NCPH First-Time Attendee and New Member Breakfast

Friday, 8:00 am — 10:00 am
Cost: $25

Join the NCPH Membership Committee and other first-time conference attendees and new members for conversation and breakfast. This is a great way to meet new and old members of the organization and to learn more about NCPH, the conference, and the field of public history. A plated breakfast will be served.

Cosponsored by American University and the NCPH Membership Committee

Public History Educators Breakfast

Friday, 8:00 am — 10:00 am
Cost: $25

This annual event is an opportunity for faculty to share ideas about running graduate and undergraduate public history programs and to talk about university, departmental, and a wide variety of other issues. The discussion is always lively. A plated breakfast will be served.

Sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center at Brown University

Community College Historians Breakfast

Saturday, 7:30 am — 8:30 am
Cost: Free

Community college historians will gather for the fifth annual OAH Community College Breakfast. The breakfast provides an opportunity to meet other community college historians and members of the OAH Committee on Community Colleges and to learn about upcoming workshops and professional development opportunities designed for professors working at community colleges.

Sponsored by Milestone Documents

College Board Breakfast

Saturday, 8:00 am — 9:00 am
Cost: $10

Keynote Address: “The New Right in Historical Perspective”
Michael Flamm, Ohio Wesleyan University
Michael W. Flamm has taught modern US history at Ohio Wesleyan University since 1998. He is the author of Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s (2005) and a coauthor of Debating the 1960s (2007), Debating the Reagan Presidency (2009), and the Chicago Handbook for Teachers (2011). On behalf of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, he offers summer seminars for precollegiate teachers on numerous eras and topics. He has won several teaching awards and has served as a Fulbright scholar and senior specialist in Argentina.

Hosted by the College Board

NCPH Awards Breakfast, Business Meeting, and Presidential Address

Saturday, 8:00 am — 10:00 am
Cost: $36

Help celebrate the best in public history! The annual awards ceremony provides a look at some of the most innovative work and admirable accomplishments in the profession today. NCPH President Marty Blatt’s presidential address will examine “Holocaust Memory and Germany.”

In 2001, Blatt traveled to Heidelberg, Germany, with his mother to participate in their program for former Jewish citizens. Subsequently, he wrote about this experience in the Public Historian. In 2011, he again participated in the Heidelberg program, this time with his twelve-year-old daughter. His talk will explore the dynamics of the 2011 reunion and ongoing efforts in Germany to commemorate the Holocaust. The NCPH Business Meeting, the awards program, and the Presidential Address are open to all conference registrants, though a ticket is required for the breakfast buffet. Attendees without tickets will be admitted after the meal has begun and are welcome to seats in the back or sides of the room.

Women in the Historical Profession Luncheon

Friday, 12:00 pm — 1:30 pm
Cost: $45 *

Keynote Address: US Magistrate Judge Patricia J. Gorence
Patricia J. Gorence is a US magistrate judge in the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Prior to her appointment, she was in private law practice, served as deputy attorney general for the State of Wisconsin, and as interim US attorney and assistant US attorney in the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

* Through the generosity of donors, the members of the OAH Committee on Women in the Historical Profession are able to offer free luncheon tickets to graduate students on a first-come, first-served basis. To request a graduate student ticket, send an e-mail message to before April 1, 2012.

Sponsored by: Business History Conference, Coalition for Western Women’s History, Coordinating Council for Women in History, Marquette University Department of History, National Council on Public History, Southern Association of Women Historians, University of Delaware Department of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of History, University of Texas Department of History, University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire Department of History, University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire Women’s Studies Program

Focus on Teaching Luncheon

Saturday, 12:00 pm — 1:30 pm
Cost: $45

Keynote Address: “Screening Frederick Jackson Turner: Daniel Day-Lewis and the Significance of the Frontier in American Cinema”
Jim Cullen, history teacher at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, New York, New York, book review editor at the History News Network (www.hnn.us), and “Common School” column editor at Common-Place (www.common-place.org).

Labor and Working-Class History Association Annual Membership Meeting and Luncheon

Saturday, 12:00 pm — 1:30 pm
Cost: $45 (faculty), $20 (student)

All members and attendees interested in joining the association are invited to register for the luncheon.

Shelton Stromquist and Kimberley Phillips will report on the work of LAWCHA, the annual Award for Lifetime Service to Labor History will be presented to past presidents Alice Kessler-Harris and Joe Trotter, and the Herbert G. Gutman Prize and Philip Taft book award will be presented to this year’s recipients.

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Luncheon and the Stuart L. Bernath Memorial Lecture

Saturday, 12:00 pm — 1:30 pm
Cost: $25

Presiding: Thomas Zeiler, University of Colorado, president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

Keynote Address: “The United States and the Curious Descent of Self-Determination”
Bradley R. Simpson, Princeton University
SHAFR will also present its 2012 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Stuart L. Bernath Scholarly Article Prize, Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize, Myrna Bernath Book Prize, and Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize.

Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Luncheon

Saturday, 12:00 pm — 1:30 pm
Cost: $45

Presidential Address: “The City: Still the ‘Hope of Democracy?’ from Jane Addams and Mary Parker Follett to the Arab Spring”
Maureen A. Flanagan, Michigan State University and SHGAPE president.

Urban History Association Luncheon

Saturday, 12:00 pm — 1:30 pm
Cost: $45

Keynote Speaker: Wendell Pritchett, Rutgers University-Camden.

Women and Social Movements Luncheon

Saturday, 12:00 pm — 1:30 pm
Cost: Free

Luncheon talk and slide presentation: “Introducing Women and Social Movements, International, 1840 to Present”. Reserve a seat by e-mail to .