Providence

Saturday
SATURDAY SESSIONS
Political History beyond the Liberal-Conservative
Paradigm
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Chair and Commentator: Matthew Lassiter, University of Michigan
Panelists:
• Lily Geismer, Claremont McKenna College
• Mason Williams, Williams College
• Brent Cebul, University of Richmond
The World the Civil War Made: Revisiting and
Revising Reconstruction
Endorsed by the OAH Committee on Teaching, the OAH Committee on
the Status of Women in the Historical Profession and the Society for
Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
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The period that followed the Civil War is one of the most contested,
controversial, and difficult to fathom in all of U.S. history. It was
characterized by chaos in the former Confederacy, innovations
in governance, and the political mobilization of millions of freed
people. At the same time, the U.S. military extended its reach over
the Great Plains; Native American groups struggled to for both
citizenship and sovereignty; and the far West was transformed by
the expansion of railroads and industry, Chinese immigration, and
white laborers’ political mobilization. Participants in this round
table bring expertise from all regional subfields of American history
and will discuss new ways of conceptualizing the postwar period:
What changed and what didn’t as a result of the Civil War? How
capable was the federal government of accomplishing its aims?
Were liberal ideals of citizenship and contract ascendant, or were
coercion and violence more important?
Chair: Kate Masur, Northwestern University
Panelists:
• Kate Masur, Northwestern University
• Stephen Kantrowitz, University of Wisconsin
• Kidada Williams, Wayne State University
• Stacey Smith, Oregon State University
• Gregory Downs, City University of New York
LEGEND
Public History
Teaching
Community College
Professional Development
A Twenty-Year Perspective on the History
Wars of the 1990s
Solicited by the OAH Committee on Teaching
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This session will be a round table discussion, from the perspective
of twenty years, regarding the proposed National History
Standards developed by historians and teachers in conjunction
with the National Center for History in the Schools. These
standards were challenged by Lynne Cheney, former chair of
the National Endowment for the Humanities, for placing too
much emphasis upon multiculturalism and not enough focus
on traditional patriotism. The ensuing political firestorm, in an
episode known as the “history cultural wars,” led to a modestly
revised version of the standards and a surge of community
engagement between K–12 teaches and college-level historians.
Chair: Fritz Fischer, Northern Colorado University
Panelists:
• Gary Nash, University of California, Los Angeles
• Ross Dunn, San Diego State University
• Gloria Sesso, Patchogue-Medford (N.Y.) Unified School District
• Kristen Walleck, Arlington (Va.) Public Schools
Building the Ebony Tower: Reconsidering
Black Colleges in the Age of Jim Crow
Endorsed by the History of Education Society
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Chair and Commentator: Martha Biondi, Northwestern University
Spirit of Excellence: Black College Football, the Black Coaching
Fraternity, and the Costs of Desegregation
Derrick White, Dartmouth College
“The Situation at the College . . . is Incompatible with Our Self-Respect”:
The Virginia State Strike of 1934 and the Early Black Student Movement
Elizabeth Lundeen, University of North Carolina
“I Became . . . a Negro Myself”: Robert Park, Tuskegee Institute, and the
Making of the Chicago School of Sociology
Davarian Baldwin, Trinity College
The Politics of Reputation: Discourses of Black Womanhood in the Black
Student Protests of the 1920s
Amira Rose Davis, Johns Hopkins University
RHODE ISLAND CONVENTION CENTER
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