June 1-3 • 2006 The 27th

Conference on State History

at Columbia In conjunction with University The Association of Public Historians of New York State

Sponsored by The Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History, and New York State Archives Partnership Trust Thursday June 1

10-5 Museums to visit 9-9 Registration K New-York Historical Society Lehman Center K Museum of the City of New York K New York Genealogical & Biographical Society Museum information and directions at registration. Please indicate your interest on the registration form. 3:30 – 5:30 Afternoon Sessions

101 Biography 103 British New York 104 Teaching U.S. APHNYS HERBERT H. LEHMAN ‘I WANT A PACKET’: COMMUNICATIONS,GOVERN- History Through • Duane Tananbaum, Lehman College CUNY MENT, AND NEW YORK’S AMBIGUOUS CAREER AS Local Resources THE BRITISH HEADQUARTERS OF AMERICA ANDREW CARNEGIE Stacy P.Draper, • Rohit T.Aggarwala, Independent Scholar • Rensselaer County • David Nasaw, The Graduate Center CUNY Historical Society THE NIGHT THE YANKEES BURNED BROADWAY: JOSEPH SMITH • Nancy Iannucci, School • Richard Bushman, Columbia University THE DESTRUCTION OF NEW YORK CITYIN1776 • Benjamin L. Carp, University of Edinburgh • Robert J. Naeher, Emma Willard School HENRY LUCE • Alan Brinkley, Columbia University CASUALTIES OF WAR:THE MILITARY OCCUPATION Moderator/commentator: Gloria Sesso, OF SUFFOLK COUNTY, 1776-83 Patchogue-Medford School District Moderator/commentator: Josh Freeman, • John Staudt, Hofstra University Queens College PIRATES,MERCHANTS,GOVERNORS AND SLAVES: 105 Association APHNYS NEW YORK CITY AND THE INDO-ATLANTIC TRADE 102 The Lower East Side WORLD, 1690-1725 of Public Historians Moderator: Laurie Tobias Cohen, Lower East • Kevin P.McDonald, UC Santa Cruz of New York State Side Jewish Conservancy THE LOWER EAST SIDE FROM THE GREAT JEWISH MIGRATION TO THE PRESENT • Marcia Ikonomopoulos, Association of friends of Greek Jewry and • Holly Kaye, Independent Scholar AN URBAN EXPERIENCE: NEW YORK CITY’S LOWER EAST SIDE, 1880-1920 • William L. Crozier, St. Mary’s University (Minn.) Commentator: Joyce Mendelsohn, New York City Historic House Trust

5:30 - 7:30 Walking Tour of Morningside Heights APHNYS • Andrew Dolkart, Columbia University Sessions on historical methods and sources for public historians are indicated 7:30 - 9:00 APHNYS Membership Meeting by the symbol above. All conference participants are welcome at these sessions. † Officially-appointed public historians are designated by this symbol. 2006 Conference Program Committee Conference Chair Field Horne • Preferred contact method, e-mail: [email protected] Telephone: 518-587-4962 • Mailing address: Box 215, Saratoga Springs NY 12866-0215 Robert Arnold, New York State Archives Edward Knoblauch, College of St. Rose Claudia Bushman, Columbia University Daniel Nathan, Owen Gutfreund, Natalie Naylor, Hofstra College emerita Kenneth T.Jackson, Columbia University Celedonia Jones, Borough Historian Eric Roth, Huguenot Historical Society Lisa Keller, Purchase College, SUNY David Schuyler, Franklin and Marshall College 2 Friday June 2

8-6 Registration Faculty House

8-6 Exhibits Faculty House

9:00 Plenary Session Welcome Introducing Keynote • Field Horne, Conference Chair • Carole Huxley, Deputy Commissioner • Kenneth T.Jackson, Department • Lisa Keller, Conference Co-Chair of Cultural Education of History, Columbia University • Carol McKenna, President,APHNYS BUT IT WAS IN NEW YORK

10:00 – 10:15 Break 10:15 – 11:45 Late Morning Sessions

201 Poverty 203 Newspapers 205 What Price History: An Inside View THE ‘REVOLUTION’ IN POVERTY: THE PAUPERS OF PARTY CRASHERS: NEWSPAPER COVERAGE OF THE of Museums and Historical Societies: ALBANY, 1784-1800 NEW YORK TEA PARTY Roundtable Discussion • Tricia Barbagallo, University at Albany • Michael E. Neagle, University of • Paula Mayo, South Street Seaport Museum BEING POORINNEW PALTZ, 1678-1828 Connecticut • Sarah Henry, Museum of the City of New • Eric Roth, Huguenot Historical Society THE ‘FOLK SCARE’: CULTURAL SPACE AND THE York THE ERIE RAIL ROAD AND THE ECONOMIC IMPACT VILLAGE VOICE’S MUSIC JOURNALISM, 1955-65 • , Bronx County Historical OF EMIGRANT PAUPERS IN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY • Devon Powers, Society • †Michelle Henry, Chautauqua County LEADERS NOT LAGGARDS:TECHNOLOGY AND NEW Historian and †Pam Brown, Panama YORK CITY NEWSPAPERS, 1830-1930 • Steve Elliott, New York State Historical Association Village Historian • Thorin R. Tritter, Princeton University Lisa Keller, Moderator/commentator: Claudia Bushman, Moderator/commentator: Evan Cornog, Moderator/commentator: Columbia University Columbia University Purchase College, SUNY APHNYS 202 The New Deal 204 Women and Business 206 New Historians: Everything You Need to Know THE GERMAN AMERICAN BUND AND CAMP THE BUSINESS OF BEAUTY: HARRIET H.AYER’S SIEGFRIED NEW YORK CAREER • †Marilyn J.VanDyke, Queensbury Town • Marvin D. Miller, Suffolk County • Melanie Gustafson, University of Vermont Historian Community College MRS.AYER’S WORLD: AMERICA’S FIRST ‘SCHOOLS FOR WAR’: AMERICAN CHILDREN AND WOMEN’S PAGE EDITOR WORLD WAR II • Katina Jones, Independent Scholar • Lisa L. Ossian, Des Moines Area COURT CHALLENGES FACED BY U.S. Community College BUSINESSWOMEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY ‘LOW BRIDGE’ TO NO BRIDGE: THE TERA AND • Susan M.Yohn, Hofstra University THE ERIE CANAL AT ROME, 1931-34 Moderator/commentator: Nancy Woloch, • Anne E. Mosher, The Maxwell School at Barnard College Syracuse University 11:45 – 1:00 Lunch (on your own) 3 Friday June 2

8-6 Registration and Exhibits Faculty House 1:00 – 2:30 Early Afternoon Sessions

Board Meeting DARK DAYS:THE DECENTRALIZATION OF NEW 304 Infrastructure in the Nineteenth YORK CITY’S THEATER DISTRICT IN THE 1970S 301 Cultural Conflict in Progressive-Era • Timothy R.White, Columbia University Century New York City Moderator/commentator: Lynn Garafola, J. LLOYD HAIGH:THE THIEF WHO HELPED BUILD BATHING SUITS AND THE NEGOTIATION OF SOCIAL Barnard College THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE CLASS AT CONEY ISLAND, 1873-1914 • John W.Fried, Columbia University • Frances Davey, University of Delaware CROTON WATER AND THE MANHATTAN NEW YORK AND THE ORIGINS OF THE 303 John Jay, His Family and Circle LANDMARKS CREATION/EVOLUTION CONTROVERSY • Meisha Hunter, New York City Landmarks QUARANTINE: GOV. JAY CONFRONTS THE YELLOW Commission • Brian Regal, TCI College of Technology FEVER THREAT SLUMMERS’VISION:AN EXPLORATION OF • Jennifer E. Steenshorne, Papers of John DOWN THE TUBES:JOHN E. MILHOLLAND AND SLUMMING ENCOUNTERS ON THE BOWERY Jay NEW YORK CITY’S PNEUMATIC TUBES SYSTEM • Donald R. Schels, Columbia University • Linda J. Lumsden, Western Kentucky SECRECY,SECURITY, AND DUE PROCESS:JOHN JAY University Moderator/commentator: Betsy Blackmar, AND HOMELAND SECURITY Columbia University • Elizabeth M. Noxell, Papers of John Jay Moderator/commentator: Owen Gutfreund, Barnard College NEW YORK AND THE MAKING OF U.S. FOREIGN 302 The Performing Arts in New York City POLICY, 1774-1804 APHNYS • Mary A.Y.Gallagher, THOMAS B. MOTT’S SONGBOOK Papers of John Jay 305 New Historians: • Paul Mercer, New York State Library Moderator/commentator: Herb Sloan, Preserving Your Document Holdings Barnard College ROCKING:AT THE ROOTS OF HIP HOP DANCE • Ray LaFever, New York State Archives • MiRi Park, Columbia University 2:30 – 2:45 Break 2:45 – 4:15 Mid-Afternoon Sessions

• †Ruth Rosenberg-Naparsteck, Rochester 401 The Nineteen Thirties 403 Perspectives APHNYS City Historian PROMISED LAND:ALBANY’S RAPP ROAD on Preservation: COMMUNITY Panel Discussion • Debbie Allen, Black Dome Press • Jennifer Lemak, Albany Institute of • Mary Taylor, Donning Publishers History and Art Moderator: Jeffrey A. Kroessler, John Jay College CUNY • Judith Hohmann, Archives Partnership FROM HYDE PARK TO HARLEM: FDR AND Trust • Charla Bolton, Society for the AFRICAN AMERICANS IN NEW YORK CITY • Durahn Taylor, Pace University Preservation of Long Island Antiquities Pleasantville • Franny Eberhardt, Historic Districts 405 Latino/a History Council MIGRATION, POWER RELATIONS, AND PROTEST: WGY AND FDR: THE ORIGINS OF THE FIRESIDE PUERTO RICAN FARMWORKERS IN WESTERN NEW CHATS • Simeon Bankhoff, Historic Districts YORK, 1960S • Geoffrey Storm, Utica College Council • Ismael Garcia Colon, Center for Puerto Moderator/commentator: Tom Lewis, APHNYS Rican Studies, Skidmore College 404 Publishing THE SMART PUBLIC RELATIONS OF THE CUBAN Community History: Panel Discussion JUNTA IN NEW YORK CITY 1895-98 402 Towns: Roundtable Moderator: Field Horne, Kiskatom Publishing • Margarita Garcia-Estevez, Montclair State University Discussion • Jim Eyre, Columbia County Historical INDUSTRIAL WORK AND PUERTO RICAN NATIONAL Chair: Kenneth T. Jackson, Columbia University Society IDENTITY IN NEW YORK CITY, 1930-65 • Stuart Blumin, • Katie Hite, Westchester County Historical • Aldo Lauria Santiago, Rutgers University Society • Mark Carnes, Barnard College Moderator/commentator: Clara Rodriguez, • Jeanne Winston Adler, Washington County • Clyde Griffen, Vassar College Fordham University Historical Society • David Schuyler, Franklin and Marshall College 4:15 – 4:30 Break 4 Friday June 2

8-6 Exhibits Faculty House 4:30 – 6:00 Late Afternoon Sessions

501 Borderlands 503 Women in the Performing Arts 505 Using Civil Court APHNYS IMPERIAL COMMONS:THE POLITICS OF LAND IN ACTRESSES,WORK AND FAMILY:MARY DEVLIN Records NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK, 1760-70 AND CORDELIA HOWARD • Jim Folts, New York State Archives • Michael G. Gunther, Lehigh University • Nan Mullenneaux, SUNY Albany A LAWYER’S ANALYSIS OF BURGOYNE’S FIVE PROGRESSIVE NEW YORK WOMEN: ‘WILDERNESS’: THE SARATOGA TAX DISTRICT PERFORMERS OF THE 1920S 506 New York State APHNYS • Leslie B. Potter, Independent Scholar • Alan R. Ginsburg, Columbia University Newspaper Project Moderator/commentator: Edward Knoblauch, Moderator/commentator: Joshua Brown, • Mary Beth Sullivan, Albany County Hall College of St. Rose The Graduate Center, CUNY of Records

502 The Seventies and Eighties 504 Historians’ APHNYS 507 New Directions in African American THE ERA BATTLE IN NEW YORK AND THE Network: Panel History DEVELOPMENT OF A CONSERVATIVE WOMEN’S Discussion • Craig Wilder, Dartmouth College NETWORK Moderator: †Celedonia Jones, • Mark Naison, Fordham University • Nancy Baker, Harvard University Manhattan Borough Historian ‘SHUT IT DOWN!’: THE STUDENT STRIKE AT • †Stanley Cogan, Queens Borough SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, MAY 1970 Historian • James Eichsteadt, Syracuse University • †Richard Dickenson, Staten Island CHANGING UNDERSTANDING OF AIDS AND THE Borough Historian SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY OF LOWER MANHATTAN • Tamar Carroll, University of Michigan • John Manbeck, former Brooklyn Borough Historian Moderator/commentator: Ellen Baker, Columbia University • †, Bronx Borough Historian

6 PM Cocktails: Faculty House 7 PM Dinner: Faculty House

Welcome: †Celedonia Jones, Manhattan Borough Historian Introducing: Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President

Musical presentation: ALBANY’S EUTERPEAN CLUB: CULTIVATION OF IMPROVEMENT IN MUSICAL SKILL AND TASTE Ann-Marie Barker Schwartz and the Musicians of Ma’alwyck

9 PM The Wendell Tripp Lecture

Dr. Alan Taylor, University of California at Davis SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON’S LAND: THE CULTURES OF PROPERTY ON A COLONIAL FRONTIER Introduced by Christine Ward, State Archivist 5 Saturday June 3

8:30 – 10:00 Early Morning Sessions

601 Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam in 603 Origins of Government on Eastern 604 Celebrating APHNYS New York City Long Island History: Hudson, A TIME FOR MARTYRS:RESTRUCTURING THE LYON GARDINER DOCUMENTS:A CRITICAL Champlain, and Fulton MALCOLM X’S ASSASSINATION ANALYSIS THE 1909 HUDSON-FULTON CELEBRATION • Manning Marable, Columbia University • †Sherrill Foster, East Hampton Town • Roger Panetta, Marymount College Historian THE NATION OF ISLAM MOSQUE NO. 7, 1955-75 THE 1909 CHAMPLAIN TERCENTENARY • Zaheer Ali, Columbia University THE SOUTHAMPTON COMMON LANDS:A CASE • Richard Strum, Fort Ticonderoga STUDY ST.MALCOLM’S RELICS:A STUDY OF ARTIFACTS THE 1959 YEAR OF HISTORY • Steve Boerner, Independent Scholar • Elizabeth Mazucci, Columbia University • Edward Knoblauch, College of St. Rose THE AUTONOMOUS COMMONWEALTH: THE 2009 QUADRICENTENNIAL SOUTHAMPTON, 1640-44 • Barbara Fratianni, udson-Fulton- 602 Antebellum Development • John A. Strong, Long Island University H Champlain Quadricentennial Commission EMBRACING AMBITION:ELKANAH WATSON’S emeritus David Schuyler, PRIVATE WRITINGS ON INVESTMENT, 1778-1807 Moderator/commentator: Natalie Naylor, Moderator/commentator: Franklin and Marshall College • David A. Davidson, Northwestern Hofstra University emerita University PROGRESS AND PAIN: THE MAIN CONCERNS 605 Kids, Criminals, and Conundrums: OF ORDINARY RURAL NEW YORKERS IN THE Mining Archives for New York City History ANTEBELLUM ERA • Kenneth Cobb, • Nicholas Marshall, Marist College Assistant Commissioner, Department of Records and Information THE ENLIGHTENED LADIES OF BUTTERNUTS, Services, City of New York 1835-50 • David Ment, • †Leigh C. Eckmair, Butternuts Town Curator, NYC Board of Education Collection, Municipal Archives Historian • Leonora Gidland, Director, Municipal Archives

10:00 – 10:15 Break

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10:15 – 12:15 Late Morning Sessions

701 New York State 703 Fresh Approaches to the Iroquois 705 Planning and APHNYS in the American Revolution Experience Operating Historic NEW YORK OVERSHADOWED • G. Peter Jemison, Ganondagan State Tours: Panel Discussion • Barnet Schecter, Independent Scholar Historic Site SHOWING OFF THE TOWN:CREATING A NATHAN HALE:THE POWER OF WORDS • Doug George Kanentiio, Independent SUCCESSFUL URBAN WALKING TOUR • Richard E. Mooney,Retired Scholar • James W.Darlington, SUNY Cortland THE REVOLUTION REMEMBERED • Alan Michelson, Rhode Island School of REVOLUTIONARY WAR BATTLE TRAILS IN NEW • Ted Burrows, Brooklyn College Design YORK STATE THE BATTLES OF BROOKLYN • Robert Spiegelman, Independent Scholar • †Raymond C. Houghton, Bethlehem Town • William Parry, Hunter College Historian THE BIG ONION TOURS OF THE BIG APPLE ANDREW H. GREEN AND NEW YORK’S EMERGING 704 Mavericks in Women’s Higher PRESERVATION MOVEMENT • Seth Kamil, President, Big Onion Tours • Michael Miscione, Independent Education BARNARD COLLEGE WOMEN AND CONSCIOUSNESS- RAISING:SHAPING SOCIAL ACTIVISM, 1968-77 702 The Suburb • Antonia Abram, Teachers College 1:15-5:15 Bus tour of Harlem THE PELHAM MANOR AND HUGUENOT HEIGHTS BARNARD’S STRATEGY FOR WOMEN’S and the South Bronx ASSOC.: A FAILED RAILROAD SUBURB EFFORT PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION, 1911-31 • †Blake A. Bell, Pelham Town Historian • Guide: Kenneth T. Jackson, • Bethany Parliament, Teachers College Columbia University URBAN PERIPHERIES F.A.B. BARNARD AND MALE MEDICAL OPINIONS • †Mary DeMarco, Greenfield Town ON WOMEN’S HIGHER EDUCATION Historian • Julie Schell, Teachers College THE GOOD, BAD AND UGLYOFGREAT NECK THE DEMISE OF IN LOCO PARENTIS AT FORDHAM Walking tours PLAZA: INTERPRETING COMMUNITY HISTORY • Robin Stayvas, Teachers College • †Nancy Solomon, Great Neck Plaza Village All require a minimum number; please Historian Moderator/commentator: Patricia Palmieri, indicate first and second choices on Teachers College your registration. CONSTRUCTING AND DE-CONSTRUCTING A MODEL CITY: DE-INDUSTRIALIZATION AND ENVIRON- For full description of the tours, visit MENTAL POLITICS ON THE NIAGARA FRONTIER, www.bigonion.com. 1943-2000 K Central Park • Andrew Jenks, Niagara University K Historic Lower Manhattan Moderator/commentator: Michael J. Birkner, K Immigrant New Yor k Gettysburg College K New York Discovered

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Register Sessions: For our planning… Conference Registration: June 1-3, 2006 by May 25 Please indicate the sessions you may be attending. __101 __201 __301 __401 __501 __601 __701 __102 __202 __302 __402 __502 __602 __702 Name(s) ______103 __203 __303 __403 __503 __603 __703 __504 __104 __204 __304 __404 __604 __704 ______505 __605 __705 __105 __205 __305 __405 __506 __206 Affiliation ______507 Museums to visit; check if interested. Saturday Walking Tours $10 Mailing Address ______New-York Historical Society Indicate first and second choice. __Museum of the City of NY K Historic Lower Manhattan City/Town ______ST _____ Zip ______New York Genealogical and K Immigrant New York Biographical Society K New York Discovered Telephone ______K Thursday Walking Tour $5 Central Park E-mail ______K Morningside Heights K Saturday Bus Tour $15

Make check payable to Conference on New York State History. For discounted rate, postmark by May 25. Registration Sub-total...... $ ______Mail this page/check to Conference on New York State History, Box 215, Saratoga Springs NY 12866-0215

Lodging Sub-total...... $ ______Registration Lodging Lodging Per person, per night If you wish to share a room, please Friday Dinner Sub-total...... $ ______Postmarked by May 25 $50 ___ K Thursday, 6/1 print your roommate’s name. K Postmarked after May 25 $55 ___ Friday, 6/2 Sharing with: Tours Sub-total...... $ ______K Saturday, 6/3 Dinner ______Shared double __nights @ $44 ___ Total Enclosed...... $ ______Friday Dinner $35 ___ Private single __nights @ $59 ___ K Please place me in a shared double.

Questions? E-mail: [email protected] You may photocopy additional registration forms. TEL 518-587-4962 Meals Accommodations Most meals will be on your own, as Columbia is Conference Facilities located in a vibrant urban neighborhood with many On-site housing will be provided in Carman Hall, 545 Registration, exhibits, and sessions will be held in restaurants; request list at registration. Mid-morning West 114th Street (at Broadway), a 13-story modern the Faculty House or the International Affairs breaks at the conference will include light food and high-rise residence. Fully renovated in 2001, it has Building; both buildings are in the block on the east drink. The only plenary meal is the Friday dinner; central air conditioning and is non-smoking. Each side of Amsterdam Avenue between 116th and 118th there is limited availability due to the size of the room is furnished with two twin beds and is Streets. (Note that room registration is in Carman room, and we recommend you reserve early. connected to a private or semi-private bathroom. Hall at Broadway and 114th Street.) For a more deluxe lodging, you may contact the Hotel Tours Lucerne, 201 West 79th Street, 1-800-305-0991 ($280 and up). Exhibits In addition to the scheduled walking and bus tours, there are several dozen fascinating tours offered by For less expensive dorm-style housing, try Hostelling As usual, the exhibits hall on Friday will be packed Big Onion Tours.You may be able to join a scheduled International New York, 891 Amsterdam Avenue (at with publishers, book dealers, and organizations Big Onion tour, or arrange for one on your own. 8103rd Street), 1-212-932-2300 ($27 and up). eager to tell you about their products or services. Log on to www.bigonion.com.