Download david a. sayre history symposium programs 1985

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DAVID A. SAYRE
HISTORY SYMPOSIUM
PROGRAMS
1985 - 2002
SAYRE SCHOOL
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY
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THE COLD WAR: 1945-1985, VARYING PERSPECTIVES
16 February 1985
1.
Dr. Edward P. Crapol,
College of William & Mary
Some Reflections on the Historiography of the
Cold War
2.
Dr. George C. Herring,
University of Kentucky
Yalta as Cold War Metaphor
3.
Dr. George C. Strong,
College of William & Mary
The ‘Finlandization’ of Europe
4.
Dr. John G. Garrard,
University of Arizona
Stalin and the Cold War
THE ORDEAL OF UNION:
CLAY, CALHOUN, AND WEBSTER IN ANTE-BELLUM AMERICA
22 February 1986
5.
Dr. Merrill Peterson,
University of Virginia
Ante-bellum America: An Overview
6.
Dr. Michael Birkner,
Millersville (PA) U.
Daniel Webster and the Problem of Slavery
7.
Dr. Robert Seager II,
University of Kentucky
Henry Clay in Ante-bellum America
8.
Dr. Clyde N. Wilson,
University of South Carolina
John C. Calhoun and Ante-bellum America
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TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION
28 February 1987
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Dr. Lance Banning,
University of Kentucky
James Madison: The Revolutionary Moderate
as Founding Father
10.
Dr. Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau,
University of Louisville
Showing the Might of the Federal Government:
The Whiskey Rebellion and the Question of
Evidence
11.
Dr. Paul A. Varg,
Michigan State University
The Foreign Policy of the Founding Fathers
12.
Dr. Timothy G. O’Rourke,
University of Virginia
Contemporary Constitutional Issues: The
Virginia Ratification Debate of 1788
MUNICH: PRELUDE TO WORLD WAR
27 February 1988
13.
Dr. Sally Marks,
Rhode Island College
MUNICH: Hitler’s Failure
14.
Dr. Donald Lammers,
Michigan State University
Munich and British Foreign Policy : A Crisis
Nonpareil
15.
Dr. Norman Graebner,
University of Virginia
Washington and Munich: The Elusive Choice
16.
Dr. Alex de Jonge,
University of Arizona
Stalin and Munich: The Soviet Perspective
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CRISIS AND THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY
25 February 1989
17.
Dr. Daniel P. Jordan,
Director, Monticello
President Without Precedent: George
George Washington and the Crisis of 1789
18.
Dr. Emory M. Thomas,
University of Georgia
Secession, Succession, and Sumter: The
Sumter, The Crisis of 1860-61
19.
Dr. Susan E. Kennedy,
Virginia Commonwealth U.
Herbert Hoover and the Banking Crisis of 1933
20.
Dr. Thomas G. Paterson,
University of Connecticut
John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND THE NEW DEAL
24 February 1990
21.
Dr. Robert S. McElvaine,
Millsaps College
The New Deal and American Values
22.
Dr. Mark H. Lytle,
Bard College
FDR: Attacking the Sphinx
23.
Dr. Susan Ware,
New York University
Beyond BEYOND SUFFRAGE: Further
Reflections on Women in the New Deal
24.
Dr. Michael Stoff,
University of Texas
FDR and the New Deal Old Paths, New
Directions
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1968: A YEAR THAT CHANGED AMERICA
23 February 1991
25.
Dr. Terry Anderson,
Texas A & M University
1968: The Sea Change
26.
Dr. George C. Herring,
University of Kentucky
The Tet Offensive and the Crisis of Hegemony
27.
Dr. George Wright,
University of Texas
The Civil Rights Movement in 1968
28.
Dr. David Farber,
Barnard College
The Silent Majority and Talk about Revolution:
Election Year 1968
AMERICA IN THE GILDED AGE
22 February 1992
29.
Dr. Mark W. Summers,
University of Kentucky
Taking Trivial Politics Seriously: American
Political Life in the Gilded Age
30.
Dr. Leon R. Fink,
University of North Carolina
The Worker’s Search for Order
31.
Dr. George Pozzetta,
University of Florida
Immigration to America: Alternative
Perspectives
32.
Dr. Joyce S. Goldberg,
University of Texas at Arlington
From the Old Diplomacy to the New
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND WORLD WAR II
27 February 1993
33.
Dr. J. Garry Clifford,
University of Connecticut
Roosevelt at the Rubicon: Presidential
Leadership and American Entry Into World
War II
34.
Dr. Mark A. Stoler,
University of Vermont
Commander-in-Chief: Roosevelt, U.S. Strategy
and Civil-Military Relations During World
War II
35.
Dr. Donald A. Ritchie,
Office of the Historian,
United States Senate
Roosevelt and the War Congress
36.
Dr. Allan M. Winkler,
Miami University (Ohio)
Roosevelt and the Home Front
WITH ALL DELIBERATE SPEED: AMERICA AND BROWN
26 February 1994
37.
Dr. Kenneth W. Goings,
Florida Atlantic University
The Roads to Brown
38.
Dr. Donald G. Nieman,
Clemson University
Brown v. Board of Education: Not-so-Simple
Justice
39.
Dr. Numan V. Bartley,
University of Georgia
The White Reaction to Southern School
Desegregation
40.
Dr. Gerald L. Smith,
University of Kentucky
Black Protest in the Bluegrass State: Kentucky’s
Civil Rights Years
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LINCOLN THE PRESIDENT
25 February 1995
41.
Dr. Cullom Davis,
The Lincoln Legal Papers
Presidential Prelude: The Law Practice of
Abraham Lincoln
42.
Dr. William E. Gienapp,
Harvard University
The Presidential Leadership of Abraham
Lincoln
43.
Dr. Mark Summers
University of Kentucky
Abraham Lincoln as a War Leader
44.
Dr. Phillip S. Paludan,
University of Kansas
Emancipating the Republic: Lincoln and the
Death of Slavery
EVERY FOUR YEARS: HISTORIC PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
24 February 1996
45.
Dr. Landis Jones,
University of Louisville
More Shouting Than Substance?
46.
Dr. Michael Holt,
University of Virginia
Why Did Lincoln Win? Another Look at the
Election of 1860
47.
Dr. John M. Cooper, Jr.,
University of Wisconsin
From Philosophies to Coalitions: The
Elections of 1912 and 1916
48.
Dr. Jean H. Baker,
Goucher College
Talking Sense: Adlai Stevenson and the
and the Presidential Election of 1952
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HIGH COURT KENTUCKIANS:
THE U.S. SUPREME COURT & THE BLUEGRASS STATE
22 February 1997
49.
The Hon. Walter A. Baker,
Kentucky Supreme Court (ret.)
Kentucky and the Federal Constitution
50.
Dr. Linda C. Przybyszewski,
Columbia University
The Trouble with Greatness in Biography
51.
Dr. Melvin I. Urofsky
Virginia Commonwealth U.
Quote Holmes, Follow Brandeis: Louis D.
Brandeis and the Right of Free Speech
52.
Dr. David M. O’Brien
University of Virginia
Justice Stanley Reed in the Whirlwind of
Liberal Legalism and the Demise of
Institutional Opinions for the Court
THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
28 February 1998
53. Dr. Robert A. Pratt
University of Georgia
A View from the Mountaintop: The Enduring
Significance of Race in American Society
Thirty Years after King
54. Dr. Tracy E. K’Meyer
University of Louisville
Movement in a Border City: Lessons from the
Civil Rights Struggle in Louisville, Kentucky
55. Dr. Steven F. Lawson
University of North Carolina
at Greensboro
Bringing the State Back Home: Federal
Government and the Civil Rights Movement
56. Dr. Charles M. Payne
Northwestern University
Teaching About the Movement from the
Bottom-Up
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VIET NAM: REMEMBERING AMERICA’S LONGEST WAR
27 February 1999
57.
Dr. Walter F. LaFeber,
Cornell University
The Vietnam War: The Turning Point in the
American Century?
58.
Dr. Robert J. McMahon,
University of Florida
Debating the Vietnam War’s Meaning
59.
Dr. Robert K. Brigham,
Vassar College
The Wars for Vietnam: The View from Hanoi
60.
Dr. Yvonne Baldwin,
Morehead State University
Dr. John Ernst,
Morehead State University
Dr. Mitchell K. Hall,
Central Michigan University
Dr. Robert Leupold,
Henry Clay High School
Dr. Clarence Wyatt,
Centre College
Panel Discussion: War in the Classroom:
Teaching Vietnam to the Post-War
Generation
THE UNITED STATES FROM 1900-2000:
A LOOK BACK AT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
26 February 2000
61.
Dr. Mark H. Lytle, Bard College
From Gilded Age to Web Page: The Shifting
Contours of American Politics in the 20th
Century
62.
Dr. Carol R. Berkin,
Baruch College, CUNY
Clio’s Modern Daughters: Women in 20th
Century America
63.
Dr. James C. Cobb,
University of Georgia
Southern Odyssey: The South in the 20th
Century
64.
Dr. Alex Roland,
Duke University
The Garrison State Revisited
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AMERICA IN THE 1950S: AN “ANXIOUS DECADE” OR “HAPPY DAYS”?
24 February 2001
65.
Dr. Richard Immerman
Temple University
Eisenhower’s New Look
66.
Dr. Michael J. Birkner
Gettysburg College
What Ozzie Nelson did for a Living, and Other
Suburban Tales from the 50s
67. Dr. Kathi L. Kern
University of Kentucky
The Bad 1950?s: Reassessing Women’s History
68.
Reinterpreting the 1950s South
Dr. Pete Daniel
Smithsonian Institution
HOW WARS END: THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
2 March 2002
69.
Dr. Michael C. Desch
University of Kentucky
Every War Must End: Theories of War
Termination and the American Experience
70.
Dr. Brian M. Linn
Texas A & M University
Bringing An End to the Philippine
Insurrection: 1899-1902
71.
Dr. Warren F. Kimball
Rutgers University, Newark
Two Halves of Different Walnuts: War
Aims and War Settlements in the Second
World War
72.
Dr. Conrad C. Crane
The U. S. Army War College
Applying Air Pressure and Negotiating with
Communists: Lessons from the War that
Didn’t End (Korea)