THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION            

A Regional Professional Association for all historical Specializations Since 1965

 

Saturday                                                                                                        Salem State College

April 17, 2010                                                                                                 Salem, Massachusetts

SPRING CONFERENCE PROGRAM

All events will be held in Building One, Central Campus, Salem State College. Parking is available outside the building. For a map location go to http://www.salemstate.edu/maps/ Building One is #16. 

8:00­8:30: REGISTRATION and Welcome, Building One Lobby 

MORNING SESSION I: 8:30­ - 10:00 

8:30 Session 1:Roundtable: “What Else Do We Teach When We Teach History?”   Room: CC111

Chair:    Woden Teachout, Union Institute and University/Goddard College

 

Cheryl Boots, Boston University

Paula Emery, U­32 Junior/Senior High School

Rebecca Noel, Plymouth State University

Denise Youngblood, University of Vermont

 

Comment:  The Audience

 

8:30 Session 2: Perspectives on the World Wars                                              Room CC112                         

Chair:  Robert Smith, Worcester State College

 

Karen Goodno, Salem State College, “Vera Brittain: Knight of the First World War”

Charles Grimes, Salem State College, “Thirty­Five Men, a Small City, and The Great War”

Melanie Murphy, Emmanuel College, “Is the Second World War Becoming More Like

             the First World War?”

Comment: Christopher Mauriello, Salem State College

8:30 Session 3:          Chinese Education and Art                                       Room: CC113 

Chair:    Li Li, Salem State College

 

Lian Wang, Yangzhou University, “The Study of Chinese Painting History in the United 

                  States for the Twentieth Century”

Jie Yang, Henan University, “John Dewey’s Influences on Chinese Education”

 

Comment: Julien Farland, Middlesex Community College

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8:30 Session 4: Politics of the 1960s and 1970s                                              Room CC114 

Chair:  Andrew Darien, Salem State College

 

Hanna Clutterbuck, Simmons College, “Tiocfaidh ár lá: Bobby Sands and Irish Republican 

                Ideology”

 

Anna Cook, Simmons College, “‘How to Live?’: The Oregon Extension as a Communal Experiment in Living”

 

Jamie J. Wilson, Salem State College, “‘We are a multi­racial people. We always were.’: Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and Jewish Identity in New York City During the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements”

 

Comment: Andrew Darien, Salem State College

 

8:30 Session 5: Smallpox Inoculation in Revolutionary America: Doctors, Soldiers, and American   Innovation                                                  Room CC236 

Chair: Sara S. Gronim, C. W. Post Campus, Long Island University

 

Ann M. Becker, SUNY Empire State College, “Smallpox, Inoculation, and the Continental Army”

 

Melissa Grafe, Lehigh University, “Building a Medical Practice: Smallpox, Inoculation, and 

      Community, 1775 - ­1783”

Andrew Wehrman, Northwestern University, “In These Infectious Times: The Popular

                  Politics of Inoculation in Revolutionary America”

Comment: Sara S. Gronim, C. W. Post Campus, Long Island University 

8:30 Session 6: Living and Working in Nineteenth-­Century America           Room CC244 

Chair:    Laura Prieto, Simmons College

 

Kimberly S. Alexander, Strawbery Banke Museum, “‘So Dreary an Aspect’: Myra Montgomery’s Haverhill Letters”

George Branigan, Stonehill College, and Alessia Di Censo, Stonehill College, “Bad Girls? 

                  Public Spaces, Private Faces”

Catherine Thompson, University of Connecticut, Storrs, “Economic Exchange, Medical

                  Practice, and the Role of Physicians’ Wives in Early America”

Comment: Nancy Schultz, Salem State College

8:30 Session 7: Race and Gender During the Era of the American Revolution    Room CC237 

Chair:    Sandra S. Young, Boston College

 

Sean Condon, Merrimack College, “Isaac Jackson’s Journey: Maryland Quakers and 

                  Slavery during the American Revolution”

Charlotte A. Haller, Worcester State College, “North Carolina Quakers and the Limits of    Antislavery in the Early Republic”

Jillmarie Murphy, Union College, “Maternal Fathers, or the Power of Sympathy: Phillis

                 Wheatley's Poem 'To His Excellency General Washington'”

 

Comment:  Melanie Gustafson, University of Vermont

 

BREAK FOR BOOK EXHIBITS AND REFRESHMENTS, 10:00 – 10:30

 

                             MORNING SESSION II: 10:30 - ­12:00 

10:30 Session 8: Landscapes and the Built Environment           Room: CC238

Chair: Steven Bedford, Hancock Shaker Village

 

Adam Krakowski, University of Vermont, “Stillness at Last: Preservation of the Built Environment at Sabbathday Lake”

Timothy Melia, University of New Hampshire, “Food for Thought: Water Quality and Fish 

            Ecology in the Merrimack River Since 1980” Tony Penders, University of Maine, Orono, “Ebb and Flow: The Tide of Trees Upon the          Open Plains of Western Canada”

 

Comment: Steven Bedford, Hancock Shaker Village

 

10:30 Session 9: Education and Activism in Early Twentieth­Century America Room CC236 

Chair:    Brooke Orr, Westfield State College

 

Jennifer Cote, Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut, “‘Giving Blossom to a Highly Skilled Profession’: The Creation of Social Work Standards in Early­Twentieth­Century Boston”

Colleen Mahoney, Simmons College, “‘She is a Catholic and Believes in Woman Suffrage’: 

          Conflicts of Identity in the Margaret Brent Suffrage Guild of Boston”

Kelly Marino, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Making a Scene for Suffrage:      Emily Pierson and the Tactics of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association,1910-­1917”

 

Comment:  Brooke Orr, Westfield State College

10:30 Session 10:  Cold WarPolitics in the United States and Mexico        Room CC111 

Chair: Avi Chomsky, Salem State College

 

Andrew Liptak, Norwich University, “Military Roots of Manned Space Flight and the Cold War”

Julia Sloan, Cazenovia College, “Placating the Left by Vilifying the United States: Mexico’s Domestic Foreign Policy, 1959­1979”

Marta Crilly, Simmons College, “Returning to Republican Motherhood: The DAR’s

          Postwar Strategy Against Communism”

 

Comment: Avi Chomsky, Salem State College

 

10:30 Session 11: More than Just Spectacle: Horrors, Fights and Death in France, Britain and America   Room CC112 

Chair: Arianne Chernock, Boston University

 

Jason Cavallari, Boston College, “Performing Deviance: Consumer Spectacle, Deviance, and the 

          Theatre du Grand Guignol in France, 1880­1914”

Adam Chill, Castleton State College, “‘Heroic Females’: Women Boxers in Georgian Britain”

Robert E. Cray, Jr., Montclair State University, “Sabastien Rale, Josiah Winslow, and 

           John Lovewell: Death and Memory in Dummer’s War, 1772­1725”

 

Comment:  Arianne Chernock, Boston University

 

 

 

 

10:30 Session 12: Worlds of Business                                                      Room CC113 

Chair:    Jessica Lepler, University of New Hampshire

 

Ben Feldman, Independent Scholar, “A Rite of Return: Serendipity and Historiography in the Re­     creation of the Life of Henry Knight Dyer (1846 - 1912), President of the Dennison 

         Manufacturing Company”

Laurie Selleck, Cazenovia College, “‘The Far East is Soapless’: Cultural Relativism, American 

         Exceptionalism and the Ford Motor Company’s 1957 Around the World Campaign Tour”

Robert E. Weir, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Marketing Tragedy: Salem   Witches and Tourist Dollars”

Comment:  Jessica Lepler, University of New Hampshire

 

10:30 Session 13: Print Culture and Political Culture in Colonial and Post ­Revolutionary America   Room CC114 

Chair:    Dane Morrison, Salem State College

 

Sean Delaney, Northeastern University, “The Transatlantic Dimension of Mid­-Seventeenth­Century Print Culture”

Charles Heaton, Texas A & M University, “The Final Cut: Scalp Bounties, Culture, and the Evolving View of the Indian Other in Colonial New England”

Kara E. Pierce, University of New Hampshire, “To ‘Tend to the Good of the Community’: The Problem of Eminent Domain in the Post ­Revolutionary Era”

Comment:  James Leamon, Bates College

 

10:30  Session 14: New Perspectives on Wars, Governmentsand State­Making Room CC237 

Chair:    James Bidwell, Anna Maria College

 

Martin Menke, Rivier College, “The German Revolution of 1918 Revisited”

Joshua A. Sooter, Northeastern University, “The Duplicitous Filipino: American Representations of Filipinos during the Filipino­American War”

Robert Niebuhr, Simmons College, “Balkan Partners: Yugoslav-Albanian Relations in  the 

         Early Cold War”

Comment: James Bidwell, Anna Maria College

 

10:30 Session 15: Margaret Fuller and Her “Friends”: Women in the American Renaissance

Chair: Bonnie Anderson, Brooklyn College                                    Room: CC244      

 

Laurie Crumpacker, Simmons College, “Teaching about Margaret Fuller and the American Renaissance in the 21st Century Classroom”

Paula Doress ­Worters, Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center, “Mistress of Herself: Speeches and Letters of Ernestine L. Rose, Early Women’s Rights Leader”

Rosie Rosenzweig, “Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center, “The Relevance of Lydia Maria Childe to 21st Century Feminism”

Kristin Water, Worcester State College, “Swimming Against the Tide: Crossing the

         Curriculum in Women’s Studies”

Comment: The Audience

 

12:00 – 1:30 LUNCHEON with Presidential Address and Business Meeting

Presidential Address by Laura Prieto, Simmons College: “‘Not Even Past’: Place, Memory, and History”

 

1:30 - ­3:00 PLENARY SESSION: Telling Difficult History in Public Places

This plenary session will begin with short presentations by public historians and 

then open up to a discussion between the moderator, panelists, and audience.  

 

Chair: Ranger Chuck Arning, National Park Service, John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor

Participants:

•               James DeWolfe Perry IV, The Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies of Slavery

•               Rae Gould, Department of Anthropology, Connecticut College/Nipmuc Nation 

•               Louis P. Hutchins, Senior Curator/Historian, National Park Service, Witness Tree Project: A Collaboration between the Rhode Island School of Design and the National Park Service

 

Film: “Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North”

 

RECEPTION: 3:00 – 4:00 

4:00 Adjournment

 

Pre-Registration saves money and speeds registration

    NEHA SPRING MEETING PRE-REGISTRATION

NEHA CONFERENCE                         SALEM STATE COLLEGE

      April 17, 2010                                                       Salem, Mass.

 

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[   ]   Member  Pre-Registration    $25.00 by mail           $...................            Please use this form to pay your  2010 dues, even if you do not attend the meeting

[   ]  Non-Member Pre-Registration    $30.00                  $...................      

                                                                                                                           In order to keep our costs

[   ]   Luncheon    $15  per person                                   $...................        low, NEHA does not  bill for dues.                                                                                                                          

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                                                                                                                             Membership is for the calendar year.

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[   ]  Association Fund Donation                                      $..................    Make checks payable in   U. S. Funds. RETURN BY APRIL 10  to:

                                                                                                                     James P. Hanlan,

                                                                                                                     NEHA Executive Secretary

                     TOTAL (U.S. Funds): $……………                                  W. P. I.                                                                                                                                                                                                 Please Note If you prefer a vegetarian luncheon.                         100 Institute Road                                              

Otherwise no dietary restrictions will be assumed.                      Worcester, MA 01609-2280  

          PLEASE DO NOT MAIL AFTER  APRIL 10, as it is unlikely that

          your pre-registration will arrive on time. 

NEHA INVITES PROPOSALS FOR COMPLETE SESSIONS OR FOR INDIVIDUAL PAPERS

 FOR OUR FALL, 2010 CONFERENCE at the University of New England, Biddeford, ME.  SEND PROPOSALS (PAPER TITLE, BRIEF ABSTRACT, SHORT VITA) TO: 

                    MARTIN MENKE  (email: mmenke@rivier.edu)  by   June 15, 2010.

 

 

         NEHA CONFERENCE

                           Salem State College, Salem, MA

                                                            April 17, 2010

 

 

THE ANNUAL SPRING MEETING of the New England Historical Association will be held at Salem State College, 352 Lafayette Street, Salem, Mass., on Saturday, April 17, 2010.  The enclosed program was arranged by Vice President Melanie Gustafson and local arrangements were planned by Professors Dane Morrison and Christopher Mauriello and their colleagues in the History Department at Salem State College.  Emergency contact phone: 508-922-8631.

 

PRE-REGISTRATION saves members money and greatly speeds arrival at the conference. Although registration at the conference is possible, luncheon seating is limited.  The pre-registration form enclosed herewith should be completed and mailed to the executive secretary by April 10.  Please do not mail pre-registrations after April 10, as they may not arrive in time.  Registration will be available on the day of the conference.  Please feel free to photocopy the program and registration material to share with students and colleagues.

 

REGISTRATION is required for members and non-members who attend the conference, including each panelist.  Registration begins at 8:00 a.m.  All sessions will be held in Building One, Central Campus.  Members are encouraged to bring copies of their recent publications as well as other relevant professional literature for display.

 

TRAVEL INFORMATION: Custom driving instructions are available on the Salem State College website:  http://www.salemstate.edu/maps/directions.php.  Choose “Central Campus” as your destination.  Building One, where we will meet, is #16 on the campus map.

 

OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATIONS: Overnight accommodations are available at a NEHA rate from the historic Hawthorne Hotel in downtown Salem.  The rate is $111 per night for reservations made BY MARCH 25.  For those wishing to extend their stay, the Hawthorne will offer this rate for the entire weekend.  Parking is available immediately behind the hotel.  Phone reservations: 978-825-4311.  Internet reservations: http://www.hawthornehotel.com.  Go to the RESERVATIONS page and, when prompted, type in the NEHA Promotional Code:  SSCNEHA04.  The promotional rate of $111 will apply.

 

LUNCHEON  will be on the Salem State College campus.  Please indicate any special dietary restrictions on the reservation form.  Luncheon tickets may be available on the day of the conference, but no special dietary requests can be honored at that time.   Election of new NEHA officers will take place at the luncheon.  Members unable to attend the meeting or the luncheon should contact the Executive Secretary well in advance for an absentee ballot or request an absentee ballot at the Registration table. Members are asked to reserve luncheon in advance since this facilitates meal planning. 

 

                   Please pre-register by mail if possible: this will speed arrival & registration.