Washington Studies Conference, November 1-3, 2007

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34th Annual Washington Studies Conference
Empowerment 1968 - 2008
Nov. 1-3, 2007
Explore the culture, history, and politics of the city and the road we have traveled since 1968.

Location: The Historical Society of Washington, D.C., The Carnegie on Mount Vernon Square – 801 “K” Street, N.W.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1

6:00 p.m. | Welcoming Reception
7:00 p.m. | Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Lecture: Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2

9:30 a.m.

PLENARY SESSION: Politics & Public Education in the Nation’s Capital
- Jennings Wagoner, University of Virginia
- Cosby Hunt, Lincoln / Bell Multicultural High School

11:00 a.m.

SESSION: At Home in Washington – Consumer Culture, Holiday Habits

“Colored Washington on Holiday”
- Donna Wells, Photo Librarian, Moorland Spingarn Research Center
- Patsy Fletcher, Independent Historian
“Craps & Whist; Juke Joints & Charity Balls: Class and Leisure in Black Washington
- Adia H. Phillips, M.A. Candidate, American University

SESSION: Money, Land, and Power | MODERATOR: John Olinger, Rainbow History Coalition

“Capital Investment: Real Estate Speculation in the District of Columbia, 1790-1830”
- Dana Stefanelli, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Virginia
“Alexander R. Shepherd – His Times and Ours”
- John Richardson, Independent Researcher
“The Clerk, the Ambassador, and the Insurance Man: Building D.C. Stadium, 1960-1”
- Brett L. Abrams, Ph.D., Independent Scholar

SESSION: Washington, D.C.: Architecture of Contrast | Latrobe Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians,
MODERATOR: Tim Kerr

“An Insider’s View: Sculpture and Sculptors of the Washington National Cathedral”
- Andy Seferlis, Restorationist
“A Presbyterian ‘Cathedral’?: Congregational Space and Civic Space in the National Presbyterian Church”
- David Bains, Stamford University
“The Statler Hotel (Capital Hilton): A Modern Hotel for World War II-Era Washington, D.C.”
- Lisa Davidson, Architectural Historian, HABS / HAER
“Philip Johnson in the Nation’s Capital: Shaping a Modernism in a Classical City”
- Karin Alexis, Art and Architectural Historian

SESSION: DC in Motion

“Dance Party: The Teenarama Story” Screening and Discussion
- Beverly Lindsay-Johnson, filmmaker

SESSION: Walking Tour - “Convention Center & Shaw”
- Jeanne Fogle, A Tour de Force

12:00 – 2:00 p.m. | History Network, COORDINATOR: Matthew Gilmore

12:45 – 3:30 | DC MOVIES. COORDINATOR: Jeff Krulik, Filmmaker

“This is Duckpin Country”; “Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9”; From Here to Obscurity: The “Best” of Travesty Films”; George Merriken Home Movies; “Theatre Dark”; DC Treasures from the National Archives; 1968-1970 Local Newscasts thanks to Richard Nixon; AND MORE.

2:00 p.m.

SESSION: History and Archeology at Walter Pierce Park

“History Underfoot in Walter Pierce Park”
- Eddie Becker and Mary Belcher, Neighborhood Historians
“The Colored Union Benevolent Association: Who Were They?”
- Mary Belcher
“Remembering D.C.’s Colored Union Benevolent Association”
- Mark Mack, Interim Curator, W. Montague Cobb Biological Anthropology Lab, Howard University

SESSION: City Divided by Race

“No Black Baseball at the White House: Gradual Segregation of Public Space during Reconstruction”
- Ryan Swanson, Ph.D. Candidate, Georgetown University
“Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in Washington, D.C., 1900-1918”
- Rebecca Wieters, Ph.D. Program, University of Maryland

SESSION: Public Violence in D.C. | MODERATOR: Maurice Jackson, Georgetown University

“Francis Scott Key and the Snow Riot”
- Jefferson Morley, Journalist
“Capture of The Pearl and Washington’s Anti-Abolitionist Mob”
- Josephine Pacheco, Professor Emerita, George Mason University
“1919”
- David Krugler, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin
“1968”
- Dana Schaffer, Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University

SESSION: Walking Tour - Mount Vernon Square and Massachusetts Avenue | - Jeanne Fogle, A Tour de Force

3:45 p.m.

SESSION: Designs for Washington | MODERATOR: Don Alexander Hawkins, Architect; President, Committee of 100 on the Federal City

“Capital Craftsman: John Skirving in Washington”
- David S. Rotenstein, Independent Scholar
“Rethinking L’Enfant in the Twentieth Century: The Justement-Smith Plan for Southwest Washington”
- Catherine W. Zipf, Assistant Professor, Salve Regina University
“Urban Redevelopment in Southwest D.C.”
- Richard W. Longstreth, Professor, George Washington University

SESSION: Dance Lesson: The Art of DC Hand Dance
- Lawrence Bradford, CEO and Master Instructor, Smooth & EZ Hand Dance Institute of Washington

SESSION: “Singing in the Background: African American Opera in Early 20th Century Washington” | MODERATOR: Jim Weaver, National Music Center

“The National Negro Opera Company”
- Samuel J. Perryman, Library of Congress
“The Life of Madame Lillian Evanti”
- Eric Ledell Smith, Associate Historian, State Museum of Pennsylvania
“The Evans-Tibbs Collection”
- Jennifer Morris, Anacostia Museum

SESSION: Insurgencies: Reform and Rebellion in D.C. Jails | MODERATOR: Bernard Demczuk, Vice-Chair, Historical Society of Washington, D.C.; doctoral candidate in African American and D.C. History, George Washington University; former Correctional Officer, D.C. Jail

"Time and Punishment: Two Hundred Years of Penal Reform in the District of Columbia"
- Alison M. Gavin, National Archives
“Uprisings Behind the Walls: D.C. Prisoner Communities during the 1970s”
- Yango Sawyer, Community Organizer and Prison Reform Activist
“Recent History: the D.C. Prison Reform Effort, 1995 – 2007”
- D.C. Prisoners’ Rights Project

SESSION: Walking Tour: Seventh Street & Chinatown | Jeanne Fogle, A Tour de Force

5:30 p.m. | Music of 60s Washington; Donal Leace, Musician

6:00 p.m.

PLENARY SESSION: Memory: 1968 | MODERATOR: Jerry Phillips
- Tony Gittens
- Lawrence Guyot
- Bob King
- Donal Leace
- Larry Rosen
- Anwar Saleem
- Frank Smith, Jr.
- and the audience

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2007

9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

DC MOVIES | COORDINATOR: Jeff Krulik, Filmmaker

“This is Duckpin Country”; “Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9”;From Here to Obscurity: The “Best” of Travesty Films”; George Merriken Home Movies; “Theatre Dark”; DC Treasures from the National Archives; 1968-1970 Local Newscasts thanks to Richard Nixon; AND MORE.

9:30 a.m.

SESSION: D.C. History Resources Update: Treasured Places / Endangered Spaces

MODERATOR: Rebecca Miller, Executive Director, D.C. Preservation League

“Lessons from Katrina: A Field Wide Response”
- Carma C. Fauntleroy, Museums Consultant
“Update: Eastern Market”
- Donna Scheeder, Chairman, Eastern Market Community Advisory Committee
“Update: Georgetown Library & the Peabody Room”
- Mark Greek, DCPL Photo Archivist and Georgetown Salvage Coordinator
“Update: Congressional Cemetery at 200”
- Sandy Schmidt, Congressional Cemetery Archivist

SESSION: “Teaching with Historic Places: All Souls’ Unitarian Universalist Church & Heurich House” | MODERATOR: Kathleen Franz, Director of Public History, American University

Presenters: Allison Boals, Courtney Esposito, Amy Johnson, Lindsay Flanagan, Cigdem Pael, American University Public History Graduate Programs

SESSION: D.C.’s Citizen Organizers

“The Voice of the Voteless”: The Voteless D.C. League of Women Voters’ Campaigns for Suffrage, National Representation, and Home Rule, 1917-1941”
- Katharina Hering, George Mason University
“Parent Organizing for Equity in the D.C. Public Schools”
- Jenice L. View, Assistant Professor, George Mason University

SESSION: WORKSHOP: “Beginners’ Guide to Research in HSW’s Kiplinger Research Library”
- Yvonne Carignan, Director, Kiplinger Research Library

11:15 a.m.

SESSION: ROUND TABLE: Civil Rights, Home Rule, and the Struggle for Political Autonomy in D.C. | MODERATOR: Courtland Milloy, Washington Post
- Michael Fauntroy, George Mason University, and author, Home Rule or House Rule
- Rebecca Kingsley, Filmmaker, The Last Colony
- Sam Smith, Progressive Review
- Peter Craig, Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis

SESSION: ROUND TABLE: “Archives, Oral History, and Digital Technology: Using Area Resources to Produce a Documentary on Anti-Vietnam War Activism” | MODERATOR: Kenneth Woodard, Social Studies Chair, Connelly School of the Holy Child

Presenters: Claire DeLaurentis, Sasha Hamilton-Cotter, Kourtney Lyons, Colleen Ring, Students, Connelly School of the Holy Child

SESSION: WORKSHOP: “Preserving Family and Community Heritage”
INTRODUCTION: Yvonne Carignan, Director, HSW Kiplinger Research Library
- Don Williams, Senior Conservator, Smithsonian Institution

1:15 p.m.

SESSION: “D.C. On Stage: DreamCity Theatre Group
- Performance and Discussion: DreamCity Troupe and John Muller, Executive Director, DreamCity

SESSION: Filming the City
- Robert Uth, New Voyage Communications
- Glenn Marcus, Producer

3:00 p.m.

SESSION: D.C. Style: A Salute to the Reporters Who Chronicled Real Washington Society & Fashion | MODERATOR: Rosemary Reed

SESSION: Psychedelic DC: Live at the Ambassador Theater | MODERATOR: Jeff Krulik, Filmmaker
- Annie Groer, Washington Post
- Richard Harrington, Washington Post
- Joel Mednick, Promoter
- Jerry Marmelstein, The Psychedelic Power and Light Company
- Michael Paper, Ambassador Announcer and Soundman
- Mike Schreibman, President, Washington Area Musicians Association