Seminar on the City Emphasizes Ohio, Regional History

Oct. 10, 2002
Speaker: Ellen Stroud, assistant professor of history, Oberlin College
Topic: "The Return of the Forest: Urbanization and Reforestation in the Northeastern United States"

Nov. 14, 2002
Speaker: Spencer Crew, executive director of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Topic: "The Role of Cincinnati in the Underground Railroad"

Dec. 12, 2002
Speaker: Steven Weisenburger, professor of English, University of Kentucky
Topic: "Cincinnati Abolitionism: The Turbulent 1850s"

Jan. 9, 2003
Speaker: Paul Naish, PhD candidate at Columbia University
Topic: "Teaching Cincinnati to Shop: Department Store Promotions and Consumer Capitalism"

Feb. 13, 2003
Speaker: John Cumbler, professor of history, University of Louisville
Topic: "Riparian Rights: From Quantity to Quality in the Nineteenth Century"

March 13, 2003
Speaker: Beth Sullebarger, president, Cincinnati Preservation Association
Topic: "Preservation in Cincinnati: Past and Present"

April 10, 2003 (Ohio bicentennial program)
Speaker: James O. Horton, professor of history, George Washington University
Topic: "1803 Ohio: Culture, Contact, European Settlement and the Road to Freedom"

May 8, 2003
Speaker: David Blight, professor of history, Amherst College (Yale University, effective January 2003). His book, "Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory," has won seven major awards.
Topic: "The Problem of Slavery and the Civil War in American Memory"

Sponsored by the University of Cincinnati and the Museum Center at Union Terminal

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