AHA Conference Sessions I Would Attend If I Were Actually Going To the AHA This Year

I will be not making the trip this year to San Diego for the 124th annual meeting of the AHA, but if I were going I would try to attend these sessions:

War, Religion, and American National Identity
AHA Session 42
Friday, January 8, 2010: 9:30 AM-11:30 AM
Elizabeth Ballroom B (Hyatt)

Chair: Laurie Maffly-Kipp, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Commentator: Harry S. Stout, Yale University

Breaking Ties: The SPG, the SPCK, and International Protestantism during the American Revolution Katherine Carte Engel, Texas A&M University

Give the Devil His Due: National Division and Concepts of Evil in the Civil War Era Edward J. Blum, San Diego State University

“Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition”: World War II, the Apocalypse, and Fundamentalist Political Activism Matthew Avery Sutton, Washington State University

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New Perspectives on American Catholicism in the Revolutionary Era
American Catholic Historical Association 2
Friday, January 8, 2010: 9:30 AM-11:30 AM
Annie B (Hyatt)

Chair: Joseph P. Chinnici, Franciscan School of Theology
Commentator: Joseph P. Chinnici, Franciscan School of Theology

The Making of an American Catholic Identity Maura Jane Farrelly, Brandeis University

Divided Inheritance, Jesuit Spiritualities, and American Church Reform in the Early Republic, 1790–1817 Ronald Binzley, University of Wisconsin-Madison

John Carroll, Elizabeth Seton, and the Early Republican ChurchCatherine O’Donnell, Arizona State University

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Barack Obama and the American Democratic Tradition
AHA Session 79
Friday, January 8, 2010: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Elizabeth Ballroom G (Hyatt)

Chair: David A. Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley
Commentators: Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Law School , David J. Garrow, University of Cambridge and David A. Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley

Barack Obama and the American Democratic Tradition James T. Kloppenberg, Harvard University

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New Perspectives on Religion and the American Revolution
American Society of Church History 13
Friday, January 8, 2010: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Columbia 3 (Marriott)

Chair: Dee E. Andrews, California State University, East Bay
Commentator: Dee E. Andrews, California State University, East Bay

To Preserve the Constitution: Quakerism in the American Revolution Jane E. Calvert, University of Kentucky

Reassessing John Adams and the Rationalist Accommodation of Religion in the Revolutionary Era Jonathan J. Den Hartog, Northwestern College

Evangelicals, Deists, and the Creation of the American Republic Thomas Kidd, Baylor University

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Selling Books, Spreading News, Seeking Readers: Print-Culture Networks in Early America
AHA Session 129
Saturday, January 9, 2010: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Manchester Ballroom H (Hyatt)

Chair: Catherine O’Donnell Kaplan, Arizona State University
Commentator: Catherine O’Donnell Kaplan, Arizona State University

Managing Supply and Inciting Demand: Advertising Innovations and the Book Trade in Eighteenth-Century America Carl Robert Keyes, Assumption College

Creating the News: Printers and the Circulation of Political News in Revolutionary America Joseph M. Adelman, Johns Hopkins University

Local Roots, Atlantic Routes: Social Libraries, the Book Trade, and Print-Culture Networks in Early America Lynda K. Yankaskas, Virginia Commonwealth University
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Four New England Towns Turn Forty: A Portrait of the New Social History in Middle Age
AHA Session 194
Saturday, January 9, 2010: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Marina Ballroom Salon D (Marriott)

Chair: Jane Kamensky, Brandeis University

Panel DiscussionJohn Demos, Yale University
Panel DiscussionPhilip J. Greven Jr., Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Panel DiscussionKenneth A. Lockridge, University of Montana
Panel DiscussionMichael Zuckerman, University of Pennsylvania

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American Religious Historians Online
AHA Session 234
Sunday, January 10, 2010: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Elizabeth Ballroom G (Hyatt)

Chair: Gary Laderman, Emory University

Blogging and the Reshaping of American Religious History Rebecca A. Goetz, Rice University

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Web Diane Winston, University of Southern California

Do Blogs Democratize American Religious History? Paul W. Harvey, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

The Web and the Problem with Popularization Kathryn Lofton, Indiana University

The Journal of Southern Religion and the Challenges of Online Publication Randall J. Stephens, Eastern Nazarene College