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November 17 & 18, 20ll
University at Albany, SUNY
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2011 11:30 AM-4:00 PM ~ Registration & Exhibits University at Albany, Science Library - Barnes & Noble Reading Room SESSION I: 12:15-1:30 PM Abolition Abolitionist Tribulations and Celebrations: The Aftermath of the 1851 Jerry Rescue Dennis Connors, Curator of History "No Mortal Eye Can Penetrate:" Louis Ransom's Commemoration of John Brown Warren F. Broderick, New York State Archives, Emeritus Comment: Amy Murrell Taylor, University at Albany, SUNY Waters and Mountains The Collapse of Central New York Fisheries, 1780-1850 Karim Tiro, Xavier University Apt for an Adventure: How Women Kept Pace With Men to Tackle the Adirondack Forty-Six Jacqueline Mirandola Mullen, University at Albany, SUNY Comment: Denis P. Brennan, Union College Beyond The Factory Investigating Commission The Struggle over Working Women: Progressives, Labor, Business, and the Factory Investigating Commission Ronald Rabidou, University at Albany Beyond Factory Investigating Commission: Building a Reform Coalition in New York, 1911-1928 Robert Chiles, University of Maryland Comment: Jennifer Armiger, University at Albany, SUNY Race and Reform The Albany Open Housing Movement: The Brothers and the NAACP Jessica Anderson, University at Albany, SUNY Taylor vs. New Rochelle Paul Murray with Laura Dugan, Siena College Comment: Oscar Williams, University at Albany, SUNY SESSION II: 1:45 - 3:15 PM At the Crossroads: Identity in Nineteenth Century New York African Colonization in New York City in the Face of Immediate Abolitionism James Towle, Independent Historian Counting the Children: The Inmates of the Thomas Indian School Lindsey McKeever, Siena College George Holcomb's War: Draft Evasion in the War of 1812 Jennifer Hull Dorsey, Siena College Comment: Eric Morser, Skidmore College Surviving and Thriving on the Lower East Side: How a Neighborhood Shaped America Brian Blazak, Pratt Institute Chelsea Dowell, Pratt Institute Felicia Smuts, Pratt Institute Kim Daileader, Pratt Institute Moderator: Edith Bellinghausen, Pratt Institute Cultural Legacies: Mayors of New York City: Legacies New York's Dapper Mayor: The Significance of Dress in Constructing Mayor Jimmy Walker's Political Legacy Emma C. McClendon, The Courtauld Institute of Art Fiorello LaGuardia: Why we Remember What We Remember Robert W. Whalen, Queens University of Charlotte Comment: Lauren Kozakiewicz, University at Albany, SUNY Intersections, Legal and Political Interstate Extradition and Constructive Presence in the United States: New York's Adoption of the Criminal Extradition Act, 1929-1936 Steve McErleane, University at Albany Tammany To The Rescue W. Dennis Duggan, Albany Family Court "Rockefeller Wins: Police Board Out": Winning the 1966 New York Gubernatorial Election Marsha Barrett, Rutgers University Comment: Richard F. Hamm, University at Albany, SUNY Off-Site Sessions Cultural Education Center New York State Museum, Library, and Archives 3:30 PM Transportation will be provided from the University at Albany to the New York State Museum/Cultural Education Center and back. To insure seating, you must reserve a seat; Seating will be available on the day of the Conference, as space permits. A second shuttle will leave at 4:15 PM. The shuttle bus will leave from, and return to, the University at Albany Science Library. If you prefer to drive, parking is free after 3 PM at the Madison Avenue lots, next to the Museum and Cultural Education Center. Additional details will be available in your Conference packets at the registration desk. CONCURRENT SESSIONS: 4:00-5:15 PM 7th Floor Librarian's Room New Netherland - The Tragedy of 1664 "Abandoning the English Conquest Myth: Toward a Better Understanding of New Amsterdam/New York City in an Age of Upheaval" Dennis Maika, New Netherland Research Center Between the Chain and the Crown: Coastal Algonquians after the Conquest of New Netherland Andrew Lipman, Syracuse University The Deterioration of Dutch Women's Rights in Albany after 1664 Kathryn Swimm University at Albany, SUNY Moderator: Eric Ruijssenaars, Scholar in Residence, New Netherland Institute; New Netherland Research Center Huxley Auditorium, 1st floor, New York State Museum The Attica Uprising 40 Years Later: A View from the Museum, Library, and Archives Craig Williams, New York State Museum Mark Wolfe, University at Albany, SUNY Paul Mercer, New York State Library James Folts, New York State Archives New York State Museum 5:30-6:30 Gallery Talks Professionals who were integral in the creation of these exhibits will lead talks in the respective galleries. Reflecting on September 11, 2001 World Trade Center artworks created before and after September 11, 2001. Mark Schaming, Director of Exhibits and Public Programs, New York State Museum From the Collections Collections in history, anthropology, and natural science from the New York State Museum's first 175 years. Jennifer Lemak, Senior Historian, New York State Museum Marking Time: Voyage to Vietnam Graffiti and artifacts from a Vietnam era troopship documenting the feelings and thoughts of soldiers and Marines. Nancy Kelley, Exhibition Planner, New York State Museum 6:30 PM ~ RECEPTION ~ New York State Museum Co-sponsored by the New York State Historical Association & The Farmer's Museum 7:30 PM ~ Clark Auditorium Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
On October 16, 1859, John Brown, leading eighteen men, seized the massive U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, freeing and arming escaped slaves, and vowing to liberate every bondsman in the South. Brown's shock attack sundered the nation and plunged it toward bloody war. Yet few Americans know the true story of this pivotal event and the abolitionist who has been called a hero, a madman, a saint, and a monster.
Horwitz traces Brown's unlikely rise from farm boy to revolutionary. He also introduces the remarkable cast brought together by Brown's magnetism and moral fervor, including his lovelorn teenage daughter, a freed slave desperate to liberate his wife from bondage, a dashing poet who spies inside Virginia, and a Transcendentalist schoolmaster who organizes the "Secret Six" to covertly supply money and guns.
This featured event of the Researching New York Conference is co-sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute and is made possible with the support of the New York State Council for the Humanities.
The shuttle bus will return to the University at Albany immediately following the talk and book signing.
Tony Horwitz FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2011 REGISTRATION & Exhibits coffee, continental breakfast 8:00 AM - 3:30 PM SESSION V: 8:45 - 10:30AM Natural Disaster and Public Policy Aftermath: The Great Easter 1913 Flood in New York State Trudy E. Bell, Independent Scholar The 1950 Hurricane in the Adirondacks: Blowdown, Fire, and Aftermath Hugh O. Canham, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Emeritus "The Blizzard of '77: The Storm that Buried Buffalo, Changed the Political Landscape, and Made Snow a Federal Disaster" Timothy W. Kneeland, Professor of History and Political Science, Nazareth College Comment: Andrew Morris, Union College Places and Faces of Revolutionary New York GIS Mapping Software as an Analytical Tool in Historical Research: A Detailed Look at Charlotte County, New York Justin Clement, University of California-Davis The Tragic Force of the Revolutionary War and Its Consequences on Long Island John G. Staudt, Hofstra University "Every wealthy Dunce is loaded with Honours": William Livingston's Cultural Imperative and the Anglophone Enlightenment in Colonial New York City, 1746-1770 Michael D. Hattem, Yale University Comment: John Howard Smith, Texas A&M University-Commerce New York City: Immigrants and Radicals In Defense of a "Noble Metropolis": The Irish and German Immigrant Response to New York State's Attack on Home Rule in New York City, 1857 Rona Holub, Sarah Lawrence College Fighting for An Ideal: The City College Community in the Spanish Civil War Aleksandr Gelfand, Newman Library, Baruch College New York City's Influence on the Modernist Magazine from 1870-1910 Ellen Rosner Feig, Bergen Community College Comment: Margaret Lynch Brennan, Independent Scholar Urbanization and Upheaval: The Bronx in the Twentieth Century Public Policy and the Shaping of the Bronx, 1934-1968 Matthew J. Foglino, New York City Department of Education Fun City and the Fires: The Bronx, 1966-1977 William Casari, Hostos Community College, CUNY Fort Apache, the Bronx: A New York Narrative and its Legacy Thirty Years Later Matthew Flaherty, Hostos Community College, CUNY Comment: Ivan Steen, University at Albany, SUNY SESSION VI: 10:30 -12:00 noon The Dutch in New York Clinton/Hell's Kitchen, a Manhattan Neighborhood's Origin Mary Brendle, Community Historian Manhattan District #4 Early Modern European March to Asia: The Dutch at New Amsterdam (North America) & Elmina (West Africa) Doris Essah, Independent Scholar Comment: Robert Naborn, University of Pennsylvania Varieties of Education "Coercion, if Coercion Be Necessary": The Educational Function of the New York House of Refuge, 1824-1874 Josie Madison, University at Albany, SUNY A Triumph of Scholarships: The Collaboration between the Baron deHirsch Society and the State Institute of Applied Agriculture at Farmingdale Rhoda Miller, Dowling College Comment: Robin Campbell, Excelsior College/University at Albany, SUNY Cold War New York: Stories and Sources New York State Emergency Management in the Cold War Era Amy Gernon, University at Albany, SUNY Bouquet 556 ~ Alexander Michael and the Preservation and Adaptive Reuse of a New York Cold War Missile Silo Gerald Zahavi, University at Albany, SUNY Civil War - Themes and Variations Defending the Metropolis: The Harbor Defenses of New York City, 1861-1865 Keith Muchowski, New York City College of Technology "New York Remembers the Civil War… Or Does It? Commemorations and Neglected Topics in New York Civil War History" Bruce W. Dearstyne, Comment: Melinda Lawson, Union College 5. 9/11 Before and Beyond The Historical Context of 9/11 Charles B. Strozier John Jay College, CUNY Calamity's Challenges Conquered: Central Synagogue's 1998 Fire Anne Mininberg, Archivist Central Synagogue Moderator: Robert Weible, New York State Historian LUNCH/KEYNOTE 12 NOON ~ Campus Center Ballroom Rescuing and Remembering Attica
Professor Thompson is writing the first comprehensive history of the Attica Prison Rebellion of 1971 and its legacy. To recover this story Thompson has spent the last seven years immersed in legal, state, federal, prison, and personal records related to the Attica uprising and its aftermath (some never-before-seen) located in archives, governmental institutions, and various individual collections around the country and the world. With these varied and rich resources she seeks to recapture the full, dramatic, gripping, multi-faceted, and complex story that was Attica, and hopes to underscore for readers everywhere this event's historical as well as contemporary importance.
Heather Ann Thompson, Temple University SESSION VII: 2:00- 3:30 PM Remembering Crown Heights The Thomas Jefferson High School Shootings, City College Gym Tragedy, and the Stigmatization of Public Education in the "Inner City." Philip Kay, Columbia University "No Country for Old Men" Youth Culture And Violence in Bronwsville, Brooklyn Greg Donaldson, John Jay College, CUNY Twenty Years Hence: Lessons Learned from the 1991 Crown Heights Riots and its Story as told in "Fires in the Mirror" Sharron Greaves, Nyack College Comment: Suzanne Wasserman, Director Gotham Center, CUNY 9/11: Museums Respond Vernacular Shrines at Ground Zero in the Immediate Aftermath Elizabeth Greenspan, Harvard University Collecting and Documenting 9/11: The First Ten Years Amy Weinstein, National September 11 Memorial and Museum History and Healing: Museums as Healing Spaces Carla Sofka, Siena College Union Square Scrolls: A Case Study of a NYS Museum World Trade Center Collection Connie Frisbee Houde, NYS Museum New York in Flames "The Air Was Full of Smoke and Cinders"- Troy's Great Fire of 1862 Stacy Pomeroy Draper, Rensselaer County Historical Society, Troy NY "A Protracted Encounter: Examining 19th Century Fires from a Differing Perspective" Paul G. Schneider, Jr. , Independent Historian From Ashes to Artifacts: Arthur Parker, the Indian Arts Project, and the Legacy of the Great Capitol Fire of 1911 Terry C. Abrams, Western NY Association of Historical Agencies/Tonawanda Reservation Historical Society Comment: Karen Ward Mahar, Siena College Attica After 40 years: Opening the Records and Telling the Full Story Chris Christopher, Filmmaker Gary Craig,Rochester Democrat Chronicle Gary Horton, New York State Defenders Association Dee Quinn Miller, Forgotten Victims of Attica Michael Smith, Forgotten Victims of Attica Moderator: Heather Ann Thompson: Temple University CLOSING PLENARY 4:00 PM ~ Recital Hall ~ Performing Arts Center Frances Perkins: Architect of the New Deal
Frances Perkins, witnessed the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, wrote the state's fire safety code, and helped steer the state industrial commission from 1918-1932 before moving to the national stage. The nation's first female cabinet secretary, her ideas became the cornerstones of the most important social welfare legislation in U.S. history. Today, her name is almost unknown. Downey will explore this woman's remarkable life-and her surprising drop into obscurity.Kirstin Downey This free, public event to mark the 100th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire is is made possible through the New York State Archives Partnership Trust with support from The American Labor Studies Center, CSEA, the Civil Service Employees Association; NYSUT, New York State United Teachers; and PEF, the Public Employees Federation. RECEPTION and book signing immediately following Kirstin Downey's talk. |
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