Difficult Racial Histories in Post–Civil Rights America
Tags: African American, Education, Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples, Race, Slavery, Teaching and Pedagogy, 20th Century

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Anti-Apartheid Politics: Anticommunism, Corporate Campaigns, and the Long Civil Rights Movement
Tags: Labor and Working-Class, Nationalism and Transnationalism, Postwar, 20th Century

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Queer Histories of Washington, D.C.
Tags: Gender and Sexuality, LGBTQ History and Queer Studies, Politics, 20th Century

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Radicalism, Reform, and the Terrain of a New Chicanx Political History
Tags: Latino/a, Politics

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

The Question of Black Politics in the Antebellum United States
Tags: African American, Politics

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Midcentury Markets and the Public Reliance on Private Capital
Tags: Business and Economy, Politics, Urban and Suburban, 20th Century

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Pacific (Im)Mobilities: Conceptualizing Race, Transportation, and Empire in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Tags: Immigration and Internal Migration, Race, Transportation, Travel, and Exploration, 19th Century

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

New Directions in Latina/o History: Using Religious History to Overcome Inequalities of the Historical Record
Tags: Immigration and Internal Migration, Latino/a, Religion, 20th Century

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Histories of Political Economy and the African Diaspora
Tags: African American, Race, Theory and Methodology, Survey

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Comedy, Cartoons, and Satire: Communicating Science and Technology
Tags: Environment, Popular Culture, Science and Technology, Survey

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Religion and the Influence of Intellectual Networks: Interpretation and Operationalization of Ideas in the Nineteenth Century
Tags: Intellectual, Politics, Religion, 19th Century

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Emerging Queer Histories of HIV/AIDS
Tags: LGBTQ History and Queer Studies, Medical History, Sexuality

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM

Refugees and Asylees
Tags: None

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM

Non-Tenure Track Faculty and the Future of History
Tags: None

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM

Old Directions in Gilded Age and Progressive Era History
Tags: None

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM

Current Trends in Teaching the U.S. History Survey Course
Tags: None

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM

Beyond Checking the Box: Methods of Inclusive History for Multiple Publics
Tags: None

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM

Protecting the Past; Protecting the Future Advocating for National Archives Funding
Tags: None

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

History Gateways: Reimagining Introductory Courses
Tags: None

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

Is the U.S. History Survey Course Dead? A Discussion of the Viability of the U.S. History Survey Course
Tags: None

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

Ask a Librarian: Remote + In-Person Research at the Library of Congress
Tags: None

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

Teaching the Chicana and Chicano Movement with Primary Sources
Tags: None

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

I Teach Seven Classes, Ask Me Anything!
Tags: None

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

The Contested Use of Force: Violence, Theft, and Property Destruction in Political and Economic Struggle
Tags: Crime and Violence, Labor and Working-Class, Politics, 20th Century

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Loyalties and Identities in Unequal Imperial Landscapes: American-Spanish-Cuban Relations, c. 1890s–1950s
Tags: Nationalism and Transnationalism, Race, Social and Cultural, Gilded Age & Progressive Era

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Racial Formations within Social Movements: Forging Solidarities and Complicities
Tags: African American, Asian American, Latino/a, 20th Century

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

State, Society, and “Correcting the Body”
Tags: Disability Studies, Science and Technology, Social Welfare and Public Health, 20th Century

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Bringing the Past Present: Public History in an Era of Turmoil
Tags: Public History and Memory

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Managing Sex in the U.S. Military
Tags: Gender, Military, Sexuality, 20th Century

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Debt and Dispossession: Racial Capitalism and African American Economic Life in Historical Perspective
Tags: African American, Business and Economy, Slavery, Survey

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

A Unified Front against Police Brutality: How Chicano/as and Their Allies Challenged Police Repression and Violence
Tags: Labor and Working-Class, Latino/a, Race, 20th Century

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Leveraging Poverty: New Cities, New Partnerships, and the Progressive Abandonment of Urban Poverty in the 1980s and 1990s
Tags: Business and Economy, Social Welfare and Public Health, Urban and Suburban

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Women Scholars on the Rise: Emerging Research in American History
Tags: Gender and Sexuality, International Relations, Race, 19th Century

6:45 PM - 12:00 AM

OAH Presidential Address
Tags: None