1996 OAH Annual Meeting Program--Sunday Sessions

Mobility and Placelessness in the Great Depression

A New Deal For Leisure: Organizing Tourism During the Great Depression, Michael A. Berkowitz, Columbia University

Norman Rockwell and American Mass Culture: The Crisis of Representation in the Great Depression, William Graebner, State University of New York College at Fredonia

COMMENT: Karal Ann Marling

Radio Audiences in the Dynamics of Politics and Culture in the 1930s and 1940s

PAPERS:

The Birth of Audience Research in the 1930s: A Reconsideration, Susan J. Douglas, Hampshire College

National Stage, Local Participation: The Major Bowes, Original Amateur Hour, and the New 1930s Genre of Participation Radio, Roland Marchand, University of California, Davis

COMMENT: Susan Smulyan, Brown University and Lawrence W. Levine

New Directions in Edwardsian History

PAPERS:

Andover Seminary, New England Theology, and Edwardsian Tradition, 1820-1860, Joseph A. Conforti, University of Southern Maine

The New Divinity and Williams College, 1793-1836, David W. Kling, University of Miami

Edwards and His Mantle: The Historiography of the New England Theology, Douglas A. Sweeney, The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Yale University

COMMENT: Allen C. Guelzo, Eastern College

The Civil War in New England Memory, 1865-1900

PAPERS:

Civil War Monuments of New England, Thomas J. Brown, Harvard University

Claiming Heaven and Home: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps s (Anti) War Message to Women, Lyde Cullen Sizer, Sarah Lawrence College

COMMENT: Louis P. Masur, City College of New York and Stuart Charles McConnell, Pitzer College

Place, Person, and Past: Recording, Marketing, and Preserving a Shared Spatial History

PANELISTS:

Brooke Jane Barr, American Studies, Yale University, Historic Preservation in New York City, 1945-1975: Creating History and Identity in an Urban Context

Max Page, University of Pennsylvania, Frozen City: Photography and Memory in Progressive Era New York

Marguerite S. Shaffer, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Tourist Encounters: The Convergence of National History and Individual Identity in the American Landscape, 1915-1930

COMMENT: Charles McGovern

Workers, Politics, and the State in Progressive America

(Co-sponsored by the Society for the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era)

PRESIDING: William Forbath, School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles

PAPERS:

Workers and the "Party State" in Progressive America, Julie Greene, University of Colorado at Boulder

A Reluctant Embrace: Radicals, Reformers, Trade Unionists, and the Progressive Era State, Joseph A. McCartin, State University of New York College at Geneseo

COMMENT: Gwendolyn Mink, University of California, Santa Cruz and William Forbath

From Cold War Culture to the Age of Protest: Beyond New Left Historiography

PAPERS:

Rethinking Feminist Accounts of Recent Feminism: Cold War Women's Magazines, Feminism, and Therapeutic Discourse, Eva Moskowitz, College of Staten Island/CUNY

Hidden Lineages of the New Left: Christianity, Liberalism, Conservatism, and the Search for Authenticity, Doug Rossinow, Johns Hopkins University

COMMENT: David Farber, Barnard College and Sara M. Evans

Cultural Approaches to Cold War Foreign Relations

PAPERS:

"Moms," "Organization Men," and Kennedy's "New Frontier": The Peace Corps and the Cold War Ideology of Masculinity, Robert Dean, University of Arizona

Nation Building and Rebuilding: The Alliance for Progress and the Ideology of Modernization, Michael Latham, University of California, Los Angeles

Constructing Parallel Identities: America and Israel, 1948-1963, Michelle Mart, The Pennsylvania State University

COMMENT: Anders Stephanson

Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Pluralism in American History

PAPERS:

Ethnicity and Citizenship in the United States in the Nineteenth Century, Jon Gjerde, University of California, Berkeley

Is Pluralism the Ideology of the Twentieth Century?, Olivier Zunz, University of Virginia

COMMENT: Nancy L. Green, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France

Chiaroscuro: The Racialization of Space and the Construction of Identity in Modern America

PANELISTS:

Grace Hale, Emory University, Producing the Ground of Difference: Race and Space in the Segregated South, 1890-1940

Jeanne Houck, New School for Social Research, Claiming the Past, Proclaiming Struggle: Marian Anderson and the Contested Memory of the Civil War

Eliza McFeely, Trenton State College, Re-Placing Zuni: The Racialized Spaces of Anthropology, 1879-1925

COMMENT: Michael O Malley, George Mason University

Self and "Savage": Painters, Audiences, and Indigenous Peoples

PAPERS:

State Fetish: George Catlin's Aboriginal Portfolio and Lewis Henry Morgan on Male Kinship and Empire, Bridget Goodbody, Department of the Visual and Performing Arts, Rutgers University

The International Brotherhood: Louis Choris and the Peoples of the Pacific, Harry Liebersohn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Scotsman in Buckskin: Native Americans and the Revitalization of Scottish Aristocratic Identity in the Sketch Album of Sir William Drummond Stewart, Lisa Strong, Columbia University

COMMENT: William H. Truettner

Race and College Sports