SHAFR 2005 Annual MeetingThe web-site for the 2005 meeting has been deactivated but is being preserved here for archival purposes.
The 2005 Annual Meeting will be held at National Archives II, College Park Maryland, June 23-25, National Archives II. Registration for the conference is currently open. Please take note of the some important changes in the registration process of this year’s conference. First, you may register for the conference on-line and pay fees by credit card. Click on “Registration” in the column to the left and then follow the prompts to make payment through the Paypal system. (Mastercard, Visa, Discover, and American Express cards are accepted.) If you prefer not to register on-line, please complete a paper registration form and mail it together with a check for the proper amount to the address indicated on the form. Paper forms were mailed to SHAFR membership in April 2005; if you need a copy inquire at [email protected]. Second, SHAFR recently adopted a program designed to ease the burden of travel to future conferences by graduate students who are presenting papers. This program solicits contributions through the registration process and earmarks the donated funds for distribution to qualified students attending the following year’s annual meeting. You are invited to contribute any amount to this fund and you may do so by checking the appropriate boxes on the on-line registration form and by including the appropriate amount in your payment. Or you may mail a separate check (payable to SHAFR) to the SHAFR Business Office, 106 Dulles Hall, Ohio State University, 230 West 17th Avenue, Columbus OH 43210. Upon request, receipts will be provided for tax-deduction purposes. For more information email: [email protected] RegistrationOn-line registration no longer available. Please register on site when you arrive at the conference. We regret that we are unable to accept credit cards on-site, so please be prepared to pay by check or cash. We also regret that we are unable to sell tickets to meals on-site. All participants are expected to register for the Annual Meeting. You may register online through this site, or by mailing a completed paper registration form to the SHAFR Business Office. Paper registration should be accompanied by a check or money order made out to "SHAFR." This payment should include the total cost of registration as well as any meals. For a copy of the paper registration form click here. A schedule of prices for registration and the various scheduled SHAFR events follows. Registration Fees: Standard $100 Luncheons & Dinner Thurs., June 23, Reception, 5:30-7:00 PM (Complimentary) At Archives II cafeteria, immediately followed by the Plenary Session. Fri., June 24, Box Lunch, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM ($10) The Archives II Cafeteria is unavailable for SHAFR participants on Friday. If you would like to stay on site for lunch, please reserve a box lunch. Fri., June 24, Reception & Banquet, 6:00 PM ($34) Speaker: David L. Anderson, Presidential Address at the University of Maryland. Shuttle service provided. Sat., June 25, Luncheon, 11:30 AM ($25) Speaker: Ambassador Joseph Wilson “The Politics of Truth” at the University of Maryland Golf Course Clubhouse. Shuttle service provided. Limited to first 120 registrants. Program Committee:Chris Jespersen, Chair SHAFR Conference Schedule (June 23-25, 2005)THURSDAY, JUNE 23 Registration: 10:00am - 5:30pm (Lower Level)
Chair: David Woolner, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute A Force for Peace: Anglo-American Diplomatic Relations and the Far Eastern Crisis, 1932-1941 The Stimson-Simon Controversy and Anglo-American Far Eastern Relations, 1932-1945 The Past is Too Far Away: One Historian’s Experience with the Commentator: David Woolner
PANEL 1: Economic Growth as Ideology and Practice: American Influence and European Modernization, 1945-1973 (Room B) Chair: Mary Nolan, New York University Washington, The Hague, and the Politics of Productivity, 1945-1955 From the Revolt of the Masses to the ‘Revolution of Rising Expectations’ ‘A Model of Licentiousness:’ Growth, Redistribution, and the Critique of the American Model in Postwar Dutch Economic Thought Commentator: Richard Kuisel, Georgetown University PANEL 2: Personalities and Personality Conflicts in Sino-American Relations, 1946-1974 (Room C) Chair: Maochun Yu, United States Naval Academy A Death in Shanghai: Zang Da Ao Zi in Chinese-American Relations Alfred Kohlberg and the Two-Front War against Communism Pawns of the Cold War: John Foster Dulles, the PRC, and the Imprisonment of John Downey and Richard Fecteau Nixon and the Opening to China: An Evaluation Commentator: John Earl Haynes, Library of Congress
Chair: Robbie Lieberman, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale The H-Bomb and You: Portrayals of the Atomic Bomb in Comic Books, 1945-1954 Producing Hollywood’s Cold War: The Anticommunist Campaign Against an Un-American Screen Beatniks and Apparatchiks: The Cold War and the Beats Commentator: Veronica Wilson, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown
Chair: Joseph A. Fry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas A Spiritual Challenge from the East?: John Foster Dulles, SEATO, and the Bandung Conference, 1954-1955 The Popular Origins of the Anglo-American Special Relationship: The Honourable Artillery Company’s 1903 American Tour Beyond Bretton Woods: Competing Global Visions of Global Monetary Order, 1971-1974 The Face of Evil: Rhetoric and War from Thomas Jefferson to Commentator: Mark Lawrence, University of Texas, Austin
Chair: James Jay Carafano, The Heritage Foundation The Marshall Plan Movie in Austria: Political Intermediality and Narrative Techniques Marshall Plan Money and Tutelage: Austria and the United States in the late 1950s Reconstructing Austria: The Marshall Plan in an Exhibition at the Museum of Technology and Science Vienna Commentator: Hans-Juergen Schröder, University of Giessen
Chair: Kristen L. Ahlberg, Office of Historian, U.S. Department of State Domestic Containment: The Handling of General Eisenhower by the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations Ralph Dungan, Lincoln Gordon, and the Struggle for the Soul of the Alliance for Progress, 1964-1967 Reducing the American Burden: U.S. Mediation between the Republic of Korea and Japan, 1961-1965 Commentator: Alan McPherson, Howard University
PANEL 7: The Interwar Experience of the 1920s and 1930s: Lessons in Understanding American Approaches and Attitudes toward Chair: Greg Kennedy, King’s College, London Herbert Hoover, FDR, and Their Different Approaches to Global Leadership in the Interwar and Second World War Periods Cordell Hull, the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, and the Post-War Economic Order An Olympian Adviser: Sumner Welles and an American Vision of a Postwar World in 1940 The Idea of a New World Order is No New Idea Commentator: Greg Kennedy
Chair: Lloyd Ambrosius, University of Nebraska Real Life Administrator or the Fictional Philip Dru: Edward M. House and His Influence on Wilsonian Foreign Policy Wilson’s Admirals: Frank Fletcher, Henry Mayo, and the Occupation of Veracruz, 1914 The Elusive Separate Peace: Wilson’s Attempts to ‘Drive a Wedge’ Between Austria-Hungary and Germany Twenty Five Years in the Making: Woodrow Wilson, Hollywood, and Internationalism Commentator: Lloyd Ambrosius
Chair: Andrew L. Johns, Brigham Young University The Cross-Examiner: Clark Clifford, South Vietnam, and the Question of Cold War Credibility, 1966-1967 Staying Out of this Chinese Muddle: The Johnson Administration’s Response to the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969 Supporting Benign Authoritarianism: The Johnson Administration and South Korean Politics LBJ and Nuclear Problems in South Asia Commentator: Andrew Preston, University of Victoria
Chair: Erin R. Mahan, Office of Historian, U.S. Department of State In Defense of the West: General R.L. Norstad, NATO Nuclear Forces, and Transatlantic Relations Pen Pals: Dean Acheson, Dirk Stikker, and NATO Problems, 1959-1961 At the Pulse of the Alliance?: NATO Ambassadors Thomas Finletter, Harlan Cleveland, and Europe, 1962-1966 Commentator: William Burr, National Security Archive
Chair: Kai Bird, Independent Scholar The Other Manhattan: The Atomic Bombings Viewed from Tinian Moving Targets: Nuclear Targeting and the Ethics of Mass Killing, 1940-1945 Manhattan Project Scientists and the Internationalization of Domestic Anticommunism Commentator: Barton J. Bernstein, Stanford University
Chair: Dennis Merrill, University of Missouri, Kansas City Race, Gender, and Religion and the U.S. Intervention in British Guiana, 1953-1969 In the American Grain: The Construction of Internal Security in the Americas, 1961-1969 Commentator: Emily S. Rosenberg, Macalester College
EVENING PLENARY SESSION Lessons of Vietnam: Alliance Politics and the Legacy of Losing (Auditorium) Chair: David Anderson, California State University, Monterey Bay Falling Dominoes: The United States, Vietnam, and the War in Iraq The Lessons of Vietnam and Alliance Maintenance ‘Tired of Being Treated Like a Schoolboy’: U.S.-Iranian Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam Changing American Missions: The Impact of the Vietnam War on the State Department Commentator: Luu Doan Huynh, Institute for International Relations, Hanoi
Registration: 8:30am - 5:30pm (Lower Level) SESSION I: 9:00am - 11:00am PANEL 13: Religion, Outreach, and Persecution in American Diplomacy (Room B) Chair: Michael Krenn, Appalachian State University Traitors to a Christian Nation: Mormons in the American Empire of the West Armies of Mercy: American Religious Welfare Organizations and the Allied War Effort in World War I The Great Game Continued: Post 1945 Transatlantic Relations with the Eastern Orthodox Church Commentator: Michael Krenn
Chair: James J. Hastings, Director of Access Programs, National Archives A General Overview of Electronic Records for Historians of American Foreign Relations Foreign Relations and Electronic Records at NARA Diplomatic Paper Trails: An Overview of Textual Records at the National Archives Using the 1973-1974 Central Foreign Policy Files on the Internet
Chair: Robert Allison, Suffolk University Early American Relations with the Middle East: An Overview of the Scholarship and Suggestions for Synthesis Opium and Orientalism: Early American Trade in the Levant, 1797-1839 Constantinople Women’s College: America’s Mission and Evangelical Feminism, 1875-1908 The Crescent and the Eagle: Evolution of the American Image in the Ottoman Empire from the Tripolitan Wars to the Great War PANEL 16: Protesters Without Borders: Transnational Movements and U.S. Foreign Policy (Room D) Chair: Ralph B. Levering, Davidson College The Diplomacy of Withdrawal: Drug Treatment in a Transnational Context “Betrayal, Treason, Un-American Activities,” or Recovery of American Ideas? Federal Union and the Formative Moment of Postwar U.S. Diplomacy From Thermonuclear to Antinuclear: Scientists and the Test Ban, 1957-1963 From Opposition to Cooperation: Transnational Groups and American Policy towards the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Commentator: Amy L. S. Staples, Middle Tennessee State University
Chair: Peter Hahn, Ohio State University A New York State of Mind: The New York State Liberal Party and President Truman’s Decision to Recognize Israel We Know that a Grain of Wheat is a Potent Weapon in the Arsenal The Southern Strategy Reconsidered: The Influence of U.S. Commentator: Leo Ribuffo, George Washington University
Chair: Donald N. Jensen, George Washington University The Atlanticist Establishment and its Successful Strategy after the 1890s The League of Free Nations Associations: The First Organized Attempt to Move Policy Toward a Union of Democracies Sources and Concept of Postwar Cultural Diplomacy Commentator: Richard C. Rowson, Council for a Community of Democracies
Chair: Mark Gilderhus, Texas Christian University Mitch Lerner, Ohio State University, Newark SHAFR Council Luncheon Meeting, 11:15am - 12:45pm SESSION II: 1:00pm - 3:00pm PANEL 19: In Defense of Liberty: Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (Room A) Chair: Melvyn P. Leffler, University of Virginia Deportation: The Origins of a National and International Power, 1 Bill Donovan, the Office of Policy Coordination, and the Construction of a Cold War Ideology Ideological Mobilization, Past and Present: Rhetorical Strategies from the Cold War to the War on Terror A House Divided: Truman, Zhdanov, and the Beginning of the Cold Commentator: Robert J. McMahon, University of Florida PANEL 20: Friends but Not Allies: U.S.-Irish Relations since 1941 (Room B) Chair: David P. Kilroy, Wheeling Jesuit University Anger, Spite, and ‘Manly Men’: The Role of Emotion in the Versailles Treaty Battle Between Woodrow Wilson and Irish-Americans Operation SAFEHAVEN and the Search for German Assets in Ireland Neutral Ireland and the Defence of the North Atlantic Area: The Use of Shannon Airport by the United States Military in a Historical Perspective, 1941-2001 Diplomatic Troubles: U.S.-Irish Relations and the Outbreak of the Violence in Northern Ireland, 1969-1972 Commentator: David P. Kilroy
Chair: Jonathan Nashel, Indiana University, South Bend A Place…in Our Hearts: Wesley R. Rishel and the Michigan State University Group Hans J. Morgenthau and U.S. Nation Building in Vietnam: The Danger of Doing Too Much Understanding the Enemy: The RAND Corporation’s Vietnam Interview project, Commentator: John Ernst, Morehead State University
Chair: Scott Kaufman, Francis Marion University Narrowing Down the Mission: The Carter Administration Treatment of Human A Convenient Line in the Sand: The Carter Administration and the Yemeni Crisis of 1979 In Search of a Strong Response: President Carter and the Decision to Boycott the 1980 Olympic Games Commentator: David Skidmore, Drake University
Chair: Mark Bradley, Northwestern University Imagining the ‘New Woman’: Chinese Feminists View the West,1905-1915 Consuming Hollywood: Japanese Cultural Elites and American Movies, 1945-1952 The Cultural Korean War: War and its Cultural Impact in South Korea Commentator: Mark Bradley
Chair: Thomas S. Blanton, National Security Archive Mission Accomplished? American Thinking about Liberating and Remaking Tsarist, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Russia Rollback and Liberation: An American Offensive Strategy for the Cold War, 1947-1991 Scientific Containment: American Inducement of Defection to Undermine East German Science, 1950-1961 Commentator: James G. Hershberg, George Washington University
PANEL 25: Economic Development, Nation Building, and History (Room A) Chair: Nick Cullather, Indiana University Analogies of Development: Using the Past to Plan Nation-Building in Afghanistan and Iraq Nation Building, Private Contractors, and War Profiteering from Iraq South Korea as a U.S. Development Problem, 1945-1965 Commentator: Tyler Priest, University of Houston
Chair: Brian C. Etheridge, Louisiana Tech University Conditioned by Their Past Traditions; U.S. Exchange Programs and the Promotion of Free Enterprise in Latin America, 1953-1961 The Arbenz Factor: Salvador Allende, the 1954 Guatemala Intervention, and U.S. Cold War Policy in Latin America Contemporary U.S.A. on Display: American Cultural and Commercial Exhibitions in the Soviet Bloc during the 1960s Commentator: James F. Siekmeier, Office of Historian, U.S. Department of State
Chair: Mark Bradley, Northwestern University Transubstantion, American-style: National Embodiment and the Popularization of Foreign Relations in 1950s Iraq: Like Ike’s Vietnam War Flip-Flop: John Kerry and Public Memory of the Vietnam War Commentator: Melani McAlister, George Washington University
Chair: Emily S. Rosenberg, Macalester College Point Four in Central America ‘No one looked at me as a foreigner’: Policymaking, Expert Knowledge, and the Ford Foundation in India, 1951-1965 Bringing ‘The Gospel of Modernization’ to Nigeria: The MIT Connection and Nigerian Economic Planning in the 1960s Commentator: Christopher T. Fisher, College of New Jersey
Chair: Priscilla Roberts, University of Hong Kong China’s Domestic Politics and Sino-American Rapprochement, January 1969-February 1972 China’s People Diplomacy in the 1950s and Its Impact on the U.S.-Japan Security Alliance Unspecified Terms of Cohabitation: U.S.–Korean Relations, 1953-1966, As Seen Through the Relations Between GIs and Koreans Commentator: Steven Phillips, Towson University
Chair: Jeffrey A. Engel, Texas A&M University Leverage, Leaks and Liabilities: Holy Loch and the ‘Special’ Anglo-American Nuclear Relationship, 1960-1965 The United States in the Azores: The First Years, 1944-1948 The Evolution of a Pluralistic Security Community: Impact and Perspectives Regarding the Presence of American Military Bases in Italy The Cold War Comes to Scotland: The Holy Loch Base and Its Impact, 1959-1974 Commentator: Jeffrey A. Engel, Texas A&M University
One Vietnam War Should Be Enough and Other Reflections on Diplomatic History and the Making of Foreign Policy
Registration: 8:30am - 5:30pm
PANEL 31: The Uses of History in Twenty-First Century U.S. Foreign Policy (Room B) Chair: Ernest R. May, Harvard University Reflections on Iraq and Iran Policy Counterinsurgency Today The Strategic Revolution in South Asia Commentator: Ernest R. May
Chair: James Matray, California State University, Chico Re-examining de Gaulle’s Peace Initiatives on the Vietnam War Peacekeeping and the Cold War in Asia: Lessons from the Past Vietnam and Anglo-American Sentimentality: Perception and Illusion in the Special Relationship Commentator: Roger Dingman, University of Southern California
Chair: Davd F. Schmitz, Whitman College Citizenship, Nationality, and Expatriation: African Americans Abroad in the Dred Scott Era Unequal Treaties as Pro-China or Simply Pro-Greed? The U.S. State Department Reexamines Extraterritoriality, 1933-1934 South of the Border with Bogart: U.S.-Mexican Relations and THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948) Commentator: Paul Kramer, John Hopkins University PANEL 34: History as Past and Present: Infamous Acts, Notorious Wars, and Human Rights (Auditorium) Chair: Matthew Jones, University of Nottingham Vietnam and Iraq: Does History Repeat Itself? The Past is Never Far Away from Another War on Terrorism: Writing American Counter-Terrorism Policy under and Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush Catalysing Events, Think Tanks and American Foreign Policy Shifts: A Comparative Analysis of the Impacts of Pearl Harbor and 9/11 Wilsonianism Revisited?: Human Rights Promotion in the Foreign Policy of the George W. Bush Administration Commentator: Klaus Larres, University of London
Chair: Kathryn Weathersby, Woodrow Wilson International Center Socialism, Sovereignty, and the North Korean Exception Nihilateralism in a Bipolar World?: Mongolian-American Non-Relations during the Cold War Ulbricht Doctrine or Gomulka Doctrine?: Moscow-Warsaw-East Berlin and the Non-Recognition of the German Democratic Republic Playing the China Card?: France and the Recognition of Communist China, 1963-1964 Commentator: Jussi Hanhimaki, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
Chair: David P. Nickles, Office of Historian, U.S. Department of State An Ocean Apart: The Radio Corporation of America in Nationalist China Telstar’s Launch, Satellite Orbits, and High-Altitude Atomic Testing: Implications for the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty? U.S. Foreign Policy and Communications Technology in the Cold War: Avoiding Field’s ‘Worst Chapter’ Syndrome Commentator: Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Luncheon Address: 11:30am - 1:30pm The Politics of Truth
PANEL 37: Modernization and Reform in the Muslim World 1950s to 1990s (Room B) Chair: Douglas Little, Clark University Before Jihad: American Conceptions of Democratization and Modernization in the Middle East 1945-1965 To See the Desert Blossom Again: Cold War Foreign Policy and the Dilemma of Modernization in the Middle East Uncertain Allies: Jordan’s King Hussein and the United States, 1953-1999 Cold War Roots of Militant Islam Commentator: Douglas Little PANEL 38: Two Hundred Years of ‘Imperial America’ (Room C) Chair: Jeffrey Kimball, Miami University of Ohio American Support for Empire, 1815-1860 Justifying Interventions in Nicaragua: From the Roosevelt Corollary to the Bush Doctrine Commentator: Jeffrey Kimball
Chair: Malcolm Byrne, National Security Archive ARVN: A Social History of America’s Ally in Vietnam The End of the Affair: US-RVN Relations in the Post-Tet War The Mystery of Marigold: New Evidence on the Secret Italian-Polish Peace Initiative in Vietnam, 1966 A Mote in the Eye: Haiphong in U.S. Diplomacy and Strategy during the Vietnam War The Selling of the War President, 1972
Chair: Sayuri Shimizu, Michigan State University Toxic Gas Warfare in China and the Japanese Army Victims of Biological Warfare? Unit 731 and Allied Prisoners of War U.S. Occupation Authorities and Korean Comfort Woman Evidence Commentator: Paula S. Harrell, Independent Scholar
Chair: Petra Goedde, Temple University The Atlantic Charter and Atlantic Identity in American International Relations History The Feebleness of Alternatives: The Politics of Rhetoric and the An Atlantic Phoenix: Pulling West German Rearmament Out of the Commentator: Petra Goedde
Chair: Theodore A. Wilson, University of Kansas Mark Gilderhus, Texas Christian University SESSION III: 4:00pm - 6:00pm PANEL 43: The CIA: Perceptions, Practice, and Organization Chair: John Prados, National Security Archive The Central Intelligence Agency and Nationalism in the Middle East during the Early Cold War: The CIA in Egypt and Iran, 1950-1960 Detecting the Enemy: The Polygraph and the Values of Truth in the Founding of the CIA and the National Security State ‘Goodbye, Mr. Thornhill, Wherever You Are’: Hollywood Representations of the CIA’s Role in American Foreign Relations Stopping the Soviets at Any Cost: The CIA’s Information Sharing Agreement with Yugoslav Intelligence after the Tito-Stalin Split Commentator: John Prados
Chair: Matthew Connelly, Columbia University Benevolent Internationalism: Anti-Opium and the Imperial Project Race and Freedom in U.S.-Caribbean Relations Vietnamese, Africans, and Arabs: The First Indochina War, 1945-1954, and the Limits of Third-Worldism Commentator: Matthew Connelly
Chair: Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut Walking in the Shadows of Munich and Vietnam The Interpretation Factor: Overcoming the Language Barrier at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial Hope and the Art of Speeches: ‘Conversational Politics’ as a Methodology to Describe the Impact of Language on Politics Respected as a Great People Who Deserve To Be Free: Rhetoric Versus Reality in the Tripolitan War Commentator: Frank Costigliola
Chair: Marc J. Selverstone, University of Virginia Complementary Interests: U.S. Policy Toward Finland in the Early Cold War, 1945-1961 The U.S. Neutrality in the Twentieth Century: The collision of Neutrality, Morality, and Hegemony The Legacy of Wartime Neutrality: U.S.-Irish Relations in the Early Cold War Commentator: Marc J. Selverstone
Chair: Richard H. Immerman, Temple University Ideas and Choices: Eisenhower’s International Crisis Management Human Rights and Foreign Policy: Wilson and the Greek Dictators 1967-1970 America, Europe, and Western Security: Responding to the Early Manifestations of the Challenges of Globalization, 1973-1975 North America, Atlanticism, and the Helsinki Process Commentator: Thomas A. Schwarz, Vanderbilt University
Chair: Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University Diplomatic Historians and the Usable Past Commentator: Mikyoung Kim, Portland State University
Lodging InformationImportant note about reaching Archives II from your lodgings: OFF-CAMPUS HOUSING Reduced rates have been arranged for conference participants at two local hotels. Please make your own arrangements directly with these hotels and mention SHAFR to assure you receive the special rate. Quality Inn $74 single $79 double; $10 extra person; Deadline for this rate is June 1, 2005.
$109 king or double; Deadline for this rate is May 15, 2005. To reserve a room at the Sheraton College Park, call the number above or go to: SHAFR 31st Annual Conference - 2005
Best Western Maryland Inn, 8601 Baltimore Ave., College Park, MD 301-474-2800 EconoLodge, 9624 Baltimore Ave., College Park, MD 301-474-0003 Fairfield Inn, 4050 Powder Mill Rd., Beltsville, MD 301-572-7100 Holiday Inn-College Park, 10000 Baltimore Ave., College Park, MD 301-345-6700 UMUC Inn & Conference Center, University Blvd. & Adelphi Rd., College Park, MD 301-985-7300 Note: Located adjacent to our designated parking lot and shuttle stop at UMD. ON-CAMPUS HOUSING Housing is available at the University of Maryland and must be purchased as a minimum four-night package (June 21-June 24). Limited space is available for anyone who wishes to arrive a day early (June 20) or stay a day later (June 25). Registration and payment for on-campus housing must be arranged directly with the University. Please print out the necessary form by clicking here and mail it, along with your payment, to the address at UMD provided on the form.
Parking and DirectionsParking/Shuttle Service for SHAFR Conference ShuttlePlease click here for information about the shuttle. General Parking Information Parking at the Archives II facility will be available ONLY on Saturday, June 25. If you will be driving to the conference on Thursday or Friday, you will need to park in our designated lot at the University of Maryland and take the SHAFR shuttle to Archives II. If you have not already reserved a parking permit, you will need to use the pay garage at UMUC. Follow the same driving directions, below, but instead of turning right off of Presidential Drive into the UMUC surface lot, you’ll need to turn left and follow Presidential Drive around the complex of buildings and into the garage. If you have already reserved a permit, follow the instructions below. You should have received your temporary permit by email. If not, please contact Sara Wilson at [email protected]
On Thursday and Friday, June 23 and 24, parking for the 2005 SHAFR Conference will be in the UMUC surface lot, with signs that read “UMUC Lot.” This lot is the nearest surface lot to the UMUC Inn and Conference Center. The location of the lot is noted on the map on page 41 of the printed SHAFR program, labeled, “University of Maryland University College.” For more detail, you can also use the University of Maryland map at http://www.parking.umd.edu/themap/ (the lot is in the upper right hand corner of that map, right under the letter “D” in “University of Maryland” and is labeled “UMUC”.) IMPORTANT: You will need a UMD parking permit. You may pick it up at the Conference registration desk when you arrive at the Archives facility. Before leaving your car, however, you must place on your dashboard a sign indicating that you are attending the SHAFR conference. This is your temporary parking permit and is only to be used the first day you park in the UMUC lot. It is being emailed to you as a separate document so that you can print it out and bring it with you. Driving Directions to the lot: From Baltimore Take I-95 south to the Capital Beltway (I-495) toward College Park. Take Exit 25 (US Route 1 South). Proceed about 1 mile south on US Route 1. Turn right onto MD Route 193 West (University Boulevard). At the third traffic light (Adelphi Road), turn left. At the first traffic light, turn left (Campus Drive). After passing the UMUC complex of buildings, turn left at Presidential Drive. At the stop sign, turn right. The UMUC lots are the first lots, on both the left and right side of this parking access road. From Annapolis and Points East Take Route 50 to the Capital Beltway (I-495) toward College Park. Take Exit 25 (U.S. Route 1 South). Proceed approximately 1 mile south on U.S. Route 1. Turn right onto Route 193 West (University Boulevard). At the third traffic light (Adelphi Road), turn left. At the first traffic light, turn left (Campus Drive). After passing the UMUC complex of buildings, turn left at Presidential Drive. At the stop sign, turn right. The UMUC lots are the first lots, on both the left and right side of this parking access road. From Montgomery County and Points West Take the Capital Beltway (I-495) toward College Park. Exit at New Hampshire Avenue/Takoma Park (MD Route 650 South). At the second light, turn left onto Adelphi Road. At the fourth light (just after University Boulevard/ MD Route 193), turn left (Campus Drive). After passing the UMUC complex of buildings, turn left at Presidential Drive. At the stop sign, turn right. The UMUC lots are the first lots, on both the left and right side of this parking access road. From Alexandria, VA and Points South of Washington Take I-295 north toward Baltimore. I-295 becomes the Baltimore-Washington Pkwy (MD Route 295). Exit onto Riverdale Road west toward Hyattsville/New Carrollton. Riverdale Road becomes East-West Highway (MD Route 410). Turn right onto Adelphi Road. At third light, turn right (Campus Drive). After passing the UMUC complex of buildings, turn left at Presidential Drive. At the stop sign, turn right. The UMUC lots are the first lots, on both the left and right side of this parking access road. From Washington D.C. Take New Hampshire Avenue (Route 650) north toward College Park. Turn right onto Route 193 East (University Boulevard). At the sixth traffic light, turn right (Adelphi Road). At third light, turn right (Campus Drive). After passing the UMUC complex of buildings, turn left at Presidential Drive. At the stop sign, turn right. The UMUC lots are the first lots, on both the left and right side of this parking access road. On Saturday, June 25, conference participants will be permitted to park at the National Archives II, 8601 Adelphi Road. Parking for Friday Night Presidential Banquet Free parking for the Friday evening banquet at the Stamp Student Union is available at the numbered lots on campus. (Tickets for this event must be purchased in advance.) The lot closest to the banquet hall is Lot 1b (located between Cole Field House and Ludwig Field, on the west side of campus). Please see the map at http://www.parking.umd.edu/themap/ (numbered lots are those BEGINNING with a number, e.g. “1b.” You may not park at lots that begin with a letter, e.g. “Z2”). If you have already parked at the UMUC surface lot for the day, you may leave your car there and take our shuttle bus back from the banquet to the UMUC surface lot or move your car closer to the Stamp Student Union, at your discretion. Parking for the Saturday Luncheon Free parking is available at the UMD Golf Course for the Saturday luncheon. (Tickets must be purchased in advance). Driving Directions to UMD Golf Course Clubhouse: From National Archives II turn left onto Adelphi Road. At first light, turn left onto Rte 193 (University Blvd east). Turn left at first light into Golf Course area and follow road to parking lot. If you’re arriving to the lunch from another location, please find directions at http://www.terpgolf.umd.edu/driving.asp You may also opt to leave your car at the National Archives II and take our shuttle bus to the luncheon. ShuttleInformation about the shuttle: Dear SHAFR registrant: The previous three emails can now be found at www.shafr.org/conference/2005 under "information updates." The information below is also included in the attached document for ease of printing. Best, Sara Wilson
On Thursday and Friday, shuttle buses will also run between the UMUC surface lot, Mowatt Parking Garage, and the National Archives on the schedule appearing below. On Saturday, shuttle buses will not stop at the UMUC surface lot because anyone with a car can, and should, park at the Archives lot on Saturday. (Parking there is not allowed on Thursday and Friday). NOTE: The stop near the Mowatt Parking Garage is to accommodate those people lodging in the UMD residence hall, which is located nearby. Conference parking is located at the UMUC surface lots NOT the Mowatt Parking Garage. Shuttle service is also provided for the Friday night Presidential Banquet and Saturday luncheon on the schedule appearing below. University of Maryland is providing the shuttle buses, which are painted red and white. Shuttle Bus Stops: 1.) College Park Metro Station: When exiting the station, turn right at the gate and follow the tunnel that leads underneath the tracks. Take escalator to small parking lot west of the station. Pick-up location is in the parking lot. 2.) UMD/UMUC campus (2 stops): Shuttle Bus Schedules: College Park Metro Station/National Archives II Route Leaves approximately every 45 minutes, beginning (from the Metro) at 8:30 AM on Thursday, 8:15 AM on Friday, and 8:00 AM on Saturday. Last bus leaving the Archives for Metro leaves at 5:45 PM on Thursday**, 5:45 PM on Friday, and 6:15 PM on Saturday. On Saturday, there will be no shuttle service to the metro between 3:15 and 6:15, on the assumption that anyone remaining at the Archives after 3:15 is staying for the final session and will not leave until its conclusion. Parking Lot/UMD Residence Hall/National Archives II Route On Thursday and Friday: Leaves approximately every 30 minutes, beginning at UMUC surface parking lots at 8:30 AM on Thursday and 7:30 AM on Friday and proceeding to the Mowatt Lane Garage (pick-up location for those staying in UMD residence hall) and then to Archives II. Last bus leaving the Archives for the UMUC parking lot and Residence Hall leaves at 6:30 PM on Thursday** and 3:15 PM on Friday. On Saturday: Leaves approximately every 30 minutes, beginning at the Mowatt Lane Garage at 8:30 and proceeding to Archives II. Regular schedule ends at 3:30, but one last bus will leave from the Archives to the Mowatt Lane Garage at 6:15 PM on Saturday. **Shuttles for Plenary Session Shuttles for Friday night Presidential Banquet and Saturday Luncheon Shuttle buses will leave the Archives at 11:15 for the Saturday luncheon at the UMD Golf Clubhouse and will return in time for the first afternoon session.
Contact InformationQuestions? Contact Sara Wilson, SHAFR Conference Coordinator, [email protected]
Information UpdatesBelow are the informational emails sent out to conference registrants. If you are registered already, you should have a copy of these in your inbox as well. SHAFR Conference Information One: NATIONAL ARCHIVES II FACILITY INFORMATION/SECURITYDear SHAFR participant: Today’s topic is NATIONAL ARCHIVES II FACILITY INFORMATION/SECURITY. Further emails to come include information on INFORMATION FOR RESEARCHERS; PARKING AND SHUTTLE SERVICE; and a final email of MISCELLANEOUS OTHER INFORMATION. Location: All daily conference sessions, and the Thursday evening plenary, will occur on the lower level at the National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740. Information about the location of the Friday Presidential Banquet and Saturday Luncheon will be included in the email about parking and shuttle service. Security: Everyone entering the building must show a valid government-issued picture ID. You must also pass through a metal detector and all items brought into the building must pass through an X-ray machine. Please be aware that this process may be time-consuming when a large group arrives at the building at the same time, i.e., after disembarking from the SHAFR Shuttle. Telephone Service: Convenience Store: Located on the first floor off the lobby, before the cafeteria entrance. Open 7:00 am - 4:00 pm. Closed Saturday. Storage: During the day you may store personal belongings in the researcher lockers. A quarter is required to remove the key from the locker. The quarter is returned when you reinsert the key. Lockers cannot be used for overnight storage. Parking: Parking is available at Archives II ONLY on Saturday. Please see the parking informational email (forthcoming and soon to be available at www.shafr.org/conference/2005) for details about parking at the University of Maryland and shuttling to Archives II. Temperature/Climate: Despite projected outside temperatures of 85 degrees F, please consider bringing a jacket or sweater in the event you find the air-conditioned temperature in the facility uncomfortably cold. Refreshments/Meals: Continental breakfast will be provided each morning. Refreshments will also be served during each afternoon break. If you wish to remain on-site for lunch on Friday, you must pre-order a box lunch. For lunch on Saturday, you must either pre-order a ticket to the off-site luncheon or go off-site on your own. Dinner each night is on your own, unless you have pre-ordered a ticket for the Friday Presidential Banquet. ATM: Located outside the Research Registration Office on the first floor. Email: You may check email in the Research Rooms. A researcher ID is required. Please see http://www.archives.gov/research_room/getting_started/researcher_card.html Photocopies: You may make copies, for a fee, also in the Research Rooms. A researcher ID is required. Use the link mentioned above under “Email.” SHAFR Conference Information Two: LETTER FROM SALLY KUISELDear SHAFR Registrants: Best, Sara Wilson Below is a letter from Sally Kuisel, archivist at National Archives II, and a member of SHAFR's program committee:
We anticipate that a number of historians attending the SHAFR conference will also want to get in a bit of research between sessions or in the evenings. Since the Archives is co-hosting the event, our diplomatic archivists will be assisting with conference arrangements or presenting papers, so that consulting with an archivist before requesting records may be difficult. State Department and public diplomacy records are part of the Archives Civilian Records unit. We will try to have two diplomatic archivists on duty in the Civilian Records consultation area, room 2600, and Ed Barnes, a Specialist who works in the Textual Research Room (room 2000), is familiar with diplomatic records. If you need to speak with an archivist before your arrival, you can telephone Civilian Records at (301) 837-3480 or 0929. The email address for the Archives is [email protected]. There a couple of things that conference attendees can do to facilitate ordering records. First, have a look at "Research Room" on the Archives website, http://www.archives.gov, which gives detailed information about using the research rooms, copying facilities and research paths. Our new diplomatic webpage at http://www.archives.gov/research_room/research_topics/state_dept_guide.pdf gives a comprehensive overview of State Department records, including the central file, lot files and post records and provides an excellent introduction for first-time users. Second, be sure to note file numbers relating to your topic in "Foreign Relations of the United States." As most of you know, besides providing the text of important foreign policy documents, FRUS also gives file citations, printed either with the document or in footnotes, which are the keys to obtaining access to other related documents that were not selected for publication in the series. And beginning in the early 19! Requests for records should be submitted in the Textual Research Room, where there are finding aids to the State Department central file, as well as box lists for the lot files arranged by subject (ex. Executive Secretariat, Europe, Western Hemisphere, Policy Planning Staff, etc). Records are pulled at 9:30, 10:30, 11:30, 1:30 and 3:30 Monday through Friday. Under normal conditions, it takes about an hour from the pull time until the records appear in the Textual Research Room. If you want to work on Saturday, remember that the last record pull is 3:30 on Friday afternoon. Our hours are Monday and Wednesday 8:45 am - 5:00 pm; Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 8:45 am - 9:00 pm; and Saturday 8:45 am - 4:45 pm. The Nixon Presidential Papers are still housed in Archives II, pending their transfer to California. You can contact a Nixon Presidential Materials Staff archivist by calling ext. 73290 on the telephone just inside the Textual Research Room front door. The Modern Military Records (including OSS and CIA records) consultation area is room 2400, adjacent to the Textual Research Room (telephone 837-3510). Researchers can move freely about in the Research Complex but need to obtain a pass in the Textual Research Room and be escorted to both the Civilian Records consultation area in room 2600 and the Modern Military consultation area in room 2400. Here is a list of facilities and research rooms in the Research Complex: Everyone wanting to use original records will have to first get a Researcher Identification Card just inside the lobby and watch a short PowerPoint presentation on handling records. To obtain the card, you will need some form of official photo identification such as a passport or driver's license with your current address. Sally Kuisel SHAFR Conference Information Three: PARKINGDear SHAFR registrant: Today's subject is PARKING. Detailed instructions will soon be available on the website www.shafr.org/conference/2005 under both "parking" and "informational emails," but please note that you will receive (or already have received) an individual email in response to your request for a parking permit. If you have already requested a parking permit (and depending how early you submitted your request) you should have received one of the following emails from me: If you have not already requested a parking permit, but need one, please contact me as soon as possible and I will do my best to accommodate you or will offer other suggestions about parking. Please also be in touch if you previously requested a permit but did not hear from me. Please note that information about shuttle service is coming in the next email to all registrants. Best, Sara Wilson SHAFR Conference Information Four: SHUTTLEDear SHAFR registrant: The previous three emails can now be found at www.shafr.org/conference/2005 under "information updates." The information below is also included in the attached document for ease of printing. Best, Sara Wilson
On Thursday and Friday, shuttle buses will also run between the UMUC surface lot, Mowatt Parking Garage, and the National Archives on the schedule appearing below. On Saturday, shuttle buses will not stop at the UMUC surface lot because anyone with a car can, and should, park at the Archives lot on Saturday. (Parking there is not allowed on Thursday and Friday). NOTE: The stop near the Mowatt Parking Garage is to accommodate those people lodging in the UMD residence hall, which is located nearby. Conference parking is located at the UMUC surface lots NOT the Mowatt Parking Garage. Shuttle service is also provided for the Friday night Presidential Banquet and Saturday luncheon on the schedule appearing below. University of Maryland is providing the shuttle buses, which are painted red and white. Shuttle Bus Stops: 1.) College Park Metro Station: When exiting the station, turn right at the gate and follow the tunnel that leads underneath the tracks. Take escalator to small parking lot west of the station. Pick-up location is in the parking lot. 2.) UMD/UMUC campus (2 stops): Shuttle Bus Schedules: College Park Metro Station/National Archives II Route Leaves approximately every 45 minutes, beginning (from the Metro) at 8:30 AM on Thursday, 8:15 AM on Friday, and 8:00 AM on Saturday. Last bus leaving the Archives for Metro leaves at 5:45 PM on Thursday**, 5:45 PM on Friday, and 6:15 PM on Saturday. On Saturday, there will be no shuttle service to the metro between 3:15 and 6:15, on the assumption that anyone remaining at the Archives after 3:15 is staying for the final session and will not leave until its conclusion. Parking Lot/UMD Residence Hall/National Archives II Route On Thursday and Friday: Leaves approximately every 30 minutes, beginning at UMUC surface parking lots at 8:30 AM on Thursday and 7:30 AM on Friday and proceeding to the Mowatt Lane Garage (pick-up location for those staying in UMD residence hall) and then to Archives II. Last bus leaving the Archives for the UMUC parking lot and Residence Hall leaves at 6:30 PM on Thursday** and 3:15 PM on Friday. On Saturday: Leaves approximately every 30 minutes, beginning at the Mowatt Lane Garage at 8:30 and proceeding to Archives II. Regular schedule ends at 3:30, but one last bus will leave from the Archives to the Mowatt Lane Garage at 6:15 PM on Saturday. **Shuttles for Plenary Session Shuttles for Friday night Presidential Banquet and Saturday Luncheon Shuttle buses will leave the Archives at 11:15 for the Saturday luncheon at the UMD Golf Clubhouse and will return in time for the first afternoon session. SHAFR Conference Information Five: MISCDear SHAFR registrant: NARA facility information These emails are available on the conference website at www.shafr.org/conference/2005 under the "information updates" tab. Today's email is a list of other, miscellaneous information you may be interested in: Hotel shuttles: Please remember that if you are staying at the Sheraton College Park or the Quality Inn, the hotel will provide shuttle service to and from the Archives facility. The Sheraton promised service on demand and the Quality Inn guaranteed service between 6:30-10:30 AM and 3:30-7:30 PM. If any hotel staff members are uninformed about our arrangements and turn down your request for transportation, ask to speak to Lauren Peret or Phil Kartanowicz (Sheraton) or Yvonne Guy (Quality Inn). Also, the Quality Inn is located relatively close to the College Park Metro station, so it is also possible to take the SHAFR shuttle to and from the Metro station and walk the rest of the way to the hotel. Book Exhibitors: The following organizations will have exhibit tables at the conference ?Association Book Exhibit; Blackwell Publishers; Carnegie Endowment; Duke University Press; German Historical Institute; Harvard University Press; University Press of Kentucky; NYU Press; University of North Carolina Press; Potomac Books; Rowman & Littlefield; Routledge; Stanford University Press; and University of Washington Press. Communication: Beginning early Wednesday morning, I will be on site at the Archives facility and it will be difficult for me to monitor the [email protected] email account. On Tuesday, I will respond to emails sent to [email protected]. On Wednesday, you may reach me at our Archives-provided phone number 301-837-0963. The information contained in this email is also included in the attached document. Best,
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