Conference Program
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Registration & Continental Breakfast 7:45 AM Campus Center Assembly Hall Opening Session and Welcome 8:30 AM Campus Center Ballroom KEYNOTE New York's Al Smith: Creating a Life. ROBERT A. SLAYTON Chapman University Robert Slayton is Chair of the Department of History at Chapman University and the author of the recently published biography of New York Governor Al Smith, Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith. Professor Slayton's talk will focus on his research and on the challenges of writing history and biography. Session I ~ Concurrent Panels 10:30AM - 12:30 PM

New York Culture Frederic Church and the Middle East   Karl Barbir, Siena College The Construction of Skyscrapers in Sidney Kindsley's Dead End   Sami Gorgan Gholam-Reza, University of Sussex Cultural Entrepreneuring in 1930's New York: The Rockefellers, Their Center, and the Identity of American Mass Culture   Margaret Whitehead, The George Washington University The Heroic Age of Moviegoing: New York Movie Culture in the Post-War Era   Raymond J. Haberski, Jr., Marian College Chair and Comment:   Ann Withington, University at Albany, SUNY ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

New Yorkers, Big and Small Historical Characters on the Internet: Community Biography and "The People of Colonial Albany Live Here" Web Site   Stefan Bielinksi, Colonial Albany Social History Project,   New York State Museum Richard Montgomery: A Gentleman Farmer   Michael P. Gabriel, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Researching the Life of Rev. Jedediah Burchard, a Nineteenth-Century Revivalist   Loren A. Broc, University at Albany, SUNY Beau James Reconsidered: Mayor Jimmy Walker's Archives   Burton Peretti, Western Connecticut State University Chair and Comment:   Constantine Gutzman, Western Connecticut State University

Guarding the Public Assigning New Management for the Poor: The 1824 Yates Report and the Institutionalization of Social Welfare Policy in New York and the Nation   R. Jake Sudderth, Columbia University Professionalization of Nursing in New York State: Early 20th Century Struggle   Anne K. Oboyski, University at Albany, SUNY Organizing Environmental Protest: Swill Milk and Social Activism in New York City, 1842-1864   Michael Egan, Washington State University Advertising the Healthy Body: The Bellevue-Yorkville Anti-VD Campaign, 1930   Evan Lampe, University at Albany, SUNY Chair and Comment:   Edythe Ann Quinn, Hartwick College ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `

Nineteenth Century New York Business Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany   Susan Ingalls Lewis, SUNY New Paltz Using Household Account Books to Explore the Marketplace: John Pintard's Consumer Activites in New York City, 1810-1830   Thomas D. Beal, SUNY Oneonta Hudson River Valley Cowboys: The Origins of Modern Livestock Shipping   David S. Rotenstein, The URS Corportion Chair and Comment:   Andrea Foroughi, Union College ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` LUNCH 12:30 pm Campus Center Ballroom Hall ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Session II ~ Concurrent Panels 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Speaking Out Stand Up & Cheer: Rediscovering Public Address as a Source of Local History   Wende V. Feller, University at Albany, SUNY;   Phillip H. Feller, Washington Park Association, Troy, NY Free Speech and Responsible Speech in New York State, 1914-1925   Christopher Capozzola, Middlebury College The Trial of Lee Benson: Communism, White Chauvinism, and the Foundations of the 'New Political History'   Gerald Zahavi, University at Albany, SUNY Chair and Comment:   Richard Polenberg, Cornell University ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `

Contested Spaces Contests Over Land and Space in the Esopus Region of New York, 1660-1680   Holly A. Rine, University of New Hampshire George Klock, the Canajoharie Mohawks, and the Good Ship "Sir William Johnson": Land and Legitimacy in the Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Valley   David L. Preston, College of William and Mary Iroquois Land Transfers: A Historical Overview   Ute Ferrier, University at Binghamton, SUNY Chair and Comment:   Richard L. Haan, Hartwick College ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `

To Arms Research Opportunities for New York State Social, Political, and Military History   Michael Aikey, New York State Military Museum   and Veterans Research Center Collections We Jumped to Arms: The Hawkins' Zouaves   Heather Mitchell, University at Albany, SUNY The First Ten Thousand: War Preparedness and the Plattsburgh Training Camp Movement   Kristen Allen-Hanks, University of Cincinnati Chair and Comment:   Lance Betros, United States Military Academy, West Point ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `

Place and Power in New York A Guaranteed Rate of Return: The Geography of Investment in the Erie Canal   Frank Boscoe The Pennsylvania State University, Portfolios, Proxies, and Power: Geographies of Corporate Ownership of Railroads in New York State   Hank Rademacher, The Pennsylvania State University Local and Outside Capital in the Production of Buffalo Office Buildings   Derek Holdsworth, The Pennsylvania State University Chair and Comment:   Jim Folts, The New York State Archives ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `

Session III ~ Concurrent Panels Friday, 3:30-5:00 PM

Gendered Power Matilda Joslyn Gage, Writing the History of Woman Suffrage   Mary E. Corey, SUNY, Brockport "The First and Only One of Her Race:" Grace P. Campbell, Working With Black Female Offenders, Working for the State, 1910-1929   Cheryl D. Hicks, Williams College Baachantian Maiden Parching for Wine or High Minded Public Administrator: The Career of Jeanne Rumsey Sheppard and the Establishment of the New York State Liquor Authority   Laurie Kozakiewicz, University at Albany, SUNY Chair and Comment:   Lisa Kannenberg, St. Rose College ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `

The Faces of Mental Health The C/S/X Oral History Project   Steven Periard, The C/S/X Oral History Project Lost Souls? Restoring Neglected State Hospital Cemeteries   Darby J. Penney, New York State Office of Mental Health They Took My Angels Away   Gloria Bartowski, New York State Archives Chair and Comment:   Maryrose Eannace, Cazenovia College ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `

Legal Trappings The New York Bar, 1880-1930: Popular Fiction Versus Reality   Molly Guptill, University at Albany, SUNY The End of Immortality: New York State Film Censorship and the Supreme Court, 1952-1954   Laura Wittern-Keller, University at Albany, SUNY The Rat-Faced Woman and the Boo-Hooing Apron Throwers: The Case of Martha Place   Jessie B. Ramey, Sarah Lawrence College Chair and Comment:   Stephen Wasby, University at Albany, SUNY ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `

The Big Ditch The Construction and Structures of the Eastern Sections of the Erie Canal from an Engineering and Archaeological Perspective   Andrew F. Wolfe, Union College Rediscovering the Eastern Terminus of the Erie Canal: An Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Comment   Denis Foley, Union College Chair and Comment:   John J. McEneney, Member, New York State Assembly ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `