OVHC 2008 Program
Thursday, Oct. 30 6-8 pm Registration at the Riverview Inn
Reception at Riverview Inn, Suite #602, 8-10 pm
Friday, Oct. 31, 7:30-11, Registration, Morgan University Center, APSU
Department Chairs Meeting Friday morning 7:30-8:30
University Center
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Friday Sessions I, 8:30-10:00
Panel 1: Democracy and Knowledge in the Early Republic
"‘To keep pace with the progress of this age’: Post-Revolutionary Print Culture and the Making of The American Geography."
Neil Miller, Independent Scholar
Richard Gildrie,
Thomas Coens,
Panel 2: The Resurgent Right in Europe
“The Rise (and Fall?) of the Far Right in
David Pizzo,
“LePen’s Waxing and Waning: the French Right Since the Collapse of the Iron Curtain”
Terry Strieter,
American Crisis, Southern Solutions: From Where We Stand, Promise and Peril
Charles J. Bussey,
Danny Duncan Collum,
Panel 4: Native American Cultural Identity: From Its Origins to European Influences
Moderator: Kristofer Ray, Austin Peay State University
“Creation Seen Through Indian Eyes”
Fred Heifner,
“Education in a Tempest:
The
Peggy Hardman, Eastern
“The Monyton Diaspora, Native Americans in the
Issac J. Emrick,
Panel 5: Sports, the Press and Film in American History
“The Devil in the Garden:
Nathan Corzine,
“Caught in the Shadow of Joe Louis: Ezzard Charles, the Press, and African Americans”
Kevin Grace,
“One Hundred Years of Film Comedy and How 9/11 Changed Comedy”
Michael Birdwell,
Panel 6: Just War Principles Temporalized: Implications of a Theory of John Lango for the Evaluation of Conflicts from World War I to the Occupation of Iraq
Sponsored by APSU Department of Philosophy
“The Temporalization of Just War Principles and the Evaluation of World War I”
Steven Graeter,
“The Temporalization of Just War Principles and Shifting Judgments about the Justice of Occupations”
Jordy Rocheleau,
Friday 10:00-10:15 Break
Friday Sessions II, 10:15-11:45
Panel 7: Just War Theory and United Nations Policy for Authorizing Military Interventions
Sponsored by APSU Department of Philosophy
“The Responsibility to Protect: Roots and Challenges”
Robert Hoag,
“”The Security Council and the Use of Military Force: Disagreement and Compromise about Applications of Generalized Just War Principles”
John Lango,
Panel 8: Colonialism in Africa
“Scratching on the Margins of Empire: Dogs and
Colonial Encounters in
Jeremy Rich,
“From Hessen to
Gregory Zieren,
“Counter-Insurgency in
David Pizzo,
Panel 9: The Citizen Soldier and the Civil War
Sponsored by Society of Military Historians
“Lew Wallace and the Civil War: Politics, Character, and Generalship”
Christopher Mortenson,
“Mutiny in the 15th
Thaddeus Romansky,
“Cinncinatus Rejected:
Union Citizen Soldiering in Post Civil War
Jonathon Beall,
“Becoming Men: Amenorrhea and Female Asceticism”
Rebecca Falcasantos,
“Temptation and Seduction: The Psychology of the Female Witch in ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’”
Deana Abbot,
Panel 11: Religion in American Society
“War, Romance and Religion in Colonial
Albert C. Whittenberg,
“Liberation, Transformation, and Reverend B. Cleage, Jr. and Black Christian Nationalism”
C. Alvin Hughes,
Sharon Johnson,
‘’God Damn
Brian Clardy,
Panel 12: Economy and Society in America’s Transmontane Frontier
“
Kevin T. Barksdale,
“Frontier Pioneers of Industry in the
Rick Hollis,
“’Labour and Mud Make all Men Equal’: The Boonesborough Corn Compact of 1779”
Susan Guant,
Tennessee Conference of Historians Meeting
11:45, Room TBA
Department chairs, representatives, and those
interested
Friday Lunch on your own, 11:45-1:10
Friday Sessions III, 1:15-2:45
Panel 13: Development of the Constitution in American History
“Against the Ecumenical Impulse: Religious Separatism and Value of Factions”
Tim Hall,
“Constitutional Development in the Southern States”
Jason Minard, Eastern
“From Southern Populist to Constitutional Champion: Hugo Black and the Wage Hour Bill”
Garrett Spivey,
Panel 14: Roundtable: History on the Internet
Moderator: Elaine
Berg,
“The Genesis of a Research Course in Research Methods”
Greg Zieren,
“Online Research and Librarians”
Lori Buchanan,
“The Internet and
Panel 15: The Repercussions of Early 20th Century Revolutionary Mexico
“Myth, Memory, and Method: Zapata and the Old Regime”
Bill Schell,
“Stumbling across the Border: The Mexican Punitive Expedition and the Modernization of the American Army”
Christopher Thrasher,
Panel 16: Civil War Battles
“Shattering the Peace:
The Outbreak of Irregular Activity in the
Scott Tarnowieckyi,
“The Blue Waters of the Potomac Ran Red with Blood: The Battle of Ball’s Bluff”
Danny Gilkey,
“Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Commanders and the Battle of Lexington, Tennessee, 18 December 1862”
Joshua Camper,
Comments: C.
Wallace Cross,
Panel 17: The Unhappy Hapsburgs: From Versailles to the Balkans
“
George Pesely,
Comments: Cameron
Sutt,
“The Kids are Alright: Teenage Auxiliaries before German Military Courts, 1943-1945”
David Snyder,
“Flat-Tops and Flapjacks: Food and War in the Pacific”
Phillip Rutherford,
“’Much
Amy Dye,
Comments: Malcolm Muir, Jr. Virginia Military Institute
Break 2:45-3:00
Friday Sessions IV, 3:00-4:30
Panel 19: The Two Koreas and, Cold War Asian Imbroglio
“Turnabout is Fair Play? The North Korean Abduction of Japanese Citizens in Historical Context”
David Nelson,
“Hawks and Doves:
The
Christos Frentzos,
Panel 20: African Post-Colonization
“Cold War, Decolonization, and
“ Neocolonialism in
Jonathon McClintock, Eastern
“
Aaron Clark, Eastern
Panel 21: Civic Duty on the Homefront in WWI
“’Answering the Call of Duty?’:
Patriotism and Volunteerism in
Bonnie White,
Martin T. Olliff,
Panel 22: Reimagining the Past, Imagining the Future in the Late 19th Century
“The Significance of the Frontier in American History Revisited: Frances Fuller Victor, Frederick Jackson Turner, and Buffalo Bill Cody Go to the 1893 World’s Fair”
Sheri Browne,
“’Good Times Forgotten’: Depictions of Slavery at the Turn of the Century Expositions”
Paul Beezley,
“Dream Worlds of the 1890s: Visions of Modernity in French Advertising Posters”
Jeffery
Panel 23: Interwar American Citizenship: Civilian Conservation Corps, 1922-1938
Sponsored by the Society of Military Historians
Moderator:
Donald L. Barlow, Big Sandy Community and
“The
Arthur Coumbe, Historian,
“Soldiers of the Republic:
The
Leo Daugherty, Command Historian,
“’A Woman’s Place’: Eleanor Roosevelt, Francis Perkins and the CCC”
Rhonda Smith-Daugherty,
“The CCC, Job Training and the Second World War, 1933-1943”
Richard Dorn,
Panel 24: Contemporary American Issues
“Hanging at the V: The Veterans of Foreign Wars and Veterans Today”
Deborah Wilson, Southern
"What's the Dam Problem? Flood Risk at
Adam King,
“Worst President in American History? ‘W’ in Historical Perspective
Jeff Roberts,
Panel
25: Phi Alpha Theta Documentary Film
“War and the Lakin Family”
Ashleigh Oatts,
Greg Zieren,
Society for Military Historians
Meeting 5:00 UC Room TBA
Potential Members Welcome
"Conversations with Bobby 40 Years Later"
John Seigenthaler, Sr.
Keynote dinner 6:30-8:00
University Center
Reception at Riverview Inn, Suite #602, 8:00-10:00
Saturday Sessions I, 8:30-10:00
Panel 26: Civil Rights, 19th Century Religious
and 20th Century Secular
"'I don't know about Man, but I know what God can do.' The
Judy LeForge,
Comments: Carole Bucy,
Panel 27: Civil War Soldiers: Identities and Memory
“A Firm Foundation: Union Christian Soldiers and the Ordeal of Army Life”
Kent Dollar,
“Germans in an American War: Reshaping Ethnic Identity”
Christina Bearden-White, Southern
“’The Heroic Dead’: W. H. L. Wallace, Honor, and Civil War Memory”
Mathew Stanley,
Panel 28: Problems of Eighteenth Century Empires
“A ‘New’ System
of Agriculture—Emergence of Economic Agricultural Writings in Eighteenth Century
Jesse Brown, Jr.,
“The Making of a Radical: Slave Agency and the Evolution of Abolitionist Thought in the Journalism of Claude Milscent”
Alexandra Shultz,
“The
David Downs,
Panel 29: White and Native American Conflict on the Frontier
“George Rogers Clark and the Indians: Race and Violence in the First American West”
Jacob F. Lee, Filson Historical Society
Robert T. Anderson,
“Terror, Horror, and Sorrow:
Allen R. Coggins, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
Panel 30: Beyond Joseph Plumb Martin: The Common Person on Virginia’s Frontier
Kenneth C. Carstens,
Laura Edwards,
"Appendix I
Michael McMeins
Discussants: Kristine Leta Sjostrom
Comments: Kenneth C. Carstens,
Panel 31: Race and Violence in Southern History
“A Blackwater Tragedy in 1831”
Jon Fitch,
“Ties Undying: Black Perspectives on Lynching and its Roots in Slavery”
tonya thames taylor, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
“Murder at
Joseph C. Douglas,
Sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta
“Dorothea Dix: Reformer for the Mentally Ill”
Leslie Crouch,
“William Bartram and the Evolution of Wilderness Identity”
Todd Stevison,
Saturday Sessions II, 10:15-11:45
Panel 33: Labor and Immigration in 19th Century America
“It is best not to increase in that nationality”:
Opportunity, Discrimination, and Irish Workers in
William Mulligan,
“The History of Beehive Coking and Merchant Blast Furnace
Production in
Samuel Di Rocco,
Panel 34: American Politics from Late 18th Century to Antebellum
“’Patriotic and Convivial Songs’:
Music and Politics in the
David Marsich,
“Gerrit Smith and the
Kevin Tanner,
“The Crisis of 1850 and Rehearsal for Secession”
Panel 35: Topics in Southern History
John Fuller,
“
Catherine Herdman,
“Sacrilege in the
Blake W. Jones,
Panel 36: Women Who Changed American Society
“Susan La Flesche Picotte: Omaha Doctor”
Tamara Levi, Jacksonville State University
“Pauli Murray and Black Women in the
Dwonna Goldstone,
“Fran McKee:
The First Unrestricted Female Admiral in the
C. William McKee,
Panel 37:
Catastrophe, the Press and the Social Meaning of Death
Nathan K. Moran,
Kristine McCusker,
Panel 38: 20th-Century American History
Sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta
“The Effect of Technology and Industrialization on Women in
the
Micki Kaleta,
“The Reluctant Superman: The Lost Potential of Herbert Hoover’s Media Struggle”
Kelly McNabb,
“Jimmy Carter: Mismatched President or Misinterpreted Man”
Julia Dittrich,
12:00-1:10
Phi Alpha Theta Luncheon
"’This Ain’t No Vaudville’: Popular Music, The Civil Rights Struggle and the 1956 Assault on Nat ‘King’ Cole"
Michael Bertrand, Tennessee State University
Saturday Sessions III, 1:15-2:45
Panel 39: Civil War and Indian Warfare Topics
"The Battle for Public Health in Civil War Memphis"
James Jones, Jr. Historian, Tennessee Historical Commission
“From Confederates to Comanche:
Joe Bailey,
"Civil War Historiography: An Empty Cult of Violence?"
Lee Anderson,
Panel 40: Regional Women’s Writers Roundtable-Diaries, Novels and Advice Columns
Moderator:
Minoa Uffelman,
Dorothy Dix,
Linda Barnes,
Serepta
“Gendering American Radicals in an Age of Anxiety: Manhood, Memory and the Left in the Early Cold War”
Timothy Lomardo,
“Reagan’s” Constructive Engagement in the Making of
Political Order in
Christophe Dongmo,
Panel 42: Kentucky: Southern Identity and Interracial Challenges
Patrick Lewis,
“The Interracial Work of the Young Women’s Christian
Association in
Athea Webb,
Panel 43: Military History WWI Topics
Sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta
“The American General Staff in WWI: Genesis of U.S. Military Strength in the 20th Century”
David Ogan,
“American Acquisition of French Field Artillery in the Great War”
Andrew Breer,