OAH23 Sessions

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Morning Mixer: Networking Welcome Breakfast
Tags: None

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Boyle Heights Historical Walking Tour
Tags: None

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Engaged Scholarship: Making Coalitions, Making Change
Tags: Disability Studies, Social and Cultural, Survey

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Classroom in Crisis
Tags: Politics, Race, Teaching and Pedagogy, Survey

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Seeking Abortions: Ads, Guides, and Community Networks
Tags: Gender and Sexuality, Science, Medicine, and Public Health, Women's History, 20th Century

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Black Women and the Power of Biography
Tags: African American, Biography/Memoir, Gender, 20th Century

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Housing Inequality: The Working-Class Struggle for a Home
Tags: African American, Labor and Working-Class, Urban and Suburban, 20th Century

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Life Histories, the Archives of Reconstruction, and the Historical Imagination
Tags: African American, Biography/Memoir, Civil War and Reconstruction, 19th Century

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Terrorism and Heritage from the First Klan to the Second
Tags: Crime and Violence, Gilded Age & Progressive Era, Public History and Memory, 19th Century

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Diseases, Diagnoses, and Developments: Medicine During the Civil War Era
Tags: Civil War and Reconstruction, Medical History, Social and Cultural, 19th Century

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Before Attica: Long Histories of Carceral State Critique
Tags: African American, Legal and Constitutional, Politics, Survey

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Transforming Knowledge
Tags: Asian American, Education, Professional Development, Public History and Memory, Teaching and Pedagogy, 21st Century

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

The University of Minnesota TRUTH Project (Toward Recognition and University-Tribal Healing)
Tags: Education, Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples, 21st Century

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Workers, Cooperative Organizing, and American Capitalism
Tags: Business and Economy, Crime and Violence, Immigration and Internal Migration, Labor and Working-Class, Nationalism and Transnationalism, Politics, Race, Social and Cultural, Survey

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

The State of Academic Freedom
Tags: Education, Politics, Teaching and Pedagogy, Survey

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

New Directions in Immigration History
Tags: Ethnicity, Immigration and Internal Migration, Race

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Issues Affecting the Profession
Tags: Professional Development

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Youth in the Movement: High School Student Activism in Postwar America
Tags: Education, Politics, Race, 20th Century

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Women's Committee Luncheon: A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
Tags: Gender and Sexuality, Immigration and Internal Migration, Urban and Suburban, 20th Century

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Al Camarillo ALANA Forum on Race and Ethnic Studies in American History
Tags: Borderlands, Latino/a, Race

12:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Autry Resources Center
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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Japanese American National Museum
Tags: None

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Sex Outside of the Household: State Power and Sexuality from Reconstruction to the Great Depression
Tags: Gender and Sexuality, Immigration and Internal Migration, Military, 20th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Beyond "Boat People": New Directions in Haitian Immigration History
Tags: Immigration and Internal Migration, Race, 20th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

First Ladies: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable
Tags: Museums, Politics, Women's History, Survey

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Teaching Underprepared and Nontraditional Students: The Community College Perspective
Tags: General/Survey, Teaching and Pedagogy, Survey

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

New Approaches to Carceral Studies
Tags: Crime and Violence, Legal and Constitutional, Race, 20th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Charros, Latin Lovers, and Vigilantes: Mexican Men Who Challenged U.S. Popular Culture
Tags: Latino/a, Popular Culture, Race, 20th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Asian American History and its Publics
Tags: Asian American, Public History and Memory, 20th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

The Religious Left: Democratic Imaginaries for Uncertain Times
Tags: Politics, Religion, 20th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Working with Literary Agents
Tags: Media and Communications, Professional Development, 21st Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

30 Years After Proposition 187
Tags: Immigration and Internal Migration, Latino/a, Politics, 20th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Public Health and Infrastructures of Care
Tags: Borderlands, Disability Studies, Ethnicity, Gender, Latino/a, Legal and Constitutional, Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples, Science, Medicine, and Public Health, West, 20th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

The Politics of Motherwork
Tags: African American, Labor and Working-Class, Politics, 20th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Histories of Contingent Faculty
Tags: Labor and Working-Class, Professional Development, Teaching and Pedagogy, 21st Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Grad School in the Shadow of COVID
Tags: Education, Professional Development, Survey

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

National Service, Activism, Reform, and Backlash in America, 1960s–1970s
Tags: Military, Politics, Social Welfare and Public Health, 20th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Preserving Black Pasts: Public Histories of African American Leisure and Recreation
Tags: African American, National Park Service, Public History and Memory, Sports and Recreation, 20th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Promises Made: The Truman Commission Report at 75
Tags: Education, Postwar, 20th Century

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

They are Watching: Understanding Conspiracy Theories in Modern American History
Tags: Politics, Popular Culture, Social and Cultural, 21st Century

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Funding Social Change: Gender and Philanthropy in the Twentieth Century
Tags: Gender, Race, Social and Cultural, 20th Century

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

American Evangelicalism in Transnational Context from the Cold War to Today
Tags: International Relations, Nationalism and Transnationalism, Religion, 20th Century

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Histories of Asian American Resistance
Tags: Asian American, Nationalism and Transnationalism, Race, 20th Century

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Wealth, Enslavement, and the Archive
Tags: African American, Archives and Bibliography, Gender, Survey

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Latinx Grassroots Archives: Quotidian Histories in Albuquerque, Tijuana, and the San Gabriel Valley
Tags: Latino/a, Local and Community History, Social and Cultural, 20th Century

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Risky Business: Women, Credit, and Fraud in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Tags: Business and Economy, Legal and Constitutional, Women's History, Survey

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

American Policymakers
Tags: Military, Politics, Social and Cultural, 20th Century

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

The Intimate Carceral State: New Perspectives on Carceral Crises
Tags: Crime and Violence, Gender and Sexuality, Politics, 20th Century

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

The Past, Present, and Future of the American University: Putting the Perpetual and Worsening Crisis in Perspective
Tags: Education, Intellectual, Social and Cultural, 20th Century

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Affordable Housing, Public Housing, and Nonexistent Housing
Tags: African American, Education, Gender, Labor and Working-Class, Local and Community History, Politics, Postwar, Social and Cultural, Urban and Suburban, 20th Century

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Black History and the Plantationocene: A Roundtable
Tags: African American, Environment, Labor and Working-Class, Survey

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Lightning Round: Indigenous and Immigration History in Conversation
Tags: Immigration and Internal Migration, Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples, Survey

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Shaping Community Histories in Southern California: Public History as Practice 
Tags: Professional Development, Public History and Memory, Social and Cultural

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Partnerships in History Education
Tags: Education, Public History and Memory, Teaching and Pedagogy, Survey

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

#Drew50: The Drew League, Pro-Am Basketball, and a Local History of Black Los Angeles
Tags: African American, Oral History, Sports and Recreation, 20th Century

5:15 PM - 6:15 PM

The OAH Award Ceremony
Tags: None

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Distinguished Members, Donors, and Award Winners Reception
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6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Meet and Mingle Reception
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6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Graduate Students Reception
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6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Community College Reception
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6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

ALANA Reception
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6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

SHGAPE Reception
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6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Trivia Power Hour
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8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

K-12 Educators Coffee Break
Tags: None

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Language and Historiography
Tags: Immigration and Internal Migration, International Relations, Nationalism and Transnationalism, Survey

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Race, Religion, and Overlapping Crises in United States History
Tags: Race, Religion, Social Welfare and Public Health, 20th Century

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Teaching Famous Trials
Tags: Crime and Violence, Legal and Constitutional, Teaching and Pedagogy, Survey

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Borders and Belonging: The Precarity of Citizenship from Slavery to Freedom
Tags: Immigration and Internal Migration, Politics, Slavery, 19th Century

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Against the Odds: Labor Repression and Worker Demands for Autonomy in the Long “Progressive Era”
Tags: Business and Economy, Intellectual, Labor and Working-Class, 20th Century

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Currencies and Finance in Black Communities from Early America to the Progressive Era
Tags: African American, Business and Economy, Crime and Violence, Survey

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Promoting Inclusive, Diverse Narratives in Federal History
Tags: Politics, Public History and Memory, Social and Cultural, 21st Century

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Rewriting U.S. History from Prison
Tags: Crime and Violence, Local and Community History, Slavery, 19th Century

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court—A Panel Discussion
Tags: African American, Legal and Constitutional, South, Survey

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

What Students Need to Know About Race and Racism before College
Tags: Teaching and Pedagogy, Survey

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Embodied Experiences of Archival Spaces
Tags: LGBTQ History and Queer Studies, Race, Theory and Methodology, 20th Century

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Afro-Asian Solidarity in the Twentieth Century
Tags: African American, Asian American, Race, 20th Century

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Varieties of Political Practices in the Early Republic
Tags: African American, Politics, Women's History, Early America

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

God, Guns, and Glory: Heroic American History and the Long Culture Wars
Tags: Intellectual, Politics, Social and Cultural, 20th Century

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Anti-poverty Activism, Queer Organizing, and Embodied Resistance
Tags: African American, Latino/a, LGBTQ History and Queer Studies, Local and Community History, Politics, Postwar, Sexuality, West, Women's History, 20th Century

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Los Angeles: Past and Present
Tags: African American, Asian American, Borderlands, Business and Economy, Crime and Violence, Public History and Memory, Race, Visual and Performing Arts, West, 20th Century

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Political Power in the History of American Public Health and Medicine
Tags: Gender and Sexuality, Science, Medicine, and Public Health, Urban and Suburban, 20th Century

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

U.S.-Asia Relations: Trade, Empire, and Religion
Tags: Consumerism and Consumption, International Relations, Transportation, Travel, and Exploration, 20th Century

8:45 AM - 10:15 PM

Revisiting Los Angeles, 1992: An Interethnic Retrospective
Tags: Public History and Memory, Race, 20th Century

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

The Saturday Morning Perk Up!
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9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Koreatown Historical Walking Tour
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9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

The Hidden Histories of Los Angeles' Beaches
Tags: None

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Climate Change, Refuge, and Migration Policy in the Americas
Tags: Environment, Immigration and Internal Migration, Politics, 21st Century

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Military History Reconsidered
Tags: Military, 20th Century

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Community Organizing Across Borders
Tags: Immigration and Internal Migration, Latino/a, West, 20th Century

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

“It’s Our Movement Now”: Black Women’s Politics and the 1977 National Women’s Conference
Tags: African American, Politics, Women's History, 21st Century

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Panel Discussion: Walter Nugent and the Broadening of U.S. History
Tags: Gilded Age & Progressive Era, Immigration and Internal Migration, West, 19th Century

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Latina/o Conservatives: Respectability Politics, Strategic Recasting of Identity, and Activism
Tags: African American, Latino/a, Politics, 20th Century

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Contextualizing Crisis: Histories of the AIDS Epidemic in the Age of COVID-19
Tags: Race, Science, Medicine, and Public Health, Sexuality, 20th Century

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Lave Kuleana (Taking Responsibility): Peoples of Hawai‘i at the Time of Crises
Tags: Immigration and Internal Migration, Nationalism and Transnationalism, 20th Century

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Gendering the Borderlands: Women, Vice, and Feminists Movements in the U.S-Mexico Borderlands
Tags: Borderlands, Labor and Working-Class, Women's History, 20th Century

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Rethinking Homelessness and Urban Poverty in Los Angeles and Beyond
Tags: Gender and Sexuality, Race, Urban and Suburban, 20th Century

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

“Model” Mothers?: Disrupting Cold War Ideologies of Racial Democracy
Tags: Asian American, Race, Women's History, 20th Century

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

The Intersection of Race and Policing
Tags: African American, Politics, Race, Survey

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Say Gay: Say Gay: Policies and Practices to Support K–12 LGBTQ History Education
Tags: Education, LGBTQ History and Queer Studies, Public History and Memory, Teaching and Pedagogy, Survey

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

An Interview with Frances M. Beal: The Making of a Black Radical Feminist
Tags: African American, Gender, Women's History, 20th Century

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Ethnic Studies Requirements for High School Graduation: Impact on Historical Teaching at All Levels
Tags: Professional Development, Race, Teaching and Pedagogy, Survey

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Memory, Media, and Representation in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Tags: African American, Gilded Age & Progressive Era, Social and Cultural, 19th Century

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Historians in the Line of Fire: Intersections of DEI Work & Reality on Campuses
Tags: Professional Development, Survey

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

The Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000 Luncheon
Tags: None

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

Working with Legal Advocates and Activists
Tags: Media and Communications, Professional Development, 21st Century

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

Digital Humanities: In the Classroom and In Your Research
Tags: Digital History, Public History and Memory, Teaching and Pedagogy, Survey

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

Politics of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) in the History Classroom
Tags: None

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

How Can Professional Organizations Stay Relevant?
Tags: Professional Development

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

The intersections of DEI Work and Reality on Campuses
Tags: None

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

Best Practices for the Freshmen Survey, Sharing Ideas and Resources to Increase Engagement
Tags: Teaching and Pedagogy

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

Addressing the Challenges of Contingent Academic Labor
Tags: Professional Development

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

Before Roe, After Dobbs: What the Last Two Centuries Can Tell Us About Abortion Politics Today
Tags: Politics, Science, Medicine, and Public Health, Women's History

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

What Does the Public Think Teachers and Historians Do?
Tags: Professional Development, Teaching and Pedagogy

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Global Perspectives on North American Migration Histories
Tags: Immigration and Internal Migration, International Relations, Nationalism and Transnationalism, Survey

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Ecological and Environmental Histories of the United States Island Empire
Tags: Environment, Science, Medicine, and Public Health, 20th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Fighting For Health Rights in the Carceral State
Tags: Disability Studies, Medical History, Race, Survey

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Latinx Homeownership and the Postwar Metropolis
Tags: Latino/a, Urban and Suburban, 20th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

The Purposeful Power of Archival Imaginaries
Tags: Latino/a, Oral History, Public History and Memory, 20th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Activist Asian American Histories
Tags: Asian American, Crime and Violence, Public History and Memory, 21st Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Radical Black Internationalism in the Bandung Era
Tags: African American, Nationalism and Transnationalism, Race, 20th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

The Late-20th Century Organization and Interrelation of Right and Far Right Ideology
Tags: Politics, Science and Technology, 20th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Roe v. Wade at 50: Reproductive Rights and Justice in Historical Perspectives
Tags: Gender and Sexuality, Race, Science, Medicine, and Public Health, 20th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Recovering and Recentering Educational Histories
Tags: Education, Public History and Memory, Race, 20th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

A History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine
Tags: African American, Medical History, Science and Technology, Social Welfare and Public Health, 20th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

History and Public Memory
Tags: African American, Politics, Public History and Memory, Survey

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Immigration is a Black Issue
Tags: African American, Immigration and Internal Migration, Race, 20th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Disneyland in Crisis
Tags: Popular Culture, Public History and Memory, 20th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Uneasy Spaces: Capitalism, Race and Pleasure
Tags: African American, Business and Economy, Consumerism and Consumption, Environment, Gender and Sexuality, Gilded Age & Progressive Era, Immigration and Internal Migration, Intellectual, International Relations, Oral History, Race, Science and Technology, Social and Cultural, Transportation, Travel, and Exploration, Urban and Suburban, Visual and Performing Arts, 20th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Making Treason Odious Again
Tags: Civil War and Reconstruction, Military, Public History and Memory, 19th Century

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Say Gay: Part 2: Say Gay: Schools, Libraries, Museums, and the Censorship of LGBTQ Lives
Tags: Education, LGBTQ History and Queer Studies, Professional Development, Public History and Memory, Survey

1:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Historic El Pueblo Site and La Plaza De Cultura Y Artes Museum
Tags: None

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Teaching the History of Sexual Violence in the Age of #MeToo
Tags: Crime and Violence, Gender and Sexuality, Teaching and Pedagogy, Women's History, Survey

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Transnational Routes of the Post-War Urban Crisis and Global American Capitalism
Tags: Business and Economy, Postwar, Urban and Suburban, 20th Century

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Botany and Butterflies, Seaweed and Science: New Perspectives on Natural History Collections
Tags: Environment, Science and Technology, 19th Century

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Rethinking Madness in U.S. History
Tags: Disability Studies, LGBTQ History and Queer Studies, Science, Medicine, and Public Health, Survey

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

The Anti-Asian State: 20th-Century Policing in the U.S. and its Empire
Tags: Asian American, Crime and Violence, Race, 20th Century

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Revisiting the Antiwar Campaigns of the 1970s and Beyond
Tags: International Relations, Labor and Working-Class, Politics, 20th Century

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Lawrence v. Texas (2003) at Twenty: Law, Sexuality, and Social Justice
Tags: Gender and Sexuality, Legal and Constitutional, LGBTQ History and Queer Studies, 21st Century

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

¿Juntos o Separados? New Hemispheric Approaches in Chicanx History
Tags: Immigration and Internal Migration, Latino/a, Nationalism and Transnationalism, 20th Century

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Coming to a Crossroads: Public Historians, Identities and Statewide Mythologies
Tags: Ethnicity, Local and Community History, Public History and Memory, 20th Century

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

In Our Wheelhouse: Doing Sports Histories for Popular Audiences
Tags: Race, Social and Cultural, Sports and Recreation, Survey

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Latinx in Hollywood
Tags: Film, Latino/a, Media and Communications, 20th Century

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Realities and Opponents of the "American Way of War"
Tags: Asian American, Crime and Violence, International Relations, Media and Communications, Military, Nationalism and Transnationalism, Politics, 20th Century

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

The Impact of State CRT/Race Policies and Legislation on K16 teaching
Tags: Education, Professional Development, Teaching and Pedagogy, 21st Century

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Tips and Tools for Teaching K–12 LGBTQ-Inclusive History
Tags: Gender and Sexuality, LGBTQ History and Queer Studies, Teaching and Pedagogy, Survey

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Tovangaar: Past, Present, Emerging
Tags: Environment, Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples, Politics, Survey

5:45 PM - 7:00 PM

OAH Presidential Address: Confronting Crises: Asian American Histories for Uncertain Times
Tags: Asian American, Crime and Violence, Race, 19th Century

7:15 PM - 8:30 PM

OAH President's Reception
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