The program for the 2010 History Society conference--"Historical Inquiry in the New Century"
June 3-5, 2010, Marvin Center, George Washington University, Washington, DC--is now on-line. Participants will address a wide range of questions and issues, including: Where
do particular fields now stand? What are the truly “big questions” historians face, and are we adequately grappling with them? How do we think historical inquiry will change in the 21st century?The three-day meeting includes the following plenaries:
Thursday, 7:30-9:00pm
Peter Coclanis, University of North Carolina, “Lee’s Lieutenants: The American South in Global Context”
Friday, 7:30-9:00pm
Christopher Lasch Lecture: Adam Hochschild, “How History Looks Different Over Time: The Case of the First World War”
Saturday, 7:30-9:00pm
Michael Barone, American Enterprise Institute, “The Enduring Character of America’s Political Parties in Times of Continual Change”
Comment: Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
Comment: Leo Ribuffo, George Washington University
Peter Coclanis, University of North Carolina, “Lee’s Lieutenants: The American South in Global Context”
Friday, 7:30-9:00pm
Christopher Lasch Lecture: Adam Hochschild, “How History Looks Different Over Time: The Case of the First World War”
Saturday, 7:30-9:00pm
Michael Barone, American Enterprise Institute, “The Enduring Character of America’s Political Parties in Times of Continual Change”
Comment: Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
Comment: Leo Ribuffo, George Washington University
A sampling of sessions:
Thursday, 2:45-4:15pm
Session IID: DOES IT TAKE A SMALL WINDOW TO SEE THE BIG PICTURE?
Chair: Melvin Patrick Ely, College of William and Mary
Melvin Patrick Ely
"What Reviewers Should Have Criticized about Israel on the Appomattox, But Didn't"
Nancy A. Hillman, College of William and Mary, "Drawn Together, Drawn Apart: Biracial Fellowship and Black Leadership in Virginia Baptist Churches Before and After Nat Turner"
Jennifer R. Loux, Library of Virginia, "How Proslavery Southerners Became Emancipationists: Slavery and Regional Identity in Frederick County, Maryland"
Ted Maris-Wolf, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
"Self-Enslavement in Virginia, 1856-1864: How Two Free Black Men Shaped a Law That Fueled the National Debate Over Slavery"
Comment: Melvin Patrick Ely
Friday, 10:15-11:45am
Session IID: THE WESTERN ASCENDANCY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: NEW INTERPRETATIONS
Chair: TBA
George Huppert, University of Illinois at Chicago, "What Can Be Learned from the Diary of a 17th-Century Merchant?"
John M. Headley, University of North Carolina, “On Constructing a Global Context for American History”
Ricardo Duchesne, University of New Brunswick,"On the Primordial Origins of Europe's Unique Restlessness: A Preliminary Discussion"
Friday, 1:00-2:30pm
Session IIIA: STATE OF THE FIELD: AMERICAN LABOR HISTORY
Chair: Grace Palladino, The Samuel Gompers Papers, University of Maryland
Leon Fink, University of Illinois at Chicago, "The Great Escape: How LABOR Has Met the Challenge of Hard Times"
Donna T. Haverty-Stacke, Hunter College, CUNY, "Rethinking U.S. Labor History: Thoughts on the Recent Past and Future of the Field"
Melvyn Dubofsky, Binghamton University, "The Ugly Secret of U.S. History"
Ronald Schatz, Wesleyan University, "What's Wrong with U.S. Labor History"
Friday, 2:45-4:15pm
Session IVA: STATE OF THE FIELD: TWENTIETH-CENTURY AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY
Chair: TBA
Daniel Letwin, Pennsylvania State University, "Black Political Thought in the Age of the New Negro"
Carol Anderson, Emory University, "Freedom Fighters on the Cold War Plantation: The Histories of African Americans' Anticolonialism"
Mary Ellen Curtin, University of Essex, "Race, Gender, and American Politics since 1965"
Friday, 2:45-4:15pm
Session IVC: COMPARATIVE WAYS OF WAR
Chair: James Carafano, Heritage Institute
Robert Citino, University of North Texas, “The German Way of War Revisited”
Brian McAllister Linn, Texas A&M University, “Reflections on the American Way of War”
Peter Lorge, Vanderbilt University, “The Many Ways of Chinese Warfare”
Ralph R. Menning, Kent State University-Stark Campus, “Recent Trends in the Historiography of the Origins of World War I”
Comment: James Carafano
Saturday, 10:15-11:45am
Session IIE: INVESTING IN HISTORY’S VALUE: THE EVOLUTION OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Chair: Mark M. Smith, University of South Carolina
Wilfred McClay, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Pamela Edwards, Jack Miller Center
Tad Brown, Watson Brown Foundation
Jack Womack, Harvard University
Heather Cox Richardson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Saturday, 2:45-4:15pm
Session IVA: RETHINKING THE COLD WAR AT HOME
Chair: Eric Arnesen, George Washington University
Richard Fried, University of Illinois at Chicago, “McCarthy and ‘the 50s’: Friends or Foes”
Jennifer Delton, Skidmore College, “The Cold War as the Triumph of New Deal Liberalism”
Eric Arnesen, George Washington University, “The ‘Opportunites Lost’ Thesis Reconsidered: What, Precisely, Did the Demise of the Communist Left Mean for Civil Rights in America?”
Saturday, 4:30-6:00pm
Session VB: HISTORY DEPARTMENTS AND THE PROBLEM OF HISTORICAL GENERATIONS
Chair: Katrin Schultheiss, George Washington University
William Palmer, Marshall University
“Historical Generations and Changes in History Departments”
James M. Banner, Jr., National History Center
"My Generation of Historians"
John Harvey, St. Cloud State University
"The Rise of Modern Europe and the American Idealization of European Civilization, 1928 to 1986"
Comment: Howard Segal, University of Maine
Session IID: DOES IT TAKE A SMALL WINDOW TO SEE THE BIG PICTURE?
Chair: Melvin Patrick Ely, College of William and Mary
Melvin Patrick Ely
"What Reviewers Should Have Criticized about Israel on the Appomattox, But Didn't"
Nancy A. Hillman, College of William and Mary, "Drawn Together, Drawn Apart: Biracial Fellowship and Black Leadership in Virginia Baptist Churches Before and After Nat Turner"
Jennifer R. Loux, Library of Virginia, "How Proslavery Southerners Became Emancipationists: Slavery and Regional Identity in Frederick County, Maryland"
Ted Maris-Wolf, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
"Self-Enslavement in Virginia, 1856-1864: How Two Free Black Men Shaped a Law That Fueled the National Debate Over Slavery"
Comment: Melvin Patrick Ely
Friday, 10:15-11:45am
Session IID: THE WESTERN ASCENDANCY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: NEW INTERPRETATIONS
Chair: TBA
George Huppert, University of Illinois at Chicago, "What Can Be Learned from the Diary of a 17th-Century Merchant?"
John M. Headley, University of North Carolina, “On Constructing a Global Context for American History”
Ricardo Duchesne, University of New Brunswick,"On the Primordial Origins of Europe's Unique Restlessness: A Preliminary Discussion"
Friday, 1:00-2:30pm
Session IIIA: STATE OF THE FIELD: AMERICAN LABOR HISTORY
Chair: Grace Palladino, The Samuel Gompers Papers, University of Maryland
Leon Fink, University of Illinois at Chicago, "The Great Escape: How LABOR Has Met the Challenge of Hard Times"
Donna T. Haverty-Stacke, Hunter College, CUNY, "Rethinking U.S. Labor History: Thoughts on the Recent Past and Future of the Field"
Melvyn Dubofsky, Binghamton University, "The Ugly Secret of U.S. History"
Ronald Schatz, Wesleyan University, "What's Wrong with U.S. Labor History"
Friday, 2:45-4:15pm
Session IVA: STATE OF THE FIELD: TWENTIETH-CENTURY AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY
Chair: TBA
Daniel Letwin, Pennsylvania State University, "Black Political Thought in the Age of the New Negro"
Carol Anderson, Emory University, "Freedom Fighters on the Cold War Plantation: The Histories of African Americans' Anticolonialism"
Mary Ellen Curtin, University of Essex, "Race, Gender, and American Politics since 1965"
Friday, 2:45-4:15pm
Session IVC: COMPARATIVE WAYS OF WAR
Chair: James Carafano, Heritage Institute
Robert Citino, University of North Texas, “The German Way of War Revisited”
Brian McAllister Linn, Texas A&M University, “Reflections on the American Way of War”
Peter Lorge, Vanderbilt University, “The Many Ways of Chinese Warfare”
Ralph R. Menning, Kent State University-Stark Campus, “Recent Trends in the Historiography of the Origins of World War I”
Comment: James Carafano
Saturday, 10:15-11:45am
Session IIE: INVESTING IN HISTORY’S VALUE: THE EVOLUTION OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Chair: Mark M. Smith, University of South Carolina
Wilfred McClay, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Pamela Edwards, Jack Miller Center
Tad Brown, Watson Brown Foundation
Jack Womack, Harvard University
Heather Cox Richardson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Saturday, 2:45-4:15pm
Session IVA: RETHINKING THE COLD WAR AT HOME
Chair: Eric Arnesen, George Washington University
Richard Fried, University of Illinois at Chicago, “McCarthy and ‘the 50s’: Friends or Foes”
Jennifer Delton, Skidmore College, “The Cold War as the Triumph of New Deal Liberalism”
Eric Arnesen, George Washington University, “The ‘Opportunites Lost’ Thesis Reconsidered: What, Precisely, Did the Demise of the Communist Left Mean for Civil Rights in America?”
Saturday, 4:30-6:00pm
Session VB: HISTORY DEPARTMENTS AND THE PROBLEM OF HISTORICAL GENERATIONS
Chair: Katrin Schultheiss, George Washington University
William Palmer, Marshall University
“Historical Generations and Changes in History Departments”
James M. Banner, Jr., National History Center
"My Generation of Historians"
John Harvey, St. Cloud State University
"The Rise of Modern Europe and the American Idealization of European Civilization, 1928 to 1986"
Comment: Howard Segal, University of Maine
Early registration and hotel information is available here.
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