Providence

FRIDAY SESSIONS
Environment and the First Winter of the
American Civil War
Endorsed by the OAH Committee on National Park Service Collaboration
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Chair and Commentator: Lisa M. Brady, Boise State University
Something in the Air: The Nature of the American Civil War in the Desert
Southwest, 1861–1862
Megan Kate Nelson, Historista, www.historista.com
“The Appearance of Going into Winter Quarters”: Politics, Practicality,
and the Civil War’s First Winter in Virginia.
Kenneth Noe, Auburn University
Environmental and Topographical Challenges in Early Civil War
Appalachia.
Brian D. McKnight, University of Virginia College at Wise
Exploring the Modern Midwest: New Directions in
Twentieth-Century Midwestern History
Endorsed by the Urban History Association and the Midwestern History
Association
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Chair: Anthony Mora, University of Michigan
Commentator: Marc Rodriguez, Portland State University
“It Can’t Happen Here”: Childhood, Region, and Iowa’s Missing
Paperboys, 1982–84
Paul Mokrzycki, University of Iowa
Narrating the Lives of Everyday African American Women in the 20th-
Century Urban Midwest
Crystal Moten, Dickinson College
“This Land Base Could Provide the Basis for Training and Employing
Our People”: Natural Resource Development and Meskwaki Self-
Determination in the Twentieth Century
Eric Zimmer, University of Iowa
Page by Page: Writing History for a
Trade Audience
Solicited by the Society of American Historians
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Chair and Commentator: David Nasaw, CUNY Graduate Center
Panelists:
• Jill Lepore, Harvard University
• Patricia Limerick, Center of American West, University of Colorado
• Eric Foner, Columbia University
• David Levering-Lewis, New York University
• Tony Horwitz, Author
Trying History: Science, Scandal,
and Sensation
Endorsed by the Urban History Association
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Chair and Commentator: Martha Sandweiss, Princeton
University
A Sensation in New York: Murder, Race, and Medicine in the Gilded Age
Courtney Thompson, Yale University
Spies, Lies, and Type-Writers: Female Office Workers and the 1894
Breckinridge-Pollard Scandal
Elizabeth De Wolfe, University of New England
America’s First Evolution Trial: Nebraska, 1924
Adam Shapiro, Birkbeck, University of London
Remembering Julian Bond
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As a founding member of the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, critic of
the Vietnam War, and president of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored
People, Julian Bond helped change history. But
alongside that persevering voice for justice,
one of his greatest gifts was that of a teacher
and movement intellectual. To teach about
the movement helped preserve a different history of American
democracy and carry it forward to a new generation. Professor Bond
thrilled to this work, spending the last twenty-five years teaching at
Williams College, Drexel University, the University of Pennsylvania,
Harvard University, American University, and the University of
Virginia. Bond’s former students and colleagues will begin the
panel with a series of tributes to his work and teaching, and then
the floor will be opened so others in the audience can share their
reminiscences as well.
Chair: Emilye Crosby, State University of New York at Geneseo
Panelists:
• Jeanne Theoharis, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
• Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ohio State University
• Timothy Lovelace, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
• Taylor Branch, Author
• Judy Richardson, SNCC Staff (1963–1966), Documentary Filmmaker
Friday
LEGEND
Public History
Teaching
Community College
Professional Development
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