OAH: Panels of Interest

The Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians starts tomorrow in San Francisco. The program looks terrific. Here are some highlights [UPDATED to reflect reader suggestions]:

Thursday, April 11

Plenary Session: Freedom Struggles 

Chair: Matthew Countryman, University of Michigan 

Clayborne Carson, Stanford University 
Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois at Chicago  
Tera W. Hunter, Princeton University  
Scott Kurashige, University of Michigan

The year 2013 marks the anniversaries of two major events in the history of black freedom struggles—the March on Washington’s fiftieth and the Emancipation Proclamation’s sesquicentennial. Leading scholars will offer brief reflections on the long history of black freedom movements, their significance to United States history more generally, and their relevance for today.

Early Republic Borderlands: Indian Removal, Slavery, and Non-State Actors

Chair: David Waldstreicher, Temple University  

“Fraught with Disastrous Consequences for our Country”: Cherokee Removal and Nullification, 1824–1839, Nancy Morgan, Temple University  

Women at the Crossroads: The Legal and Political Fight to Reverse Indian Removal in Seneca, 1838–1887, Taylor Spence, Yale University 

Reading Hearts, Not Books: Affective Literacy and Public Sentiment in David Walker’s Appeal, Tara Bynum,Towson University  

Commentator: Matthew Dennis, University of Oregon

Friday, April 12

American Legal History [A "State of the Field" panel]

Chair: Michael Willrich, Brandeis University

Daniel Hulsebosch, New York University
Ariela Gross, University of Southern California
Andrew Wender Cohen, Syracuse University
William J. Novak, University of Michigan
Jane Dailey, University of Chicago

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