The reports from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians continue to roll into The Way of Improvement Leads Home. In this installment Otis W. Pickett of Mississippi College writes about a session on Mississippi’s Prison-to-College...
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The Mississippi River: The Flow of Religion, Tourism, and Music
Our reports from the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) continue to roll into The Way of Improvement Leads Home. This report comes from Melissa Daggett, an instructor of United States history at San Jacinto College in...
Saturday and Sunday at Last Weekend's OAH Conference
I did not get to post these links earlier in the week, but the Organization of American Historians have posted updates on day 3 and day 4 of the annual conference in New Orleans. The posts, along with highlights from...
(Re)Reading Mass Incarceration: New Orleans Monuments and Reconstruction Violence
Many of you read William Horne’s New Orleans restaurant recommendations as you prepared for your trip to the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH). Today Horne is back with a report on an OAH session on the...
Congratulations to the 2017 OAH Award Winners
Here they are: John D’Emilio LGBTQ History Dissertation Award for the best Ph.D. dissertation in U.S. LGBTQ history. Ian Michael Baldwin, University of Redlands Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award for an individual or individuals whose contributions have significantly enriched our understanding...
Friday at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians in New Orleans
Friday appears to have been a busy day for American historians in New Orleans. The OAH offers some highlights at Process blog. The highlight of the day was the afternoon plenary session “African American History, Art, and the Public Museum”...
The OAH Recaps Day 1 Of Its Annual Conference
A lot is going in New Orleans this weekend. The Day 1 recap includes news about the first plenary session, the OAH mentoring program, the opening reception, and the States of Incarceration: A National Dialogue of Local Histories exhibit at the Ogden Museum...
Tweeting the Opening Plenary Session at #OAH17
The Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians in New Orleans looks like it is off to a great start. From what I hear the Big Easy is experiencing some wonderful weather this weekend and historians are enjoying a...
What To Do In New Orleans
We did not make it to New Orleans for the OAH, but we are covering the event here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. We even have restaurant recommendations! The good folks at Oxford University have published a nice...
American Historians: What Are You Listening To As You Travel To And From New Orleans?
Might I make a suggestion? Give The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast a try. We are in our third season and have managed to attract some great guests. Over the course of the last three seasons we have interviewed:...
Planning Ahead
I may be grounded for the 2017 meeting of the Organization of American Historians, but I am already planning ahead: #oah2018: Sacramento #oah2019: Philadelphia #oah2020: Washington #oah2021: Chicago #oah2022: Boston...
Grounded
Well, it looks like the bad weather in Atlanta has kept me from making it to New Orleans for this year’s meeting of the Organization of American Historians. It has been a terrible year of travel to conferences for me. ...
The Way of Improvement Leads Home at the OAH
I will be in New Orleans this weekend for the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians. The Way of Improvement Leads Home will be providing coverage of the conference through a handful of correspondents–from graduate students to tenured...
Flavors of the OAH: Four Must-Taste Restaurants During Your Stay
We are still a couple days away from the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, but our coverage here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home begins today. William Horne, a PhD candidate at The George Washington University...
On the Road in April (and Beyond?)
My travel schedule this Spring has been light. I have been enjoying teaching this semester and the students in my Pennsylvania History and United States History to 1865 courses have been excellent. I have taken some time to tweak some...
Correspondents Wanted: 2017 OAH Meeting in New Orleans
Anyone interested in a writing a post or two (or three or four or five…) from the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians in New Orleans from April 6-9 2017? Once again The Way of Improvement Leads Home is looking...