ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON PUBLIC HISTORY

10-14 March 2010

Hilton Portland & Executive Tower Portland, Oregon

CONTENTS Registration ...... 3 Travel Information ...... 3 Hotel Information ...... 4 Where to Eat ...... 4 Things to See/Do in Portland ...... 6 Exhibits ...... 7 Special Events ...... 8 Workshops ...... 10 Tours and Field Trips ...... 12 Conference Program ...... 14 Schedule at a Glance ...... 36 Index of Presenters ...... 50 Registration Form ...... 69

Background image on cover: 1888 Navigation ASEH and NCPH 2010 Local Arrangements Committee Chart for Columbia River; Office of Coast Survey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric William Lang, Portland State University (Chair for ASEH) Administration. Photo Credits: This page, Travel Portland. Front Cover: Photo 1, NARA; Photo 2: William Willingham, Portland (Chair for NCPH) Washington State Historical Society; Photo 3: Jennifer Allen, Portland State University Lisa Mighetto; Photo 4, Travel Portland. Back cover: Photos 1,2,3,5 & 7: Washington State Eliza Canty-Jones, Oregon Historical Society Historical Society; Photo 4: Library of Congress; Photo 5: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Steve Fountain, Washington State University-Vancouver Steve Greenwood, Wells Fargo Michael Houck, Urban Green Spaces Henry Kunowski, Historical Research Associates, Inc.-Portland William Robbins, Oregon State University Liz Safran, Lewis and Clark College Gerald Williams, Portland

Thank You 2010 Annual Meeting Sponsors! Conference Host: Portland State University

Conference Sponsor: University of California Press Journals + Digital Publishing National Park Service

Event Sponsors: Central Connecticut State University – NCPH New Member/First-Time Attendee Breakfast Cosponsor Colorado State University – Saturday Morning Coffee Break Historical Research Associates, Inc – NCPH Consultants Reception Cosponsor The presentations and commentaries presented HRA Gray & Pape – NCPH Consultants Reception Cosponsor during this meeting are solely for those in attendance and should not be taped or recorded or John Nicholas Brown Center, Brown University – Public History Educators Breakfast Cosponsor otherwise reproduced without the consent of the Littlefield Historical Research - NCPH Consultants Reception Cosponsor presenters, the National Council on Public National Park Service – ASEH/National Parks Workshop History, and the American Society for Oxford University Press - ASEH Opening Reception Cosponsor Environmental History. Recording, copying, or reproducing a presentation without the consent of Portland State University – ASEH Opening Reception Cosponsor the author is a violation of common law copyright. University of Washington Press - Thursday Morning Coffee Break Cosponsor 1 GreetingsGREETINGS FROM THE PROGRAM COMMITTEES Registration

ASEH: NCPH: This year’s program committee is pleased to present the program Welcome to Portland! As public historians, many of us are already for the 2010 meeting of the American Society for Environmental aware of not only the ways in which our profession is changing History. The theme “Currents of Change” speaks especially well but also how history informs our understanding of today’s most to the environmental character of the Pacific Northwest, and pressing issues. Working this year with the American Society for the plenary session – with its emphasis on the conflicting and Environmental History has allowed us to put together a program changing uses of the Klamath River – highlights important regional to explore these ideas in depth under our conference theme of issues associated with evolving perceptions of fish, dams, and “Currents of Change.” the way different people value a remarkable waterway. But the theme “Currents of Change” resonates throughout the field of NCPH received a record number of proposals and the program environmental history and is hardly confined to topics with a committee had the difficult task of determining which of many riparian bent. Thus it proved a generous platform allowing for a outstanding submissions should be included in this year’s rich and diverse set of presentations. program. The 2010 program brings together scholars in many different disciplines to discuss an incredible array of topics. This The conference includes 90 regular sessions, a plenary session, year, the conference will host more working groups than ever a host of posters, and two special workshops. Over 400 scholars before, enabling you to explore ideas in depth with colleagues and professionals are formally participating in the program. This from across the world. In addition to the working groups, we is a huge number – more than any prior ASEH conference— but are pleased to present several workshops on topics ranging from it need be noted that the committee could not incorporate into computer-based programs such as Omeka to heritage tourism. the program all of the session and paper proposals submitted Panels and roundtables will also explore issues relating to to us. Choices had to be made and we regret that we could not preservation, curatorial work, the teaching of public history, local accommodate all the worthy proposals we received. That said, history, and oral history. we are extremely proud of the program and believe that everyone attending the conference will find panels, posters, and roundtables Portland’s reputation as one of America’s most environmentally- of abiding interest. No attempt will made here to recount the friendly cities makes it an especially appropriate site to exchange tremendous diversity of topics and methodological approaches ideas on the topic of “Currents of Change.” Although we have evident in the following pages. Just check it out for yourself. Res planned a full schedule, we hope that you will take the time to ipsa loquitur—the thing speaks for itself. explore the city and all it has to offer. The Local Arrangements Committee has done an outstanding job coordinating field trips, The committee’s work is done and now it is up to you to including a bicycle tour, which will enable you to see the city as its interact with the program in accord with your own intellectual, residents do—from the seat of a bike. The city’s light-rail system Travel Information professional, and personal interests. Everyone will discern a will also ensure that you will have the opportunity to explore different path through what we believe is an extraordinary the town on your own. Be sure to check out the World Forestry collection of presentations and that is exactly how it should be. Center, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, and the Take the reins and make it your conference! Skidmore Old Town Historic District, a unique cast-iron district which is one of the city’s National Historic Landmarks.

ASEH 2010 Program Committee So welcome to Portland and be prepared to explore all the city and DC Jackson, Lafayette College, Chair the conference can offer! Lawrence Culver, Utah State University Emily Greenwald, Historical Research Associates Bill Lang, Portland State University, Local Arrangements Cochair NCPH 2010 Program Committee William Turkel, University of Western Ontario Alexandra M. Lord, National Historic Landmarks Program, Chair Brett Walker, Montana State University Diane Britton, University of Toledo Laura Ettinger, Clarkson University Anthea Hartig, National Trust for Historic Preservation Linda Ivey, California State University, East Bay Eleanor Mahoney, National Park Service Stephen Mark, National Park Service Michelle McClellan, University of Michigan Dean Oliver, Canadian War Museum David Warner, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Anne Mitchell Whisnant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill William Willingham, Portland, Local Arrangements Cochair

2 RegistrationREGISTRATION The conference registration fee covers admission to sessions, Early registration ends February 12, 2010. Regular registration breaks, exhibit hall, poster session and reception, and public begins February 13 and ends February 24. No registrations can plenary sessions and keynote addresses, Mentoring Network, and be accepted online or by mail after February 24. After that date, other events. The special events listed below require payment you must register onsite and the availability of tickets for meals,

of additional fees. All presenters and conference attendees must special events, workshops, etc. may be limited. REGISTRATION register for the conference. All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees. Student registrations must be completed with the name of the student’s institution, department, and advisor. Registration is available online at www.ncph.org or by completing the form at the back of this program. To register by mail, submit Cancellations in writing (letter or email to [email protected]), the form with a check or credit card information, or fax it with postmarked on or before February 24, 2010, will receive a refund credit card information to (317) 278-5230. (Visa, MasterCard, (less a $30.00 processing fee) by check or credit card refund after and American Express credit cards only. Payment in U.S. dollars, the conference. Refunds cannot be given after February 24. please. Check should be made payable to “NCPH.”) Special Needs or Assistance: Pursuant to the Americans with Early Registration (Must be received by February Disabilities Act, please contact the ASEH or NCPH Executive 12, 2010) Offices should you have special needs or require assistance. Member $110.00 ASEH: (206) 465-0630; [email protected] Non-Member $125.00 NCPH: (317) 274-2716; [email protected] Student $50.00 Single-Day $50.00

Regular and Onsite Registration Member $125.00 Non-Member $140.00 Student $60.00 Single-Day $50.00

TravelTRAVEL INFORMATION Information Portland has excellent public transportation, from the bus Streetcar system to the streetcar line and the light rail. Though much of The Portland Streetcar serves downtown, the Pearl District, the city, particularly downtown, can be accessed by walking, and the Northwest/Nob Hill Neighborhood in a continuous one may want to take advantage of the public transportation eight-mile loop. In downtown, the Streetcar lines run options. southbound on 11th Avenue and northbound on 10th Avenue, with stops located about every three to four blocks. MAX Light Rail All of downtown falls in the Fareless Square, which runs The MAX (Metropolitan Area Express) has four different lines, south of NW Irving Street and east of Interstate 405 through each providing transportation from suburban areas, each the Portland State Campus to RiverPlace. Stops outside of stopping downtown. All of the lines service the city center. the Fareless Square require proof of valid fare. Tickets for the The Red Line provides direct service to and from the Portland Streetcar can be purchased on board and are valid all day, as International Airport. MAX trains run approximately every five well as for two hours on the MAX and bus systems. Tickets to fifteen minutes, generally between 4:30 am and midnight cost $2.00 for Zones 1 and 2 and $1.50 for honored citizens. Monday through Sunday. Tickets for the light rail can be Ticket machines only take cash, either quarters or small bills. purchased at each stop, with separate machines for cash and The Streetcar runs every day of the week, approximately every credit card purchases. Validated tickets are good for two hours twelve minutes, with some variation in the hours: Monday on the MAX, bus and Streetcar. Tickets cost $2.00 for one - Thursday 5:30 am to 11:30 pm; Friday 5:30 a.m. to 11:45 or two zones or $2.30 for access to all zones. MAX lines that p.m.; Saturday 7:15 a.m. to 11:45 p.m. and Sunday 7:15 a.m. travel through the Fareless Square do not require valid fare. to 10:30 p.m.

3 Courtesy of Hilton Portland. at the airport, so there will be no confusion HotelHOTEL INFORMATION Informationabout the direction to take the train. Tickets Where to Eat for the light rail can be purchased either Did you know that where you stay during the inside the airport or at the ticket machine conference makes a difference? Both ASEH immediately to the right of the train. Purchase Avenue. Take 3rd Avenue four blocks and then and NCPH are contractually committed tickets for all zones (fare is $2.30), as you will turn RIGHT onto SW Taylor St. Take Taylor 3 to filling a block of sleeping rooms at the be traveling through Zones 1, 2, and 3 from blocks and our front doors for the Executive conference hotel (at a reduced rate for the airport to downtown. Get off at the Pioneer Tower will be on your right-hand side. attendees), and in return the hotel provides Square South stop. Walk south two blocks on

HOTEL / EAT ** To arrive at the MAIN building, continue meeting space for the sessions and other SW Broadway. Turn LEFT on SW Taylor Street. on SW Taylor 1 block and turn LEFT onto SW events. Since most attendees choose to lodge Walk east two blocks on SW Taylor Street. Broadway, LEFT on Salmon Street, LEFT on at the conference hotel, everyone benefits from Turn RIGHT on SW 6th Avenue. The entrance SW 6th Avenue, the main building front doors lower registration fees. to the Main building of the Hilton will be on are on left-hand side of the 6th Avenue. the left-hand side of SW 6th Avenue. When registering, please indicate to the From South, Northbound on Interstate 5, reservationist whether you are an ASEH From Portland International Airport, Driving: Driving: Take exit 299B off of I-5 Northbound member or an NCPH member. If you are an Take I-205 South and exit onto I-84 West. At (LEFT exit) onto I-405 North. Drive 1.4 miles ASEH member, please request the ASEH block the end of I-84 West you will reach a junction and take Exit 2A for Salmon Street. After of rooms. If you are an NCPH member, please of I-5 North and South. Go South toward taking exit ramp back over the interstate, keep request the NCPH block of rooms. Salem. Following the City Center signs, RIGHT. Turn RIGHT onto SW Salmon Street. crossing the Morrison Bridge. Go straight Hilton Portland & Executive Tower Travel 8 blocks east on SW Salmon Street (0.4 through the traffic light onto SW Washington 921 SW Sixth Avenue miles). Turn LEFT onto SW 6th Avenue where Street. Stay on Washington Street for one Portland, Oregon, USA, 97204 the Main building front doors will be on the block, then turn LEFT onto 3rd Avenue. (503) 226-1611 left hand side of the street. www.hilton.com Remain on 3rd Avenue for four blocks, then turn RIGHT on SW Taylor Street. Follow From East, Westbound on Interstate 84, Rates: Taylor Street for four blocks, turning LEFT Driving: Follow directions from Portland $137/ night for single or double onto SW Broadway, then LEFT again on SW International Airport $119/night for students Salmon Street and finally LEFT onto 6th Reservations must be made by February 9, Avenue. The entrance to the Main building of From Union Station (AMTRAK) on the 2010 to receive this rate. Space is limited. the Hilton will be on the left-hand side of SW MAX Light Rail: This trip is entirely within Please indicate whether you are reserving a 6th Avenue. the Fareless Square, so do not worry about room in the ASEH or NCPH room block. paying for a fare. Take Green or Yellow Line From North (Seattle), Southbound on from Union Station/NW 5th and Glisan MAX Interstate 5, Driving: Take exit 300B off of Station southbound. Get off at Pioneer Place/ Directions to Portland Hilton I-5 Southbound. After exiting, follow the City SW 5th Avenue MAX Station. Walk one block From Portland International Airport (PDX), Center signs, driving across the Morrison south on SW 5th Avenue. Turn RIGHT on SW on the MAX Light Rail (Red Line): Follow the Bridge. Head straight through the traffic Taylor Street. Walk one block west on SW airport signs for the MAX/light rail. You will light near the end of the bridge onto SW Taylor. Turn LEFT on SW 6th Avenue. Main be taking the Red Line towards City Center/ Washington Street. Take Washington Street building front doors will be on the right-hand Beaverton Transit Center. The line begins one block and then turn LEFT onto 3rd side of the street.

WhereWHERE TO EAT (Distances to noted are walkingEat distance from the downtown Hilton) In the hotel 830 SW 6th Avenue. Heathman Restaurant Blueplate range between $5 and Bistro 921 Restaurant (503) 944-1090. Less and Bar Classic Americana in the $7. 404 SW 10th Avenue. Casual dining, offering than 0.1 miles. Menu changes daily to form of a lunch counter (503) 224-9028. 0.4 breakfast, lunch and reflect local and seasonal and soda shoppe. Open miles. dinner. Prices range Flying Elephant ingredients, influenced for lunch during the between $10 and $25. Delicatessen by French cuisine. Prices week only. Lunch prices Saucebox 921 SW 6th Avenue. Popular deli open from range between $20 and range from $6 to $10, Pan Asian fusion cuisine, (503) 220-2685 6:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., $30. 1001 SW Broadway. with ice cream beverages known for its innovative offering coffee, soda, (503) 790-7752. 0.2 averaging $4. food and cocktails. Prices Downtown pastries, sandwiches and miles. 308 SW Washington range between $8 and Porto Terra Tuscan hot food made daily. Street. (503) 295-2583. $25. 214 SW Ankeny. Grill & Bar Prices range between $5 Pizzicato 0.4 miles. (503) 241-3393. 0.4 An Italian inspired menu and $10. 812 SW Park A Portland chain since miles. featuring Northwest Avenue. (503) 546-3166. 1989, featuring artisan Marinottis’ Café & Deli ingredients. Open for 0.2 miles. pizza, panini, and salads. A family owned Italian Veritable Quandary breakfast, lunch and Prices range between $5 food specialty shop Seasonal, local ingredients dinner. Prices range and $20. 705 SW Alder. featuring a charming café put together in interesting between $15 and $25. (503) 226-1007. 0.3 offering sandwiches and combinations. This gem miles. various deli items. Prices has been open for more 4 WhereWHERE TO EAT (Distances to noted are walkingEat distance from the downtown Hilton)

than thirty years, serving McMenamins chains. 1026 SW Stark SW 5th and Stark. 0.3 1140 NW 9th Avenue. lunch and dinner, as The McMenamin brothers Street. (503) 224-9060. miles. Popular options: (503) 222-5608. 0.7 well as a famous Sunday have opened countless 0.5 miles. Open 6:00 am BrunchBox, Michelle’s miles. Also accessible by brunch. Prices range pubs, restaurants, to 10:00 pm. 128 SW 3rd Amazing Venezuelan streetcar. between $15 and $30. theatres, and hotels Avenue. (503) 295-6144. Kitchen, and Tabor 1220 SW 1St Avenue. across Oregon and 0.5 miles. Open 7:00 am Czech House. Silk (503) 227-7342. 0.4 Washington, by restoring to 9:00 pm Upscale Vietnamese miles. historic structures. There SW Alder Street, restaurant in the trendy are several locations in Voodoo Donuts between 9th and 10th Pearl District. Open for Bijou Café Portland alone and they From the décor to the Avenues. 0.4 miles. lunch and dinner. The A local favorite, featuring are great places for cheap eclectic menu, this is Local favorites include: bar menu offers small

breakfast and lunch food, craft beer, and a one of the city’s most Huong’s Vietnamese, bites for smaller prizes. EAT WHERE TO utilizing seasonal bit of history. Meals cost famous food destinations. Savor Soup House, and Prices range between ingredients in a cozy typically between $8 and Donut offerings include Whole Bowl. $10 and $20. 1012 NW setting. Prices range $15, beers $4.50, but maple bacon bars, jelly Glisan Street. (503) 248- between $10 and $17. happy hour prices run as filled voodoo dolls, and SW 3rd Avenue, 2172. 0.8 miles. Also 132 SW 3rd Avenue. low as $3 for burgers. countless cereal topped between Washington accessible by streetcar. (503) 222-3187. 0.5 varieties. Open 24 hours. and Stark Street. 0.4 miles. Market Street Pub Donuts cost around $1 miles. People line up Andina Restaurant 1526 SW 10th Avenue. to $3 each. Cash only. 22 for: Built to Grill, DC Novoandina cuisine, Clyde Common (503) 497-0160. 0.5 SW 3rd Avenue. (503) Vegetarian and Just reviving pre-colonial Innovative cooking miles. 241-4704. 0.6 miles Thai. ingredients and with local products in a techniques of Peru. Open modern setting, open for Ringlers Annex Dan & Louis Oyster Bar Pearl District for lunch and dinner. lunch and dinner. Prices 1223 SW Stark Street. The oldest family owned The Pearl District is the 1314 NW Glisan Street. range between $10 and (503) 525-0520. 0.6 restaurant in Portland latest part of Portland to (503) 228-9535. 0.9 $25. 1014 SW Stark miles. offering signature seafood be re-developed. LEED miles. Also accessible by Street. (503) 228-3333. dishes. 208 SW Ankeny. certified new construction streetcar. 0.5 miles. Ringlers Pub, in the (503) 227-5906. 0.6 and renovated Crystal Ballroom miles. Prices range warehouses mingle in Byways Café Jake’s Famous 1332 W. Burnside. between $10 and $25. this urban neighborhood. A breakfast-centric Crawfish Restaurant (503) 225-0627. 0.7 The Pearl is accessible restaurant with A Portland landmark, miles. Food Carts by the Streetcar, with delightfully kitschy décor. open for more than One of the most unique various stops northbound Offering breakfast and a hundred years. Mother’s Bistro & Bar parts of Portland’s food along 10th Avenue and lunch during the week, Considered one of the Comfort food in an scene is the presence southbound along 11th breakfast only on the nation’s top seafood elegant setting, open for of dozens of food Avenue. Stops anywhere weekends. Prices range restaurants, offering breakfast, lunch, and carts. Many are located downtown and between between $8 and $11. lunch and dinner, as well dinner. Perhaps best downtown. All are open W. Burnside and NW 1212 NW Glisan Street. as a more economical known for its Sunday for lunch during the Irving Street fall in the (503) 221-0011. 0.9 happy hour menu. Prices brunch, often an hour’s week and some offer fareless square. miles. Also accessible by range between $10 wait for a table, but well breakfast and dinner streetcar. and $30. 401 SW 12th worth it. Prices range options. Cuisine options Fuller’s Coffee Shop Avenue. (503) 226-1419. between $12 and $20. ran the gamut from Dim A popular diner since Tea Zone & Camellia 0.5 miles. 212 SW Stark Street. Sum to pizza, Korean 1941, it’s an example of Lounge (503) 464-1122. 0.5 to Kazakhstani, and classic Portland. Serving Home to Portland’s Kenny & Zuke’s miles. countless vegan varieties. standard diner fare for largest selection of tea, Delicatessen For cheap eats, frequent breakfast and dinner from hot tea to bubble Comforting deli food Stumptown Coffee any of the food cart pods in an historic setting. tea to various infusions in a hip, urban setting. Portland is a coffee crazed downtown, where lunch Cash only. Prices range and elixirs, this café Famous for their town. Stumptown is a can run as inexpensively between $6 and $9. 136 also features a full menu pastrami, but their hip coffee house and as $3 a meal. NW 9th Avenue. (503) and display case full of breakfast, lunch, and roasters, arguably the 222-5608. 0.6 miles. Also tempting sweets. Open dinner menus also feature most popular in the city, SW 6th and Yamhill. accessible by streetcar. 8:00 am to midnight. several vegetarian friendly with several locations 0.3 miles. Popular Prices range between $1 choices. Prices range to choose from. Various options: Fuego Everett Street Bistro and $10. 510 NW 11th between $9 and $14. coffee beverages available, Burritos, Philly A European chic café, Avenue. (503) 221-2130. 1038 SW Stark Street. as well as fresh pastries. Cheesesteaks and open for breakfast, lunch 0.9 miles. Also accessible (503) 222-3354. 0.5 Prices are typically less Burgers, Honkin’ Huge and dinner. Prices range by streetcar. miles. expensive than national Burritos. between $12 and $20. 5 ThingsTHINGS TO DO/SEE to IN PORTLAND Do/See in PorThings to Do/See in Por

By Carl Abbott are views toward the city from The World Forestry Center: Portland Center for (Contributors: Lisa Mighetto and the riverside walk in front of located in Portland’s beautiful the Performing Arts: William Willingham) the building, with good signage Washington Park; includes a in a complex of new and about riverine geology and museum where visitors can refurbished theaters. www. Eastside Esplanade/ history (because I contributed learn about the sustainability of pcpa.com Willamette River Loop: The the text). www.omsi.org forests and trees of the Pacific Eastside Esplanade stretches for Northwest and around the Oregon History Center: 1.5 miles along the Willamette Japanese American world. The World Forestry containing permanent exhibits River across from downtown. Historical Plaza: At the Center also operates two on Oregon history and usually It offers great views of the city northern end of Waterfront working forests managed traveling exhibits of interest. and has some cool public art. It Park, just north of the Burnside according to the principles The research library contains can be accessed by pedestrians Bridge, is a powerfully of sustainable forestry. www. millions of manuscripts, from the Hawthorne Bridge, the rendered landscape that

PORTLAND worldforestry.org photographs, and maps Morrison Bridge, and the Steel comments on the World War II pertaining to Pacific Northwest Bridge. The full loop, starting internment experience. www. Westside MAX: Take the history. www.ohs.org from the Marriott, crossing the portlandonline.com/parks/ westside light rail line into the Hawthorne Bridge, heading finder/index.cfm?action=ViewPa suburbs to the Orenco stop in north to the Steel Bridge, rk&PropertyID=156 Washington County. Get off and returning via Waterfront and check out a new urbanist Park is a bit under 4 miles. Interstate MAX: The shortest development. Is it impressively www.40mileloop.org/trail_ segment of Portland’s light urbane or distressingly small? esplanade.htm rail system is a six-mile line The wave of the future or a through North Portland. Board Potemkin Village? Judge for downtown and ride to the end yourself. trimet.org/max/index. of the line. See very interesting htm public art at the stops, especially Photo courtesy of Lincoln Barber. the installation memorializing Old Town: Portland’s nightlife of Architectural Heritage the World War II internment clubs and music venues is fairly Center: The AHC is a nonprofit of Japanese Americans. See scattered. One concentration resource center for historic the Paul Bunyan statue in the of clubs is the Old Town area, preservation in the Portland The Portland, home of the Oregon Maritime Kenton neighborhood, a leftover north of Burnside between area. Located in restored 1883 Museum. Courtesy of John Dichtl. from the Oregon Centennial 1st and 4th. It tends to attract cast-iron building in the eastside Oregon Maritime Museum: Exposition of 1959. trimet. suburbanites ages 18-32. historic commercial district, the The museum is housed in the org/max/index.htm Gay-oriented clubs cluster AHC offers a range of research sternwheeler tug Portland, south of Burnside between opportunities, educational moored on the Willamette Oregon Zoo/Washington 9th and 12th. For detailed programs, and exhibits related River seawall at the foot of Park: For an energetic information about the music to its extensive collection of Pine Street. Portland has a rich expedition, take westside MAX and club scene, see the free architectural elements, building heritage of maritime commerce, into its deep tunnel to the zoo weekly papers Willamette Week parts, and period hardware. with a modern port that is a stop and ride the elevator to and Portland Mercury. www. This collection of architectural Exhibits major automobile importer and the surface. There you can visit oldtownchinatown.org artifacts is the largest west of the exporter of bulk commodities. the Oregon Zoo or the World Mississippi River. It is located at It struggles to compete with Forestry Center, an industry South Park Blocks Cultural 701 SE Grand Avenue and open Puget Sound and California sponsored museum. Walk Institutions: The South Park Wednesday through Saturday, for container cargo. The uphill from the station to access Blocks are the site for Portland’s 10:00 to 4:30 pm. www. sternwheeler, built as a working trails through Washington Park. big ticket cultural institutions. visitahc.org tug in 1947, is really impressive. You can follow them roughly www.oregonmaritimemuseum. downhill (northeast) for about Portland State University Pearl District/River District: org a mile to the Rose Test Gardens anchors the southern end North of Burnside Street, from and the Japanese Garden (open of this wide boulevarded the North Park Blocks west Oregon Museum of Science 10-4). From here you can expanse. www.pdx.edu to I-405, is the so-called Pearl and Industry: OMSI lies on take the No. 63 bus back into District. Like many cities, the east side of the river, a short the center of the city, or walk Portland Art Museum: This Portland has seen an explosion distance south of the Hawthorne another two miles (it’s almost all is a third-level museum with of demand for downtown Bridge. It is a typical family- downhill). www.oregonzoo.org; big ambitions. There is a small apartments and condos. Fifteen oriented science museum, www.washingtonparkpdx.org but good collection of the years ago, this was a warehouse complete with Omnimax native arts of the Northwest district with some artists and theater and submarine. There coast. www.pam.org galleries. Now it is full of 6 Things to Do/See in PorThingsTHINGS TO DO/SEE to IN PORTLAND Do/See continued in Por

expensive condos, high end galleries, and $5 for a great view across the east side of Child Care interior design stores. Hop on the Portland Portland, where many of the city’s cool Creative Childcare Solutions can provide Streetcar, which runs along 10th, and people and cool neighborhoods can be babysitting services to Portland hotel guests. ride north into the district. Look for some found. www.portlandtram.org Call (503) 518-2274 for more information. privately financed public art, including The Facebook pages for ASEH and NPCH totem poles and a giant dog dish. Enjoy The aerial tram connects with the southern would be a good place to post requests Jamison Square and Tanner Creek Springs, extension of the Portland Streetcar, to trade babysitting services with fellow two new parks with deliberately contrasting which extends through the western side conference attendees. character. Speculate how many empty of downtown through the Pearl District nesters with good retirement incomes it to Northwest Portland. The Streetcar Commitment to Sustainability takes to fill all the space. pearldistrict.com/ connects three of the city’s key intellectual For a description of carbon credits, about_the_pearl_district.html institutions: Portland State University, see www.aseh.net/conferences/current- the Multnomah County Central Library, conference Powell’s Bookstore: Powell’s is an and Powell’s. ASEH and NCPH will ensure that waste at institution, claiming (probably accurately) www.portlandstreetcar.org the hotel is recycled, and we will provide to be the country’s largest independent recycling containers on the field trip/tour bookstore. It is big, with a vast selection of To find out more about Portland: buses. We will recycle the name badges, new and used books. It is on the Portland and are working with the hotel to get locally PORTLAND Streetcar, so you don’t have to lug your Chuck Palahniuk, Fugitives and Refugees: grown food for our events. Walking tours purchases all the way back to the hotel A Walk in Portland, Oregon is a quick and are provided (see section of conference on foot. A block away, at 921 SW Oak, quirky guide to some of Portland’s oddest program listing field trips), and information is Reading Frenzy, a fun bookstore that corners, although some of its facts are on local public transportation is provided specializes in comics, obscure magazines, highly suspect. But, hey, Chuck is a novelist. on page 3. independent zines, and the like. www. powells.com; www.readingfrenzy.com Carl Abbott, Greater Portland: Urban Life Questions and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest is John Dichtl, NCPH Executive Director Aerial Tram: connects the Oregon Health a historically based character study of (317) 274-2716; [email protected] and Sciences University (perched stupidly Portland and its metropolitan region. Carrie Dowdy, NCPH Program Director on a hilltop south of downtown) with the (317) 274-2716; [email protected] south waterfront, where industrial lands Connie Ozawa, ed., The Portland Edge: DC Jackson, ASEH Program Chair are in the process of conversion to high- Challenges and Successes in Growing (610) 330-5171; [email protected] rise development (interrupted by the real Communities is a recent current assessment Alexandra Lord, NCPH Program Chair estate downturn). The tram whisks medical of Portland area planning initiatives. (202) 354-6906; [email protected] researchers back and forth between the Lisa Mighetto, ASEH Executive Director hospitals on the hill and research facilities (206) 465-0630; [email protected] along the river. Civilians can ride it for ExhibitsEXHIBITS We invite you to visit the numerous book publishers and organizations exhibiting in the Grand Ballroom I throughout the conference. The Poster Sessions will also be held in this area on Saturday, March 13. Complimentary coffee breaks will be held in the Exhibit Hall. Exhibit Hours Thursday, March 11 – 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Friday, March 12 – 8:00 am – 12:00 pm Saturday, March 13 – 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Exhibitors (as of February 6, 2010) American Society for Environmental History Oregon State University Press University of Massachusetts Press Arizona State University - Public History Oxford University Press University of Nevada Press Program - School of Historical, Penguin Group (USA) University of Pittsburgh Press Philosophical, and Religious Studies Quatrefoil Associates University Press of Kansas Forest History Society RFF Press/Earthscan University of Virginia Press Lookbackmaps Scholar’s Choice University of Washington Press National Endowment for the Humanities Society for the History of Technology Vintage Roadside National Council on Public History University of Arizona Press Washington State Archives NCPH Authors University of California Press Yale University Press Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society University of Georgia Press Interested in exhibiting or sponsoring an event? It’s not too late! Visit www.aseh.net or www.ncph.org for more details. 7 SpecialSPECIAL EVENTS Events Special Events All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees.

ASEH Floating Seminar, Willamette ASEH Sustainability Breakfast NCPH Committee Mixer River Thursday, March 11 Thursday, March 11 Wednesday, March 10 7:15 am – 8:15 am 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets—$22 Meet members of the NCPH Nominating Tickets—$38 Location: Alexander’s, 23rd floor Committee, Board of Directors, and other Lunch included Organized by ASEH’s Sustainability Committee committees for informal conversation in Meet in hotel lobby at 12:00 noon. We will the hotel bar over drinks. (BYOD) We are walk from the hotel to the dock at the end NCPH First-Time Attendee & New looking for people interested in serving the of SW Salmon Street—a distance of about Member Breakfast organization and the field on committees six blocks, located in downtown Portland, Thursday, March 11 and task forces and in the NCPH leadership. along the Willamette River. Our boat, the 7:30 am – 8:30 am All skills are needed. Being new to the field Willamette Star, will depart at 12:30PM. Tickets—$22 is a good thing; being around for awhile is The boat has a covered cabin, but we Join members of the NCPH Board of equally good. Members of the board and recommend bringing an umbrella and rain Directors, the Membership Committee, various committees will be on hand to jacket as well as camera and binoculars. and participants in the Mentoring Network answer questions and take names. We want Speakers: program for conversation, coffee, and a you! • Carl Abbott, Urban Studies and Planning, breakfast buffet. This is a great way to meet Portland State University new and old members of the organization ASEH Plenary Session • Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, Diversity and to learn more about NCPH, the Thursday, March 11 Faculty Fellow, Washington State conference, and the field of public history. 5:30 pm – 7:15 pm University Cosponsored by Central Connecticut State Location: Pavilion Ballroom, Plaza Level SPECIAL EVENTS • Mike Houck, Urban Green Spaces University Dam Removal on the Klamath: Water, • Steven Kolmes, Environmental Science, Environment, Fish, Power, and People University of Portland ASEH Awards Lunch Banquet Through most of the 20th century, the • Bob Salinger, Audubon Society Thursday, March 11 benefits offered by dams held sway over • Joseph Taylor, Department of History, 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm the public mind. But in recent decades, a University of Portland Tickets—$38 rethinking of how humans interact with Location: Pavilion Ballroom, Plaza Level the environment has brought the costs As the Willamette Star cruises along Join us for lunch and presentation of ASEH’s associated with dams to the forefront. In the Willamette River, the speakers and awards, including best book, articles, and the Pacific Northwest, special attention has passengers will discuss a variety of dissertation in environmental history as well focused on the devastation brought by dams issues, including urban planning, salmon as the Distinguished Scholar Award. to spawning fish populations and to the management, forestry, past land and water people culturally bound to these fisheries. use, and the effect of contamination on local NCPH Speed Networking The ongoing Klamath River controversy communities. We will specifically discuss Thursday, March 11 provides an opportunity to explore the Portland Harbor Superfund Site. 3:30 pm – 5:15 pm how—in a specific, real world context— Free—Ticket is required myriad interest groups and communities ASEH Opening Reception NCPH has put a professional twist on ‘speed are grappling with the challenges and Wednesday, March 10 dating’ creating stress-free networking opportunities presented by the possibility 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm opportunities at the annual meeting. of large-scale dam removal. For the Plenary Tickets—$6 Graduate students, recent graduates, and Session, residents and organizational Location: Pavilion Ballroom, Plaza Level new professionals will have the opportunity representatives now involved in bringing Join us for light appetizers. Cash bar to meet with five established public history change to the Klamath Basin will present provided. practitioners for fifteen minute intervals. their viewpoints and invite/spur audience Cosponsored by Portland State University and Before the buzzer sounds, participants comments and questions. In addition, Oxford University Press can discuss career options, professional Nancy Langston (ASEH Past President), development, and any other aspects of the Stephen Most (producer of the acclaimed NCPH 30th Anniversary Reception field. (See the Speed Networking listing in documentary film River of Renewal), and Wednesday, March 10 the body of this program for a list of guest dam historian DC Jackson will offer 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm practitioners whom the networkers will be background and moderate the discussion. Tickets—$6 meeting.) Advance registration is required. We have organized sessions about it, written After the final rotation, participants have NCPH Consultants Reception articles and centered fundraising on it. In the opportunity to mingle in a free- Thursday, March 11 Portland, opening night of the conference, flowing atmosphere in the Mentoring and 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm we will celebrate it—NCPH’s 30th birthday. Networking Reception. Last year’s speed Free—Ticket required Join the festivities as founding members networkers and anyone participating in this Interested in consulting and contract work? of the organization and a panoply of other year’s mentor program will also be invited to Join new and experienced consultants at an public history professionals who make up join us for this portion of the program. informal reception for lively conversation, the NCPH come together to kick off our best Cosponsored by the NCPH Curriculum and hors d’oeuvres, and drinks. We hope conference ever. Cake, anyone? Training Committee and the NPCH Graduate to continue and further conversations Cosponsored by the NCPH 30th Anniversary Student Committee generated in sessions and the working Committee 8 SpecialSPECIAL EVENTS Events All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees.

groups, as well as discuss how best to Thursday evening). From 9:00 pm– 10:00 advance registration, available at the website promote and support the work of public pm we will show March Point, a new listed above. Event t-shirts and other items history consultants. documentary about how three youths from may be purchased in advance at: www. Cosponsored by Historical Research Associates, the Swinomish Tribe in Washington State zazzle.com/halrothmanfund. If you have Inc., HRA Gray and Pape, the Consultants investigated contamination of the waters questions, please contact the organizer, Committee, and Littlefield Historical Research adjacent to their reservation. Jamie Lewis, at [email protected].

Dine Arounds NCPH Public Plenary Session ASEH Envirotech Breakfast Thursday, March 11 Friday, March 12 Saturday, March 13 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm 7:15 am – 8:15 am Sign up at conference Adam Hochschild is an award-winning Tickets—$22 Volunteer facilitators will suggest topics author and journalist who has used history Location: Alexander’s, 23rd floor for discussion and lead small groups to reveal the lingering effects of past to nearby restaurants for an evening of iniquities on the present. His most recent ASEH Poster Presentations collegial conversation. Sign up onsite in the work, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels Saturday, March 13 conference registration area. in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves, was a 10:00 am – 10:30 am finalist for the 2005 National Book Award. Location: Grand Ballroom, Ballroom Level Graduate Student Reception The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin Thursday, March 11 (1994) is a deeply moving exploration of NCPH Awards Luncheon and 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm history and memory shortly after the end of Presidential Address Location: Alexander’s, 23rd floor the Cold War. It was primarily because of Saturday, March 13 ASEH and NCPH are combining their King Leopold’s Ghost (1998), which brought 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm graduate student receptions this year. Come to light the horrors of Belgian colonial rule Tickets—$40 meet your colleagues for hors d’ oeuvres, in the Congo, that the American Historical The annual awards luncheon and the drinks, and camaraderie. There will be door Association awarded Hochschild the 2009 president’s biannual address are open to all prizes! AHA Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson conference registrants, though a ticket is Cosponsored by the Graduate Student Prize. According to the AHA, “Hochschild’s required for the luncheon meal. Attendees Committee book triggered the first open national without meal tickets are welcome to the SPECIAL EVENTS discussion of imperial injustices and seating in the back for the business meeting, NCPH Public History Educator eventually spurred other investigations and awards ceremony, and presidential address. Breakfast led to an official apology being tendered Friday, March 12 by the Belgian government, underlining NCPH Poster Presentations 7:00 am – 8:30 am the quiet power that a well-researched and Saturday, March 13 Tickets—$22 well-written history text could exert in the 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm This annual event is an opportunity for public sphere.” (AHA Perspectives on History, faculty to share ideas about running December 2008). Hochschild has been a ASEH Business Meeting graduate and undergraduate public history reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday, March 13 programs and to talk about university, a commentator on National Public Radio’s 5:30 pm – 6:00 pm departmental, and a wide variety of other “All Things Considered,” and an editor and Location: Alexander’s, 23rd floor issues. The discussion is always lively. writer at Mother Jones magazine. President Harriet Ritvo will discuss ASEH’s Cosponsored by the NCPH Curriculum and programs and initiatives. All members Training Committee ASEH Fun Run Fundraiser for Hal welcome. Rothman Fellowship ASEH Forest History Society Breakfast Saturday, March 13 Joint Banquet Friday, March 12 6:30 am Saturday, March 13 7:15 am – 8:15 am Meet in Portland Hilton lobby 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets—$22 Join us for the first annual “Run for the Tickets—$50 Location: Alexander’s, 23rd floor Hal of It” Fun(d) Run, a walk/run event Location: Pavilion Ballroom, Plaza Level Organized by the Forest History Society to benefit the Hal Rothman Research Join us for a “Taste of Portland” and an Fellowship for graduate students. after-dinner talk by Jack Ohman, cartoonist ASEH Mini Film Festival Participants will meet in the lobby before for The Oregonian, who will speak about Friday, March 12 departing for a 5K (3.1 mile) walk or his portrayal of regional issues over time. 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm run (your choice) along the Willamette Includes a free raffle of the year’s prize- Location: Pavilion Ballroom, Plaza Level River and returning to the hotel. It’s not a winning books for NCPH and ASEH. A jazz Organized by ASEH’s Diversity Committee competition—it’s just a chance to start the ensemble from Portland State University Steve Most, producer of River of Renewal day with a little exercise and maybe win a will perform for dinner guests after the – the winner of the best documentary cool door prize! For more information and banquet. Cash bar provided. award at this year’s American Indian entry forms, visit: Film Festival—will introduce his film www.aseh.net/conferences/current- about the Klamath Basin controversy conference. Although there will be same- (the subject of ASEH’s plenary session on day registration, we strongly encourage 9 WorkshopsWORKSHOPS Workshops All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees.

Wednesday, March 10 Thursday, March 11 9:00 am – 4:00 pm 3:30 pm-5:30 pm ASEH Workshop #1 NCPH Workshop #2 People, Place, and Voice: Oral History Basics Heritage Tourism for the 21st Century: Reaching Broader Cost: $65 per person Audiences through the GPS Powered Next Exit History Location: Alexander’s, 23rd floor Program Limited to 30 participants; Registration Required Cost: $10 Presenters: Limited to 20 Participants, Registration Required Dr. Katrine Barber, Director, Center for Columbia River History, and Presenters: Jay Clune, Patrick Moore, and Tim Roberts, University PSU Professor of History of West Florida Cherstin Lyon, California State University, San Bernardino Donna Sinclair, Program Manager, Center for Columbia River The vision of Next Exit HistoryTM is to provide the public with History, and President, Northwest Oral History Association accurate and captivating historical content on historic towns, sites, landscapes and other areas of cultural significance delivered This workshop will focus on the collection and use of oral history automatically to them based on their physical relation to the site by public historians, environmental historians, and the broader itself. Beyond the delivery of high quality historical and cultural heritage and history community. Emphasis will be on the role of information, the Next Exit HistoryTM program combines the oral history in documenting and interpreting the past and the newly created iShareHistoryTM social networking platform practical skills and knowledge needed to conduct and preserve designed to allow users the opportunity to share their own site recorded interviews. Attendees will share project experience and specific historical experiences to friends via mobile devices. The ideas, explore oral history strategy, conduct practice interviews, workshop will combine presentations by the Next Exit HistoryTM and participate in group discussion. The workshop will examine invention team, discussions about the potential uses, market oral history preparation, choosing and using equipment, interview demographics, and interpretive value of the program, and hands techniques, and the role of archives in oral history production and on demonstrations of the how to utilize the Next Exit HistoryTM use. Attendees will receive a copy of the “Idaho Field Notebook for program. Attendees will also be provided with written guides Oral History” and a free one-year membership in the Northwest regarding the project and how to navigate the entry system and Oral History Association. This will be an ideal learning experience database. Participants will leave the workshop with the skills and for the novice and a great review and networking opportunity for knowledge necessary to efficiently utilize and navigate the Next Exit WORKSHOPS public and environmental historians. HistoryTM database and entry system.

Thursday, March 11 Friday, March 12 3:30 pm-5:30 pm 8:00 am – 5:00 pm NCPH Workshop #1 ASEH Workshop #2 Writing a Nomination for the National Register of Historic Environmental History and the National Parks Places and/or the National Historic Landmarks Program Free—Sign Up Required Cost: $10 Location: Pavilion Ballroom Limited to 20 Participants, Registration Required Limited to 50 Participants, Registration Required Presenters: J. Alexandra M. Lord, National Historic Landmarks Sponsored by the National Park Service Program, National Park Service To sign up, contact Lisa Mighetto at [email protected] and indicate your interest in attending the morning session, afternoon site visit, This workshop will provide guidance on researching and preparing or both. Please sign up only if you are certain that you will attend. a nomination for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NR) and for designation as National Historic Landmarks (NHL). Morning Session Speakers: Participants will learn how properties are determined to be eligible Welcome and Introduction by Robert Sutton and David Louter, for listing/designation, how properties should be researched and National Park Service assessed as well as what information should be provided to State Timothy Babalis, National Park Service; Rebecca Conard, Middle Historic Preservation Offices and the National Park Service. The Tennessee State University; Rolf Diamant, National Park Service; workshop will also include a discussion of such pertinent issues as Jim Feldman, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh; Mark Fiege, national, local and state significance, integrity. A detailed discussion University of Colorado; Phil Scarpino, Indiana University Purdue of the various NR/NHL criteria will also be included. University Indianapolis; Mark Spence, HistoryCraft, Oregon It is the mission of the NPS to interpret the nation’s past— and the work of the Second Century Commission and the Ken Burns series reflect on the role of the national parks in this mission. The workshop in Portland is an opportunity to bring environmental history into this discussion—and is a preliminary step toward forming a national panel of environmental historians to analyze the national parks and the role of our scholarship in public interpretation. 10 Workshops WorkshopsWORKSHOPS

Afternoon Site Visit: Columbia River Highway, including a visit to Saturday, March 13 Multnomah Falls and historic bridge. Board bus at 12:00 pm; box 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm lunches provided. Site visit speakers: Larry Lipin, Pacific University, NCPH Workshop #4 Oregon and Bob Hadlow, Oregon Department of Transportation. Omeka: An Open Source Tool for Publishing Cultural Note: Workshop will be limited to 50 people for morning and afternoon Heritage Online sections (owing to need for discussion, amount of food and coffee Cost: $10 available, and seats on the bus) Limited to 20 Participants, Registration Required ASEH Student Assistants: Neel Baumgardner and Alison Marie Presenters: Jeremy Boggs and Sheila Brennan, Center for History Steiner and New Media, George Mason University

Saturday, March 13 The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University 8:00 am – 10:00 am (CHNM) has developed Omeka, a next-generation Web publishing NCPH Workshop #3 tool that will enhance the ability of museums to showcase their Publish, Share, Collaborate, and Crowdsource Collections: collections and content online. Omeka is designed specifically Zotero 2.0 For Public Historians for smaller history museums and cultural heritage sites that Cost: $10 may not have the resources or expertise to create and maintain Limited to 20 Participants, Registration Required their own online tools. This open-source Web tool will offer Presenter: Trevor Owens, Zotero an easy professional way for museums to display their content online. Workshop participants will leave workshop with the Zotero, the free, open source, easy-to-use Firefox extension for following knowledge and skills: an introduction to Omeka and collecting, managing, and citing research sources has become brief background on developing the software, with knowledge of a powerful platform for sharing, publishing and facilitating different types of websites created with Omeka; an understanding collaboration for all kinds of researchers. This workshop will walk of Omeka’s basic functionality, including adding items and building participants through the basics of using Zotero. Participants will a small online exhibit; knowledge of how Omeka’s use of data collect and import information about books manuscripts and other standards or object metadata, including Dublin Core, allows it to items, attach files, use collections and tags to organize items, and interface with other systems via OAI and other interoperability generate bibliographies and reports. From there, participants will standards; ideas for customizing Omeka to suit institutional explore Zotero’s new web features to share, collaborate and publish needs, whether that’s integrating user-generated content into their their collections for other researchers and the public. The presenter website, or easily displaying and exhibiting archival collections; the will walk participants through the tools features. Each participant necessary knowledge to setup an Omeka installation, and where will build their own collection, organizes it, and ultimately share to find help. Participants should bring a laptop computer with and publish some of those items online. Participants will leave the wireless internet capabilities. workshop ready to use Zotero to add and organize sets of research sources, create bibliographies from sets of items, publish sets of WORKSHOPS items through the Zotero website, collaborate with colleagues at their own institution or with others around the world through public and private Zotero groups. Participants should bring a laptop computer with wireless internet capabilities.

Mentoring Network Are you new to NCPH or ASEH or attending the annual meeting for the first time? Would you welcome advice about getting the most out of the conference experience or being introduced to other professionals during the conference? Or, are you a veteran of NCPH or ASEH and conferences who is willing to mentor? If you would like to meet a mentor in Portland, or be a mentor, please e-mail [email protected] or [email protected] or check the appropriate box on the registration form. Mentors and mentees will be put in contact with one another prior to the meeting. We encourage mentors and mentees to meet at an event early in the conference, such as the Networking and Mentoring Reception on Thursday, March 11, from 4:45 pm until 5:15 pm. 11 ToursTOURS and FIELD and TRIPS Field Trips Posters

Please note that there are two walking tours skyscrapers designed in the Classical Revival listed below, and that information on alternate style. The tour will be conducted both on foot sites of local interest and public transportation is and by light rail. Led by William Willingham and provided on page 4 of this conference program. Richard Engeman, architectural historians. 2.5 If you are not going on a tour or field trip, Friday hours. (Limit 24 participants) afternoon is a good time to explore the city on your own.

All buses board at 12:15 pm on Friday, March 12 and leave promptly at 12:30 pm. Buses will be located on Salmon and Broadway, adjacent to the hotel. Check the signs in the hotel lobby for your field trip number and the specific location of your bus. Box lunches will be provided. As always in the Pacific Northwest, be prepared for the rain that makes the area west of the Cascade Mountains so green. Most buses will return to the hotel around 5:00 PM.

1. Columbia River/Bonneville Dam—guided by staff of Northwest Power and Conservation Council; will address dam and hydropower Courtesy of Flickr user papalars. Courtesy of Wikipedia user mtsmallwood. issues, salmon-passage system, and historic 6. Mt. St. Helens Visitors Center at Silver buildings; will stop at overlook for view of Lake—includes interpretive talk and short walk. 10. Portland’s Park Blocks: Defining a City Columbia River Gorge. (Limit 48 participants) If the road is open in March, the bus will also by its Open Spaces—The tour will begin travel to Hoffstadt Bluffs for a closer view of the with a brief presentation on the founding of 2. Birding at Sauvie Island on Columbia volcano, near the blast zone. Note: this tour Portland’s park system from the first public River with Audubon Society guide—great could include up to 3 hours of driving time, and spaces in the 1850’s to the Olmstead Bros. 1903 place to see waterfowl and raptors. (Limit 48 might return to Portland at 6:00 pm. (Limit 48 parks plan. The Park Blocks, north and south, participants) participants) formed the open space “spine” of the city initially as a fire break and then as a pattern for urban 7. Organic winery—tasting and tour of facility development in the central city and later in the by the owner of Sokol-Blosser, a sustainability 21st century a model for linear parks in the award-winning winery at Dundee in the River District Urban Renewal Area known as the Willamette Valley. (Limit 48 participants) Pearl District. The tour will begin in the South Park Blocks and walk through the Mid-Town Blocks to the North park Blocks and end at Tanner Springs Park in the Pearl District. Tour participants will be able to either walk back to the Conference hotel or ride the Portland Street FIELD TRIPS Car from Tanner Springs. The walk will last for 90-minutes and comfortable walking shoes are recommended. Led by Henry Kunowski, architectural historian. (Limit 15 participants)

Courtesy of SW Washington CVB. Courtesy of Travel Portland.

3. Fort Vancouver and Cathalpotle 8. METRO’s “Urban Growth Boundary”—an Plankhouse—exploration of Hudson’s Bay inside view of Oregon’s famous land-use Company fort and Columbia River Chinook planning system, with UGB managers. (Limit 48 archaeology site. (Limit 48 participants) participants)

4. Tryon Creek State Natural Area—short 9. Downtown Portland’s Historic

walk through urban forest and tour of historic Architecture—The tour explores the evolution Courtesy of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. iron smelter in nearby Lake Oswego. (Limit 48 of the city’s commercial architecture from the participants) Cast Iron era (1850s-1880s) along Portland’s waterfront to the International and Post-Modern 5. Bicycle tour of Portland guided by styles in the heart of today’s business and cultural Portland bicycling specialist—most of the district. The tour will also view other important route through this urban area is flat; be prepared commercial buildings, such as a grouping of for rain. (Limit 20 participants) early 20th century, cream colored terra cotta 12 PostersPOSTERS

ASEH Posters NCPH Posters Saturday, March 13 Saturday, March 13 10:00 am – 10:30 am 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Posters will be available for review throughout the conference, but during The following are the poster titles accepted as of December 4, 2009. this time poster presenters will be in attendance to explain their research NCPH’s poster presenters will be available to discuss their posters on and answer questions. Saturday afternoon. The NCPH Call for Posters was issued in early November 2009 and closes December 10, 2009. The following are the poster titles submitted as of December 4, 2009. ASEH’s poster presenters will be available to discuss their posters on “The Flushing Local History Project: A Digital Community Art Project and Saturday, March 13, from 10:00 am to 10:30 am. Archive” Meral Agish, The City University of New York, Graduate Center “Unexpected Environmentalists: The Presidents, the Public Lands, and the 1906 Antiquities Act,” Kurt Angersbach, Western Labs “Yesteryear: Historical Blogs as Educational Tools” Elizabeth Banks and Lindsay Dumas, New York University “Filal Science: Early Bird Photography in the Progressive Era,” Cynthia A. Melendy, Framingham State College “Using Oral History to Document Modern Women’s History” Laura Foxworth and Kyna Herzinger, University of South Carolina “Engaging undergraduates in collaborative research: How past agricultural practices, the dissemination of progressive-era management “Oral History and Beyond: An Interdisciplinary Model for Creating Oral ideals, and local property conventions have shaped the modern landscape History Documentaries in Undergraduate Classes” of the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maine,” Michelle Steen- John Hepp and Mark Stine, Wilkes University Adams, University of New England “Dress for Distress:” Presenting Women’s History to a Museum Audience” “ Exhibiting a River: An Environmental History of the Danube on Sara Patenaude, Washington State University Display,” Verena Winiwarter, Jakob Calice, Simone Gingrich, Gertrud Haidvogl, Severin Hohensinner, Martin Schmid, and Ortrun Veichtlbauer “American History for Citizenship: The National Museum of American History Brings Object-Based Learning to Citizenship Classes” “The Early Canada Environmental Data Project: Retrieving Environmental Lauren Safranek, University of South Carolina History,” Liza Piper, University of Alberta “Prized Pieces of Land: The Impact of Reconstruction on African-American “Historicizing an Interdiscipline: Swedish Mercury Science in the 1960s,” Land Ownership Lower Richland County, South Carolina” Michael Egan, McMaster University Elizabeth Almlie, Angi Bedell, Ashley Bouknight, Amanda Bowman, Lee Durbetaki, Keri Fay, J. Haley Grant, Benjamin Greene, Nathan Johnson, “The Floaters in Trouble Water: Reflections on the changing cultural Amanda Roddy, Sarah Scripps, and Morgen Young, University of South pattern of the traditional fishermen of Bengal,” Rup Kumar Barman, Carolina Jadavpur University “Hillbilly Skits to Buford Sticks: Sustainable Heritage Tourism in “The NiCHE Digital Infrastructure,” William J Turkel and Adam Crymble, Tennessee” University of Western Ontario and NiCHE Heather Bailey, Middle Tennessee State University

“Fishy Friends: Building Strategic Alliances in the Rigs-to-reefs Program,” “Bring Your Own Caulk Gun: The Greening of the Cedar Hills Historical Dolly Jørgensen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Society” Jennifer Betsworth, University of South Carolina “Ecological Oral Histories of Northern Arizona: Lessons Learned,” Michele Anne James and Peter Friederici, Northern Arizona University “A Regional Evaluation of the Interpretation of Slavery: The State of POSTERS Independence and the First State of Secession” “A View to a Hill: Experiencing Nature through Leisure Cabin Amanda Bowman, University of South Carolina Architecture,” Finn Arne Jørgensen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology “Dirt Cheap: Rammed Earth Homes and the Gardendale Experiment” Jennifer Carpenter “Sovietization of the Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal project,” Jiri Janac, Leos Jelecek and Pavel Chromy, Charles University in Prague “Talking Inventory of Philadelphia’s African American Historic Sites” Dana Dorman, Independent Historian “A Trojan Horse in the Forest: The Ideological Construction of a Pine Invasion in the Mulanje Region of Malawi, 1923-2000,” Kathleen Fichtel, “Protocols for Native American Archival Material” West Virginia University Keara Duggan, New York University

“Roll of Historic Aerial Photography in Understanding Effects of Oil “Threads in Greensboro’s Past: The Mill Village Project” and Gas Inrastructure in the San Juan Basin,” Shawn William Salley and Miriam Farris, Christopher Jordan, and Ethan Moore, University of North Christina Garton-Salley, Jornada Experimental Range and New Mexico Carolina at Greensboro State University “The Battle of Franklin: Rediscovering the Battlefield through and Urban “Dorothea Lange and Water in Eastern Oregon: Then and Now,” Anne Landscape” Whiston Spirn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rachael Finch, Middle Tennessee State University Poster listings are continued on page 49 > 13 ASEHASEH AWARDS Awards

Distinguished Scholar Award: Carolyn Merchant

George Perkins Marsh Prize for best book: Timothy J. LeCain, Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines that Wired America and Scarred the Planet, Rutgers University Press, 2009.

Alice Hamilton Prize for best article: Richard Keyser, “The Transformation of Traditional Woodland Management: Commercial Sylviculture in Medieval Champagne,” French Historical Studies, 2009.

Leopold-Hidy Prize (with Forest History Society) for best article: Emily Yeh, “From Wasteland to Wetland?: From Nature to Nation in China’s Tibet,” Environmental History, 2009.

Rachel Carson Prize for best dissertation: Gina Maria Rumore, “A Natural Laboratory, A National Monument: Carving out a Place for Science in Glacier Bay, Alaska, 1879-1959,” University of Minnesota.

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March 13 at 7:00 PM, Pavilion Ballroom ASEH • NCPH Join us for this final event of our conference!

Dinner: Pacific halibut and local specialties Speaker: Jack Ohman, political cartoonist for The Oregonian The evening will end with a performance by the Portland State University Jazz Ensemble

No-host reception in front of Pavilion Ballroom beginning at 6:30 PM Tickets are available at the conference registration table on the Plaza Level Deadline for purchasing tickets: Friday, March 12 at noon

Don’t Miss the Exhibits!

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Visit the displays from a wide variety of publishers and organizations in the Grand Ballroom, open each day throughout the conference. This is an excellent opportunity to talk with editors and to view the latest titles in public and environmental history. Coffee and tea will be available in the exhibit area during the break at 10:00 AM each morning. 20102010 ASEH CONFERENCEASEH PROGRAM Program 2010 NCPH Program All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees.

Wednesday, March 10 Panel 1-C: (Broadway II – Plaza Level) Recreational Environments: Domestication, Authenticity, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Representation, Defiance Oral History Workshop [ticket required] Chair: Phoebe Kropp, University of Colorado Boulder See description in “Special Events” section. Comments: Audience

12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Peter J. Blodgett, The Huntington Library Floating Seminar [ticket required] Outdoors, Indoors and Four Doors: Automobility and the Evolving See description in “Special Events” section. Character of Outdoor Recreation 1920-1941

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Terence Young, California State Polytechnic University Opening Reception [ticket required] Backpacking as Authentic Reconnection to Nature Cosponsored by Portland State University and Oxford University Press See description in “Special Events” section. Yolonda Youngs, Oklahoma State University Editing Nature: Postcards Representations and Environmental Thursday, March 11 Transformation at Grand Canyon National Park, 1900-1935 7:15 am – 8:15 am William E. O’Brien, Florida Atlantic University Sustainability Breakfast [ticket required] Preserving Separate Nature: White Southern Officials and “Negro See description in “Special Events” section. State Parks” 1945-1954 Concurrent Sessions 1: 8:30 am – 10:00 am Panel 1-D: (Broadway III – Plaza Level) Panel 1-A: (Alexander’s – 23rd Floor) Nature and National Identity in the 19th Century Sovereignty, Culture, and Identity in Tribal Natural Chair: Alan Mikhail, Stanford University Resource Management Comments: Patty Limerick, University of Colorado Boulder Chair: Brian Hosmer, University of Tulsa Comments: Dennis Rogers Martinez, Indigenous Peoples’ Sarah S. Elkind, San Diego State University Restoration Network Water Development and Nationalism: Spain and the United States Compared Jaime Allison, University of Virginia Spaces for Redefining Identity: Expanded Sovereignty and Energy Barry Ross Muchnick, Yale University Development on the Crow Reservation “The Country is the Fresh Air Fund”: Environmental Citizenship in the Progressive Era Mike Dockry, U.S Forest Service/University of Wisconsin Menominee Environmental History and the College of Menominee Carolin F Roeder, University of Kent/Harvard University Nation’s Struggle to Define Sustainability Nature and National Agitation in Habsburg Slovenia Garrit Voggesser, National Wildlife Federation Adapting to Change: How Tribal Historical and Cultural Panel 1-E: (Broadway IV – Plaza Level) Knowledge Informs Tribal Natural Resource Management Urban Landscapes: Nature and Culture Chair: Ari Kelman, University of California Davis Panel 1-B: (Broadway I – Plaza Level) Comments: History and Landscapes: Making the Arctic Legible Through Ellen Stroud, Bryn Mawr College

ASEH WED / THUR Science, Markets, and Religion Nancy M. Germano, Indiana University Chair and Comments: Liza Piper, University of Alberta Urban Rivers in the Landscape: The White River in Indianapolis Adam M. Sowards, University of Idaho Claiming Spaces for Science and Nature: The Canadian Arctic Ruth D. Reichard, Indiana University Infrastructure, Separation, and Inequality: The Streets of Expedition of 1913-18 Indianapolis 1890 - 1930 Peter Evans, University of Cambridge Aunt Kate’s Map, or, How the Moravians Made the Labrador Inuit Annie Gilbert Coleman, University of Notre Dame Race Time: The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Legible to the Liberal Welfare State

14 20102010 NCPH CONFERENCENCPH PROGRAM Program All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees. Room locations will be listed in the printed program available at the conference. Wednesday, March 10 Facilitators: Sheila Brennan, Center for History and New Media, George 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Mason University 30th Anniversary Reception (Grand Ballroom II) [ticket required] Sharon Leon, Center for History and New Media, George Mason See description in “Special Events” section. University

Thursday, March 11 Tom Scheinfeldt, Center for History and New Media, George Mason University 7:30 am – 8:30 am New Members and First-Time Attendees Breakfast (Galleria Discussants: III) [ticket required] Laryn Brown, Ancestry.com; Larry Cebula, Eastern Washington Cosponsored by Central Connecticut State University University and Washington State Digital Archives; Matthew See description in “Special Events” section. Francis, University of Wyoming; Mitchell Koffman, Arizona State University; Kristy Martin, Idéeclic; Martha Pallante, Youngstown 8:00 am – 10:00 am State University; Justin Schell, University of Minnesota; Kate Working Group 1-A: (Galleria II) Thibodeau, City of Holyoke, MA; William Turkel, University of International Council on Public History? Bringing Global Western Ontario; Andy Wilhide, University of Minnesota Public History Closer

Facilitator: Anna Adamek, Canada Science and Technology Working Group 1-C: (Galleria I) Museum Recycling Buildings? Reframing Historic Preservation in the Language of Sustainability and the Green Economy Discussants: See the general description for working groups under Working Justin Champion, Royal Holloway, University of London; H.A. Group 1-A. Akku Chowdhury, Liberation War Museum (Bangladesh); Kate Christen, Smithsonian National Zoo; Andreas Etges, The John F. Facilitators: Kennedy Institute for North American Studies; James Gardner, Leah Glaser, Central Connecticut State University National Museum of American History; Erika Gee, International Henry Kunowski, Architectural Historian Coalition of Sites of Conscience; Michelle Hamilton, University of Western Ontario; Jon Hunner, New Mexico State University; Discussants: Serge Noiret, The Library - European University Institute; Jean- Alexander Bethke, Naval Facilities Engineering Command; Pierre Morin, Treaty Relations Directorate, Indian and Northern Kathryn Rogers Merlino, University of Washington; Victoria J. Affairs, Canada; Linda Norris, Riverhill; Jon Olsen, University Myers, Mississippi Department of Archives and History; Carol of Massachusetts; Manon Parry, National Library of Medicine- Palmer, Palmer Research, LLC; Angela Sirna, Chesapeake and National Institutes of Health; Sonaren Phy, Tuol Sleng Genocide Ohio Canal National Historical Park; A Representative from the Museum (Phnom Penh, Cambodia); Cecilia Rusnak, Penn State Cascadia Chapter, U.S. Green Building Council University; Lisa Singleton, UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre; Ioana Teodorescu, McGill University, Montreal and Algonquin College, Ottawa; Jonathan Whalley, Independent Public Historian 8:00 am – 1:30 pm NCPH Board of Directors Meeting (Crown Room) The working group format is designed to facilitate substantive, focused, and extended seminar-like conversations on a particular topic. Discussants were selected from an open call in October. Prior 8:30 am – 10:00 am to the conference, each has reviewed and commented by email on NCPH Nominating Committee Meeting (Cabinet Suite) each other’s case statements which describe what their similarly- preoccupied colleagues are doing and thinking. Working groups are open to other conference-goers who would like to sit in on the discussions, but we ask that they respect the co-chairs’ need to potentially limit participation from the audience. NCPH WED / THUR NCPH Working Group 1-B: (Parlor A) Jump Start Your Digital Project in Public History: Planning Sessions See the general description for working groups under Working Group 1-A.

15 20102010 ASEH CONFERENCEASEH PROGRAM Program 2010 NCPH Program ASEH THURSDAY All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees.

William Layman, Independent Scholar Thursday, March 11 Then and Now Aerial Views of the Canadian Columbia River Panel 1-F: (Forum – Third Floor) 1962-2009 Making and Breaking Gender Roles Chair: Mark Stoll, Texas Tech Patty McNamee, National Archives and Records Administration Comments: Susan Schrepfer, Rutgers University Water Resources in Federal Records

Kenna Archer, Texas Tech University Anne Frantilla, Seattle Municipal Archives “Prairie-fairies, Posy-Pickers,Tree-Hugger”: Nature, Gender, We Demand Immediate Action: Sources for Research on the Urban and the White Male Leadership of the Radical Environmental Environment in 20th century Seattle Movement

Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant, Front Range Community College 10:00 am – 10:30 am Barbara Ward’s Environmental Leadership: Pioneering Sustainable Coffee Break, Exhibit Hall Development and Breaking Gender Barriers Cosponsored by University of Washington Press

Annie Hanshew, University of Utah “Mothering a Good Forest Fire Isn’t Easy”: Men, Women, and Concurrent Sessions 2: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Smokejumping in the American West Roundtable 2-A: (Alexanders – 23rd Floor) The Art of Writing History—and Getting Published Panel 1-G: (Council – Third Floor) Chair: Nancy Langston, University of Wisconsin Environmental History and National Identity: Narratives, Roundtable Participants: Policies and Actions in the Western Mediterranean Stephen Pyne, Arizona State University Chair and Comments: Tait Keller, Rhodes College William Cronon, University of Wisconsin Marianne Keddington-Lang, University of Washington Press Sam Temple, University of Oklahoma Christine Szuter, Arizona State University Nature on the Margins: Environment, Citizenship and National Identity in Southern France Panel 2-B: (Broadway I – Plaza Level) Diana K. Davis, University of California Davis “One-Sixth of the World”: Russia, Technologies, and the Restoring Roman Nature: French National Identity and North Natural Environment African Environmental History Chair: Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted, Eastern Washington University D. Seth Murray, North Carolina State University Comments: John R. McNeill, Georgetown University Cultural and Environmental Heritage in France: Contested Stories of Landscape and Identity in the Basque Countryside Andy Bruno, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Railroad Colonization and the Arctic Environment in War and Revolution Roundtable 1-H: (Directors – Third Floor) Greening American Campuses Maya Peterson, Harvard University Chair: Michael B. Smith, Ithaca College Redistribution, Resettlement, Resistance: The Irrigation of Russian Roundtable Participants: Turkestan’s Chu River Valley 1910-1918 Wyatt Galusky, Morrisvile State College John Hausdoerffer, Western State College Christopher J. Ward, Clayton State University Bonnie Bentzin, Arizona State University Pandora’s Box Reopened: The Birth, Death, and Rebirth of Sibaral S. Ravi Rajan, University of California Santa Cruz Crystal Fortwangler, Oberlin College

Panel 1-I: (Studio – Third Floor) The Pacific Northwest: Archives and Sources in Environmental History Chair: Jeffrey Sanders, Washington State University Comments: Audience

16 20102010 NCPH CONFERENCENCPH PROGRAM Program All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees. Room locations will be listed in the printed program available at the conference. Thursday, March 11 10:00 am – 12:45 pm Working Group 2-B: (Galleria II) Concurrent Sessions 1: 8:30 am – 10:00 am Environmental Sites of Conscience: Exploring Issues to Inspire Visitor Action at the Panel 1-D: (Grand Ballroom II) Environmental History Sites

Spaceflight and the Environment: At the Conjunction of See the general description for working groups under Working NCPH THURSDAY History and Policy Group 1-A. Chair: Roger Launius, National Air and Space Museum Facilitators: Linda Billings, George Washington University Erika Gee, International Coalition of Sites of Conscience Sustainable Space Exploration: Good for the Universe, Good Morgan Smith, John Muir National Historic Site, National Park for the Earth, Good for the Nation, or Good for the Aerospace Service Industry? Discussants: James Fleming, Colby College Chuck Arning, National Park Service; Rolf Diamant, Mash- James A. Van Allen’s Role in Discovering and Disrupting Earth’s Billings Rockefeller National Historic Park; Beth Erdey, Nez Perce Magnetosphere, 1958-1962 National Historical Park and Washington State University; David Glassberg, University of Massachusetts; Harry Klinkhamer, Forest Matthew Hersch, University of Pennsylvania Preserve District of Will County; Kate Preissler, The Trustees of The Green Astronaut: Project Apollo and American Reservations; Liz Sevcenko, International Coalition of Sites of Environmentalism, 1968–1974 Conscience; Gregory Wilson, University of Akron

Kim McQuaid, Lake Erie College Earthly Environmentalism and the Space Exploration Movement, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm l970-l990: A Study in Irresolution NCPH Membership Committee Meeting (Galleria III) NCPH Graduate Student Committee Meeting (Senate Suite) Panel 1-E: (Parlor B) Oral History as Sociology and Anthropology: The Public Stories of Amputee Vietnam Veterans Concurrent Sessions 2: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

David Bodenhamer, The Polis Center, IUPUI Roundtable 2-C: (Parlor C) Carrie Foote, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis New Directions for Environmental and Heritage Signage Seth Messinger, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Projects Mark Sothmann, Medical University of South Carolina Chair: Nancy Dallett, Arizona State University

Panel 1-F: (Parlor C) John Akers, City of Glendale, Arizona, Parks and Recreation Creating Heritage: Public Lands and Re-Imagined Spaces Sandra Muñoz-Weingarten, City of Chandler, Arizona Chair: Joan Zenzen, Independent Historian Jean Reynolds, City of Chandler, Arizona

Sue Hall, University of California, Riverside “Something Terrible Happened Here”: Battlefield Preservation and Panel 2-D: (Parlor A) Interpretation in the Construction of Race, Place, and Nation Historical Memory and the 1970s: Coming to Terms with the Transitional Decade Emily McEwen, University of California, Riverside Bureau of Livestock and Mining or Landscapes and Monuments? Tammy Gordon, University of North Carolina, Wilmington The Framing of the LBM’s National Landscape Conservation BuyCentennial Sellabration: Market Segmentation, Mass System Consumption, and Historical Memory in 1976

Raymond Rast, California State University, Fullerton Amy Hay, University of Texas Pan Am Chicano Space, Farmworkers’ Place: Interpreting the Legacy of “One Objective in Life . . . to Sell Chemicals”: American Memory César Chávez in Delano, California of Viet Nam and the Domestic Campaign against Agent Orange Herbicides

10:00 am – 10:30 am Meaghan Nappo, University of North Carolina, Wilmington Coffee Break (Exhibit Hall) The Interpretation of the Gay Rights Movement in Public History Cosponsored by the Unviersity of Washington Press Ann Powers, Los Angeles Times Curating the Experience Music Project’s Disco: A Decade of Saturday Nights 17 20102010 ASEH CONFERENCEASEH PROGRAM Program 2010 NCPH Program All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees. Thursday, March 11 Panel 2-F: (Forum – Third Floor) Environmental Change on North America’s Borders Panel 2-C: (Broadway II – Plaza Level) Chair and Comments: Sterling Evans, University of Oklahoma Electricity and Crisis Chair and Comments: Robert D. Lifset, University of Oklahoma Dan E Karalus, Northern Arizona University Between Nature and Nations: The Borders of Organ Pipe Cactus Laura Hepp Bradshaw, North Carolina State University National Monument Naturalizing Citizenship and The TVA: Electrification, Conservation, and Gender 1932 - 1940 Kent LaCombe, Kansas State University Freshwater Follies: The 20th Century Race for Resources in the ASEH THURSDAY Joseph Stromberg, University of Houston Lake Huron Ecosystem Atomic Cowboys: The South Texas Nuclear Project and the Decline of Nuclear Power Eric Steiger, University of California Irvine Constructing a Desert Borderland: Reclaiming the Colorado Desert Julie Cohn, University of Houston Electric Power Networks and the Northeast Blackout Crisis of 1965 Panel 2-G: (Council – Third Floor) Rural Nostalgia in Postwar France, Italy, and Spain Chair: Linda Nash, University of Washington Panel 2-D: (Broadway III – Plaza Level) Comments: Marcus Hall, University of Utah Crises and Contestation: The Political Economy of River Development Sarah Renee Hamilton, University of Michigan Chair: Craig E. Colten, Louisiana State University Conservation and the Pueblos: Environmental Rhetoric and Reality Comments: Audience on the Modern Castillian Plateau

Matthew Evenden, University of British Columbia Dario Gaggio, University of Michigan The Convenience of War: Transboundary River Development in Debating “Landscape” in Postwar Tuscany North America 1939-1945 Sarah Farmer, University of California Irvine Craig E. Colten, Louisiana State University Peasant Life Stories and the Bourgeois Imagination of Rural Life in Navigable Waters: Conflicting Views and Fluid Definitions Postwar France

Jonathan Peyton, University of British Columbia The Stikine-Iskut Hydro Project: Corporate Ecology and the Rise Panel 2-H: (Directors – Third Floor) of Environmentalism in Northern British Columbia Jerusalem in America: Landscape, Faith, and Settlement Chair: Amy Koelinger, Florida State University Sara B. Pritchard, Cornell University Comments: Mark Stoll, Texas Tech University Ambiguities of “Development” and “Restoration”: The Upper Rhône since 1973 Shelby M. Balik, University of Colorado Denver Over the River and Through the Woods: New England Missionaries’ Encounters with Nature Panel 2-E: (Broadway V – Plaza Level) Nature on Canvas: Landscape Art as Historical Document Paul Nelson, Otterbein College Chair and Comments: David Stradling, University of Cincinnati Good Christians and Bad Land: Mormon Settlement in the Canyon Country 1855-1909 Gregory Rosenthal, SUNY Stony Brook Revisiting Thomas Cole’s Catskills: An Historical Review of the Arthur Remillard, St. Francis University Landscape Painted and Not Painted Homemaking at the Headwaters: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft’s Christian Expedition to the Source of the Mississippi River Mark M. Chambers, SUNY Stony Brook Penning Narratives and Sketching Illustrations: Descriptions of a North American Mining Site

Adhya Bhati Saxena, University of Baroda Revisiting Place Apart: Kachchh in Paintings

18 20102010 NCPH CONFERENCENCPH PROGRAM Program All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees. Room locations will be listed in the printed program available at the conference. Thursday, March 11 Facilitators: Calinda Lee, Emory University Panel 2-E: (Parlor B) Modupe Labode, Indiana University Purdue University Wood, Water, Work, and a Welcoming Public: At the Indianapolis Intersection of Oral History and Environmental History in the Great Lakes Discussants: TBA Chair: James Feldman, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh

Steven Dast and Troy Reeves, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Forest Products Lab Centennial Oral History Project: A NCPH Curriculum and Training Committee Meeting (Galleria II) Collaborative, Digital Endeavor

Bradley Gills, Grand Valley State University Concurrent Sessions 3: 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm “My Grandfather was a Businessman”: Understanding Anishnabe Lumber Workers in the Progressive Era Roundtable 3-B: (Parlor B) The Challenge of Public History—Integrating Training, Practice, and Policy Aaron Shapiro, Auburn University NCPH THURSDAY Minnesota Vacation Memories: Using Oral History to Explore Chair: Nancy Berlage, Office of the Secretary of Defense Tourism on the Landscape Lynn Denton, Texas State University Meg Stanley, Parks Canada Western and Northern Service Centre Manon Parry, National Library of Medicine-National Institutes of Reflections on a Public History of Progress Health Michael Reis, History Associates Incorporated Panel 2-F: (Grand Ballroom II) Kristin Szylvian, Western Michigan University Planning for Your Future: Career Panel Chair: Alexandra Lord, National Park Service Panel 3-C: (Grand Ballroom II) Laura Ettinger, Clarkson University Historians Look to the Future: Embarking on a New Chapter Matthew Godfrey, Historical Research Associates, Inc. in NCPH’s History David Louter, National Park Service Cosponsored by the NCPH 30th Anniversary Committee Chair: Allison Marsh, University of South Carolina

10:30 am – 12:30 pm Suzanne Fischer, The Henry Ford Museum Working Group 2-G: (Galleria I) Peter Kraemer, U.S. Department of State A Working Group on Employment/Experience Opportunities for Recent Graduates and New Professionals See the general description for working groups under Working Panel 3-D: (Parlor C) Group 1-A. Living History

Facilitators: Catherine Gudis, University of California, Riverside Literally Sharon Babaian, Canada Science and Technology Museum Living History: Performance, Politics, and the Place of Nature in Katie Wilmes, National Archives Experience Los Angeles

Discussants: Sarah Litvin, Lower East Side Tenement Museum Janna Bennett, The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis; Anthony Inspecting the Past to Reform the Future Curtis, Kentucky Historical Society; Sharon Ehrhart, Independent Public Historian; Laura McDowell, Mitchell Museum of the James Walsh, University of Colorado, Denver American Indian; Vanessa Macias, New Mexico State University; Denver’s Romero Theater Troupe: Organic Theater, Public History, Li Na, University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Working Class

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Working Group 3-A: (Galleria II) How Do We Get There? Racial and Ethnic Diversity within the Public History Profession— Continuing the Discussion See the general description for working groups under Working Group 1-A.

19 20102010 ASEH CONFERENCEASEH PROGRAM Program 2010 NCPH Program All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees. Thursday, March 11 Panel 3-C: (Broadway II – Plaza Level) Heat, Light, Work, Home: Social Histories of Energy Panel 2-I: (Studio – Third Floor) Chair: Laura Hepp Bradshaw, North Carolina State University Politics and Environmental Policy Comments: Brian Black, Penn State Altoona Chair: Michael Egan, McMasters University Comments: Audience Joshua MacFadyen, University of Guelph Hewers of Wood: Canadian Biomass Energy in the Age of Coal Colin A. M. Duncan, Queen’s University Global Defrosting and the End of Cultural Relativism Ruth Sandwell, University of Toronto Households, Energy and Environment on the Canadian Shield Robert Denning, Ohio State University 1890-1950 “Time is Running Out”: Governor Ronald Reagan’s Conference on California’s Changing Environment Emanuela Cardia, Université de Montréal Household Technology: Was it the Engine of Liberation? Daniel A. Barber, Oberlin College The First Oil Crisis and the Modern Solar House Panel 3-D: (Broadway III – Plaza Level) Martin Kalb, Northern Arizona University Town, Land, River: Human-Nature Interactions in Prussia Germany’s Green Party: Playing Politics for Justice and the German Empire Chair and Comments: Sylvia Hood Washington, University of Illinois Chicago ASEH THURSDAY 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Awards Lunch Banquet [ticket required] Tanja Zwingelberg, University of Göttingen See description is “Special Events” section. “Bad Air in Towns”: Sanitation in 19th century Prussia

Jana Sprenger, University of Göttingen Concurrent Sessions 3: 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm “They Flooded Field and Forest”: Early Modern Pest Infestations

Roundtable 3-A: (Alexanders – 23rd Floor) Manuela Armenat, University of Göttingen The Nation-State and the Transnational Environment Regulation and Conflict: Diverse Interests on the Schwarze Elster Co-Chairs: David Kinkela, SUNY-Fredonia and Susan Ferber, River in the 19th and 20th Centuries Oxford University Press Roundtable Participants: Kathleen A. Brosnan, University of Houston Panel 3-E: (Broadway IV – Plaza Level) Erika Bsumek, University of Texas at Austin America the Garden: Horticultural Landscapes and Cultures Kurk Dorsey, University of New Hampshire of Capitalism Donald Worster, University of Kansas Chair and Comments: Doug Sackman, University of Puget Sound Panel 3-B: (Broadway I – Plaza Level) Pacific Crossings: Receipt and Projection of Natural Helen Anne Curry, Yale University Resource Policy in 20th Century Japan “Every Woman Her Own Burbank”: Science and Amateur Chair: Eric Dinmore, Hampden-Sydney College Gardening 1900-1940 Comments: Margaret McKean, Duke University Tom Okie, University of Georgia Kuang-chi Hung, Harvard University The Garden Spot of the Universe: The Commercial Transformation Normal Forest and Hybrid Culture: German Forestry, American of Southern Horticulture, 1850-1900 Technology, and the Japanese Empire in Taiwan (1895-1945) Amanda Van Lanen, Washington State University Higuchi Toshihiro, Georgetown University The Desert Blooms: Central Washington’s Irrigated Orchard “Learn to Live at Home”: Natural Resource Management and the Landscape 1890-1920 American Occupation of Japan

Colin Tyner, University of California Santa Cruz Construction of a ‘Pristine’ Environment in the Ogasawara Islands: Scientific Study and Management since 1968

20 20102010 NCPH CONFERENCENCPH PROGRAM Program All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees. Room locations will be listed in the printed program available at the conference. Thursday, March 11 Concurrent Sessions 4: 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Panel 3-E: (Galleria I) New Perspectives on Local History Roundtable 4-A: (Galleria II) Chair: Patricia Mooney-Melvin, Loyola University Chicago History 2.0: Engaging the Public in History through the World Wide Web Carol Lynn McKibben, Seaside History Project Chair: David Herschler, U.S. Department of State Public History in a Minority-Majority City Erin Hromada, U.S. House of Representatives Edward Ragan, Valentine Richmond History Center Douglas Seefeldt, University of Nebraska, Lincoln The Power of Place: Richmond, Virginia at the Falls of the James David Sewell, The University of Virginia Press Joseph Wicentowski, U.S. Department of State Elizabeth Hoffman Ransford, Loyola University, Chicago “At Church Next Sunday”: The Creation of Place Identity in Commentator: Stephanie Williams, U.S. Department of State Ravenswood, Illinois, 1869-1889

Maria Reynolds, Loyola University, Chicago Panel 4-B: (Executive Suite) Viewing Local History in the Adirondack Park: A Departure from Care and Feeding of Declining Small Towns: The Role of Regionalism Local History Jay Price, Wichita State University Panel 3-F: (Parlor A) Wither/Whither Route 66 Digital Curricula in Public History Sandra Reddish, Kansas State University Chair and Presenter: Small Town Triage Jeremy Boggs, George Mason University Public History in the Digital Age: Walking the Line between Janet Timmerman, Independent Scholar Theory and Praxis Small Town Hospice NCPH THURSDAY

Presenter: 3:30 pm – 5:15 pm Amanda French, New York University Special Event: Speed Networking (Grand Ballroom) Basic Digital Skills for Public Historians [ticket required]

Commentators: NCPH has put a professional twist on ‘speed dating’ creating Lauren Gutterman, OutHistory.org stress-free networking opportunities at the annual meeting. A Student’s Perspective on Basic Digital Skills for Public Historians Graduate students, recent graduates, and new professionals will have the opportunity to meet with five established public history Adina Langer, National September 11 Memorial Museum practitioners for fifteen minute intervals. Before the buzzer A Student’s Perspective on Basic Digital Skills for Public Historians sounds, participants can discuss career options, professional development, and any other aspects of the field. There is no Leah Suhrstedt, American University cost for this session but registration is required. After the final A Student’s Perspective on Public History in the Digital Age rotation, participants have the opportunity to mingle in a free- flowing atmosphere. Last year’s speed networkers and anyone participating in this year’s mentor program are invited to join us 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm for this portion of the program. Description continued on The Public Historian Editorial Board Meeting (Senate Suite) page 23.

21 20102010 ASEH CONFERENCEASEH PROGRAM Program 2010 NCPH Program All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees. Thursday, March 11 Roundtable 3-I: (Studio – Third Floor) Human-Animal Relations in Comparative Context Panel 3-F: (Forum – Third Floor) Chair: Brett Walker, Montana State University Mass Motorization and the Environment Participants: Chair: Martin Melosi, University of Houston Karl Appuhn, New York University Comments: J. Brooks Flippen, Southeastern Oklahoma State Fred Brown, University of Washington University Susan Jones, University of Minnesota

Federico Paolini, Università degli Studi di Siena The Impact of the Automobile on Urban Italy Concurrent Sessions 4: 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Tom McCarty, U.S. Naval Academy Roundtable 4-A: (Alexanders – 23rd Floor) Reaching the Limit The Humanities Respond to Ecological Crises: Research – Pedagogy – Practice Chris Wells, Macalester College (Co-sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature Environmental History of Car-Dependent Landscapes and Environment and the Society for Conservation Biology) Chair: Dominick Della Sala, National Center for Conservation Science and Policy Panel 3-G: (Council – Third Floor) Roundtable Participants: Technology, Trade, and Landscape in African Forest History David Johns, Portland State University Chair: Gary Marquardt, Westminister College Rochelle Johnson, College of Idaho Comments: James Webb, Colby College Paul Hirt, Arizona State University Kevin Maier, University of Alaska-Southeast Thaddeus Sunseri, Colorado State University Kate Christen, Smithsonian National Zoological Park Exploiting the Urwald: German Colonial Revisionism and the FAO Forest Division Panel 4-B: (Broadway I – Plaza Level) Lars Kreye, University of Goettingen Iron Horse in the Garden: Railroads and the American West Colonial Technology Transfer in Question: Agro-forestry in Chair: Louis Warren, University of California Davis Germany’s Tanganyika Comments: Donald Pisani, University of Oklahoma

Chris Conte, Utah State University Mark Fiege, Colorado State University Iron Horses: Muscle Power and the First Transcontinental Railway ASEH THURSDAY Trees, Forests, and Farms: An Ocean Island Landscape in World History James E. Sherow, Kansas State University Ecological Transitions and the Kansas Pacific Railway: Alexander Panel 3-H: (Directors – Third Floor) Gardner and his Camera Christians in Nature: Different Shades of Green Chair and Comments: Bron Taylor, University of Florida Richard J. Orsi, California State University East Bay The Ambiguous Environmental Legacy of the Southern Pacific John Lauritz Larson, Purdue University Railroad Enlightenment Moves: Sinners in the Hands of a Receding God

Mark Stoll, Texas Tech University, Roundtable 4-C: (Broadway II – Plaza Level) The Cradle of Conservation: New York and the “Calvinist Public and Environmental Histories of Petroleum Crescent” Chair: Brian Black, Penn State Altoona Roundtable Participants: Susan Powers Bratton, Baylor University Joseph Pratt, University of Houston The Spiritual Context of the Appalachian Trail: From 19th Jason Theriot, University of Houston Century Protestant Christianity to 21st Century Religious Tyler Priest, University of Houston Diversity John Holt, Scottish Shale Oil Museum

22 20102010 NCPH CONFERENCENCPH PROGRAM Program All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees. Room locations will be listed in the printed program available at the conference. Thursday, March 11 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm Working Group 4-C: (Parlor A) Speed Networking Sessions: 3:30 pm-4:45 pm Consultants Working Group Networking and Mentoring Reception: 4:45 pm-5:15 pm. See the general description for working groups under Working Group 1-A. Facilitators: Melissa Bingmann, Director of Public History, West Virginia Facilitators: University Matthew Godfrey, Historical Research Associates, Inc. Denise Meringolo, Coordinator of Public History, University of Edward Salo, Brockington and Associates Maryland, Baltimore County Discussants: Partial list of Guests Who Networkers Will Be Meeting: Mary Beth Corrigan, Independent Curator; Hugh Davidson, Anna Adamek, Curator, Canada Science and Technology Museum Maricopa County (AZ) Dept. of Transportation; Walter Debbie Bahn, Archivist, Washington State Digital Archives Woodward, University of Connecticut; Morgen Young, Alder, LLC Val Ballestrem, Education Manager, Architectural Heritage Center Alex Bethke, Historian at Naval Facilities Engineering Working Group 4-D: (Galleria I) Command, SW Public History’s Outlaws: Engaging the Histories of “Illegal” Seth C. Bruggeman, Assistant Professor, History & American Behavior Studies Center for Public History, Temple University See the general description for working groups under Working Eliza Canty-Jones, Editor, Oregon Historical Quarterly Group 1-A. Robert Carriker, History and Geography Department Chair, Facilitators: Unversity of Louisiana at Lafayette Amy Tyson, DePaul University Larry Cebula, Associate Professor, Eastern Washington University/ Andrew Urban, Emory University Assistant Archivist, Washington State Digital Archives Priya Chhaya, Program Assistant, National Trust for Historic Discussants: Preservation Rebecca Amato, New York University; Heather Bailey, Middle Janice Dilg, Consulting Historian Tennessee State University; Boyd Cothran, University of Kimberli Fitzgerald, Historic Preservation Consultant Minnesota; Jeffrey Manuel, Southern Illinois University Michelle Gates-Moresi, Curator of Collections, National Museum Edwardsville; Kevin P. Murphy, University of Minnesota of African American History and Culture James Hillegas, Independent Historian Karen Kinzey, Program Manager, Holy Names Heritage Center Workshop 4-E: (Parlor C) Roger Launius, Senior Curator, National Air and Space Museum Heritage Tourism for the 21st Century: Reaching Broader Cherstin Lyon, Public/Oral History Coordinator, California State Audiences through the GPS University, San Bernardino Powered Next Exit History Program Brian Martin, President, History Associates Incorporated Donna Neary, Director of Kentucky Civil War Sesquicentennial Jay Clune, University of West Florida Initiatives, Kentucky Historical Society Patrick Moore, University of West Florida Amy Platt, Project Relations Coordinator (The Oregon Tim Roberts, University of West Florida Encyclopedia), Portland State University NCPH THURSDAY Mary Rizzo, Associate Director, New Jersey Council for the Workshop 4-F: (Parlor B) Humanities Writing a Nomination for the National Register of Historic Vivian Rose, Chief of Cultural Resources, Women’s Rights Places and/or the National Historic Landmarks Program National Historic Park Tom Scheinfeldt, Managing Director, Center for History and New Alexandra Lord, National Historic Landmarks Program, National Media Park Services Donna Sinclair, Program Manager, Center for Columbia River History Greg Smoak, Associate Professor, Colorado State University 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Robert K. Sutton, Chief Historian, National Park Service NCPH Committee Mixer Geoff Wexler, Collections Access Manager, Oregon Historical (Bistro 921 [located in the hotel]) Society See description in “Special Events” section. Robert Weyeneth, Professor of History and Director of the Public History Program, University of South Carolina William Willingham, Consulting Historian, Portland, OR

23 20102010 ASEH CONFERENCEASEH PROGRAM Program 2010 NCPH Program All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees.

Benjamin Cohen, University of Virginia Thursday, March 11 Adulterants Detected: Deciding between Nature and Artifice in Panel 4-D: (Broadway III – Plaza Level) Early Industrial Food Ocean Ecology Chair: Jay Taylor, University of Portland Kathy Cooke, Quinnipiac University Comments: Michael Chiarappa, Western Michigan University Pure Air and Land: The Drive for Purity in Turn of the Century American Environmental Movements Rachel Emma Rothschild, Yale University A New Interest in Ocean Currents: The Carpenter-Croll Debate Panel 4-H: (Directors – Third Floor) Susan Lynn Smith, University of Alberta French Environmental History: Atmosphere, Water, and Ocean Ecology, Ocean Dumping: Carson, Cousteau and the Hygienism Environmental Legacy of World War II Chair and Comments: Gregory Quenet, Universite de Versailles St. Quentin-en-Yvelines Nathan T. Adams, University of British Columbia “We Saw Mighty Whales” Nantucket Sperm Whaling, Or What Fabien Locher, Centre de Recherches Was 18th Century Ecological Understanding The First Globalization Atmosphere: The Depression, the Astronomer, and the Telegraph 1860-1914

Panel 4-E: (Broadway IV – Plaza Level) Frederic Graber, Centre de Recherches Urban Protest and Sustainability on Two Continents, Speed is Quality: Assessing drinking water in late 18th and early 1960 - 2000 19th Century Paris Chair: Frank Zelko, University of Vermont Comments: Scott Moranda, SUNY Cortland Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, Universite de Versailles St. Quentin-en- Yvelines Federico Paolini, University of Siena The Death of the Circumfusa: Industrialization, Hygienism and From Environmentalism to NIMBYism: Life in Tuscany 1986-2008 Liberalization of the Environment

Charles Closmann, University of North Florida Save the Land, Fight for Water: Protecting the Lüneburg Heath Panel 4-I: (Studio – Third Floor) “Animals are Good to Think”: Colonialism, Class, and Dawn Biehler, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Consumerism Integrating the Urban Homes: Gender, Race, Class, and the Chair: Tina Loo, University of British Columbia Struggle against Household Pesticides Comments: Audience

Frank J. Tester, University of British Columbia Roundtable 4-F: (Forum – Third Floor) Mad Dogs and (Mostly) Englishmen: Image Morphology, Cultural Academic Landscapes: Teaching and Environmental History Transformation, and the Consumption of Inuit Culture Chair: Carolyn Merchant, University of California Berkeley Roundtable Participants: Jessica Wang, University of British Columbia David Lion Salmanson, Springside School Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers: Rabies, the Urban Diana Di Stefano, Bucknell University Environment, and the Politics of Animal Control 1850-1920 Michael J. Altman, Emory University Katherine O’Flaherty, University of Maine Tina Loo, University of British Columbia ASEH THURSDAY The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: the Polar Bears of Churchill, Manitoba Panel 4-G: (Council – Third Floor) Fresh, Pure, and Unadulterated: Environmental Histories of Natural Food Chair: Kendra Smith-Howard, SUNY Albany Comments: Fiona Deans Halloran, Eastern Kentucky University

Susanne Freidberg, Dartmouth College The Farthest Reaches of Fresh: Global History and Perishability

24 20102010 NCPH CONFERENCENCPH PROGRAM Program All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees. Room locations will be listed in the printed program available at the conference. Thursday, March 11 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Consultants Reception Dine Arounds (Alexander’s Restaurnat and Lounge, 23rd Floor) Would you like to enjoy the ambience and cuisine of [ticket required] Cosponsored by Historical Research Associates, Inc., HRA Gray Portland with fellow conference participants with and Pape similar interests? On Thursday evening, local hosts or See description in “Special Events” section. facilitators will lead small groups to nearby restaurants for an evening of collegial conversation. Sign up onsite in the conference registration area. 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Dine Arounds Enjoy the ambience and cuisine of Portland with fellow conference participants and discuss similar interests. Local hosts or facilitators will lead small groups to nearby restaurants for an evening of conversation and networking. Sign up onsite in the conference registration area.

8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Joint Graduate Student Reception [ticket required] See description in “Special Events” section.

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25 2010ASEH THURSDAY / FRIDAY 2010 ASEH CONFERENCEASEH PROGRAM Program 2010 NCPH Program All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees. Thursday, March 11 5:30 pm – 7:15 pm ASEH Plenary Session (Pavilion Ballroom, Plaza Level) Friday, March 12 Dam Removal on the Klamath: Water, Environment, Fish, Power & 7:15 am – 8:15 am People Forest History Society Breakfast [ticket required] See description in “Special Events” section. Through most of the 20th century, the benefits offered by dams held sway over the public mind. But in recent decades, a rethinking of how humans interact with the environment 8:00 am – 5:00 pm has brought the costs associated with dams to the forefront. Environmental History and the National Parks Workshop In the Pacific Northwest, special attention has focused on the Sign up required ahead of time. See www.aseh.net ‘workshops’ devastation brought by dams to spawning fish populations and Sponsored by the National Park Service to the people culturally bound to these fisheries. Recognition of See description in “Workshops” section. such impacts has fostered (re)consideration of both the necessity of new large-scale water projects and the possibility of removing existing water control structures from the landscape. Concurrent Sessions 5: 8:30 pm – 10:00 am

What is happening now on the Klamath River along the Oregon/ Roundtable 5-A: (Alexanders – 23rd Floor) California border – where the fate of four mainstem hydroelectric Environmental History and the Imagination of the Future power dams is the subject of intense public debate – offers an Chair: Julianne Lutz Warren, New York University excellent prism for examining the issue of dam removal. By the Participants: early 1970s, demands on limited water supplies in the Klamath Laura Dassow Walls, University of South Carolina watershed sparked conflict among a diverse set of communities; Jon Christensen, Stanford University these include native fishers on the upper and lower river, farmers Ursula K. Heise, Stanford University working irrigated lands, owners of hydroelectric facilities, rate- payers of electric power utilities, and environmental groups Panel 5-B: (Broadway I – Plaza Level) seeking to protect threatened species and habitats. The on- Perceptions of Environment in Muslim Cultures, c.1500- going Klamath River controversy provides an opportunity to 1900 explore how—in a specific, real world context— myriad interest Chair and Comments: Chris Conte, Utah State University groups and communities are grappling with the challenges and opportunities presented by the possibility of large-scale dam Sam White, Oberlin College removal. Natural Disaster and the Little Ice Age in European and Ottoman Perceptions For the Plenary Session, residents and organizational representatives now involved in bringing change to the Klamath Alan Mikhail, Stanford University Basin will present their viewpoints and invite/spur audience Thoughts on Dogs in Ottoman Egypt comments and questions. In addition, Nancy Langston (ASEH Past President), Stephen Most (producer of the acclaimed Arash Khazeni, Claremont McKenna College documentary film River of Renewal) and dam historian DC The Steppe and the Sown: Natural History and Reclamation of Jackson will offer background and moderate the discussion. 19thCentury Central Asia

8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Panel 5-C: (Broadway II – Plaza Level) Graduate Student Reception Fire, Floods, War: The Nature of Urban Disasters Registration requested to provide us with an accurate head count. (Co-sponsored by the Rachel Carson Center) See description in “Special Events” section. Chair: Ranjan Chakrabarti, Jadavpur University Comments: Christof Mauch, LMU Munich

Uwe Lübken, LMU Munich Rivers and Risk: The Urban Floodplain as Contested Space

Dorothee Brantz, Technische Universität Berlin Air War: Environmental Destruction of European Cities in World War II

26 20102010 NCPH CONFERENCENCPH PROGRAM Program All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees. Room locations will be listed in the printed program available at the conference. Friday, March 12 Working Group 5-B: (Galleria II) Working 9 to 5 While Practicing History on the Side 7:00 am – 8:30 am See the general description for working groups under Working Public History Educators Breakfast [ticket required] Group 1-A.

(Galleria III) NCPH FRIDAY Cosponsored by John Nicholas Brown Center, Brown University Facilitators: See description in “Special Events” section. Scott Hoffman, KLRU-TV, Austin PBS Lynn Kronzek, Lynn C. Kronzek & Associates, Burbank, CA

8:00 am – 10:00 am Discussants: Working Group 5-A: (Galleria I) Jim Conway, City of Monterey, California; Barbara Gossett, Olinda Interns to the Rescue! Public History-University Oil Museum and Trail; The Reverend Ray F. Kibler, III, Lutheran Partnerships in Financial Crisis Intentional Interim Pastor, Claremont, California; Kristen See the general description for working groups under Working Luetkemeier, Nashville Adult Literacy Council and Thomason & Group 1-A. Associates; Susan Whipple, Old Idaho State Penitentiary; Anne Mitchell Whisnant, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Facilitators: Aaron Cowan, Slippery Rock University Turkiya Lowe, National Park Service

Discussants: Andrea Burns, Appalachian State University; Elizabeth Fraterrigo, Loyola University, Chicago; Cassie Kilroy Thompson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and The Friends of Texas Maryland; Thomas Leary, Youngstown State University; Larry Hassenpflug, New Mexico State University; Peter Morrin, University of Louisville; Carrie Tarasuk Gutierrez, First Division Museum at Cantigny

27 20102010 ASEH CONFERENCEASEH PROGRAM Program 2010 NCPH Program All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees. Friday, March 12 Panel 5-G: (Council – Third Floor) Changing Contours of Agrarian America Panel 5-D: (Broadway III – Plaza Level) Chair and Comments: Paul Sutter, University of Colorado Pacific Northwest Hydropower: Private Interests and the Boulder Public Interest Chair and Comments: John Shurts, Northwest Power and Philip Herrington, University of Virginia, Conservation Council. Makers of Pleasant Valleys: Plantation Improvement in Georgia 1830-1860 Paul Hirt, Arizona State University Public Interest and Private Profit in the Northwest’s Hydroelectric Drew Swanson, University of Georgia

ASEH FRIDAY System 1900-1930 Bright Leaf, Bright Prospects: Antebellum Agricultural Reform and a New Crop Culture in the Piedmont of Virginia and North Eve Vogel, University of Massachusetts Amherst Carolina Protecting the Private (and Public?) Good through Public Power in the Postwar Pacific Northwest Laura Kolar, University Virginia Frontier and Heartland: Agrarian Identity and Landscapes in Post- Steven Weiss, Northwest Energy Coalition World War II West Virginia Public and Private Reversals in Pacific Northwest Energy Conservation: Responsible Private Utilities and Self-interested Public Utilities Panel 5-H: (Directors – Third Floor) Making Nature Pay: Preservation and Recreation on Public Lands Roundtable 5-E: (Broadway IV – Plaza Level) Chair: Lincoln Bramwell, U.S. Forest Service Philosophes and Foresters: Ideas of Sustainability in 18th Comments: Annie Gilbert Coleman, University of Notre Dame and 19th Century France Chair: Thomas M. Luckett, Portland State University Michael Childers, University of Nevada Las Vegas Comments: Diana K. Davis, University of California Davis Free Market Slopes: Ski Lift Tickets and Deregulation in the White River National Forest Andrea Williams, Georgetown University Counting Sheep: 19th Century Forestry and Pastoralism in Devon McCurdy, University of Washington Provence Trees and Cities: Designating Wilderness to Shape a Region

Tamara Caulkins, University of British Columbia Christopher Johnson, University of Washington Avoiding the “Dearth” of the Nobility: Buffon and the Practical Doing Well by Doing Good: REI and the Business Culture of Use of Natural Resources in 18th century France American Environmentalism

Kieko Matteson, University of Hawai`i Manoa, Duhamel du Monceau and the Foundations of Modern Panel 5-I: (Studio – Third Floor) Conservation Landscape and Regulation Chair: Steve Fountain, Washington State University Vancouver Comments: Audience Panel 5-F: (Forum – Third Floor) Natural and Unnatural: Bodies, Health, and Space in the John Thomas Wing , CUNY, College of Staten Island 20th Century Spanish State Forestry and the Deep Historical Roots of the 1748 Chair and Comments: Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin Forest Conservation Ordinances Madison Byron Eugene Pearson, West Texas A&M University Samantha Scott, University of California Davis “I consider myself as Guardian...” Thomas Jefferson and the Reconstituting Seattle’s Urban Environment: Contagious Diseases Genesis of the American Preservation Movement and Public Health Reform at the Turn of the Century Richard Wojtowicz, University of Montana Matti Conn, Freie Universität Berlin Balancing ‘the Breaks’: Opposition to the Establishment of the The Nature of (Homo)Sexual Desire: Scientific Claims and their Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument Legal Applications in Germany 1900-1939 Mauro Agnoletti, University of Florence Bob H. Reinhardt, University of California Davis The Italian National Catalogue of Outstanding Historical Rural Smallpox Eradication and its Response 1967-2009 Landscapes

28 20102010 NCPH CONFERENCENCPH PROGRAM Program All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees. Room locations will be listed in the printed program available at the conference. Friday, March 12 Roundtable 5-D: (Executive Suite) The Public Historian and Its Changing Public Concurrent Sessions 5: 8:30 am – 10:00 am Chair/Moderator: Page Putnam Miller, University of South Carolina Panel 5-C: (Grand Ballroom II) Walking the Walk: On-the-Ground Projects about Otis L. Graham, Jr., University of California, Santa Barbara Community, Space, and Voice (Emeritus) Chair and Commentator: Laura Milsk Fowler, Southern Illinois Daniel T. Killoren, Arizona State University University Edwardsville Betty K. Koed, United States Senate Historical Office Jannelle Warren-Findley, Arizona State University Benjamin Filene, University of North Carolina Greensboro “Placing” Mill Village Memories Panel 5-E: (Parlor B) Mark Kristmanson, National Capital Commission, Ottawa Hidden Histories in Museums Commemoration and Cultural Landscapes: The Fall and Rise of Lebreton Flats as a Workers’ Community in Canada’s Capital Dorothea Crosbie-Taylor and Adam Nilsen, Oakland Museum of California NCPH FRIDAY Vincent Murray, Arizona Historical Research “Your Story Counts!”: Facilitating Storytelling in a Co-Created Uncovered Legacies: The Results of the Phoenix Asian American Exhibit Historic Property Survey Abby Hathaway, University of Missouri, St. Louis Anne Valk, Brown University Fading Identities: Working Class Representation in the Heinz Recollecting Neighborhood Life, Reconnecting Communities: The History Center Fox Point Oral History Project Tory Swim Inloes, University of California, Santa Barbara and California State University Sacramento Changing Conceptions of Childhood and the Museum Experience

29 20102010 ASEH CONFERENCEASEH PROGRAM Program 2010 NCPH Program All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees.

Lynne Heasley, Western Michigan University Friday, March 12 Negotiating the Great Lakes: The International Joint Commission 10:00 am – 10:30 am and the Changing Ecology of Environmental Law Coffee Break, Exhibit Hall Daniel Macfarlane, University of Ottawa Canadian-American Environmental Diplomacy: Creation of the St. Concurrent Sessions 6: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Lawrence Seaway, 1949-1954

Roundtable 6-A: (Alexanders – 23rd Floor) Philip Van Huizen, University of British Columbia Urbs in Horto: Urban Nature in Europe and North America “We’ll Let No Vandal Drown You”: Environmental Activists and the (Co-sponsored by the Urban History Association) 1967-1984 Canadian-American Skagit River Controversy Chair: Matthew Klingle, Bowdoin College and Ellen Stroud, Bryn Mawr College Roundtable Participants: Roundtable 6-E: (Broadway IV – Plaza Level) Karl Appuhn, New York University The Historiography of Over-consumption, Under- Sean Kheraj, University of British Columbia management and Sustainability Monica Perales, University of Houston Chair: Richard Tucker, University of Michigan Michael Rawson, Brooklyn College Roundtable Participants: Susan Strasser, University of Delaware Marcus Hall, University of Utah Panel 6-B: (Broadway I – Plaza Level) Martin Melosi, University of Houston Poisons, Pollutants, and Professionals: Toxic Bodies and Richard Tucker, University of Michigan ASEH FRIDAY Environments Chair and Comments: Nancy Langston, University of Wisconsin Madison Panel 6-F: (Forum – Third Floor) Technology and Environmental Sciences Frederick Davis, Florida State University Chair: Harold Burstyn, Syracuse University Unintended Consequences: Pesticides and Toxicology after the Comments: Jim Fleming, Colby College DDT Ban Angelina Long, Georgia Institute of Technology, David Vail, Kansas State University Making Atmospheric Science Global: Satellite Development, Poison Winds Over Chemical Lands: A Toxic History of Postwar “Data-Sparse Regions”’ and the World Weather Watch Kansas 1950–1980 Kristoffer Whitney, University of Pennsylvania, Sam Duncan, Case Western Reserve Nets and Networks: the Technologies of Knowing and Conserving A Drink to Health: Toxic Environments, Public Health, and Bottled Migratory Birds Water in the Age of New Ecology Gwen Ottinger, Chemical Heritage Foundation Panel 6-C: (Broadway II – Plaza Level) The Borderland Science of Air Monitoring: Putting the Instruments Environmental Disasters in China: Locusts, Fires, of Environmental Justice in Historical Context Earthquakes 1500-2008 Chair: Jack Patrick Hayes, Norwich University Comments: Lillian Li, Swarthmore College Panel 6-G: (Council – Third Floor) American Agri-Technology Exports: Imperialism or a Path Jack Patrick Hayes, Norwich University to Sustainability? Fire-power and Chinese Landscapes: Fire, Warfare, and Ethnic Chair: Sterling Evans, University of Oklahoma Culture 1700-1960 Comments: Ann Li Summers, Western Connecticut State University Tim Sedo, University of British Columbia Expelling Locusts in Late Imperial China Linda Nash, University of Washington From the Columbia Basin to the Helmand Valley (Afghanistan): Alan MacEachern, University of Western Ontario American Engineers, Global Technoscience, and US Imperialism The Road to Strong-Willed Pig: The 2008 Earthquake and Post-World War II Responses to Environmental Disaster in China Aubrey Adams, University of California Irvine Modernizing Agricultural Landscapes: The Rockefeller Foundation Panel 6-D: (Broadway III – Plaza Level) in Mexico, 1943-1961 Navigating Canada-U.S. Water Relations Chair and Comments: Tina Loo, University of British Columbia Michelle Mart, Penn State University Berks 30 The Underside of the Agricultural Revolution 20102010 NCPH CONFERENCENCPH PROGRAM Program All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees. Room locations will be listed in the printed program available at the conference.

William Stoutamire, Arizona State University Friday, March 12 The Gunboat Philadelphia: A Case Study in Reviving Military Panel 5-F: (Parlor A) History What Shapes the Historical Record? Ashley Whitehead, West Virginia University Jami Awalt and Gwyneth Thayer, Tennessee State Library & Archives Historical Holism and Battlefield Interpretation: Contextualizing The Face of Public History in the Field: Developing Archives at the Military History at Richmond National Battlefield Park Grassroots Level

Teresa Barnett, UCLA Panel 5-H: (Oregon Historical Society, Madison Room) Sentiment or Science: The Historical Object in the Early Twentieth Saving State History Journals Century Museum Chair: Laura Woodworth-Ney, Idaho State University

Stephanie Stegman, Arizona State University Eliza Canty-Jones, Oregon Historical Society “Those were some of the papers that were destroyed...”: A Kevin Marsh, Idaho State University Researcher’s Perspective on the State of Public Health Archives David Nicandri, Washington State Historical Society Keith Petersen, Idaho State Historical Society Todd Shallat, Boise State University Panel 5-G: (Parlor C) Broadening the Horizon of Military History at Public History Sites Roundtable 5-I: (Senate Suite) Chair: Gerald Herman, Northeastern University Putting History to Work in the World: Launching an NCPH Video Competition Patrick Jennings, U.S. Military Academy, West Point Sponsored by the NCPH Outreach Committee The Sound and the Fury: Challenges in Oral History Chair: Modupe Labode, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis David Pfeiffer, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

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31 20102010 ASEH CONFERENCEASEH PROGRAM Program 2010 NCPH Program All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees. Friday, March 12 7:15 am – 8:15 am Envirotech Breakfast [ticket required] Panel 6-H: (Directors – Third Floor) See description in “Special Events” section. A Delicate Balance: Development vs. Preservation Chair: Kate Christen, Smithsonian National Zoological Park Comments: James Skillen, Calvin College Concurrent Sessions 7: 8:30 am – 10:00 am

Jonathan Anzalone, SUNY Stony Brook Roundtable 7-A: (Alexanders – 23rd Floor) Creating a Modern Wilderness Playground in the Adirondacks, Extinction: Meaning and Public Interpretation 1920-1941 Chair: Kelly Enright, Rutgers University Roundtable Participants: David Soll, Lafayette College Mark V. Barrow Jr., Virginia Tech Catskill Water and Gotham Money: Paying to Protect a Vital Henry Cowles, Princeton University Watershed Thomas Joseph Doherty, Lewis & Clark Graduate School Anne Warner, Oregon Zoo Jeff Hall, SUNY Stony Brook Mark Madison, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Nature, Prisons, and the Olympics: Housing Athletes and Convicts at Lake Placid, New York, 1972-1990 Panel 7-B: (Broadway I – Plaza Level) Nature and War in China, Japan, and Korea 1941-1953 Panel 6-I: (Studio – Third Floor) Chair and Comments: Julia Adeney Thomas, University of Around the Globe: Traditional Cultures Notre Dame Chair: Colin A. M. Duncan, Queen’s University Comments: Audience Micah Muscolino, Georgetown University Hell on Earth Revisited: An Ecological of Analysis of Famine in Robert E. Walls, University of South Carolina Wartime China, 1942-1943 Race, Place, and the Sasquatch: Indigenous and White Environmental Histories William M. Tsutsui, University of Kansas Life in the Ruins: Birds, Animals, and Naturalists in Wartime Edmund J. Danziger, Bowling Green State University Japan The Environmental Impact of Great Lakes Reservation Indians ASEH FRIDAY / SATURDAY during the Late 1800s Lisa M. Brady, Boise State University Devastation on All Fronts: The Korean War as Natural Disaster Mohamed Abdo Mahgoub, Alexandria University - Egypt The Nomadic Folk Ways, Traditions and Values in Awlad Ali Tribes of the Western Desert of Egypt Panel 7-C: (Broadway II – Plaza Level) Ecological Restoration: Race, Class, Gender, and Political Mickie L. Hudson-Koster, Rice University Voices 1860 - 1960 Managing the Ukambani Environment: Mau Mau Oathing Chair: Dennis Rogers Martinez, Indigenous Peoples’ Restoration Purification Rites Network Comments: Audience

12:15 pm – 5:00 pm Mary Richie McGuire, Virginia Tech Field Trips [ticket required] Reconstructing Tobacco Culture: Ecological Change, Race, and See descriptions in “Tours and Fieldtrips” section. Gender, Prince Edward County, Virginia 1860-1880

David Tomblin, Virginia Tech 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm John Collier’s Vision of Native American Eco-cultural Restoration, Mini Film Festival 1933-1945: Lasting Impacts on the People and their Land See description in “Special Events” section. Diane L. Krahe, University of Montana Not in my Backyard: Tribal Communities’ Rejection of the Saturday, March 13 Wilderness Ideal for Reservation Lands at Mid-Century 6:30 am Fun Run Fundraiser for Hal Rothman Fellowship [signup Jared Dahl Aldern, Prescott College required] Native Sustainment: North Fork Mono Stories, Land and Water See description in “Special Events” section. Tenure History, and Ecological Restoration 1906-2009

32 20102010 NCPH CONFERENCENCPH PROGRAM Program All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees. Room locations will be listed in the printed program available at the conference. Friday, March 12 Concurrent Sessions 6: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm 8:30 am – 10:30 am Roundtable 6-B: (Parlor A) 2011 Program and Local Arrangements Committees Meeting Here Too? Interpreting Slavery in ‘Unexpected’ Places (Cabinet Suite) Chair and Presenter: Andrea Reidell, The National Archives at Philadelphia 10:00 am – 10:30 am A Different Type of Freedom: Eastern State Penitentiary and Coffee Break (Exhibit Hall) Slavery

Kevin Maijala, Historic Fort Snelling 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Historic Fort Snelling’s Interpretive Transformation Working Group 6-A: (Galleria I) Toward a New Textbook for Undergraduates in Public Greg Shine, Northwest Cultural Resources Institute History The Research and Interpretation of the Monimia Travers’ Story See the general description for working groups under Working Group 1-A. John Willis, Canadian Museum of Civilization A Canadian Underground Railroad Facilitators: Cherstin Lyon, California State University, San Bernardino Rebecca Shrum, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater Panel 6-C: Writing and Publishing for a Wide Audience: Dealing with Discussants: Agents, Trade Presses, and Cross-over Books Donna DeBlasio, Youngstown State University; Jennifer Dickey, Marla Miller, University of Massachusetts Amherst Kennesaw State University; Catherine Lewis, Kennesaw State Other ParticipantsCancelled TBA University; Allison Marsh, University of South Carolina; Elizabeth Commentator: TBD Nix, University of Baltimore; Phillip Payne, St. Bonaventure University NCPH FRIDAY

33 20102010 ASEH CONFERENCEASEH PROGRAM Program 2010 NCPH Program All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees.

Nancy Langston, University of Wisconsin Madison Saturday, March 13 Epigenetics for Environmental Historians Panel 7-D: (Broadway II – Plaza Level) Rivers and Culture: The Danube and The Indus Angela Nugent, US Environmental Protection Agency Chair: Mark Harvey, North Dakota State University By Full Daylight or Under the Streetlamp? Using Science to Comments: Audience Understand the Environment

Martin Schmid and Verena Winiwarter, Alpen-Adria Unversity Edmund Russell, University of Virginia The Socio-natural Site: A Concept for Environmental Historians The Evolution of the Industrial Revolution: New World Cottons, Amerindians, and Mechanization of the English Cotton Industry Gertrud Haidvogl, Bernd Fraiss and Jurgen Eberstaller, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna Flood Protection Strategies and Floodplain Colonization along a Panel 7-G: (Council – Third Floor) Danube Tributary (Traisen River) in Lower Austria in the Late Currents in Latin American Environmental History: Mexico 19th and 20th Centuries Chair: Myrna Santiago, St. Mary’s College of California Comments: Daviken Studnicki-Gizbent, McGill University, Severin Hohensinner, Gertrud Haidvogl, Mathew Herrnegger and Montreal Mathias Jungwirth, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna Emily Wakild, Wake Forest University Two River Landscapes - One Fate? The History of Austrian Conservation and the Commons: The Mexican Case Danube Floodplains from the Geomorphological Perspective Bert Kreitlow, University of Wisconsin Whitewater Majed Akhter, University of Arizona Seeds of Discontent: Modernization, Ecology and a Regional Hydraulic Infrastructure of the Indus Waterscape: A Historical Campesino School in Mexico, 1933-1941 Geographical Perspective Christopher Boyer, University of Illinois Chicago Development in the Woods: Mexico 1940-1955 Panel 7-E: (Broadway IV – Plaza Level) International Perspectives on Health Chair: Donna Rilling, SUNY Stony Brook Panel 7-H: (Directors – Third Floor) Comments: Audience Industry and Environment in the 20th Century South Chair: Paul Sutter, University of Colorado Boulder Nancy Farm Mannikko, Centers for Disease Control and Comments: Audience Prevention Water Pollution and Public Health: A Civil Engineer’s Response to Will Bryan, Penn State a 19th Century Typhoid Epidemic “Ecology Emotion”: The Fight Against Industrial Pollution and Environmentalism in Beaufort, South Carolina 1969-1970 Jennifer Naomi Tappan, Portland State University Public Health Discourse and the Apparent Inadequacies of the Merritt McKinney, Rice University African Environment Fighting Air Pollution in Birmingham: Environmental Activism in the Pittsburgh of the South Samiparna Samanta, Florida State University Questioning the Quality of Mercy: The Butcher’s Knife and Jonathon Free, University of Kentucky Colonial Law in 19th and 20th Century India The Movement Comes to the Cumberlands: From Civil Rights to ASEH SATURDAY Environmentalism in Appalachia 1963-67 Bridget Hanna, Harvard University Chemical Toxicity and Health in India: A Social History of Lesley-Anne Reed, University of Georgia Regulatory Process Summer of 1970: Nader’s Raiders Make Sense of Southern Reactions to the Savannah’s Paper Industry

Panel 7-F: (Forum – Third Floor) Unusual Suspects: Sciences (Other than Ecology and Public Health) of Aid to Environmental Historians and Policy Makers Chair: Lynne Heasley, Western Michigan University Comments: Peter S. Alagona, University of California Santa Barbara

34 20102010 NCPH CONFERENCENCPH PROGRAM Program All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees. Room locations will be listed in the printed program available at the conference. Friday, March 12 Roundtable 6-H: (Executive Suite) Best of Breed? Best in Show? What’s Next for the NCPH Panel 6-D: (Parlor C) Book Award? Heritage of the World in Trust: Conservation in a Changing Chair: Howard S. (Dick) Miller, Public History Consultant Climate Chair: Priya Chhaya, National Trust for Historic Preservation Randy Bergstrom, University of California, Santa Barbara Katharine Corbett, Public History Consultant David Brown, National Trust for Historic Preservation Laura Feller, Independent Historian Liz Dunn, National Trust for Historic Preservation Ian Fawcett, The Land Conservancy of British Columbia 12:15 pm – 5:00 pm Field Trips [ticket required] Panel 6-E: (Parlor B) See descriptions in “Tours and Fieldtrips” section. Issues in Historic Preservation Moderator: Carrie Richter, Garvey Schubert Barer 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Christine Curran, Oregon State Historic Preservation Office NCPH Public Plenary Session (Grand Ballroom II) Preserving Buildings of the Recent Past “Adventures in Public History” Cara Kaser, Oregon State Historic Preservation Office Adam Hochschild is an award-winning author and journalist who Using Digital Tools in Historic Resource Surveys: The Oregon has used history to reveal the lingering effects of past iniquities Survey Program on the present. His most recent work, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves, was a finalist Susan Knowles and Zada Law, Middle Tennessee State University for the 2005 National Book Award. The Unquiet Ghost: Russians and Michael Strutt, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Remember Stalin (1994) is a deeply moving exploration of Ground Truth: What Historians Can Learn from Geography history and memory shortly after the end of the Cold War. It was primarily because of King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998), which brought to Roundtable 6-F: (Grand Ballroom II) light the horros of Belgian colonial rule in the Congo, that the Promoting Community Engagement with Service Learning American Historical Association awarded Hochschild the 2009 Chair: Barbara Rasmussen, Independent Consultant AHA Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Prize. According to the AHA, “Hochschild’s book triggered the first open national Rebecca Bailey, Northern Kentucky University discussion of imperial injustices and eventually spurred other Katrine Barber, Portland State University investigations and let to an official apology being tendered by Amy Driscoll, Carnegie Foundation the Belgian government, underlining the quiet power that a Denise Meringolo, University of Maryland, Baltimore County well-researched and well-written story text could exert in the Gregory Smoak, Colorado State University public sphere.” (AHA Perspectives on History, December 2008). Hochschild has been a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, a commentation on National Public Radio’s “All Things Panel 6-G: (Galleria II) Considered,” and an editor and writer at Mother Jones magazine. Creating a National Archives and Records Administration for the 21st Century: The View from Kansas City Chair: Amy Williams, Harry S. Truman Library

Lori Cox-Paul, National Archives and Records Administration, Central Plains Region The New National Archives at Kansas City and the Changing Characters of the National Archive’s Regional Archives System

Raymond H. Geselbracht, Harry S. Truman Library NCPH FRIDAY Reinterpreting and Reinterpreting Harry S. Truman: The Changing Roles of Presidential Libraries

Karen Shaw, National Archives and Records Administration, Central Plains Region Riding the Tiger of Electronic Records: NARA’s Struggle to Preserve and Provide Access to the New Documents of the 21st Century 35 ScheduleSCHEDULE AT A GLANCE SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE at a Glance Schedule at a Glance All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees.

Wednesday, March 10 NCPH Panel 1-D: Spaceflight and the 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm 8:30 am - 8:00 pm: Registration Open Environment: At the Conjunction of History ASEH Roundtable 3-A: The Nation-State and and Policy the Transnational Environment 9:00 am - 4:00 pm: ASEH Oral History NCPH Roundtable 1-E: Oral History as ASEH Panel 3-B: Receipt and Projection Workshop (ticket required) Sociology and Anthropology: Amputee of Natural Resource Policy in 20th Century Vietnam Veterans Japan 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm: ASEH Floating NCPH Panel 1-F: Creating Heritage: Public ASEH Panel 3-C: Heat, Light, Work and the Seminar (ticket required) Lands and Re-Imagined Spaces Home: Social Histories of Energy Committee Meeting: NCPH Nominating ASEH Panel 3-D: Town - Land - River: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm: ASEH Opening Committee Human-Nature Interactions in Prussia and Reception (ticket required) the German Empire 10:00 am – 10:30 am: Coffee Break ASEH Panel 3-E: America the Garden: 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm: NCPH 30th Anniversary Horticultural Landscapes and Cultures of Reception (ticket required) 10:00 am – 12:45 pm: NCPH Working Group Capitalism 2-B: Environmental Sites of Conscience: ASEH Panel 3-F: Mass Motorization and the Exploring Issues to Inspire Visitor Action Environment Thursday, March 11 ASEH Panel 3-G: Technology, Trade, and 7:00 am – 5:00 pm: Registration Open 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Landscape in African Forest History ASEH Roundtable 2-A: The Art of Writing ASEH Panel 3-H: Christians in Nature: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm: Exhibit Hall Open History— and Getting Published Different Shades of Green ASEH Panel 2-B: “One-Sixth of the World”: ASEH Roundtable 3-I: Human-Animal 7:15 am – 8:15 am: ASEH Sustainability Russia, Technologies, and the Natural Relations in Comparative Context Breakfast [ticket required] Environment NCPH Panel 3-B: The Challenge of Public ASEH Panel 2-C: Electricity and Crisis History—Integrating Training, Practice, and 7:30 am – 8:30 am: NCPH New Members ASEH Panel 2-D: Crises and Contestation: Policy and First-Time Attendees Breakfast [ticket The Political Economy of River Development NCPH Panel 3-C: Historians Look to the required] ASEH Panel 2-E: Nature on Canvas: Future: Embarking on a New Chapter in Landscape Art as Historical Document NCPH’s History 8:00 am – 10:00 am ASEH Panel 2-F: Environmental Change on NCPH Panel 3-D: Living History NCPH Working Group 1-A: International North America’s Borders NCPH Panel 3-E: New Perspectives on Local Council on Public History? Bringing Global ASEH Panel 2-G: Rural Nostalgia in Postwar History Public History Closer France, Italy, and Spain NCPH Panel 3-F: Digital Curricula in Public NCPH Working Group 1-B: Jump Start Your ASEH Panel 2-H: Jerusalem in America: History Digital Project in Public History: Planning Landscape, Faith, and Settlement Committee Meeting: NCPH Curriculum and Sessions ASEH Panel 2-I: Politics and Environmental Training Committee NCPH Working Group 1-C: Recycling Policy Buildings? Reframing Historic Preservation NCPH Roundtable 2-C: New Directions 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm: Committee Meeting: for Environmental and Heritage Signage The Public Historian Editorial Board Meeting 8:00 am – 1:30 pm: Committee Meeting: Projects NCPH Board of Directors NCPH Panel 2-D: Historical Memory and 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm the 1970s: Coming to Terms with the ASEH Roundtable 4-A: The Humanities 8:30 am – 10:00 am Transitional Decade Respond to Ecological Crises ASEH Panel 1-A: Sovereignty, Culture, NCPH Panel 2-E: At the Intersection of Oral ASEH Panel 4-B: Iron Horse in the Garden: and Identity in Tribal Natural Resource History and Environmental History in the Railroads and the American West Management Great Lakes ASEH Roundtable 4-C: Public and ASEH Panel 1-B: History and Landscapes: NCPH Panel 2-F: Planning for Your Future: Environmental Histories of Petroleum Making the Arctic Legible Career Panel ASEH Panel 4-D: Ocean Ecology ASEH Panel 1-C: Recreational Committee Meeting: NCPH Membership ASEH Panel 4-E: Urban Protest and Environments: Domestication, Authenticity, Committee Sustainability on Two Continents, 1960 Representation, Defiance Committee Meeting: NCPH Graduate - 2000 ASEH Panel 1-D: Nature and National Student Committee ASEH Roundtable 4-F: Academic Identity in the 19th Century Landscapes: Teaching and Environmental ASEH Panel 1-E: Urban Landscapes: Nature 10:30 am – 12:30 pm: NCPH Working Group History and Culture 2-G: Employment Opportunities for Recent ASEH Panel 4-G: Fresh, Pure, and ASEH Panel 1-F: Making and Breaking Grad/New Professionals Unadulterated: Environmental Histories of Gender Roles Natural Food ASEH Panel 1-G: Environmental History 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm: ASEH Awards Lunch ASEH Panel 4-H: French Environmental and National Identity in the Western Banquet [ticket required] History: Atmosphere, Water, and Hygienism Mediterranean ASEH Panel 4-I: Animals are Good to Think”: ASEH Roundtable 1-H: Greening American 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: NCPH Working Group Colonialism, Class, and Consumerism Campuses 3-A: Racial and Ethnic Diversity within the NCPH Roundtable 4-A: History 2.0: ASEH Panel 1-I: The Pacific Northwest: Public History Profession Engaging the Public in History through the Archives and Sources in Environmental World Wide Web History 36 ScheduleSCHEDULE AT A GLANCE at a Glance All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees.

NCPH Panel 4-B: Care and Feeding of ASEH Panel 5-D: Pacific Northwest Exports: Imperialism or a Path to Declining Small Towns: The Role of Local Hydropower: Private Interests and the Public Sustainability? History Interest ASEH Panel 6-H: A Delicate Balance: ASEH Roundtable 5-E: Philosophes and Development vs. Preservation 3:30 pm – 5:15 pm: Speed Networking Foresters: Ideas of Sustainability in 18th & ASEH Panel 6-I: Around the Globe: [ticket required] 19th c. France Traditional Cultures Speed Networking Workshop (3:30-4:45) ASEH Panel 5-F: Natural and Unnatural: NCPH Roundtable 6-B: Here Too? Networking and Mentoring Reception Bodies, Health, and Space in the 20th Interpreting Slavery in ‘Unexpected’ Places A GLANCE SCHEDULE AT (4:45-5:15) Century NCPH Panel 6-C: Writing and Publishing for ASEH Panel 5-G: Changing Contours of a Wide Audience 3:30pm – 5:30pm: Sessions Agrarian America NCPH Panel 6-D: Heritage of the World in NCPH Working Group 4-C: Consultant’s ASEH Panel 5-H: Making Nature Pay: Trust: Conservation in a Changing Climate Working Group Preservation and Recreation on Public NCPH Panel 6-E: Issues in Historic NCPH Working Group 4-D: Public History’s Lands Preservation Outlaws: Engaging the Histories of “Illegal” ASEH Panel 5-I: Landscape and Regulation NCPH Roundtable 6-F: Promoting Behavior NCPH Panel 5-C: On-the-Ground Projects Community Engagement with Service NCPH Workshop 4-E: Heritage Tourism: about Community, Space, and Voice Learning The GPS Powered Next Exit History Program NCPH Roundtable 5-D: The Public Historian NCPH Panel 6-G: Creating a National [ticket required] and Its Changing Public Archives and Records Administration for the NCPH Workshop 4-F: Writing a Nomination NCPH Panel 5-E: Hidden Histories in 21st Century for the National Register/NHL Program Museums NCPH Roundtable 6-H: What’s Next for the [ticket required] NCPH Panel 5-F: What Shapes the Historical NCPH Book Award? Record? 5:00pm – 6:00pm: NCPH Committee Mixer NCPH Panel 5-G: Broadening the Horizon of 12:15 pm – 5:00 pm Military History at Public History Sites FIELD TRIPS [ticket required] 5:30pm – 7:15pm: ASEH Plenary Session: NCPH Panel 5-H: Saving State History 1. Columbia River/Bonneville Dam Dam Removal on the Klamath: Water, Journals 2. Birding at Sauvie Island on Columbia Environment, Fish, Power, and People NCPH Roundtable 5-I: Putting History to River Work in the World: Launching an NCPH 3. Fort Vancouver and Cathalpotle 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm: NCPH Consultants Video Competition Plankhouse Reception [ticket required] Sponsored by the NCPH Outreach Committee 4. Tryon Creek State Natural Area 5. Bicycle tour of Portland 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm: Special Event: Dine 8:30 am – 10:30 am 6. Mt. St. Helens Visitors Center at Silver Arounds [sign up at the conference] Committee Meeting: NCPH 2011 Program Lake (Ends at 6:00 pm) and Local Arrangements Committees 7. Organic Winery Tasting and Tour 8:00pm – 9:00pm: Graduate Student 8. METRO’s “Urban Growth Boundary” Reception [ticket required] 8:30 am – 5:00 pm 9. Walking Tour –Architecture of Downtown Environmental History and the National Portland Friday, March 12 Parks Workshop [ticket required] 10. Walking Tour – Explore Portland Parks 8:00 am – 5:00 pm: Registration Open 10:00 am – 10:30 am: Coffee Break 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm: Special Event: ASEH 8:00 am – 12:00 pm: Exhibit Hall Open Mini Film Festival 10:00 am – 12:00 pm 7:00 am – 8:30 am: NCPH Public History NCPH Working Group 6-A: Toward a New 8:00pm – 9:30pm: NCPH Public Plenary Educators Breakfast [ticket required] Textbook for Undergraduates in Public Session: Adam Hochschild History 7:15 am – 8:15 am: Forest History Society Saturday, March 13 Breakfast [ticket required] 10:30 am – 12:00 pm 8:00 am – 12:00 pm: Registration Open ASEH Roundtable 6-A: Urbs in Horto: 8:00 am – 10:00 am Directions in Urban Environmental History 8:00 am – 5:00 pm: Exhibit Hall Open NCPH Working Group 5-A: Interns to the ASEH Panel 6-B: Poisons, Pollutants, Rescue! Public History-Univ. Partnerships in and Professionals: Toxic Bodies and 6:30 am: ASEH Fun Run Fundraiser for Hal Financial Crisis Environments Rothman Fellowship [signup required] NCPH Working Group 5-B: Working 9 to 5 ASEH Panel 6-C: Environmental Disasters in While Practicing History on the Side China: Locusts, Fires, Earthquakes 1500- 7:15 am – 8:15 am: ASEH Envirotech 2008 Breakfast [ticket required] 8:30 am – 10:00 am ASEH Panel 6-D: Navigating Canada-U.S. ASEH Roundtable 5-A: Environmental Water Relations 8:00 am – 10:00 pm: NCPH Workshop History and the Imagination of the Future ASEH Roundtable 6-E: The Historiography 7-H: Publish, Share, Collaborate, and ASEH Panel 5-B: Perceptions of of Over-consumption, Under-management Crowdsource Collections: Zotero 2.0 [ticket Environment in Muslim Cultures, c.1500- and Sustainability required] 1900 ASEH Panel 6-F: Technology and ASEH Panel 5-C: Fire, Floods, War: The Environmental Sciences Nature of Urban Disasters ASEH Panel 6-G: American Agri-Technology 37 ScheduleSCHEDULE AT A GLANCE SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE at a Glance All sessions and events are open to all conference attendees.

Saturday, March 13 ASEH Panel 8-G: Latin American Currents: Tidelands 8:00 am – 10:00 am Iberian Transformation, Agrarian Reform, Committee Meeting: NCPH Finance NCPH Workshop 7-A: Oral History Projects: Tropical Disease Committee New Projects, Existing Projects, New Media ASEH Panel 8-H: Shaping Southern 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm: NCPH Working Group [ticket required] Cancelled Landscapes and Minds 9-G: Public History for Undergraduates NCPH Working Group 7-B: Connecting ASEH Panel 8-I: Across the Pacific: Cross- Academic Training with the Changing boundary Influences 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm: NCPH Working Group Marketplace NCPH Roundtable 8-A: The State of History 9-H: Structuring the International Discourse NCPH Working Group 7-H: Publish, Share, in the National Park Service: A Progress of Public History Collaborate, and Crowdsource Collections: Report Zotero 2.0 (ticket required) NCPH Roundtable 8-B: Anticipating Mine 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm: NCPH Poster Session Fields during the Civil War Sesquicentennial and Reception 8:30 am – 10:00 am NCPH Roundtable 8-C: Overlooked Voices ASEH Roundtable 7-A: Extinction: Meaning NCPH Panel 8-D: Interpreting 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm and Public Interpretation Environmental History for Public Audiences ASEH Roundtable 10-A: Redefining Ecology: ASEH Panel 7-B: Nature and War in China, at State and Federal Levels Social Inequalities and Constructing Japan, and Korea 1941-1953 NCPH Panel 8-E: Neighborhood and Environments ASEH Panel 7-C: Ecological Restoration: Community Involvement in Historic ASEH Panel 10-B: Militarization of Race, Class, Gender, and Political Voices Preservation Landscapes: South Africa, Vietnam, 1860-1960 NCPH Panel 8-F: Community of Records American Northwest ASEH Panel 7-D: Rivers and Culture: The in the Age of New Media: Family History as ASEH Panel 10-C: Body and Health in the Danube and The Indus Public History U.S. West ASEH Panel 7-E: International Perspectives Committee Meeting: NCPH Consultants ASEH Panel 10-D: Co-ops, Camping, and on Health Committee Hiking ASEH Panel 7-F: Unusual Suspects: ASEH Panel 10-E: Putting People Back Into Sciences (Other than Ecology and Public 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm: NCPH Awards Wilderness Health) of Aid Luncheon [ticket required] ASEH Panel 10-F: Debating Climate Change ASEH Panel 7-G: Currents in Latin American in 18th-c. Russia, Scotland, and the British Environmental History: Mexico 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Empire ASEH Panel 7-H: Industry and Environment ASEH Roundtable 9-A: Forty Years after ASEH Roundtable 10-G: Field Trips and the in the 20th Century South Earth Day: The U. S. Environmental Industrial Environment ASEH Panel 7-I: Ecology, Capitalism, and Movement ASEH Panel 10-H: Environment & Historical Materialism ASEH Panel 9-B: Environmental History of Economics in the Pacific Northwest NCPH Panel 7-C: Dealing with the Dead Warfare: World War II in Asia ASEH Roundtable 10-I: Publishing Your First NCPH Roundtable 7-D: Interpreting Sport and ASEH Roundtable 9-C: Progress or Plunder: Book: A Discussion with Four New Authors Leisure to Enhance Sustainability Cancelled Exchanging Ideas on the Great Basin NCPH Panel 7-E: Native/Non-Native ASEH Panel 9-D: Water Projects, Water 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Partnerships and the Politics of Public Policy NCPH Panel 10-A: Doing Public History on Memory ASEH Panel 9-E: Ecological Transformation the Last Frontier Cancelled NCPH Panel 7-F: Remembering War and Across Three Continents NCPH Panel 10-B: Interpreting the Multiple Violence ASEH Panel 9-F: Environment...Science... Histories within “Wilderness” Landscapes NCPH Roundtable 7-G: Reconciling the Policy in the Depression NCPH Panel 10-C: Mining Landscapes and Management of Natural/Cultural Resources ASEH Panel 9-G: Latin American Currents: Their Publics in the NPS Jaguars, Horticulture, Biodiversity NCPH Panel 10-D: Making Historic ASEH Panel 9-H: How Southern and Natural Places for and against the 10:00 am – 10:30 am Environmental History Affects America/ Automobile ASEH Poster Session World Coffee Break ASEH Roundtable 9-I: Women in Post-World 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm War II Environmentalism NCPH Working Group 10-E: Public 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Historians’ Role in the Civil War ASEH Roundtable 8-A: Climate Crisis and 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Sesquicentennial Energy Transition: Lessons from History? NCPH Panel 9-A: Telling the Story, Engaging NCPH Workshop 10-F: Omeka: An Open ASEH Panel 8-B: Environmental Dimensions the Public: Some New Approaches Source Tool for Publishing Cultural Heritage of World War I NCPH Panel 9-B: Confronting Ugly Legacies Online ASEH Panel 8-C: Ecological Restoration: of Racism and Violence Race, Class, Gender, and Eco-political NCPH Panel 9-C: Remembering Indigenous 5:30 pm – 6:00 pm: ASEH Business Meeting Identity History ASEH Panel 8-D: Bordering Waters NCPH Panel 9-D: Places of Contention: Blair 6:30 pm – 7:00 pm: No-Host Reception ASEH Panel 8-E: City—and Civic— Mountain Battlefield in West Virginia Environment NCPH Panel 9-E: A Gullah/Geechee 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Joint Banquet [ticket ASEH Panel 8-F: Green Knowledge Heritage Awakening and the Role of Public required] and Greening Politics: Science and Historians Environmental Policy NCPH Panel 9-F: Urban Rediscoveries: Historical Changes on Seattle’s Former 38