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Tune 30 Of Borders and Bridges in Mexican and Chicana/o San Diego 3 National History Education By Luis Alvarez Clearinghouse Workshop 32 The San Diego Dining Scene 4 Corrections to the 2010 Annual Meeting Program By Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall 5 AHA Poster Session 37 Eating Cheaply and Well Near San Diego’s 6 2010 AHA Film Festival Gaslamp District By Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall 7 At-a-Glance: Sessions of the AHA Program Committee and AHA Affi liated Societies 42 Th e Job Center and Exhibit Hall 15 Making Presentations Accessible 42 Don’t Panic! Frequently Asked Questions 16 Events in the AHA Miniconference, “Historical about the Job Center Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage” By David M. Darlington 44 AHA Guidelines for the Hiring Process 17 San Diego and Historians By the AHA Professional Division 17 Port to the Pacifi c: San Diego’s Maritime 46 Exhibitors’ Index and Military Heritage 48 Map of the Exhibit Hall / By Kevin Sheehan Map of the Job Center 19 Spain in California: First Stop on the Mission Trail By Michael J. González 21 San Diego’s Asian Pacifi c Heritage By Chiou-Ling Yeh The 2010 Supplement to the Annual Meeting 23 Hiding in Plain Sight: San Diego’s African Program was produced and American Heritage edited by Debbie Ann Doyle, By Myra Burton Chris Hale, Liz Townsend, and Sharon K. Tune. 26 Visiting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered San Diego’s Past and Present The image on the front cover is By Elle Van Dermark and Frank Nobiletti of the Balboa Park Refl ecting Pool; photo courtesy The San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau. The 124th Annual Meeting Important Details about the 124th Annual Meeting By Sharon K. Tune General Information members, $89 student nonmembers, $79 Job Center retired and unemployed, and $42 precolle- The Job Center, located in the Marriott’s Location of Main Events giate teachers. Individuals who have prereg- Marriott Hall, will be open Thursday, istered should go to preregistration booths January 7, 12:30 P.M.–6:00 P.M.; Friday, AHA and affi liated societies sessions will be to collect badges and other meeting material. held in the Manchester Grand Hyatt and the January 8, 9:00 A.M.–6:00 P.M.; Saturday, Exhibitors should go to desks marked “Ex- January 9, 9:00 A.M.–6:00 P.M.; and Sunday, San Diego Marriott. The AHA headquarters hibitors” to collect badges. Meeting par- offi ce will be located in the Hyatt’s second January 10, 9:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M. ticipants can also pay AHA membership Admission to AHA sessions, the exhibit fl oor level Show Offi ce II. The Local Arrange- dues and purchase AHA publications at the ments Committee offi ce will be in the Hyatt’s hall, and the Job Center requires an AHA “Membership” and “Publications” counters. badge. Betsy Room A/B and the AHA Press Offi ce Publications can be examined at the Asso- will be in Betsy C, both on the second level. ciation’s booth 401, located in the Hyatt’s Messaging System Douglas Pavilion. Registration and Internet Access Meeting registration desks will be located Exhibit Hall he AHA will employ an electronic in the Hyatt’s Douglas Pavilion A and will be Exhibits will be located in the Hyatt’s Ttwo-way messaging system to allow open Thursday, January 7, 12:00 P.M.–7:00 Douglas Pavilion. It will be open Thursday, everyone registered for the meeting to com- P.M.; Friday, January 8, 8:00 a.m.–6:00 P.M.; January 7, 3:00 P.M.–7:00 P.M.; Friday, municate with each other. The system will and Saturday, January 9, 8:30 A.M.–4:00 P.M. January 8, 9:00 A.M.–6:00 P.M.; Saturday, be accessible via a link on the AHA annual Onsite member registration will be $179 January 9, 9:00 A.M.–6:00 P.M.; and Sunday, meeting page (www.historians.org/annual). members, $200 nonmembers, $79 student January 10, 9:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M. Meeting attendees are encouraged to use the Internet services provided in their hotel rooms and other public locations. Extensive informa- tion about the availability and price of Internet The 2010 Presidential Address: services, including free WiFi options, is posted “An American Album, 1857” on the web site. A limited number of Internet terminals will also be available in the Marriott’s AHA President Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (Harvard Univ.) will deliver her presidential ad- Marriott Hall during Job Center hours. The dress at the 124th annual meeting of the Association on Friday, January 8, 2010, in the system will be the designated form of com- Elizabeth Ballroom F of the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego. Apropos the address, munication for those using the Job Center, entitled “An American Album, 1857,” which she will deliver after the presentation of the and interviewers and interviewees can use it AHA’s awards and honors that evening, President Ulrich writes: to schedule and confi rm interviews. AHA staff answering the phones at the meeting will be s Norman Furniss long ago observed, “The year 1857 was a busy one for Americans.” able to post messages for attendees directly The Dred Scott decision, the constitutional crisis in Kansas, and a fi nancial panic A into the system. Attendees will be able to sign made it a landmark year. In the midst of all this, President James Buchanan sent up to receive an SMS/cell phone text message one-sixth of the nation’s troops to Utah to put down a supposed rebellion. His act alert when they have a new message. Persons seemed justifi ed once word reached the east that more than a hundred California- with messages waiting will be able to use any bound immigrants had been slaughtered in the southern part of the Territory. Internet-connected computer to log in using a In the context of these events, I have chosen to focus on an improbable source—a password that will be printed on their badges. massive “album quilt” made in 1857 by the Salt Lake City Female Relief Society. My There will be a Wireless Café in the objectives are to demonstrate the importance of women’s history, the usefulness of arti- Hyatt’s Worthington’s Foyer on the second facts as historical sources, and the interconnectedness in a single year of local, national, fl oor, open 24 hours a day, from 12 noon on and world events. Thursday, January 7 through 1:00 P.M. on Sunday, January 10. 2 124th Annual Meeting January 7–10, 2010 Meal Ticket Cashier ickets for meal events—except those Tsponsored by organizations that sell National History Education their own tickets—will be available from the meal ticket cashiers at the “Meal Ticket Clearinghouse Workshop Cashier” counter in the Hyatt’s Douglas Pavilion A. All payments must be made Saturday, January 9, 8:30 A.M.–3:00 P.M. in U.S. currency. Meal ticket cashiers will Marriott San Diego, Ballroom C have a list of all luncheons and the CWH breakfast, and whether the sponsoring orga- Sponsored by the AHA Teaching Division nizations will have tickets available for sale at the annual meeting. A limited number of tickets for the annual he National History Education Breakfast Meeting of the AHA Committee on Clearinghouse was created by Women Historians will be available through Tthe Center for History and New the cashiers on a fi rst-come, fi rst-served Media, George Mason University, and the basis. These tickets will be $36. Breakfast Stanford History Education Group, Stanford University, in partnership with the tickets prepaid through the meeting prereg- American Historical Association and the National History Center, with funding istration form are printed with the attendee’s from the U.S. Department of Education (Contract Number ED-07-CO-0088). badge and can be removed to present to the The web site is http://teachinghistory.org. ticket collector at the door. Nine luncheons will be held during the 8:30–9:00 A.M. Coffee 12:00–12:15 P.M. Break annual meeting, four on Friday, January 8, and fi ve on Saturday, January 9. 9:00–9:15 A.M. Introduction 12:15–1:15 P.M. History, Speaker: Karen Halttunen, Education, and Public Policy: Schedule of University of Southern California, 1998–2011 California and vice president, Speaker: Thomas P. Adams, Cur- Luncheon Meetings AHA Teaching Division riculum Frameworks and Instructional Friday, January 8 Resources Division 9:15–9:45 A.M. American Society of Church History Clearinghouse Demonstration 1:15–1:45 P.M. Talking about Conference on Asian History Speaker: Teresa DeFlitch, Outreach Coordinator, National History Text: Engaging Students in Conference on Latin American History Education Clearinghouse Historical Analysis Organization of History Teachers Speaker: Daisy Martin, co-director, 9:45–10:45 A.M. National History Education Saturday, January 9 Teaching the “New” Military Clearinghouse History with Social History: American Catholic Historical 1:45–2:00 P.M.