Providence

SUNDAY SESSIONS
Sunday
Sunday, April 10
10:45 am –12:15 pm
On Writing Religious Leadership: A Round Table
Discussion on Religious Biography
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This panel imaginatively engages with the conference theme of
leadership as it brings together a dynamic group of scholars who
have written or who are writing biographies of prominent religious
leaders. Rick Kennedy, author of The First American Evangelical: A
Short Life of Cotton Mather (2015), will act as moderator and open
the discussion. Other participants include John Turner, the author
of Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet (2012); Suzanne E. Smith, who is
writing a biography of Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, the first
African American radio evangelist; David H. Holland, who is writing
a comparative biography of Mary Baker Eddy and Ellen White,
founders of Christian Science and the Seventh-Day Adventist Church
respectively; and Barry Hankins, the author of Francis Schaeffer and
the Shaping of Evangelical America (2008), who is currently writing a
biography about the spiritual life of Woodrow Wilson.
Chair: Rick Kennedy, Point Loma Nazarene University
Panelists:
• Suzanne Smith, George Mason University
• Barry Hankins, Baylor University
• John Turner, George Mason University
• David Holland, Harvard University
• Rick Kennedy, Point Loma Nazarene University
The Grassroots and the Boss: Rethinking
Opposition to Richard J. Daley and Chicago’s
Democratic Machine
Solicited by the Labor and Working-Class History Association
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Chair and Commentator: Kevin Boyle, Northwestern University
Revenge of the Lakefront Liberals: The Shakman Decree, Political
Patronage, and Chicago’s Democratic Machine
Richard Anderson, Princeton University
Alternatives to the Plantation: Independent Black Politics in 1960s Chicago
Erik Gellman, Roosevelt University (Chicago)
Friends and Foes: Teamsters President Donald F. Peters and Chicago
Mayor Richard J. Daley
Liesl Orenic, Dominican University
Trailblazing Abolition: Regionalizing, Radicalizing,
and Writing the Fight against Slavery
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: Carol Lasser, Oberlin College
Commentator: Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz, Eastern Illinois University
Bringing the Fight to Kansas: John Brown, Bleeding Kansas, and the
Vanguard of Radical Abolition
R. Blakeslee Gilpin, Tulane University
Horace Greeley, Bleeding Kansas, and the Making of the Yankee Nation,
1854–1860
James Lundberg, Lake Forest College
“Decidedly the Best Anti-Slavery Field in the Country”: Oberlin, the West,
and Abolitionist Schism
Brent Morris, University of South Carolina, Beaufort
Gendered Leadership, Missing Faces: New
Directions in Suffrage Scholarship
Endorsed by the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
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Chair: Ellen DuBois, University of California, Los Angeles
Commentator: Lisa Tetrault, Carnegie Mellon University
Gendered Leadership and Neighborhood Diplomacy: How Helen
Hamilton Gardener Helped Secure the Passage of the 19th Amendment
Kimberly Hamlin, Miami University (Ohio)
“An Organized Force . . . Ready for Some Active Work”: The Leadership of
Women Lawyers in the Progressive Era Women’s Rights Movement
Lauren MacIvor Thompson, Georgia State University
On the Wrong Side of History? The Impact of Internationalism on Carrie
Chapman Catt’s Leadership in the 1930s
Kathi Kern, University of Kentucky
How Elite Socialites Propelled Women’s Suffrage to Victory in New York
in 1917
Johanna Neuman, American University
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