CHICAGO and the 126th Annual Meeting

Supplement to the 2012 Annual Meeting Program January 5–8, 2012 he American Historical Association thanks the History Channel for its sponsorship of the Presidential Reception which will take place on Friday, January 6, 2012, in the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Chicago Ballroom X. The reception will commence immediately following Anthony Grafton's presidential address—“The Republic of Letters in the American Colonies: Francis Daniel Pastorius Makes a Notebook in the Wilderness”—at the General Meeting, which starts at 8:30 p.m. All annual meeting attendees are cordially invited to both the address and the reception afterward. Chicago and the 126th Annual Meeting Chicago v January 5–8, 2012 Published by the American Historical Association 400 A Street SE, Washington, DC 20003 | www.historians.org

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4 The 126th Annual Meeting 46 Restaurants in Chicago By Raymond Clemens and Patrice Olsen 4 Important Details about the 126th Annual Meeting 48 Visiting Chicago with Children By Sharon K. Tune By Daniel Greene and Lisa Meyerowitz 5 Corrections to the 50 Cultural Attractions and Events during 2012 Annual Meeting Program the Annual Meeting Compiled by Sharon K. Tune By Allison Bertke Downey 8 The 126th General Meeting 52 Forever Marilyn By Sharon K. Tune By Elizabeth Fraterrigo 10 The Future is Here: Digital Sessions at the 126th Annual Meetingl 54 The Job Center 12 At–a–Glance: Sessions of the AHA and Exhibit Hall Program Committee and AHA Affi liated Societies 54 Top Ten Job Center Tips for Candidates and Search Committees 22 Floorplans of the Sheraton Chicago, By Liz Townsend Chicago Marriott Downtown, and Westin Chicago River North 55 AHA Guidelines for the Hiring Process By the AHA Professional Division 56 Exhibitors’ Index 31 Chicago and Historians 58 Map of the Exhibit Hall 31 Slavic Chicago By Dominic A. Pacyga Clarifi cation about 33 Latino Chicago Registration Policy By Geraldo L. Cadava Discounted or Gratis Guest Registration 36 Sacred Space, Myth, and Preservation Not Available in Chicago By Ellen Skerrett Given the high cost of organizing and staging the annual meeting, the AHA Council has determined that it is not fi - 38 A Brief Planning History Tour nancially possible to provide discounted or gratis guest or of Downtown Chicago spousal registration. By D. Bradford Hunt Guests of members are, of course, welcome to attend AHA–sponsored events and recptions, including the awards 42 Chicago: Protest and the American City ceremony, as well as the presidential address and the recep- By Jeffrey Helgeson tion that follows, and most sessions. Registration badges will be required, however, to use AHA 44 Cheap Eats Near the Meeting Hotels professional services, including the messaging system, the By Julia Woesthoff Internet Center, the Exhibit Hall, and the Job Center.

The 2012 Supplement to the Annual Meeting Program was produced and edited by Debbie Ann Doyle and Chris Hale. The 126th Annual Meeting Important Details about the 126th Annual Meeting By Sharon K. Tune

General Information $121 student nonmembers, $83 retired and open Thursday, January 5, from 3:00 p.m.– unemployed, and $44 precollegiate teachers 7:00 p.m.; Friday January 6, from 9:00 a.m.– Location of main events: AHA and af- (evidence of employment is required for the 6:00 p.m.; Saturday, January 7, from 9:00 fi liated societies sessions will be held in precollegiate teachers’ rate). Individuals who a.m.–6:00 p.m.; and Sunday, January 8, from the Sheraton Chicago, Chicago Marriott have preregistered should go to preregistra- 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Downtown, and Westin Chicago River North. tion self look-up counters to collect badges Job Center: The Job Center, located in The AHA headquarters offi ce will be located and other meeting material. Exhibitors the Marriott’s Grand Ballroom, will be open in the Sheraton’s River Exhibition Hall B. The should go to counters marked “Exhibitors” to Thursday, January 5, from 12:30 p.m.–6:00 Local Arrangements Committee offi ce will be collect badges. Meeting participants can also p.m.; Friday, January 6, from 9:00 a.m.–6:00 in the Sheraton’s Columbus Room B. pay AHA membership dues and purchase p.m.; Saturday, January 7, from 9:00 a.m.– Registration: Meeting registration counters AHA publications at the “Membership” and 6:00 p.m.; and Sunday, January 8, from 9:00 will be located in the Sheraton’s River Ex- “Publications” counters. Publications can be a.m.–12:00 p.m. hibition Hall B and will be open Thursday, examined at the Association’s booth 507 and Admission to AHA sessions, the exhibit hall, January 5, from 12:00–7:00 p.m.; Friday, 509, located in the Sheraton’s River Exhibi- and the Job Center requires an AHA badge. January 6, from 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.; and tion Hall. Saturday, January 7, from 8:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Messaging System Onsite registration will be $190 members, Exhibit Hall: Exhibits will be located in $240 nonmembers, $81 student members, the Sheraton’s River Exhibit Hall. It will be and Internet Access he AHA will employ an electronic T two-way messaging system to allow Locations of Annual Meeting Events everyone registered for the meeting to com- municate. The system will be accessible via a Take note of the following locations at the upcoming annual meeting in Chicago: link on the AHA annual meeting page (www. AHA Sessions Sheraton Chicago and Chicago Marriott Downtown historians.org/annual). Meeting attendees are encouraged to use the internet services Affi liated Societies Events Sheraton Chicago, Chicago Marriott Downtown, and Westin Chicago River North provided in their hotel rooms and other public locations. Extensive information AHA Headquarters/ Sheraton Chicago, River Exhibition Hall B about the availability and price of internet Staff Offi ce services, including free WiFi options, is Local Arrangements Sheraton Chicago, Columbus Room B posted on the web site. A limited number of Committee Offi ce internet terminals will also be available in the AHA Job Center Internet Chicago Marriott Downtown, Grand Ballroom Salon 1 Marriott’s Grand Ballroom Salon 1during and Messaging Center Job Center hours. The system will be the designated form of communication for those Exhibit Hall Sheraton Chicago, River Exhibition Hall using the Job Center, and interviewers and in- AHA Meeting Registraton: Sheraton Chicago, River Exhibition Hall B terviewees can use it to schedule and confi rm Information Counter Sheraton Chicago, River Hall Promenade interviews. AHA staff answering the phones at the meeting will be able to post messages Quiet Rooms Sheraton Chicago, Ohio Room for attendees directly into the system. Chicago Marriott Downtown, Great America Room Attendees will be able to sign up to receive Wireless Access Sheraton Chicago: Lobby Level, an SMS/cell phone text message or an Link@Sheraton Café (Level 2), Level 4 Promenade e-mail alert when they have a new message. Chicago Marriott Downtown: Persons with messages waiting will be able Lobby Level and 2nd Floor Mezzanine to use any internet-connected computer to Westin Chicago River North: Lobby Level log in using a password that will be printed Courtyard Chicago Downtown: on their badges. WiFi in all public areas, wired Sharon K. Tune is the AHA’s Director of Meet- complimentary access in all guest rooms. ings.

4 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 5 The 126th Annual Meeting Corrections to the 2012 Annual Meeting Program Compiled by Sharon K. Tune Corrections to the 2012 Annual Please note AHA Program January 5, 3:00–5:00 p.m. in the Chicago the following corrections to the annual meeting Committee Sessions Marriott’s Clark Room (Session 31, p. 45). Program, which are listed in session order. Corrie Decker (Univ. of California, Page numbers refer to the print Program, and Jose M. Alamillo (California State Uni- Davis) has been added as a speaker on are noted for additional details. versity Channel Islands) has withdrawn the session “Writing Regional Histories In the public transit directions from from Session 3, “Inside Stories: Identity, in a Global World,” scheduled for Friday, O’Hare and Midway airports on p. 5, Community, and the Historian’s Subjec- January 6, 9:30–11:30 a.m. in the Chicago directions are given from Chicago Transit tivity,” scheduled for Thursday, January 5, Marriott’s Chicago Ballroom H. She will Authority stops to the Sheraton Chicago. 3:00–5:00 p.m. in the Chicago Marriott’s speak on “Doing the History of Childhood Please note the following corrected direc- Armitage Room (p. 40). in Africa and the West” (Session 55, p. 53) Stephen Brier (Graduate School and tions: when walking north on Michigan Robert Townsend (American Historical University Center and the Murphy Institute Avenue, do not cross the Chicago River, Association) has withdrawn from the session as Wacker Drive is on the south side of for Worker Education and Labor Studies, CUNY) has been added as a panelist on “Professional Development: Turning Your the river, so turn right on Wacker before Dissertation into a Book,” scheduled for crossing the river. As you proceed, you will the session “Reshaping History: The Inter- section of Radical and Women’s History,” Friday, January 6, 2:30–4:30 p.m. (Session cross the river when you turn on Columbus. 69, p. 61). Jeff Nichols’ (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago) scheduled for Thursday, January 5, 3:00– last name was misspelled in the program. He 5:00 p.m. in the Chicago Marriott’s Los Carol J. Williams (Univ. of Lethbridge) is co-leader of Local Arrangements Committee Angeles Room (Session 10, p. 41). replaces Margaret Jacobs (Univ. of Nebras- Tour 5, “Hull-House Museum: Jane Addams Carl E. Ashley (Offi ce of the Historian, ka-Lincoln) as chair of the session “Internal and Chicago’s Near West Side,” offered on U.S. Department of State) replaces Susan Colonialism, Violence, and Gender in U.S./ Indigenous Relations,” scheduled on Friday, Friday, January 6, 9:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. (p. 59). C. Weetman (U.S. Department of State) on The Teachinghistory.org workshop, is the session “U.S. State Archives and Govern- January 6, 2:30–4:30 p.m. in the Sheraton scheduled for Saturday, January 7, in the ment Information Secrecy: Access and His- Chicago’s Superior Room B (Session 93, p. Sheraton Chicago’s Chicago Ballroom IV torical Research,” scheduled for Thursday, 65). (p. 74), and has the following changes: Daniel A. Graff’s (Univ. of Notre Schedule Changes: Dame) presentation has been retitled “Teaching ‘The Labor Question’ in U.S. Plenary Session History: Exploring Rights, Obligations, and and Relationships at the American Presentation of the Eighth Theodore Workplace” (9:45–10:45 a.m. session). Roosevelt –Woodrow Wilson Public Molly Myer’s correct affi liation is Lindblom Math & Science Academy, Service Award Chicago (11:45 a.m.–12:45 p.m. session) Plenary Session NEW TIME: Thursday, January 5, 8:00 p.m. Patricia Nelson Limerick’s (Univ. of Roosevelt-Wilson Award NEW DAY AND TIME: Friday, January 6, 8:30 p.m. Colorado at Boulder) luncheon address Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Sheraton Ballroom VI will be on “Teaching the Past in a Digital World: New Perspectives for History The plenary session on Thursday, January 5th, “How to Write a History of p m Education (12:45–2:00 p.m.) Information: A Session in Honor of Peter Burke” will begin at 8:00 . . in the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Sheraton Ballroom V The Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History has been The Presentation of the Eighth Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Public Service added as a cosponsor of the AHA Film Festival Award will take place at the General Meeting on Friday, January 6th, beginning at screening of On These Shoulders We Stand, on 8:30 p.m. in the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Chicago Ballroom VI. Saturday, January 7, 5:00–7:00 p.m. in the Judge Diane P. Wood will accept the award on behalf of the recipient, Sandra Day Sheraton’s Sheraton Ballroom I (p. 102). O’Connor, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States (retired).

4 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 5 The 123rd Annual Meeting spective” scheduled for Sunday, January 8, 8:30–10:30 a.m. in the Sheraton Chicago’s Have a Question? Need Help? Michigan Room B. He will speak on “In Stop by the AHA Information Booth outside River Exhibition Hall B Plain Sight: Images of the Arab Spring” on the Sheraton’s Exhibit Level. (Session 199, p. 103). José Ragas’ new affiliation is Univ. of The AHA Headquarters Office is nearby, inside River Exhibition Hall B California, Davis. He will deliver the paper Hours for the Info Booth and HQ Office: “Public Education, Youth Radicalism, Thurs., Jan. 5, 12:00–6:00 p.m. / Fri., Jan. 6, 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. and Modernization in the Andes, Peru, Sat. Jan. 7, 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. / Sun., Jan. 8, 8:30 a.m.–2:00 p.m. 1958–62” on the session “Crafting Com- munities in Cold War Latin America: U.S. Guillermo Wilde (Instituto de Altos the paper “From Signares to Citizens in Early Modernization Efforts through Educa- Estudios Sociales, CONICET) has withdrawn Colonial Senegal” (Session 133, p. 79). tion, the Peace Corps, and the Alliance for from the session “Native Perspectives on the Diana Gergel (Univ. of California, Progress” on Sunday, January 8, 8:30–10:30 Transformation of Missions in Spanish and Berkeley) has withdrawn from Session 149, a.m. in the Chicago Marriott’s Chicago Portuguese America” (Session 119, p. 77). which has been retitled “Environmental Ballroom H (Session 209, p. 105). On the session “Eating, Tasting, and History from the Peripheries: Case Studies Jessica Graham’s new affiliation is the Making Race in the United States, 1920s– from Eastern Spain, Central Asia, and the University of Notre Dame. She will deliver 60s,” presented on Saturday, January 7, American Southwest” scheduled for Saturday, the paper “Communist Racial Democracy, 9:00–11:00 a.m. in the Sheraton Chicago’s January 7, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. in the Black Recruitment, and Inter-American Superior Room B, Erica J. Peters (Culinary Sheraton Chicago’s Superior Room B (p. 86). Solidarity: The Cases of the United States Historians of North California) will serve Madge Dresser (Univ. of the West of and Brazil in the 1930s” on the session as chair replacing Psyche Williams Forson England) has withdrawn from the session “Inter-American Networks and Racial Con- (Univ. of Maryland College Park). In “Moving Communities and Networks in structs in the Twentieth Century,” sched- addition, Shayne Leslie Figueroa (New York the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Part uled for Sunday, January 8, 8:30–10:30 a.m. Univ.) replaces Simone Cinnotto (Univ. 5: Family Networks: Enslaved and Slave in the Sheraton Chicago’s Chicago Ballroom of Gastronomic Sciences) as a speaker. She Traders in the Eighteenth-Century British X (Session 215, p. 106). will deliver the paper “How Black Southern- Atlantic” (Session 163, p. 88). Christina Bueno’s (Northeastern Illinois ers Ate: Racialized Representations of Food The National Council on Public History Univ.) revised paper title is “Porfirian Posi- in the How America Lives series, 1940–57” has been added as a cosponsor with the AHA tivism and the Construction of the Ancient (Session 121, p. 77). of Session 190, “Public History Goes Global: Indian.” She is a speaker on the session On the session “Moving Communities and A Roundtable of Issues and Themes,” on “Reinventing Indians: New Perspectives on the ‘Indian Problem’ in Modern Mexico,” Networks in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Saturday, January 7, 2:30–4:30 p.m. in the Trade, Part 4: West African Historical Actors Sheraton Chicago’s Michigan Room B (p. 96). scheduled for Sunday, January 8, 11:00 in the Era of the Slave Trade,” presented on Ron Goeken (Minnesota Population a.m.–1:00 p.m. in the Chicago Marriott’s Armitage Room (Session 236, p. 111). Saturday, January 7, 9:00–11:00 a.m. in the Center) has withdrawn as a poster presenter Chicago Marriott’s Iowa Room, Mouhama- (Session 197-5, p. 98). Andrew R. Highsmith’s (Univ. of Texas at dou Touré Fal, (Cheikh Anta Diop Univ.) David Prochaska (Univ. of Illinois at San Antonio) revised paper title is “Beyond has withdrawn as a speaker. In addition, Urbana-Champaign) replaces Joel Beinin Corporate Abandonment: General Motors Lorelle D. Semley’s affiliation has changed (Stanford Univ.) as a speaker on the and the Politics of Metropolitan Capitalism to College of the Holy Cross. She will deliver session “Popular Protests in Global Per- in Flint, Michigan.” He is a speaker on the session “Reconfiguring the Local: Global Networks and Metropolitan Boundaries,” scheduled for Sunday, January 8, 11:00 Attention K–12 Teachers: a.m.–1:00 p.m., in the Sheraton Chicago’s Erie Room (Session 237, 112). Earn Continuing Professional Development Mark P. Bradley (Univ. of Chicago) Units at the 126th Annual Meeting replaces Andrew Rotter (Colgate Univ.) as chair of the session “Decolonizing U.S. Teachers registered for the meeting can earn Continuing Professional Development History: The United States and Decoloniza- Units for attending sessions and workshops. The Illinois state form will be provided tion at Home and Abroad,” scheduled for daily to be completed by the teacher for each day attended. Teachers from outside Sunday, January 8, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. in the state of Illinois may be able to use the form for their own state’s requirements. the Sheraton Chicago’s Sheraton Ballroom III (Session 239, p. 112). A new form will be available each day in Registration located in River Exhibition Myles D. Beaupre (Univ. of Notre Dame) Hall B in the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers. has withdrawn from the session “Ethnogra- phy, Ethnology, and Science, 1500–1800, 6 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 7 Part 3: Categories of Physical Difference,” on Sunday, January 8, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Updates to AHA Session 1: in the Chicago Marriott’s Miami Room (Session 254, p. 115). From the Ancient Law to Gibbonian Affiliated Societies and Other Histories: Sixty Years of J.G.A. Pocock Groups Sessions and Events Thursday, January 5, 2012: 3:00–5:00 p.m. The following corrections refer to affiliated Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Chicago Ballroom VI societies and other groups sessions and events in Please note changes to the following presidential session: the annual meeting Program, and are listed in Chair: Peter N. Miller, Bard Graduate Center alphabetical order by affiliate. Papers: Ancient Constitutions and the History of History by John Marshall, Several American Catholic Historical Johns Hopkins Univ. Association sessions have been amended: Pocock and the Fantastic Empires by Orest Ranum, Johns Hopkins Univ. Pierpaolo Polzonetti (Univ. of Notre From Machiavelli to Gibbon: John Pocock between Civil and Sacred History Dame) has retitled his presentation to by John Roberston, Clare Coll., Univ. of Cambridge “Music as Universal Liturgical Language: Tartini’s Concertos for the Basilica of Gibbon and the Lausanne Historians by Bela Kapossy, Univ. de Lausanne Saint Anthony of Padua” (ACHA 1, p. Comment: The Audience 46). David M. Perry (Dominican Univ.) was added as comment to Session 2 (p. 46). Session 30 has been cancelled (p. 116). torians of the United States session “Politics Patrick J. McNamara’s affiliation has Anne McGinness (Univ. of Notre Dame) of Imperial Expansion and Rule: Strategies changed to Archives of the Archdiocese was omitted from the Association for Spanish and Challenges of Governing the Fron- of New York (ACHA 7, p. 55). and Portuguese Historical Studies session tiers of the Qing Empire in China, 1700– 1911,” scheduled for Thursday, January 5, Richard J. Wolff’s (King Street Advisers) “Religious Networks, 1500–1914: Ideas/ last name was misspelled (ACHA 9, p. Knowledge” scheduled for Friday, January 3:00–5:00 p.m. in the Westin Chicago River 56). 6, 2:30–4:30 p.m. in the Chicago Marriott’s North’s Washington Park Room (CHUS 1, Navy Pier Room. She will present the paper p. 47). Bethany Kilcrease’s (Aquinas Coll.) “Catholic and Protestant Reform Networks The Urban History Association’s board paper title has been corrected to “Guy in Colonial Brazil: The Theology of Nicolas meeting has been rescheduled to Friday, Thorne, Popular Catholicism, and Fin- Durand de Villegaignon’s Conversion in the January 6, 9:30–11:30 a.m., and will be de-siècle Literature” (ACHA 10, p. 66). France Antartique” (ASPHS Session 3, p. held in the Westin Chicago River North’s 68). Isabelle Nagel’s (Ruhr-University Parlor 312 (p. 30). Bochum) name was misspelled in Pamela Kyle Crossley (Dartmouth Coll.) Sharon K. Tune is Director, Meetings for the ACHA 12 (p. 67). replaces Nicola Di Cosmo (Institute for Advanced Study) as chair of the Chinese His- American Historical Association. The Agricultural History Society is not a cosponsor of ACHA 18 (p. 80). Shawn F. Peters (Univ. of Wisconsin- New Session Added: Madison) has been added as comment and Helen M. Ciernick (Mount Marty Jobs for Historians: Approaching Coll.) and Catherine Foisy (Concordia Coll., Montreal) have withdrawn from the Crisis from the Demand Side ACHA 19 (p. 80). Friday, January 6, 1:00–2:30 p.m. Jack Clark Robinson (Oblate School Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Chicago Ballroom VII of Theology) replaces Daniel Dwyer (Siena Coll.) as chair of ACHA 24. Chair: Anthony Grafton, Princeton University In addition, Lawrence Jagdfeld’s Panel: Jesse Lemisch, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY (Sacred Heart Province) last name was misspelled (p. 108). Edward Balleisen, Duke University John Dichtl, National Council on Public History Ronald Rittgers (Valparaiso Univ.) Lynn Hunt, University of California, Los Angeles replaces Mickey Mattox (Marquette Univ.) as chair of ACHA 26 (p. 109). 6 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 7 The 126th Annual Meeting The 126th General Meeting By Sharon K. Tune

he General Meeting of the AHA Honorary Foreign Member Raymond J. Cunningham Prize will take place on Friday, January Mechal Sobel (Univ. of Haifa) for the Best Article by an Undergraduate 6, 2012, at 8:30 p.m. in Chicago T Daniel Williford (Rhodes Coll.), Ballroom VI of the Sheraton Chicago. “Visions of Pre-Islamic Algeria in the Revue President-elect William Cronon (Univ. of Troyer Steele Anderson Prize Africaine, 1870–1896,” The Rhodes Histori- Wisconsin-Madison) will announce the re- James Billington (Library of Congress) cal Review, 13 (spring 2011): 45–69 cipients of the AHA’s 2011 prizes and awards. Tim Huebner, chair, Department of Presentation of the 8th Eugene Asher History, Rhodes College Theodore Roosevelt- Distinguished Teaching Award Equity Awards Woodrow Wilson Public Kathleen Neils Conzen (Univ. of Andrés Tijerina (Austin Service Award Chicago) Individual: Community Coll.) Judge Diane P. Wood will accept the award Institutional: Department of History, on behalf of the recipient, Sandra Day Beveridge Family University of Arizona O’Connor, U.S. Supreme Court (retired) Teaching Prize Award for Marney Murphy (Three Rivers Middle Herbert Feis Award Scholarly Distinction School, Cleves, Ohio) Alfred Goldberg (formerly of the Historical Donald R. Kelley (Rutgers Univ.-New Jason Yaman (Blythewood Middle Offi ce of the Offi ce of the Secretary of Defense) Brunswick) School, Blythewood, SC) William Gilbert Award Steven H. Corey (Worcester State Coll.) presidenTiAL sessions for “Pedagogy and Place: Merging Urban AT The 126Th AnnuAL meeTing and Environmental History with Active Learning,” Journal of Urban History 36:1 (January 2010), 28–41 Thursday, January 5 3:00–5:00 p.m. Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Chicago Ballroom VI. Presidential John E. O’Connor Film Award Session 1. From the Ancient Law to Gibbonian Histories: Sixty Years of J.G.A. Pocock The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban Friday, January 6 History, directed by Chad Freidrichs, produced by Chad Freidrichs, Jaime Fre- 9:30–11:30 a.m. Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Sheraton Ballroom V. Presidential Session 35. Did We Go Wrong? The Past and Prospects of the History Profession idrichs, Paul Fehler, and Brian Woodman; Unicorn Stencil Documentary Films 2:30–4:30 p.m. Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Chicago Ballroom X. Presidential Session 67. The Future Is Here: Pioneers Discuss the Future of Digital Humanities Nancy Lyman Roelker Saturday, January 7 Mentorship Award

9:00–11:00 a.m. Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Chicago Ballroom X. Presidential Elizabeth Blackmar (Columbia Univ.) Session 101. New Directions in Spatial History 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Sheraton Ballroom V. Roy Rosenzweig Prize Presidential Session 134. Radical Enlightenment: A Session in Honor of Margaret for Innovation in Digital History Jacob New York Public Library, “What’s on 2:30–4:30 p.m. Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Sheraton Ballroom V. Presidential the Menu?” A project of NYPL Labs. Ben Session 165. Thinking the Twentieth Century: In Memory of Tony Judt Vershbow, Project Director (Manager of Sunday, January 8 NYPL Labs); Rebecca Federman, Project Curator (NYPL’s Culinary Collections Li- 8:30–10:30 a.m. Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Sheraton Ballroom V. brarian and Electronic Resources Coordina- Presidential Session 198. James M. McPherson: A Life in American History tor); and Michael Inman, Project Curator (NYPL’s Curator of Rare Books)

8 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 9 Book Prizes Joan Kelly Memorial Prize Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize Michael R. Ebner (Syracuse Univ.), Herbert Baxter Adams Prize in Women’s History Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy (Cam- Anna Krylova (Duke Univ.), Soviet Women Leslie J. Reagan (Univ. of Illinois at bridge Univ. Press) in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Urbana-Champaign), Dangerous Pregnan- Front (Cambridge Univ. Press) cies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in George L. Mosse Prize Modern America (Univ. of California Press) George Louis Beer Prize James H. Johnson (Boston Univ.), Venice Incognito: Masks in the Serene Republic David Ciarlo (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder), Martin A. Klein Prize (Univ. of California Press) Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in in African History Imperial Germany (Harvard Univ. Press) Jonathon Glassman (Northwestern James A. Rawley Prize Michael A. Reynolds (Princeton Univ.), Univ.), War of Words, War of Stones: Racial in Atlantic History Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar David Eltis (Emory Univ.) and David of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908– (Indiana University Press) Richardson (Univ. of Hull), Atlas of the 1918 (Cambridge Univ. Press) Transatlantic Slave Trade (Yale Univ. Press) Albert J. Beveridge Award Waldo G. Leland Prize James H. Sweet (Univ. of Wisconsin– Daniel Okrent, Last Call: The Rise and The New Cambridge History of Islam, 6 Madison), Domingos Álvares, African Healing, Fall of Prohibition (Scribner) vols. (Cambridge University Press), General and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World (Univ. of North Carolina Press) James Henry Breasted Prize Editor: Michael Cook (Princeton Univ.) Saskia T. Roselaar (Univ. of Notting- John F. Richards Prize ham), Public Land in the Roman Republic: A Littleton-Griswold Prize Farina Mir (Univ. of Michigan). The Social Social and Economic History of Ager Publicus Pauline Maier (MIT), Ratification: The Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British in Italy, 396–89 B.C. (Oxford Univ. Press) People Debate the Constitution, 1787–1788 Colonial Punjab (Univ. of California Press) (Simon & Schuster) John H. Dunning Prize Wesley-Logan Prize Darren Dochuk (Purdue Univ.), From Frank Andre Guridy (Univ. of Texas at J. Russell Major Prize Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Austin), Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cuban and Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Jeremy D. Popkin (Univ. of Kentucky), African Americans in a World of Empire and Conservatism (W. W. Norton) You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and Jim Crow (Univ. of North Carolina Press) the Abolition of Slavery (Cambridge Univ. John K. Fairbank Prize Press) Sharon K. Tune is the AHA’s Director of Meetings. in East Asian History Carol Benedict (Georgetown Univ.), Gold- en-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550–2010 (Univ. of California Press) The Presidential Address: Morris D. Forkosch Prize “The Republic of Letters in the American Colonies: Philip J. Stern (Duke Univ.), The Compa- ny-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Francis Daniel Pastorius Makes a Notebook” Modern Foundation of the British Empire in After the presentation of awards and honors at the General Meeting, AHA President India (Oxford University Press) Anthony Grafton (Princeton Univ.) will deliver his presidential address. Leo Gershoy Prize Many forms of history have gone global in the last few years. New studies have Alexandra Walsham (Trinity Coll., Univ. of shown us how plants and populations, organic stimulants and religious revelations Cambridge), The Reformation of the Landscape: have moved around the world. In his presidential address entitled “The Republic Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern of Letters in the American Colonies: Francis Daniel Pastorius Makes a Notebook,” Britain and Ireland (Oxford Univ. Press) scheduled to be delivered on Friday, January 6, 2012, AHA President Anthony T. Grafton will examine the ways in which some of the most central, and appar- Clarence H. Haring Prize ently local, traditions, methods and artifacts of European humanist scholarship Walter Fraga Filho (Univ. Federal da were transplanted to the new world. Francis Daniel Pastorius was an eminently Bahia) Encruzilhadas da Liberdade: Histórias practical man, whose work as notary and politician played a central part in the de Escravos e Libertos na Bahia, 1870–1910 creation of Germantown. He also co-authored the first great American protest (Editora Unicamp) against African American slavery. In addition to his open eyes and practical skills, J. Franklin Jameson Award he brought with him from Germany a particular approach to knowledge and a Editors: Pamela O. Long (indepen- special way of using books, which took shape in European academies, and he dent scholar); David McGee (independent remained strikingly faithful to these traditional habits of mind and pen through- scholar); and Alan M. Stahl (Princeton out his life. Depicting the humanist at work, Grafton shows that the traditions of Univ.), The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A Fif- humanism were surprisingly adaptable to new needs and a new world. teenth-Century Maritime Manuscript, 3 vols. (MIT Press) 8 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 9 TheThe 123 Futurerd Annual Meeting is Here: Digital Methods in Research and Teaching in History

126th Annual Meeting

The AHA’s Program Committee has constructed the 126th annual meeting in Chicago to be a major forum for presentations, discussions, and demonstrations of how digital methods might assist historical research and the humanities in general. The AHA hopes that in future, its meetings will become a hub where scholars and digital technologists come to debate, present new work, and stay up-to-date in research and publishing technology. The following is a list of digital history sessions to be presented at the 126th annual meeting:

Thursday, January 5, noon–6:00 p.m. THAT Camp (The Humanities and Tech- Saturday, January 7, 9:00–11:00 a.m. Session 106. Presenting Historical nology Camp) AHA Research Using Digital Media

Thursday, January 5, 3:00–5:00 p.m. Session 5. Digging into Data Saturday, January 7 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Session 136. Digital History Workshop, Part 1: The Future of History Journals in Thursday, January 5, 3:00–5:00 p.m. Session 6. Integrated Public Use Micro- the Digital Age (Research Division) data Series (IPUMS) and North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP) Information- Saturday, January 7 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Session 137. Talk Data to Me: A Con- al Workshop versation with Historians about Using Large–Scale Digital Data in Research and Friday January 6, 9:30 a.m.–11:30 p.m. Session 36. Digital Humanties: A Hands– Teaching on Workshop (Research Division, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Saturday, January 7 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Session 138, Crowdsourcing History: Media) Collaborative Online Transcription and Archives Friday, January 6, 9:30 a.m.–11:30 p.m. Session 39. Hardtack and Software: Digital Approaches to the American Civil Saturday, January 7 2:30–4:30 p.m. Session 166. Digital History Workshop, War Part 2: Digital History: State of the Field (Research Division) Friday, January 6, 9:30 a.m.–11:30 p.m. Session 46. From Archive to Interdisci- plinary Tool: Transforming Our Image of Saturday, January 7, 2:30–4:30 p.m. Session 168. Teaching History in a the FSA–OWI Photograph Collection Digital Age (Teaching Division)

Friday, January 6, 2:30–4:30 p.m. Session 67. The Future Is Here: Pioneers Saturday, January 7, 2:30–4:30 p.m. Session 169. Practicum: Teaching and Discuss the Future of Digital Humanities Learning U.S. Social History with HERB (Presidential Session) (Teaching Division)

Friday January 6, 2:30–4:30 p.m. Session 68. Successfully Teaching History Saturday, January 7, 2:30–4:30 p.m. Session 170. Digital Research Learning in the Online Environment: Experiences, Curve: Practical Lessons From a Seven– Tips, and Thoughts (Teaching Division, Year Historical Census Database Project Two–Year College Faculty Task Force) Sunday, January 8, 8:30–10:30 a.m. Session 201. The Digital History Seminar Saturday, January 7, 9:00–2:00 p.m. Workshop. Teachinghistory.org: Teaching the Past in a Digital World: New Perspectives Sunday, January 8, 8:30–10:30 a.m. Session 202. A Conversation about Text for History Education (Teaching Division, Mining as a Research Method Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, National History Center) Sunday, January 8, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Session 231. The Valley of the Shadow Project and Its Progeny after 20 Years Saturday, January 7, 9:00–11:00 a.m. Session 101. New Directions in Spatial History (Presidential Session) Sunday, January 8, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Session 234. From Digital Humanities to Cultural History: The French Book Trade Saturday, January 7 9:00–11:00 a.m. Session 105. Digital Technology and the in Enlightenment Europe Twenty–First–Century History Class- room

For full details on each session, see the 2012 Annual Meeting Program, available online and as an interactive PDF at: historians.org/annual/2012

10 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 11 10 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 11 The 126th Annual Meeting: Sessions at a Glance ThurSDay, January 5, 16. Exploring Political Networks in the ThurSDay, January 5, 4:00–5:00 p.m. Post–Civil Rights Era 8:55 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Denver Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) laTe afTernoon SeSSion of The aha Teaching Workshop: program commiTTee Recognizing Excellence in 17. Roundtable: John McCormick’s Machiavellian Democracy Getting the Most Out of the Annual Meeting Undergraduate Teaching Missouri Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Chicago Ballroom X Addison Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 18. Rethinking the Model Migrant: New Free advance registration is required. Perspectives on Jewish Migration ThurSDay, January 5, 3:00–5:00 p.m. Chicago Ballroom H (Chicago Marriott Downtown) afTernoon SeSSionS of aha ThurSDay, January 5, 12:00–6:00 p.m. 19. Sailors, Scientists, and Speculators: affiliaTeD SocieTieS THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Cooperating and Confl icting Maritime American Catholic Historical Association Camp) AHA Networks in the Age of American Expansion Session 1: Communities and Networks in Parlor C (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Belmont Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Early Modern European Catholicism Free advance registration is required. 20. Avenues of Infl uence: Discourse Networks in Lincolnshire Room 2 (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Britain during the Age of Revolution ThurSDay, January 5, 3:00–5:00 p.m. Session 2: Reconciling Medieval Kansas City Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Communities: Priests, People, and Prostitutes afTernoon SeSSionS of The aha 21. Citizen Soldiers and Civil Disorder: The Illinois Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) program commiTTee National Guard, 1877–1908 Session 3: Latinos and U.S. Catholicism: 1. From the Ancient Law to Gibbonian Michigan State Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) A Reappraisal Histories: Sixty Years of J.G.A. Pocock Wisconsin Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Chicago Ballroom VI (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 22. Trading Communities and Networks in the Indian Ocean: From Premodern to Session 4: Marian Devotion in North 2. Giving Flesh and Voice to “Ordinary People”–– Contemporary America New Goals, New Means: A Roundtable Northwestern Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Dupage Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Chicago Ballroom VII (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 23. Foreign Students and the Internationalization Session 5: Perspectives in American 3. Inside Stories: Identity, Community, and the of American Education during the Early Catholic History Historian’s Subjectivity Twentieth Century Cook Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Armitage Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Indiana Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 4. Roundtable: Perspectives on the War of 1812 American Society of Church History from the Collections of the Newberry Library 24. The Varieties of Religious Confl ict in the Session 1: Jesuit Spiritualities in Global Ruggles Hall, The Newberry Library (60 W. Walton St.) Middle Ages Perspective McHenry Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Grant Park Room (Westin Chicago River North) 5. Digging into Data Session 2: Early Christian Theology Chicago Ballroom VIII (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 25. Tensions of the Colonial State: Legitimation, Citizenship, and Participation in Dutch and Jackson Park Room (Westin Chicago River North) 6. Integrated Public Use Microdata Series French Southeast Asia Session 3: Texts, Translations, and (IPUMS) and North Atlantic Population Sheffi eld Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Transmissions: The Bible in Seventeenth– Project (NAPP) Informational Workshop Century England Chicago Ballroom IX (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 26. Transnational Peace Networks and Communities of Pacifi sm from the 1920s to the 1960s Promenade Ballroom A (Westin Chicago River North) 7. Women in Mexican Visual Arts Iowa Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 4: Violence and Religion: Chicago Ballroom A (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Nineteenth–Century Massacres in the 27. Reconsidering Antisemitism and Jewishness 8. “In Family Way”: Community Critiques of American West in Cold War America Sexuality and Violence in American Courtrooms Promenade Ballroom B (Westin Chicago River North) Michigan Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Chicago Ballroom B (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical 9. Environments of Domestic War Planning: The 28. Remade by Faith: How Religious Institutions Unintended Consequences of Federal Policy Transformed Social Division in Twentieth– Studies Chicago Ballroom C (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Century America Session 1: In the Name of Science: The Minnesota Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Politics of Scientifi c Authority in Modern 10. Reshaping History: The Intersection of Spain 29. Imagining Communities: Visual Cultures of Radical and Women’s History O’Hare Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Los Angeles Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Race and Empire Kane Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 11. Ars Praedicandi, Ars Politica: Sermons and Chinese Historians in the United States the Rhetoric of Power in the Early Modern 30. Writing Global Histories Session 1: Politics of Imperial Expansion and Atlantic World Chicago Ballroom D (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Rule: Strategies and Challenges of Governing Miami Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) the Frontiers of the Qing Empire in China, 31. U.S. State Archives and Government Information 1700–1911 12. The (Scholarly) World Absorbs the Text: Secrecy: Access and Historical Research Washington Park Room (Westin Chicago River North) Learning and the Literal Sense of Scripture Clark Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) in Early Modern Europe Session 2: Marriage, Family, and Gender Houston Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 32. Communities and Networks Lost and Recovered Construction in Republican China in Latin American Archives and Libraries, Part 1: Rogers Park Room (Westin Chicago River North) 13. Birth, Death, and Control of Women: Female Recreating Communities: Preserving Endangered Networks in Ireland, 1850–1950 Archives to Recover African and African–Descended Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Chicago Ballroom F (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Communities and Networks in the Iberian Colonies and Transgender History 14. International Communities and Networks: Ohio State Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 1: The Politics of Respectability Interweaving Urban Dialogues in the 33. Moving Communities and Networks in Reconsidered: Using the Framework of “Modern” Twentieth–Century Dialogue the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Part Respectability to Examine Southern Lesbian Chicago Ballroom G (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 1: Memory, Identity, and Religion: Afro– History 15. In the Context of Nationalism, Race, and Atlantic Encounters during the Era of the River North Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Religion: Three Case Studies of Deutschtum Atlantic Slave Trade and Beyond in South America, 1820 to the Present Purdue Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Scottsdale Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)

12 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 13 The 126th Annual Meeting: Sessions at a Glance Conference on Latin American History 44. Forging and Fracturing a Transnational 63. Chicago ‘68: Rethinking Local Session 3: Cancelled Community: Human Rights Networks in the Black Activism and the Battle Twentieth Century for Urban America Session 4: Transnational Networks of the Los Angeles Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Sheraton Ballroom IV (Sheraton Americas Chicago Hotel & Towers) Wrigleyville Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 45. CLAH Presidential Session: Transnational Session 5: Development, Commerce, and the Migrations, Labor Networks, and Flights to 64. Communities and Networks Social Question in Nineteenth– Freedom Lost and Recovered in Latin and Twentieth–Century Latin America Armitage Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) American Archives and Printers Row Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Libraries, Part 2: Lost Histories: 46. From Archive to Interdisciplinary Tool: The Destruction of Archives and Transforming Our Image of the FSA–OWI Libraries in Latin America Coordinating Council for Women in History Photograph Collection Session 3: The Politics of Respectability Recon- Kansas City Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Chicago Ballroom C (Chicago Marriott Downtown) sidered: Using the Framework of Respectability 65. Moving Communities and Networks in the Era to Examine Southern Lesbian History 47. From Venice to Madras: Early Modern of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Part 2: Enslaved River North Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Armenian Print Culture Rebels and Maroons: Comparing Slave Huron Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Resistance in the Nineteenth–Century Americas Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Addison Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Progressive Era 48. Teaching, Playing, and Praying: Evangelical Session 2: Exhibiting Progressive Tendencies: Networking and Community Building in 66. Pirates, State Actors, and Hegemonic Systems The Visual Communication of Ideology and Modern America in the Pre–modern Mediterranean, Part 1: Politics in the Progressive Era Chicago Ballroom D (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Hegemony and Legitimacy Grace Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 49. Doing Queer History in the Twenty–First Michigan Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship: Century Women and Discipline in Religious Communities, Erie Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) friDay, January 6, 9:30–11:30 a.m. East and West, in the Medieval World Huron Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 50. Power, Knowledge, and Culture: The morning SeSSionS of aha affiliaTeD Centrality of Kinship Networks in the Early SocieTieS Republic South Alcohol and Drugs History Society ThurSDay, January 5, 8:00–10:00 p.m. Miami Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 1: Rival Notions of Respectability: Plenary Session: How to Write a History of 51. Seeing the Archive as an Artifact of Community: Moral Injunction and Commercial Information: A Session in Honor of Peter Burke Fresh Approaches to Women’s History Regulation in the Matter of Alcoholic Drinks Sheraton BallroomV (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Missouri Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Parlor G (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers)

52. The Promise of Nationalism: Women and American Catholic Historical Association friDay, January 6, 9:30–11:30 a.m. Jews in European Nationalist Movements in Session 6: Building a Catholic Archival Network the First Half of the Twentieth Century morning SeSSionS of The aha Northwestern Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Chicago Ballroom F (Chicago Marriott Downtown) program commiTTee Session 7: Reconsidering Episcopal 34. Interviewing in the Job Market in the 53. Physical Networks and Imagined Leadership and Trusteeism in the U.S. Twenty–First Century Communities In Post–revolutionary Mexico Catholic Church Chicago Ballroom VIII (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Chicago Ballroom G (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Ohio State Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 8: Constructing Catholic Identity in 35. Did We Go Wrong? The Past and Prospects 54. Genocide, Displacement, Refugees, 1931–71 Modern America of the History Profession Scottsdale Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Purdue Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Sheraton Ballroom V (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 55. Writing Regional Histories in a Global Session 9: The Papacy between Traditionalism 36. Digital Humanities: A Hands–On Workshop World: Converging and Diverging and Modernity: From Pius XI to Benedict XVI Chicago Ballroom IX (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Historiographical Networks Wisconsin Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Chicago Ballroom H (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 37. The Texas Social Studies Standards American Society of Church History Experience: What Can We Learn? 56. Black Ivy: African American Intellectuals at Sheraton Ballroom III (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Harvard during the Twentieth Century Session 5: Missiology and Missionary Strategies Colorado Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) in Colombia, Mexico, and the Marshall Islands, 38. Fukushima: An International Perspective on Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries Nuclear Accidents 57. Transnational Activism in the 1960s: A Ontario Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Global Perspective Jackson Park Room (Westin Chicago River North) Denver Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 6: Perspectives on Race, 39. Hardtack and Software: Digital Approaches Antisemitism, and Religion in Europe from to the American Civil War 58. Networking against Workplace the Second World War to Its Aftermath Sheraton Ballroom II (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Discrimination: U.S. Professional Organizations, 1939–90 Grant Park Room (Westin Chicago River North) 40. Labor Rights as Human Rights: Emerging Superior Room A (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Session 7: Pietism and Slavery Global Paradigms in the Twentieth Century Promenade Ballroom B (Westin Chicago River North) Indiana Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 59. (Inter)National Mothers: Women’s Changing Roles in the Two Germanys, 1945–60 Session 8: Domestic Metaphors for the 41. New Perspectives on British Abolition: Superior Room B (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Divine in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Antecedents, Affections, and Activism Promenade Ballroom C (Westin Chicago River North) Iowa Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 60. War Trauma across the Modern Era Session 9: Harry Stout’s The New England Michigan Room A (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 42. Medicine and Public Health in the Atlantic World Soul after 25 Years Chicago Ballroom A (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 61. Human Nature in American Social Thought, Promenade Ballroom A (Westin Chicago River North) 1950–70 43. Tradition and Innovation: Native American Michigan Room B (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Identity and Community in the Old Northwest Territory 62. Communities, Networks, and the Cairo Geniza Chicago Ballroom B (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Houston Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)

12 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 13 The 126th Annual Meeting: Sessions at a Glance Association for Spanish and National History Center 69. Professional Development: Turning Your Portuguese Historical Studies Session 1: The Subversive Power of Dissertation into a Book Session 2: Communities of Spain: Environmental History Chicago Ballroom VI (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Empire, Diplomacy, and Religion Mayfair Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 70. Disability, the Family, and the Domestic Sphere Navy Pier Room Session 2: Historians, Journalists, and the (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Sheraton Ballroom II (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Challenges of Getting It Right, Part 1: American Biography and the Cold War 71. Cold War Policing and the American Empire Association of Ancient Historians Chicago Ballroom X (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Chicago Ballroom A (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session: Trade and Travel in the Ancient Mediterranean 72. The Promise of De–centering National Polish American Historical Association Parlor B (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Histories: America, Germany, and Spain Session 1: Issues in the History of Polish Los Angeles Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) American Organizations Chinese Historians in the United States 73. Cultures and Corpses: Death in Three World Session 3: Knowledge, Social Change, and the Tennessee Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Cities—New York, Alexandria, and Beijing Network of Soft Power: China Encounters the Session 2: Polonia in the Northeastern United Chicago Ballroom B (Chicago Marriott Downtown) World, 1600–2010 States Lincoln Park Room (Westin Chicago River North) Arkansas Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 74. Expanding the Boundaries: Putting American Session 4: Teaching Modern Asian History: Reconstruction in National and Transnational Themes and Sources Terms friDay, January 6, 12:00–2:00 p.m. Miami Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Rogers Park Room (Westin Chicago River North) film feSTival Session 5: Social Network Analysis and Digitaliz- 75. Multi–racial, Multi–ethnic Chicago: Social ing History from Imperial to Modern Times A Film Unfi nished Relations in the Twentieth–Century City Washington Park Room (Westin Chicago River North) Sheraton Ballroom I (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Michigan Room B (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 76. Working Women’s Encounters with Feminism Conference Group for Central European History friDay, January 6, 1:00–2:00 p.m. in Post–World War II America Session 3: Nazi Local: Placing the Production Scottsdale Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) of Power in the Third Reich ahr open forum Parlor D (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Meet the Editors and Staff of the American 77. Monument and Memory Historical Review Chicago Ballroom C (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Conference on Latin American History Chicago Ballroom VIII (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Session 11: Missiology and Missionary 78. Communities and Networks in the Americas, Strategies in Colombia, Mexico, and the Marshall Africa, and the Indian Ocean Denver Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Islands, Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries friDay, January 6, 1:00–2:00 p.m. Jackson Park Room (Westin Chicago River North) 79. Historiography and Empire in the Early afTernoon SeSSion of aha affiliaTeD Modern Atlantic World Session 12: Mexico in the 1920s: New SocieTy Historical and Historiographical Perspectives Sheraton Ballroom III (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Old Town Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Social Science Research Council: SSRC Fellowships Information Session 80. A Fluid Frontier: African Canadian and Session 13: National Consolidation and the African American Transnationalism in the Chicago Ballroom X (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Promotion of “Progress”: Chile, Argentina, Detroit River Borderlands and Mexico in the Late Nineteenth Century Chicago Ballroom F (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Wrigleyville Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) friDay, January 6, 1:00–2:30 p.m. 81. Liverpool’s Maritime Communities and Session 14: Crime in Modern Latin America: afTernoon SeSSion of The aha Networks, 1750–1815 New Narratives on Deviance and Social Control program commiTTee Chicago Ballroom G (Chicago Marriott Downtown) River North Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) New Session: 82. Contested Identities among Americans Abroad Coordinating Council for Women in History Jobs for Historians: Approaching the Crisis Chicago Ballroom H (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 6: Half the Sky: Teaching Women and from the Demand Side 83. The Fluidity of Nationality in the Era of Gender in World History Sheraton Ballroom VII (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Global Migration Sheffi eld Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Houston Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 7: The Other Hull House Women: friDay, January 6, 1:00–4:00 p.m. Female Community Building and Feminist 84. Everyday Nationalism in the Rio de la Plata and Networking in Twentieth–Century America afTernoon SeSSionS of aha affiliaTeD Brazil, 1850–1910: From Military and State Consolidation to Popular Expression Grace Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) SocieTieS Kansas City Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) American Society of Church History Economic History Association Session 10: Walking Tour of Historic Chicago 85. Toxic Networks: Science, Eugenics, and the Session: A Discussion of Before and Beyond Religious Sites Politics of Race in Latin America Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change Washington Park Room (Westin Chicago River North) Armitage Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) in China and Europe by Jean–Laurent Rosenthal and R. Bin Wong 86. Indigenous Intermediaries: Networks of Belmont Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) friDay, January 6, 2:30–4:30 p.m. Multilingualism and Community in Colonial Latin America Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching afTernoon SeSSionS of The aha Huron Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Session 1: Current Events in Historical program commiTTee 87. Creating Creativity: A Roundtable Discussion Perspective, Part I: Global Strategy and Politics 67. The Future Is Here: Pioneers Discuss the of Moving beyond Lecture in Today’s College Parlor E (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Future of Digital Humanities Classroom Chicago Ballroom X (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Chicago Ballroom VIII (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) National Coalition of Independent Scholars: Scholars and Scholarship on the Margins: 68. Successfully Teaching History in the Online 88. A “Land Without History”? Renewing the Independent Scholars and “Otherness” in History Environment: Experiences, Tips, and Thoughts Social History of the Amazon Parlor F (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Chicago Ballroom IX (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Ontario Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers)

14 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 15 The 126th Annual Meeting: Sessions at a Glance 89. Leprosy in a Global Community, 1866–1951 American Society of Church History Goldberg Center for Excellence Superior Room A (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Session 11: Habermas, the Public Sphere, in Teaching and American Religious History Session 2: Current Events in 90. Constructive Aspects of Mass Violence Grant Park Room (Westin Chicago River North) Historical Perspective, Part II: Indiana Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 12: Ecclesiology and Christian Social History Institutions Parlor E 91. Anti–urban City Planning in Twentieth–Century Lincoln Park Room (Westin Chicago River North) (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Europe: Creating (National) Community and Session 13: A Place for Grace: Religion and Reconstituting Social Networks National History Center Contests of Identity in the Mississippi River Iowa Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 3: The History Major in Liberal Valley, 1812–45 Education: Practical Application of the Jackson Park Room (Westin Chicago River North) 92. Normalizing Difference in a Colonial National History Center’s Report to the Regime: Indians and Imperial Uses of Session 14: Religion in Imperial Britain, Teagle Foundation Ethnographic Knowledge in Latin America 1800–1970 Parlor B (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Erie Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Promenade Ballroom B (Westin Chicago River North)

93. Internal Colonialism, Violence, and Gender Session 15; Conference on Latin American Polish American Historical Association in U.S./Indigenous Relations History Session 23: Nation–States and Session 3: Topics in Polish American History Missions in Paraguay, Colombia, and Africa through the Centuries Superior Room B (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Missouri Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Promenade Ballroom C (Westin Chicago River North) 94. French Revolutionary Violence, Democracy, Session 4: Anticommunism in Transnational and the Self Perspective Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Michigan Room A (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Studies Colorado Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Session 3: Religious Networks, 1500–1914: 95. The Business of Media History: Technology, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media Journalism, Advertising Ideas/Knowledge Navy Pier Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 2: Playing the Past Sheraton Ballroom IV (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Dupage Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 96. Mothers and Infants of a Modern India: Who Center for the Study of Film and History Society for Italian Historical Studies Should Provide for Their Health? Session: The Last American Century in Film Session 1: Pius XII, Religion, and Politics Sheraton Ballroom V (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) and History Parlor G (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) in Italy 97. World History and Its Public Tennessee Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Chicago Ballroom D (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Charles Homer Haskins Society Session: Confl ict, Violence, and the 98. Communities and Networks Lost and Recovered Construction of Clerical Masculinity in friDay, January 6, 2:30–5:00 p.m. in Latin American Archives and Libraries, Part Medieval Europe afTernoon SeSSionS of aha Arkansas Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 3: Lost Histories: The Destruction of Archives affiliaTeD SocieTieS and Libraries in Latin America Michigan Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and American Catholic Historical Association Transgender History Session 14: In the Shadow of Hull House: 99. Moving Communities and Networks in Session 3: The Queer Politics of Managing Catholic Church Architecture on Chicago’s the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Part 3: Youth and Sex in the 1920s United States Near West Side Slave Rebellions and the Building of African Michigan State Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Minnesota Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Identities in the Caribbean Addison Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Community College Humanities Association Session: Imagining America: From Plymouth friDay, January 6, 4:30–6:30 p.m. 100. Pirates, State Actors, and Hegemonic Systems to Concord film feSTival in the Pre–modern Mediterranean, Part 2: Parlor F (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Transgressors and Opportunists My Perestroika Belmont Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Conference Group for Central European History Sheraton Ballroom I (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Session 4: Media and the State: News, Control, and Publicity in Three Germanies, 1848–1933 Parlor D (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) friDay, January 6, 4:45–5:45 p.m. friDay, January 6, 2:30–4:30 p.m. aha open forum afTernoon SeSSionS of aha Conference on Asian History LGBTQ Historians Task Force Open Forum affiliaTeD SocieTieS Session 1: Mobility as Subject: Histories of Non–places Parlor E (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) American Catholic Historical Association O’Hare Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 10: The Popular Culture of Trans– Atlantic Catholicism in the Twentieth Century Conference on Latin American History friDay, January 6, 4:45–6:00 p.m. Northwestern Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 21: Disasters and Their Aftermaths afTernoon SeSSion of aha affiliaTeD in Modern Mexico: Political, Scientifi c, and SocieTy American Catholic Historical Association Social Responses to Unforeseen Destruction, Session 11: Mining Religious Sources: Profi ts 1860s–1930s National Endowment for the Humanities and Pitfalls—Graduate Student Roundtable Old Town Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) EDSITEment Info Session Ohio State Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 22: Legislating the Subaltern in the Huron Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Session 12: Counciliar Catholicism in Andes and Beyond Comparison: Public Activism in the United River North Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) States and Germany, 1965–85 German Historical Institute Purdue Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 1: Communities of Consumers? Session 13: Rome and American Culture Social–Democratic Spaces in the Age of from Leo XIII to John Paul II Postwar Mass Consumption Look for it at the 126th Annual Meeting, Wisconsin Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Grace Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) and online at: www.historianstv.com

14 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 15 The 126th Annual Meeting: Sessions at a Glance friDay, January 6, SaTurDay, January 7, 9:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. 119. Native Perspectives on the Transformation of Missions in Spanish and Portuguese America 5:30–6:30 p.m. TeachinghiSTory.org worKShop Erie Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Teaching the Past in a Digital World: New aha open forum 120. Fighting for Equality: Children’s and Teenagers’ Perspectives for History Education Graduate and Early Career Activism during the Black Freedom Struggle Chicago Ballroom IV (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Committee Open Forum Superior Room A (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Colorado Room 121. Eating, Tasting, and Making Race in the (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) SaTurDay, January 7, 9:00–11:00 a.m. United States, 1920s–960s Superior Room B (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) morning SeSSionS of The aha program commiTTee 122. Transregional Media Networks and the friDay, January 6, 5:00–7:00 p.m. Development of a Public Sphere in the 101. New Directions in Spatial History Twentieth–Century Middle East fTernoon eSSionS of ffiliaTeD a S a Chicago Ballroom X (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Houston Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) SocieTy 101 Historians and the Obama Narrative 123. Alien Natives? Internal Migration and the Conference on Latin American History –A. Chicago Ballroom VII (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Dilemmas of Belonging in the United States Session 24: Brazilian Studies Committee: 102. The Department Chair as Negotiator: and Europe Historiographical Updates from Brazil Challenges Faced by History Department Kansas City Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Old Town Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Chairs in These Perilous, Budget–Cutting Times 124. Big History Session 25: Colonial Studies Committee: Addison Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Sheraton Ballroom III (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) On a Mission: Ecclesiastics, Natives, and 103. Lighting Up the Classroom? Then Talk to the 125. Cultures of Commerce and Law across the Sahara Religion in Latin America Public! A Discussion. Armitage Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Kane Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Clark Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 126. Transnational Legal Networks and the Limits Session 26: Gran Colombia Studies Committee: 104. Striking Connections: Mobility, Performance, of American Power, 1906–39 New Approaches to Economic History and the Unexpected Development of Missouri Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Wrigleyville Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Unwieldy Subjects 127. RICHES of Central Florida: Enriching the Session 27: Teaching and Teaching Materials Huron Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Community and the Curriculum with a Committee 105. Digital Technology and the Twenty–First– Local History Project River North Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Century History Classroom Colorado Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Chicago Ballroom VI (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 128. Communication and Communities in Late Medieval Central Europe riDay anuary p m 106. Presenting Historical Research Using Digital Media f , J 6, 6:00–8:00 . . Belmont Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Chicago Ballroom IX (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) evening SeSSion of affiliaTeD SocieTy 129. Twentieth–Century Queer and Artistic Bohemias 107. Networks of Knowledge: Circulating Science Michigan Room A (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) American Catholic Historical Association in Early Modern Europe Session 15: Saint James Chapel Tour Chicago Ballroom A (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 130. Imperial Cities and the Politics of Urban Minnesota Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Space: Santiago, Marseille, Libreville 108. Historicizing Photographs Michigan Room B (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Chicago Ballroom B (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 131. Typology as Historical Method: friDay, January 6, 7:00–8:30 p.m. 109. Religious Networks, Alliances, and Friendship The Forgotten Historiography in the Early Modern Atlantic World evening SeSSionS of affiliaTeD SocieTy Indiana Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Los Angeles Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Conference on Latin American History 132. Accidental Access: Serendipity in Presidential 110. Everyday Soldiers: The Limits of Archives Session 28: Andean Studies Committee: How Militarization in Postwar American Society Chicago Ballroom VIII (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Can I Explain What Is Happening Today? Chicago Ballroom C (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Historicizing the Contemporary Andes 133. Moving Communities and Networks in the Old Town Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 111. Building the Liberal State: Social Workers, Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Part 4: West Lawyers, and Rights from the Progressive Era African Historical Actors during the Era of Session 29: Borderlands and Frontiers to the Great Society the Atlantic Slave Trade Studies Committee: Interethnic Relations in Miami Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Iowa Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Borderlands Settings of the Americas 112. Social Networks and the Quality of Wrigleyville Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Expression in Renaissance Florence SaTurDay, January 7, 9:00–11:00 a.m. Session 30: Chile/Rio de la Plata Committee Chicago Ballroom F (Chicago Marriott Downtown) morning SeSSionS of affiliaTeD SocieTieS River North Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 113. Higher Education Today: The Academic Alcohol and Drugs History Society Community in an Uncertain Time Session 2: The Press and Psychedelia: Image, friDay, January 6, 8:30–10:30 p.m. Chicago Ballroom D (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Gender, and Behavior in the United States 114. Framing Minority Community Identities: since 1945 aha general meeTing Comparative Notes from India and Lebanon Parlor G (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Scottsdale Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Chicago Ballroom VI (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) American Catholic Historical Association 115. Visualizing Radio Networks and Communities Session 16: Catholic Architecture and the Chicago Ballroom G (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Shaping of Urban America The AHA invites all annual meeting Northwestern Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) participants to the Presidential Reception 116. Recasting Radical Politics: Oppositional Movements at Their Local Roots Session 17: Urban Catholic Education: to be held on Friday, January 6, 2012, in Chicago Ballroom H (Chicago Marriott Downtown) The Best of Times, the Worst of Times the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Chicago Ohio State Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Ballroom X, immediately following Anthony 117. Racial Silences in the Archive and the Histori- Session 18: Scandal, Resistance, and Practice: Grafton's presidential address. ography of Race in Postcolonial Latin America A Roundtable on John Seitz’s No Closure The AHA thanks the History Denver Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Purdue Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Channel for its sponsorship of 118. Owning the Past and Present in Nineteenth– Session 19: Issues and Outcomes the Presidential Reception. Century America Surrounding the Second Vatican Council Ontario Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Wisconsin Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)

16 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 17 The 126th Annual Meeting: Sessions at a Glance American Society for Environmental History Session 5: Scottish Engagement with the 147. The Social Worlds of Session: Scientists as Activists since 1945 British Empire in the Twentieth Century: Devotional and Moral Parlor F (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) From Celebration to Critique? Discourses in Colonial Mexico Parlor B (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) and Guatemala American Society of Church History Chicago Ballroom H Session 16: Christianity Going Native? Missionary Polish American Historical Association (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Encounters in Guatemala, Mexico, Central Session 5: Book Forum: Brian McCook, 148. CLAH Presidential Session: America, and Nigeria in the Twentieth Century The Borders of Integration Hemispheric Approaches Jackson Park Room (Westin Chicago River North) Tennessee Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) to Diasporic Networks and Session 17: Confl ict and Compromise: Session 6: Polish and Polish American Migrations in the Age of Empire Reappraising the History of Gender in Literary Themes Superior Room A (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Southern Baptist Battles Arkansas Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 149. Environmental History from the Peripheries: Promenade Ballroom B (Westin Chicago River North) Case Studies from East Africa, Eastern Spain, Session 18: American Catholics and Anti–Catholicism Society for Italian Historical Studies Central Asia, and the American Southwest in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Session 2: Church and Society in Medieval Italy Superior Room B (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Promenade Ballroom C (Westin Chicago River North) Parlor D (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 150. Rethinking National Imaginaries in South Session 19: Considering Esther Chung–Kim’s Asia: The Case of the Borderlands of Inventing Authority: The Use of the Church Fathers SaTurDay, January 7, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Kashmir, Pashtunistan, and Assam in Reformation Debates over the Eucharist Michigan Room A (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Promenade Ballroom A (Westin Chicago River North) miDDay SeSSionS of The aha program commiTTee 151. Connecting Radical Protestant Communities in the Early Atlantic World Business History Conference 134. Radical Enlightenment: A Session in Honor Session 2: Writing History at the of Margaret Jacob Los Angeles Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Wall Street Journal Sheraton Ballroom V (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 152. Disability, Community, and the State Grace Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Michigan Room B (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 135. Historians and Principles of Access to Archives Chinese Historians in the United States Clark Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 153. Scandal, Drama, and Intrigue: The Politics Session 6: Constructing Chinese of Latin American Telenovelas in the Late 136. Digital History Workshop, Part 1: The Communities in Urban America Twentieth Century Future of History Journals in the Digital Age Rogers Park Room (Westin Chicago River North) Huron Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Chicago Ballroom X (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 154. Governing Communities: The Latin American Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, 137. Talk Data to Me: A Conversation with Municipality in the Long Nineteenth Century and Transgender History Historians about Using Large–Scale Digital Indiana Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 5: Building Community, Combating Data in Research and Teaching Phobia, Part 1: The Media’s Narratives on “Patient Armitage Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 155. Bold Mamas and Audacious Entrepreneurs: Zero” and Gay Sex during the AIDS Epidemic Early African Gender Dynamics and the Michigan State Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 138. Crowdsourcing History: Collaborative African Diaspora Online Transcription and Archives Missouri Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Chicago Ballroom IX (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Conference on Faith and History 156. Christian Fellowship and the Perils of Building Session: Historians, Historiography, and the 139. Musical Communities and Youth behind the Iron Faith Communities: Evangelical Frontiers, Confessional Divide Curtain: The Socialist Beat in the Soviet Bloc Religious Print Culture, and Political Confl ict McHenry Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Erie Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) in the Early Republic, 1800–60 Colorado Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Conference on Latin American History 140. Does Quixote Drink Coca–Cola? Session 33: Transnational Anthropology in Americanism, Anti–Americanism, and 157. Shaping the South Atlantic Complex: the Americas Americanization in Twentieth–Century Spain Networks and Exchanges, 1500–1822 Old Town Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Chicago Ballroom A (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Sheraton Ballroom III (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Session 35: Christianity Going Native? 141. Local Christianities: Franciscan Confl icts and 158. Outsiders to Second–Wave Feminism in the Missionary Encounters in Guatemala, Accommodations in Asia and Latin America United States: Expanding a Traditional Narrative Mexico, Central America, and Nigeria in the Chicago Ballroom B (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Chicago Ballroom VIII (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Twentieth Century 159. Retelling Church–State History in America Jackson Park Room (Westin Chicago River North) 142. Global Connections among Struggles for Racial Justice: Britain, Germany, South Scottsdale Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 34: Popular Culture and Confl ict in Africa, and the United States Latin America and the Caribbean 160. Law, Sexuality, and Community: Legal and Chicago Ballroom C (Chicago Marriott Downtown) River North Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Popular Understandings of “Illicit” Sex in Nineteenth–Century America 143. New Directions in Early Islamic Chicago Ballroom VI (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching Historiography Session 3: Current Events in Historical Chicago Ballroom D (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 161. The Illegal City: Drugs, Radical Islam, and Perspective, Part III: Urban Affairs Informal Settlements in Africa, the Middle Parlor E (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 144. Creating a Blueprint for History and Social East, and the Postwar United States Science Education: Advancing Instruction, Iowa Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Institute of International Education—CIES: Assessment, Student Learning, and Engagement Fulbright Scholar Program Information Session Chicago Ballroom F (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 162. The Global Occult: The “Hidden” Counter– Currents of Cultural Connectivity Lincolnshire Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 145. Written Law and Empire in the Ancient Addison Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) World: A Comparative Perspective National History Center Miami Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 163. Moving Communities and Networks in the Era Session 4: Historians, Journalists, and the of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Part 5: Family Challenges of Getting It Right, Part 2: 146. Communities of Women in Medieval Networks: Enslaved and Slave Traders in the Publishing and the American Century Economic Networks Eighteenth–Century British Atlantic Mayfair Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Chicago Ballroom G (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Belmont Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)

16 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 17 The 126th Annual Meeting: Sessions at a Glance SaTurDay, January 7, Society for Austrian and Habsburg History 179. Abortion Debates in the United States and Europe, 1960–90: Problematizing the 11:30 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Session 2: Early Modern Habsburg Women, European Diplomacy, and Religious Patronage Standard Narrative afTernoon SeSSion Houston Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Missouri Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) of The aha program commiTTee Toynbee Prize Foundation 180. Rethinking American Education in the Progressive Era 164. Poster Session, Part 1 Session: Global History and Intellectual Networks Colorado Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Sheraton Ballroom II Kansas City Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 181. Secret State Information in Early Modern SaTurDay, January 7, 12:00–2:00 p.m. Europe aTurDay anuary a m p m Sheraton Ballroom III (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) S , J 7, 11:30 . .–1:30 . . film feSTival miDDay SeSSionS of affiliaTeD SocieTieS 2011 John O’Connor Film Award Winner: 182. A Social Turn in Latin American The Pruitt–Igoe Myth: An Urban History Environmental History? American Society of Church History Sheraton Ballroom I (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Houston Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 21: Crossing Religious Boundaries in the Late Antique and Medieval Worlds 183. Creating Communities through Coercion in Jackson Park Room (Westin Chicago River North) SaTurDay, January 7, 2:30–4:30 p.m. Seventeenth–Century France Session 22: America and the Myth of the Iowa Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) afTernoon SeSSionS of The aha Judeo–Christian Culture: Acculturation Reconsidered program commiTTee 184. The Evangelical Century? Reappraising Promenade Ballroom A (Westin Chicago River North) 165. Thinking the Twentieth Century: In Memory the Signifi cance of Religion in the Modern United States Session 23: Society for Reformation Research of Tony Judt Kansas City Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 1: Authorizing Interpretations: The Sheraton Ballroom V (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Bible and the Fathers in the Reformation 166. Digital History Workshop, Part 2: State of 185. Judge–Made Law in Mexico, 1850–1910: Promenade Ballroom B (Westin Chicago River North) the Field Toward the Redefi nition and Establishment Session 24: Korean Christians and Chicago Ballroom X (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) of Networks and Communities Transnational Relations Michigan Room A (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Promenade Ballroom C (Westin Chicago River North) 167. Archivists, Historians, and the Future of Authority in the Archives 186. Communities Made of Money: Coin, Notes, Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Addison Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) and Credit in the European Eighteenth Century Transgender History Chicago Ballroom H (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 168. Teaching History in a Digital Age Session 6: Building Communities, Sheraton Ballroom IV (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 187. Policing Germany: Between Authoritarian Combating Phobia, Part II: LGBT Identity, Rule and Civil Society, 1871–1918 Medicine, and Health 169. Practicum: Teaching and Learning U.S. Chicago Ballroom D (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Michigan State Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Social History with HERB Chicago Ballroom IX (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 188. Whose Racial Democracy? Changing Conference on Latin American History Representations of Race in Brazil, 1950–2000 Session 40: Radical Politics, Ambiguous 170. Digital Research Learning Curve: Practical Huron Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Practices: Everyday Life and “the Political” in Lessons from a Seven–Year Historical Census Database Project Twentieth–Century Brazil 189. Everyday Calculations: Varieties of Old Town Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Chicago Ballroom A (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Commercial Numeracy in Early America Session 41: Latin American Education in a 171. Power within Diaspora: The Politics of Ontario Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Global Context: International Networks and Maroon Communities in Angola, Peru, Local Communities Colombia, and the United States, 1600s–1800s 190. Public History Goes Global: A Roundtable of Issues and Themes River North Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Chicago Ballroom B (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Michigan Room B (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) National History Center 172. Building the Model Community in Central 191. Cold War Kids: The Ideologies of Punk in Session 6: Historians, Journalists, and the and Eastern Europe. the East and the West Challenges of Getting It Right, Part 3: Scottsdale Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Interpreting the Arab Spring Erie Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 173. Beyond Gender and Genre: Familiar Ontario Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Networks in the Early Modern World 192. Radical Networks: Constructing Mid– Denver Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Nineteenth–Century Reform Communities Polish American Historical Association Los Angeles Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 7: Chicago, the Capital of Polish America 174. The Historian and Television History: Arkansas Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Rethinking the Television Age 193. Historical Networks of Global Capitalism: Superior Room A (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) China and Europe Compared Society for Italian Historical Studies Miami Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 3: Perspectives on Early Modern Naples 175. Religion, War, and the Formation of an American Parlor D (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Identity 194. Writing Borderlands into U.S. History Superior Room B (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Armitage Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Society for the Study of Early Modern Women 176. Communities and Society: The History of 195. Tech–Nation: Networks of Technology, Session: Early Modern Habsburg Women, Emotions in the Middle Ages European Diplomacy, and Religious Patronage Transportation, and Power in Twentieth– Chicago Ballroom C (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Houston Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Century Japan 177. What’s the Big Idea? Challenges and Prospects Belmont Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) for Long–Range Intellectual History Chicago Ballroom F (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 196. Ethnography, Ethnology, and Science, 1500– The 2012 Annual Meeting Program 1800, Part 1: Ethnography, Ethnology, and is online at 178. Policy, Power, and Prisons: The Paradox of Natural History in Latin America: Networks, www.historians.org/annual/2012. Twentieth–Century Justice Contexts, and Communities, 1600–1800 Chicago Ballroom G (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Indiana Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)

18 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 19 The 126th Annual Meeting: Sessions at a Glance SaTurDay, January 7, 2:30–5:00 p.m. National History Center SunDay, January 8, Session 7: Historians, Journalists, and the 8:30–10:30 a.m. afTernoon SeSSionS of The aha Challenges of Getting It Right, Part 4: program commiTTee American Intervention early morning SeSSionS 197. Poster Session, Part 2 Chicago Ballroom VIII (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) of The aha program Sheraton Ballroom II (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) commiTTee Polish American Historical Association 198. James M. McPherson: Session 8: Religion in Polish America: A Life in American History SaTurDay, January 7, 2:30–4:30 p.m. Community, Confl ict, and Cooperation Sheraton Ballroom V afTernoon SeSSionS of affiliaTeD Tennessee Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) SocieTieS Session 9: Polish American Historical 199. Popular Protests in Global Perspective American Catholic Historical Association Fiction: Doug Jacobson Michigan Room B (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Session 20: Protestant Catholicity: The Hidden Arkansas Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Reformation of American Christian Communities 200. A Winner’s Guide to Graduate and Postdoctoral Grant and Fellowship Competitions Northwestern Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Society for Italian Historical Studies Session 4: Fascist Italy’s Eastern Front: Chicago Ballroom VI (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Session 21: Depictions of Catholic Life on Ideology, Imagery, and Intellectuals, 1939–45 the Silver Screen: From Italy to Hollywood 201. The Digital History Seminar Parlor D (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Ohio State Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Sheraton Ballroom II (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Session 22: Catholicism in the City of the Society for Military History 202. A Conversation about Text Mining as a Big Shoulders Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Research Method Purdue Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 1: The Convergence of Military and Sheraton Ballroom III (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Session 23: Presidential Policy and the Diplomatic Histories: A Roundtable 203. The Meanings of Correspondence in Modern Catholic Church in America from Jimmy Chicago Ballroom VI (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Latin American History Carter to G.H.W. Bush Chicago Ballroom A (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Wisconsin Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Society for Reformation Research Session 2: Divergent Interpretations of the 204. Life and Death on New Spain’s Northern Frontier American Society of Church History Reformation Chicago Ballroom B (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 25: The Construction of Arian Memories Promenade Ballroom C (Westin Chicago River North) 205. Refugees and Refugee Camps: A Comparative Jackson Park Room (Westin Chicago River North) Perspective since World War II Session 26: Mormon History Association: Urban History Association Chicago Ballroom C (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Teaching Mormonism in the Digital Age Session: Transnational Urbanism in the Americas Promenade Ballroom A (Westin Chicago River North) Rogers Park Room (Westin Chicago River North) 206. Fluid Worlds, Shifting Selves: Gender, Difference, and the Making of Transnational Session 27: Secularism and Protestant Maritime Communities Identity in the Early Twentieth Century aTurDay anuary p m Chicago Ballroom F (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Promenade Ballroom B (Westin Chicago River North) S , J 7, 4:45–6:00 . . Session 28: Divergent Interpretations of the aha buSineSS meeTing 207. Building Transatlantic Women’s Communities and Networks, 1880s–1940s Reformation Chicago Ballroom X (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Promenade Ballroom C (Westin Chicago River North) Chicago Ballroom G (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 29: Reassessing Missions in the 208. The 1970s Are History: Opportunities and Colonial Atlantic World SaTurDay, January 7, 5:00–7:00 p.m. Limitations of Democratic Openings in Mexico Executive Room (Westin Chicago River North) film feSTival Los Angeles Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) On These Shoulders We Stand Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and 209. Crafting Communities in Cold War Latin America: U.S. Modernization Efforts through Education, Transgender History Sheraton Ballroom I (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) the Peace Corps, and the Alliance for Progress Session 7: Bodies of Evidence: Queer Oral Chicago Ballroom H (Chicago Marriott Downtown) History Methods SaTurDay, January 7, 5:00–6:30 p.m. Clark Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 210. Dreams of Development: Transnational Session 8: Race-ing the Sexual Revolution laTe afTernoon SeSSion of affiliaTeD Perspectives on Gender, Work, and Violence Michigan State Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) SocieTy Armitage Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Society for Military History 211. Sailing Ships, Silver Buckles, and Solemn Conference on Latin American History George C. Marshall Foundation Bonds: Powerful Threads of Community Webs Session 46: Visualizing the Cuban Revolution George C. Marshall Lecture on Military History Huron Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Wrigleyville Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Chicago Ballroom VIII (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 212. The Terms of Engagement and Belonging in Session 47: Cold War Revolutions and Colombia’s Long 1930s and 1940s Counter–Revolutions in the Caribbean and Ontario Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Central America SaTurDay, January 7, 5:00–7:00 p.m. River North Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Conference on Latin American History 213. Black Militias in the Spanish Atlantic World Session 48: CLAH Presidential Session: Session 49: Caribbean Studies Committee during the Age of Revolution Negotiating the Challenges of Publishing in Roundtable Superior Room A (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) the Twenty–First Century Wrigleyville Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 214. The Transformation of Christian and Muslim Old Town Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 50: Central American Studies Communities from Spiritual to Territorial after the Wars of Twelfth–Century Iberia Committee: In Honor of 2012: Time and Coordinating Council for Women in History Superior Room B (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Session 9: A Refl ection of American Values: Representation in Central America Sport in the Twentieth Century River North Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 215. Inter–American Networks and Racial Constructs in the Twentieth Century Grace Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 51: Mexican Studies Committee: Chicago Ballroom X (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Session 10: Mentoring: Wish Lists, War Roundtable on the Use of Visual Culture as Stories, and Words of Wisdom Historical Evidence Sheffi eld Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Old Town Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)

18 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 19 The 126th Annual Meeting: Sessions at a Glance 216. Jewish and Latin American: 230. The Mughal Empire: New Debates, Part 1: 233. Women in Right–Wing Political Movements Negotiating Ethnicity, Nation(s), The Mughal Imperial Imaginary between Sheraton Ballroom II (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) and Continent in Argentina and Soldiers and Scribes Brazil, 1950–70 Belmont Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 234. From Digital Humanities to Cultural History: Miami Room The French Book Trade in Enlightenment (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Europe SunDay, January 8, 8:30–10:30 a.m. Ontario Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 217. Environmental History of Colonial Mexico City early morning SeSSionS of affiliaTeD 235. Cattle and Cane: Negotiating Community, Colorado Room SocieTieS Region, and Development in Brazilian (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) American Catholic Historical Association Commodity Chains, 1880–1980 Session 24: Franciscan Pioneers and Prophets Superior Room B (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 218. Boundaries and Border Crossers in North in the United States America and Beyond 236. Reinventing Indians: New Perspectives on Northwestern Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Scottsdale Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) the “Indian Problem” in Modern Mexico Session 25: Catholic Response to Modernity Armitage Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 219. Before “Social Media”: Communication, Ohio State Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Community, and Politics in the Twentieth– 237. Reconfi guring the Local: Global Networks Century United States Session 26: Martin Luther in His Catholic Context: Some New Research and Metropolitan Boundaries Chicago Ballroom VII (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Purdue Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Erie Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 220. In Search of a New Balance: Meat in Session 27: Looking at the Face of Europe 238. New Frontiers in the Environmental History Twentieth–Century American History from North American Eyes of the Renaissance Erie Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Wisconsin Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Chicago Ballroom A (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 221. From City to Suburb: Associations, Ethnic American Society of Church History 239. Decolonizing U.S. History: The United Enclaves, and Public Spaces in Early States and Decolonization at Home and Twentieth–Century America Session 30: Rethinking Contemporary Abroad Chicago Ballroom IX (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Evangelicalism Promenade Ballroom B (Westin Chicago River North) Sheraton Ballroom III (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) 222. Lost in Translation: The Strange Transpacifi c Session 31: Authorizing Women: The Construction, 240. Marriage, Communities, Boundaries: French Careers of Mahjong, the SS Nemesis, and the Promotion, and Reclamation of Women’s Authority Chinese Typewriter and Indians in the Illinois Country and Authorship in Late Antique and Medieval Texts Superior Room A (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Missouri Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Promenade Ballroom A (Westin Chicago River North) 223. Between Europe and the Mediterranean: Session 32: Healing, Ethnic Identity, and the 241. Madness and Community in the United Knowledge, Religion, and Politics in Four Globalization of Pentecostalism States: Four Perspectives Early Modern Italian Cities Promenade Ballroom C (Westin Chicago River North) Arkansas Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Michigan Room A (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Session 33: Six Days Shalt Thou Labor: Class and 242. The State and Indigenous Languages in 224. World Wide Webs? Networks and Intellectual the Transformation of American Protestantism Twentieth–Century Latin America Communities in the British Empire Executive Room (Westin Chicago River North) Chicago Ballroom B (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Chicago Ballroom VIII (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and 243. Alternative Geographies of Citizenship: Race, 225. Global Radicalism and the “One Big Union”: Transgender History Rights, and Belonging in Transnational History Transnational Histories of the Industrial Session 10: The Pleasures and Perils of Michigan Room A (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Workers of the World LGBTQ Public History 244. Fractured Histories of Colonial Liberalism: Chicago Ballroom D (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Michigan State Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Political Networks and Political Norms, 226. Elite Political and Economic Networks in Session 11: Coordinating Council for Women India 1910–43 Mexican History in History Session 14: Ending Don’t Ask, Chicago Ballroom C (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Chicago Ballroom E (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Don’t Tell: Lessons Learned from Integrating Minorities and Women in the U.S. Military 245. Improvising Communities of Print during 227. Ethnography, Ethnology, and Science, Iowa Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) the American Civil War 1500–1800, Part 2: Traditions and Genres Chicago Ballroom F (Chicago Marriott Downtown) for Observation, Analysis, and Synthesis Conference on Latin American History Arkansas Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Session 62: Revolutionary Reverberations: 246. Hybrid Encounters: The Gendered Dynamics Latin American Politics in the Wake of the of Racial Mixing in Imperial and Post– 228. Looking for the Tracks: The Quest for African Cuban Revolution Imperial Asia Sources on Slavery and the Slave Trade, Part 1 Missouri Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Clark Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Old Town Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 63: Gender, Labor, Welfare, and 247. South Andean “Altiplano” Communities and 229. Sexing Up the “Long” 1950s, Part 1: New Family across Latin America Colonial “Cacique” Networks, Mid–Sixteenth Narratives in U.S. Gender and Sexuality Studies Wrigleyville Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) to Early Nineteenth Centuries Addison Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Session 64: Jesuits and Crypto–Jews in Colorado Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Seventeenth–Century Spanish America: 248. Revolutionary Era Cosmopolitanism(s) PLEASE NOTE: Individual and Familial Biographies Chicago Ballroom G (Chicago Marriott River North Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Downtown) Although the AHA welcomes members of its affi liated societies, 249. To Resist or Embrace? Immigrant SunDay, January 8, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. the costs of organizing and Perspectives on Public Schooling, 1870–1940 holding the annual meeting are laTe morning SeSSionS of The aha Michigan Room B (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) considerable. As a result, only program commiTTee 250. Citizenship and the Public Sphere: Methods REGISTRANTS with an AHA BADGE 231. The Valley of the Shadow Project and Its of a New Political History can participate in the AHA JOB Progeny after 20 Years Chicago Ballroom VIII (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Sheraton Ballroom V (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) CENTER, visit the EXHIBIT HALL, and 251. Toward a Pan–Iberian History: Pre–modern access the MESSAGING SYSTEM! 232. Whither the Future of the History Textbook Networks and Communities Chicago Ballroom VI (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Chicago Ballroom H (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 20 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 21 The 126th Annual Meeting: Sessions at a Glance

252. Art and History Education: Using Visual Arts SunDay, January 8, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Session 35: Gendered to Spark Engagement in History and Build Christianity in Twentieth– Interpretive Skills laTe morning SeSSionS of The aha Century Missions and Los Angeles Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) affiliaTeD SocieTieS Rituals American Catholic Historical Association Promenade Ballroom B (Westin 253. The Nature of the State in Mid–century Session 28: The American Catholic Church Chicago River North) Mexico, 1934–60 and the “Problem” of Immigration in the Session 36: Early Modern Huron Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) Twentieth Century Protestant Appropriation of Northwestern Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Catholic Thought and Practice 254. Ethnography, Ethnology, and Science, Promenade Ballroom C (Westin 1500–1800, Part 3: Categories of Physical Session 29: De–centering old stories: Where Chicago River North) Difference Was North American Catholicism Born? Miami Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Ohio State Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Conference on Latin American History Session 30: The Catholic Church, War, Peace, Session 73: Students, Intellectuals, and 255. Looking for the Tracks: The Quest for African and Democracy in the Early Federal Republic Politicians, 1945–80: A New Cultural History Sources on Slavery and the Slave Trade, Part 2 of Germany of Political Practice in Mid–Twentieth– Clark Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Purdue Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Century Latin America Old Town Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 256. Sexing Up the “Long” 1950s, Part 2: Urban and Session 31: Tensions within the North Transnational Narratives in the Americas and Europe American Church Session 74: The Progressive Catholic Church and Society in Ecuador and Colombia Addison Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Wisconsin Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Wrigleyville Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) 257. The Mughal Empire: New Debates, Part 2: American Society of Church History Session 75: Political Radicalism in Cold War The Performance of Sovereignty in the Mughal Session 34: After Edwards: Appropriations of Latin America: Networks, Contact Zones, and Empire: New Comparisons and Contexts the New England Theology Tensions from Left and Right Belmont Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown) Promenade Ballroom A (Westin Chicago River North) River North Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)

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28 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 29 New Titles in the Essays on Global and Comparative History series

Locating the United States in Twentieth-Century World History by Carl J. Guarneri The Impact of the Two World Wars in a Century of Violence by John H. Morrow Jr. World Migration in the Long Twentieth Century by Jose C. Moya and Adam McKeown Women in the Twentieth-Century World by Bonnie G. Smith Twentieth-Century Urbanization: In Search of an Urban Paradigm for an Urban World by Howard Spodek A Century of Environmental Transitions by Richard P. Tucker and the New Essays on American Constitutional History series

Religion, Morality, and the Constitutional Order by Linda Przybyszewski

Visit the AHA’s booths (507 & 509) in the Exhibit Hall, located in River Exhibition Hall of the Sheraton Chicago.

Find these new titles and others for sale in the Registration area, located in River Exhibition Hall B of the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers. Or visit the AHA’s online Pubshop at www.historians.org/pubshop.

30 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 31 Chicago and Historians Slavic Chicago

By Dominic A. Pacyga

n the 1850s, Polish and Czech became known as the Polish Downtown. The become the Gold Coast), then in the South immigrants began fi nding their way addition of a second large Catholic church, Loop, and by the Civil War years, in the im- I to Chicago, establishing between their Holy Trinity, in 1872 earned the neighbor- migrant melting pot of the Near West Side. adopted city and central and eastern Europe hood the name Stanisławowo-Trojcowo Here, in a neighborhood known as Praha a relationship comprised not only of a among Poles, after the two competing, some- (Little Prague), Chicago’s Czechs created population transfer, but also of a rich cultural times ideologically opposed Catholic parishes. fraternal, religious, and educational institu- and economic exchange. By the 1920s, people Today, both remain Catholic churches, tions that would serve the community well, of Slavic descent made up the majority of the though Holy Trinity changed its status to a spreading south to Pilsen after the Great Fire city’s population, surpassing the German mission to the Polish community in 1987. of 1871, and west to the suburbs of Cicero Americans who had dominated from the Over time, Polish Catholics would organize and Berwyn. The Czech community was 1850s until World War I. The Chicago area some 60 parishes in the Chicago area. ideologically divided between Catholics, boasts the largest urban Polish population Work in the lumberyards, packinghouses, Freethinkers, and Protestants, and their outside Warsaw, and the largest concentration steel mills, foundries, and factories of Chicago multi-layered history played itself out on of Czechs outside Prague and Vienna. drew and dispersed Polish immigrants across the streets of Chicago. Praha’s Catholics Five large Polish districts appeared across the city. Many were attracted to the Lower organized St. Wenceslaus parish; Freethink- the city in the decades that followed: along West Side, where they founded St. Adalbert’s, ers established lodges and schools as well the Milwaukee Avenue Corridor, the Lower adding its magnifi cent Baroque edifi ce in as the Sokol gymnastic clubs; and Protes- West Side, Bridgeport, Back of the Yards, and 1914. Now a predominantly Mexican parish, tants organized congregations. Svornost, a South Chicago-Hegewisch. Czechs tended St. Adalbert still acknowledges its Polish Freethinkers newspaper, was the fi rst Czech to settle in the Pilsen and Czech Califor- roots. To this second settlement were added journal in the city; Catholics and Protestants nia neighborhoods, as they followed 22nd Polish neighborhoods in nearby Bridgeport quickly matched it with publications of their Street (Cermak Road), Blue Island Avenue, and Back of the Yards, as well as a large com- own. Czech Catholics organized parishes and 26th Street west to outlying neighbor- munity of Poles on the Southeast Side, who and parochial schools, culminating in the hoods and the suburbs. Other Slavic groups established four parishes in South Chicago 1887 creation of St. Procopius College in followed, with large concentrations of Slovaks and one, St. Florian’s, in Hegewisch. Pilsen. Now Illinois Benedictine Univer- on the Southwest Side, especially the Back of Czech Chicagoans settled fi rst on the city’s sity, it moved to its current location in Lisle, the Yards; Croatians, Serbs, and Slovenians on Near North Side (in the area that would Illinois, in 1901. the Southeast Side; Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians on the North Side. Jewish com- munities from central and eastern Europe Slavic Museums and Cultural Centers often settled in or near these neighborhoods. The fi rst Polish Catholic parish was estab- in Chicago lished in 1867 in the West Town area, adjacent to a German Catholic settlement. Initially, Croatian Cultural Center Serbian Cultural and Arts Poles were welcomed into St. Boniface— 2845 W. Devon Ave. Center St. Sava the local German parish—but after being 773-338-3839 448 W. Barry Ave. denied entrance to the church, they estab- 773-549-9690 lished St. Stanislaus Kostka, on Noble Street, Czechoslovak Heritage just blocks from their German neighbors. Museum SWUA Slovenian Heritage St. Stanislaus Kostka became a seed that 122 W. 22nd St. Museum bore much fruit; from it, the Resurrection- Oak Brook, IL 60523 431 N. Chicago St. ist Fathers expanded a string of magnifi cent [email protected] Joliet, IL 60432 Polish parishes northwest along Milwaukee 815-727-1926 Avenue. National Polish fraternal organiza- Polish Museum of America tions—including the rival Polish Roman 984 N. Milwaukee Ave. Ukrainian National Museum Catholic Union and the Polish National 773-384-3352 of Chicago Alliance—set up their Chicago headquar- 2249 W. Superior St. ters near the intersection of Milwaukee and 312-421-8020 Ashland Avenues, whose surrounding area

30 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 31 The Pan-Slavism thatThe prevailed 123between rdboth Annual groups sought independence Meeting for their the way for the rise of Czech-born Anton Poles and Czechs—sometimes sharing homelands and political power in Chicago. Cermak and the Democratic Machine. such services as cemeteries and savings and The city’s Poles and Czechs attacked German Cermak’s victory over Mayor William “Big loans—increased during World War I, as interests during the war and prepared Bill” Thompson in 1931 made him the only immigrant mayor in the city’s history. Thompson, meanwhile, proved to be the Tours Arranged by the last Republican mayor of Chicago. Chicago’s other Slavic communities Local Arrangements Committee followed the pattern set by Poles and Czechs Tour groups will meet at the Sheraton’s Parlor A to board a bus to their destination. who, in turn, had followed the example of Except where indicated, tours are fully accessible. Tickets for available tours can be the Irish and Germans in establishing in- purchased in the registration area in the Sheraton's River Exhibition Hall B. Tour tickets stitutionally rich neighborhoods across the are non-refundable and cannot be exchanged. Tour participants must be registered for city. Evidence of ethnic linkage marks the the AHA meeting. landscape. Poles and Czechs settled near Germans; Slovaks and other Slavs tended to Preconference Tour: Tour 1: Public Housing in Chicago: Past and Present gather near the Poles and Czechs. Over the Wed., Jan. 4, 1:00–4:30 p.m. v $30 members / $35 nonmembers last few years, Hispanics, particularly those Preconference Tour: Tour 2: The Chicago History Museum: Facing Freedom of Mexican descent, have settled in former Exhibit Slavic neighborhoods. Despite ethnic Wed., Jan. 4, 2:30–5:00 p.m. v $30 members / $35 nonmembers turnover, monuments to former communi- ties remain. Ukrainians, for instance, left Tour 3: World War II and Its Aftermath: The Polish and Ukrainian Experiences behind two massive churches: St. Nicolas Thurs., Jan. 5, 2:00–5:00 p.m. v $35 members / $40 nonmembers Ukrainian Cathedral at the intersection of Tour 4: Chicago History Museum: Out in Chicago Rice and Oakley, and SS. Volodymr and Thurs., Jan. 5, 2:30–5:00 p.m. v $30 members / $35 nonmembers Olha Catholic Church on Superior and Tour 5: Hull House Museum: Jane Addams and Chicago’s Near West Side Oakley. Within walking distance stands Louis Sullivan’s magnificent Holy Trinity Fri., Jan. 6, 9:30 a.m.–noon v $30 members / $35 nonmembers Please note: A full tour of one of the museum’s two historic buildings requires the Orthodox Cathedral, funded in part by use of a staircase. Czar Nicholas II to serve Chicago’s Russian Orthodox community. These churches Tour 6: The Newberry Library: Medieval, Renaissance, and Early highlight the Slavic past of the fast-gentrify- Modern Collections ing Ukrainian Village. Serbian and Croatian Fri. Jan. 6, 9:30 a.m.–noon v $30 members / $35 nonmembers churches survive in various neighborhoods Tour 7: Black Metropolis: A Tour of African American History across Chicago: the Serbian Orthodox on Chicago’s South Side Church of St. Simeon Mirotočivi, con- Fri., Jan. 6, 2:00–5:00 p.m. v $30 members / $35 nonmembers structed in 1968 on Chicago’s East Side, is perhaps the best example of Serbian ecclesi- Tour 8: The National Museum of Mexican Art: Mexican Culture astical architecture in the United States. and Chicago’s Pilsen Community Several of Chicago’s Slavic groups Fri., Jan. 6, 2:00–5:00 p.m. v $30 members, $35 nonmembers maintain museums or cultural centers, and Tour 9: The Newberry Library: Indigenous and Settler Worlds in the Americas small businesses with a Slavic flavor remain Fri., Jan. 6, 2:30–5:00 p.m. v $30 members / $35 nonmembers in the city and suburbs. AHA attendees can Tour 10: Chicago Explored: Legacy of Daniel Burnham and Edward visit the Polish Museum of America and the Bennett’s 1909 Plan of Chicago Ukrainian National Museum on Tour 3: Sat., Jan. 7, 9:00 a.m.–noon v $30 members / $35 nonmembers World War II and Its Aftermath: The Polish and Ukrainian Experiences. Tour 8 includes Tour 11: Cambodian American Heritage Museum: The Killing Fields Memorial a tour of the Pilsen neighborhood (see box at Sat., Jan. 7, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. v $30 members / $35 nonmembers left for details). Listed in the box on page 31 Tour 12: World War II and Its Aftermath: The Lithuanian Experience are the addresses and contact information of Sat., Jan. 7, 2:00–5:30 p.m. v $30 members / $35 nonmembers several museums and cultural centers. These Tour 13: Frances Willard House Museum and Archives: Behind and have limited hours, so please get in touch Beyond the Scenes of the Temperance Movement before visiting. Sat., Jan. 7, 2:00–5:30 p.m. v $30 members / $35 nonmembers Dominic A. Pacyga, Columbia College Chi- Please note: the house and archives are not handicapped accessible. Guests will cago, is a member of the Local Arrangements need to navigate stairs and be able to stand for approximately 1 hour. Committee. His most recent book is Chicago: A Biography (University of Chicago Press, 2009).

32 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 20122011 January 5–8, 20122011 126th Annual Meeting 33 Chicago and Historians Latino Chicago

By Geraldo L. Cadava

he history of Chicago’s rise as a of scholarly production has quickened ever Cubans are a signifi cant majority. Chicago, national railroad hub, industrial since. Recent groundbreaking works include in fact, has been the leading destination for T powerhouse, commodity center, and Mexican Chicago, Performing Piety, The Near Mexicans outside of the Southwest. Major diverse, culturally vibrant global city is, Northwest Side Story, Latino Crossings, and concentrations of Bolivians, Colombians, unmistakably, Latino history. So are the city’s Working the Boundaries, with others about to Ecuadorians, Guatemalans, Peruvians, and histories of labor exploitation, interethnic appear. Salvadorans also live in the city, making it struggle, police violence, segregation, and Yet studies of Latino Chicago remain one of the most diverse Latino population economic and social inequality. marginal to both Latino and Chicago history. centers in the United States. Chicago’s Latino communities formed as a Studies of the Southwest, Florida, and New Latinos have spread across the city and result of international, national, and regional York still dominate Latino history, and other its suburbs, but they have concentrated in migrations not unlike the better-known so-called minority histories of early Native particular neighborhoods. Mexicans settled Great Migration of African Americans American communities, African Americans, on the city’s south and west side, in Pilsen during the early 20th century, if not in that and eastern Europeans have fi gured more and Little Village. Puerto Ricans fi rst lived scale then in terms of the harsh conditions prominently in histories of Chicago. But as on Chicago’s north side, in neighborhoods that led Latinos to seek better lives there, Chicago’s Latino population continues to like Lincoln Park and Uptown. During the and their lasting impact on the settlement of grow, and as historiographies become more 1960s, the gentrifi cation of those neigh- communities with deep roots in the city. transnational and comparative, we should, borhoods pushed them west to Humboldt Latinos came directly to Chicago from to paraphrase historian Vicki Ruiz, think of Park. Ecuadorians settled on the north side Latin America and the Caribbean. They Latino history as Chicago history. as well, in Logan Square, Albany Park, and migrated to Chicago after stops in Texas, Today more Latinos live in Chicago than Lakeview. The most recent demographic Florida, or New York. Or they went fi rst all U.S. cities besides Los Angeles and New trend among Chicagoland Latinos is the from these places to farms and cities in York. Like most other places with large Latino growth of suburban communities in Cicero, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Indiana, populations, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Naperville, and Schaumburg. eventually making their way to Chicago to pursue other, hopefully better opportuni- ties. Many also returned from whence they Second City Discount came, transformed by their experiences in For 50 years Second City has set the stage for comedians like Bill Murray and the city. Chicago thus became the heart of Tina Fey to hone their craft while entertaining audiences. Attendees of this the Latino Midwest. year’s 126th Annual Meeting will receive a 20% off discount of regular priced Latino experiences in Chicago have been tickets for Second City Mainstage’s South Side of Heaven and The Second chronicled by a range of authors, artists, City’s History of Chicago at UP Comedy Club. performers, and scholars, perhaps most South Side of Heaven at Second City Mainstage’s (1616 North Wells Street) famously by Sandra Cisneros in novels such as The House on Mango Street and Caramelo. Tickets: 20% off regular ticket price of $22. Limit 4 tickets per order. Carlos Eire, in Waiting for Snow in Havana, Ordering: Online at www.secondcity.com or call 312-337-3992 with the code “AHA” and Achy Obejas, in Days of Awe, wrote The Second City’s History of Chicago at UP Comedy Club beautifully and movingly about Chicago’s (230 W North Ave., 3rd Floor of Piper’s Alley) Cuban American diaspora. Scholars from the early 20th century Tickets: 20% off regular ticket price for the following performances: forward have explored Chicago’s Latino Thursday, January 5 at 1:30 p.m. (Regular ticket price, $30) communities. The University of Chicago Saturday, January 7 at 2:30 p.m.(Regular ticket price, $35) anthropologist Robert Redfi eld studied Sun, January 8 at 1:00 p.m. (Regular ticket price, $35) Mexicans in Chicago during the 1920s. The Limit 4 tickets per order. Berkeley economist Paul S. Taylor studied Ordering: Online at www.secondcity.com or call 312-337-3992 with the code “AHA” Chicago’s Mexican migrant communities during the 1930s. Puerto Rican Chicago- ans became the subjects of Elena Padilla’s ethnographic work in the 1940s. The pace

32 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 20122011 January 5–8, 20122011 126th Annual Meeting 33 Latinos began to arriveThe in large 123numbers rdcompanies Annual in Back of the Meeting Yards and on the city were former braceros who left the guest during the first decades of the 20th century. Near West Side. Many replaced European worker program for better paying industrial Spanish explorers reached the area during immigrant workers, whose entrance into jobs, which could be equally exploitative. their explorations of the upper Midwest. the United States was restricted as a result Puerto Ricans settled in Chicago during No more than 50 had settled there by the of World War I and the 1924 Johnson-Reed the World War II era as well, recruited by mid-19th century. While a Mexican con- Act. Since the late 19th century, Mexicans U.S. labor agents stationed in Puerto Rico. sulate opened in Chicago in 1884, the first and other workers had fierce advocates like Men worked in factories, while many women wave of Latino migration coincided with Lucy Parsons and Guadalupe Marshall to worked as domestics. Many were overcharged Chicago’s rise as a national railroad hub and help organize and participate in labor actions for their airfare from Puerto Rico to Chicago, city of agriculture and industry. Later growth from the Haymarket Riot in 1886 to the were too young to work, and worked in poor spurts occurred during the 1920s, and then Republic Steel Mill strike in 1937. conditions. They nevertheless arrived in large from World War II forward. While universi- After a decade of depression, World War numbers. In 1950, only 8,000 Puerto Ricans ty students, doctors, and engineers represent II renewed the city’s need for workers. lived in the entire Midwest, but by 1960, the class diversity of Latinos migrants, most Mexicans arrived as participants in the 32,000 lived in Chicago alone. have worked as wage laborers. Bracero Program, a wartime emergency labor When political tides crashed against The growth of Latino communities paral- agreement between the United States and Mexican workers—as during Operation leled the city’s rising labor demands. Mexicans Mexico initiated in 1942 and continuing Wetback in 1954 and 1955, which expelled during the early 20th century worked for until 1964—well after the war—because of millions of Mexicans from the country— railroad companies, factories, and farms ongoing demands for cheap labor. During the Puerto Ricans became convenient solutions surrounding the city. They worked at steel war years alone, more than 15,000 braceros to labor shortages because they were U.S. mills in South Chicago, and at meatpacking worked in Chicago. Other Mexicans in the citizens, a less convenient fact that made them harder to deport. Throughout their history in Chicago, Latinos have held a diverse array of DePaul University Art Museum jobs, working in factories, on railroads, and as domestics; in retail, hotel, and garment AHA Open House: industries; and as proprietors of restaurants, travel agencies, and grocery stores. The Hidden Histories of Chicago If labor demands led to the growth of Chicago’s Latino communities, so did hemi- Art and Artists, RE: Chicago spheric experiences of civil war, colonialism, and Cold War detente. Chicago’s Mexican Friday, January 6, 5:00–8:00 p.m. population grew during the 1920s as a result DePaul University Art Museum, 905 W Fullerton Ave.,Chicago of Mexico’s Cristero Wars, which forced AHA conference attendees are invited to attend a special open house for Re: Chicago, the many religious leaders to flee the country. exciting inaugural exhibition at the new DePaul University Art Museum in Lincoln Park. The colonial relationship between the For a century or more the Chicago arts community has struggled to define itself in United States and Puerto Rico facilitated the relation to other artistic centers, such as Paris, New York or Los Angeles. While importation of laborers from the island, and prominent American artists past and present have made Chicago their home at one Colombians arrived during the late 1940s point or another, many left to make their reputations elsewhere. Rather than submit to and 1950s as refugees from civil war. Cubans the label of “second” city, can Chicago be seen as a center in its own right with an artistic migrated in the years leading up to the 1959 perspective and community as distinctive as its geography, economy and politics? This Revolution; during the 1960s as participants exhibition shows work by 40 artists, each chosen by a member of the Chicago art world, in Operation Pedro Pan, which airlifted and invites viewers to join in a conversation about who is famous, who used to be, and Cuban children to the United States; and who ought to be. in the 1980s and 1990s as balseros, or boat Dr. Neil Harris (Emeritus, University of Chicago) will offer brief remarks introducing people who arrived on U.S. shores in rafts. the exhibit at 6 p.m. Finally, during the 1970s and 1980s, Central All AHA annual meeting attendees are welcome to browse and enjoy refreshments. Americans sought sanctuary in Chicago as refugees from countries torn apart by war. Sponsored by the History Department at DePaul University. Latinos in Chicago continued to engage Directions from the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers: The DePaul Art Museum the politics of their home countries even after is conveniently located adjacent to the “Fullerton” CTA Brown/Red line stations. The their arrival. Mexicans during the 1930s orga- Fullerton Bus (#74) and the Lincoln Avenue Bus (#11) both stop in front of the museum nized a chapter of the leftist group, El Frente as well. Street parking is available in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. Validated parking Popular Mexicano. Chicago’s Cuban diaspora rates are also available for the Sheffield garage located around the corner from the museum, formed an exile outpost against the Castro a half block south on Sheffield Avenue. regime. During the Sanctuary Movement, museums.depaul.edu Casa Guatemala formed to support Guatema- lan refugees, while Centro Romero—named

34 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 35 after the martyred bishop from El Salvador, and the fi rst Latino City Clerk in 2007. great change, and hopefully the result will be Oscar Romero—offered aid to all Central Today, U.S. Senator Luis Gutiérrez is a fi erce greater justice and equality. Americans. Since the late 20th century, advocate for Latinos in Illinois and across the Chicago demographics are shifting rapidly. Mexicans have formed Hometown Associa- United States, both legal and undocumented. Between 2000 and 2010, the Latino popula- tions as support networks for migrants from Latinos also have helped to make Chicago tion of Illinois doubled; Latino communities the same area as them, and as a formal means one of the most culturally vibrant cities in grew faster, in fact, than all others combined. of pooling resources to send home to Mexico. the United States. The National Museum of Voter turnout among Latinos has surged; Since 2006, Mexicans in Chicago have been Mexican Art, established in 1987, is one of Chicago’s May Day rallies inspired hundreds able to vote in Mexican elections, leading the best Mexican and Mexican American art of thousands across the nation to march in candidates to campaign in the city. museums in the United States. The streets of support of immigrant rights; Elvira Arel- But Latinos have been active forces in local Pilsen, Little Village, and Humboldt Park are lano’s refuge in the United Methodist Church politics as well, struggling against discrimina- fi lled with Latino-owned shops, restaurants, made Chicago the center of a New Sanctuary tion, violence, and inequality. They voiced and churches. Beautiful murals adorn the walls Movement; Latinos struck in 2008 to demand their positions as members of several politi- of homes and businesses in these neighbor- their fair treatment by Republic Windows and cal and social organizations. Women formed hoods. The women of Teatro Luna write and Doors; and in part because of Latino politi- Mujeres Latinas en Acción to deal with edu- perform explorations of Latina identity and cal pressure, Illinois became the fi rst state to cation, reproductive health, and family issues. history. Mexicans celebrate Cinco de Mayo, pass a DREAM Act that grants undocument- Mexicans established the Mexican Civic Independence Day, and Día de los Muertos. ed immigrants government-funded college Committee, Mexican American Council of Every July Colombians celebrate Colombia’s scholarships. Latinos, therefore, certainly Chicago, and Casa Aztlán, as well as local Independence Day, and in August, Ecuador- will continue to shape Chicago’s present and chapters of national organizations like the ians celebrate Ecuadorian Week. (Tickets are future, just as they have its past. League of United Latin American Citizens still available for Tour 8, which will visit the Geraldo L. Cadava, Northwestern University, and the Centro de Acción Social Autónoma. museum and the Pilsen neighborhood.) is a member of the Local Arrangements Com- Puerto Ricans established ASPIRA Inc.; Ec- Even as Latinos become increasingly integrat- mittee. Originally from Tucson, he teaches uadorians organized the Ecuadorian Lions ed into the fabric of life in Chicago, realities of borderlands and Latino history. Harvard Club; and Colombians formed Colombianos poverty, police brutality, poor living conditions, University Press will publish his book about Unidos Para Una Labor Activa. The Young and educational disparities continue to shape post-WWII Arizona and Sonora, titled The Lords Party was dually founded in Chicago their experiences. But we’re living in a period of Heat of Exchange. and New York. The Weather Underground and the SDS convention stand in for sixties activism in Chicago, while the histories of these Latino groups remain comparatively unknown. These are only a few examples of Latino po- litical engagement, demonstrating a long tradi- tion of participation in Chicago’s civic society. Latino groups worked in areas including labor, immigration, health care, education, and seg- regation. Often they responded to particular episodes of discrimination and violence, in- cluding the deportation of Mexicans during the 1930s and the 1966 Division Street Riots, which protested the shooting by police of a young Puerto Rican man. Later efforts to end police brutality led to Chicago’s fi rst Puerto Rican Day Parade in 1978. Beginning during the late 1970s, Latinos more actively engaged Chicago’s electoral politics. Irene Hernández became the fi rst Latino elected to offi ce in 1974, when she became the Cook County Commissioner. Latinos also played an important role in multiracial coalition building during Harold Washington’s mayoral campaign, and then Latinos like Rudy Lozano held posts in his administration. Miguel del Valle became the fi rst Latino Illinois State Senator in 1987,

34 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 35 Chicago and Historians Sacred Space, Myth, and Preservation in Chicago By Ellen Skerrett

hen former Democratic kowski’s grandmothers lived in Chicago in city’s downtown (now 1080 W. Roosevelt Congressman Dan Rostenkowski 1871—in fact they hadn’t left Poland at the Road). Rev. Arnold Damen, S.J., incurred W died in August 2010, his funeral time of the Great Fire! the wrath of the Yankee-dominated Chicago was held in his boyhood church, St. Why did Congressman Rostenkowski Tribune when he announced plans to build Stanislaus Kostka, the imposing Renaissance- come to believe such a tall tale? The answer, the largest church in the city as well as a style edifi ce visible to travelers as they make I think, has to do with the deep attachment college and a system of parochial schools. their way from O’Hare Airport to downtown Chicagoans have felt for their neighborhood But Chicagoans disregarded the newspaper’s Chicago via the Kennedy Expressway. The churches. Built with the nickels and dimes warning not to aid “the founding of Jesuit powerful Ways and Means Committee of the poor, these monumental structures institutions in the city,” and large crowds chairman claimed credit for helping to save constituted visible proof that immigrants turned out at the fundraising concerts and the “mother parish” of Chicago’s Polonia of many different ethnic backgrounds had bazaars, purchasing china dishes and oil from the wrecking ball in the 1950s when the created a place for themselves in the city— paintings and paying 10 cents for each vote expressway was being planned. He was fond and left their mark on the urban landscape. to elect the most popular men and women. of telling reporters that his grandmother had As Jonathan Fine, executive director of Pres- Alderman “Honest John” Comiskey watched the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 ervation Chicago, recently observed, “It (father of future White Sox owner Charles 1 from the steeple of St. Stanislaus. doesn’t matter if you’re Catholic, Jewish or Comiskey) went door-to-door in 1859, Like so many wonderful Chicago stories, atheist, the city’s historic churches anchor helping to collect nearly $1,000 for stained Rostenkowski’s account was a myth: con- the neighborhood with their architecture glass windows. By the time Holy Family 2 struction on the present St. Stanislaus and serve as the center of the community.” was dedicated in 1860, the Tribune had Kostka began in 1877 and the church was When it comes to mythmaking, few grudgingly conceded that the church would dedicated in 1881; not until 1892 were the Chicago churches or synagogues enjoyed as become “an ornament to the city.” steeples fi nally raised. Moreover, accord- colorful a past as Holy Family, established in However, Holy Family’s status as an early ing to the U.S. Census, neither of Rosten- 1857 on the “prairie” south and west of the Chicago landmark was nearly short-lived, thanks to the fl ames that allegedly began in the barn of Catherine O’Leary on DeKoven Street on the evening of October 8, 1871. A devoted member of Holy Family parish, she was also an immigrant businesswoman who owned fi ve cows and sold milk in the neigh- borhood. Yet newspaper reporters demon- ized her as an Irish “hag,” referring to her derisively as “Our Lady of the Lamp.” The Chicago Evening Journal predicted, correctly, that Mrs. O’Leary “is in for it, and [make] no mistake. Fame has seized her and appro- priated her, name, barn, cows and all.” She, too, would become more myth than person. Arnold Damen was preaching a mission at St. Patrick Church in Brooklyn, New York, when he heard the dreadful news from Chicago. As the story goes, he spent the night on his knees in front of the statue Architect Patrick Keely designed the Renaissance-style church of St. Stanislaus Kostka of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, praying to at Noble Street and Evergreen Avenue for the “mother parish” of Chicago’s Polonia the mother of Jesus and making a solemn (1877–81). The Kennedy expressway was altered slightly to preserve the church, a promise: if Holy Family and the new St. classic example of Chicago “clout.” In the foreground is the natatorium and fi eldhouse at Ignatius College next door were spared Pulaski Park, 1914. Photo courtesy Chicago Park District Special Collections. destruction he would keep seven lights

36 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 37 burning in the Gothic church. Suddenly, Family’s salvation from the Great Fire of Ellen Skerrett, a Chicago historian and re- the wind shifted and the fi re crossed the 1871. Fearing that they would not meet the searcher on the Jane Addams Papers Project, south branch of the Chicago River, engulf- deadline to have $1 million in the bank by was involved in the campaign to save Holy ing the downtown commercial district and New Year’s Day 1991, men, women, and Family Church. She is a member of the Local neighborhoods as far north as Lincoln Park. children reenacted Father Damen’s vigil. Arrangements Committee. Popular belief in Holy Family’s miraculous Beginning on December 26, 1990, a small salvation was apparent within weeks: at a group stood on the steps of their shut- Notes special ceremony, parishioners sang “the tered church, reciting the rosary as televi- 1. James Warren, “Rostenkowski, Master Poli- Miserere to atone for the faults, committed sion cameras rolled. Contributions began tician and Benefactor,” New York Times CHI- during the last year, and . . . the Te Deum, to pour in from around the world and CAGO, August 13, 2010. to extend thanks to God for ‘all blessings heartened by the response to “Say Prayers received.’” Moreover, collections were taken and Send Money,” the preservation society 2. Karen Ann Cullotta, “Under the Dome in “after all the masses to keep lights constantly took the bold step of obtaining permis- Bucktown, Restoration Goes On,” New York burning before the statue of Our Lady of sion from the insurance company to open Times CHICAGO, June 10, 2011. Perpetual Help,” fulfi lling Arnold Damen’s the church on the feast of the Holy Family. 3. Ellen Skerrett, “The Irish of Chicago’s vow.3 On December 30, crowds in the thousands Hull-House Neighborhood,” in New Perspec- Nearly 120 years later, Holy Family once streamed through the unheated edifi ce. By tives on the Irish Diaspora, ed. Charles Fanning again faced destruction, but this time the New Year’s Day, the preservation society had (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University threat was not a force of nature, but its re- met its goal—with $11,000 to spare.4 Press, 2000), 211. St. Ignatius College is the ligious owners. Back in 1961, when Mayor Saved in part because of their mythic pasts forerunner of Loyola University Chicago; El- Richard J. Daley offered urban renewal and in part by community activism, St. len Skerrett, Born in Chicago: A History of Chi- land for the new Chicago campus of the Stanislaus Kostka and Holy Family survive cago's Jesuit University (Loyola Press, 2008). University of Illinois, the Gothic church today as powerful reminders that by in- 4. For an account of the campaign to save survived because it was located just outside vesting scarce resources in their houses of Holy Family, see Thomas McElligott, The the designated area. Not so Hull-House, the worship, immigrants helped to create and Miracle on Roosevelt Road (Chicago: Ellidon famous social settlement on Halsted Street, shape the city. Publications, 2008). founded nearby in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Despite widespread protests, all but two of the twelve buildings in the Hull-House complex were demol- ished. While Charles Hull’s 1850s mansion and the settlement’s dining room became a museum operated by the university, Holy Family continued its original function as sacred space, beloved by Italian American and African American families who had remained in the neighborhood. In 1987, when the Jesuit order announced its plan to demolish Holy Family and replace it with a 400-person structure that would better accommodate the small congrega- tion that worshiped in Chicago’s second oldest church, parishioners reacted with anger and disbelief. Determined to “Save the Past to Serve the Future,” they formed a preservation society. The campaign to rescue Holy Family from the wrecking ball called attention to the critical role neigh- borhood churches had played in Chicago’s growth and development, unacknowledged in standard histories. It also provided city dwellers and suburbanites alike the oppor- tunity to reclaim the Gothic church built by earlier generations as an investment in their future. At a critical moment in the campaign, parishioners invoked the myth of Holy

36 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 37 Chicago and Historians A Brief Planning History Tour of Downtown Chicago By D. Bradford Hunt

ven in January, Chicago’s downtown from the 1980s compete with the fl ashy The completed portion from Michigan offers an easy get-away from the Trump Tower (2009), located just west of Avenue to State Street (2009) suggests how E annual meeting and an engaging the Wrigley Building. the river might be a place of respite from the journey through a revitalized downtown. This vantage point also offers an excellent city, rather than something merely bridged. Below is a short tour (60–90 minutes, example of Daniel Burnham and Edward Exit the Riverwalk up the stairs at the 2.4 mile walk) from the perspective of a Bennett’s 1909 Plan of Chicago in action. State Street Bridge. Before heading south, historian of urban planning who thinks The Michigan Avenue Bridge, bi-level notice distinctive Marina City (1963) with about how public and private space become Wacker Drive on the south bank, and the its corn-cob towers, designed by Bertrand reconfi gured over time. widening of modest Pine Street into North Goldberg. Chicago’s 1958 Central Area Plan I suggest starting in front of the Wrigley Michigan Avenue helped shift the city’s sought to bring new residents downtown to Building on Michigan Avenue, just north of center of gravity north of the river, espe- add life after business hours, and Marina the Chicago River (two blocks west of the cially for the retail and hotel sectors. City was the fi rst such development. Today Sheraton, two blocks south of the Marriott). Cross the bridge (on the west side) and at apartment towers ring downtown and of- The giant Marilyn Monroe sculpture across the south bank, head down the stairs to the fi ce-to-residential conversions have acceler- the street attracts crowds (see Elizabeth Fra- city’s Riverwalk. Planners have long sought ated in the past decade. terrigo’s thoughtful essay on page 52), but to reclaim the Chicago River as an amenity, Head south along State Street and pass un- the planning historian averts his gaze and but the effort remains a work in progress. derneath “The El,” the elevated tracks that instead notes the range of 20th-century The 1909 plan produced a pedestrian circle the heart of downtown—built in the architecture arrayed along the river. Art promenade on Wacker Drive’s upper level, 1890s after a series of corrupt land-grabs. deco buildings from the 1920s contrast removed from river pollution. But in the For the next 80 years, planners targeted the with Miesian glass-and-steel boxes from the 1970s, the Riverwalk idea sought to bring El for dismantlement, most seriously in the 1960s, while glitzy postmodern structures people closer to a relatively cleaner river. 1970s. But prohibitive costs and objections from preservationists combined to save the El as an important part of the city’s cultural Call for Volunteers heritage. Unfortunately, the El does not offer connections to major commuter rail Interviewing in the Job Market stations, a gaping transit hole that continues in the Twenty-First Century to haunt planners. Continue south down State Street into the Friday, January 6, 2012, 9:30–11:30 a.m. heart of “The Loop” (the area circumscribed Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Chicago Ballroom VIII by the El), once the center of retail in the The AHA needs volunteer interviewers to participate in the interview workshop for city. As in other cities, the automobile and scholars entering the job market. The workshop is sponsored by the AHA’s Professional suburbanization sapped downtown retail in Division, the AHA Graduate and Early Career Committee, and the Coordinating the mid-20th century. In the 1970s, some Council for Women in History, and will be chaired by Jacqueline Jones (Univ. of Texas downtown real estate interests blamed African at Austin), vice president of the AHA’s Professional Division. Americans, calling shoppers on State Street The informal discussions and mock interviews offered at the workshop give job “too black.” Seeking to revitalize the retail candidates the chance to practice their interview skills and to receive advice about how area, in 1979 Chicago followed other cities by best to present themselves and their qualifications in the job market. This is good for banning cars (while allowing buses) to create the candidates, good for hiring departments, and good for the profession. the State Street Transit Mall. But poor design choices and polluting buses did not offer a We need a large number of volunteer interviewers, especially those who have recently pedestrian-friendly attraction. The mall was performed job interviews. Your experience and expertise will be invaluable to current deemed a disaster and removed in 1996. job candidates. To warm up, peek inside Macy’s—formerly There is no preparation needed to participate. Simply show up between 9:00 and 9:15 Marshall Field’s—at the corner of Randolph a.m. at the appointed place. and State. Built and rebuilt several times between 1879 and 1906, Marshall Field’s

38 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 39 helped change the shopping experience for 19th-century “skyscrapers,” built in response boundaries once created by 19th-century middle-class women by creating a luxurious to the scarcity of land at a time when large railroads and expanded in all directions. semi-public space. Walk the length of the store rail facilities surrounded downtown. Head back north on Michigan Avenue to to the south, looking up at the lavish ceilings. Turn back east on Washington, head to Millennium Park, Chicago’s most prominent Exit the store at Washington Street and Michigan Avenue, then turn south. Stroll four symbol of its Global City status. Just as the drift back to State Street. At the southwest blocks down Michigan past some of the city’s Art Institute, Chicago Symphony, and Field corner of State and Washington, admire the major cultural institutions—the Art Institute Museum were the creation of the city’s elites, restored Reliance Building, designed by the (with its new Modern Wing) and the Chicago Millennium Park is the product of “Modern- fi rm of Burnham and Root and completed Symphony. Each is the product of a 19th-cen- day Medicis.” The site was an under-used rail in 1895. Empty for decades and threatened tury elite whose fortunes were extracted from yard and parking lot for decades, until the with destruction, the building was restored the city’s stockyards and steel mills. city’s wealthy donated over $100 million to with city and private funds in 1999. The At Jackson and Michigan, walk through transform the site into a cultural playground. steel frame structure supports elaborate the gift shop of the Chicago Architecture The park creates a densely packed public art terra cotta ornamentation and enormous Foundation into the lobby of the Santa Fe experience, where international names like windows, giving the building a delicate ap- building. Here, the CAF displays an exhibit Frank Gehry and Anish Kapoor create visual pearance. While other similar architectural called Model City, a room-size model of the blockbusters in close proximity. To some, gems did not survive the 1970s, Chicago current downtown area. Its scale and scope Millennium Park is overblown, but concerns still contains a remarkable collection of suggests how Chicago has broken out of the about elite control and cost overruns faded

38 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 39 when the park openedThe in 2004 123to much rd ButAnnual it has its gems. Moving Meeting north along road to nowhere, an embarrassing planning acclaim. It remains a magnet for residents upper Columbus, note a new residential mistake. The Sheraton is the end of our tour. and tourists alike. tower called Aqua, designed by Jeanne Unseen in this brief jaunt were the city’s Wind through the park and cross over Gang. Its sculptural, wavy exterior magical- struggling neighborhoods, ravaged by dein- Gehry’s whimsical BP Bridge to a less suc- ly transforms an otherwise dull developer’s dustrialization and under-investment. The cessful addition to Grant Park, completed box. Walk around Aqua’s perimeter to see a contrast between downtown and the neigh- in 1976. Head north, cross upper Randolph six-acre park that frames the Lakeshore East borhoods can be jarring. Nonetheless, the Street, then continue north along upper community. city’s remarkable vitality downtown remains Columbus Drive and past the Aon Center— Continue north on upper Columbus, unmistakable—and a challenge to politi- the skyscraper eerily reminiscent of the Twin then walk down stairs one level to the cians, planners, and developers to bring ap- Towers. This area is known as Illinois Center Columbus Avenue Bridge, the most recent propriate versions of this success to other (the offi ce structures west of Columbus) and over the river, completed in 1983. The parts of the city. Lakeshore East (the residential towers to the bridge spurred development north of the east), the largest postwar addition to Chica- river, including the Sheraton Chicago Hotel go’s downtown. Built on reclaimed railroad & Towers (dead ahead) and other residen- D. Bradford Hunt, Roosevelt University, is co- land (in turn built on 19th-century landfi ll), tial communities. But while crossing the chair of the Local Arrangements Committee. the site remains incomplete and unsatisfying bridge, look back at the three levels of costly He is the author of Blueprint for Disaster: to planners due to its high density and, at roadways built to service Illinois Center and The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing times, lack of design coherence. Lakeshore east, and note the upper-level (University of Chicago Press, 2009) .

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40 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 41 2012 AHA Program Committee New to the

Chair: Jacob Soll Paul E. Lovejoy Annual Meeting? Rutgers University–Camden York University Don't Miss the Co–Chair: Jennifer Siegel Alan Lucibello Ohio State University Montville School District/Seton Hall Orientation Beverly Bossler John R. McNeill Session: University of California, Davis Georgetown University

Dan Cohen Kenneth Mills George Mason University University of Toronto Getting the havolia lymph T G Paul Sutter Duke University University of Colorado at Boulder Most out of Linda Gordon Francesca Trivellato New York University the Annual Yale University Nile Green Sara Brooks Meeting University of California at Los Angeles Program Committee Assistant, Princeton University Thursday, January 5, Cynthia Koch Office of Presidential Libraries, National 4:00–5:00 p.m. Archives Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Missouri Room First time at the annual meeting? Not 2012 AHA Local Arrangements Committee sure what to expect? Wondering how to get the most out of the experience? Please join us for advice on how to navigate Co–Chair: D. Bradford Hunt David C. Johnson Roosevelt University Elmhurst College the annual meeting and get the most out of the professional development Co–Chair: James T. Sparrow Dennis McClendon opportunities it provides. Learn how University of Chicago Chicago CartoGraphics to use the meeting to advance your Peter T. Alter Jeff Nichols professional goals, build your network, Chicago History Museum University of Illinois at Chicago and enhance your teaching. Participants Jennifer Brier Patrice Olsen will have a chance to ask questions University of Illinois at Chicago Illinois State University informally, suggest ways to improve the

Geraldo Cadava Dominic Pacyga meeting, and meet others attending the Northwestern University Columbia College Chicago meeting for the first time.

Karen Christianson Christopher Robert Reed Panel: Aaron W. Marrs, Office of the The Newberry Library Roosevelt University Historian, U.S. Department of State Raymond Clemens Ellen Skerrett and chair, AHA Graduate and Early Illinois State University Jane Addams Papers Project Career Committee; Elise S. Lipkowitz, Jacqueline K. Dace Peg Strobel University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; The DuSable Museum of African American University of Illinois at Chicago Aeleah Soine, St. Mary's College of History Amy Tyson California; and Debbie Ann Doyle, John Donoghue DePaul University American Historical Association Loyola University Chicago Frank Valadez Immediately following the sessions, Allison Downey Chicago Metro History Education Center University of Illinois at Chicago participants can continue the Sarah Miller–Davenport conversation at the reception for LAC Assistant, University of Chicago Domenico Ferri graduate students in the Sheraton’s Harold Washington Community College Mayfair Room, 5:00–6:30 p.m. Valeria Jimenez Northwestern University

40 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 41 Chicago and Historians Chicago: Protest and the American City By Jeffrey Helgeson he AHA meeting arrives in Chicago at Under this surface of architectural grandeur marched downtown seeking everything from a fi tting moment, when discussions of is a history of not-so-pristine urban devel- public aid to a stronger teachers’ union. In T class are infl uencing national politics opment. A century ago downtown Chicago more recent years,downtown Chicago has more than at any time in recent memory. was a buzzing industrial center with glutted also been a site of protest politics. To name Historically, Chicago has been the center of streets, a heavily traffi cked river, and pol- just one example, every May 1 since 2005 American labor radicalism and an active site lution so bad the city actually reversed the tens of thousands of immigrants and their of protests for greater equality. Even if such river’s fl ow away from its main source of supporters have marched downtown de- movements have often fl oundered, they have drinking water, Lake Michigan. manding opportunities enjoyed by previous not been exceptions in a city known for its Daily competition for opportunity often generations of immigrants. machine politics, dynamic urban ecology, erupted into open protests for greater The downtown area is rich with history, and ethnic and racial confl ict. Class tensions equality. During the “Bread Riot” in the but visitors to Chicago must get out into and economically based politics have been winter of 1872–73, hundreds of Chicagoans the neighborhoods. Historians will especially endemic to the development of what has were beaten by police when they occupied enjoy the Chicago History Museum, where been described as the modern American city.1 the intersection at LaSalle and Kinzie Streets you should see the “Out in Chicago” exhibit, Just a short walk south from the meeting to demand relief for residents still languish- telling the largely untold story of the city’s hotels you can see how the aspirations of the ing after the Great Fire of 1871. In 1877, politics of gender and sexuality (www.chica- Chicago elite have shaped the city. The most workers from lumber and rail yards on the gohistory.org). The exhibits and archival and recent effort to create a “global metropolis” edge of downtown helped turn a nationwide map collections at the Newberry Library are is refl ected in Millennium Park’s privately railroad strike into a citywide general strike. another must. While at the Newberry, note fi nanced public spaces (www.millenniump- The 1877 strike, which President Rutherford the park once known as “Bug House Square,” ark.org) and in the Art Institute of Chicago’s B. Hayes called “an insurrection,” led to the an open-air forum for debate that nurtured striking new Modern Wing. Compare those “Battle of the Viaduct” at 16th and Halsted Chicago’s radicals in the late 19th and early “postmodern” installations to the original Streets, where some 10,000 striking workers 20th centuries (www.newberry.org). turn-of-the-century beaux-arts skyscrapers squared off with nearly 6,000 police offi cers, Just west of the meeting hotels at the inter- lining the west side of Michigan Avenue. federal troops, state militia, and Civil War section of Randolph and Desplaines Streets is Haymarket Square, where a clash between During the AHA meeting, you will also have a veterans. In 1910 and 1911, 40,000 textile Chicago police and activists seeking the chance to view a temporary exhibit at the Art workers protested in front of factories near eight-hour day on May 4, 1886, initiated Institute on the work of architect Bertrand Franklin and Monroe Streets, blowing the fi rst major “red scare” in the United Goldberg, whose mid-20th-century projects whistles and waving shears, demanding an States and became the inspiration for May bridged the modern and postmodern eras end to sweatshop practices and recognition Day, the international workers’ holiday. (see also the corn-cob-shaped Marina City of a union for the largely immigrant, female Two blocks west and 11 blocks south of Towers at 300 North State Street). workforce. And in the 1930s, protesters Haymarket Square is Jane Addams’ Hull- House at Halsted and Taylor Streets, which includes an exhibit focused on the city’s Attention Search Committee Members Progressive reformers and their efforts to, as Interviewing in a privately reserved parlor? they saw it, bring order to a city struggling with diversity, deep economic inequality, and Your candidates may come to the Job Center to confi rm the suite numbers for their labor confl ict (www.hullhousemuseum.org). interviews. Directly south of Hull-House along 18th Please inform Job Center staff of the fi eld and location of your interviews by visiting Street is the central commercial strip of the the Job Center Information Booth in the Chicago Marriott Downtown, Salon 1 (7th Pilsen neighborhood. In the late 19th century, Floor), or the Information Counter outside Registration in the Sheraton Chicago's Pilsen housed a largely Czech and German River Exhibition Hall; e–mailing [email protected]; or calling (571) 730–8518. community and their multilingual socialist and anarchist movements. Since the 1960s, Help Your Candidates Arrive to Their Interviews on Time! Pilsen has been a base for Mexican American struggles for community, political power,

42 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 43 and immigrants’ rights, as can be seen in the Mexican Fine Arts Center (www.nationalmu- seumofmexicanart.org) and Casa Aztlan com- AHA Film Festival munity center (www.casaaztlan.org). All four screeings will take place in the With a bit more effort you could visit the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Ballroom I. Pullman model town, where the famous Friday, January 6, 12:00–2:00 p.m. Saturday, January 7, 12:00–2:00 p.m. 1894 strike and boycott began (www.pull- manil.org), via a Metra commuter train that A Film Unfinished The Pruitt–Igoe Myth: also stops in Hyde Park, the home of the Yael Hersonski, director; Noemi An Urban History University of Chicago. Or, take a taxi to the Schory and Itay Ken–Tor, producers 2011 John O’Connor Film Award Winner South Side Community Art Center at 3831 (Oscilloscope Laboratories, 2010). Chad Freidrichs, writer, director, and South Michigan Avenue, the only surviving At the end of World War II, 60 producer; Jaime Freidrichs, writer and Works Progress Administration art center minutes of raw film was discovered in an producer; Paul Fehler, producer; and in the country (www.southsidecommuni- East German archive. Shot by the Nazis Brian Woodman, producer (Unicorn tyartcenter.com). This working gallery was in Warsaw in May 1942, and labeled Stencil, 2010) a critical part of the network that fostered simply “Ghetto,” this footage quickly The Pruitt–Igoe Myth explores the working-class-based movements for labor became a resource for historians seeking short life of the Pruitt–Igoe housing development in St. Louis, which became and civil rights in the 1930s and 1940s and an authentic record of the Warsaw a potent national symbol of failure that sowed the seeds for subsequent civil rights Ghetto. However, the later discovery has been used to critique Modernist and Black Power struggles. of a long–missing reel, which included architecture, attack public assistance The collapse of the city’s mass manufac- multiple takes and cameraman staging programs, and stigmatize public housing turing industries has shifted the base of the scenes, complicated earlier readings of residents. The film reassesses the complex city’s economy toward high-tech, service, the footage. A Film Unfinished presents history of Pruitt–Igoe within the larger and hospitality industries. City leaders the raw footage in its entirety, carefully postwar context of segregation, poverty, promote development by attracting corpo- noting fictionalized sequences falsely and urban population decline. It gives rate headquarters to downtown offices and showing “the good life” enjoyed by special emphasis to the stories of the white-collar workers to once-gritty blue-col- Jewish urbanites, and probes deep into residents who managed to adapt to and lar neighborhoods. This new economy has the making of a now–infamous Nazi survive the downward spiral of vacancy, created new inequalities. And many Chi- propaganda film. vandalism, and crime that made Pruitt– cagoans continue to think of themselves as Igoe famous. citizens of a divided city, acting upon inter- Friday, January 6, 4:30–6:30 p.m. Director Chad Freidrichs will ests in ways that show how race, gender, sex- My Perestroika introduce the film and lead a discussion uality, and class overlap. This is true whether afterward. they are residents of neighborhoods battling Robin Hessman, producer, writer, and director (Red Square Productions, the effects of deteriorating schools, violence, Saturday, January 7, 5:00–7:00 p.m. and mass foreclosures; union members 2010) On These Shoulders We Stand fighting for good jobs in the city’s hotels and This film follows five ordinary retail industries; protesters seeking to reduce Russians living in extraordinary Glenne McElhinney, producer, writer, the influence of corporations on politics; or times—from their sheltered Soviet and director (Impact Stories: California’s White Sox fans making fun of yuppie Cubs childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet LGBT History, 2009) supporters. In all these ways, class politics Union during their teenage years, to the On These Shoulders We Stand is an illuminating historical account of gay remain endemic to postmodern Chicago. constantly shifting political landscape of post–Soviet Russia. Together, life and activism in Los Angeles, told Jeffrey Helgeson is an assistant professor of his- these childhood classmates paint a by the people who lived it. The film tory at Texas State University–San Marcos, complex picture of the dreams and chronicles gay life from the 1950s into the early 1980s, interweaving who writes about the politics of race, class, and disillusionment of those raised behind first–person accounts from eleven urban development in 20th-century Chicago. the Iron Curtain. elders of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and Filmmaker Robin Hessman will transgender community in Los Angeles introduce the film and lead a discussion Note with seldom–seen archival materials to afterward. tell the story of two cities, one with a 1. Before you go, take advantage of online re- substantial, vibrant gay community, and sources that will enrich your visit. See the En- the other, a city obsessed with rendering cyclopedia of Chicago, www.encyclopedia.chi- that community invisible or imprisoned. cagohistory.org, and an interactive map of the Project director Glenne McElhinney city’s working-class history available at www. will introduce the film and lead a dis- labortrail.org (full disclosure: I am one of the cussion afterward. directors of the nonprofit Labor Trail project).

42 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 43 Chicago and Historians Cheap Eats Near the Meeting Hotels By Julia Woesthoff

New but Familiar Fare Globetrotting in the Loop also has a variety of convenient lunch boxes For typical lunch fare like sandwiches, If you are more in the mood for ethnic for take out, which are available between 10 soups and salads, the following places might food, wander into the Loop area for more a.m. and 3 p.m (from $8 to $16). just hit the spot: offerings. French Market (closed sundays, 312- Hannah’s Bretzel (131 S. Dearborn St. — Oasis Cafe (21 N. Wabash Ave., closed 575-0306, www.frenchmarketchicago.com) entrance on Adams Street—312-621-1111, Sundays, 312-443-9534, ww.oasiscafeon. is a year-round, indoor marketplace near www.hannasbretzel.com) is a great little spot com) is a little gem hidden, fi ttingly, in the the Ogilvie Transportation Center offering with a bent toward artisanal, organic ingre- back of a jewelry store on Wabash. Its menu a variety of great food options from Belgian dients. All-natural offerings include a wide offers a variety of fl avorful Mediterranean (fries at Frietkoten) to Vietnamese (banh mi variety of vegetarian and gluten-free options vegetarian options, and while it tops out at at Saigon Sisters). Enter on 131 N. Clinton (most selections $8–$10, breakfast sand- $7 for entrees, a falafel sandwich can be had St. (between Randolph and Washington). wiches around $5; single bretzel $2.49). for under $4. Med Kitchen(219 W. Washington St., Pastoral Artisan & Cheese (53 E. Lake Head to Cafecito (26 E. Congress Pkwy., closed weekends, 312-606-0633, www. St., 312-658-1250, www.pastoralartisan.com) 312-922-2233, www.cafecitochicago.com) medkitcheneatery.com) has several Mediter- is another place offering high quality sand- if you are in the mood for excellent Cuban ranean choices, including Greek-inspired wiches (think jamon Serrano, house-made coffee, sandwiches, and specialty salads. fare. It is a counter service restaurant, so pick prosciutto bacon and herbed duck confi t, or Breakfast sandwiches are around $4, and out your fi lling, topping, and sauce, then tuna with black olive tapenade and piquillo lunch sandwiches average $6. Full platters have them wrapped up in a bread of your peppers) and salads for between $6 and $10. are $9.25. choice, all for around $6. The same selection concept applies to salads ($5.95) and plate- Locations Close to the Meeting Wow Bao (1 W. Wacker Blvd.—at the corner of State and Lake—312-658-0305, size options ($6.75). Hotels www.waobao.comz) serves a variety of sweet If you are in the mood for Indian, head A Chicago chain with solid deli selections, and savory baos (hot Asian buns); Asian dishes to Curried (171 N. Wells St., 312-977- the Corner Bakery (360 N. Michigan Ave., such as potstickers, noodle and rice bowls; and 9999, closed Sundays). For $7.99 you can 312-236-2400; also at 444 N. Michigan salads. Most dishes are between $1.49 (when combine two entrees to create a satisfying Ave., 312-596-0793, www.cornerbakery- all you need is a bao to snack on) and $6. meal at a reasonable price. cafe.com) has a wide variety of sandwiches Sushi Sai (123 N. Wacker Dr., Suite 125, A Brush with Fame and salads (mostly between $6 and $8). 312-332-8822, www.sushisaionline.com) Chicago is famous for pizza, and Gino’s If you want to try Chicago celebrity chefs’ offers delicious, affordable sushi—and an cuisine while staying within your budget, East (162 E. Superior St., 312-266-3337) all-you-can-eat option to boot ($19.99/ is a favorite for its deep dish and downscale you can either check out the lunch menus at person on M.–Fr .starting at 2:30 p.m., and décor. It is almost always crowded. their signature restaurants or head to one of all day Saturday and Sunday). This place these locations: XOCO (449 N. Clark St., closed Sunday, 312-334-3688, www.rickbayless.com/res- taurants/xoco.html) is the latest Rick Bay- Note about Cellular Service in the lessrestaurant, and his most laid-back yet. Annual Meeting Hotels Unfortunately, his famous restaurants are closed Janaury 1 through 9 for an annual The AHA staff would like for all annual meeting particpants to be aware that, due vacation. If you will be in Chicago after to circumstances beyond our control, cellular service in many areas of the annual the meeting, you can enjoy some expertly meeting hotels is weak. The AHA apologizes for any inconveniences, and advises executed tortas and meal-in-the-bowl caldos (between $9 and $12.50). Don’t forget to try all participants—especially job candidates—to conduct your cellular conversations the incredible churros! And if you feel like nearest the hallway windows of the various meeting hotels. Again we apologize for a hot chocolate made from freshly ground any inconveniences that this might cause. beans on a chilly Chicago day, this is your place ($2.75–$3.25 per cup).

44 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 45 Grahamwich (615 N. State St., 312-265- roasted poblanos and panela cheese with Steamer or the Maté Laté. A plus: they also 0434, www.grahamwich.com) is Graham tomato-jalapeno sauce or Yucatecan-style serve good quality coffee, as well as sweet Elliot’s brainchild, specializing in creative sand- roasted pork tamale with tomato-habanero and savory snacks. wiches such as the pork bbq with pork belly, sauce and purple pickled onions. For other locations around the loop (and root beer, and creamy coleslaw or the Pacifi c Sweet Ride (www.twitter.com/#!/Sweet- around town), check out www.argotea.com. tuna with roasted pineapple and wasabi peas RideChi). If you are in the mood for dessert, Grocery Stores (between $7 and $10). Unusual sides such as don’t miss this little pink truck. Cupcakes, A stone’s throw away from the Sheraton, popcorn with parmesan, chives, and truffl e oil whoopie pies, puddings, and mousses all hit Fox & Obel (401 E. Illinois St., 312-410- are available if you want to try something less the sweet spot and are between $2 and $4. 7301, www.fox-obel.com) is an upscale traditional. Locally sourced coffee (Metropolis) market offering lots of imported and interest- and pastries (Fritz) are available as well. Time for a Coffee (or Tea) Break ing foodstuffs. A café serves soups, sandwich- Slurping Turtle (116 W. Hubbard St., Starbucks is ubiquitous, but Chicago es, and salads mostly between $7 and $11. 312-464-0466, slurpingturtle.com) a coffee is slowly making a national name for Local grocery chain Dominicks (255 E. dumpling and noodle bar, is not set to open itself as well. For the coffee fi ends among Grand Ave., 312-279-1305) is also down until October, but has already created buzz. you, the Intelligentsia mothership is on the street from the Sheraton: The menu of Takashi Yagihashi’s newest 3123 N. Broadway in the Lakeview neigh- Slightly farther away is Whole Foods (30 creation has yet to be made public, but this borhood, and two additional outposts can W. Huron St., 312-932-9600). place is sure to be a hit, especially if the be found in the Loop (also serving Fritz Other nearby groceries include Jewel- quality is anywhere near that of Takashi’s Pastry: 53 E. Randolph St., 312-920-9332; Osco at 1210 N. Clark, 312-944-6950 eponymous main restaurant. For business and 53 W. Jackson Blvd.—in the beauti- and Trader Joes at 44 E. Ontario St. east of hours, menu etc., check the website. ful historic Monadnock Building—closed Saturday and Sunday, 312-253-0594, www. Wabash, 312-951-6369. Moveable Feasts—Food Wagons intelligentsiacoffee.com). Forgot something? There are several drug- If you want to hop on to the food (band) If you are more into tea, give another stores near the meeting hotels: CVS at 205 wagon and don’t mind pursuing your meal on Chicago chian, Argo Tea Cafe (435 N. N. Michigan Ave. and a Walgreens at 30 Twitter, Chicago has a growing fl eet of food Michigan Ave., 312-546-4790) a try. Their N. Michigan Ave. trucks, even if city ordinances make food selection runs the gamut from traditional to Julia Woesthoff is an assistant professor of his- preparation on these trucks illegal (everything inventive. To warm you up, try the Hibiscus tory at DePaul University. is prepped and ready to be served before the trucks hit the road). These determined chefs have created some tasty meal options. To see a complete list of trucks on Chicago roads and to learn more about the efforts to allow food to be cooked and served from a mobile food truck, visit www.chicagofoodtrucks.com. Gaztro-Wagon (www.twitter.com/#!/ wherezthewagon). This one won the Time Out 2011 Eat Out Award for best food truck and offers hearty, fl avorful sandwiches made with naan bread. Anything with boar is delicious, but it’s hard to go wrong here ($8 to $10). Meaty Balls (www.twitter.com/#!/foss- foodtrucks). The name says it all, though a vegetarian selection is always in rotation. Recent offerings have included Shweddy Balls (Tunisian-Style lamb and chicken balls in a very spicy tomato sauce) and Thai’d Balls (Turkey meatballs, coconut milk, sweet peppers). If you’re still hungry after either a Torpedo ($7-9) or Grenade ($3) sized sandwich, you might try a chocolate salty ball for dessert ($5). Tamalli Space Charros (www.twitter. com/#!/tamalespace101). Spacy, delicious, and affordable, (2 tamales for $7.00), this foodwagon offers combinations such as fi re

44 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 45 Chicago and Historians Restaurants in Chicago By Raymond Clemens and Patrice Olsen

he restaurants compiled here have India Garden (Indian). Buffet and a Grape Street (piano bar). Martinis, open stood the test of time and refl ect the la carte. Cost: moderate; address: 247 E. 5:00 p.m.–2:00 a.m. Cost: moderate; transit: T values of the city of Chicago. We Ontario St., 2nd fl oor (between Fairbanks walking distance; address: 226 E. Ontario have included moderately priced restaurants Ct. & McClurg Ct.); phone: 312-280-4910 St. between Fairbanks Ct. & McClurg Ct.); as well as a few splurges for those who enjoy Sayat Nova East Restaurant (Armenian). phone: 312-202-1933. high-end dining. This list was compiled Cost: moderate; address: 157 E. Ohio St. Famous Restaurants and based on the recommendations of local (between Michigan Ave. & St. Clair St.); Adjacent Economical Alternatives residents to provide an interesting slice of phone: 312-644-9159. within Walking Distance Chicago dining. See the online version of Bandera (American). Delicious roasted this article at [url] for websites, hours, and Spiaggia/Café Spiaggia (Italian). chicken, burgers. Cost: moderate; address; additional restaurant recommendations. Michelin rated Italian (the Obamas dined 535 N. Michigan Ave.; phone: 312- 644- here on a date night), jacket required Walking Distance from the 3524. (Spiaggia). Cost: very expensive/expen- Annual Meeting Kamehachi (sushi). Cost: moderate; sive; address: 980 N. Michigan Ave., Level Two (corner of Oak St. & Michigan Ave.); West Egg Café (breakfast). Good om- address: 320 N. Dearborn (Westin River phone: 312-280-2750. elettes, creative eggs benedict combinations, North); phone: 312-744-1900. Topolobampo/Frontera Grill/XOCO Oysy (sushi). Cost: moderate; address: 50 tasty rotisserie chicken. Cost: inexpensive, (Mexican fusion). Unfortunately, three address: 620 N. Fairbanks Ct. (between Ohio E. Grand Ave.; phone: 312-670-6750. famous Chicago restaurants created by Rick St. & Ontario St.), phone: 312-280-8366. Les Nomades (French). Not cheap, but Bayless are closed January 1 through 9 for an Yolk (breakfast). American, breakfast. nice French restaurant in walking distance. annual vacation. Excellent frittatas and pancakes; take out Jacket required. Cost: very expensive; available. Cost: inexpensive; address: 355 E. address: 222 E. Ontario St. (between Fair- Further Afi eld: Neighborhood Ohio St. between Fairbanks Ct. & McClurg banks Ct. & McClurg Ct.); phone: 312- Food and Ethnic Food (Organized Ct.); phone: 312-822-9655. 649-9010. by Cuisine) Inspiration Kitchens (American). Eat well while doing good: staffed by graduates of an Committee on Uptown job training program. Cost: Inex- pensive; transit: Red Line, Lawrence; address: Minority Historians 4715 N. Sheridan Rd (between Leland Ave. & Lakeside Ave.); phone: 773-275-0626. Mentoring Breakfast Heartland Café (American). Original hippie hangout. Cost: moderate; transit: Friday, January 6, 7:30–9:00 a.m. Red Line, Morse or Jarvis: address: 7000 N. Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Parlor C Glenwood Ave.; phone: 773-465-8005. Ann Sather’s (breakfast). Swedish food; The Committee on Minority Historians invites minority graduate students amazing cinnamon buns. Breakfast and lunch. and fi rst-year faculty to a complimentary continental breakfast. Please join the Several locations. Cost: moderate; transit: committee in a discussion of life in the profession. Because of limited space, free Red Line/Brown Line, Belmont; address: 909 advance registration was required for the breakfast. However, individuals who wish W. Belmont Ave. (between Wilton Ave. & to participate in the discussion only are invited to arrive at 8:00 a.m. Clark St.); phone: 773-348-2378. Moon Palace Restaurant (Chinese). Reception Cost: moderate; transit: Red Line, Cermak- Saturday, January 7, 6:00–7:30 p.m. Chinatown; aaddress: 216 W. Cermak Rd. (between Indiana Ave. & Cottage Grove Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Mayfair Room Ave.); phone: 312-225-4081. The Committee on Minority Historians would also like to extend an invitation to Phoenix Restaurant (Chinese). Cost: minority graduate students/mentors to attend the committee’s reception. moderate; transit: Red Line, Cermak- Chinatown; address: 2131 S. Archer Ave.

46 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 47 (between Wentworth Ave. & 21st St.) ; Valois Cafeteria “See Your Food” (soul Chicago Diner (vegetarian). Cost: phone: 312-328-0848. food). Made famous by the sociologist Moderate; transit: Red Line, Addison; Ethiopian Diamond Restaurant (Ethio- Mitchell Duneier’s book, Slim’s Table: Race, address: 3411 N. Halsted St. (between pian). Cost: moderate; transit: Red Line, Respectability, and Masculinity. Also an Roscoe St. & Newport Ave.). Granville; address 6120 N. Broadway St. Obama haunt. Cost: inexpensive; transit: Green Zebra (vegetarian). Cost: Ex- (between Glenlake Ave. & Hood Ave.); Hyde Park METRA from Randolph Station; pensive; transit: Blue Line, Division or phone: 773-338-6100. address: 1518 E. 53rd St. (between Harper Chicago; address: 1460 W. Chicago Ave.; Kiki’s Bistro (French). Cost: Expensive; Ave. & Lake Park Ave.); phone: 773-667- phone: 312-243-7100. transit: Red Line, Clark/Division; address: 0647. 900 N. Franklin St. (between Locust St. & Gene & Georgetti (steak house). Aged Le Colonial (Vietnamese). Cost: expen- Walton St.); phone: 312-335-5454. steaks, prime rib, another classic Chicago sive; transit: Red Line, Clark/Division or Chicago Brauhaus (German). Cost: restaurant. Cost: expensive; transit: Red Chicago; address: 937 N. Rush St. (between moderate; transit: Brown Line, Western; Line, Grand; address: 500 N. Franklin St. Walton St. & Oak St.); phone: 312-255- address: 4732 N. Lincoln Ave. (between (between Grand Ave. & Illinois St.); phone 0088. Giddings St. & Leland Ave.) ; phone: 773- 312-527-3718. 784-4444. Opart Thai House (Thai). Cost: inexpen- Udupi Palace Restaurant (Indian, largely sive; transit: Brown Line, Western; address: Raymond Clemens (Illinois State Univ.) and vegetarian). Cost: moderate; transit: long 4658 N. Western Ave. (at Leland Ave.); Patrice Olsen (Illinois State Univ.) are mem- taxi ride; address: 2543 W. Devon Ave. phone 773-989-8517. bers of the Local Arrangements Committee. (between Maplewood Ave. & Rockwell St.); phone: 773-338-2152. Ginza (Japanese). Cost: moderate; transit: Walking distance; address: 19 E. Ohio St.; phone: 312-222-0600. Historians' Favorites Chosun OK (Korean).Traditional home- We asked two Chicago-area historians to recommend their favorite restaurants: style; Cost: moderate; transit: Brown Line, Montrose; address: 4200 N. Lincoln Ave. Jan Goldstein, Univ. of Chicago Heaven on Seven (between Berteau Ave. & Hutchinson St.)' 111 N. Wabash, 7th Floor (original phone: 773-549-5555. Topolobampo (Closed Jan. 1–9) location), 312-263-6443 Zapatista (Mexican); Cost: moderate; Crofton on Wells 600 N. Michigan Ave., 2nd Floor (the transit: Green line (Roosevelt); address: 535 N. Wells St., 312-755-1790 other downtown location—entrance 1307 S. Wabash Ave; phone: 312-435-1307. www.croftononwells.com on Rush/Ohio), 312-280-7774 Nuevo Leon (Mexican). Cost: inexpen- A Tavola www.heavenonseven.com sive; transit: Pink line (18th Street); address: 2148 W. Chicago Ave., 773-276-7567 1515 W. 18th Stree; phone: 312-421-1517. www.atavolachicago.com Ramón A. Gutiérrez, Univ. of Chicago Reza's Restaurant (Persian). Cost: Café Spiaggia Big Star in Wicker Park for fine tacos moderate/expensive; transit: Brown Line, 980 N. Michigan Ave., 312-280-3300 and margaritas Chicago or Merchandise Mart; address: 432 www.spiaggiarestaurant.com 1531 N. Damen Ave., 773-235-4039 W. Ontario St. (between Kingsbury St. & www.bigstarchicago.com Orleans St.) ; phone: 312-664-4500. La Petite Folie Amelia's Mestizo Grill for superb Giordano’s (Pizza). Cost: moderate; 1504 E. 55th St., 773-493-1394 Mexican food transit: Red Line, Grand (Walking distance); www.lapetitefolie.com 4559 S. Halsted, 773-538-8200 address: 730 N. Rush St.(between Superior La Sardine www.ameliaschicago.com St. & Chicago Ave.); phone: 312-951-0747. 111 N. Carpenter St., 312-421-2800 Szalas (Polish). Authentic Polish High- www.lasardine.com Trattoria No.10 for excellent Italian 10 N. Dearborn St. # 1 lands food. Cost: moderate; transit: Orange Terzo Piano 312-984-1718 Line, Pulaski, then a one-mile walk; address: 159 E. Monroe St., 312-443-8650 www.trattoriaten.com 5214 S. Archer Ave. (between Kenneth Ave. www.terzopianochicago.com & Kilbourn Ave.) ; phone: 773-582-0300. The Gage, general great food Han 202 Twin Anchors (ribs). According to Frank 24 S. Michigan Ave. 605 W. 31st St., 312-949-1314 Sinatra, the best baby back ribs in the city. 312-372-4243 www.han202.com www.thegagechicago.com We think he’s right. A neighborhood insti- tution since 1932. Cost: moderate; transit: Sayat Nova Henri for exquisite French food Brown Line, Sedgwick; address: 1655 N. 157 E. Ohio St. # 1, 312-644-9159 18 S. Michigan Ave. Sedgwick St. (between Concord Pl. & www.sayatnovachicago.com 312-578-0763 Eugenie St.) ; phone: 312-266-1616. www.henrichicago.com

46 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 47 Chicago and Historians Visiting Chicago with Children

By Daniel Greene and Lisa Meyerowitz hicago is a great city for kids, even on and Apollo 8. After visiting the museum, reef on the lower level. The Field Museum winter’s coldest days. Bundle them peruse the great children’s section at 57th (www.fi eldmuseum.org) features “Sue,” C up from head to toe and prepare to Street Books (www.semcoop.com), try the which the museum boasts is “the largest, stop for hot chocolate along the way. Here Medici Restaurant (www.medici57.com), most complete, and best preserved Tyran- are some ideas for family activities, moving or head up to 53rd Street to eat at one of nosaurus rex ever discovered.” The museum’s from south to north. the Obama family’s favorites, Valois (www. exhibition on whales is also a lure for kids. Hyde Park valoisrestaurant.com), where you can, as the The Adler Planetarium (www.adlerplane- awning reads, “See your food” (critical for tarium.org) has a new immersive Deep Space For those kids who aren’t interested in wan- many children). Adventure, fun for little explorers. Admission dering the quad at University of Chicago in to these museums is expensive but worth it. preparation for their own academic careers, Museum Campus Once your kids have worked up an try the Museum of Science and Industry The museum campus is a draw for many appetite, take a quick cab ride to Manny’s (www.msichicago.org), where exhibits families. At the Shedd Aquarium (www. (www.mannysdeli.com), one of the best include a coal mine, a submarine, trains, sheddaquarium.org), don’t miss the coral delis in the city.

The Loop If your kids like trains, one of the most Quiet Room affordable attractions in Chicago is an “L” ride around the Loop on the brown line. The AHA will make Quiet Rooms available in the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers’s Hop off the “L” at the “Library” stop Ohio Room, the Chicago Marriott Downtown’s Great America Room, and the and visit the Harold Washington Library Residence Inn Chicago Downtown/River North. The Marriott’s Quiet Room is (www.chipublib.org) and the children’s near the Job Center facility in the Marriott’s Grand Ballroom, Salon 1. All of the reading room on the 2nd fl oor. The library rooms will have free wireless Internet access. Although the rooms are of particular use to those on the job market, they are also available for all conference attendees as is free and also houses a fantastic contempo- a quiet place to await their next session or appointment, to send a text message, to rary art collection. check a web site, and the like. It’s a room to escape temporarily the hubbub of the For a bird’s eye view of the city, ride the annual meeting—this includes mobile phone conversations—to read prior to your elevator to the 103rd fl oor of Willis Tower next session or next appointment, to meet someone before heading out to lunch, to (formerly Sears Tower) to visit the Skydeck prepare a few notes for those comments you didn’t quite fi nish, to rest tired feet from (www.theskydeck.com). There aren’t a lot of walking among the hotels, or, for Chicago–area attendees with no hotel room, to sit clear days in January in Chicago, but, if you for a few minutes of quiet time. are fortunate, your kids will be able to see all To allow everyone to enjoy the Quiet Room, please avoid: the way across the lake to Michigan. The Chicago Cultural Center (www. v cell–phone conversations—there are hallways and numerous other venues chicagoculturalcenter.org), which used to throughout the hotels and elsewhere for these conversations be the public library, is a fun building to v using the room as an informal or alternate site for job interviews explore with kids, especially the world’s v extended conversation largest Tiffany glass dome and the fantas- tic mosaics. Across the street, take them Since the room will not be monitored continuously, there will be a simple room set ice skating at Millennium Park (www.ex- with smaller–sized tables with chairs and trash baskets. Those who enjoy the room’s plorechicago.org/city/en/millennium.html), usage should not leave coats, briefcases, purses, or other personal possessions unat- and brave the winter cold to snap a picture tended or left in the room while they attend session(s) or interview(s). To deposit of their refl ection in Anish Kapoor’s “Cloud such items, the Sheraton has a coat check on the lobby level, near Parlor A, and the Gate,” better known as “The Bean.” Marriott has a coat check on the seventh fl oor. AHA staff will check the room periodically, but the space will be self policing: please bus The Art Institute of Chicago (www.artic. your own table if you dine, throw away any unwanted papers or other trash, straighten edu) is a must-see for any visitor to Chicago. seating if you move tables and chairs around, etc. For serious concerns or issues, report The Kraft Education Center is fun and in- to the AHA Headquarters Offi ce in the Sheraton’s River Hall B. If there are problems teractive, and offers art projects for children or repeated distractions, the AHA reserves the right to close the room to further use. on Saturday mornings. The Thorne Minia- ture Rooms are also captivating for kids.

48 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 49 Navy Pier for old-fashioned carhop service under the One of the best resources for tourists is Navy Pier (www.navypier.com), includes dancing hot dawgs at 6363 North Milwau- Time Out Chicago (www.timeoutchicago. the Chicago Children’s Museum, designed kee. Closer to the meeting hotel, Gold Coast com/things-to-do/visitors-guide), which for babies, toddlers, and young children Dogs at159 North Wabash, is quite good. has a site for children’s activities: www.time- (www.chicagochildrensmuseum.org). Just don’t order one with ketchup; this is outchicagokids.com. Chicago, after all. North Michigan Avenue For another great view of the city, Getting Around head over to the observatory in the John Most of the attractions listed here are ac- Daniel Greene is vice president for research Hancock Building (www.jhochicago.com/ cessible by public transit. Check the Chicago and academic programs at the Newberry Li- en). This will put you within blocks of Transit Authority trip planner web page at brary; Lisa Meyerowitz is an art historian and Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art www.transitchicago.com/travel_informa- freelance editor. Their kids have been to many (www.mcachicago.org). tion/trip_planner.aspx. of these places. Some shopping on North Michigan Avenue is designed to appeal to families, especially American Girl Place, 835 North Michigan; the Disney Store, 717 North Michigan; and the Lego Store, 835 North Michigan. Lincoln Park Moving north, visit the Chicago History Museum (www.chicagohs.org), with its Sensing Chicago exhibition for children. Near the museum, head to some of the indoor exhibits at the Lincoln Park Zoo (www.lpzoo.org), and the Lincoln Park Conservatory (explorechicago.org/city/en/ things_see_do/attractions/park_district/ lincoln_park_conservatory.html). Going West Those who have the time to venture west could explore the free Garfi eld Park Con- servatory (www.garfi eld-conservatory.org), open to the public despite suffering exten- sive damage in a June 2011 hailstorm, or Brookfi eld Zoo (www.czs.org). In Oak Park, budding writers and architects might enjoy seeing the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum (www.hemingwayhome.com) and the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio (www.gowright.org). Eating If you have adventurous eaters, Chicago will fi t the bill. The city boasts great restau- rants of almost every ethnic variety. Chica- goans are passionate about pizza and will defend their favorite choice. All of these listed below have multiple locations, with some options close to the meeting hotels: Gino’s East: 162 East Superior Lou Malnati’s: 439 North Wells Giordano’s: 135 East Lake Hot dogs are also important Chicago cuisine. Off the beaten path, nothing tops Superdawg; stop on your way from O’Hare

48 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 49 Chicago and Historians Cultural Attractions and Events during the Annual Meeting By Allison Bertke Downey

wealth of cultural resources awaits walking and bus tours of the city’s architec- Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St. annual meeting attendees—many tural heritage in January (no boat tours this (312-943-9090; www.newberry.org; open A within walking or easy public transit month, however). Reservations are a must Tuesday–Friday 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. and distance. Check websites for these institutions for these popular tours, and may be made Saturday 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.; free admis- for last minute changes and additions to their on the CAF website. sion). The Newberry is an independent hours or programming schedules. Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washing- research library concentrating in the humani- Within Walking Distance ton St. (312-744-6630; www.chicagocultur- ties with an active educational and cultural presence in Chicago. It houses an extensive Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan alcenter.org; open Monday–Thursday 8:00 noncirculating collection of rare books, Ave. (312-443-3600; www.artic.edu; open p.m.–7:00 p.m., Friday 8:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m., maps, music, manuscripts, and other printed Monday–Wednesday and Friday–Sunday Saturday 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m., and Sunday p m p m material; collections number 1,500,000 10:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m., plus Thursday 10:30 10:00 . .–6:00 . .). Completed in 1897 as printed titles, fi ve million manuscript pages, a.m.–8:00 p.m.; $18 adults, $12 students, Chicago’s fi rst central public library, the CCC and 500,000 historic maps. (Two AHA tours seniors, and children under 14). The new stands as a popular architectural landmark. offer a chance to view parts of the collection). Modern Wing, opened in May 2009 and The building’s most notable features are its General tours of the library are offered Thurs- designed by Renzo Piano, features modern two recently restored stained-glass domes, days at 3:00 p.m. and Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. European painting and sculpture, contem- featuring the world’s largest Tiffany dome. Pritzker Military Library, 104 S. porary art, architecture and design, and Today, the CCC celebrates the performing, Michigan Ave. (312-374-9333; www. photography. Two January exhibitions, visual, and literary arts by providing more pritzkermilitarylibrary.org; open Tuesday– Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention than 800 free cultural programs a year. Wednesday and Friday–Saturday 10:00 and Inside Marina City: A Project by Iker Gil Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. a.m.–4:00 p.m., plus Thursday 10:00 a.m.– and Andreas E.G. Larsson, explore Gold- Chicago Ave. (312-280-2660; www.mcachi- 7:00 p.m.; $5 admission). The library opened berg’s architectural contributions to the cago.org; open Tuesday 10:00 a.m.–8:00 in 2003 and moved to Michigan Avenue in built environment of Chicago. The institute p.m. and Wednesday–Sunday 10:00 a.m.– 2010. It houses a collection of books and will also showcase two photography collec- 5:00 p.m.; $12 suggested general admission, related materials on military history. The tions, Timothy O’Sullivan: The King Survey $7 for students and seniors, children 12 and research library seeks to increase public un- Photographs and The Three Graces. under free). The MCA presents and inter- derstanding of military history and develops Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 prets thought-provoking contemporary art. programs focusing on the concept of the S. Michigan Ave. (312-922-3432; caf.ar- The museum offers exhibitions of contem- citizen soldier in the preservation of democ- chitecture.org; shop and tour center open porary visual culture (produced since 1945) racy. Through January, the library is featur- Saturday–Thursday 9:30 a.m.–6:30 p.m. through painting, sculpture, photography, ing two exhibits: Memories of World War II: and Friday 9:00 a.m.– 7:00 p.m.; prices and video and fi lm, and performance. January Photographs from the Archives of the Associated purchasing options for individual tours exhibitions include Iain Baxter &: Works Press and The Home Front: What You Can Do! listed online). The CAF offers numerous 1958–2011 and Ron Terada: Being There. Within Easy Public Transit Distance AHR Open Forum Chicago History Museum, 1601 N. Clark St. (312-266-2077; www.chicagohis- Friday, January 6, 2012, 1:00–2:00 p.m. tory.org; museum open Monday–Saturday Meet the Editors and Staff of the American Historical Review 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m., plus Sunday noon–5:00 Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Chicago Ballroom VIII p.m.; $14 adults, $12 students and seniors, What do you want from the fl agship journal of the American Historical Association? children 12 and under free. Admission The editors and staff of the AHR invite members to attend an informal, open session to prices include two audio tours. Research express their views on the journal. We are prepared to offer advice on how members might center open Tuesday–Friday 1:00–4:30 best prepare articles for submission and tell them what they should expect from the review p.m., plus Saturday 10:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.). process. Most importantly, we are eager to hear what you have to say. Please bring your The CHM collects, interprets, and presents brown–bag lunch and join us. the multicultural history of Chicago and

50 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 51 Illinois, as well as selected areas of American floor, offers collections of artifacts, photo- popular areas—the Chicago Water Works history. Their newest exhibition, Out in graphs, and stories of Hull-House residents Visitor Information Center on the Mag- Chicago, balances private stories with public and immigrants. nificent Mile (163 E. Pearson St. near perspectives on issues relating to language, National Museum of Mexican Art, Michigan Ave.) and the Loop’s Chicago gender expression, identity formation, and 1852 W. 19th St. (312-738-1503; www. Cultural Center Visitor Information the role of LGBT people in politics, culture, nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org; open Center (77 E. Randolph St. near Michigan and family relationships. Other permanent Tuesday–Sunday 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.; ad- Ave.). exhibitions include Facing Freedom. (The mission free, donations accepted). Located For discounted admission packages, Local Arrangements Committee has orga- in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, consider Chicago CityPASS, a one-time nized curator-led tours of both exhibits.) the museum’s permanent collection is one admission to five of Chicago’s most famous Evanston History Center, 225 Green- of the largest collections of Mexican art in attractions: Shedd Aquarium, The Field wood, Evanston (847-475-3410; www. the nation. An understanding of Mexican Museum, Skydeck Chicago, Adler Planetar- evanstonhistorycenter.org; open for docent- culture as sin fronteras guides their exhibi- ium or the Art Institute of Chicago, and the led tours Thursday–Sunday at 1:00, 2:00, tion philosophy and permits the museum John Hancock Observatory or the Museum and 3:00 p.m.; $10 admission, includes entry to display artistic expressions from both of Science and Industry (www.citypass. to exhibits. Research room open Tuesday, sides of the border. Through January, the com/chicago; $76 adults, $59 children Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday 1:00– museum will present Juan Ángel Chávez’s 3–11). CityPass ticket booklets are valid for 4:00 p.m.; $5 admission, students free). Neptuno, a collection of large-scale interac- nine days beginning with the first day of The EHC is housed in the 1895 Charles tive installations and constructed environ- use and are available for purchase online or Gates Dawes House, residence of the ments. (The Local Arrangements commit- at any of the Chicago attractions. Another former vice president and now a National tee has arranged a tour of the museum and option is the Go Chicago Card, which also Historic Landmark. Tours of the 28-room the Pilsen neighborhood.) provides discounted rates and access to 28 mansion are available, and a research room Oriental Institute, 1155 E. 58th St. top Chicago attractions. One day passes offers access to EHC’s archival holdings. (773-702-9514; www.oi.uchicago.edu; begin at $67 for adults, $45 for children. Milestones and Memories, the center's per- open Tuesday, Thursday–Saturday 10:00 Visit www.smartdestinations.com or call to manent exhibit, highlights the history of a.m.–6:00 p.m., plus Wednesday 10:00 speak to one of their travel experts at 866- Evanston using artifacts from the collection. a.m.–8:30 p.m. and Sunday noon–6:00 p.m.; 628-9031. Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 suggested donation $7 adults, $4 children Allison Bertke Downey is a second-year PhD S. Lake Shore Dr. (312-922-9410; www. 12 and under). The Oriental Institute of the student in history at the University of Illinois fieldmuseum.org; open daily 9:00a .m.– University of Chicago is a research organiza- at Chicago. She also works as a Kids Count 5:00 p.m.; basic admission $15 adults, $12 tion and museum dedicated to the study of Research Intern at Voices for Illinois Children. students and seniors, $10 children 3–11). the ancient Near East. The museum displays Originally founded to house the biologi- objects devoted to ancient Egypt, Nubia, cal and anthropological collections for the Persia, Mesopotamia, Syria, Anatolia, and World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, the ancient site of Megiddo. The institute the museum today presents more than 40 offers self-guided audio tours and guided permanent exhibitions. Special exhibitions tours for community groups. Reservations in January include Whales: Giants of the are required and can be scheduled at 773- Service Animals Deep, an exploration of the world of whales 702-9507. through a unique blend of science and Welcome! storytelling, and Chocolate: Around the More on What's Going on in World, a journey through the history of the Chicago he American Historical Association tasty treat. The city of Chicago’s official tourism site T is committed to making the annual The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, (www.explorechicago.org) and visitors’ site meeting accessible. Service animals are 800 S. Halsted (312-413-5353; www.uic. (www.choosechicago.com) include event, welcome at all events, sessions, and edu/jaddams/hull; open Tuesday–Friday tour, and attraction finders, recommenda- venues at the meeting. 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. and Sunday noon– tions on places to eat and shop, and basic The Americans with Disabilities Act 4:00 p.m.). The Hull-House Museum serves travel tools, such as trip planners, guides protects the right of people with as a dynamic memorial to social reformer and maps, and transportation information. disabilities to be accompanied by Jane Addams, the first American woman Information on Chicago’s 77 distinct com- trained service animals in public to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Located munity areas and diverse neighborhoods, places. Remember, not all disabilities on the University of Illinois at Chicago including interactive maps, insider tips, and are visible and service animals are not campus, the museum preserves the original neighborhood guides, can be found at www. required to wear special equipment or Hull-House site for the interpretation and explorechicago.org/city/en/neighborhoods. tags. continuation of the historic settlement html. Service animals are working and should house vision. The newly renovated museum, Visitor information centers are conve- not be distracted without permission. including the never-before-exhibited second niently located in two of the city's most

50 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 51 Chicago and Historians Forever Marilyn By Elizabeth Fraterrigo

eeting attendees who wander Within the plaza, a marker commemorates Johnson’s take on the image leaves little to nearby Pioneer Court (401 a national landmark, the home site of the to the imagination. In this regard, Forever M North Michigan Avenue) will be city’s fi rst non-native settler, Jean Baptiste Marilyn is akin to his 2003 Corcoran Gallery greeted by Forever Marilyn, a recent addition Pointe DuSable, and south across the river of Art exhibition, Beyond the Frame: Impres- to Chicago’s public art scene. Unveiled in July at Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive sionism Revisited, which gave sculptural form 2011, the 26-foot, 17-ton steel and aluminum pavement markers call attention to the site of to fi gures and scenes found in works by fi gure is the work of New Jersey-based artist Fort Dearborn. At the moment, these nearby Monet, Renoir, and others, while adding new Seward Johnson. The mammoth sculpture architectural and historic landmarks threaten elements Johnson imagined might be visible recreates a famous moment from the 1955 fi lm to be upstaged by Johnson’s immense depic- “beyond the frame” of the original paintings. The Seven Year Itch, when the skirt of Marilyn tion of the platinum blonde. Not surprising For his effort to take us beyond—or more Monroe’s dress billows up as she stands on a in a culture enamored of celebrity, it is a hit to the point behind—the frame of the Bernard gusty Manhattan subway grate. with tourists and passersby, who sidle up to photograph, Johnson might be credited for So what exactly is the giant likeness of the her legs and photograph her derrière. the engineering feat of stabilizing the weight actress doing on Michigan Avenue? There is Many of Johnson’s sculptures, which populate of the skirt with 20,000 pounds of ballast in little to connect Monroe or the memorable park benches and other public spaces around the subway grate. But he has reduced Monroe fi lm scene to Chicago, except perhaps by the country, are lifelike bronze fi gures of and the celebrated image to a visual one-liner. tenuous association. Monroe graced the cover ordinary people engaged in everyday activities. Now, standing between her legs, strolling of the fi rst issue of Playboy, founded by a Chi- He also has become known for—and has drawn beneath the cantilevered skirt, we get to stare cagoan, and it does get awfully windy here. criticism for the derivative nature of—his up at her underpants. Whereas fi lm and pho- larger-than-life sculptures that render in three tograph provide a glimpse of skin, Johnson’s Zeller Realty Group, which owns the plaza dimensions what photographers and painters sculpture gives us Marilyn forever frozen in and leased the sculpture, was not looking for have created in two. An earlier Pioneer Court painted metal, rear end exposed in perpetuity. a Chicago connection, however. President installation of Johnson’s God Bless America gave Forever Marilyn is a curious, albeit tem- and CEO Paul Zeller has punned that the towering form to the farm couple of Grant porary, addition to the streetscape. Like work was meant simply to be “uplifting.” Wood’s painting, American Gothic. Forever most cities, Chicago offers relatively few Ordinarily, Pioneer Court is a good place Marilyn similarly draws inspiration from a well- physical reminders of women’s contribu- to take in the impressive vista formed by the known image, a 1955 Bruno Bernard photo- tions and achievements. Until 1996, when buildings surrounding the DuSable Bridge. graph of Monroe in her fl yaway dress. Hull-House founder and Nobel Peace Prize Monroe, of course, was a winner Jane Addams received recognition talented but troubled actress in the form of a sculpture in a city park, who capitalized on her looks, Chicago women were virtually absent from fi gure, and dizzy blonde persona the memorial landscape. In recent years, to delight audiences and achieve civic leaders have begun to address the dearth motion picture stardom. The of public remembrances of women’s activi- Seven Year Itch is Monroe at her ties through sculptures, historical markers, most alluring and comedic best. and the naming of parks. Forever Marilyn In the fi lm, she lingers over a stands apart from these efforts in that it sidewalk grate on a sultry summer is privately funded and resides on private night and revels in the breeze from property. Nevertheless, it certainly gives one a passing subway. Her dress is mo- pause to consider that at the moment, the mentarily blown upward. Little city’s most prominent tribute to a woman is fl esh is actually revealed in the one that encourages passersby to gaze at her brief but much-ballyhooed scene. ruffl ed panties. The sculpture is scheduled to Publicity photos offered a bit remain on view until spring 2012. If you are more thigh and transformed the anywhere in the vicinity, it’s unavoidable. image of Monroe with uplifted Elizabeth Fraterrigo is associate professor of skirt into a pop icon—the ivory history at Loyola University Chicago and the halter dress sold for $4.6 million author of Playboy and the Making of the The Forever Marilyn statue located in Pioneer Court. at auction this summer—but they Good Life in Modern America (Oxford Uni- Photo by DoodleMatt on Flikr. remained merely suggestive. versity Press, 2009).

52 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 53 The Society for Military History and The George C. Marshall Foundation extend an invitation to you to attend:

The George C. Marshall Lecture on M i l i t a r y H i st o r y

Saturday, January 7, 2012, 5:00–6:30 p . m . Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Chicago Ballroom VIII

Andrew J. Bacevich, Boston University will speak on The Revisionist Imperative: Rethinking the Twentieth Century Not long before his untimely death, the historian Tony Judt observed that “For many American commentators and policymakers, the message of the twentieth century is that war works.” Americans reached that conclusion because for them—if not for others—war did indeed seem to work, at least for a time. After all, World War II had vaulted the United States to a position of unquestioned global dominion. That conflict thereafter became the centerpiece of an internalized grand historical narrative. Canonical “lessons” derived from World War II have shaped U. S. policy ever since. Yet the persistence of those lessons today makes it difficult for Americans to realize that war no longer works, even for them. The militarization of U.S. policy is not enhancing American strength and security—it is exacerbating weakness and vulnerability instead. To grasp their predicament—and to think anew about basic policy—Americans must first rethink the twentieth century. They need a new grand narrative, one that will necessarily displace the heroic memory of World War II. ­­—Andrew J. Bacevich

A reception will follow in the Sheraton Chicago’s Chicago Ballroom IX beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Lecture sponsored by the Society for Military History and the George C. Marshall Foundation.

Presiding: Joseph T. Glatthaar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and president, Society for Military History

52 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 53 The Job Center Top Ten Job Center Tips for Candidates and Search Committees By Liz Townsend he Job Center at the AHA annual Candidates Search Committees meeting, located this year in the Chicago Marriott’s Grand Ballroom, 1. Come prepared. You’ll need copies 1. If you’re interviewing in a privately T of your c.v. or other professional arranged suite, let us know the hotel and Salon 1, provides facilities and assistance to both job candidates and search committees. information and all interview details room number. Help your candidates have Those who went through the job market from the search committees, including as stress-free an experience as possible. years ago might not even recognize the names and contact info. 2. If you arranged a room through the current setup of the Job Center; the AHA is 2. Pick up a Job Center Handout in the Job Center, pick up your key at the constantly evaluating the effectiveness of our Grand Ballroom, Salon 1, and look for Information Booth in Salon 1. services and making changes where possible. open positions you may want to apply 3. If interviewing in a room arranged No longer just a bare room fi lled with for. The Handout is also available online. through the Job Center, let us know if tables and noise, the Job Center headquarters 3. Check the bulletin boards for late- there is anything wrong with the room or consists of an information/waiting area and breaking announcements and new if you need any assistance. We’ll provide a another room with interview tables separated positions. local number when you pick up the key. from each other by drape. Interviews taking place in privately arranged suites are displayed 4. Submit c.v.’s early in the meeting for 4. Check in for table interviews in Salon on an electronic list; there are many chairs for open positions. Most search committees 1 when you’re ready to begin for the day. candidates to use while waiting for their inter- fi ll their open slots quickly. 5. Let the Search Committee Check-in views; there are free terminals with access to Booth know when you’re leaving for lunch 5. Go to the Registration Resource the Messaging System and the Internet in the or when you’re done for the day. We don’t Center at www.historians.org and set same room; and there is a nearby Quiet Room want candidates to be left waiting for a up your account to receive e-mails or complete with WiFi where candidates can get committee that has already gone. texts from the Messaging System. Check away for a while to decompress. messages often from any Internet- 6. Let staff at the Check-In Booth know Extensive information about the Job Center connected device or the free terminals in if there are any problems in the table is available at www.historians.org/annual/ Salon 1. area, including excessive noise, or if you’d jobs, or from the Job Center Information like to move to another table. Booth in the Grand Ballroom, Salon 1 on the 6. Confi rm interview locations at the Marriott’s 7th fl oor. We’ll be happy to answer Information Booth. Ask for help if you 7. Collect c.v.’s often from the C.V. any questions you may have about the inter- don’t fi nd your position listed. Collection Booth if you have an open viewing process or about the annual meeting. position. 7. Check in for table interviews about Don’t forget to bring your badge; everyone 10 minutes before the scheduled time in 8. If you wish to decline the interview entering the Job Center room is required to Salon 1. request, give the c.v. back to the Information display a 2012 annual meeting badge. Here Booth, and we’ll send a generic decline are some quick tips to get you started. 8. For interviews in suites, go directly to message through the Messaging System. the room at your scheduled time. Knock To schedule interviews, contact candidates once on the door at the exact time if it directly through their cell/local numbers Please Note: hasn’t been opened by then. or the Messaging System. 9. Spend time in the Quiet Room in the 9. Give a copy of the job description to Marriott’s Great America Room on the the Information Booth if you have a new Please help us to accommodate 6th fl oor. position to display on the bulletin boards. attendees who are sensitive to fragrances and other scented 10. Attend sessions and receptions and 10. Take a look around your table and network with other historians. You’ll be room when you’re done to be sure you products by refraining from a member of the history profession for haven’t left anything behind. wearing perfume, aftershave, years to come, so use this opportunity to scented lotions, and other similar Liz Townsend is AHA coordinator, Job Center and meet and talk with historians from across professional data. She is also editor of the AHA’s products. the country and around the world. print and online Directory of History Depart- ments, Historical Organizations, and Historians.

January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 55 54 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 The Job Center AHA Guidelines for the Hiring Process By the AHA Professional Division

n an effort to better serve members of fi nal decision should be made without interviews outside of designated Job Center the AHA, and to promote the highest considering all applications received before facilities. For more details, please see the Job I standards of professional conduct in the the closing date. Center guidelines, available online at http:// hiring process, we provide these guidelines 6. At all stages of a search, affi rmative historians.org/annual/jobs. See “Interviews for search committees and job candidates action/equal opportunity guidelines for Non–Job Register Facilities”* for guide- should be respected. lines for those conducting interviews outside General Criteria of designated Job Center facilities. 7. As candidates are eliminated, they The AHA discourages holding interviews 1. Job discrimination is illegal. Interviewing should be notifi ed promptly and in hotel bedrooms. If an interviewer thinks and hiring should be based solely on courteously. Some hiring institutions it is necessary to use a facility outside the professional criteria. Interviewers should notify all candidates when their search is Job Center, the Association strongly advises not ask questions about a candidate’s completed. Unsuccessful candidates may that a parlor—rather than a sleeping—room marital status or family, race or national wish to ask how their chances might have be used, and that a third person always be origin, disability, age, or personal lifestyle. been improved. Hiring institutions often present in the room with the candidate. In- Candidates may, however, volunteer such respond helpfully to such inquiries but they terviewers using facilities outside the Job information in the course of their own are not obliged to disclose the reasoning Center bear sole responsibility for establish- inquiries about the hiring institution, leading to their ultimate choices. although this sort of discussion is usually ing an appropriate professional atmosphere and should take special care to ensure that all more appropriate during an on–campus Interviews at the interview than in the preliminary stages of interviews are conducted courteously and in a candidacy. AHA Annual Meeting a proper and professional manner. If for any reason the interviewers choose not 2. All positions for historians should be 1. All participants in an interview should be prompt, effi cient, and courteous. Job to take advantage of the AHA facilities, they advertised in the Employment Information should be specifi c when making other arrange- Bulletin (classifi ed ads) ofPerspectives on candidates should bring a suffi cient supply of c.v.’s and writing implements to the meeting. ments. Let the candidates know when, where, History. If hiring institutions intend to and with whom they will be meeting. Provide 2. Interviews should take place on time, and interview at the AHA annual meeting, this information to the Job Center staff, who candidates should be allowed enough time they should make every effort to advertise will then make it available to candidates. in the Perspectives on History issues for the in interviews to develop their candidacies in fall months. some depth. This means that interviewers 3. Advertisements for positions should have to watch the time carefully, and try contain specifi c information regarding to avoid departing from the schedule they qualifi cations and clear indication have established. It also means that job as to whether a position has actually candidates should not schedule interviews For Further Reading been authorized or is contingent upon too close together. Appointments often run The following online resources are budgetary or other administrative over the allotted times. also available: considerations. 3. Interviews should proceed in a manner 4. Candidates should seek interviews that respects the professional and personal The AHA Job Advertising Policy only for those jobs for which they are integrity of candidates and interviewers. www.historians.org/support qualifi ed, and under no circumstances Whenever possible, interviewing ADPOLICY.htm. should they misrepresent their training committees should include male and The AHA Statement on Standards of or their qualifi cations. To do otherwise is female representation. Professional Conduct unprofessional and wastes the time and 4. Interviews should take place in a www.historians.org/pubs/Free/ energy of everyone concerned. professional setting. The AHA strongly ProfessionalStandards.cfm 5. All applications and inquiries for a urges institutions interviewing at the position should be acknowledged promptly AHA annual meeting to use the facilities The AHA statement, Best Practices and courteously (within two weeks of provided through the Job Center. on Spousal/Partner Hiring receipt, if possible), and each applicant Beginning with the 2000 annual meeting www.historians.org/perspectives/ should be informed as to the initial in Chicago, the AHA has made special ar- eib/spouse.cfm action on the application or inquiry. No rangements with institutions conducting

January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 55 54 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 Exhibitors' Index

The following list of 2012 annual meeting exhibitors has been updated from the Exhibitors’ Index printed on page 136 of the 2012 Annual Meeting Program:

Name of Exhibitor Booth Number Name of Exhibitor Booth Number

Adam Matthew Education 718 Johns Hopkins University Press 321, 323

Alexander Street Press 511 JSTOR 125

American Historical Association 507, 509 Lexington Books 316

ARTstor 427 Louisiana State University Press 219

Ashgate Publishing 416, 418 Macmillan 508, 510

Association Book Exhibit 231 McGill-Queen's University Press 111

Athabasca University Press 523 McGraw-Hill Higher Education 626, 721

Baylor University Press 108 Milestone Documents 216, 218 Minnesota Population Center 220 Bedford/St. Martin's 408, 410, 412 National Archives and Records Administration 126 Berghahn Books 307 New York University Press 421 BRILL 107, 109 Northern Illinois University Press 423 Cambridge University Press 618, 620, 622 Ohio University Press 309 Cengage Learning 607, 609, 611 Omohundro Institute 610 Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture 524 On The Avenue Marketing 424 Columbia University Press 320 Oxford University Press 707, 709, 711, 713 Conference of Historical Journals 417 Palgrave Macmillan 407, 409 Confl ict Records Research Center, The 720 Penguin Group USA 717, 719 Continuum 716 Penn State University Press 317 Cornell University Press 428 Perseus Books Group 515, 517 Duke University Press 520, 522 Potomac Books, Inc. 208 EBSCO Publishing 116 Princeton University Press 313, 315 Educational Testing Service 113 Pritzker Military Library 123 German Historical Institute 225 Project MUSE 325 Hackett Publishing Co. 311 ProQuest 120, 122 Harlan Davidson, Inc. 518 PublishNext 117 HarperCollins Publishers 621, 623 Random House Inc. 613, 615, 617, 619 Harvard University Press 612, 614 Routledge/Taylor and Francis 411, 413, 415 Haymarket Books 224 Rowman & Littlefi eld Publishers 312, 314 HistoryIT 121 Stanford University Press 528, 627 i>clicker 211 M.E. Sharpe Inc. 322 Indiana University Press 715 Scholar's Choice, The 114 56 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 57 U.S. Department of State 212 University of Pennsylvania Press 512

U.S. Federal Government—HCD 115 University of Texas Press 223

University of Arizona Press 222 University of Toronto Press 319 University of California Press 708, 710 University of Virginia Press 226 University of Chicago Press 712, 714 University of Wisconsin Press 616 University of Georgia Press 419 University Press of Kansas 214 University of Illinois Press 516 University Press of Kentucky 221 University of Massachusetts Press 514 Voices of a People 224 University of Missouri Press 318 W.W. Norton & Co. 308, 310 University of Nebraska Press 422, 521

University of New Mexico Press 119 Wiley-Blackwell 213, 215, 217

University of North Carolina Press 608 Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 210

University of Notre Dame Press 110 Yale University Press 207, 209

PLEASE NOTE: All Annual Meeting attendees are Although the AHA welcomes members of its cordially invited to the following: affiliated societies, the costs of organizing and holding the annual meeting are Receptions: considerable. As a result, only REGISTRANTS Graduate Students and Early Career Committee with an AHA MEETING BADGE can participate Thurs., Jan. 5, 5:00 p.m. v in the AHA JOB CENTER, visit the EXHIBIT Sheraton Chicago, Mayfair Room HALL, and access the MESSAGING SYSTEM! The AHA’s Graduate and Early Career Committee invites graduate students and historians at the beginning of their careers for informal conversation with each other and the Association’s leadership. This is a new night for this event, providing attendees All Annual Meeting attendees the opportunity to meet one another early in the meeting.

are invited to the following Two-Year College Faculty Open Forums: Fri., Jan. 6, 5:30 p.m. v Sheraton Chicago, Missouri Room The AHA cordially invites faculty teaching at two-year and Graduate and Early Career community colleges to attend a reception to meet each other and to discuss informally how the Association might better Fri., Jan. 6, 5:30–6:30 p.m. serve their needs. Sponsored by Milestone Documents. Sheraton Chicago, Colorado Room The GECC invites graduate students and early career Committee on Minority Historians professionals to a forum to discuss issues of interest to graduate Sat., Jan. 7, 6:00 p.m. v Sheraton, Mayfair Room students. The CMH cordially invites minority scholars, graduate Chair: Aaron W. Marrs, Office of the Historian, U.S. De- students, and others to meet colleagues and AHA officers. partment of State LGBTQ Historians Task Force Public Historians Sat., Jan. 7, 7:00 p.m. v Sheraton Chicago, Missouri Room Fri., Jan.6, 4:45–5:45 p.m. The AHA’s Professional Division cordially invite public Sheraton Chicago, Executive Center Parlor E historians and anyone with an interest in public history to join Chair: Leisa D. Meyer, College of William and Mary them for informal conversation with colleagues.

56 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 57 Map of the Exhibit Hall Sheraton Chicago River Exhibition Hall

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58 126th Annual Meeting January 5–8, 2012 January 5–8, 2012 126th Annual Meeting 59 Luncheons at the 126th Annual Meeting Friday, January 6 (see page 60 of the Program for Saturday, January 7 (see pages 91 and 92 of the Program complete details) for complete details) Conference on Asian History American Catholic Historical Association v Ticket cost: $50 v Location: Sheraton, Chi Bar v Ticket cost: Organization will sell tickets separately; via its web site (www.achahistory.org) American Society of Church History v Location: Marriott, Kane Room v Ticket cost: Organization will sell tickets separately; via its web site (churchhistory.org) AHA Modern European History Section v Location: Westin, Promenade Ballroom A v Ticket cost: 35 member, $45 nonmember v Location: Sheraton, Tennessee Room Conference on Latin American History v Ticket cost: Organization will sell tickets separately; via AHA Department Chairs its web site (clah.h-net.org/) v Ticket cost: $25 for chairs of departments that participate v Location: Marriott, Marriott Ballroom in the AHA’s Departmental and Organizational Services Program (DOSP), $45 for chairs of nonmember departments Organization of History Teachers v Location: Sheraton, Mayfair Room v Ticket cost: $20 v Location: Marriott, Sheffield Room College Board v Ticket cost: $10 v Location: Marriott, Sheffield Room Tickets for the luncheons (except those sponsored by organizations that sell their own tickets) were available for advance Coordinating Council for Women in History purchase on the printed and online meeting registration forms. v Ticket cost: $36 v Location: Marriott, Lincolnshire Room Except where indicated, luncheon tickets will also be available for purchase during the meeting at the onsite registration counters in Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations the Sheraton Chicago’s River Exhibition Hall B. Tickets purchased v Ticket cost: $30; tickets must be purchased in advance with registration will be distributed with meeting badges. v Location: Lawry’s The Prime Rib Chicago, 100 E. Ontario St.

Committee on Women Historians Breakfast Meeting Brainstorming Session Saturday, January7, 9:00–10:30 a.m. Saturday, January7, 7:30–9:00 a.m. Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Sheraton Ballroom V Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Sheraton Ballroom V

Tickets for the CWH Breakfast will be available at the registration The AHA Committee on Women Historians invites all counters in River Exhibition Hall B of the Sheraton Chicago interested participants to a brainstorming session on the mission Hotel & Towers. Tickets purchased previously with meeting of the committee from 9:00–10:30 a.m. on Saturday, January registration will be distributed with meeting badges. 7 in the Sheraton’s Sheraton Ballroom V. Registration for the women’s breakfast is not required. Presiding: Leora Auslander , Univ. of Chicago Should the profession be rethinking the ways in which the Speaker: Barbara Young Welke, Univ. of Minnesota public and the private, the professional and the personal have Telling Stories: A Meditation on Love, Loss, History and Who We Are come to be divided in university life? In a moment when many gender inequities in our profession appear to have been Cost: $35 members, $45 nonmembers, remedied and the history of women, gender, and sexuality $30 student members. established in most departments, what are the urgent tasks for the CWH?

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