Providence

SATURDAY SESSIONS
The Road Not Taken: The War on Poverty and
Public Employment
Endorsed by the Labor and Working-Class History Association
#oah16_251
Chair and Commentator: Eric Arnesen, George Washington University
The Last New Dealer? Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s Surprising Vision for
the War on Poverty
Peter-Christian Aigner, City University of New York Graduate Center
Another Road Not Taken: Race, Sex, Jobs, and the War on Poverty
Jane Berger, Moravian College
“Guaranteed Employment” and the Suburban War on Poverty
Tim Keogh, Queensborough Community College, City University
of New York
A Different Take: International Perspectives on
American Leadership
Solicited by the OAH International Committee #oah16_252
Chair: Frank Towers, University of Calgary
What’s in a Name? Defining Leadership in Education in Early Twentieth-
Century United States
Sonia Birocheau, Université Paris Est Créteil
Leadership on the Ground: The Struggle for the Desegregation of
American Airports
Anke Ortlepp, University of Kassel
Multiculturalism in the Last Decades of the 20th Century: Who Leads
the Transnational Trend?
Avital Bloch, University of Colima
On Leadership: American Women in Political Life
Solicited by the OAH Committee on the Status of Women in the
Historical Profession #oah16_253
Chair: Susan Goodier, State University of New York at Oneonta
Panelists:
• Anastasia Curwood, University of Kentucky
• Julie Gallagher, Penn State University, Brandywine
• Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, University of California, Irvine
• Leandra Zarnow, University of Houston
The United States and Transnational
Humanitarianism, 1919–1939
Endorsed by the OAH International Committee #oah16_254
Chair and Commentator: Heide Fehrenbach, Northern Illinois
University
Shadow Diplomats: American Jewish International Humanitarianism,
1919–1939
Andrew J. Falk, Christopher Newport University
A Leader in Relief: United States Foreign Disaster Assistance, 1919–1939
Julia Irwin, University of South Florida
Orchestrating Relief: United States Food Aid to Postwar Nations,
1919–1924
Branden Little, Weber State University
The American Friends Service Committee and the Spanish Civil
War 1936–1939
Daniel Roger Maul, Aarhus University, Denmark
Saturday, April 9, 3:30 pm – 5:15 pm
OAH Business Meeting and Awards Ceremony
The OAH Awards Ceremony celebrates the best in American
history—writing, teaching, public presentation, research,
support, and distinguished careers. The Awards Ceremony
recognizes colleagues and friends whose achievements
advance our profession, bolstering deep, sophisticated
understandings of America’s complex past and informed,
historically-relevant discussions of contemporary issues.
Hard-working OAH members on 30-plus committees each year
examine over 1000 excellent nominations to select outstanding
recipients. Their care, and the excellence of the individuals
they have chosen, enlarges American history everywhere.
Saturday, April 9, 5:15 pm
OAH Presidential Address:
God, Gotham, and Modernity
Twentieth-century American cities and
religion? Tough history. Consider the
worries of urban religious figures from
Josiah Strong and Moses Weinberger
to Dorothy Day, or the views of William
James and Max Weber, who dismissed
modern institutions as religiously irrelevant or implicitly
secularizing. Have these sentiments obscured a captivating
religious modernization and vitality in the capital of American
secularism, led by institutions and modernity together?
Should we move America’s spiritual city on a hill from Boston
to Gotham, at least between 1880 and 1960?
Jon Butler is Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of
American Studies, History, and Religious Studies at Yale
University and Adjunct Research Professor of History at the
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He has written on early
America and American religion and is currently writing a
book, God in Gotham, on religion in modern Manhattan.
OAH President’s Reception
Sponsored by Yale University
Immediately following the President’s Address, please join
us to honor and thank Jon Butler a for his service to the
organization and the history profession.
Saturday
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