38th Annual DC Historical Studies Conference in Brief

What: 38th Annual DC Historical Studies Conference
Where: Goethe-Institut and the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
When: November 3-6, 2011

The 38th Annual DC Historical Studies Conference will be held at the Goethe-Institut and the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, November 3-6, 2011.

The Goethe-Institut, D.C. at 812 7th St NW is the location of the annual conference reception and Letitia Wood Brown Lecture, November 3. Kenneth J. Winkle, Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will speak on “Lincoln’s Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, DC”.

Concurrent sessions
will be held Friday and Saturday, November 4 and 5 at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library; the History Network will take place on Friday, 12:30 – 2:00.

Tours will take place on Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Registration information will be posted soon.

Details are in the conference schedule posted below. Postcards announcing the conference will be mailed out soon. Look for them.

Conference registration information will be posted soon.

Co-sponsored by: the Association of Oldest Inhabitants; the Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives; Friends of Washingtoniana Division (FOWD); H-DC – http://www.h-net.org/~dclist; the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.; Rainbow History Project; and the Washingtoniana Division of the D.C.Public Library.

Conference Committee (2011):

Brett Abrams, Jeffrey Donahoe, Matthew Gilmore (Chair), Mark Greek, Derek Grey, Stephen Hansen, Ida Jones, Jane Freundel Levey, Adam Lewis, Richard Longstreth, John Muller, John Richardson, Gary Scott, Kimberly Springle, Mary Ternes

Conference Schedule 2011

 

DC Historical Studies Conference Schedule 2011

 

 

 

 

	Thursday, November 3, 2011
6:00 - 9:00	Letitia Woods Brown Lecture and Conference reception
	Speaker:
	Kenneth J. Winkle
	Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
	“Lincoln’s Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, DC”
	Friday, November 4, 2011
8:45-9:00	Registration
9:00-9:30	Introductions
9:30-10:45	Plenary: Toward a Digital History of Civil War Washington
11:00-12:30	Concurrent Sessions 1 and 2
	Session 1: Built Environment of DC
	Adam Costanzo	“Creating a Grand Capital City One Building at a Time: Local Architecture and Development in Early Washington, DC, 1791-1814″
	Chris Shaheen	“Public Parking: Transforming the Nation’s Capital from Gritty to Garden City”
	Gail Spilsbury	“A Washington Sketchbook: Drawings by R. L. Dickinson, 1917-1918″
	Session 2: Researching Public School history
	Kimberly Springle	25th Anniversary of the Sumner Museum and Archives
	Kesh Ladduwahetty and Lucinda Janke	Researching the history of the DC school system
	Eaton School representatives	John Eaton School centennial
12:30-2:00	History Network
1:30-3:00	Concurrent Sessions 3 and 4
	Session 3: African American Washington
	Emahunn Campbell	“’It All Comes From the Soul:’ The New School of Afro American Thought, Washington, D.C., and Black Arts”
	Nicolas Martin-Breteau	“Bodies of Character: Sport, education, and racial pride in the Long Civil Rights Movement, 1890s-1930s”
	Timothy Dennee	“A District of Columbia Freedmen’s Cemetery in Virginia?  Arlington’s Section 27”
	Karl Byrand	“The Spatial and Occupational Advantages of Shaw’s Mulatto Population in Turn-of-the-Century Washington, DC”
	Session 4: Civil War Defenses of Washington, D.C.
	Alexa Viets	“Long Term planning and vision for Civil War Defenses of Washington.”
	Simone Monteleone	“Restoration of Fort Stevens”
	Susan Horner	National Register Documentation of Civil War Defenses of Washington”
	James Rosenstock	”Historic Preservation of Civil War Defenses of Washington.”
3:15-5:00	Concurrent Sessions 5 and 6
	Session 5: Documenting the local Soviet Jewry movement
	David McKenzie
	Claire Uziel
	Session 6: Current Archaeology of Washington, D.C.
	Noel Broadbent	War of 1812
	Tom Forhan	Rock Creek Park Tenancy
	Charde Reid	DC Parks
	Matt Cochran	St. Elizabeth’s
	Paul Kreisa	St. Elizabeth’s
	Tara Tetrault	Collections
	Charles Cheek	Infrastructure & Urban Life
	Alex Jones & Jenn Barbiaz	Archaeology in the Community
	Saturday, November 5, 2011
9:00-9:30	Registration
9:30-10:45	Plenary: Social History of Washington, DC
	Jessica Ziparo	“’There Are Some Sad Stories I Could Tell You About the Woman-Clerk Life in Washington’”: Female Federal Employees In D.C.  (1860-70)”
	Mark Herlong	“The Golden Age of Washington Grave-Robbing”
	Garrett Peck	“Prohibition in Washington, DC: How Dry We Weren’t”
11:00-12:30	Concurrent Sessions 7 and 8
	Session 7: 150 Years of Policing Washington, DC
	Lieutenant Nicholas T. Breul
	Mark Herlong
	Sandra Schmidt
	William (“Bill”) Brown,	Moderator
	Session 8: Contrabands in the DC Area
	Brandon Bies	“Arlington’s Freedman’s Village,”
	Kati Engel	“Mapping Contraband Camps,”
	Jonathan Pliska,	“Contrabands on Mason’s Island,”
	Jenny Masur	Chair
1:30-3:00	Concurrent Sessions 9 and 10 and Tour 1
	Session 9: DC Neighborhoods
	Adam Rubin	“Our Own Outrageous Ontario: The History and Precarious Future of Adams Morgan’s Ontario Theatre”
	Marie Maxwell	“A Demographic Neighborhood From 1880-1930″
	Stephen A. Hansen	“The Anatomy of a Subdivision:  Truesdell’s Addition to Washington Heights”
	Session 10: DC History on the Web
	Matthew Gilmore	H-DC: DC history discussion list
	Karn Needles	Lincolnarchives Digital Project
	John De Ferrari	Streets of Washington blog
	Tour 1
	Kim Roberts	“Henry Adams: Washington Historian and Author, a Tour of Lafayette Square”
3:15-5:00	Concurrent Sessions 11 and 12 and Tour 2
	Session 11: Neighborhood history
	Patsy Fletcher	Neighborhoods by Neighbors – Three DCCHP Communities: Capitol View, Eastland Gardens, and Fairlawn
	Session 12: Political Collections
	Yvonne Carignan	Donna Wells Memorial Session
		Washington, D.C., Political Papers and Collections: Where the Researcher Finds Primary Sources on DC’s Political Past and Present
	Tour 2
	Garrett Peck	Tour of Prohibition Washington
	Sunday, November 6, 2011
11:00-3:00	Tour of Civil War Fortifications