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Plus Video Assignment Tool • Pre-built Chapter Units • Gradebook Instructor Resources Welcome to New Orleans and the 110th Annual Meeting of the OAH! I’m delighted that we are meeting in a city born in the collision and blending of cultures, a city whose variant tongues and traditions stand as a synecdoche for the polyglot, multiethnic, and multiracial United States. Sited along Lake Pontchartrain, an essential port for Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico travel and trade for three hundred years, New Orleans kept its French, Spanish, African, and Caribbean traditions even as it became the most important gateway for immigrants into the early United States. Its ethnic multiplicity and large presence of free people of color blatantly complicated the binary black-white hierarchy that most of the United States strove to maintain in the nineteenth century. All cities are steeped in their histories and show markings of their development today, but history lives in the present very palpably in New Orleans. The distinctive characteristics of different neighborhoods, its varying cuisines, its musical innovations, its fragile physical environment as well as its social inequalities and power disparities, echo and embody that history. New Orleans has prompted the theme of our meeting, CIRCULATION. New Orleans was and is a place in and through which people, goods, New Orleans was ideas, arts, capital have always been circulating. It is a city of movement, not stasis. Our theme of circulation also gestures toward the breadth and is a place in and rather than specificity of subtopics in American history. From the scale of the human body to the scale of the global, from the material to the through which people, ideological, circulation is everywhere—in the winds around the globe, goods, ideas, arts, blood in the human body, communication media, currency, markets, road building, disease vectors, and, of course, emigration and immigration, to capital have always name a few instances. The superb Program Committee, co-chaired by Robert O. Self and been circulating. It is Brenda E. Stevenson, has been enormously creative as well as conscientious in designing the roster of sessions to meet the theme and also to recognize a city of movement, signal events 150, 100, and 50 years ago. Our call resulted in an unusually not stasis. large harvest of proposals of very high quality, and the committee was sorry to have to turn many down, just because the number of time slots and rooms are limited. I am enormously grateful to every member of the committee for their terrific ideas and hard work. Sessions sponsored by OAH-affiliated societies have added depth to the program, which is rich, complex, and varied. You will find sessions that are musts for you, I feel sure, whatever You will find sessions your special interests and type of employment. The two plenary sessions are designed to capture everyone’s attention, by addressing professional that are musts for historians’ interfaces with the public. One plenary session features former OAH president Darlene Clark Hine speaking with Lonnie Bunch, you, I feel sure, founding director of the National Museum of African American History whatever your special and Culture, and art historian and frequent major exhibit designer Richard J. Powell, on the presentation of history in museums. In a second interests and type of plenary, well-known historians will discuss their involvements as scholars in highly contested constitutional rights case before the Supreme Court employment. and assess the efficacy of historians’ contributions. The great appeal of holding our meeting in New Orleans is the same as the risk: the city has so many attractions that keeping you indoors in sessions will be hard. Our incredibly devoted and ingenious Local Resources Committee co-chairs, the brilliantly imaginative Mary Niall Mitchell and Laura Rosanne Adderley, along with their very helpful committee members, have constructed an exciting and novel roster of tours in New Orleans and special events in local sites. Do acquaint yourself with their descriptive list and avail yourselves of these offerings—some of the time. Our meeting also coincides with the city’s French Quarter Festival, three days of free music on twelve outdoor stages, an unexpected supplement to the intellectual plenitude of the program. I feel highly honored and grateful to be speaking as President of the OAH as we meet in New Orleans. Nancy F. Cott OAH President Table of Contents committees & hours Thanks to Our Sponsors 3 oah program committee City of New Orleans 5 · Robert O. Self (Co-Chair), Brown University at-a-glance · Brenda E. Stevenson (Co-Chair), University of California, Los Angeles Conference Schedules at a Glance 7 · Grace Delgado, University of California, Santa Cruz Committee and Board Meetings 12 · Alison F. Games, Georgetown University highlights · Tim Hoogland, Minnesota Historical Society Conference Highlights 13 · Ari Kelman, Penn State University Plenary Sessions 17 · Kate Masur, Northwestern University OAH Business Meeting, Awards Ceremony, · Mae Ngai, Columbia University Presidential Address, & Reception Highlights 18 · Oliver A. Rosales, Bakersfield College Exhibit Hall Highlights 19 · Franco Scardino, Townsend Harris High School Exhibitors & Exhibit Hall Floor Plan 20 · Martin A. Summers, Boston College extras Meal Functions 21 oah local resource committee Workshops 26 · Laura Rosanne Adderley (Co-Chair), Tulane University Off-Site Sessions & Special Events 30 · Mary Niall Mitchell (Co-Chair), University of New Orleans / Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies Tours 32 · Connie Atkinson, Midlo Center for New Orleans On-Your-Own Tours 33 Studies, University of New Orleans things to know · Mark Fernandez, Loyola University New Orleans Map of NOLA 35 · Erin Greenwald, The Historic New Orleans Collection Lodging & Travel 36 · Eileen Guillory, Lusher School Registration Information 38 · Andy Horowitz, Tulane University session details · Karen Leathem, Louisiana State Museum Thursday 39 · Greg Osborn, New Orleans Public Library Friday 48 · Kodi Roberts, Louisiana State University Saturday 66 · Mona Lisa Saloy, Dillard University Sunday 81 · Kirk Steen, International High School of New Orleans · Kim Marie Vaz, Xavier University of Louisiana indices Speaker Index 86 oah registration & Session Endorsers and Sponsors Index 92 information desk hours acknowledgements Thursday April 6, 9:00 am–6:30 pm Distinguished Members 93 Friday April 7, 7:00 am–5:00 pm Partner Organizations 97 Saturday April 8, 7:00 am–5:00 pm Past OAH Presidents 98 Sunday April 9, 8:30 am–11:00 am advertisments oah exhibit hall hours Advertisers Index 97 Thursday April 6, 12:30 pm–6:00 pm Advertisements 98 Friday April 7, 9:00 am–6:00 pm form Saturday April 8, 9:00 am–5:00 pm Registration Form 144 Sunday April 9, Closed 2 2017 OAH Annual Meeting New Orleans, Louisiana sponsors The OAH Thanks clio sponsors Oxford University Bedford / St. Martin’s With origins dating At bedfordstmartins.com you’ll back to 1478, Oxford find detailed information about University Press is the our books and media: complete world’s largest university tables of contents, author bios, press. 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