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THURSDAY SESSIONS
School Leadership in American History
Solicited by the History of Education Society
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Chair and Commentator: Karen Graves, Denison University
H. Councill Trenholm: Leadership for Change in the National Education
Association
Carol Karpinski, Fairleigh Dickinson University
The Historiography of School Leadership in the United States
Kate Rousmaniere, Miami University (Ohio)
The Public Work of Urban School Leadership: Leonard Covello in East
Harlem, NYC
Michael Johanek, University of Pennsylvania
“Leading with Their Lives”: Early Black Headteachers in the UK—1968–1996
Lauri Johnson, Boston College
The Politics of Command and Control in the
American Whaling Industry
Endorsed by the Labor and Working-Class History Association
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Chair: Margaret Creighton, Bates College
Commentator: Matthew Raffety, University of the Redlands
Protecting Whaling Rights: Patterns of Native American Leadership on
Eastern Long Island in the Seventeenth Century
John Strong, Long Island University
Love and Loathing in the Arctic Ice; or, the Triangulation of Authority
onboard the Whaleship Cleone in 1861
Lisa Norling, University of Minnesota
Any Port in a Storm: Autocracy, Democracy, and Sodomy on American
Whaleships
Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut
The United States in the Caribbean World
Solicited by the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and
Progressive Era
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Influenced by transnational, imperial, Atlantic world, diasporic, and
mobility studies scholarship, U.S. historians have recently turned
unprecedented attention to the Caribbean world, stretching from
Manila to Harlem, Havana, the Panama Canal zone, south Florida,
Jamaica, Louisiana, and many other points. This panel zeroes in on
the Gilded Age and Progressive Era—a time of growing U.S. military
interventions, occupations, and investments, as well as of significant
human mobility, trade, and cultural connection. Featuring a mix
of eminent senior historians and cutting-edge emerging scholars,
with various geographical and thematic interests (including links
between the Caribbean and the Pacific, labor migration, cultural
production, investment capital, anticolonial resistance, and the
place of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the
longer durée), this interdisciplinary panel will focus on major
concerns, developments, and implications of the turn toward
the Caribbean in studies of late nineteenth- and early twentiethcentury
histories involving the United States. As befitting its round
table format, there will be ample time for audience engagement
with general trends, issues, and opportunities in this field.
Chair: Faith Smith, Brandeis University
Panelists:
• Laura Briggs, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Augusto Espiritu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Michel Gobat, University of Iowa
• Peter Hudson, University of California, Los Angeles
• Lara Putnam, University of Pittsburgh
Missionary Politics: Religious Boomerangs and
the Shaping of Left-Liberalism in America
Endorsed by the Society for U.S. Intellectual History
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Chair: David A. Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley
Commentator: Andrew Preston, Cambridge University
Cold War Faith, International Encounters, and the Origins of Student
Civil Rights Activism
Casey Bohlen, Harvard University
From Agricultural Missionary to New Deal Environmental
Internationalist: Walter C. Lowdermilk in the Good Earth
Michael G. Thompson, United States Studies Centre, University of
Sydney
Sherwood Eddy and Spiritual Socialism from Delhi to the Delta Farm
Vaneesa Cook, Queen’s University
Thursday
LEGEND
Public Public History History
Teaching
Community College
Professional Development
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