123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Globalizing Reconstruction: Examining the Legacies of Reconstruction in a Transnational Perspective

Globalizing Reconstruction: Examining the Legacies of Reconstruction in a Transnational Perspective

AHA Session 165
Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 5

Sunday, January 4, 2009: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Petit Trianon (Hilton New York)

Chair:

David Quigley, Boston College

Papers:

Emancipating the World: Reconstruction and the Rise of American International Humanitarianism
Mark E. Elliott, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Jesus as Imperial Big Brother: Religious Iconography and the Rise of American Expansion in the Late Nineteenth Century
Edward J. Blum, San Diego State University

Using the "African Razor": Empire, the African American Press, the Republican Party, and the Legacy of Reconstruction
Edward O. Frantz, University of Indianapolis

Comment:

Mary Niall Mitchell, University of New Orleans

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