Thursday, May 30th
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8:15am
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Registration Opens (Light Breakfast) – Dining Room C
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9:00-10:30am
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Session 1: Workshops
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Oral History Workshop – Montpelier Room
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Federal Jobs Workshop – West Dining Room
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10:30-10:45
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BREAK
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10:45 - 12:15
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Session 2
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Panel 1
Dining Room A
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Panel 1: “Incorporating Medical History and Humanities into Health Literacy and Outreach from the National Library of Medicine”
Dining Room A
Martha Meachem, National Institutes of Health
Julie Volpenhein, National Institutes of Health
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Panel 2
Montpelier Room
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Panel 2: “New Directions in Archives Accessibility”
Montpelier Room
Chair: Allison Finkelstein, Arlington National Cemetery
Cheryl Fox, Library of Congress – “The Library of Congress Archives: Past and Future”
John Lyles, U.S. Marine Corps History Division – “Marine Corps History Division Strategy for Digitizing Archival Materials for Public Access”
Andy Salamone, U.S. Department of Defense – “Accessible Archives: Assistive Technology and Digital History for those with Print Disabilities”
Rachel Whyte, George Mason University – “Religious Digitization: A Step Beyond a Database”
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Panel 3
West Dining Room
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Panel 3: “Oral History in the Army Historical Program”
West Dining Room
Julie Prieto, U.S. Army Center of Military History
Nick Schlosser, U.S. Army Center of Military History
Matthew Margis, U.S. Army Center of Military History
Mason Watson, U.S. Army Center of Military History
Mark Folse, U.S. Army Center of Military History
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12:15-1:30
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LUNCH BREAK
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BUSINESS MEETING
Dining Room A
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1:45-3:15pm
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Session 3
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Panel 4
Montpelier Room
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Panel 4: “Updates on and Implications of State Department Use of Machine Learning Tools for Declassification Review”
Montpelier Room Sam Stehle, U.S. Department of State – “AI-Powered Techniques in Trustworthy Information Declassification” Jeffery Charlston, U.S. Department of State – “Update on the State Department’s Use of Machine Learning in Records Declassification” John Powers, U.S. Department of State – “The Promise of Artificial Intelligence for Research Access to Classified Records”
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Panel 5
Dining Room A
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Panel 5: “Tilting at Windmills: Making Military Archives Work”
Dining Room A Karen Miller, U.S. Strategic Command Christina Luers, Air Combat Command Elizabeth Borja, National Guard Bureau
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Panel 6
West Dining Room
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Panel 6: “Social Media and Federal History: Present and Future”
West Dining Room Laura O’Hara, U.S. House of Representatives Tracy Baetz, U.S. Department of the Interior Museum Alexandra Levy, American Historical Association
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3:15-3:30pm
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BREAK
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3:30-5pm
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Awards Ceremony and Trask Lecture
Montpelier Room
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5:00-7:00pm
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Reception
Montpelier Room, Dining Room A, Dining Room C
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Friday, May 31st
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8:15am
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Registration Opens (Light Breakfast)
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9:00-10:30am
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Session 4
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Panel 7
Montpelier Room
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Panel 7: “A Model for Agency-wide Collaboration: The LOC’s Summer 2023 LGBTQ+ History Workshop”
Montpelier Room
Lee Ann Potter, Library of Congress Kevin Butterfield, Library of Congress (John W. Kluge Center) Dan Turello, Library of Congress (John W. Kluge Center) Megan Metcalf, Library of Congress Cheryl Lederle, Library of Congress
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Panel 8
West Dining Room
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Panel 8: “Emerging Research in Federal Records: Opportunities and Challenges”
West Dining Room Chair: Terrance Rucker, U.S. House of Representatives Alan Gersch and William Frankenstein, Deloitte – “Applying AI for Finding the Most Important Needles in Document Archive Haystacks” Abigail Coupe, Congressional Research Service – “Dead Letters: Historical Research and the Challenges of Managing and Accessing Federal Information” Kyle Warmack, West Virginia Humanities Council – “Unlimited Use: Federal Records and the West Virginia National Cemeteries Project”
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Panel 9
Dining Room A
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Panel 9: “Implementing and Operating Oral History Programs: Considerations Across Institutions”
Dining Room A Bridey Heing, Library of Congress Heather Frazier, Library of Congress Marianna Fotakos, Library of Congress
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10:30- 10:45am
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BREAK
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10:45am- 12:15pm
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Session 5: Plenary
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Montpelier Room
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“Promoting and Protecting History in the Federal Government: Gathering Resources to Protect Endangered Programs, Justify Historian Positions, and Promote History to Non-Historians”
Montpelier Room Julie Prieto, SHFG President Members of SHFG Executive Council
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12:15-2:00pm
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Lunch and LOC Self-Guided Tours
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2:00pm-3:30pm
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Session 6
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Panel 10
Dining Room A
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Panel 10: “Selecting a Digital Asset Management System as a Federal History Office”
Dining Room A Gabrielle Barr, National Institutes of Health Devon Valera, National Institutes of Health Haley Higingbotham, National Institutes of Health
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Panel 11
Montpelier Room
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Panel 11: “Development and Activities of the Public Education Project, Inc.”
Montpelier Room Judson MacLaury Mike Reis Alison Trulock, U.S. House of Representatives Meirah Shedlo Eidelman, Corporation for Public Broadcasting Catherine Obrion, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
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Panel 12
West Dining Room
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Panel 12: “You’ll Never Know If You Don’t Ask: Audience Outreach and Assessment”
West Dining Room Mackenzie Miessau, U.S. House of Representatives Michelle Strizever, U.S. House of Representatives Felicia Wivchar, U.S. House of Representatives
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Panel 13
Dining Room C
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Panel 13: “Psychedelics, Water Rights, and Cryptology: Uncovering the Past through Oral History and Public Engagement”
Dining Room C Chair: Joel Christenson, OSD Historical Office Bianca Barriskill, Golden History Museum and Park – “Modern Change and Community Resilience: BIPOC Activists, Knowledge Justice, and Colorado’s Psychedelic Drug Policy Reform” Mark Howe, USIBWC – “Public Information and Historical Access on the Internet of the USIBWC” Brenda McIntire, Center for Cryptologic History – “Give to Ferner”
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4:00pm
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Informal Happy Hour (Hawk & Dove, Capitol Hill)
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