Conference Program

indicates panels to be held in conjunction with the Albany Heritage Program, a community-wide alliance of more than 40 educational, cultural, and governmental agencies created to pay tribute to the remarkable legacy of New York's Capital City.

Thursday, November 21
Registration: 12:00 noon, Campus Center Assembly Hall

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

Cultural Politics
Science Library, Digital Workshop 4

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, SUNY

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
Science Library, Standish Room

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
Campus Center, Room 375

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, SUNY

Chair and Comment:
Kevin Sheets, SUNY-Cortland

Session II~Concurrent Panels
3:15-5:15 pm
African Americans in 20th-Century Albany
Science Library, Standish Room

Clubwomen in the Capital District, 1920-1940
Lillian Williams, University at Buffalo, SUNY

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, SUNY

Chair and Comment:
Allen Ballard, University at Albany, SUNY

Buffalo's 1901 Pan-American Exposition: Librarians' Perspectives
Science Library, Digital Workshop 4

Food and Drink at the Pan-American Exposition
Brenda L. Battleson and Charles A. D'Aniello, University at Buffalo, SUNY

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, SUNY

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

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

Creating and Sustaining Communities
Campus Center, Room 375

"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, SUNY, Emeritus

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University at Albany
Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

5:30 PM
Reception

7:00 PM
Keynote Address

Welcome & Introduction
Iris Berger
Chair, Department of History, University at Albany, SUNY

Karen Hitchcock
President, University at Albany, SUNY

The Rockefeller Years: Transforming Albany

Joseph E. Persico

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

Session III~Concurrent Panels
8:30-10:15 AM
Albany From the Ground Up: A Roundtable
Campus Center, Room 375

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
Science Library, Digital Workshop 4

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- Oneonta

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

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

Teaching New York: History Takes Place
Campus Center, Terrace Lounge

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
The Standish Room, New Science Library

Welcome
Christine W. Ward
Acting State Archivist & Executive Officer of the Archives Partnership Trust

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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12 noon

Lunch
Campus Center Ballroom

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Session IV~Concurrent Panels
1:15-3:00 PM
Giving Voice to the Voiceless
Campus Center, Room 375

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, SUNY

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

Chair and Comment:
Andrew Lewis, Harvard University

Writing Lives
Science Library, Digital Workshop 4

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, SUNY

Chair and Comment:
Amy Murrell, University at Albany, SUNY

Into the Archives
Science Library, Standish Room

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 Ludmilla Pollock, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Library & Archives

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

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
Campus Center, Room 375

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,SUNY, Emeritus

Coping with Crime and Corruption
Science Library, Digital Workshop4

The Eliot H. Lumbard Files: Criminal Justice Policy Formation During the Early Years of the Rockefeller Administration
Martin Alan Greenberg, SUNY- Ulster

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

"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, SUNY

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5:00 PM

RECEPTION
Campus Center, Fireside Lounge

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