Sessions Thursday Thursday, April 19 3:30 pm, Cont. Roundtable: The Revolution in American Life Sarah Purcell, Grinnell College The Founding Syndrome: Rhetoric and Reality in the Revolutionary Era and Beyond Michael McDonnell, University of Sydney Peace Reformers and the Specter of the Revolution Carolyn Eastman, Virginia Commonwealth University Old Fashioned “Tea Parties”: Nineteenth-Century Parodies of the Revolution Frances Clarke, University of Sydney Containing the Contradictions: The Revolution Remembered 1890 – 1945 Clare Corbould, Monash University M oderator :
Remembering
the Revolution: Individual and Collective Memories in the Twentieth Century Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Researching Capitalism and Democracy in the American Global Twentieth Century Fraser Ottanelli, University of South Florida • Stephen Brier, City University of New York Graduate Center • Elizabeth Esch, Barnard College–Columbia University • Ferdinando Fasce, University of Genoa • Elizabeth Zanoni, University of Minnesota M oderator :
African American Workers throughout the Long Civil Rights Movement: Political Action, Trade Unionism, and Urban Space David Hamilton Golland, Governors State University Constructing Equal Employment Opportunity: Arthur Fletcher and the Philadelphia Plan, 1969 – 1971 David Hamilton Golland “A Decent Living”: African American Women’s Labor Activism, Urban Politics, and the Early Civil Rights Movement in St. Louis, 1930 – 51 Keona K. Ervin, Luther College Ben Gross and UAW Local 560: How the Civil Rights Movement and Labor Movement Intersected into Black Liberation Politics in Postwar Silicon Valley, 1945 – 1968 Herbert G. Ruffin II, Syracuse University C ommentator : Jefferson Cowie, Cornell University S p o n s o r e d b y t h e L a b o r a n d Wo r k i n g - C l a s s H i s t o r y Association C hair :
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At the Crossroads: Joe Trotter, the Syntheses of African American, Urban, Public, and Labor Histories Liesl Miller Orenic, Dominican University Eric Fure-Slocum, St. Olaf College Karen Gibson, Portland State University Earl Lewis, Emory University Robin Muhammad, Ohio University S p o n s o r e d b y t h e L a b o r a n d Wo r k i n g - C l a s s H i s t o r y Association C hair : • • • •
Roundtable: The Warfare State since the Vietnam War M oderator : Corey Robin, Brooklyn College and City College of New York Graduate School • • •
Michael J. Allen, Northwestern University Beth Bailey, Temple University Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University
Balancing Power, People, and Place in the Pacific Northwest: Studies of Three Hydroelectric Dams in Washington State Paul Sadin, Historical Research Associates, Inc. Balancing Power on the Elwha River: What a Difference a Century Makes Paul Sadin Making the Private Public: Traditional and Nontraditional Strategies for Disseminating the Unique History of the Snoqualmie Falls Hydroelectric Redevelopment Project Elizabeth Dubreuil, Puget Sound Energy, Inc. Managing History at the Cushman Hydroelectric Project Heather Lee Miller, Historical Research Associates, Inc. C hair :
Closing Up Shop: Strategies for Partners and Communities When Historic Sites Close Chuck Arning, Blackstone / National Park Service • B ob Beatty, American Association for State and Local History • B ruce Beesley, Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites • B arbara Franco, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission • S heila Kirschbaum, Tsongas Industry History Center C hair :
Roundtable: New Perspectives on Antislavery and Abolitionism M oderator :
Bruce Laurie, University of Massachusetts Amherst • Seymour Drescher, University of Pittsburgh • Jonathan Earle, University of Kansas • G raham Hodges, Colgate University • Julie Roy Jeffrey, Goucher College • Manisha Sinha, University of Massachusetts S p o n s o r e d b y t h e L a b o r a n d Wo r k i n g - C l a s s H i s t o r y Association