AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
JANUARY 4-7, 2001
Boston
H-NET: HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ONLINE
Affiliated Sessions
Visit H-Net in booth 136 in the Marriott's University of Masschusetts
Exhibit Hall. Hours: Thursday, January 4, 3-7 PM; Friday and Saturday,
January 5 and 6, 9 AM - 6 PM; and Sunday, January 7, 9 AM - 12 noon.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 4
9:30 AM-4:30 PM: Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salons B/C/D. H-Net
Council
Meeting
FRIDAY, JANUARY 5
9:30 - 11:30 AM: Marriott. Suffolk Room. Session 1.
Transforming Teaching
and Learning in U.S. History through New Technologies
Chair: Sara Tucker, Washburn
University
Papers:
"Rethinking the Survey Course for the
Internet: The University of
Texas Experience"
Christopher L. Miller, University of Texas--Pan American
"Teaching United States
History 1916-1945 Using Internet Resoruces
Jules Tygiel, San Francisco State University
"Creating and Evaluating a
Multimedia Teaching/Learning Package
Jeffrey Greene, Houghton Mifflin Company
Comment: Paula Evans Petrik, University of Maine at Orono
Sara Tucker
2:30 - 4:30 PM: Marriott, Grand Ballroom. Salon H. Joint session with the
AHA. Historical Publishing in the Digital Age: Revisiting Stevan Harnad's
"Subversive Proposal"
Chair: Stevan Harnad,
University of South Hampton
Panel:
Michael Jon Jensen, The National Academy Press
Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University
Paul Turnbull, Autralian National University
Comment: Melanie Shell-Weiss, Michigan State University
2:30-4:30 PM: Marriott, Suffolk Room. Session 3. Primacy to the Event? The
New Technologies and the Narrative Mode
Chair: Janice Reiff, University of California at Los Angeles
Papers:
"'Pictures with Light and Motion':
Spatializing the Narratives of
the English Court Masque"
Ross Parry, University of Leicester
"The Attack on the President
of Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, 5th
November 1897: The Narration of the Moment"
Frank Colson, Association for Information Management
"The Comprehension of the
Image: Power and the Dutch Republic,
1588: Narrative as Hierarchy and Linearity"
Andrew Sawyer, University of Southampton
"Chicago 1919": Narrative as
Teleology
Jean Colson, Association for Information Management
Comment: Janice Reiff
SATURDAY, JANUARY 6
9:30-11:30 AM: Marriott, Suffolk Room. Session 4. Graduate Training in the
Digital Age: A Roundtable Discussion of What History Departments Should be
Doing
Chair: Mark Lawrence Kornbluh, Michigan State University
Panel:
Abdul Alkalimat, University of Toldeo
David Herr, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Patrick Manning, Northeastern University
Janice Reiff, University of California at Los Angeles
9:30-11:30 AM: John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Dave Powers Room.
Session 5, joint with the Association for the Bibliography of History.
Research in the Presidential Libraries: The View from the FDR and JFK
Chair: James P. Niessen, Texas Tech University Libraries
Panel:
Allida M. Black, George Washington University
Nancy Godleski, Yale University Libraries
Maura Porter, John F. Kennedy Library and Museum
Ray Teichman, Franklin D. Roosevelt LIbrary
Thomas Whalen, Boston University
2:30-4:30 PM: Marriott, Suffolk Room. Session 6. Engaging with K-12 History
Education: Collaborative Models for Using Educational Technology
Chair: Jana Flores, California Historical-Social Science Project
Papers:
"Project RiverWeb in the
Classroom"
Ian Binnington, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Orville Vernon Burton, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
"Content and Pedagogy in
Tandem: Working with the New York City
Public Schools"
Bret Eynon, American Social History Project
"Archives in Action: Building
Collaborative
Partnerships through
Online Curriculum Projects"
Michael Fegan, Michigan State University
Comment: Marilyn Levine, Lewis Clark State College
Jana Flores
2:30-4:30 PM: Marriott, Wellesley Room. Session 7. Third Annual Bill-Cecil
Fronsman Teaching Innovation Panel: Digital Teaching Diamonds: Best
Resources and Methods for Teaching History
Chair: Kelly A. Woestman, Pittsburg State University
Papers:
"Digital World History Teaching Methods and Resources: What Do I
Use and Where Do I Get It"
Sara Tucker, Washburn University
"Teaching US History with Technology: What World and What Doesn't"
Steven Mintz, University of Houston
Comment: Kelly A. Woestman
8:00 PM - whenever: H-Net Reception -- All are invited. 55
Huntington Ave. Prudential Center (Across from the Westin Copley)
SUNDAY, JANUARY 7
8:30-10:30 AM: Sheraton, Fairfax Room A. Joint session with the AHA
Teaching Division. Multiple Voices/Multiple Narratives: Historical Methods
and Undergraduate Education in the Digital Age
Chair: Gustav L. Seligmann, University of North Texas
Papers:
"Teaching Undergraduate Historical
Methods in the Internet Age"
Melvin E. Page, East Tennessee State University
Penny M. Sonnenburg, East Tennessee State University
"The Challenge of Traditional
Methodology and Modern Technology:
Local Oral Histories, the Internet, and the History Undergraduate"
Jacquelyn Kent, Florida Gulf Coast University
"Constructing Narratives in the
Digital Age: Teaching
Undergraduate Research Methods in Early Modern European History"
Michael J. Galgano, James Madison University
"Creating a New Narrative: The Promise
and Pitfalls of a
Computer-Based Historical Methods Course"
Peter Field, Tennessee Technological University
Comment: The Audience
8:30-10:30 AM: Marriott, Suffolk Room. Session 9. Exploring the Promise of
the Web for Integrating a Health Narrative into the History of Modern
America
Chair: Janet Tighe, University of Pennsylvania
Papers:
"Using Medical History to Illuminate Survey Themes through a
Web-Based Problem-Solving Approach to U.S. History since 1865"
Kathleen W. Jones, Virginia Polytechnic and State University
"Cutting Edge: Surgery and American Technological Aspirations at
Mid-Century"
Jennifer Gunn, University of Minnesota
"Letting Form Follow Function: Using Web-Based Resources for More
than Just an Electronic Syllabus"
Nathan Ensmenger, University of Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Toon, University of Pennsylvania
Audra Wolfe, University of Pennsylvania
Comment:
Janet Tighe
The Audience
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM: Mariott, Suffolk Room. Session 10. Making History:
Exhibitions in the Digital Age
Chair: Russell Lewis, Chicago Historical Society
Papers:
"Text and Context: Historical Exhibitions and the Web"
Carl J. Smith, Northwestern University
"Giving Voice to History on the Web"
David Bailey, Michigan State University
Mark Krasovic, Yale University
Comment:
Russell Lewis
The Audience
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