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RESEARCHING NEW YORK 2008
Perspectives on Empire State History
THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 20, 2008
REGISTRATION & EXHIBITS
12:00 – 6:00 PM
University at Albany Science
Library
Barnes and Noble Reading
Room
SESSION 1
1:00
~ 2:30 PM
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People, Politics and Policy
Theodore Roosevelt, His
Family, Long Island, and Farmingdale State College
Daniel Marrone, Farmingdale
State College
‘Progressive Democracy’
In Action: Alfred E. Smith and the Development of Public Education in New
York State, 1918-1928
Robert Chiles,
University of Maryland
Political Change in Buffalo: 1917-1941
Reid Dunlavey, Buffalo
State College
Comment: Richard Hamm, University at Albany, SUNY
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The State Teachers College Moment: the
Foundation of SUNY
Anticipating the Challenges of a State University: President Charles Ward takes the New York
State Teacher's College at Plattsburgh
into SUNY, 1940-1952
Doug
Skopp, SUNY Plattsburgh, Emeritus
Rescuing the State Teachers College
from History's Scrapheap
Bruce
Leslie & Ken O'Brien, The
College at Brockport, SUNY
The Impact of Sputnik on Science Teacher
Preparation in SUNY Teacher Colleges
Catherine Lange, SUNY College at Buffalo
Comment: Stephen Mucher, Bard College
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Records
of Business
A Day at a Canal Store:
The Study of Wemp’s Canal Store Ledger Books
Tricia Shaw,
Schoharie Crossing State
Historic Site
Industry and Influence:
Exploring the New York
Chamber of Commerce Records, 1768-1979
Jillian Cuellar and Katie Henningsen, Columbia
University, New York
Chamber of Commerce Records
Comment: David
Hochfelder, University at Albany,
SUNY
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SESSION II
2:45 ~ 4:15 PM
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Living In the Bronx:
Qualities Of Life
At Home in the Bronx:
Children at the New York
Catholic Protectory 1865-1938
Janet Butler Munch, Lehman
College
The Spuyten Duyvil
Homeowner's Association, 1908-1983: A Case Study in the Evolution of a NYC
Neighborhood
Tabitha Kirin, Lehman
College
Concourse Dreams: A Bronx Neighborhood and its Future
William A. Casari, Hostos Community College of the City
University of New York
Comment: Ivan
Steen, University at Albany,
SUNY
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The
Origins of Higher Education in Suffolk
County: Adelphi-Suffolk College, Southampton College,
and Suffolk County Community
College.
Running on Empty: The Origin and Early Years of Southampton College.
John A. Strong, Long Island University,
Emeritus
Persistence Pays Off: The
Origins of Adelphi
Suffolk College:
1953-1960
Leroy E. Douglas, Li-Republic
Airport Historical
Society
From Sick Beds to School Desks:
The Transformation of the Suffolk
County Tuberculosis
Sanatorium into Suffolk County Community College, 1916-1961
Denise Haggerty, Suffolk Community
College
Comment:
Natalie A. Naylor, Hofstra
University, Emerita
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Waterways
New York State and the Hudson-Fulton Celebrations of 1909
Kenneth Pearl, Queensborough
Community College
The Greatest Construction
Show on Earth
Claire Puccia Parham, Siena
College
Comment: Robert
Bullock, New York
State Archives
Partnership Trust
SESSION III
4:30
~ 5:45 PM
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In
Search of the Holy Grail - Digital and Analog Strategies for Providing
Preservation and Access to Collections
Toya Dubin,
Hudson MicroImaging
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War and Disaster
‘A barricade of ships,
guns, airplanes, and men’: Arming the Niagara Border, 1920-1930
William H. Siener, Buffalo
State College
Cadillac Bill and Hurricane
Agnes: Senator William Smith and the Challenge to Reform Natural Disaster
Policy, 1972-1975
Timothy W. Kneeland, Nazareth
College of Rochester
Comment: Tod Ottman, Independent Scholar.
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RECEPTION 6:00 PM
FILM SCREENING &
Discussion 7:00 PM
Performing Arts Center Recital Hall
Screening New
York History: Three Approaches
Muffie Meyer and
Ronald Blumer, Middlemarch Films
Since 1978, Middlemarch
Films in New York
has produced more than 100 award-winning and widely-distributed films and
videos. Director/producer Muffie Meyer and writer/co-producer Ron Blumer
will present some of the company’s unique approaches to New
York history: Alexander Hamilton, recently seen on American
Experience, uses dramatizations, interviews with scholars, and digital
recreations of 18th century life to present a compelling portrait of Hamilton. The Crash of 1929, also an American
Experience, uses archival footage, including Hollywood
features, to capture the optimism of the 1920s and the aftermath when the
Wall Street boom ended. An Empire of Reason, with Walter Cronkite anchoring the "Continental
Television Network," asks how television cameras might have covered
the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. The discussion will be
moderated by Sheila Curran Bernard, who holds a joint appointment as
Associate Director of the University’s Documentary Studies Program and
Director of Media Programs at the New York State Writers Institute. This
special event is co-sponsored by the University at Albany Documentary
Studies Program and The New York State Writers Institute.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2008
REGISTRATION & EXHIBITS
Coffee & Continental Breakfast
8:00 AM – 3:30 PM
University at Albany Science
Library
Barnes and Noble Reading
Room
SESSION IV
8:45
AM ~ 10:15 AM _____________________________________________________________________
Hudson River
Panorama: The Making of an Exhibition
The Albany Institute of
History & Art has developed a major exhibition that will explore the
history, art, and culture of the Hudson
River Valley.
Opening in 2009, in conjunction with the celebration of the 400th
anniversary of Henry Hudson’s navigation of the river that bears his name,
the exhibition will show the influence of the Hudson
River on the people, events, and cultural milieu of the
Valley. In this roundtable discussion, the team that brought it all
together will discuss the process—and preview the results— of their work.
Tammis K. Groft, Deputy Director for Collections and Exhibitions
Doug McCombs, Curator of History
Tom Nelson,
Exhibitions Designer
Erika Sanger, Director of Education
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Compassionate Education
Creating ‘Useful Artisans
and Faithful Servants’: Charity Schools, Education, and Moral
Reform in Early National New York City,
1797-1815
Amy Godfrey,
Waubonsee Community College
Hidden from History: Black and Deaf in the
Nineteenth Century
Rebecca Edwards, Rochester Institute of Technology
The Scientist and the
Artist: Two Perspectives on Educating the Public about the Future of
American Indians
Kate Betz,
New York State Historical Association
Comment: Margaret Lynch-Brennan, Independent
Scholar
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Bringing
Back the Past: An Insider's Look into the World of French and Indian War
Reenacting (film and discussion)
Erica Nuckles, University at Albany,
SUNY
Comment:
Ann Pfau, New York State Museum
SESSION V
10:45
AM ~ 12:15 PM
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Shooting History: From Page to
Screen
A roundtable discussion with the creators
of such acclaimed historical documentaries as Alexander Hamilton,
The Crash of 1929, and Liberty!:
The American Revolution
Muffie Meyer and Ronald
Blumer, Middlemarch
Films, New York, NY
Comment: Sheila Curran Bernard,
University at Albany,
SUNY
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The
Civil Rights Movement Comes to New
York City: The Summer of 1963
‘We Struggled in Vain?” Core and the Fight for Employment in New York City during
the Summer of 1963
Brian Purnell, Fordham
University
The Fight at the
Construction Site: Rochdale
Village in the Summer
of 1963
Peter Eisenstadt, Historian
Comment: Myra
Young Armstead, Bard
College
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Hands-on
Education
The National Society of Craftsmen, New York, New
York (1906-1920), the Arts and Crafts Movement
and Early Twentieth Century Craft Education and Practice
Sandra
Giles Jenkins, Corcoran College
of Art and Design/Smithsonian Associates
Students in Coveralls: America's
First and Most Famous Residential Labor College,
Brookwood of Katonah, New York
Charles
F. Howlett, Molloy College
The History and Evolution
of Professional Forestry Education in New York State
Hugh O. Canham, SUNY
College of
Environmental Science and Forestry, Emeritus
Comment: Adam Laats, Binghamton University,
SUNY
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Public History- Public Education
Rooted in Context:
Telling the History of Women’s Rights
National Historical
Park
Elizabeth D. Smith, Middle
Tennessee State
University
Fort Stanwix
National Monument: Education through Participation
Joan M. Zenzen, Independent Historian
Comment: Robin Campbell, NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, and
Historic Preservation
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LUNCH/KEYNOTE
Campus Center Ballroom
12:15 PM
School Lunch Politics
Susan Levine, University of Illinois, Chicago
In her just-published
book, School Lunch Politics: The
Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program, historian Susan
Levine examines the cultural complexity of one of the most popular yet
flawed social welfare programs in our nation's history. From its origins in
early 20th century nutrition science to the 1946 establishment
of the National School Lunch Program to the transformation of school meals
into a poverty program during the 1970s and 1980s, Levine investigates the
politics and culture of food––who decides what American children should eat
and what policies develop from those decisions. Susan Levine is professor of history at the University of Illinois
at Chicago;
she is also the author of Labor's True Woman and Degrees of
Equality.
SESSION
VI
2:00 ~ 3:30 PM
Roundtable: The State of Public
History in New York
Garet
Livermore,
Vice President of Education, New
York State
Historical Association
Carol
McKenna,
President, Association of Public Historians of New York State
Robert
Weible,
New York State
Historian, New York
State Museum
Politics & Policy: Race, Reform & Housing
The Politics of Open
Housing in Nassau
County
Michael W. DiMola, City
College, CUNY
Students Strike Back: Columbia University in the Late 1960s
Stefan Bradley, St. Louis
University
Morningside Heights,
Inc.: Columbia
University and the
Gentrification of New York’s Upper
West Side, 1947-1968
Daniel Opler, The College of Mount
Saint Vincent
Comment: Charlotte Brooks, Baruch College,
CUNY
Sittin’
On a Million: The Mame Faye History Project
Everyone
past the age of retirement has a story—funny, sordid, unbelievable— about Troy, New
York’s most famous madam. Her story offers a rare
view into sex, money, politics, and women's place in the early 20th
century. Sittin’ On a Million
asks us to considers the role of memory and imagination in
creating history, and reminds us about those erased from the official
record. (Film and discussion)
Annmarie Lanesey, film producer
Comment:
Ray Sapirstein, Unversity at Albany,
SUNY
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Faces of War
The Culper Spy Ring and
the Discovery of Benedict Arnold’s Treason: New Evidence from the New York
Archives
John Burke,
Independent Author/Researcher
Andrea Meyer, New York
University
Internment in New York State during the Second World War
Jessica Anderson, University at Albany
The History of the Former
(Northrop) Grumman Naval Weapon’s Industrial Reserve Plant at Calverton, Long Island, New
York
Gene Tyler Sendlewski
Comment: Harvey
Strum, Sage Colleges
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CLOSING PLENARY
Performing Arts Center Recital Hall
4:00 PM
The Poor
Soldier, a Comic Opera Received with Great Applause…
….a History of the 1783 Opera
with music and commentary
Ann-Marie Barker Schwartz & The Musicians of Ma'alwyck
In 1783 English composer
William Shield and Irish playwright John O’Keeffe collaborated to produce a
work for the London Theater titled The
Poor Soldier. The story
concerned a British soldier who had fought in the Revolutionary War and
returned to England
only to find his sweetheart promised to another by her less than scrupulous
guardian. The Poor Soldier was a
huge success in England
and quickly made it across the ocean to American stages where it was
performed hundreds of times during the 1780s and 90s all over the eastern
seaboard. The opera was George Washington’s
favorite theatrical piece. Albany
enjoyed many productions of this work, including at the Albany Theater in
1809. Newspaper advertisements, cast
lists, letters to the editor, and prompter’s books survive from these early
Albany
performances. This presentation will include descriptions of the
productions of the early 1800s specific to Albany, as well as an
exploration of why this work was so appealing to Americans, even as we
geared up to fight the war of 1812. Select
scenes from the opera will be performed.
RECEPTION IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING
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