THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY NATIONAL
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
June 1-3, 2000 - Boston University
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Paul A. Rahe, University of Tulsa
Miriam Levin, Case Western Reserve University
Thursday, 1 June 2000
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Plenary Session: "The Origins of the Revolutionary Impulse"
Opening Remarks: Dennis D. Berkey, Provost, Boston University
Moderator: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
"The Pattern and Escalation of European Revolution: From the
Hussites to the Bolsheviks"
-Martin Malia, University of California Berkeley
Respondents: Clifford Orwin, University of Toronto
Bernard Yack, University of Wisconsin, Madison
5:15 Reception
6:30 Dinner
8:00 Christopher Lasch Lecture: "Coping with Leisure"
Introduction: Eugene D. Genovese, President, The Historical Society
Lecture: Robert W. Fogel, University of Chicago
Friday, 2 June 2000: "NEW PERSPECTIVES ON REVOLUTION IN HISTORY"
7:30 – 9:00 Breakfast
9:00-10:45 Workshops
A. Anticipations of the Revolutionary Impulse: The Reformation
Moderator: Megan Armstrong, University of Utah
"The Protestant Reformation as a Revolution: the Case of Geneva"
-Robert M. Kingdon, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Saint and Sinner, Prophet and King: The Revolutionary Implications
of the Reformation"
-John Witte, Jr., Emory University
Respondents: --Phillip M. Soergel, Arizona State University
--Steven Ozment, Harvard University
B. The French Revolution in World-Historical Perspective
Moderator: Patrice Higonnet, Harvard University
"Reflections on the French Revolution in Comparative Perspective"
--Daniel Gordon, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
"Religion and the Age of the Patriotic Revolution: An Unlikely Encounter
between Palmer's 'Democratic Revolution' and his 'Catholics and
Unbelievers in Eighteenth Century France'"
--Dale K. Van Kley, Ohio State University
Respondent: Michael A. Mosher, University of Tulsa
C. Revolutionary Warfare
Moderator: Kenneth Greenberg, Suffolk University
"Soldiers of the National Liberation Front"
--David Hunt, University of Massachusetts at Boston
"A War of Words: Colonial Northern Rhodesia, 1919"
--Karen Fields, Independent Scholar
"Insurrection, Rebellion, or Revolution: Another Look at the American Civil
War"
--Anne J. Bailey, Georgia College and State University
11:00-12:45 Workshops
A. The English Revolution in World-Historical Perspective
Moderator: Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvard University
"Two Viewpoints on the English Revolution"
--Joyce Lee Malcolm, Bentley College
--Blair Worden, University of Sussex
Respondent: Jack Goldstone, University of California, Davis
B. Revolution in Latin America
Moderator: Robert Paquette, Hamilton College
"Fragmented Causes, Fractured Revolutions: The Spanish American Independence
Movements, 1810-1826"
--Christon Archer, University of Calgary
"Anti-Imperialism and Class Conflict in Latin American: 1808-2000"
--John Womack, Harvard University
Respondent: Mariano Plotkin, Boston University
C. The German Problem in Revolutionary Perspective
Moderator: Linda S. Frey, University of Montana
"German Politics in an Age of Democratic Revolution, 1770-1918:
Reflections and Questions"
--David E. Barclay, Kalamazoo College
"The Question of German Participatory Politics in the Age of Democratic
Revolution, 1789-1848"
--James M. Brophy, University of Delaware
Respondent: Theodore S. Hamerow, University of Wisconsin, Madison
D. The Revolutionary Intellectual
Moderator: Emmet Kennedy, George Washington University
"The Liberal Critique of the Revolutionary Intellectual: Tocqueville and
Aron"
--Daniel J. Mahoney, Assumption College
"Tocqueville and the Revolutionary Intellectual"
--Ralph Hancock, Brigham Young University
"The Dissident Mind"
--Chandler Rosenberger, Boston University
Respondents: Victor Gourevitch, Wesleyan University
Kimberly A. Kosman, Boston College
12:45 - 2:15 Lunch
Student Affairs – Mock Interview Sessions
2:15 - 4:00 Workshops
A. The American Revolution in World-Historical Perspective
Moderator: Robert Cottrol, George Washington University
"The Perils of Exceptionalism: Reflections on the Relevance and
Irrelevance of the American Revolution"
--Melvin Yazawa, University of New Mexico
"The American Revolution and the Making of the Modern World"
--Peter S. Onuf, University of Virginia
Respondent: Charles R. Kesler, Claremont McKenna College
B. The Russian Revolution in World-Historical Perspective
Moderator: Lynne Viola, University of Toronto
"Two Views on the Russian Revolution"
--Sheila Fitzpatrick, University of Chicago
--Philip Pomper, Wesleyan University
Respondent: Julius H. Grey, McGill University
C. International Relations in a Time of Revolution
Moderator, William R. Keylor, Boston University
"Pragmatism in Early Soviet Foreign Policy"
--Michael J. Carley, University of Akron
"Soviet Policies in Iran and the Beginning of the Cold War"
--Fernande Scheid, Yale University
Respondent: Christopher Jespersen, Clark Atlanta University
4:30 - 6:00
Plenary Session: "Has the Revolutionary Impulse Run Its Course?"
Moderator: Paul A. Rahe, University of Tulsa
"Thoughts on the Universal Homogeneous State"
--Stanley Rosen, Boston University
"The Dawn of the Brave New World?: Continuities and Discontinuities
at the End of the Twentieth Century"
--Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Emory University
Respondent: Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
Friday Evening Free
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Saturday, 3 June 2000
7:30 – 9:00 Breakfast
9:15 - 10:45
Plenary Session: "The New Cultural History: An Assessment"
Moderator, Miriam Levin, Case Western Reserve University
"The Long Search for Cultural History"
--Rochelle Gurstein, Bard Graduate Center
"The Myth of Culture"
--Russell Jacoby, University of California, Los Angeles
Respondent: Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh
11:00 - 12:30
Plenary Session: "Bringing History Back In: Reconstruction in Modern and
Postmodern American History"
Moderator: David L. Carlton, Vanderbilt University
"Reconfiguring Labor and American History in the19th and 20th Centuries"
--Richard Schneirov, Indiana State University
"Poststructuralism and Understanding the History of the 20th Century
American Mind"
--James Livingston, Rutgers University
"Capitalism and Socialism in 20th Century American History: The Liberal
Ascendancy"
--Martin J. Sklar, Bucknell University
Lunch: 12:30-2:00
2:00 - 4:00 Workshops -- TEACHING AND DOING HISTORY
A. Incorporating New Narratives: Revising or Rewriting American History?
Moderator: Douglas Ambrose, Hamilton College
--Charles T. Banner-Haley, Colgate University
--Christine Stolba, Independent Scholar
--Don Avery, Harford Community College
--James O. Farmer, University of South Carolina, Aiken
B. Do Empires Unite? A Dialogue Between A Student of World History and
a Student
of Western Civilization
Moderator: Marsha L. Frey, Kansas State University
"Western Empires--An Effective Way of Spreading a Common Culture?"
--Barry S. Strauss, Cornell University
"World History, the Homogeneity Paradigm, and the History of Cultural Edifices"
--Pamela K. Crossley, Dartmouth College
Respondent: Robert E. Herzstein, University of South Carolina
C. The American Experiment
Moderator: Pauline Maier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"John Adams and the American Experiment"
--Richard Samuelson, University of Virginia
"Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism"
--Christopher Beneke, Northwestern University
Respondent: Gordon S. Wood, Brown University
D. The Vietnam War Revisited
Moderator: Paul Lyons, Richard Stockton College
"The Vietnam War Revisited"
--Michael Lind, New America Foundation
Respondents: Robert W. Kagan, The Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace
--Benjamin Schwarz, Contributing Editor, The Atlantic Monthly
E. Graduate Students and New Ph.Ds: Entering the Classroom
Moderator: Mark Charles Fissel, Augusta State University
"Understanding the Classroom Teaching Experience"
--David J. Ulbrich, Kansas State University
"Women and Teaching"
--Diane Renee Tuinstra, Kansas State University
"Taking the Blinders Off: Graduate School, Teaching, and the Job Market"
--Paul B. Hatley, Rogers State University
4:30 - 6:00 General Meeting of The Historical Society
Saturday Evening Free
