THE URBAN HISTORY ASSOCIATION THE SECOND BIENNIAL URBAN HISTORY CONFERENCE MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN OCTOBER 7 - 9, 2004 THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM Before the Urban History Conference convenes the following symposium will take place on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Campus: Symposium on Milwaukee History: Current Understandings and Future Research October 7-8, 2004 Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Kenwood Campus Thursday, October 7, 2004 8:30 - 9:00 A.M Continental Breakfast 9:00 A.M. Welcome Sponsors: Margo Anderson, Conference Co-Chair, University of Wisconsin- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, Department of Welcome from the Campus History, Urban Studies Programs 9:30-11:30 A.M.: The Economy and the Peoples and Cultures of Milwaukee I Chair: Robert Teske, Milwaukee County Historical Society Society of American City and Papers: Regional Planning History American Indians & Milwaukee Marquette University, Diane Amour, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of History Donna Beckstrom, MATC JoAnn Ninham, WE INDIANS Program Marquette University, Deutsch-Athen Revisited: Writing the History of Institute for Urban Life Germans in Milwaukee Anke Ortlepp, Cologne University, Germany Local Arrangements Milwaukee Business/Industry Marc Levine, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Committee: Amanda Seligman/ Discussants: Reginald Horsman, University of Wisconsin- University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, Emeritus; John Jentz, Marquette University; Jack Milwaukee Norman, Institute for Wisconsin's Future 11:30 A.M. -12:15 P.M. Break, Exhibits on Milwaukee History (WTMJ Collections) Joseph Rodriguez/ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 12:15-1:30 P.M. Lunch Margo Anderson/ University 1:30-3:30 P.M.: Milwaukee Labor, Housing and Religious Traditions Chair: of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Tom Jablonsky, Marquette University Steve Byers/University of Papers: Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee Labor and the Problem of Urban Democracy Eric Fure-Slocum, St. Olaf College Milwaukee Religion Reverend Steven Avella, Marquette University The Residential Landscapes of Milwaukee Judith Kenny & Thomas Hubka, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Discussants: Stephen Meyer, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, Jack Norman, Institute for Wisconsin's Future; Nancy Hubbard, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, John Gurda, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 3:30-3:45 P.M.: Break 3:45-5:45 P.M.: Economy, Peoples and Cultures of Milwaukee II Chair: Reuben Harpole, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Emeritus Papers: Recent Immigration to Milwaukee: Latinos & Asians Joseph Rodriguez, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee African-Americans, Civil Rights, and Race-Making in Milwaukee Jack Dougherty, Trinity College, Hartford, CT Urban History Helpmeets, Hausfraus, Hellions, and the Missing Majority in Association Conference Milwaukee History Committee: Genevieve McBride, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Kathleen Conzen, President/ Discussants: Tony Baez, MATC; Will Jones, University of University of Chicago Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Diane Hoeveler, Marquette University Robert Fishman, Past 5:45 P.M. Symposium on Milwaukee History Reception President/University of Michigan Friday, October 8, 2004 Timothy R. Mahoney, Executive Secretary/ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Continuing University of Nebraska Education, 161 W. Wisconsin Ave. Robert Lewis/ (This session is on the Urban History Association Conference pro- gram. Please note the other sessions with a Milwaukee history University of Toronto topic or paper on the Friday program.) Nora Faires/ Western Michigan University 8:30-10:15 A. M. Room 7970 Kristin Szylvian/ Western Michigan University Session 3 Researching Milwaukee's Politics and Socialism Alan Lessoff/ Illinois State Chair: Margo Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee University Milwaukee Politics Thomas Sugrue/ University John Buenker, University of Wisconsin-Parkside of Pennsylvania Milwaukee Socialism Bill Luckin/ Bolton Institute, Aims McGuinness, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (United Kingdom) Comment: Michael Gordon, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Amanda Seligman/ Joel Rast, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee THE URBAN HISTORY ASSOCIATION THE URBAN HISTORY THE SECOND BIENNIAL URBAN HISTORY CONFERENCE ASSOCIATION: THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM Officers and Directors President: Kathleen Neils THURSDAY OCTOBER 7, 2004 Conzen/ University of Chicago For Graduate Students Attending the Urban History Association Conference in Milwaukee Only: President-Elect: Roger Graduate Student Reception Lotchin/University of North Thursday, October 7, 7:30-10 P.M. Carolina-Chapel Hill (2005) The Pabst Mansion Past Presidents: 2000 W. Wisconsin Avenue Richard C. Wade/City Univ. Complimentary Food and Drinks Graduate Center (1989); Sam Come meet other Graduate Student Urban Historians and visit one of Bass Warner, Jr./Brandeis Milwaukee’s architectural treasures, courtesy of the Pabst Mansion, Univ. (1990); Zane L. Marquette University’s History Department, and the Institute for Miller/Univ. of Cincinnati Urban Life, Marquette University. (1991); Samuel P. Hays/Univ. of Pittsburgh (1992); Lynn Hollen Lees/Univ. of FRIDAY OCTOBER 8, 2004 Pennsylvania (1993); Kenneth 7:00 - 9:00 A. M. Pfister Hotel, 424 East Wisconsin Avenue, Café Rouge (adjacent to T. Jackson/Columbia Univ. Main Lobby) (1994); Carl Abbott/Portland Complimentary Continental Breakfast Buffet (included with registra- State Univ. (1995); David R. tion fee) to all conference attendees staying at the Pfister Hotel and all Goldfield/Univ. of North registered conference attendees. Registration badge not required for Carolina at Charlotte (1996); admission. Raymond A. Mohl/University of Alabama-Birmingham REGISTRATION AND ALL CONFERENCE SESSIONS ARE AT THE (1997); Eric UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF CON- TINUING EDUCATION, 161 W. WISCONSIN AVENUE, MILWAU- Monkkonen/University of KEE, WISCONSIN California - Los Angeles (1998); Joel A. Tarr/Carnegie Conference Registration 7:30 A. M.-5:00 P. M. Mellon University (1999); Opposite Sixth Floor Elevators Gilbert Stelter/University of Book Exhibit 9:30 A. M.-4:30 P.M. Guelph [Canada](2000); Room 7220 Lizabeth Cohen/Harvard University (2001); Ann Durkin Keating/North FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2004 8:30-10:15 A. M. CONCURRENT SESSIONS Central College (2002); Room 7480 Session 1 Robert Fishman/University of From City to Community and Back: Institutional Visions of Michigan-Ann Arbor (2003) Citizenship and Race in Urban California, 1945-1970 Executive Secretary-Treasurer: Chair/Comment: Robert Self, Brown University Timothy R. Mahoney/University of Where You Can Feel Like a Man Again:” Race, Gender, and Rehabilitation Nebraska-Lincoln in California’s Prison Forest Camps, 1932-1970 Volker Janssen, Department of History at the University of California, Editor of the Journal of Urban San Diego History: David From Americanization to Self-Determination: The Federal Relocation Goldfield/University of North Program and American Indian Experience in Los Angeles, 1952-1976 Carolina-Charlotte Nicolas Rosenthal, Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles Editor of the Urban History Newsletter: Janet Recasting the "War on Poverty" at the Local Level: The Watts Labor Bednarek/University of Community Action Committee in Los Angeles, 1964-1968 Dayton Kazuyo Tsuchiya, Department of History at the University of California, San Diego Room 7230 Session 2 Reconceptualizing the City Chair/Comment: Robert Fishman, University of Michigan Mastery or Surrender? Panoramas, Labyrinths, and the Motion Picture City John Fairfield, Xavier University Directors: Postwar Urbanization and the Short American Century: Cities and (thru 2004): Nora National Identity, 1948-1973 Faires/Western Michigan Robert A. Beauregard, New School University University; Eric Sandweiss/Indiana University; Nickel in the Slot: The ‘Consumption Junction’ in Urban Technology, 1894-1907 Neil Larry Shumsky/Virginia Richard R. John, University of Illlinois at Chicago Polytechnic Institute and State University; Harvey Room 7970 Session 3 Graff/University of Texas at Researching Milwaukee's Distinctive Politics and Socialism San Antonio; Jeffry Chair: Margo Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Diefendorf/University of New Hampshire; Robin Milwaukee Politics Bachin/University of Miami; John Buenker, University of Wisconsin-Parkside Albert Camarillo/Stanford Milwaukee Socialism University Aims McGuinness, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (thru 2005): Etan Diamond/ Comment: Ontario Early Years Initiative; Michael Gordon, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Greg Hise/ University of Joel Rast, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Southern California; Robert Room 7330 Session 4 Lewis/ University of Toronto; Urban Reinvestment and Its Consequences Mary Odem/ Emory Chair/Comment: Thomas Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania University; Brownstones, Bohemians, Blacks, and Blue Collars: How Gentrification in Max Page/ University of Brooklyn Complicates the History of Urban Decline, 1950-1980 Massachusetts at Amherst; Suleiman Osman, Harvard University Heather Thompson/ University of North Carolina The Battle of Washington Square Park, 1955-1959: The Village Voice, at Charlotte; Carol Willis/ Community Resistance, and Urban Planning Stephen Petrus, Graduate Center of the City University of New York Columbia University When Did Gentrification Become Part of Urban History? (thru 2006) Joseph C. Daphne Spain, University of Virginia Bigott/Purdue