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SUMMARY:Lloyd Ambrosius and His Historical Legacies
DESCRIPTION:Panel Discussion \nSolicited by the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE). Endorsed by WHA \nAbstract\nThis panel reflects upon and commemorates the tremendous accomplishments and broad impact of Lloyd Ambrosius (1941-2024)\, a leading expert on Woodrow Wilson and Wilsonian statecraft. In his long career at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL)\, where he was the Samuel Clark Waugh Distinguished Professor of International Relations and a Professor in History\, Lloyd earned a reputation as a superb teacher of U.S.\, diplomatic\, and international relations history. His dedication as a teacher and mentor extended to his work as Mary Ball Washington Chair of American History at University College Dublin and a Fulbright Teaching and Research Professor at the University of Heidelberg. Along with shaping the outlooks of students over roughly half a century\, Lloyd made a major impact on our understandings of the Progressive Era and the history of U.S. foreign relations through his research. His four major books and many chapters and articles trenchantly assess Wilson’s worldview\, diplomacy\, and influence. From his early work on Wilson and the New Left to his later work on Wilson’s religious formation and racism\, Lloyd’s research has helped wide audiences understand liberal internationalism. Over the course of his long career\, Lloyd amassed a remarkable record of professional leadership. He was the founding coordinator and chief advisor for the University of Nebraska’s International Affairs program and chair of the program committee for the University of Nebraska’s E.N. Thompson Forum on International Issues\, which brought figures such as Mikhail Gorbachev and Desmond Tutu to UNL. He was a founding member of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)\, which he subsequently served in many capacities. He also brought his positive grace in his interactions with colleagues and his unstinting support for junior scholars to his leadership role as President of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE). The chair of the panel\, Jeannette Jones\, is a noted scholar of U.S. foreign relations who also knew Lloyd as a colleague at UNL. Kristin Ahlberg\, who earned a PhD under Lloyd’s direction\, will discuss his contributions to the UNL history department\, the broader UNL and Lincoln communities\, and SHAFR and SHGAPE\, and the ways that Lloyd’s interest in food aid influenced her direction as a scholar. Manfred Berg (the Curt Engelhorn Chair in American History at the University of Heidelberg)\, reports that Lloyd was the first U.S. scholar he met in person. In addition to discussing Lloyd’s support for scholars outside the United States\, he will discuss how Lloyd’s work on U.S.-German relations influenced his own work on that topic. Ross A. Kennedy\, Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Illinois State University\, will consider Lloyd’s contributions in relation to Arthur Link’s views of Wilson’s foreign policies. Julia Irwin\, the T. Harry Williams Professor of History at Louisiana State University\, will discuss the ways that Lloyd’s scholarship influenced her work on humanitarian relief and reflect on the ways that his research has helped her draw connections between the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
URL:https://www.shgape.org/event/lloyd-ambrosius-and-his-historical-legacies/
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SUMMARY:SHGAPE-Sponsored Happy Hour
DESCRIPTION:SHGAPE will host a reception for all SHGAPE members and meeting attendees interested in the study of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. SHGAPE was formed in 1989 to encourage innovative and wide-ranging research and teaching on this critical period of historical transformation. SHGAPE publishes the quarterly Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and awards book and article prizes for distinguished scholarship.
URL:https://www.shgape.org/event/shgape-sponsored-happy-hour/
LOCATION:Philadelphia Marriott Downtown\, 1201 Market Street\, 1200 Filbert St\, Philadelphia\, PA 19107\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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SUMMARY:SHGAPE Luncheon featuring Distinguished Speaker Dr. Mia Bay
DESCRIPTION:Advance ticket required \nThe Streetcar Wars: Streetcars\, Segregation and Social Change \nThe most widely used form of urban public transportation during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era\, streetcars were also a major site or racial conflict. Desegregated in the Post-Civil War era—largely as a result of Black protests—they were resegregated in the South during the twentieth century’s first decade and remained a stage for race riots and other clashes between Blacks and whites throughout their history.  This paper will explore the intertwined rise of street cars and racial segregation in making of modern American cities. \nDr. Mia Bay is the newly appointed Paul A. Mellon Professor of American History in the University of Cambridge. Previously she taught at University of Pennsylvania\, where she was Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of American History\, and in the Department of History at Rutgers University\, where she also led the Rutgers Center for Race and Ethnicity. She is a scholar of American and African American intellectual\, cultural and social history whose interests include black women’s thought\, African American approaches to citizenship\, and the history of race and transportation. Bay’s most recent book is the Bancroft prize-winning Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance ( Harvard University Press\, 2021). Her previous books include To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells (Hill & Wang\, February 2009); The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People 1830-1925 (Oxford University Press\, 2000). Bay’s current scholarly projects include a book on the history of African American ideas about Thomas Jefferson\, and a study the streetcars and segregation in the nineteenth and twentieth century United States.
URL:https://www.shgape.org/event/shgape-luncheon-featuring-distinguished-speaker-dr-mia-bay/
LOCATION:Philadelphia Marriott Downtown\, 1201 Market Street\, 1200 Filbert St\, Philadelphia\, PA 19107\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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SUMMARY:Race\, Labor\, and Empire: Solidarity\, Migration\, and Borders in United States\, 1865–1970
DESCRIPTION:AHA Session 336\nSociety for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 5\nMonday\, January 6\, 2025: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM\nNew York Ballroom East (Sheraton New York\, Third Floor)\n\nChair: Cindy Hahamovitch\, University of Georgia\n\n\nPapers:\n\n\nAn Injury to One Is a Concern for All: Reconstruction\, the Labor Movement\, and the Fight for Civil Rights\, 1865–90\nJennifer Mills\, George Mason University \n\n\n\n\nOrganizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery: Land Reform\, Migration\, and Strikebreaking and the Rise of Labor in the US and the UK\, 1870–1900\nRudi Batzell\, Lake Forest College \n\n\n\n\nChicana and Mexicana Workers in the El Paso–Ciudad Juarez Garment Industry from 1940 to 1970\nJessica Martinez\, University of Texas at El Paso \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nComment:\nLori A. Flores\, Stony Brook University\, State University of New York\n\n\n\nSession Abstract \nThis panel explores race\, labor\, and empire and the efforts of workers to organize. Examining worker’s voices within a global\, national\, and transnational labor history offers a holistic narrative of their struggles and union organizing. Jennifer Mill examines the pivotal roles of African American labor leaders Isaac Meyers and Frank Farrell connecting the concerns of the labor and civil rights movements from the Reconstruction Era\, particularly in Virginia and North Carolina where labor organizing was most difficult. Rudi Batzell offers a comparative history of American and British union formation and racial boundary making in the late nineteenth century. He argues that the US South and Ireland were comparable rural\, near-peripheries that supplied low-wage migrant labor and strikebreakers to the industrial cores of the US and the UK. Moving to the post-war era\, Jessica Martinez places Chicana and Mexicana garment workers in a larger transnational historical context to explore how they shaped the El Paso\, Texas and Ciudad Juarez garment industry. Collectively these papers explore the interconnections among race\, labor\, and the expansion of the United States as a continental empire\, and underline the importance of placing workers and their struggles to organize at the center of our understanding of historical change in the United States.
URL:https://www.shgape.org/event/race-labor-and-empire-solidarity-migration-and-borders-in-united-states-1865-1970/
LOCATION:New York Ballroom East (Sheraton New York\, Third Floor)
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SUMMARY:Insurrectionists and Citizens\, Politicians and Activists: Defining (and Contesting) American Democracy\, 1860–2024 AHA Session 306
DESCRIPTION:AHA Session 306\nSociety for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 4\nMonday\, January 6\, 2025: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM\nRiverside Ballroom (Sheraton New York\, Third Floor)\n\nChair: Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor\, Smith College\n\n\nPapers:\n\n\nInsurrection and “Political Disabilities”: Confederates Respond to the 14th Amendment’s Third Section\, 1868–72\nLaura E. Free\, Hobart and William Smith College \n\n\n\n\n“Manhood Suffrage Means Manhood Service”: Debating US Citizenship in the World War I Era\nR.B. Tiven\, Graduate Center\, City University of New York \n\n\n\n\nBirth\, Belief\, and Blood: Gaining and Losing Citizenship during the American Civil War\nMichael Vorenberg\, Brown University \n\n\n\n\nThe Radically Reconstructionist Politics of 21st-Century Social Movements\nDeva Woodly\, Brown University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nComment:\nMartha S. Jones\, Johns Hopkins University\n\n\n\nSession Abstract \nSince its inception\, Americans have imposed constantly shifting limits on who could participate as citizens. The tools by which those limits are drawn have varied widely: from restrictions on the franchise to required loyalty and anti-communist oaths\, to limitations on office-holding\, to extreme extralegal and state-sanctioned violence to mass incarceration. And yet\, just as dominant and insistent as the restrictions are the voices of those demanding inclusion and access to democracy.Somewhat surprisingly\, the powerful have periodically acquiesced to expand the limits of the political community. But why would anyone voluntarily share power with others\, particularly when it dilutes their own? What does it take\, exactly\, to claim space in a polity that\, for much of its existence\, has been defined as the sole domain of wealthy white men? How have social\, economic\, and political upheavals—wars\, depressions\, and police violence—created new avenues to engage in democratic action? How have people claimed political citizenship in a democracy that accepted them only grudgingly? \nQuestions about how we collectively define and refine the American democracy\, and who exactly owns the democratic experience have always been a subject of vigorous public discussion\, and seem likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. The presenters on this panel will discuss how Americans think about the boundaries of citizenship\, loyalty\, and democracy from the Civil War to the present day. \nLaura Free examines what happened after Confederate insurrectionists lost their political citizenship under the 14th Amendment’s third section\, and what they said to try and get it back. Their petitions for removal of their political “disabilities” raise timely questions about whether loyalty is an action or a feeling\, and whether office-holding is a right of citizenship. \nMichael Vorenberg asks how citizens demonstrated their allegiance to the state during and after war. Sailors deposed during the Civil War\, men and women seeking to reclaim confiscated property\, and African Americans seeking to testify in judicial proceedings all articulated concepts of citizenship and loyalty. \nR.B. Tiven looks at how World War I changed the way the American state imagined its citizens. The federal government created a Selective Service system (a military draft) while simultaneously debating the voting rights of Filipinos and Puerto Ricans and the enfranchisement of women in the continental United States. The uneasy relationship among these debates demonstrates ideologies of citizenship in transition. \nDeva Woodly observes that more recently\, social movements are trying to develop ways of acting democratically that exceed the legal constraints of citizenship and go beyond electoral politics. They talk more in terms of self determination and trans-national solidarity. What do social movements do in and for democracy? \nThis panel explores these questions and offers insights into the ways Americans have both restricted and wedged open the boundaries of their democracy between the mid-nineteenth and early twenty-first centuries.
URL:https://www.shgape.org/event/insurrectionists-and-citizens-politicians-and-activists-defining-and-contesting-american-democracy-1860-2024-aha-session-306/
LOCATION:Riverside Ballroom (Sheraton New York\, Third Floor)
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SUMMARY:Rethinking the Early Greek Immigration Experience in the United States\, 1910s–30s AHA Session 251
DESCRIPTION:AHA Session 251\nModern Greek Studies Association 1\nSociety for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 3\nSunday\, January 5\, 2025: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM\nRiverside Ballroom (Sheraton New York\, Third Floor)\n\nChair: Hasia R. Diner\, New York University\n\n\nPapers:\n\n\nThe Book of the Immigrant: Greek American Guides as Mediators of Sociohistorical Knowledge\nMaria Kaliambou\, Yale University \n\n\n\n\nAmerican Discrimination\, Riots\, and Attacks upon Early Greek Immigrants/Migrants\, 1882–1922: A Shared Experience\nConstantine Hatzidimitriou\, Saint John’s University \n\n\n\n\nTo Love the Poor: Orphanages and the Greek American Community in the United States during the Early 20th Century\nFevronia Soumakis\, Queens College\, City University of New York \n\n\n\n\nHead of the Commonwealth\, Defender of the Faith: The Sovereign Role of Religion in the Greek Diaspora\nAristomenis Papadimitriou\, Fordham University \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession Abstract \nThe early Greek immigration experience offers an opportunity for addressing the relative absence of Greeks in the mainstream literature by situating them within the broader American historical context. How did Greeks navigate new boundaries of race\, religion\, and education? In what ways do these experiences enrich the scholarship of this period? Who were the stakeholders who emerged to define these ideas\, and impact the growing Greek American communities throughout the United States? Each of the panelists offers a range of perspectives that redefines the Greek immigration narrative of that time.In this session\, the imaginary of the “illiterate immigrant” is challenged through an exploration of a particular genre of Greek-produced literature that emerged during the early period—informational guides. These texts\, which demonstrate the flow of knowledge through social networks\, offered Greek immigrants arriving to America and Canada advice on how to navigate their new environment. The leading figure of this genre was Seraphim Canoutas\, a Greek-born lawyer\, who published and updated the Greek American Guide from 1908-1915. These guides offer a counternarrative to the early paternalistic studies about Greeks produced by Protestant missionaries such as Henry Pratt Fairchild\, Thomas Burgess\, and Thomas James Lacey. \nThe Greek American Guide communicated valuable information on American habits and ways to help orient Greek immigrants in their new homeland\, however\, it could not prepare or safeguard them from the discrimination and violence many of them would encounter. While the Ludlow Massacre of Colorado (1914) was one of the more well documented miners strikes that involved large numbers of Greeks\, acts of violence and discrimination against Greeks occurred throughout the United States. One panelist interrogates the extent to which Greeks embraced the racial hierarchies embedded within American society before World War II. \nThe stereotype of success of the early Greek immigrants overshadows the severe poverty that many families experienced upon arrival and throughout their settlement. Another panelist reveals the extent to which this poverty is revealed in community organizations’ efforts to care for and educate Greek children whose parents were deceased or simply could no longer care for them. These efforts began as early as 1912 with the founding of the Greek American Institute (GAI)\, New York’s first Greek Orthodox orphanage and parochial school established in the Bronx. However\, it was only after the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America consolidated its power that efforts to support an orphanage became a sustained reality. These efforts incorporated women’s philanthropic organizations that cut across class lines and enabled Greek American women to promote education and to leverage their social and intellectual networks in support of their communities. \nThe Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America played a vital role in the lives of Greek Americans. The final panelist underscores the Church’s substantial influence on immigrant life\, with a particular focus on political\, cultural and philanthropic oversight. The analysis highlights the Archbishop’s impact on national identity and community cohesion\, drawing from Alexander Kitroeff’s recent historical work on the subject (2020).
URL:https://www.shgape.org/event/rethinking-the-early-greek-immigration-experience-in-the-united-states-1910s-30s-aha-session-251/
LOCATION:Riverside Ballroom (Sheraton New York\, Third Floor)
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SUMMARY:Working and Organizing in Diaspora: Syrian\, Puerto Rican\, and Sephardic Jewish Women Workers in the ILGWU AHA Session 220
DESCRIPTION:AHA Session 220\nLabor and Working-Class History Association 10\nSociety for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2\nSunday\, January 5\, 2025: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM\nPetit Trianon (New York Hilton\, Third Floor)\n\nChair:\nAnnelise Orleck\, Dartmouth College\n\n\nPapers:\n\n\nPicketing the Syrian Shop: Confronting Mahjari Capitalism and Its Archival Afterlives\nStacy D. Fahrenthold\, University of California\, Davis \n\n\n\n\nNosotras Trabajamos en la Costura: Puerto Rican Needleworkers and Colonial Unionizing with the ILGWU\nAimee Loiselle\, Central Connecticut State University \n\n\n\n\n“Oriental Jewesses” on Strike: Labor Organizing in New York’s Garment Industry among Jewish Women from the Ottoman Empire\nDevin Naar\, University of Washington\, Seattle \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nComment:\nAnnelise Orleck\, Dartmouth College\n\n\n\nSession Abstract \nThis panel examines the intersections of labor activism\, ethnic identity\, and diaspora politics among three groups of garment workers who organized with the International Ladies Garment Workers Unions (ILGWU) in the twentieth century. Written from the ethnic archives\, these three papers build upon transnational US labor histories by writing from the perspectives of Syrian\, Puerto Rican\, and Sephardic Jewish women workers. All three papers consider how available archives have shaped the legibility of women workers\, particularly those who centered their organizing within their own transnational\, colonial\, or diasporic networks or who were recorded incompletely in union records. We think about how transimperial\, colonial\, and diasporic frameworks shaped garment worker activism\, and ultimately the textile industry in the United States.Stacy Fahrenthold’s paper examines the labor politics of Syrian garment workers in New York City\, women who stitched kimonos in factories operated by Syrian American merchant-manufacturers. Previously deemed “unorganizable” by unions on account of the Syrian community’s strong diasporic ties\, Syrian workers struck with the ILGWU between 1916 and 1934\, organizing their ethnic networks to support work stoppages. Aimee Loiselle’s paper focuses on Puerto Rican needleworkers on the main island and in the northeast who joined the ILGWU between 1930 and 1990. These women not only fought for better working conditions but also challenged colonial and international trade policies\, attempting to set the terms of both labor activism and globalization. Devin Naar’s paper examines the involvement of Ladino-speaking Sephardic Jewish women workers in New York City. He highlights the challenges and opportunities that Sephardi women workers from the Ottoman Empire negotiated in their interactions with activists from Yiddish-speaking\, Syrian\, and Puerto Rican communities. All three papers rely on the blended methodologies of migration/diaspora studies and labor history\, and on the use of oral histories\, ethnic society records\, private papers\, and personal correspondence in addition to formal ILGWU archival collections.
URL:https://www.shgape.org/event/working-and-organizing-in-diaspora-syrian-puerto-rican-and-sephardic-jewish-women-workers-in-the-ilgwu-aha-session-220/
LOCATION:Petit Trianon (New York Hilton\, Third Floor)\, 1335 Avenue of the Americas\, New York\, NY 10019\, New York\, NY\, 10019\, United States
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