HISTORY: Bringing Us All Together

New York, USA

101st Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians

The one-hundredth and first annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians will be held in New York City, answering a call to bring us all together. The last generation or so of scholarship in American history has excavated the experiences and concerns of a wide array of Americans. Our field now advances a far more expansive definition than ever before of what it means to live an American life. We not only know about people of many genders and races, we see class and region as integral dimensions of American identity. Scholars writing in languages other than English and living outside the United States are also valued members of the community of American historians. However a fragmentation of concept has accompanied this fine bounty of scholarship. Too often we lose sight of what brings our subjects and our fields together, letting slip the opportunity of intellectual cross-fertilization. In New York in 2008 we will talk across lines, addressing larger issues as they manifest themselves in our subfields.

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