The relentless
thrust of  globalization and the unexpected
termination of the Cold War have increased rather than reduced global
tensions. These developments force us to reconsider some themes once
thought to be exhausted. Migrations, the formation of Diaspora
communities, and the resurgence of ethnicities, both old and new, have
transformed our understanding of nationalism and conventional
conceptions of the nation-state. The 2008 conference will consider the
above themes.
With
such considerations in mind, the Historical Society is pleased to
announce
that the organizing theme for 6th conference, June
5-8 2008, will be “Migration, Diaspora, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in
History.”
The conference will be held at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
Maryland. We envision a meeting
in which historians across fields come together to deepen and enrich
the
state of knowledge about these vital concerns.
Franklin
W. Knight will chair the 2008 conference program committee.
Felix
E. Hirsch Travel Grants Recipients, 2008
The Historical
Society is pleased to announce the fourth Felix E. Hirsch Travel Grant
competition to support graduate student travel to The Historical
Society's conference in Baltimore, Maryland, in June 2008. The Award is
sponsored by Roland F. Hirsch in the memory of his father, Felix E.
Hirsch, who was a scholar of European history. (See below). THS
is accepting nominations and applications for the grants; applications
should consist of a short statement about the candidate's research and
scholarly focus. Please email nominations or applications to Eric
Arnesen, THS President (arnesen@uic.edu), and Franklin Knight, former
THS President and Program Committee chair (fknight@jhu.edu) by no later
than 1 May 2008.
See
more here
2008
Program Committee:
•
Franklin W. Knight, Johns Hopkins University, Chair
•
Ronald Walters, Johns Hopkins University
•
Georgette Dorn, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
•
Don Avery, Harford Community College, Maryland
Local Committee:
•
Franklin W. Knight, Johns Hopkins University
•
Patricia Romero, Towson University
Acknowledgements:
The Historical
Society remains especially grateful for the generous support of:
•
The Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Towson University
•
Dean of the Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University
•
Office of the Provost, Johns Hopkins University
•
Office of the Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns
Hopkins University
•
Office of the President, Johns Hopkins University
•
Office of the Associate Provost for International Affairs, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, JUNE 5
12:00-8:00pm REGISTRATION
2:00-3:30pm
SESSION IA:
AFRICAN-AMERICAN MIGRATION WITHIN THE U.S.
West Room 302
Moderator:
Donald Avery, Harford Community College
Luther
Adams, University of Washington, Tacoma
“Upon this Rock:
African-American Migration, Urban
Renewal, and the
Struggle for Equality in Louisville, Kentucky”
Bernadette
Pruitt, Sam Houston State University
“‘For the
Advancement of the Race’: Agency, Work, and the Great Migrations to
Houston, Texas, 1900-1941”
Jeffrey
Helgeson, University of Illinois at Chicago
“‘They
Keep Us Moving all the Time’: The Politics of Migration in Black
Chicago, 1935-1965”
SESSION IB:
CARIBBEAN IDENTITIES
East Room 304
Moderator:
Chris Beneke, Bentley College
Milagros
Denis, Rutgers University
“A
Historical Analysis of the Racial Dimension of Puerto Rican Modernity
and National Identity”
Gordon E.
A. Gill, Oberlin College
“From
African to Afro-Creole: Identity Formation among the Enslaved
Population of the Guianas”
Christina
V. Jones, Howard University
“Understanding
Race, Slavery, and the Early Development of Anti-Haitianism in Santo
Domingo”
SESSION IC: DIASPORA
AND ANTI-DIASPORA: CASES FROM TIBET AND KOREA
Banquet Room Salon B
Moderator:
Martin Burke, Lehman College, CUNY
Anne-Sophie
Bentz, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
“Tibetan
Refugees: Resisting Diasporization?”
Hijoo Son,
University of California, Los Angeles
“Paradox
of Diasporic Art from There”
3:45-5:15pm
SESSION IIA: AFRICAN
AMERICANS AND POLITICS
West Room 302
Moderator:
Eric Arnesen, University of Illinois at Chicago
Maggie M.
Morehouse, University of South Carolina, Aiken
“African
Americans in Motion: Current Trends and
Migration Patterns”
Fran Ryan,
Moravian College
“Breaking
the Ward Lines: Black Republicanism and the Communist Challenge in
Philadelphia, 1925-1932”
SESSION IIB: JEWS IN
THE DIASPORA
East Room 304
Moderator:
George Huppert, University of Illinois at Chicago
Sonja P.
Wentling, Concordia College
“Prologue to
Genocide or Epilogue to War?
American Perspectives on the
Jewish Question in Poland, 1919-1921”
SESSION IIC: SCIENCE
AND POLITICS
Banquet Room Salon B
Donald
Yerxa, The Historical Society
Monique
Laney, The University of Kansas
“Rocket
Science, Kultur, and Pumpernickel: How Germans Complicate America after
World War II”
John
Recchiuti, Mount Union College
"Science, Politics, Ideology and Philosophy in Progressive-Era America"
Darren Staloff, City College of
New York
“Contending for
the Mantle of Enlightenment: The Philosophical Exchanges of Thomas
Jefferson and John Adams”
RECEPTION: 5:15-6:30
Sponsored by the Office of Provost and
the Office of the Dean, Johns Hopkins University
7:30pm
PLENARY SESSION
Banquet Room Salon C
THE CHRISTOPHER
LASCH LECTURE
Moderator: Franklin W. Knight, Johns
Hopkins University
Richard
Salvucci, Trinity University
“Pricing
Peace, Property, and Friendship: Mexico, the United States, and the
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, 1848”
FRIDAY, JUNE 6
8:00am-4:30pm REGISTRATION
8:30-10:00am
SESSION IA:
CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE IN ASIAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORA HISTORY
West Room 302
Moderator:
John Higginson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Frank
Guridy, University of Texas at Austin
“Empire
and Diasporization: A View From Tuskegee”
Ben Vinson
III, Johns Hopkins University
“Intersecting
Diasporas
SESSION IB: NEW
SCHOLARSHIP ON THE POST-CIVIL WAR ERA
East Room 304
Moderator:
Peter Coclanis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Michael
W. Fitzgerald, St. Olaf College
“Reconstruction
Revisited: African-American
Politics in Modern Context”
[SHORT VERSION]
Susan
O’Donovan, Harvard University
“Women,
Work, and Reconstruction: Questions of Gender in a Free-Labor System”
Michael A.
Ross, Loyola University, New Orleans
“The
Supreme Court and the Retreat from Reconstruction: An Assessment of
Twenty Years of Scholarship”
SESSION IC:
DIASPORIC STATE-MAKING DURING THE COLD WAR
Banquet Room Salon B
Moderator:
Joseph Skelly, College of Mount Saint Vincent
Richard S.
Kim, University of California, Davis
“Diasporic
State-Making, Korean Immigrant Nationalism, and Ethnic Identities”
Arleen de
Vera, SUNY Binghamton
“Diasporic
Politics: Filipino-American Nationalists Critique the Cold War,
1946-1957”
Mary Ting
Yi Lui, Yale University
“Visualizing
East Meets West during the Cold War”
10:15-11:45am
SESSION IIA:
DIASPORAS IN FRANCE AND ITALY
West Room 302
Moderator:
Claudia Haake, La Trobe University
Marco
Rovinello, Università della Calabria
“‘French’
Immigrants in Naples, 1806-1860”
Dêva
Koumarane-Villeroy, University of Paris
“Tamil
Diasporas in Reunion, Martinique, and Guadeloupe”
Aliza S.
Wong, Texas Tech University
“Making
the New Italians: Immigration, Diaspora, and Diversity”
SESSION IIB: AFRICAN
AMERICANS IN THE ERA OF THE GREAT WAR
Banquet Room Salon B
Moderator:
Melvyn Dubofsky, SUNY Binghamton
Steven
Reich, James Madison University
“The Great
Migration and Literary Imagination”
Chad
Williams, Hamilton College
“African-American
Soldiers and the First World
War: Class, Citizenship,
and the Meanings of Military Service”
Robert H.
Zieger, University of Florida
“‘Grudgingly,
Unwillingly, Almost Insultingly’:
Racial Progress in the
Era of the Great War”
Comment:
Melvyn Dubofsky, SUNY Binghamton
SESSION IIC:
EUROPEAN AND ASIAN HISTORY
Multipurpose Room
Moderator:
Darryl Hart, Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Steven
Phillips, Towson University
“With
Friends Like These: Anti-Americanism in Taiwan”
Laurie
Manchester, Arizona State University
“The
Colonial World Through Russian Eyes:
Russian Refugees in Africa
and China in the 1920s and 1930s”
Paul
Bookbinder, University of Massachusetts, Boston
“A New
Jewish Community for Germany”
Jeffrey
Herf, University of Maryland
“Nazi
Germany and the Arab and Muslim World: Old and New Scholarship”
SESSION IID: CUBA
AND THE CARIBBEAN
East Room 304
Moderator:
Franklin Knight, Johns Hopkins University
Franklin
W. Knight, Johns Hopkins University
“Migration
and Culture: A Case Study of Cuba, 1750-1900”
Rosario
Marquez-Macias, University of Huelva
“Havana in
the 19th Century: A Prospective from Its Immigrants
Mary
Chamberlain, Oxford Brookes University
“Caribbean
Migrants to Britain”
12:00-1:30pm LUNCH
1:45-3:15pm
SESSION IIIA: THE
STATE OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND STUDIES, PART I
Banquet Room Sloan B
Moderator:
Charles “Pete” Banner-Haley, Colgate University
John
Higginson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Bobby
Donaldson, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Mark M.
Smith, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Louis
Prisock, Colgate University
SESSION IIIB:
LITERATURE, POLITICS, AND ETHNICITY
West Room 302
Moderator:
Chris Beneke, Bentley College
Chandani
Patel, New York University
“Indians
in East Africa: Literature, Homelessness,
and the Imaginary”
Matthew
Sherman, North Carolina Central University
“Said
Reversed: Immigration to Europe”
Ralph
Menning, Kent State University, Stark
“Generalization
by Nationality: The Turn-of-the-Century British Foreign Office and Its
Favored Ethnicities”
SESSION IIIC: WHAT
PUBLIC HISTORIANS CAN TEACH ACADEMIC HISTORIANS
East Room 304
Moderator:
Heather Cox Richardson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Jill
Ogline, Washington College
“Chesapeake
Journeys: A Public History Approach to
Teaching Slavery and
Resistance”
Lisa
Adams, The Garamond Agency
“Writing
for the Public”
Denise D.
Meringolo, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
“Public
History: Intellectual Inquiry in a Community Context”
SESSION IIID: A CITY
ON THE MARCH: INTERGRATING BALTIMORE, 1952
Multipurpose Room
Moderator:
Dennis D. Jutras, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
Film:
“Blazing A Trail Before Brown”
Comments:
Kevin
Tolson, Duke University
Gene
Giles, Independent Scholar
Milton
Cornish, Independent Scholar
3:30-5:00pm
SESSION IVA: THE
STATE OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND STUDIES, PART II
Banquet Room Salon B
Moderator:
Charles “Pete” Banner-Haley, Colgate University
John
Higginson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Bobby
Donaldson, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Mark M.
Smith, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Louis
Prisock, Colgate University
SESSION IVB: THE
DILLINGHAM COMMISSION ON U.S. IMMIGRATION
West Room 302
Moderator:
Robert Zeidel, University of Wisconsin, Stout
Yael Schacher,
Harvard University
“Contrarian
Expertise: Isaac Hourwich’s
Immigration and Labor (1912)”
Melanie
Shell-Weiss, Johns Hopkins University
“Workers
and Citizens: The Debate over Black
Immigrants and the
Southern Economy”
Katie
Benton-Cohen, Georgetown University
“The
Ambivalence of Race: The Dillingham Commission and Mexican Immigrants”
John M.
Lund, Keene State College
“Vermont
Nativism: William Paul Dillingham and U.S. Immigration Legislation”
SESSION IVC:
DIVERSITY AND DEMOCRACY
Moderator: Jeffrey Vanke, Independent
Scholar
East Room
304
José
Angel Hernández, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Historicizing
Contemporary Deportation Raids, 1836-2006”
Tim Lacy,
Loyola University, Chicago
“Finding
Unity amid Diversity: Education, Common Culture, and Democratic Culture”
Caroline
Emily Shaw, University of California, Berkeley
“The
‘Soi-Disant’ Refugee: Foreigners, Refugees, and Opportunists in
19th-Century Britain”
Florence
Mae Waldron, Lebanon Valley College
“To Be an
Homme de Famille in Petit Canada: Ethnicity and National Identity among
New England’s Working-Class Migrant Men from Quebec, 1880-1920”
5:15-6:30pm
PLENARY SESSION
Banquet Room Salon C
Moderator:
Franklin W. Knight, Johns Hopkins University
Ruth Iyob,
University of Missouri, St. Louis
“Invisible
Histories: Erasing Africans in the Mediterranean World”
SATURDAY, JUNE 7
8:00am-12:00pm REGISTRATION
8:30-10:00am
SESSION IA:
GLOBALIZATION, AMERICAN WORKING-CLASS ACTIVISM, AND NEW DIRECTIONS IN
U.S. LABOR HISTORY
West Room 302
Moderator:
Chris Beneke, Bentley College
Ken
Fones-Wolf, West Virginia University
“Industrial
Restructuring and the Transnational Movement of Workers: The View from
a Century Ago”
John P.
Enyeart, Bucknell University
“Race,
Radicalism, and Regional Working-Class Political Action”
Robin D.
Jacobson, Bucknell University and Kim Geron
“Organizing
in a Global Age: Unions, Immigration, and the Politics of Belonging”
SESSION IB: MOVING
CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY IN NEW DIRECTIONS
Banquet Room Salon B
Moderator:
Eric Arnesen, University of Illinois at Chicago
Risa
Lauren Goluboff, University of Virginia School of Law
“The Lost
Promise of Civil Rights”
Thomas J.
Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania
“Black
Power, Civil Rights, and Conservatism: The Strange Origins of Community
Economic Development”
Carol E.
Anderson, University of Missouri, Columbia
“Eyes Off
The Prize: The NAACP and Political Liberation Movements in Africa and
Asia”
SESSION IC:
ANTISLAVERY RECONSIDERED: MEANS, ENDS, AND CONSTITUENTS
East Room 304
Moderator:
Scott Marler, University of Memphis
Lois A.
Brown, Mt. Holyoke College
“William
Lloyd Garrison and Emancipatory Feminism in 19th-Century America”
Richard J.
Blackett, Vanderbilt University
“‘And
There Shall Be No More Sea’: William Lloyd Garrison and the
Transatlantic Abolitionist Movement”
Bruce
Laurie, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Putting Politics
In: Rethinking the Problem of Political Abolitionism”
SESSION ID:
RETHINKING THE REAGAN REVOLUTION
Multipurpose Room
Moderator:
Jeffrey Vanke, Independent Scholar
Joseph A.
McCartin, Georgetown University
“The
Public Employee Union Upsurge and the Making of the Reagan Revolution,
1968-1981”
Doug
Rossinow, Metropolitan State University
“The Blind
Men and the Elephant in the Room: On Not Reckoning with Reagan”
Judith
Stein, City College of New York
“Conflict,
Change, and Economic Policy in the 1970s”
10:15-11:45am
[Session IIA has been cancelled]
SESSION IIB: THE
REVOLUTION OF 1860: LINCOLN’S ELECTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES RECONSIDERED
East Room 304
Moderator:
Darryl Hart, Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Nicole
Etcheson, Ball State University
“Redeeming
Indiana: Putnam County in the 1860
Election”
James L.
Huston, Oklahoma State University
“The
Revolution No One Noticed: American Foreign
Diplomacy and the
Results of the 1860 Election”
Frank
Towers, University of Calgary
“Looking
Past the Lower North: Republicans, Natural Rights, and the Election of
1860”
SESSION IIC:
BRIDGING THE MISSISSIPPI: WHAT EASTERN AND WESTERN AMERICAN HISTORY
HAVE TO OFFER EACH OTHER
Banquet Room Salon B
Moderator:
Claudia Haake, La Trobe University
Heather
Cox Richardson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“The
Politics and Economics of the Wounded Knee Massacre”
William
Deverell, University of Southern California
“Redemption
and the Post-Civil War American West”
Bonnie
Lynn-Sherow, Kansas State University
“Indian in
a Bottle”
SESSION IID:
TROPICAL TRANSFORMATIONS: RECONFIGURATION AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN
THREE NEW WORLD EMPIRES AFTER 1763
Multipurpose Room
Moderator:
Joseph Lucas, The Historical Society
John
Garrigus, University of Texas at Arlington
“‘Buccaneers
Became Ballet Masters’: The Emergence of a New Creole Identity in
Saint-Domingue, 1763-1779”
Trevor
Burnard, University of Warwick
“Whiteness
and the Redefinition of Race and Subjecthood in Jamaica in the Context
of an Enlarged British Empire after the Seven Years’ War”
Jordana
Dym, Skidmore College
“Policing
Nueva Guatemala: The Alcaldes de Barrio Controversy, 1778-1821”
12:00-1:45pm LUNCH
Phi Alpha Theta
Luncheon
Private Dinning Room, Nolan’s Cafe
Moderator:
Graydon Tunstall, University of South Florida
Peter
Coclanis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Two
Cheers for Revolution: The Virtues of Regime Change in World
Agriculture”
12:45-1:45pm
Banquet Room Salon B
Douglas
Arnold, Senior Program Officer, NEH Division of Education Programs
“An
Information Session and Workshop on Funding Programs of the NEH”
1:45-3:15pm
SESSION IIIA: THE
POLITICS OF CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY
Banquet Room Salon B
Moderator:
Randall Stephens, The Historical Society
David
Chappell, University of Oklahoma
“Waking
from the Dream: The Battle over Martin
Luther King’s Legacy”
Eric
Arnesen, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Periodizing
and Politics in Civil Rights History: Reconsidering the ‘Long Civil
Rights Movement’”
Daniel L.
Letwin, Pennsylvania State University
“‘A Nettle
of Peculiar Sharpness’: The Social Equality Question in Black Political
Thought”
SESSION IIIB: THE
FRAGMENTATION OF AUTHORITY IN THE ERA OF THE CIVIL WAR
West Room 302
Moderator:
Donald Avery, Harford Community College
H. Robert
Baker, Georgia State University
“Federalism
and the Fugitive Slave Act: The Making and Unmaking of Constitutional
Nationalism”
Owen
Williams, Yale University
“The Fall
of Slavery and the Rise of the Supreme Court”
Daniel W.
Hamilton, Chicago Kent College of Law
“Human
Property and the Constitution: Litigating Slavery After Emancipation”
SESSION IIIC:
RELIGIOUS HISTORY
Multipurpose Room
Moderator:
John Wilson, Books and Culture
James Sack,
University of Illinois at Chicago
“The
19th-Century Conservatives Confront
Anti-Semitism and Race”
Kevin
Schultz, University of Illinois at
Chicago
“Jack-in-the-box
Faith or Something More:
Reflections on the Place of
Religion in American Historiography”
John
Powell, Oklahoma Baptist University
“Gladstone
and the Colonial Church Clause: An Episode in Church-State Relations,
1849-1850”
SESSION IIID: LABOR
AND IMMIGRATION
East Room 304
Moderator:
Scott Marler, University of Memphis
Krystyn R.
Moon, University of Mary Washington
“On a
Temporary Basis? The Emergence of Temporary
Immigrant Categories
in the United States, 1880s-1930s”
Michelle
Mann, Boston University
“The
Question of Foreign Labor in France’s Third
Republic”
Anita M.
Van Til, Michigan State University
“Grassroots
Voluntary Organizations: Aiding Dutch
Immigrants in the
Midwest, 1953-1956”
John F.
Quinn, Salve Regina University
“‘Come Out
of the Councils of the Slaveholders’:
Abolitionist Appeals
to Irish Americans, 1830-1850”
3:30-5:00pm
SESSION IVA:
MIGRATION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
Moderator: Chris Beneke, Bentley College
West Room
302
Rosanne
Marion Adderley, Vanderbilt University
“Revisiting
Questions of African Ethnic Identity in the Americas: Some Data from
the Illegal 19th-Century Slave Trade”
Ismael
García Colón, College of Staten Island, CUNY
“Colonial
Migrants and Nation-State Formation: The Farm Labor Program of the
Government of Puerto Rico, 1950-1970s”
SESSION IVB:
MIGRATIONS
Moderator: Joseph Lucas, The Historical
Society
East Room
304
George
Huppert, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Seaborne
Migration and Renaissance Culture”
Mark
Magnuson, University of Minnesota
“Nationalism,
Citizenship, and Sustaining
International Mobility Among
Swedish-American Return Migrants, 1900-1930.”
SESSION IVC:
AMERICAN IDENTITIES
Multipurpose Room
Donald
Yerxa, The Historical Society
David
Prior, University of South Carolina
“American
Worldviews and American Nationalism: The Cretan Moment in
Reconstruction”
Robert
Holden, Old Dominion University
“Peripheries
at the Center of a Shadow Nation: The
Pivotal Role of
Borderland Violence in Central American History”
Phillip
Dehne, St. Joseph’s College
”Reshaping
British Identity in South America,
1900-1920”
SESSION IVD:
LITERARY HISTORY
Banquet Room Salon B
Moderator:
Randall Stephens, The Historical Society
Anne M.
Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida
“Reconstructing
the Memory of Fractured Families: The Legacy of the Holocaust in
Pogany’s In My Brother’s Image and Mendelsohn’s The Lost”
Bertram
Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida
“The
Ironies of T.E. Lawrence, Reputation, and
British Nationalism”
Ian
Binnington, Allegheny College
“Imagining
the Confederacy: Antebellum Southern
Literary Visions of a
Nationalist Future”
5:15-6:30pm
PLENARY SESSION
Banquet Room Salon C
Moderator:
Linda Salvucci, Trinity University
David
Eltis, Emory University
“The
Disappearance of Coerced Migration in the Very Long Run"
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