Providence

FRIDAY SESSIONS
American Women’s Religious Leadership in a
Global Context, 1812–1945
Endorsed by the OAH International Committee
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Chair: Mary Kupiec Cayton, Ohio State University
Commentator: Dana Robert, Boston University
The Forgotten Wife: Gender, Authority, and Missionary Marriage
Emily Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University
“I Am Almost Ready to Wish Myself a Man”: Harriet Lathrop Winslow
and the Creation of Female Missionary Identities, 1819–1833
Elise Leal, Baylor University
The Gospel of Diversity: Ecumenical Churchwomen and the World Day
of Prayer in the Interwar Era
Gale Kenny, Barnard College
How Places Shaped Spaces: Scale and the
Religious Geographies of Early America
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Chair: Aaron Fogleman, Northern Illinois University
Commentators: Aaron Fogleman, Northern Illinois University;
Heather Miyano Kopelson, University of Alabama
The Atlantic World Is My Parish: Early American Methodism in
Transatlantic Perspective
Christopher Jones, College of William and Mary
A Long Space of Country between Us: Family Networks and the
Geography of Rural Religion in the Early Republic
Shelby Balik, Metropolitan State University of Denver
The Urban Pulpit: The Perils and Promise of Religion in the American City
Kyle T. Bulthuis, Utah State University
Histories of Sexuality and Gender before the
20th Century
Solicited by the OAH Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Historians and Histories
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Chair: Peter Coviello, University of Illinois at Chicago
Commentator: April Haynes, University of Wisconsin
Critical Trans* Studies and the Political Category of Female-Husbands
Jen Manion, Connecticut College
Sphincters of the Spirit: Methodism and Racial Feeling in
the Early Republic
Scott Larson, George Washington University
The Natural History of Sexuality
Greta LaFleur, Yale University
Podcasting—Reaching a Mass Audience
from Above and Below
Endorsed by the OAH Committee on Public History
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Chair: Rebecca Onion, Ohio University
Panelists:
• Robert Cassanello, University of Central Florida
• Edward Ayers, University of Richmond
• Daniel Murphree, University of Central Florida
• Tony Fields, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Beyond Guns and Drums: The National
Park Service Evaluates Its Civil War and
Reconstruction Sites
Solicited by the OAH Committee on National Park Service Collaboration
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As the National Park Service prepares for the centennial of its creation
in 1916, historians in and outside of the National Park Service have
worked to use of the opportunity of the Civil War sesquicentennial
to bring to the public a more complex and nuanced history of that
era. In 2000 the National Park Service began a system-wide effort
to move beyond a “guns and drums” interpretation of Civil War
sites. Sparked by the Rally on High Ground symposium, exhibits and
interpretive programs integrated the themes of slavery and freedom
into battlefield programs. This session explores issues raised by this
process and recent initiatives, such as “From Civil War to Civil Rights,”
and the lack of Reconstruction programming in the NPS system, to
evaluate and consider next steps.
Chair: Edward T. Linenthal, Indiana University
Panelists:
• Michael Allen, National Park Service
• Stacy Allen, National Park Service
• Kate Masur, Northwestern University
• Gregory Downs, City University of New York
• Carol Shively, National Park Service
• Ed Clark, Gettysburg National Military Park Eisenhower National
Historic Site
Labor, Class, and Poverty
Solicited by the OAH Committee on the Status of Women in the
Historical Profession
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Chair: Kathryn Silva, Utica College
Panelists:
• Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Keona Ervin, University of Missouri
• Laurie Green, University of Texas at Austin
• Annelise Orleck, Dartmouth College
• Premilla Nadasen, Barnard College
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