Providence

SATURDAY SESSIONS
Legacies of Leadership: Defining the Presidency
in the Early Republic
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Chair: Stuart Leibiger, La Salle University
Commentator: Peter Onuf, University of Virginia
George Washington and the First Principles of Presidential Leadership
Kathleen Bartoloni-Tuazon, First Federal Congress Project,
Washington, D.C.
Madison versus Jefferson on the Question of Leadership
Jeremy Bailey, University of Houston
Lost Opportunities for Leadership: Thomas Law, James Madison, and
the Indian Problem in the Early American Republic
Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University
A Distant Reading of Sentiment of Early Presidents’ Memoirs:
Washington, Adams, and Jefferson
Robert Bruner, University of Virginia
History, Numbers, Numeracy: Opportunities and
Obstacles in Quantitative and Digital History
Solicited by Economic History Association
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Chair and Commentator: Caitlin Rosenthal, University of California,
Berkeley,
Panelists:
• David Eltis, Emory University
• Eric Hilt, Wellesley College
• Jeremiah Dittmar, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Tamara Plakins Thornton, University at Buffalo, State University of
New York
• Richard Hornbeck, Harvard University
• Christopher Church, University of Nevada, Reno
Christianity and Capitalism in the Modern
United States: Historians Respond to Kevin
Kruse’s One Nation under God
Solicited by the Labor and Working-Class History Association
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In the last decade historians have taken up with renewed vigor the
complicated relationship between Christianity and capitalism in the
modern United States. Some have been especially interested in the
ways that faith, work, and labor politics have intersected in the lives
of ordinary people, as can be seen in recent and/or forthcoming
books by Jarod Roll, Chip Callahan, Alison Greene, Heath W. Carter,
Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, and Ken Fones-Wolf, among others. Another
group of scholars has begun to excavate the ties between religious
and corporate leaders, producing important studies such as Darren
Dochuk’s From Bible Belt to Sunbelt, Bethany Moreton’s To Serve
God and Wal-Mart, and now Kevin Kruse’s One Nation under God:
How Corporate America Invented Christian America. This panel will
bring together a variety of historians from both sides of the new
scholarship to discuss and evaluate Kruse’s book.
Chair: Heath Carter, Valparaiso University
Panelists:
• Alison Greene, Mississippi State University
• Kathryn Lofton, Yale University
• Jarod Roll, University of Mississippi
• Kevin Kruse, Princeton University
Transnationalizing Urban History
Solicited by the Urban History Association
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As intellectual approaches go, the “transnational turn” is
relatively new; and in the field of history in and around the United
States, even more so. The foundational articles and reports on
transnationalizing U.S. history, for example, are little more than
a decade old, and the major syntheses in the field largely date
from the second half of the 2000s. Urban historians have begun to
incorporate transnational approaches into their work, but this is a
very recent phenomenon: most key monographs are very recent,
and others are in production. The purpose of this round table is to
create a discussion among participants and scholars who have been
thinking through the practice and direction of transnational urban
history at an early point in the field’s development.
Chair: Timothy Gilfoyle, Loyola University Chicago
Panelists:
• Nancy Kwak, University of California, San Diego
• Matthew Garcia, Arizona State University
• Amy C. Offner, University of Pennsylvania
• Margaret O’Mara, University of Washington
• Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz, University of New Mexico
Saturday
LEGEND
Public History
Teaching
Community College
Professional Development
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