[ OAH Home Page ] [1997 Program Contents ] [ About the OAH ]

1997 OAH Annual Meeting Program

The Meanings of Citizenship

Thursday Sessions, April 17--2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Democracy, Citizenship, and Race in the Civil War Era

PRESIDING: Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Campus

PAPERS:

Substance of Things Unseen: Moral Discourses of Citizenship Among Northern Free People of Color Joan Bryant, Religious Studies, Yale University

Can They Be Citizens?: The Civil War Studies of the Freedman's Inquiry Commission Oz Frankel, University of California, Berkeley

The Caning of Charles Sumner and the Struggle for a Non-Racial Democracy in the Age of the Civil War Manisha Sinha, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

COMMENT: Deborah Gray White

Federal Housing and the Politics of Social Welfare, 1919-1940

PRESIDING: Roy Rosenzweig, George Mason University

PAPERS:

When the State Was Brought In: The Government Hotels for Women

Karen Dunn-Haley, University of California, Berkeley

The Politics of Inclusion: Contested Notions of Citizenship and Entitlement Among Atlanta's African American Reformers During the New Deal

Karen Ferguson, Frederick Douglass Institute, University of Rochester

COMMENT: David C. Sloane, University of Southern California


Exiles and Expatriates: Defining American Citizenship as a Woman Artist

PRESIDING: Melissa Dabakis, Kenyon College

PAPERS:

"Not Above Reproach": The Reputation of Lucy Lee-Robbins (1865-1943), An Expatriate Artist in fin de siecle Paris

Brandon Brame Fortune, National Portrait Gallery

Anne Whitney's "Half Barbaric Man": Boston's Monument to Leif Erickson

Janet A. Headley, Loyola College in Maryland

Joan Mitchell's "Frenchness"

Michael Plante, Tulane University

COMMENT: Melissa Dabakis

Citizenship and Military Service

PRESIDING: Michael S. Sherry, Northwestern University

PAPERS:

Removing the "Mark of Repudiation": African-American Soldiers and the Reconstruction of American Citizenship, 1845-1875

David Osher, University of Maryland

Colliding Spheres: The Civil and the Military in the Antebellum American Militia

Mark Pitcavage, The Ohio Board of Regents

Constricting Citizenship: The 1993 Gays-in-the-Military Debate

Michael S. Sherry COMMENT:

William M. Tuttle Jr., University of Kansas


Apprehensive Americans: Anxious Moments and National Identity, 1900-1960

PRESIDING: James Gilbert, University of Maryland at College Park

PAPERS:

Trouble in Paradise: American Men and the Construction of Corporate Capitalism, 1900-1930

Clark Davis, La Sierra University

"For Better Americans in a Greater America": Hyper-Patriotism, Self-Americanization, and the Japanese Americans Citizens League, 1919-1945

Daryl Maeda, University of Michigan

Dirty Minds: Brainwashing and Cultural Anxiety in Cold War America

Sharon R. Ullman, Bryn Mawr College

COMMENT: James Gilbert

Civil Rights and Racial Exclusion in the Cold War South

PRESIDING: Robert Glennon, College of Law, University of Arizona

PAPERS:

The Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis and the Reproduction of a White Body Politic, 1957-1960

Karen Anderson, University of Arizona

"We Want to be Part of This Democratic Society in Which We Live": Legal Abstractions, Local Realities, and the Claiborne County (Mississippi) Civil Rights Movement

Emilye Crosby, State University of New York College at Geneseo

Employable Mothers, Civil Rights and the Courts

Joanne Goodwin, University of NevadaLas Vegas

COMMENT: Robert Glennon


Fear and Loathing: Bias in Immigration Policies

MODERATOR: Margaret Hacker, National Archives-Southwest

PANELISTS:

Katrina Barnes-Kerrigan, University of Michigan

Delilah at the League of Nations: International Consideration of Married Women's Nationality, 1930

Carolyn A. Carney, Mountain View College

Love, Marriage, and Loss of Citizenship

Waverly B. Lowell, National Archives-Pacific Sierra Region

What if I Can't Remember Who Lived Next Door: "Paper Sons" and the Immigration Naturalization Service

Barbara Rust, National Archives-Southwest

The Man Who Went to Lunch in Juarez and Never Returned: Humberto Silex, El Paso Labor Organizer, 1947-50

COMMENT: Alex Saragoza, University of California, Berkeley

Citizenship Recalled: A Workshop on Oral History Interviewing

MODERATOR: Thomas L. Charlton, Baylor University

PRESENTERS:

Ronald E. Marcello, University of North Texas

Rebecca Sharpless, Baylor University

COMMENT: The Audience


Those Interfering Men: Administrators of Poor Relief in Early America

PRESIDING: Billy G. Smith, Montana State University

PAPERS:

"Without Violating the Rights of Humanity": Poor Relief in the Philadelphia Region, 1792-1860

Monique Bourque, College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Designing "Suitable" Lives for the Poor: Welfare Administration in Rhode Island, 1750-1800

Ruth Wallis Herndon, University of Toledo

Taxation, Poor Relief, and the Gendered Nature of Urban Community in Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia

Karin A. Wulf, The American University

COMMENT: Billy G. Smith

Whose City Is It?: Memory and Historical Space in America

This session is online!

PRESIDING: David Glassberg, University of Massachusetts

PAPERS:

Other People's History: Slumming and the Shaping of the American Metropolis, 1870-1915

Catherine Cocks, University of California, Davis

We the People: Defining Citizenship in the Shadow of Independence Hall

Charlene Mires, Temple University

Transforming Market Square: Community Identity and Historic Preservation in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Paige Roberts, The George Washington University

COMMENT: David Glassberg


Americanization in the West, 1900-1925

PRESIDING: Neil Foley, The University of Texas at Austin

PAPERS:

Americanizing First Americans: Navajo Pro-Assimilation Versus the Bureau of Indian Affairs

Kathleen Chamberlain, University of New Mexico

Immigrant Women and Americanization in the Union Pacific Towns of Southern Wyoming

Ellen Schoening Aiken, University of Colorado at Boulder

Is the Melting Pot Melting? The Americanization Movement in the Rocky Mountain West

Frank Van Nuys, University of Wyoming

COMMENT: Neil Foley

Conversation: Rethinking Political History: The State and the Policymaking Process

MODERATOR: William E. Leuchtenburg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Discussants:

Hugh Davis Graham, Vanderbilt University

Ira Katznelson, Columbia University

Maeva Marcus, Documentary History of the U.S. Supreme Court

Anna K. Nelson, The American University

COMMENT: The Audience

APRIL 17--4:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Conversation: Rethinking Political History: Politicians, Politics, and Parties

MODERATOR: David Kennedy, Stanford University

Discussants:

Paula Baker, University of Pittsburgh

Laura Kalman, University of California, Santa Barbara

Byron Shafer, Oxford University

Joel Silbey, Cornell University

COMMENT: The Audience

Jews and Other American Minorities: Struggles and Cooperation Across Group Boundaries

Joint Session with the American Jewish Historical Society

PRESIDING: Andrew Heinze, University of San Francisco

PAPERS:

Do Actions Speak Louder than Words: American Jews and Blacks, 1880-1935

Hasia Diner, New York University

Jewish Life and the Politics of Whiteness in Multi-Ethnic Los Angeles, 1920-1960

George Sanchez, University of Michigan

COMMENT:

Edward T. O'Donnell, Hunter College/CUNY

William Toll, Eugene, Oregon


Gender and Kinship in American Indian Societies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

PRESIDING: Daniel K. Richter, Dickinson College

PAPERS:

Wabanaki Women and Men, 1600-1800

Alice Nash, Columbia University

An Alliance Between Men: Gender and Kin Metaphors in Eighteenth Century Indian-English Diplomacy

Nancy Shoemaker, University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire

Catholicism and Female Kin Networks in the Western Great Lakes, 1700-1830

Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State University

COMMENT: Jean M. O'Brien, University of Minnesota--Twin Cities

Location, Location, Location: Consumption and the Transformation of Civic Space in the

Twentieth-Century U.S.

PRESIDING: Kathy Peiss, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

PAPERS:

Our Electronic Appalachia: Civic Responsibility, Cultural Conflict and the Creation of Public Broadcasting

J. Spencer Downing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

On the Air: Radio and the Transformation of Civic Space, 1920-1936

Liette Gidlow, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Jefferson's Nightmare?: The Rise of Consumer Culture and the Declining Hopes for an Agrarian Republic, 1890-1930

Susan Matt, Clark University

COMMENT:

Susan Porter Benson, Women's Studies Program, University of Connecticut

Kathy Peiss


U.S. and Canadian Perspectives on a More Compassionate Citizenship: Liberal

Evangelicalism, The WCTU, and Pacifism

PRESIDING: Richard Hamm, Department of History and Public Policy, State University of New York at Albany

PAPERS:

Building the Kingdom of God: Parallel Paths in Religious and Social Reform

Joanna Dean, Carleton University

"Leading the Greatest Reform of the Age": The WCTU and Women's Citizenship, 1874-1930

Nancy Garner, Wright State University

International Service After World War II: American Pacifists' Activism

Rachel Waltner Goossen, Goshen College

COMMENT: Richard Hamm

Citizenship-as-Standing in Twentieth-Century America

PRESIDING: Mina Carson, Oregon State University

PAPERS:

Citizenship-as-Standing? Reconciling Social Class with the American Creed

John S. Gilkeson, Arizona State University West

"Second-Class" Citizenship? The Battle Over "Special rights" and Evolving Definition of the "Good Citizen"

Fred Matthews, York University

COMMENT:

Howard Brick, Washington University

Mina Carson


Race and Respectability in Antebellum American Culture

PRESIDING: Brenda Stevenson, University of California, Los Angeles

PAPERS:

Of Men, Nondescripts, and the Boundaries of "Race" and "Respectability": The Strange 1860 Career of P.T. Barnum's "What is It?" Exhibition

James W. Cook, University of California, Berkeley

Race and Respectability: African Americans, Class, and Identity in the Antebellum North

Patrick J. Rael, Bowdoin College

COMMENT:

Lois E. Horton, George Mason University

Michael O'Malley, George Mason University

Reconstructing Identities: Social Dimensions of Addiction Treatment in the Twentieth Century

This session is online!

PRESIDING: Guenter B. Risse, University of California, San Francisco

PAPERS:

Addict Careers and Life at the Lexington Narcotic Hospital

Caroline Jean Acker, Carnegie Mellon University

Compelled to Behave: The Treatment of Tuberculous Alcoholics in Seattle, 1949-1960

Barron H. Lerner, Columbia University

Re-Educating the Inebriate: Therapeutic and Civic Ideals in the Institutional Reform of Alcoholics, 1890-1920

Sarah Whitney Tracy, Rutgers Institute for Health Care Policy and Aging Research

COMMENT: Guenter B. Risse


Imagining Gender Roles, 1790-1860

PRESIDING: Elizabeth Alice White, University of Nevada--Las Vegas

PAPERS:

Shoemaking, Moneymaking, or Self-Making? Constructions of Manhood in Antebellum Popular Biography

Scott Casper, University of Nevada--Reno

Father Figures: The Debate over Parental Authority in the Old Southwest, 1790-1820

Jill S. Hough, University of California, Davis

The Formidable Mother: Images of the Evangelical Mother in Antebellum New England

Carolyn J. Lawes, Old Dominion University

COMMENT: Elizabeth Alice White

Communities in Transition: Understanding Racial and Ethnic Formation in Twentieth-Century

Urban America

PRESIDING: Kathleen Neils Conzen, University of Chicago

PAPERS:

"What! The Mexican Americans?:" Negotiating Ethnicity and Race in Chicago, 1916-1945

Gabriela F. Arredondo, University of Chicago

Hoodlums, Rebels, and Royal Kings: Youth Gangs and the Political Culture of Racial Transition on the West Side of Chicago, 1946-1973

Andrew J. Diamond, University of Michigan

"A White Race of Another Kind": Immigrant Jews and Whiteness in the Urban North, 1914-1945

Eric L. Goldstein, University of Michigan

COMMENT:

James R. Barrett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

APRIL 17--8:00 - 10:00 p.m.

Plenary Sessions

Where is America?

PRESIDING:

Mario Vaudagna, University of Turin

PAPERS:

Defining Moments

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harvard University

Boundaries

Richard White, University of Washington

AmeRica: Views from the South

Ramón Gutiérrez, Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

COMMENT:

Mario Vaudagna

Gay Politics in San Francisco

MODERATOR:

Estelle Freedman, Stanford University

Panelists:

José, The Widow Norton, Founder, The International Court System

1950s and 1960s

Pat Norman, Executive Director, The Institue for Community Health Outreach

1960s and 1970s

Roberta Achtenberg, Former Assistant Secretary, Housing and Urban Development

1980s and 1990s

COMMENT:

John D'Emilio, National Gay and Lesbian Taskforce