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2008 Annual Meeting 2008 Annual Meeting

Bringing Us All Together: The 101st Annual Meeting of the OAH

Friday, March 28 to Monday, March 31, 2008
Hilton New York


New Sessions (since February 2008)

Cultural Capital and Black Education:New Historical Perspectives

Friday, March 28 -- 8:15 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.

Cosponsored by the Organization of American Historians and the American Educational Research Association

Chair: Linda M. Perkins, Claremont Graduate University

  • "No One Can Do It for Us”: Black Agency, Cultural Capital, and Schooling during and aft er the Civil War, 1862-1870
    Christopher M. Span, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • “Good Future Citizens”: Cultural Capital and Curricular Reform in Georgia’s Segregated Public Schools, 1930-1939
    Patrice Preston-Grimes, University of Virginia
  • Cultural Capital in the Southern Landscape: Rosenwald Schools and Black Education From Jim Crow to Heritage Tourism
    Mary S. Hoff schwelle, Middle Tennessee State University
  • Transnational Education and Cultural Capital: From Booker T. Washington to Rev. Leon H. Sullivan
    V. P. Franklin, University of California, Riverside

Education History and Policy: An Important Relationship

Friday, March 28 -- 12:25 p.m. to 1:55 p.m.

Cosponsored by the Organization of American Historians and the American Educational Research Association

Chair: Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Bard College, Simon’s Rock

  • James D. Anderson, University of Illinois
  • Carl F. Kaestle, Brown University
  • Kate B. Rousmaniere, Miami University
  • John L. Rury, University of Kansas
  • Andrea Walton, Indiana University

Conversation with Lonnie Bunch, National Museum of African American History an Culture

Sunday, March 30 -- 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

In 2015, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will open on the national mall in Washington DC. In this forum, NMAAHC Director Lonnie Bunch will engage OAH attendees in conversations about expectations for the new museum and developing plans for the building’s opening exhibition program.
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04/14/08 01:41 PM