The 26th Conference on New York State History SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Syracuse, June 9-11, 2005 (Full program and registration may be found at http://www.nyhistory.com/cnysh/cnyshprogram2005.htm ) Thursday, June 9 2:00-9:00 PM Registration / Marshall Hall 2:00-9:00 PM Room check-in / Sadler Hall 3:00-5:00 PM Tour, Erie Canal Museum Driving directions will be available at registration. 6:00 PM Dinner ("Dutch Treat") Directions to restaurant will be available at registration. Friday, June 10 8:00-4:00 PM Registration and Exhibits / Marshall Hall 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast / Alumni Lounge 9:00 AM-9:00 PM Room check-in / Sadler Hall 9:00 AM Opening session / Marshall Auditorium Welcome: Field Horne, conference chair Greetings: President Cornelius B. Murphy, Jr., SUNY ESF Keynote: Peter Webber, Director, Syracuse University Press "Introducing the Encyclopedia of New York State" 9:30 AM Concurrent Sessions Highways / Marshall Auditorium "The Politics of Twentieth-Century Bridge Construction: Elevating Transportation Routes in Syracuse" Dennis Connors, Onondaga Historical Association "Cutting Down the Dust: Onondaga County's Paved Roads 1900 to 1950" James Darlington, SUNY Cortland Comment: Thomas S.W. Lewis, Skidmore College Constructed Memories / Marshall 213 "Local History in New Deal Murals: A Long Island Case Study" Natalie Naylor, Hofstra University (emerita) "Public Memory, Private Meaning: New York City's Vietnam Veterans" Philip Napoli, Brooklyn College Comment: Elizabeth Lasch-Quinn, Syracuse University Individual Papers / Marshall 327 "The Dissenter: Harvey Swados, New York Intellectuals, and Mid-Century America" Greg Geddes, SUNY Binghamton Comment: to be announced "An Albany Ship for Ireland: Irish Famine Relief" Harvey Strum, The Sage Colleges Comment: John J. McEneny, Member of the Assembly, 104th A.D. 11:00-11:15 AM Break / Alumni Lounge 11:15 AM -12:45 PM Concurrent Sessions First Nations / Marshall Auditorium "The Tutelo Indians Return Home to New York" Heriberto R. Dixon, SUNY New Paltz "The Stockbridge Indians in New York, 1784-1829" Lion G. Miles, Independent Comment: Lawrence Hauptman, SUNY New Paltz Writing and Publishing Local History for Popular and Academic Markets: A Panel Discussion / Marshall 213 Claire Parham, College of St. Rose and Siena College Paul Malo, Publisher Glenn Wright, Syracuse University Press Field Horne, Publisher Individual Papers / Marshall 327 "Mapping the Journey: Catskill Tourism from Stagecoach to Automobile" Jo Margaret Mano, SUNY New Paltz Comment: Suzanne Etherington, New York State Archives "Creating an Electronic Research Collection on New York's Environmental History" Flora Nyland, SUNY ESF and Prudence Backman, New York State Archives Comment: Christian Dupont, Syracuse University Library 12:45 PM Lunch / Alumni Lounge Speaker: Diane Shaw, Carnegie Mellon University "City Building on the Eastern Frontier" 2:00 PM / Concurrent Sessions The Automobile / Marshall Auditorium "Power for the People?: Leaded Gas, Automobiles and the Environment in New York State 1924-39" Kenneth S. Mernitz, Buffalo State College "Architecture for the Automobilist in Ulster County, 1900-50" William B. Rhoads, SUNY New Paltz (emeritus) "Patents and Peaks: The Auto in Monroe County" Carolyn S. Vacca, Monroe County Historian and St. John Fisher College Comment: Thomas Leary, Youngstown State University Forest History / Marshall 213 "Documenting Change for the Future: Fort Drum's Forests" Heather C. Wagner, Colorado State University Research Associate and Jason E. Wagner, Department of the Army "The Reforestation Movement in New York State: FDR's Hyde Park Program" John Auwaerter, SUNY ESF "The Development of New York's Wood-Based Economy" Hugh O. Canham, Forest Economist Comment: Sarah Vonhof, SUNY ESF Personalities and Politics / Marshall 327 '"They Hope to Build an Abolitionist Party Upon the Ruins of the Whig Party": William H. Seward's Early Relationship with Anti-Slavery' Stephen J. Valone, St. John Fisher College '"A Most Revolting State of Affairs": Theodore Roosevelt and the Assembly's City Investigating Committee of 1884' Edward P. Kohn, Bilkent University (Turkey) "The March of Humbug: Reading Horace Greeley's New York, 1834-42" James M. Lundberg, Yale University Comment: Richard A. Greenwald, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Research in the Digital Age: A Practicum / Computer Laboratory, Marshall 303 Limit 20 people: sign up on your registration form Larry Naukam, Rochester Public Library Mary Beth Sullivan, Independent Archivist 4:00-6:30 PM Tour and reception / Onondaga Historical Association Driving directions will be available at registration. 6:30 PM Dinner / Traditions of Syracuse 8:00 PM The Wendell Tripp Lecture in New York State History Welcome: Christine Ward, NY State Archivist "What's Elvis got to do with it? Palatine migration and New York's colonial legacy" Dr. Philip Otterness Warren Wilson College, Asheville, S.C. Saturday, June 11 8:00-10:00 AM Registration / Marshall Hall 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast / Alumni Lounge 8:00-12:00 Exhibits / Marshall Hall 8:45-10:15 AM Concurrent Sessions Cayuga County Topics / Marshall Auditorium "Pricing the Land: Speculation, Money and Settlement on the Early American Frontier - The Cayuga Land Claim Case Study" Scott W. Anderson, SUNY Cortland "Losing Local Power: The Coevolution of Socioeconomic and Physical Forces in Cayuga County, 1800-1900" Eric J. Greenfield, SUNY ESF Comment: Robert Devino, Finkelstein Memorial Library Individual Papers / Marshall 213 "From Protestant International to New York Provincial: Language and Ethnicity in New Paltz, 1678-1834" Eric Roth, Huguenot Historical Society Comment: Joseph S. Tiedeman, Loyola Marymount University "Niagara Falls and Nationality in the Early Republic" Tom Kanon, Tennessee State Library and Archives Comment: Thomas Chambers, Niagara University 10:15-10:30 Break / Alumni Lounge 10:30 AM-Noon Concurrent sessions Public Health / Marshall Auditorium "Yellow Fever in New York City, 1791-99" Bob Arnebeck, Independent "A Tale of Three Cities: Community Responses to the 1918 Flu Epidemic" Teresa K. Lehr, SUNY Brockport Comment: Eric v.d. Luft, Upstate Medical University Individual Papers / Marshall 213 "Jacob A. Riis' Campaign to Bring Nature into the Tenements" Joni Ciehomski, SUNY Buffalo Comment: Natalie Naylor, Hofstra University (emerita) "The French Empire in the Chautauqua Region, 1608-1763" Jacob Ludes III, N.E. Association of Schools and Colleges Comment: Edward Knoblauch, College of St. Rose 12:00 Noon Lunch / Alumni Lounge Speaker: Victor F. Escamilla, Columbia University Why New York? A Jazz Question -- ________________ Edward Knoblauch --