The 2000 program will make special use of our local setting in the St. Louis region. The Labor and Working-Class History Association is sponsoring a walking tour of St. Louis which will visit selected sites that explore the history of St. Louis workers' struggles to transform their workplace and society. Please make special note of the following events. Assembled for this event, the band features rhythm and blues legends Oliver Spain, Clayton Love, and Jacqui Stanti, who since the l950s have helped define the sounds of St. Louis and Memphis soul music. This year's plenary sessions address the conference's theme of The U.S. and the Wider World, or our St. Louis site.
Panels focusing on empire, imperialism, and warfare are particularly diverse in method and approach.
Varieties of linkages between the government and peoples of the U.S. and the wider world also bring together historians of politics, society and culture. Film, too, has found its place on this year's program. It provides a particularly engaging medium for exploring the conference theme of the U.S. and the Wider World. Panels on the work of individual scholars or on books that have particularly enriched recent historiography are a long-standing tradition at the OAH annual conference. This year, sessions are a particularly diverse group that address issues of domestic and international politics, culture, and gender.