May
16—18, 2002
Atlanta,
Georgia
"Historical
Reconstructions"
Program
Directors:
William
W. Freehling, University of Kentucky
Robert
Herzstein, University of South Carolina
The
conference seeks to understand how elites, social groups, and individuals
have tried to reconstitute and strengthen their societies after defeat
in war, ensuing turmoil, or social upheaval. "Reconstructions" need to
be understood in a wide context that embraces political, military, economic,
social, institutional, and intellectual history.
Thursday
May 16, 2002
12:00-8:00pm
REGISTRATION
3:00-5:30pm
PLENARY
SESSION:
GLOBAL
PERSPECTIVES ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Welcome:
George Huppert, President, The Historical Society, University of Illinois
at Chicago
Seymour
Drescher, University of Pittsburgh
"White
Atlantic? The Choice for African Slave Labor in the Americas"
David
Landes, Harvard University
"China
and the West: Never the Twain Shall Meet"
Moderator:
Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
5:30pm
RECEPTION
6:30pm
DINNER
8:00pm
PLENARY
SESSION:
CHRISTOPHER
LASCH LECTURE
Natalie
Zemon Davis, University of Toronto and Princeton University
"Jews,
Africans, and Philosophes in Colonial Suriname"
Moderator:
Robert Lerner, Northwestern University
Friday
May 17, 2002
7:30am-4:30pm
REGISTRATION
7:30-9:30am
BREAKFAST
____________________
9:00-10:45am
THE
BALKANS SINCE WWII
Gerasimos
Augustinos, University of South Carolina
"Ravaged
Space, Splintered Convictions: Re-Constructing Greece After World War II"
Yitzchak
Kerem, Aristotle University
"Reconstructing
the ex-Yugoslavia: Creating New Societies or Perpetuating Old Problematic
Dreams?"
Moderator:
Joseph Lucas, The Historical Society
Respondents:
Sarah Kent, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
John Treadway, University of Richmond
CULTURAL
RESPONSES TO THE NAPOLEONIC WARS
Thomas
Albert Howard, Gordon College
"Prussia,
Napoleon, and the Rise of the Modern University"
Todd
Larkin, Montana State University
"The
Aesthetics of Expiation: Louis XVIII's Cult(ural) Politics, 1815-1820"
Brent
Maner, University of Tulsa
"Reconstructing
the Ancient German Past: Historical Preservation after the Napoleonic Invasions"
Moderator:
Owen Connelly, University of South Carolina
Respondent:
James Friguglietti, Montana State University, Billings
ECONOMIC
RECONSTRUCTION OF FRANCE AFTER WWI
E.P.
Fitzgerald, Carleton University
"French
Reconstruction after the Great War: An Inevitable Failure?"
Joshua
M. Humphreys, New York University, Institute of French Studies
"Reconstruction,
Social Reform, and the Rationalization of French Thought after World War
I"
Michael
S. Smith, University of South Carolina
"Snatching
Economic Victory from the Jaws of Defeat: The Destruction, Reconstruction,
and Rationalization of French Steel, 1914-1929"
Moderator:
William Keylor, Boston University
Respondent:
Edmund Clingan, University of North Dakota
THE
RECONSTRUCTION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES DURING AND AFTER THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY
David
Weisberg, Hebrew Union College
"The
Reconstruction of Jewish Communities during the Neo-Babylonian Era"
Edwin
Yamauchi, Miami University
"The
Reconstruction of Jewish Communities during the Persian Era"
Moderator:
Edwin Yamauchi, Miami University
Respondent:
Kevin L. Spawn, Simpson College
REVISITING
THE DEBATES ON AMERICAN RECONSTRUCTION
Mark
Smith, University of South Carolina
"State
of the Field"
Mark
Wahlgren Summers, University of Kentucky
"The
Constructive Unreality of Reconstruction Policy-Making"
Moderator:
William W. Freehling, University of Kentucky
Respondents:
Thavolia Glymph, Duke University
Harold Woodman, Purdue University
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11:15am-1:00pm
EARLY
MODERN BRITAIN
Jennifer
Ridden, University of Cambridge
"Reconstructing
Ireland within Britain: The Irish Elite and Liberal Reform after the 1798
Rebellion"
Margaret
Sankey, Auburn University
"Revenge,
Reconciliation, and Reconstruction: The British State and the Jacobite
Prisoners of the 1715 Rebellion"
Moderator:
Mark Fissel, Augusta State University
Respondent:
Jeremy Black, University of Exeter
HISTORIOGRAPHY
OF AMERICAN RECONSTRUCTION
Bobby
Donaldson, University of South Carolina
"Rescuing
African-American Historians of Reconstruction"
Scott
P. Marler, Rice University "The Reconstruction of One Kind of Freedom:
New Edition, New Thoughts"
Moderator:
Charles Pete Banner-Haley, Colgate University
Respondent:
John Rodrigue, Louisiana State University
MODERN
AFRICAN RECONSTRUCTIONS
Kolby
W. Bilal, The College of William and Mary
"'Reason,
I Sacrifice You to the Morning Breeze:' The Negritude Movement as a Cultural
Response to European Colonization in Francophone Africa"
Moderator:
Arthur Abraham, Virginia State University
Respondent:
Patricia Romero, Towson University
POLITICAL
USES OF THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF CATASTROPHES
Kevin
Cramer, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
"The
Lamentations of Germany: The Historiography of the Thirty Years' War, 1790-1890"
William
Mulligan, University College, Dublin
"Historical
Stereotypes and the Franco-German Relationship after the First World War"
Moderator:
Robert Herzstein, University of South Carolina
Respondent:
James V.H. Melton, Emory University
ROBERT
L. DABNEY: THEOLOGIAN & SOCIAL CRITIC
Wallace
Hettle, University of Northern Iowa
"Inventing
Stonewall Jackson: Robert Lewis Dabney, Martyrdom, and the Reconstruction
of Southern Manhood"
Sean
Lucas, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
"'Old
Times There are Not Forgotten:' Robert Lewis Dabney's Public Theology for
a Reconstructed South"
Moderator:
Randall Patton, Kennesaw State University
Respondent:
Robert Calhoon, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Darryl G. Hart, Westminster Theological Seminary
____________________
1:00-2:30pm
LUNCHEON
Speculations
on Reconstruction
William
Freehling, University of Kentucky
Eugene
Genovese, Atlanta, Georgia
and
audience
PHI
ALPHA THETA LUNCHEON
"A
Bad Marriage: Reconstructing Scotland as Northern Britain"
Deborah
Symonds, Drake University
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2:45-4:30pm
GERMAN
CHRISTIAN RESPONSES TO DEFEAT IN TWO WORLD WARS
Matthew
D. Hockenos, Skidmore College
"Reconstructing
Church History: Protestant Church Leaders and the Jewish Question in Germany,
1945-1950"
Carol
Woodfin, Palm Beach Atlantic College
"Protestant
Women and Germany's Reconstruction after World War I"
Moderator:
Samuel J. Thomas, Michigan State University
Respondent:
Robert Herzstein, University of South Carolina
INTELLECTUALS
IN EIGHTEENTH- AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY CRISES
Thomas
C. Behr, University of Houston
"The
Eternal Return of Natural Law: The Revival of Scholastic Natural Law Thought
in Europe during the Restoration and Luigi Taparelli D'Azeglio, S.J. (1792-1862)"
Niles
R. Holt, Illinois State University
"Between
Science and Politics: Rudolf Virchow and the Reconstruction of German Liberalism"
Moderator:
Ingrid Merikoski, Independent Scholar
Respondent:
Gerard V. Bradley, Notre Dame University Law School
NEW
DIRECTIONS IN AMERICAN RECONSTRUCTION
Michael
Fellman, Simon Fraser University
"Reframing
Reconstruction"
Mitchell
Snay, Denison University
"Land
& Nationality"
Moderator:
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida
Respondents:
David Carlton, Vanderbilt University
Jay Mandle, Colgate University
NORTHERN
ECONOMIC AND MILITARY RESPONSES TO VICTORY
Mark
R. Wilson, University of Chicago
"Dismantling
a War Economy: Military-Industrial Demobilization and Reconstruction in
the United States after the Civil War"
Moderator:
Michael Holt, University of Virginia
Respondent:
Anne Bailey, Georgia College & State University
RECONSTRUCTIONS
IN CLASSICAL GREECE
John
Hale, University of Louisville
"Athens
after the Persian Wars"
Barry
Strauss, Cornell University
"Athens
after the Peloponnesian War"
Victor
Davis Hanson, California State University, Fresno
"Thebes
after the Spartan Occupation"
Moderator:
Donald Yerxa, Eastern Nazarene College, The Historical Society
Respondent:
Loren J. Samons, II, Boston University
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4:45-6:15pm
MOCK
INTERVIEWS
Saturday
May 18, 2002
8:00am-12:00pm
REGISTRATION
8:00-9:30am
BREAKFAST
____________________
10:00am-12:00pm
COMMUNITIES
IN THE RECONSTRUCTED SOUTH
James
Farmer, University of South Carolina Aiken
"'Visitors
Will Find a Welcome:' Aiken, South Carolina and the Yankees, 1869-1890"
Barbara
W. Wright, University of Alabama, Huntsville
"The
Free Black Community of Huntsville, Alabama"
Moderator:
Randolph B. Campbell, University of North Texas
Respondents:
Randolph B. Campbell, University of North Texas
Daniel Littlefield, University of South Carolina
DIPLOMATIC
AND ECONOMIC POLICY AFTER WWII
John
Patrick Diggins, City University of New York Graduate Center
"The
Fall of Communism and the Reconstruction of Russia"
Alfred
C. Mierzejewski, Athens State University
"Uneasy
Partners: Ludwig Erhard and the Allied Occupation Authorities, 1945-1955"
Jamie
Miller, Bard College
"Personality,
Ideology, and Interest in the Reconstruction of the World Trading System:
The Case of Stafford Cripps and Will Clayton"
Moderator:
Marc Trachtenberg, University of California, Los Angeles
Respondent:
Jeffrey Vanke, Guilford College
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
& IDELOLOGY IN THE RECONSTRUCTED SOUTH
Brent
J. Aucoin, Williams Baptist College
"A
Re-evaluation of the New South Creed: Thomas Goode Jones and the American
South after the Civil War"
J.
Tracy Power, South Carolina Archives and History Center
"'My
Chief Desire is To Be Useful and Do Something for My Native State:' The
Reconstruction of George Washington Custis Lee"
Moderator:
Mary DeCredico, United States Naval Academy
Respondent:
Peter Coclanis, University of North Carolina
RELIGIOUS
RECONSIDERATIONS OF SOCIAL CRISES: THIRTEENTH TO SIXTEENTH CENTURIES
Susan
Boettcher, University of Texas
"Reformation
Rupture and the Reconstruction of Ecclesiastical Authority in Lutheran
Histories of the Reformation: Re-envisioning the Church's Past in the Later
Sixteenth Century"
Piotr
Górecki, University of California, Riverside
"A
Monastic History as Reconstruction and Recovery: Abbot Peter and the Henrykow
Book"
Frank
Williams, Reinhardt College
"Reconstituting
Society in Agenais after the Hundred Years War"
Moderator:
Mary Stroll, University of California, San Diego
Respondent:
Martin Arbagi, Wright State University
WORLD
PERSPECTIVES ON THE ERA OF RECONSTRUCTION
Dain
Borges, University of Chicago
"Understanding
Brazil as a Slave Society"
John
Edward Higginson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Making
Short Work of Traditions: Marico, Rustenburg, and the Conclusions of the
South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission"
Mark
Ravina, Emory University
"Japan's
Forgotten Civil War: The Meiji Restoration and the Satsuma Rebellion"
Moderator:
Cathal Nolan, Boston University
Respondent:
Franklin W. Knight, Johns Hopkins University
____________________
12:00-1:30pm
LUNCHEON
A
Conversation about The Journal of The Historical Society with
Elizabeth
Fox-Genovese, Editor
Laura
Crawley, Managing Editor
____________________
1:30-3:30pm
NATIONAL
IDENTITY IN THE USSR AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA
Anna
Krylova, University of South Carolina
"Dancing
on the Graves of the Dead: Identity and Historical Consciousness in Post-Soviet
Russia"
Douglas
Northrop, University of Georgia
"Nationalizing
Backwardness: Gender, Empire, and Uzbek Identity"
Moderator:
T. Christopher Jespersen, North Georgia College and State University
Respondent:
Jonathan Daly, University of Illinois at Chicago
EXPELLED
AND DISPLACED PERSONS AFTER WWII
Amy
Alrich, Ohio State University
"Illegal
Resettler Organizations in the Soviet Zone of Occupation: Community and
Identity among Expelled Germans"
Laura
J. Hilton, Muskingum College
"Constructions
of Community within Displaced Persons Camps in Germany, 1945-1948"
Moderator:
Marsha Frey, Kansas State University
Respondents:
Robert Emmet Kennedy, Jr., George Washington University
REBUILDING
FRANCE AFTER WWII
Kyri
Watson Claflin, Boston University
"Feeding
the Liberation: Reconstructing Parisian Food Commerce after the Occupation"
François
Le Roy, Northern Kentucky University
"The
Five-Year Aeronautical Plan: Reconstructing France's Air Power and Grandeur,
1951-1955"
W.
Brian Newsome, University of South Carolina
"The
Propaganda of French Reconstruction and Town Planning, 1940-1968"
Moderator:
Chris Beneke, The Citadel
Respondent:
Rosemary Wakeman, Fordham University
ROUNDTABLE:
RECONSTRUCTIONS, RESTORATIONS, AND THE WRITING OF HISTORIES OF THE ANCIENT
NEAR EAST
Mark
Chavalas, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
"Towards
a Reconstruction of the History of Inland Syria: The Khana Kingdom in the
Late Bronze Age"
Steven
Garfinkle, Western Washington University
"Collapse
or Continuity? The Periodization of the Early History of the Ancient Near
East"
Andrew
Gross, New York University
"A
People of the Book: Reconstructing National Identity in Ancient Israel"
Philip
Jones, University of Pennsylvania
"From
Divine King to Royal God: Re-Imagining Community in Ancient Mesopotamia"
Seth
Richardson, Columbia University
"Babylon,
Desaparecida: The Murky End of a Famous Kingdom"
John
Robertson, Central Michigan University
"On
Monkeys' Faces and Coming in Waves: Nomads and 'Barbarians' in Structuring
the Modern Historiography of the Ancient Near East"
Moderator:
Paul Rahe, University of Tulsa
____________________
4:00-
6:00pm
PLENARY
SESSION
SUMMARY
DISCUSSION
Elizabeth
Fox-Genovese, Emory University
"Reconstructions"
Moderator:
David Moltke-Hansen, Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Respondents:
Stanley Kutler, University of Wisconsin
David Moltke-Hansen, Historical Society of Pennsylvania
