Providence

SATURDAY SESSIONS
Saturday
Saturday, April 9
10:50 am – 12:20 pm
Profiles in Courage: Expanding the
Boundaries of Southern Black Leadership,
1850–1950
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: Tera Hunter, Princeton University
Commentator: Katherine Mellen Charron, North Carolina
State University
Leading by Example: John Anthony Copeland and the Road to
Harper’s Ferry
Peter Wood, Duke University
“Not as a Symbol of Cold Intellectual Success”: Anna Julia Cooper
and the Necessity of Progressive Women’s Leadership
E. Tsekani Browne, Bowie State University
Scholarship as Leadership: Allison Davis and the Contest of Ideas
David Varel, University of Wisconsin, River Falls
Native American Influences in Non-Native
Policies and Perceptions, 1762–2015
Endorsed by the Urban History Association
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Chair: Gary L. Kieffner, Fiji National University
Commentators: Jeffrey Shepherd, University of Texas at El
Paso; Myla Vicenti Carpio, Arizona State University
Honoring Ancestors: Indigenous Leaders and the Native
American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990
Paulette Steeves, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Teaching Non-Indians All about Indians: Classroom Reflections
on Land, Identity, and Power in the Urban Indian Context
Sara Sutler-Cohen, Independent Scholar
“The White and Red People Love One Another as Brothers Should
Do”: British-Seminole Relations in the Florida Borderlands, 1762–1783
John Paul A. Nuño, California State University, Northridge
Religious Leaders and Their Places in History
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Chair: Barbara Franco, Independent Scholar
Panelists:
• Michael Hamilton, Mary Baker Eddy Library
• Jeff Bach, Elizabethtown College
• Newell Williams, Brite Divinity School at Texas
Christian University
Organizing the 1970s
Endorsed by the Labor and Working-Class History Association
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Chair: Jennifer Klein, Yale University
Commentator: Jefferson Cowie, Cornell University
Blue Strike Wave: The Rise and Reverberations of 1970s Police Unionism
Dan Gilbert, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Atlanta Project and the Origins of Community-Oriented Southern
Radical Social Movements in the 1960s
Andrew Pope, Harvard University
“Building Power for Other”: Afro-Asian Worker Solidarity during Seattle
Black Power Era
Michael Schulze-Oechtering, University of California, Berkeley
Union Leadership in a Post-Labor Age: Jerry Wurf and the Rise of the
Public Sector
Joseph E. Hower, Southwestern University
Michael O’Brien, Intellectual History, and the
History of the American South
Solicited by the Society for U.S. Intellectual History
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Chair and Commentator: Sarah Gardner, Mercer University
Challenging Allen Tate: Michael O’Brien, and the New Southern Literary
History
Susan Donaldson, College of William and Mary
Michael O’Brien and the Transformation of United States Intellectual
History
David Moltke-Hansen, Cambridge Studies on the American South
Women’s Informal Writing and the Compass of Antebellum Southern
Intellectual History
Steven Stowe, Indiana University
Michael O’Brien as Transnational Historian
James Turner, University of Notre Dame
Whatever Happened to the Liberal Tradition in
American Politics?
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Chair: Kevin Kruse, Princeton University
Panelists:
• Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University
• Bethany Moreton, Dartmouth College
• Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University
• Bruce Schulman, Boston University
• Wendy Wall, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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