Providence

THURSDAY SESSIONS
Thursday
Thursday, April 7
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
The View from Main Street, U.S.A.: American
History and Cultural Constructs through the Eyes
of the Walt Disney Company
Endorsed by the OAH Committee on Teaching
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Chair and Commentator: Karen Ward Mahar, Siena College
Walt’s American Adventure: Disney Theme Parks and the Interpretation
(and Preservation) of American History
Brian Hendricks, Benedictine University at Springfield (Ill.)
Furious Yellow: Disney’s Jaundiced View of Asians
Rick Kenney, Georgia Regents University, Augusta
Tiger Lily, Many Stars, and Tonto: Depictions of Native Americans in
Disney Movies
Deena Parmelee, Independent Scholar
New Perspectives on American Socialism
Solicited by the Labor and Working-Class History Association
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A century since Werner Sombart asked “Why is there no socialism
in the United States?” and sixty years after David Shannon’s classic
The Socialist Party of America, historians continue to explore
American socialism. This panel discussion will feature scholars
who have written recent texts on American socialism and center
on a number of historiographical issues regarding this work. Those
themes will include the relationship between radical labor and
political cultures, new avenues for scholarship such as transnational
socialist study, scholarship since and in light of the shift to the
new labor history, the role of regionalism and socialist studies, the
interactions between trade unionism and socialism,
and writing the varieties of socialism (notably the Socialist Labor
Party of America, the Socialist Party of America, and the Industrial
Workers of the World).
Panelists:
• Peter Cole, Western Illinois University
• Greg Hall, Western Illinois University
• Jeffrey Johnson, Providence College
• Erik Loomis, University of Rhode Island
• Verlaine McDonald, Berea College
The Feet under the Nation: Grassroots Leadership
during the American Civil War Era
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Chair: Joan Waugh, University of California, Los Angeles
For Cause and Community: Black Military Occupation and the Fate of
Emancipation
Andrew Lang, Mississippi State University
The Southern Loyalists’ Convention: The Southern Republicans, Race,
and Reunion
Adam Dean, Lynchburg College
"Midwives of Invention": Black Healers in Civil War Refugee Camps
Abigail Cooper, Brandeis University
New Politics, New Economy: Redefining
Leadership in Postindustrial America
Endorsed by the Labor and Working-Class History Association
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Chair and Commentator: Bruce Schulman, Boston University
Priming the Innovation Engine: Culture and Technology in 1970s Silicon
Valley
Leslie Berlin, Stanford University
From Yippie to Yuppie: Ira Magaziner and a New Democrat Approach
to Leadership
Lily Geismer, Claremont McKenna College
Startup Cowboys and High-Tech Pioneers: The Political Construction of
Entrepreneurial Leadership
Margaret O’Mara, University of Washington
Financial Leaders of the Early American Republic
Endorsed by the Economic History Association and the Business
History Conference
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Chair and Commentator: David Weiman, Barnard College,
Columbia University
Investing in Yazoo Land: A Cutting-Edge Business Strategy during
America’s Early Republic
Brenden Kennedy, University of Florida
Taking the Moral Lead? The Public Expectations of State Banks around
the Panic of 1819
Sharon Ann Murphy, Providence College
Leadership in Banking Panics of the Early Republic
Jane Knodell, University of Vermont
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