NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

A Regional Professional Association for all Historical Specializations Since 1965

 

            SATURDAY                                                                    ENDICOTT COLLEGE

       OCTOBER 25, 2008                                                               BEVERLY, MA

FALL CONFERENCE PROGRAM

All sessions will be held in either the Halle Library or the Wax Academic Center.

 

8:00-8:30 Registration, Continental Breakfast and Book Exhibit: Lobby, Halle Library   

 

FIRST MORNING SESSIONS: 8:30-10:00:

 

Session 1   Pirates and Privateers after the “Golden Age”     Room: Halle 122

Chair: Evan Lampe, Endicott College

  • Jess Parr, University of New Hampshire, “Patriot or Pilferer? Privateers and the Bounds of Republican Virtue in Revolutionary Massachusetts”
  • David Head, SUNY-Buffalo, “The Legal Context of Privateering in the Early American Republic: South American Privateers, Neutrality Violations, Smuggling, Slave Trading, and Piracy, 1810-1820”
  • Sean T. Perrone, Saint Anselm College, “The War on Piracy Gone Awry: The Seizure of the Ninfa Catalana (1823)”
  • Comment: Mark Hanna, College of William and Mary

 

Session 2. The Radical Possibilities of Education    Room: Halle 202

Chair: Elisa Miller, Rhode Island College

  • Anna Cook, Simmons College, “‘I Have Been More or Less Dissatisfied’: The Educational Project in the Oneida Community”
  • Hidetaka Hirota, Boston College, “‘Middling’ People: The Social Profile of the Boston Irish and the Meaning of College Education in the Early Twentieth Century”
  • Cynthia Farr Brown, Lesley University, “Serve and Persist: Edith Lesley Wolfard, Founder of Lesley University”
  • Comment: Luther Spoehr, Brown University

    

Session 3. Writing World History     Room: Halle 204

Chair and Comment: David Northrup, Boston College and Past President, World History Association

  • Alfred Andrea, Professor Emeritus, University of Vermont and General Editor and Era 5 Editor, World History Encyclopedia, “Holy War in World History: A Prolegomenon to Further Research”
  • Wilfred Bisson, Professor Emeritus, Keene State College and Era 4 Editor, World History Encyclopedia, “Population and Environment in World History, 300-1000: A Unifying Theme for Early Medieval World History?”
  • Dane Morrison, Salem State College and Era 6 Editor, World History Encyclopedia, “Go East, Young Man: Early American Diasporas in World History”

                       

Session 4. Native Americans, Christianity, and Identity   Room: Halle 206

Chair: James Wadsworth, Stonehill College

  • Melissane Parm Schrems, St. Lawrence University ,“Preaching to the Converted: Gideon Hawley and the Re-construction of Eighteenth-century Mashpee Identity”
  • Jeremy Dibbell, Massachusetts Historical Society, “John Eliot’s Indian Bible: The Provenance of Certain Surviving Copies”
  • Cheryl Boots, Boston University, “Eighteenth- 5Century Indian Community and the Cultural Work of Protestant Hymns”
  • Comment: Jean Dunlavy, Boston University 

 

           

 

 

 

Session 5.     Women and 20th-Century Politics in Great Britain and the U.S.    Room: Wax 105

Chair:  Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Science

  • Nicole Eaton, Brown University, “Transforming the Landscape of History: Rose Arnold Powell and the Mount Rushmore Memorial”
  • Sarah Wiggins, Bridgewater State College, “Exploring British Politics in Women’s College Debating Societies, 1890-1914”
  • Polly Beals, Southern Connecticut State University, “Womanpower in 1908 and 1968: British Fabian Feminism Across the Generations”

            Comment:  Janet Watson, University of Connecticut

 

 

 

Session 6.      New Directions in the History of Foreign Policy     Room: Wax 106

Chair: Matthew Masur, St. Anselm College

  • Jeffrey Malanson, Boston College, “John Quincy Adams, The Principles of American Foreign Policy, and the Mexican-American War”
  • Aaron Gillette, University of Houston – Downtown, “World War I and the Latin Youth League”
  • Jeffrey Bass, Quinnipiac University, “From the Illustrious to the Ignoble: The Fall of Senator Thomas J. Dodd”
  • Comment:  Daniel Williamson, University of Hartford

 

 

Session 7.  The Boundaries of Slavery and Race in North America     Room: Wax 120

Chair:  Kristen Petersen, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Studies

  • Harvey Whitfield, University of Vermont, “New England Migrations and Slavery in Maritime Canada to 1783”
  • Ian Delahanty, Boston College, “ ‘…So nearly white’: Stephen A. Swails and Black Officers in the 54th Massachusetts”
  • Bethany Jay, Boston College, “Creating a More Inclusive History: The National Park Service, The National Trust for Historic Preservation, and American Slavery”
  • Comment: Kate Clifford Larson, Simmons College

 

            Break for Book Exhibit & Refreshments: 10:00-10:30

 

10:30-Noon Second Morning Sessions

 

Session 8: Students, Soldiers and Exiles – Experiences of the American Revolution   Room: Halle 122

Chair:  Robert Imholt,  Albertus Magnus College

  • J. L. Bell, Editorial Consultant, “Latin School Gentlemen in Revolutionary Times: The Culture of Boston’s South Latin School under the Lovells”
  • Greg Walsh, Boston College, “‘We Want Men, Not Money’: Military Service in Revolutionary Essex County, New Jersey”
  • Emily Iggulden, University of New Hampshire, “America’s Internal Exiles: ‘Disloyal Citizens’ or ‘Illegal Aliens’: The Loyalists and American Citizenship, 1783-1790”
  • Comment:  Jim Leamon, emeritus Bates College

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session 9.      Princes, Parties, and Politics in Germany             Room: Halle 202

Chair:   Melanie Murphy, Emmanuel College

  • Joanne Schneider, Rhode Island College, “Austrian Cannons Have Destroyed the City: A Day in the Life of Prince Bishop Joseph Konrad von Schroffenberg”
  • James Bidwell, Anna Maria College, “Public School Reform and the Bavarian Kulturkampf: The Rise of the Bavarian Patriot Party as the Culmination of Conservative Identity Politics, 1848-1871”
  • Martin Menke, Rivier College, “Underlying Values in Center Party Decision-Making”
  • Comment: Robert Niebuhr, Boston College 

 

 

Session 10. Negotiating in Early North America     Room: Halle 204

Chair:  Susan Oullette, St. Michael’s College

  • Michael Raposa, Stonehill College, “Non-Market Tribute Exchange in the Pre-Contact Southeast”
  • Molly Gallaher, Stonehill College, “Was the ‘French Fur Trade’ Truly French? Native American Origins of the Northeastern Fur Trade”
  • Amy Couto, University of Massachusetts Amherst, “Treaty of Canandaigua: The Political Necessity of Peace”
  • Comment: Liam Riordan, Univ. of Maine Orono

 

 

Session 11.  Ideology and Exclusion    Room: Halle 206

Chair: Noelani Arista, Brandeis University

  • Brian Rouleau, University of Pennsylvania, “’They are much like our own Indians’: Transporting the Idea of North America’s Indigenous Peoples Abroad”
  • Darren McDonald, Boston College, “’The Manifest Purpose of Providence’: George Bancroft, Religion, and the Mexican-American War”
  • Mimi Cowan, Boston College: “ ‘A Fiery Cross Blazed Forth’: The K.K.K. in Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1924”
  • Comment: Jason Opal, Colby College

 

Session 12.    Radicals and Intellectuals in the 19th-century U.S.    Room: Wax 105

Chair: Richard Canedo, The Lincoln School

  • Jonathan G. Koefoed, Boston University, “Bildung and the Republic: Intellectuals and Education in the Life and Thought of James Marsh”
  • Gráinne McEvoy, Boston College, “John Mitchel and The Citizen: Mid-Nineteenth Century Irish Immigration and American Citizenship”
  • Edward C. Rafferty, Boston University, “Cyrenus Osborne Ward and American Radicalism in the Nineteenth Century”
  • Comment: Scott Molloy, University of Rhode Island

 

                       

Session 13.   The Local and the National in Twentieth-Century New England   Room: Wax 106

Chair: Bruce Cohen, Worcester State College

  • Clayton Trutor, Boston College, ” ‘Man Efficiency’: The YMCA and Muscular Christianity in Rural New England, 1880-1920.”
  • Seth Meehan, Boston College, “From Patriotism to Pluralism: How Catholics Initiated the Repeal of Birth Control Restrictions in Massachusetts”
  • John J. Zaborney, University of Maine at Presque Isle, “‘Under the Awesome Shape of a Mushroom Cloud’: Civil Defense in Presque Isle and Northern Maine”

            Comment: Mark Herlihy, Endicott College                             

 

 

 

LUNCHEON: 12:00 – 1:30: College Chapel

             The NEHA Book Award will be presented at the luncheon.

 

PLENARY SESSION:  1:30 – 3:00 p.m.    ----   Little Theatre,  Halle Library Building

 

Vernon Horn, Internet Projects Manager, American Historical Association, “ArchivesWiki:  A First Resource for All Research Projects and All Researchers”

 

3:00     Adjournment

 

NEHA CONFERENCE

ENDICOTT COLLEGE

Beverly, MA

October 25, 2008

 

THE ANNUAL FALL MEETING of the New England Historical Association will be held at Endicott College (emergency contact: 508-922-8631), 376 Hale Street, Beverly, Mass., on Saturday,  Oct. 25, 2008.  The enclosed program was arranged by Vice President Laura Prieto. Local arrangements were planned by Mark Herlihy  and his colleagues  at  Endicott College.

 

PRE-REGISTRATION for this conference is strongly recommended. 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  Oct. 17.  Please feel free to photocopy this form when inviting colleagues, graduate students and friends.

 

REGISTRATION is required for members and non-members who attend the conference, including each panelist.  Registration begins at 8:00 a.m. on the Endicott College campus.  Members are encouraged  to bring copies of their recent publications as well as other relevant professional literature for display.

 

TRAVEL INFORMATION:  From Route 128 North, take Exit 17.  Turn right off the exit ramp and right again after 1.5 miles onto Haskell Street (by the cemetery).  Proceed to the end.  At the stop sign, turn right onto Hale Street (Route 127).  Travel 1.5 miles to Endicott.   From Route 128 South, take exit 17, turn left of the exit ramp, and follow directions as above.  From the Mass. Turnpike, take Exit 14, Weston.  Follow I-95 north to Exit 45, Route 128 north.  Follow directions as above.  

 

 

OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATIONS:  The Inn at Endicott is a first class new facility on the Endicott College campus.  A NEHA discount rate ($159 per night) is available for a limited number of rooms.  Please mention NEHA when making your reservations ( 1-978-867-1800 or 1-866-333-0859).  Please reserve EARLY since October is a busy tourist season north of Boston.  The same advise about reserving early applies for any other northshore hotel which you might be considering for this time of year.

 

LUNCHEON  will be on the Endicott College campus. Presentation of the NEHA Book Award will take place at the luncheon.  You are asked to reserve luncheon in advance since this facilitates meal planning.  We will  not be able to accommodate special dietary requests on the day of the conference.                

 

 

    NEHA FALL MEETING PRE-REGISTRATION

NEHA CONFERENCE                         ENDICOTT COLLEGE

     October 25, 2008                                                  Beverly, Mass.

 

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