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120th Annual Meeting Program

of the American Historical Association

January 5–8, 2006 / Philadelphia

 

 

2006 Program

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 7:30–9:00 A.M.

Breakfast Meeting of the AHA Committee on Women Historians
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Millennium Hall

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 8:00–9:30 A.M.

Breakfast reception
Sponsored by: Conference on Faith and History
. Marriott, Room 406

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 9:00–11:00 A.M.

Conference on Latin American History Information Table
Sponsored by: Conference on Latin American History
Marriott, Level Four Lobby

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 9:00–9:30 A.M.

Registration
Sponsored by: Polish American Historical Association

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 9:30–11:30 A.M.

AHA Session 80.  What Difference Does a Nation Make? Rethinking Religion in Nineteenth-Century Europe—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Regency Ballroom Section B
AHA Session 81.  Out There or in Here? The Chilly Climate Revisited—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Commonwealth Hall Section B
AHA Session 82.  Were All the World a Blog: History Bloggers and History Blogging—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon A
AHA Session 83.  Oral History and Institutional Review Boards: What Historians Need to Know before Doing It—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon B
AHA Session 84.  Preserving Today for Tomorrow’s Historian—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon C
AHA Session 85.  How Can I Improve My C.V. for the Job Market? An Interactive Workshop
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Regency Ballroom Section A
AHA Session 86.  An “Obvious Danger”: The Haitian Revolution in the United States, 1793–1860
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Commonwealth Hall Section A-1
AHA Session 87.  Imperial Wars and Cultural Conflict in the Early American Borderlands
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Room 401
AHA Session 88.  Information, Networks, and Institutions in European and Atlantic Markets, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Commonwealth Hall Section A-2
AHA Session 89.  Material and Visual Culture as Historical Documentation: New Approaches to the History of Colonial Latin America
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Congress Room A
AHA Session 90.  Memory, Place, and Politics in Postwar Native America
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon D
AHA Session 91.  Modern Empires, Ancient Colonies: Classicism and the Anglo-American Imperial Crisis of the 1770s
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Washington Room A
AHA Session 92.  Napoleon’s Atlantic: The Impact of the Napoleonic Empire on the Atlantic World—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Regency Ballroom Section C-2
AHA Session 93.  American Missionaries and National Cultures in the Middle East—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Room 402
AHA Session 94.  Race and Nation in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Washington Room B
AHA Session 95.  Religion, Politics, and Nation-Building in Twentieth-Century China
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Washington Room C
AHA Session 96.  Retrenchment, Regeneration, and Rebirth: Nations and National Histories in Spain, Catalonia, and Italy
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Independence Ballroom Salon 2
AHA Session 97.  Foremothers of Ann Coulter: Right-Wing Women and the Conservative Intellectual Movement in the United States, 1930–80
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Commonwealth Hall Section D
AHA Session 98.  The Scholars’ Initiative Part 2: Design, Implementation, and Impact
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Congress Room C
AHA Session 99.  Screening Empires: The Impact of Cinema in and of the Non-West—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Regency Ballroom Section C-1
AHA Session 100.  Sites of Indifference to Nation in Habsburg Central Europe, 1880–1918
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Room 403
AHA Session 101.  Shaping Feminine Identity and Medieval Community
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon I
AHA Session 102.  The Economic and Political Cultures of Middle-Class Black Nationalism in the United States
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon J
AHA Session 103.  Bridging National and World History: Using the Annenberg Multimedia Project to Connect and Transcend National Histories—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Commonwealth Hall Section C
AHA Session 104.  Can School-University Collaborations Work?—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon L
AHA Session 105.  Constructing Places: Building Nations and Negotiating Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Cities of the Japanese Empire
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon K
AHA Session 106.  Engendering Transnational Protest: Black Women Activists and the Global Political Stage, 1850–1980
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Congress Room B
AHA Session 107.  Faith, Pluralism, and National Identity in the United States and Western Europe: Comparative Perspectives on History Past and Present
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Room 404
AHA Session 108.  Food Nation: Producing, Serving, Marketing, and Consuming Food in Twentieth-Century America
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Independence Ballroom Salon 3
AHA Session 109.  Gender, National Identities, and World History: Problems and Trends in Historiography and the Classroom—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Independence Ballroom Salon 1
AHA Session 110.  Public Historians Reaching Classrooms K–16 through Museums—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Parkway and 26th Street
American Association for History and Computing Session 5 Welcome to the Twenty-First Century: A Primer for Teaching Undergraduate History Online
Sponsored by: American Association for History and Computing
Courtyard, Room 104
American Catholic Historical Association Session 8 In Honor of Monsignor Robert Trisco: Studies in Church Leadership: American Cardinals in the Twentieth Century
Sponsored by: American Catholic Historical Association
Marriott, Room 304
American Catholic Historical Association Session 9 Varieties of Women’s Experience in the Ultramontane Church
Sponsored by: American Catholic Historical Association
Marriott, Room 305
American Italian Historical Association Session 1 The Italian American Experience and the Concept of Race
Sponsored by: American Italian Historical Association
Courtyard, Mezzanine 1
American Society of Church History Session 13 Author and Critics: R. Marie Griffith’s Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity
Sponsored by: American Society of Church History
Courtyard, Grand Ballroom Salon 3
American Society of Church History Session 14 The Craft of Religious Biography—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Society of Church History
Courtyard, Grand Ballroom Salon 1
American Society of Church History Session 15 The Religious Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
Sponsored by: American Society of Church History
Courtyard, Grand Ballroom Salon 4
American Society of Church History Session 16 Religious Commitments and Republican Politics in Eighteenth- Century America
Sponsored by: American Society of Church History
Courtyard, Mezzanine 2
American Society of Church History Session 17 Reading and Rereading Patristic Texts
Sponsored by: American Society of Church History
Courtyard, Room 103
Center for History and New Media Session 2 Putting It All Together: Developing Curriculum Modules for the Internet
Sponsored by: Center for History and New Media
Courtyard, Room 102
Chinese Historians in the United States Session 3 United States-China Relations through Individual Experiences
Sponsored by: Chinese Historians in the United States
Marriott, Room 303
Conference on Faith and History Memory, History, and Public Identity in Asian-Pacific Christianity
Sponsored by: Conference on Faith and History
Marriott, Room 408
Conference on Latin American History Session 12 Colonizing Bodies: New Perspectives on Race in Latin America from Critical Studies in Science, Medicine, and the Body
Sponsored by: Conference on Latin American History
Marriott, Room 410
Organization of History Teachers Session and Book Discussion Black Flag Over Dixie: Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in the Civil War (2004), Gregory J. W. Urwin, Temple University, editor
Sponsored by: Organization of History Teachers
Marriott, Room 406
Polish American Historical Association Session 3 Polonia in the Early Twentieth Century
Sponsored by: Polish American Historical Association
Marriott, Room 412
Polish American Historical Association Session 4 Polish American Memoirs and Biographies
Sponsored by: Polish American Historical Association
Marriott, Room 413
Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Session 4 Personhood and Political, Social, and Cultural Standing
Sponsored by: Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Loews, Parlor 1
Society for Italian Historical Studies Session 2 Revisiting Giuseppi Mazzini on the Bicentenary of His Birth— Roundtable
Sponsored by: Society for Italian Historical Studies
Marriott, Room 409
Society of Automotive Historians Making Cars, Making History: The Automobile’s Impact on United States National Identity
Sponsored by: Society of Automotive Historians
Marriott, Room 407

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 11:30 A.M.–2:00 P.M.

AHR Board of Editors luncheon and meeting
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Room 406

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 12:00–1:30 P.M.

What is Lost, What Comes Next? Historians Consider Hurricane Katrina
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Philadelphia Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon B
Americas editorial board meeting
Sponsored by: Conference on Latin American History
Marriott, Room 411

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 12:15–1:45 P.M.

Advanced Placement History
Sponsored by: American Historical Association & World History Association
Marriott, Independence Ballroom Salon 3
Luncheon
Sponsored by: American Catholic Historical Association
The Union League, Meade Room, 140 South Broad Street
Luncheon AHA Modern European History Section
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon K
Coordinating Council for Women in History Luncheon
Sponsored by: Coordinating Council for Women in History
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon L
Luncheon Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Sponsored by: Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Maggiano’s Little Italy, 1201 Filbert Street
Business meeting
Sponsored by: Committee on Lesbian and Gay History
Philadelphia Marriott, Room 307

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 12:30–2:00 P.M.

Public History Open Forum
Sponsored by: Coordinating American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon J

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 2:00–2:30 P.M.

Registration
Sponsored by: Polish American Historical Association

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 2:30–4:30 P.M.

AHA Session 111.  European Nations: Their Origins, Contexts, and Ideologies
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Regency Ballroom Section B
AHA Session 112.  Doing Oral History in the Future Tense: Prospects in Oral History—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon J
AHA Session 113.  Women’s and Gender History in Global Perspective—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Regency Ballroom Section C-2
AHA Session 114.  What Is the Meaning of the Master’s Degree?—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Commonwealth Hall Section D
AHA Session 115.  Military Historians in a Time of War: Reflections on Current Roles, Responsibilities, and Experiences—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon A
AHA Session 116.  Finding the Subject: New Methodologies in the Study of Prostitution
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Washington Room A
AHA Session 117.  Form, Function, and Style: Instructional Manuals in Early Modern Europe
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Commonwealth Hall Section B
AHA Session 118.  Gender, Age, and Labor: Masculinities in the Twentieth- Century United States Workplace
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Room 401
AHA Session 119.  Inculcating Citizenship through Education Policy in Post–1945 West Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Room 402
AHA Session 120.  Integrating the Pirate into the History of the Nation
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Independence Ballroom Salon 2
AHA Session 121.  International Rivalries and Ethnic Conflicts: The Ottoman Empire, 1838–1918
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Congress Room C
AHA Session 122.  Intersections of Identity: Religion, Warfare, and the Production of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Colonial New England
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Independence Ballroom Salon 3
AHA Session 123.  Latin America in the Era of the Cuban Revolution—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Washington Room B
AHA Session 124.  Nations, Nationalisms, and Writing Music Histories—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Commonwealth Hall Section C
AHA Session 125.  Preparing World History Teachers for the Twenty-First Century
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon D
AHA Session 126.  Art, National Identity, and History in Twentieth-Century United States, British India, Mexico, and Japan
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon C
AHA Session 127.  Raceless and Racial Visions of the Nation: Identity, Ideology, and Nation-Building in the Twentieth Century
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Commonwealth Hall Section A-1
AHA Session 128.  Radio Nations—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Regency Ballroom Section C-1
AHA Session 129.  Reclaiming Black American History: Narrative, Nation, and the Individual, 1920–50
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Washington Room C
AHA Session 130.  The Cold War Space Race and Internationalization of Space Exploration
Sponsored by: American Historical Association

AHA Session 131.  The Public Face on Private Matters: Representing Health and Sickness in the South, 1865–1945
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Room 403
AHA Session 132.  The Use of Universals in the Creation of Modern American Conservatism
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon K
AHA Session 133.  Building Academic Literacy through History
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon L
AHA Session 134.  Before the Law: Testimonials and the Politics of Witnessing in Colonial Mexico
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Commonwealth Hall Section A-2
AHA Session 135.  Cinema: National, Transnational, and Global Culture—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Regency Ballroom Section A
AHA Session 136.  The Scholars’ Initiative Team Reports, Part 3: Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Congress Room B
AHA Session 137.  Empire in the East: The Theory and Practice of International Relations in Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Period
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Independence Ballroom Salon 1
AHA Session 138.  Protestant Missionaries Abroad and United States National Identity
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Congress Room A
AHA Session 139.  Poster Session
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Millennium Hall
AHA Session 140.  Benjamin Franklin at 300: Three New Works—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
National Constitution Center, 525 Arch Street, Independence Mall
American Association for History and Computing Session 6 Use of Electronic Resources for Scholarship and Pedagogy
Sponsored by: American Association for History and Computing
Courtyard, Room 104
American Catholic Historical Association Session 10 United States Catholics and Latin American Crises
Sponsored by: American Catholic Historical Association
Marriott, Room 304
American Catholic Historical Association Session 11 Tour of Historic Philadelphia Churches (St. Joseph’s and St. Mary’s)
Sponsored by: American Catholic Historical Association
American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, 263 South Fourth Street
American Italian Historical Association Session 2 Euro-Immigration Old Hat? The Case for Italian American Studies
Sponsored by: American Italian Historical Association
Courtyard, Mezzanine 1
American Society of Church History Session 18 Political Influence and Political Activism: The Church of England, the Roman Catholic Church, and Politics, 1830–1920
Sponsored by: American Society of Church History
Courtyard, Grand Ballroom Salon 1
American Society of Church History Session 19 Religion and Empire from Antiquity to Modernity
Sponsored by: American Society of Church History
Courtyard, Grand Ballroom Salon 3
American Society of Church History Session 20 Asian Protestant Journeys into Twentieth-Century America
Sponsored by: American Society of Church History
Courtyard, Grand Ballroom Salon 4
American Society of Church History Session 21 Moving into Modernity
Sponsored by: American Society of Church History
Courtyard, Room 103
American Society of Church History Session 22 Quakerism Broadcast and Interpreted in the Life of the New Republic
Sponsored by: American Society of Church History
Courtyard, Mezzanine 2
American Society of Church History Session 23 David C. Steinmetz: An Appreciation and Assessment
Sponsored by: American Society of Church History
Courtyard, Room 102
Chinese Historians in the United States Session 4 Nationalism and Cold War: The Chinese American Experience
Sponsored by: Chinese Historians in the United States
Marriott, Room 303
Conference Group for Central European History Session 7 The Legacy of Martin Heidegger and the Question of Technology—Roundtable
Sponsored by: Conference Group for Central European History
Marriott, Room 408
Conference on Latin American History Session 15 Peron and Argentine Nationalism: Updating the Historical Record
Sponsored by: Conference on Latin American History
Marriott, Room 410
Coordinating Council for Women in History Session 6 Birthing a Nation: Maternal Narratives of Race and Ethnicity in Twentieth-Century America
Sponsored by: Coordinating Council for Women in History
Marriott, Room 302
Polish American Historical Association Session 5 Post-World War II and Contemporary Polonia
Sponsored by: Polish American Historical Association
Marriott, Room 412
Polish American Historical Association Session 6 Family History as Ethnic History
Sponsored by: Polish American Historical Association
Marriott, Room 413
Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Session 5 Debates over Race, Reform, and Public Responsibility
Sponsored by: Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Loews, Parlor 1
Society for Italian Historical Studies Session 3 Integrating the South: Teaching and Research Desiderata for a Narrative Unification of Medieval Italy
Sponsored by: Society for Italian Historical Studies
Marriott, Room 409
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Finding Humanists in the Oddest Places: Reading Practices in the Early Modern Period and Beyond
Sponsored by: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
Marriott, Room 405
World History Association Session 2 Problems and Prospects for Globalizing the History Curriculum for the Twenty-First Century
Sponsored by: World History Association
Marriott, Room 305
Business meeting
Sponsored by: Conference of Historical Journals
Marriott, Room 307

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 4:30–6:00 P.M.

Reception hosted by the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia
Sponsored by: American Catholic Historical Association
263 South Fourth Street

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 4:45 P.M.

American Historical Association Business Meeting
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon D

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 4:45–5:45 P.M.

Business meeting
Sponsored by: American Society of Church History
Philadelphia Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon A

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 5:00–6:00 P.M.

Business meeting
Sponsored by: Conference Group for Central European History
Loews, Tubman Room

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 5:00–6:30 P.M.

Society for Military History/The George C. Marshall Foundation George C. Marshall Lecture
Sponsored by: Society for Military History
Loews, Regency Ballroom Section C-1

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 5:00–7:00 P.M.

Caribbean Studies Committee meeting
Sponsored by: Conference on Latin American History
Marriott, Room 408
Mexican Studies Committee meeting
Sponsored by: Conference on Latin American History
Marriott, Room 410
Central American Studies Committee meeting
Sponsored by: Conference on Latin American History
Marriott, Room 412

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 5:00–8:00 P.M.

Program of the William Way Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center
Sponsored by: Committee on Lesbian and Gay History
Archives of Philadelphia, 1315 Spruce Street

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 5:15–6:00 P.M.

Business meeting
Sponsored by: Society for Italian Historical Studies
Marriott, Room 409

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 5:30 P.M.

Committee on Minority Historians’ Reception
Sponsored by: AHA Committee on Minority Historians
Marriott, Independence Ballroom Salon 2
Public Historians’ Reception
Sponsored by: AHA Professional Division
Marriott, Independence Ballroom Salon 3

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 5:30–6:30 P.M.

Public history reception
Sponsored by: National Council on Public History
Marriott, Independence Ballroom Salon 3

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 5:30–8:00 P.M.

Reception
Sponsored by: North American Conference on British Studies
Loews, Commonwealth Hall Section A-1

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 5:45–6:45 P.M.

Presidential address
Sponsored by: American Society of Church History
Philadelphia Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon A

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 6:00 P.M.

Seventeenth Annual Dinner
Sponsored by: Urban History Association
The Gables, 4520 Chester Avenue, and Abbraccio Restaurant, 820 S. 47th Street

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 6:00–7:00 P.M.

Social hour
Sponsored by: Society for Italian Historical Studies
Marriott, Room 406

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 6:00–8:00 P.M.

Bierabend
Sponsored by: Conference Group for Central European History
Loews, Commonwealth Hall Section B

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 6:30 P.M.

Reception for Life Members of the American Historical Association
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Room 401

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 6:45–7:45 P.M.

Reception in honor of ASCH President Mark Noll
Sponsored by: American Society of Church History
Philadelphia Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon B

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 7:00–9:00 P.M.

Cocktail Party
Sponsored by: Conference on Latin American History
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon C

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 7:30 P.M.

AHA-OAH Joint Committee on Part-Time and Adjunct Employment Reception
Sponsored by: American Historical Association & Organization of American Historians
Marriott, Independence Ballroom Salon 3

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