2004 Presidential Sessions
Editor's Note: At its January 2002 meeting, the AHA Council voted to make Presidential Sessions a regular feature in annual meetings. These sessions, to be organized by the AHA president, are intended to address concerns about the relative absence of senior scholars at the annual meetings and the paucity of sessions treating broad historiographical issues. It is important to note that these sessions—implemented for the first time in the 2003 annual meeting—do not come at the expense of panels submitted to the Program Committee, which will still have 150 or more session slots. The following sessions were organized by the 2003 president, James McPherson. The numbers refer to the session numbers as listed in the annual meeting Program.
Friday, January 9, 9:30–11:30 a.m.
2. Perspectives on the American Civil War Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Salon II
Chair: William J. Cooper, Louisiana State University
Paper: "We Should Grow Too Fond of It":
Writing Civil War History
Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard University
Comment: Peter Kolchin, University of Delaware
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida
Friday January 9, 2:30–4:30 p.m.
33. Presenting History to the Public: The National Park Service
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Salon II
Chair: David Blight, Yale University
Panel: Martin H. Blatt, Boston National Historical Park
Rebecca Conard, Middle Tennessee State University
Laura Gates, Cane River National Historical Park
John Latschar, Gettysburg National Historical Park
Edward Linenthal, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Saturday January 10, 9:30–11:30 a.m.
65. The Cultural Approach to War
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom
Salon II
Chair: Donald Kagan, Yale University
Papers: The Queen at Salamis; or Cunning and the Culture
of Ancient Greek Warfare
Barry Strauss, Cornell University
Military Culture in Eighteenth-Century China
Joanna Waley-Cohen, New York University
Problems and Complexities of a Cultural Approach to Military History
John A. Lynn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Comment: John F. Guilmartin, Ohio State University
Saturday January 10, 2:30–4:30 p.m.
96. Biography and History; A Dialogue
Marriott, Marriott
Ballroom Salon II
Chair: Lynn Hudson Parsons, State University of New York College at Brockport
Panel:
Blanche Wiesen Cook, John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Joseph Ellis, Mount Holyoke College
David Levering Lewis, New York University
John Lukacs, emeritus, Chestnut Hill College and Independent Scholar
Robert Remini, University of Illinois at Chicago
Sunday January 11, 8:30–10:30 a.m.
126. The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the New Deal—Revolutionary
Transformation or Legal Adaptation?
Omni
Shoreham, Hampton Room
Chair: Alan Brinkley, Columbia University
Paper: New Views of the New Deal, the Supreme Court,
and the Constitution
Laura Kalman, University of California at Santa Barbara
Comment: William E. Leuchtenburg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill G. Edward White, University of Virginia
Sunday January 11, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
152. The American Empire: Past, Present, and Future
Omni Shoreham, Hampton Room
Chair: Richard Immerman, Temple University
Papers: The Culture of American Empire
Mary Renda, Mount Holyoke College
The New American Militarism
Andrew Bacevich, Boston University
Empire and Systemic Peace and Stability: Allies or Opponents?
Paul Schroeder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Comment: Robert McMahon, University of Florida
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