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2012 OAH/NCPH Annual Meeting

Frontiers of Capitalism and Democracy

The Harley-Davidson Museum opened in 2008 and features exhibits of engine parts, photographs, advertising materials, and more than 450 motorcycles.
Photo courtesy VisitMilwaukee.org.

Meet Us in Milwaukee

The Organization of American Historians and the National Council on Public History (NCPH) invite you to the 2012 annual meeting in the beautiful lakefront city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “Frontiers of Capitalism and Democracy” is this year’s theme. The collaboration between the OAH and the NCPH, the variety of scholarly sessions, and the great location are sure to make the 2012 gathering the most dynamic annual meeting to date. Read more >

Frontier Airlines Center
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Wednesday, April 18 to Sunday, April 22, 2012

On the one-hundredth anniversary of two of the most potent third-party presidential challenges in U.S. history, the Organization of American Historians and the National Council on Public History will meet in Milwaukee, a shoreline city where immigrant leaders initiated innovative public policies during the industrial era. Panels will address the shaping role of evolving market systems, class relations, and migrations over the long chronological sweep of American history, and explore the frontiers of social imagination and/or territorial encounters that have altered understandings of other peoples and traditions. The meeting also will include a live broadcast of Backstory with the American History Guys.

Professional Organizations and Political Engagements: An Interchange

The Organization of American Historians recently conducted an “interchange” conversation among current and past leaders of the organization. The discussion focuses on the complex relationship between the duties, professional obligations, and avowed mission of a learned society and the personal or political ideologies of the individual members it represents. Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, facilitated the lively online discussion.
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Precirculated Paper Sessions

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