OHIO ACADEMY of HISTORY NEWSLETTER SPRING 2021 NOte tO the AcAdemy: 1 Note to the Serendipity, 2020 and our Academy 2021 Spring Conference 2 Ohio History Fund Marsha R. Robinson, distant and recent past. We do this PhD, Miami University while using 21st-century technology for 3 OAH Annual a socially distanced, virtual meeting, Meeting Schedule 2020. Last year enters the purview thanks to The Ohio State University of historians to capture and record it who is our platform host. as a year in which individuals in the 5 Candidate United States danced with honesty We issued a fresh call for papers last Biographies: 2021 and felt physical discomfort. This fall in case panels wanted to address year’s conference includes papers that events in 2020. Perhaps there will be Announcements were accepted for the March 2020 more papers on these topics at our 7 conference. We are fortunate that they 2022 annual meeting. Nevertheless, now provide context for many of the we continue to pursue our mission 8 Meeting Minutes: events that happened in the year since of supporting history and history Special Meeting then. education. There are calls in public discourse for How do we help our students who are 9 Meeting Minutes: more truth and more information. living through a time of social conflict? Fall Meeting How do educators give multiple sides of The Ohio Academy of History the story? You may find methods in the continues to answer this call. Our Executive Council examples presented in Panel 10 -“Doing 10 March 26-27, 2021, conference is a Hard History: Addressing Difficult and Officers blend of new papers and panels who Topics in the Classroom and in Print.” could not meet last year when the Financial Report Executive Council decided to delay the Do your students ask about the role 10 conference in the early stages of the of military in national and global COVID-19 pandemic. This year, we conflicts? Bring them anecdotes and 11 Committees return to offering a friendly atmosphere references from several of our panels where scholars, public historians and where scholars will share new research graduate students can present their findings about the diverse generations latest research findings based upon engaged in the US Civil War and the primary source evidence and present Vietnam War. Help them understand new theories about understanding the that war does not end with the armistice but continues for the injured soldiers and civilians with evidence For information on how to register presented about cases in the US, the and attend the Ohio Academy of Middle East and East Asia in several of History’s 2021 Zoom Conference, The Ohio Academy of History please go to our website: https:// our panels. newsletter is edited and www.ohioacademyofhistory.org/ published for the Ohio Politics extends beyond military Academy of History by the conferences/ Ohio History Connection. (continued on page 2) Note to the Academy (Continued from page 1) conflict into the contested social spaces of our nation. Two national and human family character as we reflect upon of those spaces in Ohio include African American and what we tell the children. Appalachian communities in urban and rural areas. What As historians, we know that our research affects the policies is the role of the privileged classes and was noblesse oblige of the immediate, near and even distant future if our work ever a value in the United States? How do we mediate these outlives us through our students. There are will be times in public discourse in classrooms, museums and media? though when we need to digest what we will learn at the Do individuals have choices about following one or more 2021 Annual Meeting by stepping back and away from our the myriad ancestral cultures woven into the American classrooms for a moment. I recommend recharging through tapestry? How does gender factor into the options? What this new sport called bingewatching. It is popular during the is the definition of national progress and how do we know pandemic. Consider the following series: Bridgerton and that life is getting better for more people? We measure our the Rookie Historian Goo Hae-Ryung. Ohio History Fund: Support History in Your Community The Ohio History Connection’s grant applications totaling more History Fund grant program is one than $5.3 million in requests! For a of the few grant program in the state list of grant recipients, visit: www. just for history, pre-history, and ohiohistory.org/preserve/local- historic preservation projects – and history-services/history-fund/ it needs your help to grow. If you recipients receive a refund on your Ohio income Not receiving a tax refund? You taxes, consider donating a portion of Ohio History Fund.” can still help: buy an Ohio History it to the “Ohio History Fund” on line mastodon license plate. 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Proving that ohiohistory.org and click on “Give.” [email protected] or 614- there’s a great need for the History Be sure to designate your gift “for 562-4490. Thanks! Fund, however, it has received 437 2 MARCH 26-27, 2021 OAH Annual Meeting Schedule A Zoom Conference managed by the Ohio State University Center for Historical Research FRIDAY, MARCH 26 SATURDAY, MARCH 27 SESSION I, 3.00 P.M.—4.30 P.M. SESSION II, 9:00-10:30 A.M. Popular Culture and Visual Culture in the Twentieth Century Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity in The Civil War Era: Allegiance and Chair/Commentator: Caryn Neumann, Early America Memory in the South Miami University of Ohio-Middletown. Chair/Commentator: Martha Pallante, Chair/Commentator: Brian Schoen, Ohio Youngstown State University University Papers: Don Eberle, Napoleon Area Schools, “’In These Hard Times’: Humor Papers: Jared Miller, Bowling Green State Papers: Kevin McPartland, University of and the Depression in the Mutt and Jeff University, “Mary Jemison’s Reasons for Cincinnati, “’We Are for the South Against Comic Strip, 1929-1939” Staying with the Seneca People” the North’: Confederate Nationalism and the Press in 1861” Nicholas Seay, Ohio State University, “The Meghan Kobza, Arrupe College of Loyola Space of Revolution: Visual Culture and University Chicago, “’Masquerade Mad’: Josh Morrow, Ohio State University, Imagined Geographies in Soviet Tajikistan” A Transatlantic Phenomenon in Print and “Forming a Lost Cause: Confederate Material Culture” Nationalism, Fusion Spaces, and the Environmental History in the Suppression of Black Agency” Midwestern City Disability, Catastrophe, and Society Chair/Commentator: Kip Curtis, Ohio State in Historical Context Military History in the Modern Era: University Chair/Commentator: Dea Boster, Columbus Psychology and Airpower in War State University Chair/Commentator: Hal Friedman, Henry Papers: Julie Mujic, Denison University, Ford College, Dearborn “The Jeffrey Company’s Gift to Columbus: Papers: Ron and Mary Zboray, University of Coal and Corporate Giving in a Pre- Pittsburgh, “’Notwithstanding He Had Lost Papers: Kyle Rable, Bowling Green State Environmental Context” His Hands’: Antebellum Cannon Accident University, “PSYOPS in Vietnam: Another Survivors, Disability, and Viability” Story of Lost Opportunity” Michael Sandy, University of Dayton, “Discovery of the World’s Largest Trilobite Sona Kazemi Hill, Ohio State University, Michael Taint, Independent Scholar, at Huffman Dam, near Dayton, Ohio” “Defetishizing Disablement of the Iranian “Major General George Owen Squier, Survivors of the Iran-Iraq War” Father of American Airpower and Military Technocracy” Roundtable: Constructing Native (continued on page 4) Americans: Identities, Politics, and Education in Eighteenth and DISTINGUISHED HISTORIAN Nineteenth Century America This year the award goes to Wright State University Chair/Moderator: Charles Beatty-Medina, historian Paul Douglas Lockhart. Prof. Lockhart University of Toledo is an expert on Scandinavian history especially Presentations by Emily Simone, Kevin but on military history more broadly. He is the Kostin, Christina Klein, Loryn Clauson, Eric author of seven books, most recently Firepower: Lopinski, all of the University of Toledo How Weapons Shaped Warfare in the Age of the Gun, which comes out in print this year. Lockhart is 7:00 P.M.—8:00 P.M., currently finishing his eighth book, a microhistory DISTINGUISHED HISTORIAN of a controversial murder case from seventeenth- LECTURE – century Denmark; his next project is a history A Welcome to Ohio State from Professor of the Lutheran Reformation in the lands of the Peter Hahn, Dean of Arts and Humanities Oldenburg monarchy – Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Schleswig-Holstein. He has been a member of the history department at Wright State since 1989, and in 2014 “A Scandinavianist’s Lament”