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Preliminary Conference
Program
Last updated 11-3-2003. Please contact us at resrchny@albany.edu with any questions, corrections, or comments.
Thursday,
November 20th
Registration: 12:30 - 5:30 PM
Campus Center Assembly Hall
Session I ~ Concurrent Panels
1:30-3:15
pm
Radical New York
No Gods, No Masters: The Development of Feminist Freethought in New York City's Radical Public Sphere, 1890-1917
Rachel Scharfman, New York University
The Rand School of Social Science and Cultural Socialism in New York City, 1917-1923
Thomas Wirth, Villanova University
In Time People Will See We're Right: The Rise of Liberal Anti-Communism in Cold War New York, 1944-1949
Dan Link, New York University
Chair and Comment: Lawrence Wittner, University at Albany, SUNY
Money Matters
Empire of Madness: The Beginnings of New York's Insane Asylums
Brad Edmondson, Independent Scholar
The Birth and Early Death of a Faith Based Initiative: St. Peter's School 1971-1979
Eve P. Smith, University of Windsor
The History of the New York State Lottery
Randy Bobbitt, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Chair and Comment: Charlotte Brooks, University at Albany, SUNY
Southern Connections
New York's Appalachia: How Did New York Become Part of the Appalachian Regional Commission
Penny Messinger, Daemen College
Monster Mass Meeting of the Ocean and Other Countries: Ritual, Rhetoric and Reporting in the Presidential Election of 1856
Alice McShane, University at Albany, SUNY
Colleges
Chair and Comment:Bruce Eelman, Siena College
Break
3:15
PM
Session II~Concurrent Panels
3:30-5:15 pm
African American Social Activism: Rochester, New York 1930-1990
The Persistent Voice of Howard Wilson Coles
Kathleen Casey, University of Rochester
The Howard Wilson Coles Modern Manuscript Collection
Leatrice Kemp, Rochester Museum and Science Center
'Two Worlds in Parallel:'Carver House--The African American Response, 1943-1945
Beverly Demma, SUNY Brockport
Chair and Comment: Larry Hudson, University of Rochester/Frederick Douglass Institute
Crime, Popular Culture and Society in New York City
The Spectacle of the Gallows: Public Punishment and Popular Culture in New York City, 1646 to 1832
Thomas D. Beal, SUNY Oneonta
'Wandering Objects of Vice and Disgust:' Prostitution and Destitution in New York City, 1835-1840
Karen M. Green, Cooperstown Graduate Program in Museum Studies
Was He a Man or a Monster? Merchandising Murder in the Nineteenth Century Popular Press
Melissa McAfee, New York State Historical Association
Chair and Comment:
Richard F. Hamm, University at Albany
Facing History: New York Lives
Middle-Class Aging in Early 19th Century New York--Supreme Court Justices, in Retirement, 1798-1823
Don Roper, SUNY New Paltz
Remembering Those Who Served
Wayne Mahood, SUNY Geneseo
Play Soldier, Real Martyr: Colonel Elmer Ellsworth
Ann Prentice, Siena College
Chair and Comment:
Bridgett Williams-Searle, College of St. Rose
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University at Albany
Standish Room, 3rd floor, Science Library
6:00 PM
Reception/Light Supper
7:00 PM
Film Screening
The Life and Times of Rockwell Kent
Frederick Lewis
Ohio University
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Friday, November 21st
Registration & Continental Breakfast: 7:45 AM Campus Center Assembly Hall
Session III~Concurrent Panels
8:30-10:15 AM
Money Getting in New York: Researching Micro Businesses
City of Women (Revisited and Revised)
Susan Yohn, Hofstra University
Pushing, Go-Ahead New Yorkers: Researching White-Collar Strivers and Very, Very Small Business Owners in Nineteenth-Century Brooklyn
Jocelyn Wills, Brooklyn College
The Business of Art, Political Networks & Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century City
Barbara Balliet, Rutgers University
Chair and Comment: Susan Ingalls Lewis, SUNY New Paltz
Iroquoia
An Odyssey Among the Iroquois: A History of the Tutelo in New York
Jay Hansford C. Vest, University of North Carolina, Pembroke
Natives and Alcohol in Seventeenth-Century New York
Roger Carpenter, Mt. Holyoke College
Cornell University and the Iroquois
Jane Mt. Pleasant, Cornell University
Chair and Comment:
George Hammel, New York State Museum
Envisioning the Landscape: Public Places~Public Spaces
The Hard-climbing Trail: Empire State Places and Events in the works of E.T. Seton
Kathleen Marie Connor, University of Ottawa, Canada
A Medieval Tower in a New World Landscape: Kingfisher Tower and Otsego Lakes
Kerry Dean Carso
My Heart's in the Small Lands: Touring the Miniature Metropolis in the Museum
Blagovesta Momchedjikova, New York University Chair and Comment:
Robert Snyder, Rutgers University
Break
10:15 AM
Session IV~Concurrent Panels
10:30 AM - Noon
New York State and the Untidy Story of Woman's Rights
Writing a Movement: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and the Creation of Historical Memory
Lisa Tetrault, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Citizens of the State of New York: Six Women and Political Identity in Jefferson County
Lori Ginzberg, Pennsylvania State University
Chair and Comment: Alison Parker, SUNY Brockport
Placing the Past
Place Matters and Historic Preservation on the Web
Marci Reavan, City Lore
At the Virtual Corner of Broadway and Ann Street: The Lost Museum Project
Ellen Noonan, City University of New York
Chair and Comment:
Suzanne Wasserman, City University of New York
Colonial New York
The Albany Plan of Union: Shattering the Franklinian and Iroquoian Myths
Robert Messia, University at Albany, SUNY
Transatlantic Slave Trade in New York, circa 1682-1774: A Case Study of a Minor Port
Guillaume R. Martin, Queen's University
Chair and Comment: Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project
New York State Museum
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Lunch and Keynote
12 NOON
Ballroom, 2nd floor, Campus Center
One False Assumption [About the Iroquois Indians]
and Logic Does the Rest
Laurence Hauptman
Distinguished University
Professor, SUNY New Paltz
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Session V~Concurrent
Panels
1:30-3:00 PM
Looking Behind the La Guardia Myth
Cactus Flower: Western Ideology and the Making of Fiorello La Guardia
Mary Greenfield, La Guardia and Wagner Archives
Tinhorn Gamblers, Chiselers, and Imbroglioni: Fiorello La Guardia's Anti-Gambling Crusade
Jennifer E. Steenshorne, La Guardia and Wagner Archives
Chair and Comment: Tod Ottman, Encyclopedia of New York State
Race, Reconstruction, and Women's Rights in New York
Freedmen's Aid and Women's Rights in Rochester, 1862-1869"
Carol Faulkner, SUNY Geneseo
P.S. -- Miss Louisa Jacobs has Arrived in this Country: An African-American Woman on the 1867 Equal Rights Tour of Upstate New York
Kate Culkin, Pace University
Chair and Comment:
Judith Wellman, Historical New York Research Associates
Teaching New York
The Legacies Project: A Document-Based Resource for Teachers
Deb Escobar, Independent Scholar
Building the Erie Canal, One Pixel at a Time: Web Development for the Elementary and Middle School Classroom
Jane Ladouceur, The College of St. Rose
Chair and Comment: Thomas Mackey, University at Albany, SUNY
Break
3:00 PM
Session VI ~Concurrent Panels
3:15 - 5:00 PM
Local Historians as a Resource for New York History:
A Roundtable Discussion
John Bonafide, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation; Town of New Baltimore Historian
Paul J. Loatman, Jr., City of Mechanicville Historian
John L. Scherer, New York State Museum; Town of Clifton Park Historian
Marilyn J. Van Dyke, Warren County Historical Society; Town of Queensbury Historian
Chair: Ivan Steen, University at Albany, SUNY
Youth: Challenges and Social Change
The National Youth Administration in New York: Salvation or Destruction
Britt Haas, University at Albany, SUNY
The Menace of Narcotics to the Children of New York: The Role of New York in the First Postwar Heroin Epidemic
Nancy Campbell, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Out in the Valley: The Gay Liberation Movement in the Genesee Valley, 1968-1974
Mary Buggie-Hunt, SUNY Brockport
Chair and Comment: Andrew Morris, Union College
Working New York: Race and Gender
African American Fire Fighters and the Struggle for Racial Equality in the FDNY
David Goldberg, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Business and Professional Women's Club of New York State: Elite-Sustained Feminism in the Post-WWII Period
Jennifer Van Ness, University at Albany, SUNY
"I'm Going to Send an A-6 Over Your Factory and Bomb It:" Masculinity and Corporate Culture in Post-War New York
Stephen Patnode, Stonybrook University, SUNY
Chair and Comment: Richard Greenwald, United States Merchant Marine Academy
Religious Foundations
Speculations on the Genealogy of Deism in New York, 1700-1850"
Thomas Baker, SUNY Potsdam
Lucinda Pendleton Morgan Harris Smith and the Masonic-Mormon Nexus
Jim Cocola, University of Virginia
No Queens, No Elections in Albany: Re-Reviewing Pinkster and the King 1790-1811
Kevin Morgan, University at Albany, SUNY
Chair and Comment: Harvey Strum, Sage Colleges
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RECEPTION
Campus Center,
Fireside Lounge
5:00
PM
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