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2016 Providence, RI 2016 On Leadership Providence RHODE ISLAND 2016 OAH Annual Meeting April 7–10, 2016 RHODE ISLAND CONVENTION CENTER BEDFORD/ST. MARTIN’S For more information or to request your complimentary review copy now, please visit: macmillanhighered.com/OAH2016 2016 NEW Bedford Digital Collections The sources you want from the publisher you trust. Bedford Digital Collections offers a fresh and intuitive approach to teaching with primary sources. Flexible and affordable, this online repository of discovery-oriented projects can be easily customized to suit the way you teach. Take a tour at macmillanhighered.com/bdc The Bedford Series in History and Culture Written by leading historians, the over 100 volumes in the Inexpensive—just $10 when packaged Bedford Series in History and Culture combine first-rate with any of our texts scholarship, engaging historical narrative, and important Brief—200 pages on average, to provide a week’s reading for an undergraduate course primary documents. In addition, each volume features a Focused—with coverage in each volume bibliography, questions for consideration, a chronology, and centering on a single, specific topic or period illustrations. NEW TO THE SERIES RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION A BRIEF HISTORY WITH DOCUMENTS K. Stephen Prince, University of South Florida, Tampa ISLAM IN THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD A BRIEF HISTORY WITH DOCUMENTS Edited with an Introduction by John Inscoe, University of Georgia THE ENGLISH EAST INDIA COMPANY AT THE HEIGHT OF MUGHAL EXPANSION A SOLDIER’S DIARY OF THE 1689 SIEGE OF BOMBAY, WITH RELATED DOCUMENTS Margaret R. Hunt, Uppsala University Philip J. Stern, Duke University Welcome to Providence and Rhode Island! In a presidential election year, we’re gathering in a city and state the establishment of the National Park Service, three historians with an outsize contribution to centuries of American history will converse with Robert Stanton, the fifteenth director of the and culture, making them prescient choices for the 109th National Park Service and the first African American director meeting of the Organization of American Historians. (who served from 1997 to 2001), about leadership in the world’s Providence and Rhode Island breathe history! You’ll be able to largest national park system. see much of it on the tours that the hard-working Local Resource Sessions—glorious sessions—are still the heart of the annual Committee, cochaired by C. Morgan Grefe and Matthew meeting, and Providence will feature them in abundance. Guterl, has enticed. These include tours of historic Newport, Many will focus on leadership—on African American women’s with the famous Tuoro Synagogue and Newport’s magnificent leadership; on “Roguish leadership” in the American Revolution; Gilded Age mansions. You’ll be able to visit the famous Slater Lyndon B. Johnson; the leadership of American nuns; Mill, established in 1793 and open as a historic site in Pawtucket Reconstruction leadership; Native American leaders, grassroots since the 1920s, and the Museum of Work and Culture in leadership in the Civil War era; leadership as a business; writing Woonsocket, which will plunge you into Rhode Island’s early the history of religious leadership; financial leaders of the early industrial culture and its shifting immigrant populations. You republic; leadership in American nonviolence; new scholarship can experience the care for history that Rhode Island and the on Roger Williams; scandals and corruption in American region evidence through tours of the Rhode Island Historical political leadership; the material culture of leadership; and the Society; the John Hay Library in Providence, with its extensive leadership of the suffrage movement, among many other topics. LGBTQ archives; and the American Antiquarian Society in And, of course, the annual meeting will overflow with the Worcester, Massachusetts. And you can take fascinating walking customary abundance of sessions on all aspects of research, tours of Providence, including a Sunrise on the Riverwalk teaching, public history, the profession, and scholarship in tour that will explore the city’s fascinating nineteenth- and American history. A mere sampling includes sessions on even eighteenth-century waterfront buildings, plus an equally LGBTQ public history; America in the Caribbean; Black fascinating Dining liberalism; public history and the arts in Rhode Island; Cold We come together for with History War conservatism; new scholarship on Roger Williams, the tour, exploring lending class and housing finance; the African Methodist the 109th Meeting of Providence’s historical Episcopal Church bicentennial; the American Revolution; war, and contemporary emotion, and sexuality; the history of paid domestic work; the Organization of attention to gardens, federal-state relationship in American immigration; Rhode markets, dining, and Island and the China trade; how the French shaped America; American Historians cuisines. Sign up! the United States and transnational humanitarianism, and so The sessions many, many more. arranged by the equally hard-working Program Committee, Devour the OAH exhibits! Over forty exhibitors including cochaired by Ann Fabian and Eric Rauchway and enlivened publishers of many different kinds will display several thousand by the hundreds of historians who will be speaking, likewise books, journals, databases, and computer programs that you might breathe history, with a special eye toward what has, and should, recommend for libraries or purchase yourself, often at a discount. constitute leadership in all aspects of American life. Wondering about your book project? Sign up for The Hub Four plenary sessions will point especially at the to speak about your plans personally with one of several major different forms leadership has taken in American life and university press editors. This opportunity is a new OAH history. “Worst. President. Ever.” will offer candidates and innovation that puts publishers in direct contact with scholars. qualifications for this dubious and regrettable distinction. Join one of a dozen moderated discussions in The Chat “Historian Presidents” will feature a round table discussion Room in the Library Bar and Loungeon Saturday, April 9, to with three historians who have or are serving as university talk about critical issues, such as contingent faculty, tenure, presidents, discussing what historians can bring to these teaching about American violence, and historians as activists, positions and the challenges of American higher education. The led by OAH members including recent Ph.D.s such as Monica Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman will discuss Martinez and Kathleen Belew, and past and future OAH history’s role, proper and improper, in developing modern Presidents Patty Limerick and Ed Ayers. American economic policy. Finally, on the 100th anniversary of History will thrive in Providence, April 7–10! Enjoy it! RHODE ISLAND CONVENTION CENTER 1 CONTENTS COMMITTEES HOURS CONTENTS 2016 OAH PROGRAM COMMITTEE Schedule of Events 3 Ann Fabian (Cochair), Rutgers University Eric Rauchway (Cochair), University of California, Davis Thanks to Our Sponsors 4 Emily Clark, Tulane University Conference Highlights 6 William Deverell, University of Southern California Plenary Sessions 10 Barbara Franco, Seminary Ridge Museum, Gettysburg Why Providence? 12 Coleen Hermes, Rogers High School (Newport, RI) Amy J. Kinsel, Shoreline Community College A City with Taste Kevin M. Kruse, Princeton University Attractions Kevin P. Murphy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Arts and Culture Kimberley L. Phillips, Independent Scholar Day Trips Colleges and Universities 2016 LOCAL RESOURCE COMMITTEE Shopping C. Morgan Grefe (Cochair), Rhode Island Historical Society Weather Matthew Guterl (Cochair), Brown University Charles H. B. Arning, National Park Service Tours 15 Erik Christiansen, Rhode Island College On-Your-Own Tours 17 Paul J. Erickson, American Antiquarian Society Lodging and Travel 18 Elizabeth Francis, Rhode Island Council for the Humanities Meal Functions 20 Jack Martin, Providence Public Library Workshops 25 Suzanne K. McCormack, Community College of Rhode Island Timothy B. Neary, Salve Regina University Sessions Arthur Rustigian, Classical High School Thursday 27 Evelyn Sterne, University of Rhode Island Friday 36 Ruth Taylor, Newport Historical Society Saturday 48 Sunday 62 OAH REGISTRATION AND Exhibit Hall Highlights 66 INFORMATION DESK HOURS Thursday April 7, 9:00 am – 8:00 pm Exhibitors & Hall Map 67 Friday April 8, 7:00 am – 5:00 pm Registration Information 68 Saturday April 9, 7:00 am – 5:00 pm Speaker Index 69 Sunday April 10, 8:30 am – 11:00 am Session Endorsers and Sponsors Index 74 Past OAH Presidents 75 OAH EXHIBIT HALL HOURS Distinguished Members 76 Thursday April 7, 3:00 pm – 8:30 pm Friday April 8, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm Advertiser Index 78 Saturday April 9, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Registration Form 128 Sunday April 10, Closed 2016 OAH ANNUAL MEETING PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND 2 OVERVIEW MEETING SCHEDULE OAH SESSIONS & EVENTS OVERVIEW BOARD AND COMMITTEE MEETINGS Thursday, April 7 Thursday, April 7 Friday, April 8, cont. Session 1 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm 8:00 am – 6:00 pm 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Session 2 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm • OAH Executive Board • IEHS Editorial Board, Annual Business, and Executive Board Exhibit Hall Open 3:00 pm – 8:30 pm 9:00 am – 12:00 pm 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Plenary Session 1 5:15 pm – 6:45 pm • OAH Regional Membership Committee • Journal of the Gilded Age and Plenary Session 2 5:15 pm – 6:45 pm Progressive Era Editorial
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