Heading to the OAH in Providence

By the time you read this I will be on the road to Providence, Rhode Island for the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians.
On Saturday morning I will be moderating a session titled “State of the Question: What Is the Relationship between Church and State in the Teaching of Religious History?”  It will feature Dianne Moore of Harvard University and Mark Silk of Trinity College.
We will also be covering the conference here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home.  We have put together a nice team of correspondents, but it is till not too late join us.
I finally got a chance to look over the conference schedule.  Here are some sessions that caught my eye:
“Women’s Leadership in the Anti-Abortion Movement” (Michelle Nickerson, Marjorie Spruill, Daniel K. Williams, Stacie Taranto, Mary Ziegler)
“Worst. President. Ever.” (Clare Potter, David Greenburg, Annette Gordon-Reed, Sean Wilentz)
“Historian Presidents” (Jon Butler, Drew Faust, Ricardo Romo, Ed Ayers)
“Open Question: What is the Relationship Between Slavery and Capitalism” (James Oakes, Ed Baptist Sven Beckert, Caitlin Rosenthal, Craig Wilder)
“Democracy in America and Europe” (Leslie Butler, Rachel Hope Cleves, David Blight, James Kloppenberg)
“Writing History for a Trade Audience” (David Nasaw, Jill Lepore, Eric Foner, Patricia Limerick, David Levering Lewis, Tony Horwitz)
“Podcasting: Reaching a Mass Audience From Above and Below” (Rebecca Onion, Robert Cassanello, Edward Ayers, Daniel Murphree, Tony Fields)
“Scale and Religious Geographies in Early America” (Aaron Fogelman, Christopher Jones, Heather Miyano Kopelson, Shelby Balik, Kyle Bulthuis)
“Can We Use History?” (Paul Krugman, Naomi Lamoreaux, Eric Rauchway)
“Christianity and Capitalism in Modern U.S.: Historians Respond to Kevin Kruse’s One Nation Under God” (Alison Greene, Kathryn Lofton, Jared Roll, Kevin Kruse)
“God, Gotham, and Modernity” (Jon Butler, presidential address)
“Historical Perspectives on the Common Core” (Thomas Fallace, Andrew Hartman, James Fraser, Christopher Phillips, Kristy Stoffey)
“Writing Religious Leadership” (Rick Kennedy, David Holland, John Turner, Barry Hankins, Suzanne Smith)
“The American Revolution, Transatlantic Communities, and New Leaders” (Benjamin Irvin, Elijah Gould, Kate Carte Engel, Amanda Moniz, Christopher Hodson, Travis Glasson)