Preliminary Program

indicates panels to be held in conjunction with the Albany Heritage Program.

Thursday, November 21

Registration: 12:00 noon, Campus Center

Session I ~ Concurrent Panels
1:00-3:00 pm

Cultural Politics
The Empire State Building: New York and the Politics of Architecture
Benjamin Flowers, University of Minnesota

Uptown vs. Ultra Conservative: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., George S. Schuyler, and the Presidential Election of 1964
Oscar Williams, University at Albany

Shopping for Recovery: Community Responses to the Great Depression in Buffalo and Rochester
Sarah Elvins, University of Notre Dame

Chair and Comment:
Karen Mahar, Siena College

Destruction of the World Trade Center: Historians' Perspectives
The World Trade Center Before September 11
Anthony W. Robins, Writer & Historian

Personal and Urban Identities in Crisis: The Events of September 11 and New York City
Robert W. Snyder, Rutgers University

Documenting a Tragedy: The Response of Historians and Archivists
Robert C. Morris, National Archives

Patriotism and Mourning: The Buttons and Ephemera of the World Trade Center Disaster
Daniel Soyer, Fordham University

Chair and Comment:
Peter Eisenstadt, Encyclopedia of New York State

"Public" Education
Trouble at West Point: The Stormy Tenure of George Baron, Teacher of Mathematics
Thomas N. Baker, SUNY-Potsdam

Regulating Racism: Americanism, Identity Politics, and the Battle for Film Censorship in New York State
Mark Lynn Anderson, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Defending Our Community: Rural School Centralization in New York State
Joseph Balducci, University at Albany

Chair and Comment:
Kevin Sheets, SUNY-Cortland

Session II~Concurrent Panels
3:15-5:15 pm
African Americans in 20th-Century Albany
Clubwomen in the Capital District, 1920-1940
Lillian Williams, University at Buffalo

The Education of Black Children in Albany: The Wilberforce School, 1850-1866
Marion Hughes, Independent Scholar

Rage Against the Machine: Community Action, Vote Buying, and the Brothers in Albany, 1964-1967
Brian Keough, University at Albany

Chair and Comment:
Allen Ballard, University at Albany

Buffalo's 1901 Pan-American Exposition: Librarians' Perspectives
Food and Drink at the Pan-American Exposition
Brenda L. Battleson and Charles A. D'Aniello, University at Buffalo

Researching the Music at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901
Raya Lee Then, Buffalo & Erie County Public Library

Immigrant Communities of Buffalo and the 1901 Pan-American Exposition
Jean Dickson, University at Buffalo

Pot of Gold in the Rainbow City: Out of the Stacks and Into the Public Eye
Kathleen M. DeLaney, University at Buffalo

Chair and Comment:
Kathleen M. DeLaney, University at Buffalo

Creating and Sustaining Communities
"Keep Up Good Courage": Sub-Marginal Farming in Upstate New York, 1850-1940
Christine Ridarsky DiVeronica, University of Rochester

Creating a Middle-Class Community and Redefining a Manhattan Neighborhood: The Story of New York's ILGWU Cooperative Houses
Emily Straus, Brandeis University

The 15th New York National Guard and the Emergence of Harlem: A Case Study of Military Participation and the Quest for Community and Citizenship
Jeffrey T. Sammons, New York University

Chair and Comment:
Robert Dykstra, University at Albany, Emeritus

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University at Albany
Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

5:30 PM
Reception

7:00 PM

Transforming Albany:
The Rockefeller Years

Joseph E. Persico

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Friday, November 22
Registration: 7:45 AM Campus Center

Session III~Concurrent Panels
8:30-10:15 AM
Albany From the Ground Up: A Roundtable
Getting the Job Done: Construction, Builders, & Materials in Albany, 1755-1765
Walter Richard Wheeler, Hartgen Archaeological Associates, Inc.

Albany, Archeology, and the French and Indian War
Matthew Kirk, Hartgen Archaeological Associates, Inc.

"There Goes the Neighborhood:" Changing Patterns of Consumption and Class on Two City Blocks, Albany 1740-1860
David F. Klinge, Hartgen Archaeological Associates, Inc.

"Not From Caprice or Ostentation:" The History and Archaeology of the Original
Albany Female Academy
Kevin L. Moody, Hartgen Archaeological Associates, Inc.

Demands for Social Justice, 1918-1999
Native Americans and Social Justice in New York
Ute R. Ferrier, Ithaca College

Social Justice Feminism in New York,1918-1933
John T. McGuire, SUNY at Oneonta

The Home Front in World War II: Sidney, New York, 1941-1945
David S. Richards, Binghamton University

Chair and Comment:
Thomas D. Beal, SUNY at Oneonta

Teaching New York: A Roundtable
Archeology and the Excluded Past
LouAnn Wurst, SUNY Brockport

The Perils and Possibilities of Teaching History in Elementary Schools
Susan R. Novinger, SUNY Brockport

New York History: The Power of Place
Mary E. Corey, SUNY Brockport

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A Talk and Special Music Performance
10:30-11:45 AM

Music in the New York State Library Special Collections: The Bleecker Musical Binders

Ann-Marie Barker Schwartz
with the Musicians of Ma'alwyck

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Lunch
12 noon
Campus Center Ballroom

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Session IV~Concurrent Panels
1:15-3:00 PM
Giving Voice to the Voiceless
Poor, Destitute, and Legally Entitled: The Paupers of Albany, New York, 1785-1800
Tricia Barbagallo, Colonial Albany Social History Project

The Citizens United Reform Movement and the Albany Mayoral Election of 1961
Joseph L. Anastasio, University at Albany

Protesting Apartheid in Albany: The 1981 Springboks Rugby Tour
John Warren, University at Albany

Chair and Comment:
Andrew Lewis, Harvard University

Writing Lives
Researching the Life of Captain James Raine-Crown Point Lighthouse Keeper 1860-1886 and the Application of History to the Biographical Novel
Karen Buffet-Smith, College of St. Rose

A Family of Strangers: Ethnicity and Scottish Identity in the Early Mohawk Valley
Kathryn A. Clippinger, Cornell University

The Problem of Personal Identity in Immigrant Letters: The Personal Correspondence Between Mary Ann Archbald of Auriesville, New York
and Margaret Wodrow of Stevenston, Scotland, 1807-1840
David A. Gerber, University at Buffalo

Chair and Comment:
Amy Murrell, University at Albany

Into the Archives
Researching Mark Twain in New York"
Jane McCone, Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies

Gold Coast to Genetics: Documenting the History of Molecular Biology at the Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory
Cara Brick and Teresa Kruger, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

The Archival Resource That Nearly Wasn't: The Obsequies of Abraham Lincoln in the City of New York
Thomas C. McCarthy, New York Corrections Society

Chair and Comment:
Jim Folts, New York State Archives

Session V~Concurrent Panels
3:15-5:00 PM
The Great Basin and the Erie Canal
The Albany Basin
Denis Foley, Lewis Henry Morgan Institute

Opening History to the Public: Using Document Scanning and Web Sites to Broadcast History
Andrew Wolfe, Union College

Chair and Comment:
Jack McEneny, New York State Assembly

Religious Motivation
Missionary Barrels and the Social Gospel: Episcopal Church Women and Charity at the Turn of the 20th Century in New York State
Nancy Piatkowski, Episcopal Diocese of Western New York

City of Gods: Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens--New York City, 1945-2000
R. Scott Hanson, Brown University

Altering Notions of Truth: Technology, Writing, and Missionaries Among the Huron and Iroquois in the Seventeenth Century
Roger Carpenter, SUNY Oswego

Chair and Comment:
Kendall Birr, University at Albany, Emeritus

Coping with Crime and Corruption
The Eliot H. Lumbard Files: Criminal Justice Policy Formation During the Early Years of the Rockefeller Administration
Martin Alan Greenberg, SUNY at Ulster

Lessons Learned from a Political Non-Success Story, Florence E. Knapp and the Census Corruption Scandal of 1925
Lauren Kozakiewicz, University at Albany

"All Strangers and Many of Them Foreigners:" Early New York Tourism and the Roots of the "Confidence Man" Panic of the 1830s
Richard H. Gassan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Chair and Comment:
James R. Acker, University at Albany

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5:00 PM

RECEPTION

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indicates panels to be held in conjunction with the Albany Heritage Program