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THURSDAY SESSIONS
Thursday
University Special Collections as Community
Spaces
Endorsed by the OAH Committee on Public History
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A discussion about how university-based special collections and
the larger community intersect, this round table brings together
five scholars and archivists not only to discuss the importance of
creating bridges between university-based special collections and
the community but also to introduce five distinct case studies that
showcase how this is being done. Our goal for this round table is to
share our work and also to critically examine sustainable ways we
can create meaningful relationships between the community and
special collections.
Commentator: Toby Higbie, University of California, Los Angeles
Panelists:
• Emily E. LB. Twarog, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Stephanie Seawell, Illinois Labor History Society
• David Vail, Kansas State University
• Lara Kelland, University of Louisville
The Intersection of Institutions and Culture: 19th-
Century Leadership in the U.S. Army
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Chair and Commentator: Earl Hess, Lincoln Memorial University
From Battlefield Bravery to Genteel Behavior: The Evaluation and
Selection of U.S. Army Officers in 1815 and 1821
Samuel Watson, U.S. Military Academy
"Little Mac" Molds an Army: A Prosopographical Study of the Army of
the Potomac’s Command Culture
Wayne Hsieh, U.S. Naval Academy
Who Speaks for Cold War Conservatism
Endorsed by the Society for U.S. Intellectual History
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Chair and Commentator: Darren Dochuk, University of Notre Dame
Race, Taxes, and the Rhetoric of Segregated Education, 1955–1971
Camille Walsh, University of Washington, Bothell
“To Serve, and Not to Be Served”: The AARP’s Fight against Medicare,
1958–1965
Benjamin Hellwege, City University of New York Graduate Center
“Who Speaks for American Conservatism?”: The Bitter Struggle between the
John Birch Society, National Review, and the Republican Party, 1960–1966
Darren Mulloy, Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada)
“Women’s Libbers Do Not Speak for Us": Phyllis Schlafly, the Equal
Rights Amendment, and the Defense of Womanhood
Chelsea Griffis, University of Toledo
Leading with Law? Black Radicals, the Carceral
State, and Political Dissent
Endorsed by the OAH Committee on the Status of African American,
Latino/a, Asian American, and Native American (ALANA) Historians and
ALANA Histories
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Many of the victories of the civil rights era have been narrated
through the courts and federal legislation. This emphasis has led
some scholars to charge that grassroots movements and local
organizing have been neglected in favor of federal legislation,
legal decisions, and a top-down model of movement leadership.
However, activists who were often marginalized and policed by
the judicial system nevertheless used the courts to build local,
national, and international support for an anticarceral agenda. This
panel explores leadership from below by focusing on grassroots
organizing and bottom-up change through creative use of law and
the courts by activists who challenged a growing carceral state
across the 1960s and 1970s.
Chair: Heather Ann Thompson, University of Michigan
Panelists:
• Garrett Felber, University of Michigan
• Dan Berger, University of Washington, Bothell
• Rebecca Hill, Kennesaw State University
• Toussaint Losier, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Elizabeth Hinton, Harvard University
Organizing for Success: Political Leadership in the
Northern Great Plains, 1880–1925
Endorsed by the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and
Progressive Era
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Chair: Molly Rozum, University of South Dakota
Commentator: Catherine McNicol Stock, Connecticut College
Leadership, Immigrants, and the Fight for Woman Suffrage on the
Northern Great Plains
Sara Egge, Centre College
“To Push the Scandinavians to the Front as Much as Possible”:
Scandinavian Republican Organizations in the Northern Great Plains
Lori Ann Lahlum, Minnesota State University, Mankato
A Movement for Democracy or a Democratic Movement? Leadership
and Organizing in the Nonpartisan League
Michael Lansing, Augsburg College
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