Too much stuff to do

1. Today and tomorrow is the Historical Studies Conference, at the MLK Library in DC. Many of the sessions tomorrow look pretty good, so that could be a good weekend activity. Click here for the full list of sessions and a short description of each presentation.

SATURDAY
9:30–11AM CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Leaders and Their Legacies in Two Washington Universities
Moderator: Gail McCormick, Goucher College
“Lucy Diggs Slowe, the First Dean of Women of Howard University, 1922-1937”
Tameka Dunlap, Howard University
"The Marvin Doctrine and Its Discontents: Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin and the Shaping of George Washington University (1927-1959)”
Andrew Novak, George Washington University

Complex Relationship: City Politics and the Federal Government
Moderator: Jennifer King, George Washington University
"Black Community Efforts to Strengthen Police-Community Relations”
Jay Stewart, Howard University
“I Am a Capitol Hillite. What Is My future? The ‘East Capitol Mall’ Controversy and the Rise of Community after World War II”
Lindsay Silver, Brandeis University
“Looking for Common Ground: Washington DC, Public Health and the United States Public Health Service”
Alexandra Lord, United States Public Health

11:15 AM– 2:45 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS
A Closer Look at the Public and Private Spaces of 19th-Century Washingtonians
Moderator: Matthew Gilmore
"Finding a Place in Early Washington: Jerry Holland and Three Commissioners"
Bob Arnebeck, independent scholar
“George Hadfield and His Architectural Legacy”
Julia King, independent scholar
“A Snapshot of Ethnic and Racial Divides in an 1880 DC neighborhood”
M. Marie Maxwell, National Archives and Records Admin.

Walt Whitman in Washington
Moderator: Martin Murray, independent historian
“Walt Whitman’s Soldiers”
Jeffrey Reznick, National Museum of Health and Medicine
“Whitman and Wartime Washington: ‘The real war will never get in the books.’”
David Ward, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
“Traces of Walt Whitman in Washington: Art and Architectural Commemorations”
Kim Roberts, poet, independent scholar

1:30 PM–3:30 PM WALKING TOUR
Adolf Cluss and the Red Brick City
Meet at the Eastern Market’s Seventh St. entrance (Seventh and C sts., SE)
William Gilcher of the Goethe Institute, Washington, leads a tour of the remaining buildings designed by the German American architect, Adolf Cluss (1825-1905).

1:30-3 PM OPEN DISCUSSION FORUM
The Future of DC’s Historical Record
Moderator: Trudy Peterson, consulting archivist
We are at a crucial crossroads in the history of the institutional repositories collecting DC history. Come share your concerns, hopes and creative ideas about the future direction of these institutions and of thecollections they preserve. Distinguished archivist Trudy Peterson, past Acting Archivist of the United States, moderates.

2. Or this, compliments of the Mattwdc blog:

"Stop Pombo" rally this Saturday at 11 in the a.m. at Roosevelt Island National Park. Sponsored by the D.C. Sierra Club. (One of yesterday's commenters has created a Say No To Pombo blog which I'll will add to the historic preservation links section within the next couple days.)

3. And other stuff, plus work. So likely no blogging today.