Providence

FRIDAY SESSIONS
Friday
Film: Traces of the Trade: A Story from the
Deep North
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Commentator: James DeWolf Perry, Tracing Center on Histories and
Legacies of Slavery
Panelists:
• J. Anthony Guillory, Springfield (Mass.) Technical Community College
• Laura Adderley, Tulane University
Building Middle Ground in U.S. History Scholarship
Solicited by the OAH-JAAS Japan Historians’ Collaborative Committee
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Chair: Masako Notoji, University of Tokyo
Commentators: Glenn Eskew, Georgia State University;
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, University of California, Irvine
The School Desegregation Movement in Reconstruction New Orleans:
Creoles of Color, Civil Rights, and Unsettled Color Line
Mishio Yamanaka, University of North Carolina
More “Natural” Than Nature: The Federal Policy and Corporate
Enterprise of Food Coloring in the Progressive Era
Ai Hisano, University of Delaware
Educating “Soldiers of Civilization”: The Military Mobilization of
American Youth, 1939–1942
Masako Hattori, Columbia University
Ideas from the Underground: Extracting Subterranean
Epistemologies from Bones and Bodies
Endorsed by the OAH Committee on National Park Service Collaboration
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Chair and Commentator: Sarah Anne Carter, Chipstone Foundation
and University of Wisconsin
Caring about Corpses: Which Ones Matter, and Why?
Ellen Stroud, Bryn Mawr College
Excavating American Identity: Fossils as Artifacts of Cultural Heritage
Alison Laurence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Relics and Sacrality in the Early American Historical Imaginary
Christopher Allison, Harvard University
What Students Want? Addressing the Diversity
Problem in Our Profession
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Panelists:
• Jonathan Holloway, Yale University
• Matthew Garcia, Arizona State University
In the wake of numerous incidents that have made students of color
feel unwelcome and even threatened on college campuses across
the nation, young people have created a potent protest movement
that has articulated clear demands and registered significant
victories. We have assembled a range of faculty and administrators
to discuss ways to address the problems that have gained national
attention over the last few months.
Black Religious Leadership and Mass Media in the
20th Century
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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Chair: Cara Caddoo, Indiana University
Commentator: Barbara Savage, University of Pennsylvania
“Sincerely Yours, J. Edgar Hoover”: The FBI and the Making of Black
Religious Leadership
Lerone Martin, Washington University in Saint Louis
Black Philanthropy and the Freedmen’s “Peculiar Claim and Debt” to
“New Africa”
Brandi Hughes, University of Michigan
Solomon Sir Jones: Minister and Media Maven
Cara Caddoo, Indiana University
Holy War! Black Gods of the Metropolis, Religious Leadership, and the
Black Press
Judith Weisenfeld, Princeton University
Protest, Politics, and Ideas in the American
Century: The Work of Alan Brinkley
Solicited by Endorsed by the Society for U.S. Intellectual History
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Chair: Eric Foner, Columbia University
Commentator: Ira Katznelson, Columbia University
Voices of Protest
Moshik Temkin, Harvard University
The End of Reform
Mason Williams, Williams College
Liberalism and Its Discontents
David Greenberg, Rutgers University
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century
Nicole Hemmer, United States Studies Centre
Leaders Gone Wild: Scandals and Corruption
in American Leadership
Solicited by the OAH Committee on Community Colleges
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Chair: Christina Gold, El Camino Community College
Military and Naval Officers: Teaching by Error
James Thomas, Houston Community College
Charles Eliot and the Failed Leadership in Texas Diplomacy: Teaching
about Texas Slavery
Marjorie Brown, Texas Southern University
The A. J. Ward and Scandal in Texas Penitentiary—1876: How Corrupt
Leadership Shaped the Texas Prison System
Theresa Jach, Houston Community College
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2016 OAH ANNUAL MEETING PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND