DAVID A. SAYRE HISTORY SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMS SAYRE SCHOOL LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY

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1 -1- DAVID A. SAYRE HISTORY SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMS SAYRE SCHOOL LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY

2 -2- THE COLD WAR: , VARYING PERSPECTIVES 16 February Dr. Edward P. Crapol, Some Reflections on the Historiography of the College of William & Mary Cold War 2. Dr. George C. Herring, Yalta as Cold War Metaphor 3. Dr. George C. Strong, The Finlandization of Europe College of William & Mary 4. Dr. John G. Garrard, Stalin and the Cold War University of Arizona THE ORDEAL OF UNION: CLAY, CALHOUN, AND WEBSTER IN ANTE-BELLUM AMERICA 22 February Dr. Merrill Peterson, Ante-bellum America: An Overview University of Virginia 6. Dr. Michael Birkner, Daniel Webster and the Problem of Slavery Millersville (PA) U. 7. Dr. Robert Seager II, Henry Clay in Ante-bellum America 8. Dr. Clyde N. Wilson, John C. Calhoun and Ante-bellum America University of South Carolina

3 -3- TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION 28 February Dr. Lance Banning, James Madison: The Revolutionary Moderate as Founding Father 10. Dr. Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau, Showing the Might of the Federal Government: University of Louisville The Whiskey Rebellion and the Question of Evidence 11. Dr. Paul A. Varg, The Foreign Policy of the Founding Fathers Michigan State University 12. Dr. Timothy G. O Rourke, Contemporary Constitutional Issues: The University of Virginia Virginia Ratification Debate of 1788 MUNICH: PRELUDE TO WORLD WAR 27 February Dr. Sally Marks, MUNICH: Hitler s Failure Rhode Island College 14. Dr. Donald Lammers, Munich and British Foreign Policy : A Crisis Michigan State University Nonpareil 15. Dr. Norman Graebner, Washington and Munich: The Elusive Choice University of Virginia 16. Dr. Alex de Jonge, Stalin and Munich: The Soviet Perspective University of Arizona

4 -4- CRISIS AND THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY 25 February Dr. Daniel P. Jordan, President Without Precedent: George Director, Monticello George Washington and the Crisis of Dr. Emory M. Thomas, Secession, Succession, and Sumter: The University of Georgia Sumter, The Crisis of Dr. Susan E. Kennedy, Herbert Hoover and the Banking Crisis of 1933 Virginia Commonwealth U. 20. Dr. Thomas G. Paterson, John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis University of Connecticut FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND THE NEW DEAL 24 February Dr. Robert S. McElvaine, The New Deal and American Values Millsaps College 22. Dr. Mark H. Lytle, FDR: Attacking the Sphinx Bard College 23. Dr. Susan Ware, Beyond BEYOND SUFFRAGE: Further New York University Reflections on Women in the New Deal 24. Dr. Michael Stoff, FDR and the New Deal Old Paths, New University of Texas Directions

5 : A YEAR THAT CHANGED AMERICA 23 February Dr. Terry Anderson, 1968: The Sea Change Texas A & M University 26. Dr. George C. Herring, The Tet Offensive and the Crisis of Hegemony 27. Dr. George Wright, The Civil Rights Movement in 1968 University of Texas 28. Dr. David Farber, The Silent Majority and Talk about Revolution: Barnard College Election Year 1968 AMERICA IN THE GILDED AGE 22 February Dr. Mark W. Summers, Taking Trivial Politics Seriously: American Political Life in the Gilded Age 30. Dr. Leon R. Fink, The Worker s Search for Order University of North Carolina 31. Dr. George Pozzetta, Immigration to America: Alternative University of Florida Perspectives 32. Dr. Joyce S. Goldberg, From the Old Diplomacy to the New University of Texas at Arlington

6 -6- FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND WORLD WAR II 27 February Dr. J. Garry Clifford, Roosevelt at the Rubicon: Presidential University of Connecticut Leadership and American Entry Into World War II 34. Dr. Mark A. Stoler, Commander-in-Chief: Roosevelt, U.S. Strategy University of Vermont and Civil-Military Relations During World War II 35. Dr. Donald A. Ritchie, Roosevelt and the War Congress Office of the Historian, United States Senate 36. Dr. Allan M. Winkler, Roosevelt and the Home Front Miami University (Ohio) WITH ALL DELIBERATE SPEED: AMERICA AND BROWN 26 February Dr. Kenneth W. Goings, The Roads to Brown Florida Atlantic University 38. Dr. Donald G. Nieman, Brown v. Board of Education: Not-so-Simple Clemson University Justice 39. Dr. Numan V. Bartley, The White Reaction to Southern School University of Georgia Desegregation 40. Dr. Gerald L. Smith, Black Protest in the Bluegrass State: Kentucky s Civil Rights Years

7 -7- LINCOLN THE PRESIDENT 25 February Dr. Cullom Davis, Presidential Prelude: The Law Practice of The Lincoln Legal Papers Abraham Lincoln 42. Dr. William E. Gienapp, The Presidential Leadership of Abraham Harvard University Lincoln 43. Dr. Mark Summers Abraham Lincoln as a War Leader 44. Dr. Phillip S. Paludan, Emancipating the Republic: Lincoln and the University of Kansas Death of Slavery EVERY FOUR YEARS: HISTORIC PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS 24 February Dr. Landis Jones, More Shouting Than Substance? University of Louisville 46. Dr. Michael Holt, Why Did Lincoln Win? Another Look at the University of Virginia Election of Dr. John M. Cooper, Jr., From Philosophies to Coalitions: The University of Wisconsin Elections of 1912 and Dr. Jean H. Baker, Talking Sense: Adlai Stevenson and the Goucher College and the Presidential Election of 1952

8 -8- HIGH COURT KENTUCKIANS: THE U.S. SUPREME COURT & THE BLUEGRASS STATE 22 February The Hon. Walter A. Baker, Kentucky and the Federal Constitution Kentucky Supreme Court (ret.) 50. Dr. Linda C. Przybyszewski, The Trouble with Greatness in Biography Columbia University 51. Dr. Melvin I. Urofsky Quote Holmes, Follow Brandeis: Louis D. Virginia Commonwealth U. Brandeis and the Right of Free Speech 52. Dr. David M. O Brien Justice Stanley Reed in the Whirlwind of University of Virginia Liberal Legalism and the Demise of Institutional Opinions for the Court THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT 28 February Dr. Robert A. Pratt A View from the Mountaintop: The Enduring University of Georgia Significance of Race in American Society Thirty Years after King 54. Dr. Tracy E. K Meyer Movement in a Border City: Lessons from the University of Louisville Civil Rights Struggle in Louisville, Kentucky 55. Dr. Steven F. Lawson Bringing the State Back Home: Federal University of North Carolina Government and the Civil Rights Movement at Greensboro 56. Dr. Charles M. Payne Teaching About the Movement from the Northwestern University Bottom-Up

9 -9- VIET NAM: REMEMBERING AMERICA S LONGEST WAR 27 February Dr. Walter F. LaFeber, The Vietnam War: The Turning Point in the Cornell University American Century? 58. Dr. Robert J. McMahon, Debating the Vietnam War s Meaning University of Florida 59. Dr. Robert K. Brigham, The Wars for Vietnam: The View from Hanoi Vassar College 60. Dr. Yvonne Baldwin, Panel Discussion: War in the Classroom: Morehead State University Teaching Vietnam to the Post-War Dr. John Ernst, Generation Morehead State University Dr. Mitchell K. Hall, Central Michigan University Dr. Robert Leupold, Henry Clay High School Dr. Clarence Wyatt, Centre College THE UNITED STATES FROM : A LOOK BACK AT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 26 February Dr. Mark H. Lytle, Bard College From Gilded Age to Web Page: The Shifting Contours of American Politics in the 20 th Century 62. Dr. Carol R. Berkin, Clio s Modern Daughters: Women in 20 th Baruch College, CUNY Century America 63. Dr. James C. Cobb, Southern Odyssey: The South in the 20 th University of Georgia Century 64. Dr. Alex Roland, The Garrison State Revisited Duke University

10 -10- AMERICA IN THE 1950S: AN ANXIOUS DECADE OR HAPPY DAYS? 24 February Dr. Richard Immerman Eisenhower s New Look Temple University 66. Dr. Michael J. Birkner What Ozzie Nelson did for a Living, and Other Gettysburg College Suburban Tales from the 50s 67. Dr. Kathi L. Kern The Bad 1950?s: Reassessing Women s History 68. Dr. Pete Daniel Reinterpreting the 1950s South Smithsonian Institution HOW WARS END: THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE 2 March Dr. Michael C. Desch Every War Must End: Theories of War Termination and the American Experience 70. Dr. Brian M. Linn Bringing An End to the Philippine Texas A & M University Insurrection: Dr. Warren F. Kimball Two Halves of Different Walnuts: War Rutgers University, Newark Aims and War Settlements in the Second World War 72. Dr. Conrad C. Crane Applying Air Pressure and Negotiating with The U. S. Army War College Communists: Lessons from the War that Didn t End (Korea)