1997 OAH Annual Meeting Program

Moderator: Stanley N. Katz, American Council of Learned Societies

Panelists:

Sara Evans, University of Minnesota_Twin Cities

Lawrence J. Friedman, Indiana University Bloomington

Clement A. Price, Rutgers University, Newark Campus

Robert W. Cherny, San Francisco State University

Comment: The Audience

PAPERS:

We Dance to Change Ourselves: Reconfiguring the Native American Nation Through Tradition and Revival

Ross Frank, University of California, San Diego

First Americans and Citizens: Recent Trends in the Developing Legal Status of Native American Nations

Ole O. Moen, Department of British and American Studies, University of Oslo, Norway

Sentimental Endeavor: the Exportation of American Indian Education to the Philippines, 1898-1905

Anne Paulet, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Comment: Brenda Child

PAPERS:

Waterfalls and National Identities: The Tourist Gaze at Niagra Falls

Karen Dubinsky, Queen's University

Climates of Opinion: Regional and National Identity and the Weather

Bernard Mergen, The George Washington University

A Forgotten Legacy: U.S. Army Environmentalists at Yosemite

Harvey Meyerson, Brandeis University

Comment: Donald Worster

Panelists:

Ira D. Gruber, Rice University

In the Service Academies and ROTC

Tami Davis Biddle, Duke University

In Civilian Academe

William C. Fuller Jr., U.S. Naval War College

In the Armed Services at Intermediate and Senior Service Colleges

Comment: The Audience

PAPERS:

Citizens and Brothers: The Paradoxes of the Public Sphere

Steven C. Bullock, Worchester Polytechnic Institute

No Common Ground: Emerson, the Lyceum, and the Issue of Race

Katherine M. Grant, Yale University

Rethinking the Three-Fifths Clause

Jan Ellen Lewis, Rutgers University, Newark Campus

Comment: Rosemari Zagarri

PAPERS:

"When He Comes Home Nervous": Veterans Rehabilitation and Family Life After World War II

Johannes Coenraad Pols, University of Pennsylvania

"Democracy Begins at Home": Childrearing and Political Rhetoric in the World War II Era

Julia Grant, Michigan State University

"Rebels with a Cause": Democratic Ideology and the "Normalization" of Adolescent Rebellion, 1930-1950

Heather Munro Prescott, Central Connecticut State University

Comment:

Rima D. Apple, University of Wisconsin--Madison

Kathleen W. Jones, Virginia Institute of Technology

PAPERS:

Southerners Who Refused to Sign The Southern Manifesto

A. J. Badger, University of Cambridge

Hale Boggs and the Politics of Race

Patrick J. Maney, Tulane University

Frank E. Smith: Mississippi Liberal

Dennis J. Mitchell, Jackson State University

Comment: Elizabeth Jacoway

PAPERS:

The Anticommunist Impulse and Middle-Case Populism: Reconfiguring Social Class in Twentieth-Century America

David A. Horowitz, Portland State University

American Populism and American Languages of Class

Robert Johnston, Yale University

Comment:

Catherine McNicol Stock, Connecticut College

Michael Kazin

Discussants:

Sheila Gardette, University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles and the Ku Klux Klan

Becky M. Nicolaides, Arizona State University West

Incubating the "Silent Majority": Community and Political Life in a Working-class Suburb of Los Angeles, 1945-1965

Merry Ovnick, California State University, Northridge

Art vs. Politics: The Japanese Problem and Los Angeles' Reformers in the Progressive Era

Heather R. Parker, New York University

Race, Politics and Institutions

Comment:

Waldo E. Martin Jr., University of California, Berkeley

Richard Candida Smith

Roger Lotchin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

PAPERS:

The Rise of Henry J. Kaiser: Government Entrepreneurship Comes of Age, 1921-1940

Stephen B. Adams, Clinton, New Jersey

"Against Exploitation by Powerful Interests": The Political Economy of California Oil, 1910-1940

Nancy L. Quam-Wickham, California State University, Long Beach

Ideologies of Scale: The Shape and Economy of the Industrial Farm in California

Steven Stoll, Yale University

Comment: Donald Pisani, University of Oklahoma

PAPERS:

Employee Representation Plans, Rationalizing the Work Place, and Reorganizing Industrial Relations: The Case of U.S. Steel in the 1930s

James D. Rose, University of California, Davis

Growers, (Agri)culture, and Labor Relations in a California Specialty Crop Community, 1880-1910

David Vaught, University of California, Davis

Comment: Nelson Lichtenstein

DISCUSSANTS:

Elise Goldwasser, Durham, North Carolina

Exoticism and Nationalism in the Circus, 1870-1900

Wendy Kozol, Oberlin College

Looking Like an American?: Photographs of Japanese American Relocation Camps During World War II

Rob Schorman, Indiana University Bloomington

Real Americans Wear Real American Machine-Made Garments: Personal Appearance and Citizenship in Late Nineteenth-Century America

Andrea Volpe, Rutgers University

Photography and the Visual Construction of Citizenship 1858-1877

Comment: The Audience

PAPERS:

The Beloved "Home Religion": Anti-Polygamy and Disestablishment in Nineteenth-Century America

Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania Law School

The Evangelical Citizen: Religion and Woman's Suffrage in Late Nineteenth-Century America

Elizabeth Clark, Boston University School of Law

Comment: Jon Butler, Yale University

DISCUSSANTS:

Harriet Hyman Alonso, Fitchburg State College

The Issue of International/National Identity for Peace Movement Activists

John Hoberman, The University of Texas at Austin

The International Olympic Movement as a Transnational Enterprise

Dan La Botz, University of Cincinnati

American Radicals in Mexico: The Challenge of Internationalism

Patrick Manning, Northeastern University

Pan-Africanism: Global and National Citizenship for People Categorized by Race

Leila J. Rupp, The Ohio State University

The International Women's Movement

Comment: The Audience

Discussants:

Joyce Chaplin, Vanderbilt University

Eric Hinderaker, University of Utah

Peter Mancall, University of Kansas

Alison Games, Georgetown University

Comment: The Audience

Women in the American Conservation Movement

Glenda A. Riley, Ball State University

Luncheon and Presidential Address

PRESIDING: M. Les Benedict, The Ohio State University

The Gilded Age: The First Generation of Historians

H. Wayne Morgan, University of Oklahoma

SHGAPE Distinguished Historian, H. Wayne Morgan,

will be honored and will deliver a luncheon address.

PRESIDING: Mary Logan Rothschild, Arizona State University

Invited: Senator Dianne Feinstein

The committee has invited Senator Diane Feinstein to speak

at the Status of Women in the Historical Profession Luncheon.

Please see the Pocket Program for more details.

Please purchase tickets for these luncheons at least 24 hours in advance.

PAPERS:

"The Right to Work is the Right to Live!" Fair Employment, Equal Pay, and the Quest for Social Citizenship

Eileen Boris, Howard University

Fair Employment in Philadelphia: Conflicts over Race, Gender, and Jobs, 1946-1954

Patricia A. Cooper, University of Kentucky

Comment:

Emma Lapsansky, Haverford College

Joe William Trotter

PAPERS:

Reach Out and Touch Someone: Accessible Media for Teaching Inaccessible Topics

Brian Balogh, University of Virginia

Integrating Social History and the State: Teaching Policy History Through Case Studies

Donald Critchlow, Saint Louis University

Women's History as Policy History: Group Project

Jane De Hart, University of California, Santa Barbara

Comment: The Audience

Stephen Cornell, Sociology Department, University of California, San Diego

Identity Tales for Tourists: Ethnicity, Narrative, and American Indians

Donna Gabaccia, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

If We Are What We Eat, Who Are We?

Marilyn Halter, Boston University

Capitalizing on Ethnicity: Community or Commodity?

Jeffrey Pilcher, The Citadel

Retailing the Cosmic Race: The Cult of the Mestizo and Mexico's Economic Miracle

Comment: The Audience

PAPERS:

Altered Visions: Gene Stratton Porter's Wildlife Photography at the Turn of the Century

Amy S. Green, Denison University

Modernism in the High Sierra: Marguerite Zorach's Shaping of a Female Landscape Tradition

Kirsten Swinth, American Studies Program, The George Washington University

Women, Trees, Perfume, Grunge: The "Natural Woman" on TV Commercials and MTV

Jennifer Price, Yale University

Comment: Vera Norwood, University of New Mexico

PAPERS:

Racializing the Public Sphere in Post-Revolution New York

David N. Gellman, Northwestern University

"To Plead Our Own Cause": Freedom, Black Print Culture, and the Origins of Abolitionism in New York

Timothy P. McCarthy, Columbia University

Reconstructing Citizenship in the City: The Fourteenth Amendment in New York

David Quigley, New York University

Comment:

Thelma Foote, University of California, Irvine

David Brion Davis

PAPERS:

Unequal Citizens: Chinese Americans During Exclusion

Erika Lee, University of California, Berkeley

Foreign Policy, Citizenship, and National Identity: The FDR Administration and the Expediency of Repeal

Karen J. Leong, University of California, Berkeley

Chinese Americans, World War II, and Citizenship

K. Scott Wong, Williams College

Comment: Patricia Nelson Limerick

DISCUSSANTS:

Appealing to a Mother's Instinct, a Citizen's Duty: Adoption in the United States, 1890-1920

Julie Berebitsky, Temple University

Mothering the Peace: Concepts of Motherhood and Citizenship in the Nineteenth Century Peace Movement

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Wendy Chmielewski, Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Workers, the State, and Motherhood: The New York State Factory Investigating Committee and Working Mothers, 1911-1915

Richard Greenwald, State University of New York College at Morrisville

Motherhood and Social Citizenship in the U.S. Public/Private Welfare State

Sonya Michel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Essential Patriotic Service: Mothers and Day Care in World War II Philadelphia

Elizabeth Rose, Vanderbilt University

Comment: The Audience

Cornelius Moore, California Newsreel

Film: W.E.B. Du BoisA Biography in Four Voices by Louis Massiah

PAPERS:

Prison Radicalism and the Return of Civil Death in California-Where Are We Now?

Eric Cummins, California Prisons Project

Slideshow: Domesticating Women at the Illinois State Reformatory for Women, 1930-1962

Mara Dodge, History and Women's Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago

Books Behind Bars: Prisoners, Reformers, and Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts

Larry Goldsmith, Hiram College

Comment: Alex Lichtenstein, Florida International University

PAPERS:

The Magical Philosophy of Christian Colonialism

Henry Abelove, Wesleyan University

"An Empire of Civility": Race, Gender, and Enlightenment

Carol Karlsen, University of Michigan

Strange Christians: Conversion and Citizenship in the American North

John Wood Sweet, The Catholic University of America

Comment: The Audience

PAPERS:

Building America's High Street at the Forgotten Fair: Philadelphia's Sesquicentennial, 1926

Steven Conn, The Ohio State University

"Philadelphia Freedom": Lesbian and Gay Patriots, Protesters, and Profiteers at the Bicentennial

Marc Stein, Colby College

"Ye Olden Time": The Colonial Vision of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition

Sylvia Yount, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Comment: Elizabeth Johns

Ronald L. Numbers, University of Wisconsin_Madison

PAPERS:

The Wilderness Within

Teresa L. Hill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Shifting Intersections of Sexuality, Gender, and Religious Insanity in North America, 1850-1890

Lynne Marks, University of Victoria

Christian Science and Insanity in Progressive America

Rennie B. Schoepflin, La Sierra University

Comment: Samuel B. Thielman, Regional Psychiatric Associates, P.A.

PAPERS:

White City West: The Reconstruction of the Good Life in Postwar Los Angeles, 1945-1965

Eric Avila, University of California, Berkeley

Previewing the "California Dream": The Cultural Landscape of San Diego's California Pacific International Exposition, 1935-1936

Matthew F. Bokovoy, Temple University

Olvera Street: The Politics of Public Memory and Public Space in Los Angeles, 1926-1939

Phoebe S. Kropp, University of California, San Diego

Comment: Lisbeth Haas, University of California, Santa Cruz

DISCUSSANTS:

Etsuo Abe, Meiji University

Franco Amatori, Istituto di Storia Economica, Università Bocconi

Geoffrey Jones, The University of Reading

Comment:

Richard Rosenbloom, Harvard Business School

Mary Yeager, University of California, Los Angeles

Louis Galambos

PAPERS:

The True History of Municipal Reform

Amy Bridges, University of California, San Diego

Constructing the Liberal Subject: Re-reading the Narrative of Urban Political Corruption in Twentieth-Century America

Terrence J. McDonald, University of Michigan

Comment:

Robin Einhorn, University of California, Berkeley

Michael Frisch, State University of New York at Buffalo

PAPERS:

Integrating the National Conversation on American Pluralism into the Community College Curriculum

Diane U. Eisenberg, American Association of Community Colleges/NEH

Teaching U.S. History to Non-Citizens with an Ethnic Studies Curriculum

Gloria Elizarraras Miranda, Behavioral and Social Sciences, El Camino College

Teaching U.S. History to a Diverse Student Population

Donald T. Hata Jr., California State University, Dominguez Hills

The Community College Mission and the U.S. History Survey

George Stevens, Dutchess Community College

Comment: The Audience

PAPERS:

United on the Killing Floor: Race, Labor, and Politics of Memory

Robin Bachin, University of Miami

Eyes on a Different Prize: Federal Oversight of Civil Rights Memory, 1939-1967

Richard Reiman, Business and Social Sciences, South Georgia College

"A Spectacular Victory Over the Jim Crow System": Southern Blacks and the Campaign to Desegregate Viewing of the Freedom Train

Wendy Wall, Duke University

Comment: Dwight Pitcaithley, National Park Service

Philip Ethington, University of Southern California

PAPERS:

The Battle for Full Employment: Policy Choices, Agenda Setting, and the Meaning of Economic Citizenship, 1945-1953

Meg Jacobs, University of Virginia

Race and the Political Construction of Citizenship in American Social Policy Since "The New Deal"

Robert Lieberman, Columbia University

Who Shall Represent the Citizen? Wilbur Mills, Fiscal Experts, and a Policy Community, 1954-1961

Julian Zelizer, State University of New York at Albany

Comment:

Robyn Muncy, University of Maryland at College Park

Philip Ethington

PAPERS:

Rethinking the Abortion Reform Movement

Gail Bederman, University of Notre Dame

Sit-Ins, The President's Commission on the Status of Women and Claims to Citizenship in the Early 1960s

Ruth Feldstein, History and Literature, Harvard University

Feminism, Sexual Liberalism, and Problems of Female Sexuality, 1969-1972

Jane Gerhard, American Civilization, Brown University

Comment: William Chafe, Duke University

PAPERS:

Making Men of the Kept: Manhood, Violence, and the State

Rebecca Mary McLennan, Columbia University

The Fraternity of Dissectors: Anatomical Dissection, Gender, and the Construction of Self and Profession in Nineteenth-Century America

Michael Sappol, Columbia University

Luther Halsey Gulick, the Management of Emotions and the Male Self

Thomas Winter, University of Cincinnati

Comment: Nancy K. Bristow

PAPERS:

Liberty Party Gender Ideologies

Michael D. Pierson, Henderson State University

Gender Slurs in Boston's Partisan Press During the 1840s

Mary Saracino Zboray, Atlanta, Georgia

Ronald J. Zboray, Georgia State University

Comment:

Norma Basch, Rutgers University, Newark Campus

Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven

PAPERS:

"That's not a gook, it's a spade": Representations of Brown and Black G.I.s in Vietnam War Literature

George Mariscal, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego

Chale No, We Won't Go! Chicanos Resist the Draft

Lorena Oropeza, University of California, Davis

Myths and Realities: Ethnicity and the Vietnam War

Scott Sigmund Gartner, Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis

Gary Segura, Center for Politics and Economics, Claremont Graduate School

Comment: Melvin Small

PAPERS:

Technology and Transformation: The Railroad as a Shaper of Regional Space, Natural Resources, Industrial Practice, and Economic Development in Pittsburgh

David Hounshell, Carnegie Mellon University

Invention, the Market for Technology, and Uneven Economic Development in the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century United States

Naomi R. Lamoreaux, University of California, Los Angeles

Kenneth Sokoloff, University of California, Los Angeles

Urban Capital and Regional Divergence: The Financial Roots of the Transportation Revolution in Antebellum Virginia and Pennsylvania

John Majewski, University of California, Santa Barbara

Comment:

Kenneth Lipartito, University of Houston

Gavin Wright

PAPERS:

Houses and Housing in the Early American City

Bernard L. Herman, University of Delaware

U.S. Housing Quality from the 1790s to the 1990s

Aimee Myers, University of California, San Diego

Carole Shammas, University of California, Riverside

Comment:

Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Sharon V. Salinger

Panelists:

Shigeya Kihara, Defense Language Institute

The Role of the National Japanese American Historical Society in the Movement for Redress

James C. McNaughton, Defense Language Institute

Nisei Linguists in World War II

Kaoru Oguri, Japanese American National Museum

The Meanings of Citizenship: Japanese Americans in America's Wars

Clifford I. Uyeda, National Japanese American Historical Society

The Meaning of Citizenship to Americans of Japanese Ancestry

Comment: The Audience

Panelists:

Christopher Grasso, St. Olaf College

Philip Gura, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Michael McGiffert, Institute of Early American History and Culture

Gary B. Nash, University of California, Los Angeles

Mary Beth Norton, Cornell University

Comment: The Audience

PAPERS:

The Meanings of Citizenship for French Immigrants in California

Annick Foucrier, Universite Paris XIII

The Meaning of French Citizenship in American Movies

Jacques Portes, Universite Paris VIII

The Political Incorporation of Immigrants in New York City: A Historical Perspective

Catherine Pouzoulet, Universite Lille III

Comment: Bruno Ramirez, Universite de Montreal

PAPERS:

President Grant and the "School Question"

Tyler Anbinder, The George Washington University

Neither Black nor White: Chinese Immigrants in the Mississippi River Delta, 1865-1890

Amy Rose Scott, Emory University

"The Horrors of the Commune": Urban Politics and the Fight for Suffrage Restriction in Post-Reconstruction Texas

Patrick G. Williams, Columbia University

Comment: Edward Ayers

PAPER:

Association-Building in America, 1850-1950

Gerald Gamm, University of Rochester

Robert D. Putnam, Harvard University

Comment:

Nancy F. Cott, Yale University

Robert Westbrook, University of Rochester

Linda K. Kerber

University of Iowa