Thursday, May 29
8:00 am
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Registration Opens (Light Breakfast)
Dining Room C
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9:00-10:30 am
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Session 1: Plenary
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The Current State of Federal History
Montpelier Room Felicia Wivchar, President, SHFG SHFG Executive Council
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10:30-10:45 am
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BREAK
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10:45 am -12:15 pm
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Session 2
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Panel 1 Montpelier Room |
Panel 1: To Serve the Country and the 54: History in the National Guard
Montpelier Room
Chair/Moderator: Elizabeth Borja, National Guard Bureau, History Office
Andrew Hargroder, Historian, National Guard Bureau, History Office
Richard Clark, National Guard Bureau, History Office
Blair Haworth, Air National Guard History Office
Joseph Miller, National Guard Bureau, History Office
Julie Shively, Maryland National Guard
Miranda Summers Lowe, National Guard Bureau, History Office
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Panel 2
Dining Room A
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Panel 2: Communicating History's Importance to the Federal Government and the Public
Dining Room A
Alexandra Levy, American Historical Association
Daniel S. Holt, U.S. Senate Historical Office
Mark Folse, U.S. Army Center of Military History
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Panel 3
West Dining Room
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Panel 3: Career Pivots: Finding Inspiration and Avoiding Professional Stagnation West Dining Room Chair: Kate Hallgren Sarah Weicksel, American Historical Association Scott Vierick, Congressional Research Service Matthew Goguen, Geosyntec Consultants, Inc. Susan Dawson, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Stanley Contrades, Coast Guard Office of Heritage, Historian's Office
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12:15-1:45 pm
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LUNCH BREAK
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SHFG BUSINESS MEETING
Dining Room A
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1:45-3:15 pm
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Session 3
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Panel 4
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Panel 4: American Revolution at 250 Commemorations: Perspectives and Insights
Montpelier Room
Chair: Shannon Granville, U.S. Army Center of Military History
Jonathan D. Bratten, U.S. Army Center of Military History
Zach Klitzman, Library of Congress
Susan Reyburn, Library of Congress
Suzanne Isaacs, National Archives and Records Administration
Joseph Seymour, U.S. Army Center of Military History
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Panel 5
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Panel 5: Celebrating 70 Years of the Nuclear Ship Savannah Program
Dining Room A
Anna Gibson Holloway, U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration
Barbara Voulgaris, U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration
Erhard Koehler, U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration
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Panel 6
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Panel 6: Building the Archive: Oral History, Data Collection, and Collecting Documents in Federal History
West Dining Room
Chair: Joel Christenson, Virginia Military Institute
Jason Chernesky, Organization of American Historians "Federal Employees and Contractors Oral History Project" Chrissie "Zero" Reilly, University of Maryland Baltimore County and Michael "DAZE" Shields, U.S. Air Force "Lessons from Operation Allies Welcome and the RFF Deployment to Ramstein AB"
Joseph Ballegeer, U.S. Census Bureau "Enumeration Nation: 1960 Census Evaluation and Research Program"
Francis Park, Defense Security Cooperation University "Field History Over the Horizon: Collecting Records from U.S. Forces, Afghanistan in 2021"
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3:15-3:30 pm
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BREAK
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3:30-5:00 pm
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Awards Ceremony and Trask Lecture
Montpelier Room Kristin L. Ahlberg, Office of the Historian, Department of State, Retired will deliver the Trask Lecture
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5:00-7:00 pm
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Reception
Montpelier Room, Dining Room C
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Friday, May 30
8:00 am
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Registration Opens (Light Breakfast)
Dining Room C
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9:00-10:30 am
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Session 4
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Panel 7
Montpelier Room
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Panel 7: Commemoration and Public Outreach in War and Peace
Montpelier Room
Chair: Mindy Farmer, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Sean Graham, Directorate of Heritage and History at the Department of National Defense (Ottawa, CAN) "Whose Story is It? Cross-Department Historical Training at Canada's First World War Sites"
Ellie Kaplan, University of California, Davis "Implementing Disability Civil Rights at Our National Parks"
Shane Story, U.S. Army War College “Frank and Honest? U.S. Army Histories of the War on Terror"
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Panel 8
Dining Room A
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Panel 8: History's Mysteries: Crowdsourcing Answers to Your Most Vexing Questions
Dining Room A
Structured Conversation/Workshop
Chair: Leslie Poster, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
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Panel 9
West Dining Room
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Meeting of the Oral History Working Group
West Dining Room
Discussion Lead: Richard Hulver, Chair, Oral History Working Group
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10:30- 10:45 am
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BREAK
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10:45 am- 12:15 pm
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Session 5
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Panel 11
Montpelier Room
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Panel 11: Capturing History: Insights into Joint Oral History Programs
Montpelier Room
Chair: Angela Riotto, Defense Security Cooperation University
Heather Haley, Naval History and Heritage Command
Kate Tietzen-Wisdom, U.S. Army Center of Military History
Jessica Sheets, U.S. Marine Corps History Division
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Panel 12
Dining Room A
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Panel 12: Cold War Solutions: Recollections of International Security Practitioners; Promoting Private Insights and Next Generation Engagement through Federal Negotiating Records
Dining Room A The Foreign Relations of the United States Series and Arms Control Documentation Elizabeth Charles, Historian, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State Creating a Collection of Arms Control, Disarmament, and Nonproliferation Lessons Learned Jennie Gromoll, Senior Advisor (retired) for Europe and Eurasia, Office of Policy Coordination, International Security and Nonproliferation Bureau, U.S. Department of State 50th Anniversary of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Reviewing the Record Mark Goodman, Senior Scientist (retired), Office of Multilateral Nuclear and Security Affairs, International Security and Nonproliferation Bureau, U.S. Department of State
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Panel 13
West Dining Room
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Panel 13: Expanding the Archive: Rewriting the Histories of Soldiers and Bureaucrats
West Dining Room
Chair: Andrew Salamone, Department of Defense
Donald Hall, Defense Health Agency "Making Medical History: The 27th Military History Detachment and the Documentation of Medical Support during the Vietnam War"
Sabrina Waite, Texas A&M University "The Prized Plum: Black Ideology and African American Diplomats in Haiti, 1869-1914"
Eric W. Boyle, U.S. Department of Energy Atomic Fission: The Breakup of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974
Orlando Pacheco, Defense Intelligence Agency "'We are Dealing with a Gifted Toddler:' Practical Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in History"
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12:15-2:00 pm
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LUNCH BREAK
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2:00-3:30pm
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Session 6
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Panel 14 Montpelier Room
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Panel 14: Celebrating the Navy's 250th Birthday and the Navy Department Library's 225th Birthday: A Roundtable with NHHC Historians, Curators, and Librarians
Montpelier Room
Chair: Breanne Robertson, Naval History and Heritage Command
Jeff Bowdoin, Naval Histories and Heritage Command
Dennis Wilson, Navy Department Library, Naval History and Heritage Command
Rajshree Solanki, National Museum of the United States Navy
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Panel 15
West Dining Room
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Panel 15: Early Career Historians in Army History
West Dining Room
Chair: Ashley Vance, U.S. Army Center of Military History
David Hipple, U.S. Army Center of Military History (Texas Tech University)
Bearington Curtis, U.S. Army Center of Military History (University of Southern Mississippi)
Brynne Long, U.S. Army Center of Military History
Julia Wall, U.S. Army Center of Military History
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4:00pm
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Informal Happy Hour (Off site)
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