2009 Program
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 75th ANNUAL MEETING
Headquarters: Marriott Louisville Downtown
Louisville, Kentucky
November 5-8, 2009 Note: If you would like to view a list of all
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Thursday,
November 5: 8:00 P.M.
1. OPENING NIGHT SESSION
PRESIDING: Barbara J. Fields, Columbia University
The Southern Historical Association: 75 Years of "History in the South" and
"History of the South"
Bethany Johnson, Journal of Southern History, Rice University
Recognition of Former SHA Presidents
Charles Joyner, Coastal Carolina University, Emeritus
A reception and performance by the Juggernaut Jug Band will follow next door in Kentucky A-D.
Friday,
November 6: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
2. CREOLIZATION IN AND BEYOND CHARLES JOYNER'S
DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE
PRESIDING: David Moltke-Hansen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
PANELISTS:
Kamau Brathwaite, New York University
David Hackett Fischer, Brandeis University
Syliva Frey, Tulane University
James L. Peacock, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Stephanie J. Shaw, Ohio State University
RESPONSE: Charles W. Joyner, Coastal Carolina University
Friday,
November 6: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
3. PROFESSIONALS IN THE OLD SOUTH: MANAGERS,
MANUFACTURERS, AND THE EMERGING SOUTHERN
MIDDLE CLASS
PRESIDING: Peter Coclanis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
William A. Aikin and Industrial North Alabama, 1810-1840
Angela Lakwete, Auburn University
Running Southern Factories: The Rise of a Class of Professional Managers
in the Antebellum Era
Susanna Delfino, University of Genoa
Professional Origins: Careers and Resources of Planter and Middle-Class
Professionals
Jennifer R. Green, Central Michigan University
COMMENTS: Jonathan Daniel Wells, Temple University
Peter Coclanis
Friday,
November 6: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
4. PERSPECTIVES ON CONFEDERATE POLITICAL ECONOMY
PRESIDING: Mary A. DeCredico, U.S. Naval Academy
Expedient Corporatism and Confederate Political Economy
Michael B. Bonner, University of Arizona
Formulating Imagined Economies: Comparing Economic Nationalism in the
American and Confederate Independence Movements
John Majewski, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Confederate Information Economy: Statism and the Creation of the
Southern Professional Class
Chad Morgan, North Carolina State University
COMMENTS: Sean Adams, University of Florida
Mary A. DeCredico
Friday,
November 6: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
5. MEMORY AND THE CIVIL WAR, PAST CONTRIBUTIONS AND
FUTURE POSSIBILITIES:
A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
PRESIDING: Gaines Foster, Louisiana State University
PANELISTS:
Robert J. Cook, University of Sussex
John Neff, University of Mississippi
Susanna Lee, North Carolina State University
Anne Marshall, Mississippi State University
Friday,
November 6: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
6. IMMIGRATION IN THE RECONSTRUCTION AND NEW
SOUTH ERAS
PRESIDING: Mark Wahlgren Summers, University of Kentucky
The Debate over Immigration in the Reconstruction South
Mitchell Snay, Dennison University
In Search of Controllable Labor: Elite White Southerners' Vision of Immigration
Labor and the Rise of Jim Crow
Elizabeth B. Ladner, University of Virginia
"Mexicans Are to Replace the Negroes": Planters' Failed Experiment with
Mexican Labor in Mississippi and Louisiana, 1904-1905
Sarah E. Cornell, University of New Mexico
COMMENTS: J. Williams Harris, University of New Hampshire
Thavolia Glymph, Duke University
Friday,
November 6: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
7. THE STRUGGLE FOR SCHOOL DESEGREGATION IN VIRGINIA
PRESIDING: Patricia Sullivan, University of South Carolina
"Segregation is God's Sweetest Law": The Struggle for School Desegregation
in Four Western Virginia Counties
Ted DeLaney, Washington and Lee University
Dispelling the Official Story: The School Closures in Norfolk Revisited
Charles Ford, Norfolk State University
The All-American City (Norfolk) and the Last Throes of Tokenism, 1959-1971
Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Sam Houston State University
COMMENTS: Raymond O. Arsenault, University of South Florida
Patricia Sullivan
Friday,
November 6: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
8. GLOBALIZATION AND SOUTHERN AGRIBUSINESS
PRESIDING: R. Douglas Hurt, Purdue University
The Long Slow Death of the Federal Tobacco Program
Evan Bennett, Florida Atlantic University
From "Poultry Capital" to "Alien Capital": Labor, Management, and
Demographic Change in the North Georgia Poultry Industry, 1940-2000
Tore C. Olsson, University of Georgia
Chicken Farming and the Globalization of Southern Agribusiness, 1945-1980
Monica R. Gisolfi, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
COMMENTS: Louis M. Kyriakoudes, University of Southern Mississippi
Friday,
November 6: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
9. NEO-CLASSICAL ATTITUDES AND LIBERAL VALUES:
LAFAYETTE AND THE TRANSATLANTIC REVOLUTIONARY
ERA
PRESIDING: Stephen D. Carls, Union University
Lafayette's Early Years: Wunderkind, Wanderlust and Gloire
June Burton, University of Akron, Emeritus
Lafayette's Other Tours: America, 1784 and France, 1829
Robert Rhodes Crout, The Lafayette Papers Project
The South and Lafayette's Triumphal American Tour, 1824-1825
Neal Polhemus, South Carolina Historical Society
COMMENTS: Jordan Kelleman, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Friday,
November 6: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
10. NAZI ATROCITIES COMMITTED, RESISTED, AND REMEMBERED
PRESIDING: Nancy Rupprecht, Middle Tennessee State University
"The Population...Shouted that One Would Rather Be Shot instead of Being
Left to Starve": Food and German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union
Jeff Rutherford, Wheeling Jesuit University
Adding to the Ranks of the Resistance Movement against Hitler? German
Émigrés in the U.S. Army during World War II
Patricia Kollander, Florida Atlantic University
Exhumation at Seelhorst Cemetery: "Coming to Terms" with the Past amidst
Catastrophe in Hanover, 1945-1948
Alex d'Erizans, Borough of Manhattan Community College
COMMENTS: Gerhard L. Weinberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
Emeritus
Friday, November 6: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
11. ENVIRONMENT, PUBLIC HEALTH AND DISEASE IN EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY CUBA
PRESIDING: Matt Childs, University of South Carolina
Challenging the Image of the "Backward" Empire: Public Health, Sanitation,
and Hospital Reform in Cuba after the Seven Years' War (1756-1763)
Sherry Johnson, Florida International University
Spatial Change and the Environmental Impact of Tobacco Cultivation in
Pinal del Rio after 1775
Charlotte A. Cosner, Western Carolina University
Cholera in Cuba: Response and Reaction to the 1832-1833 Epidemic
William C. Van Norman, Jr., James Madison University
COMMENTS: Marilyn G. Miller, Tulane University
Friday,
November 6: 11:45 A.M.-1:30 P.M.
12. GRADUATE STUDENT LUNCHEON
Sponsored by the John and LaWanda Cox Fund
TAKING ON TENURE-TRACK: TESTIMONIALS FROM THE
TRENCHES
PANELISTS:
Kris Durocher, Morehead State University
Scott P. Marler, University of Memphis
Richard M. Mizelle, Jr., Florida State University
Amy L. Wood, Illinois State University
A panel discussion by recently hired faculty on the highs and lows, challenges
and rewards of the first years in tenure-track jobs.
Click for further details about the luncheon.
Friday,
November 6: 11:45 A.M.-1:30 P.M.
13. PHI ALPHA THETA LUNCHEON
PRESIDING: James Ramage, Northern Kentucky University
A discussion of the future of Phi Alpha Theta
Friday,
November 6: 11:45 A.M.-1:30 P.M.
14. SOCIETY OF CIVIL WAR HISTORIANS LUNCHEON
REFLECTIONS ON THE LINCOLN BICENTENNIAL
PRESIDING: James Marten, Marquette University
PANELISTS:
Vernon Burton, Coastal Carolina University
Mark Neely, Pennsylvania State University
COMMENTS: The Audience
Friday,
November 6: 11:45 A.M.-2:00 P.M.
15.WORKSHOP I-MID-CAREER CHALLENGES FOR WOMEN
HISTORIANS: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Sponsored by the Committee on Women in the SHA
PRESIDING: Sally McMillen, Davidson College
PANELISTS:
Carol Anderson, Emory University
Kathleen Clark, University of Georgia
Connie Lester, University of Central Florida
Lorraine Schulyer, University of Richmond
Friday,
November 6: 11:45 A.M.-1:30 P.M.
16. WORKSHOP II-THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURE
Sponsored by the Southern Industrialization Project
PRESIDING: Gerard J. Fitzgerald, New York University
"The South Will Come Into Its Own When Fields Are Green in Winter": The
Agrarian Vision of Hugh MacRae
J. Vincent Lowery, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Plantation as Laboratory: Pesticides and the Industrialization of Cotton
Farming in the Rural New South
James C. Giesen, Mississippi State University
From Industrialization to Conservation Along Tennessee's Caney Fork River
Lynn A. Nelson, Middle Tennessee State University
COMMENTS: Pete Daniel, Smithsonian Institution
The Business Meeting of the Southern Industrialization Project will immediately
follow the workshop at 1:30 P.M.
Friday,
November 6: 2:00-2:30 P.M.
17. SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION BUSINESS MEETING
PRESIDING: Jack Temple Kirby, Miami University
Friday,
November 6: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
18. REVOLUTIONARY REPERCUSSIONS IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD
PRESIDING: Bradford J. Wood, Eastern Kentucky University
Transatlantic Families: The Atlantic Underpinnings of Displacement and
Planter Politics in the French and Haitian Revolutions
R. Darrell Meadows, Kentucky Historical Society
Removals: Reconstructing the Anglo-American Atlantic World, 1772-1800
Jeffrey A. Fortin, State University of New York, Oneonta
African-American Migration into the British Caribbean during the Age of
Revolution
Jennifer Snyder, University of Florida
COMMENTS: James Sidbury, University of Texas, Austin
Andrew M. Schocket, Bowling Green State University
Friday,
November 6: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
19. THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI: ANTEBELLUM LABOR, RACE,
AND RELATIONSHIPS ALONG THE GREAT RIVER
PRESIDING: Leslie A. Schwalm, University of Iowa
A Season in the South: Travel, Family, and the Mississippi River
Samantha Holtkamp Gervase, University of California,
Los Angeles
Slavery on the River: The Importance of the Mississippi River in Slaves'
Suits for Freedom
Kelly Kennington, Duke University
Between Servitude and Freedom: Maritime Labor Regulation along the
Antebellum Mississippi
Gautham Rao, Library Company of Philadelphia
COMMENTS: Christopher C. Morris, University of Texas, Arlington
Leslie A. Schwalm
Friday,
November 6: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
20. READERS AND READING IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH
PRESIDING: John Mayfield, Samford University
"Reading Makes the Man": The Literary Socialization of Male College
Students in the American South, 1820-1861
Timothy J. Williams, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"It is Not So Much that Literature Confuses as that the Easily Confused are Able to Read": Reviewers, Readers, and Southern Literature
Sarah E. Gardner, Mercer University
Creating Alternative Images and Resources During Jim Crow: Helen Adele
Whiting and Annie L. McPheeters
Valinda W. Littlefield, University of South Carolina
COMMENTS: Stephen Berry, University of Georgia
Anya Jabour, University of Montana
Friday,
November 6: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
21.
FAITH, FORGIVENESS, AND FORGING AHEAD: BLACK AND
NORTHERN-BORN PREACHERS IN THE CIVIL WAR AND
RECONSTRUCTION SOUTH
PRESIDING: Donald G. Mathews, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
Emeritus
Serving for God's Glory: Northern Clergy, the U.S. Christian Commission,
and Religious Space during the American Civil War
Benjamin L. Miller, University of Florida
"Forgive Us Our Debts": Religion, Amnesty, and Vengeance in South
Carolina's Reconstruction
C. Scott Nesbit, University of Virginia
The Secular as Sacred: Post-Emancipation Black Church Leaders, Politics,
and the Language of Faith
Timothy L. Wesley, Pennsylvania State University
COMMENTS: Daniel W. Stowell, The Papers of Abraham Lincoln
Donald G. Mathews
Friday,
November 6: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
22. RACE, CONSERVATISM, AND POLITICS IN THE MODERN
SOUTH
PRESIDING: Bruce J. Schulman, Boston University
Minor Wisdom and the Limits of Republican Civil Rights
Michael Bowen, University of Florida
Busing and the Limits of Progressive Politics in Houston, 1969-1972
Sean Cunningham, Texas Tech University
Back to the Party of Lincoln? Bill Brock and the Black Outreach
Campaign of 1977-1981
Leah M. Wright, Princeton University
COMMENTS: Timothy Thurber, Virginia Commonwealth University
Friday,
November 6: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
23. REAL MUSIC: IMAGINING THE SOUTH IN POST-WORLD
WAR II POPULAR MUSIC
PRESIDING: Allison Graham, University of Memphis
That White Man's, Burden: The Animals, British Beat Music and the American
South
Brian Ward, University of Manchester
"This World from the Standpoint of a Rocking Chair": Country-Rock and the South in the Countercultural Imagination
Zachary J. Lechner, Temple University
Resounding the South: Loretta Lynn, Steve Earle and Southern Authenticity
Tara McPherson, University of Southern California
COMMENTS: Mark A. Huddle, George College and State University
Allison Graham
Friday,
November 6: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
24. FILM, HISTORY, AND THE POLITICS OF PERCEPTION
PRESIDING: Alice-Catherine Carls, University of Tennessee, Martin
What's So Funny About Rabbi Jacob? Situating Gerard Oury's Cult Classic
Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (1973)
Michael Mulvey, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Post-Troubles Comedies, or How Conflict in Northern Ireland Became Funny:
Political Paradigm Shifts and Filmmakers' Reactions
Andreas Huether, University of Freiburg
Primitivism in French Fascist Film Reception
Jared Bjornholm, Boston College
COMMENTS: Richard Voeltz, Cameron University
Friday,
November 6: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
25. FEEDING BODY AND SOUL: MEDICINE AND MAGIC IN
EUROPEAN HISTORY
PRESIDING: Frederick Baumgartner, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University
Freaks and Monsters? The Abnormal Body in Later Medieval Medicine
Kira Robinson, University of Minnesota
The Charlatan's Tome: "True" and "False" Magic in a Fifteenth-Century
Venetian Manuscript
Michael A. Ryan, Purdue University
Food Adulteration and Claims of Medical Expertise in Nineteenth-Century
Britain
Erin J. Shelor, Millersville University
COMMENTS: Louis Haas, Middle Tennessee State University
Friday,
November 6: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
26. NATION, GENDER, AND WAR IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY
SPANISH AMERICA
PRESIDING: Christine Ehrick, University of Louisville
Women, War, and Partisan Politics in Colombia: The Case of Tomás C. Mosquera's Female Supporters and Clients, ca. 1859-1862
Pamela Murray, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Popular Royalists and Revolution in Columbia: Nationalism and Empire,
1808-1840
Marcela Echeverri, New York University
Women, War, and the Body Politic in Nineteenth-Century Southern Mexico
Francie R. Chassen-López, University of Kentucky
OMMENTS: Christine Ehrick
Friday,
November 6: 5:00-7:00 P.M.
27. FILM SHOWING: "ANNE BRADEN: SOUTHERN PATRIOT"
PRESIDING: Catherine Fosl, University of Louisville
"Anne Braden: Southern Patriot" (film)
Mimi Pickering, Media Producer/Director, Appalshop
Anne Lewis, Appalshop
COMMENTS: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
J. Blain Hudson, University of Louisville
This session will engage participants in a film screening (one hour) and discussion of this documentary
inquiry into the life and legacy of the Louisville-based civil rights and civil liberties activist. Braden's experiences as portrayed
in the film raise questions about regional identity and highlight what Jacquelyn Hall and others have written about as the "long civil
rights" struggle-linking issues of race with those of civil liberties, gender, sexuality, peace, and environmentalism from the end of
World War II through the late 20th century.
Friday,
November 6: 5:00-6:30 P.M.
28. FILM SHOWING: "KENTUCKY: AN AMERICAN STORY"
CONVENER: Daniel Blake Smith, University of Kentucky
Writer and Executive Producer
This three-part documentary of the state's history, directed by Academy Award-winner Paul Wagner, and
narrated by Ashley Judd, is currently a work-in-progress. The first episode, entitled "The Best Poor Man's Country"
(20 minutes) will be shown, to be followed by commentary by Smith and his UK colleagues Ronald D Eller and Tracy Campbell,
who served as consultants for the film, and discussion with the audience.
Friday,
November 6: 8:30 P.M.
29. PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
PRESIDING: Leon Litwack, University of California, Berkeley
ANCESTRY.dot.BOMB: Genealogy, Genomics, Mystery, Mischief, and Southern
Family Stories
By Jack Temple Kirby to be read by Barbara J. Fields
Tributes to Jack Temple Kirby (1938 - 2009)
James C. Cobb, University of Georgia
Pete Daniel, Smithsonian Institution
Thavolia Glymph, Duke University
Mart Stewart, Davidson College
Nan Woodruff, Pennsylvania State University
The Presidential Address will be preceded by the presentation of the 2009 SHA awards and prizes.
RECEPTION: Following the Presidential Address, Miami University invites members and guests of the Southern Historical Association
to a reception in recognition of the presidency of Jack Kirby to be held in the Foyer of the Marriott Ballroom located on the second floor.
Saturday,
November 7: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
30. TELLING DANIEL BOONE'S STORY:
A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH FOUR BIOGRAPHERS
PRESIDING: Daniel Blake Smith, University of Kentucky
Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1993)
John Mack Faragher, Yale University
Daniel Boone: An American Life (2003)
Michael A. Lofaro, University of Tennessee
Daniel Boone: A Biography (2007)
Robert Morgan, Cornell University
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America (2008)
Meredith Mason Brown, Stonington, Connecticut
COMMENTS: The Audience
Saturday,
November 7: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
31. THE SPIRITUAL EDGE: UNCONVENTIONAL RELIGION IN
THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH
PRESIDING: Wayne Flynt, Auburn University
Strangers Below: Searching for the Calvinist Self in an Evangelical South,
1800-1850
Joshua Guthman, Berea College
Where Do We Go from Here?: Spiritualism and the Afterlife in Antebellum
Nashville
Nancy Gray Schoonmaker, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
Theodore Clapp's Heresy: A Universalist Experiment in Antebellum New Orleans
Donna Cox Baker, University of Alabama
COMMENTS: Charles Israel, Auburn University
Jon Sensbach, University of Florida
Saturday,
November 7: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
32. SOUTHERN NOTIONS OF UNION AND DISUNION IN THE
ANTEBELLUM ERA
PRESIDING: Elizabeth Varon, Temple University
Slavery Over Union: The Rise and Fall of a Slaveholder's Republic in the
U.S.-Mexican Borderlands
Andrew Torget, University of Richmond
The Pinch of the Union in the 1850s South
Paul Quigley, University of Edinburgh
George Nicholas Sanders and the Paradoxes of Southern Romantic Nationalism
Yonatan Eyal, University of Toronto
Messmates' Union: Southern Congressmen and the Politics of Compromise,
1845-1861
Rachel Sheldon, University of Virginia
COMMENTS: Daniel W. Crofts, The College of New Jersey
Saturday,
November 7: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
33. AFTER THE BORDER DISSOLVED: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON
EMANCIPATION AND RECONSTRUCTION IN KENTUCKY PRESIDING:
James C. Klotter, Georgetown College
"The Constitution Will Save Us": The Fourteenth Amendment and the Politics
of Equal Protection in Postbellum Kentucky
Helen LaCroix, University of Wisconsin, Madison
No Gun, No Vote: Violence and Voting in Kentucky's First Interracial
Elections
Aaron Astor, Maryville College
Against Abolitionist Heresy: Religious and Racial Orthodoxy and the Forging
of Confederate Identity in White Kentucky
Luke Harlow, Oakland University
COMMENTS: W. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Saturday,
November 7: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
34. THE SOUTH EXPLAINED: SOUTHERNERS INTERPRET
THEIR REGION TO THE NATION, 1865-1915
PRESIDING: John David Smith, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
"Awake! Awake! There is a Future before Us!": J. D. B. DeBow's Vision
of a New South
John F. Kvach, University of Alabama, Huntsville
"To Reach Darkest New England": Thomas Dixon's South and Sectional
Reconciliation
Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, Boston College
"The South and Her Dower": The New York Southern Society Returns the
South to the Nation, 1886-1915
Samuel L. Schaffer, Yale University
COMMENTS: Michele K. Gillespie, Wake Forest University
John David Smith
Saturday,
November 7: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
35. THE COMMUNIST PARTY AND THE SOUTHERN "RED" STATES OF THE 1930s
PRESIDING: Robert R. Korstad, Duke University
"One Step Forward, Two Steps Back": The North Carolina Communist Party
during the Depression
Gregory S. Taylor, Chowan University
"Damyankees, Reds, and Communists": Radicalism and Redness in Tennessee's Valleys during the 1930s
Aaron D. Purcell, Virginia Tech
Mobilizing the Unemployed in Kentucky: Don West, the Workers Alliance,
and the Communist Party in the Depression South
James J. Lorence, University of Wisconsin, Marathon
COMMENTS: Glenda E. Gilmore, Yale University
Robert R. Korstad
Saturday,
November 7: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
36. RACE AND POLITICS IN MISSISSIPPI IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS
ERA, 1950s-1970s
PRESIDING: Kari Frederickson, University of Alabama
To Throw Down the Gauntlet: Medgar Wiley Evers and the Struggle for Power in
Mississippi
Michael Vinson Williams, Mississippi State University
Robert Parris Moses and the Mississippi Freedom Summer: Cracking the
Iceberg of Southern Racism
Laura Maessen, University of Leiden, Netherlands
Segregationist Thought and Strategy: The Case of U.S. Senator James
Eastland
Maarten Zwiers, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Monitoring Dissent along the Color Line: The Centralization of Racial
Surveillance in the 1950s Mississippi
Stephen A. Berrey, Indiana University
COMMENTS: Todd Moye, University of North Texas
Saturday,
November 7: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
37. THE OTHER AS SUBJECT: TEACHING WOMEN'S HISTORY
FROM SURVEY TO SEMINAR
PRESIDING: Mary S. Hoffschwelle, Middle Tennessee State University
Teaching American Women's History
Jan Leone, Middle Tennessee State University
Nancy Theriot, University of Louisville
Melinda Johnson Lickiss, University of Kentucky
Teaching European Women's History
Ann Allen, University of Louisville
Karen Petrone, University of Kentucky
Nancy Rupprecht, Middle Tennessee State University
Saturday,
November 7: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
38. REMEMBERING AND MEMORIALIZING TRAUMATIC
EVENTS
PRESIDING: Wayne Bowen, Southeast Missouri State University
Evaluating the Recent Enemy: American Diplomatic Reports Concerning
Spain after the Spanish-American War, 1898-1902
Eric Jarvis, King's University College
Motion and Sound: Investigating the New Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Education Center
Wendy Koenig, North Central College
Memories of Conflicts: (De)Conflicting Memories? Exhibiting the 1798
Rebellion in Ireland, North and South in 1998
Thomas Cauvin, European University Institute, Florence
COMMENTS: James C. Albisetti, University of Kentucky
Saturday,
November 7: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
39. NEWSPAPERS, POLITICS, AND NATION-BUILDING DURING
THE "ERA OF MODERNIZATION": VIEWS FROM PARAGUAY,
BRAZIL, BOLIVIA, AND MEXICO, 1860s-1920s
PRESIDING: Peter Guardino, Indiana University
Paraguayan War, Nation
Michael Hunter, University of North Carolina Press
Newspapers and the Transformation of Abolitionist Politics in Northeastern
Brazil: Recife, 1884
Celso T. Castilho, Vanderbilt University
Indigenous Identities, Nation-Building, and the Press in Early-Twentieth
Century Bolivia
E. Gabrielle Kuenzli, University of South Carolina
"Lo que tiene y no tiene Madre": Satire and the Conjuring of the Popular
Female Voice in Revolutionary Mexico
Edward Wright-Rios, Vanderbilt University
COMMENTS: Peter Guardino
Saturday,
November 7: 11:45 A.M.-1:30 P.M.
40. WORKSHOP III-SOUTHERN WOMEN'S STATE HISTORIES
Sponsored by the Southern Association for Women Historians
PRESIDING: Sandra Gioia Treadway, The Library of Virginia
Writing a History of Virginia Women: Opportunities and Challenges
Megan Shockley, Clemson University
Cynthia Kierner, George Mason University
Writing the History of Black Georgia Women
Jacqueline Rouse, Georgia State University
Daina Ramey Berry, Michigan State University
Saturday,
November 7: 11:45 A.M.-1:30 P.M.
41. WORKSHOP IV-THE PUBLIC PRESENTATION AND
INTERPRETATION OF SLAVERY AND SLAVE RESISTANCE:
A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
PRESIDING: Gary Gallagher, University of Virginia
PANELISTS:
Carol Ely, Executive Director, Historic Locust Grove
Dan Jordan, Former Executive Director, Monticello
John Latschar, President, Gettysburg Foundation
Keith Griffler, University of Buffalo
Saturday,
November 7: Noon
42. SOUTHERN INDUSTRIALIZATION PROJECT/SOUTHERN
LABOR STUDIES ASSOCIATION JOINT LUNCHEON
PRESIDING: David Carlton, Vanderbilt University
Commodifying Punishment in the American South: The Industry and Labor
Consequences of Making Crime Pay, 1970-Present
Heather Thompson, Temple University
Saturday,
November 7: Noon
43. EUROPEAN HISTORY SECTION LUNCHEON
PRESIDING: James Tent, University of Alabama, Birmingham
"Will No One Rid Me of this Troublesome Pope?" The Discontents of Napoleon's
Roman Reverie
Susan V. Nicassio, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Saturday,
November 7: Noon
44. LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN SECTION
LUNCHEON/BUSINESS MEETING
PRESIDING: Matt Childs, University of South Carolina
Latin American History: Reflections on a Half-Century of Teaching and
Research
Ralph Lee Woodward, Tulane University, Emeritus
Saturday,
November 7: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
45. THE HEMINGSES OF MONTICELLO, AN AMERICAN FAMILY:
A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH ANNETTE GORDON-REED
PRESIDING: Tiya Miles, University of Michigan
PANELISTS:
Scott E. Casper, University of Nevada, Reno
Cynthia A. Kierner, George Mason University
Peter S. Onuf, University of Virginia
Diane Batts Morrow, University of Georgia
RESPONSE: Annette Gordon-Reed, New York University Law School
Saturday,
November 7: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
46. RECONCEPTUALIZING THE SECTIONAL CRISIS: THE
SLAVE SOUTH IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD, AND VICE VERSA
PRESIDING: Gerald Horne, University of Houston
Quarantining an Epidemic: British Emancipation, Northern Abolitionism,
and the Negro Seamen Acts
Michael Schoeppner, University of Florida
A Hemispheric Defense of Slavery: The South and American Foreign
Policy, 1840-1845
Matthew J. Karp, University of Pennsylvania
"No More Experiments": The American Sectional Crisis as an Atlantic
Story
Steven Heath Mitton, Utah State University
COMMENTS: Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School
Gerald Horne
Saturday,
November 7: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
47. GEOGRAPHIES OF POWER: SPACE, PLACE, AND
VIOLENCE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SOUTH
PRESIDING: Joan E. Cashin, Ohio State University
Scale and the Problem of Slave Rebellion: The Nat Turner Revolt
Anthony E. Kaye, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Expanses of Hope: Southern Spaces and the Dreams of Confederate Victory
Yael A. Sternhell, Tel Aviv University
Black Political Geography and White Liner Attacks: Place and Space in the
Overthrow of Reconstruction
Justin Behrend, State University of New York, Genesco
COMMENTS: Walter Johnson, Harvard University
Joan E. Cashin
Saturday,
November 7: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
48. A RETROSPECTIVE ON BELL IRVIN WILEY'S THE LIFE OF
JOHNNY REB (1943)
PRESIDING: Susannah Ural, Sam Houston State University
PANELISTS:
Chandra Manning, Georgetown University
Kenneth W. Noe, Auburn University
Earl J. Hess, Lincoln Memorial University
Saturday,
November 7: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
49. "THE RIFF-RAFF OF CIVILIZATION": VIOLENCE IN
APPALACHIA DURING THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY
PRESIDING: Gordon B. McKinney, Berea College
"These Big-Boned, Semi-Barbarian People": Moonshining and the Creation
of the Myth of Violent Appalachia, 1870-1890
Bruce E. Stewart, Appalachian State University
"Not Until God's Work is Done": Driving the Mormons from Brasstown,
North Carolina
Mary Ella Engel, Western Carolina University
Race and Violence in Urbanizing Appalachia: The Roanoke Riot of 1893
Rand Dotson, Louisiana State University
COMMENTS: Daniel S. Pierce, University of North Carolina, Asheville
Gordon B. McKinney
Saturday,
November 7: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
50. AFRICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY AND ACTIVISM IN THE
NADIR PERIOD
PRESIDING: Lisa Lindquist Dorr, University of Alabama
"The Same Rights and Privileges as Any American Citizen": Ida B. Wells
and the International Crisis of American Lynching
Sarah Silkey, Lycoming College
Another Way Out: The Black Town Movement, 1870s-1920s
Rhonda Ragsdale, Rice University
The Lost Promise of Collaboration: W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington,
and Their (Failed) Joint Fight Against Jim Crow
R. Volney Riser, University of West Alabama
COMMENTS: Michael Perman, University of Illinois, Chicago
Saturday,
November 7: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
51. IDEOLOGY AND ACTION IN SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTS
PRESIDING: Jack E. Davis, University of Florida
"The South is Not Naturally a Grass Country": The Development of Southern Hybrid Pasture and Turf Grasses
Albert G. Way, University of South Carolina
The Nature of Southeastern Lakes: Agriculture, Industry, and Leisure in
the Savannah River Valley
Christopher J. Manganiello, University of Georgia
Clearing the Air in the Pittsburgh of the South: A Distinctively Southern
Approach to Air Pollution in Birmingham?
Merritt McKinney, Rice University
COMMENTS: Elizabeth D. Blum, Troy University
Jack E. Davis
Saturday,
November 7: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
52. WAR, REVOLUTION, IMPERIALISM, AND THE LAW
PRESIDING: Matthew Stanard, Berry College
Barbarians at the Gates? Law and the Seizure of the Kshesinskai Mansion,
1917
Krista Sigler, University of Cincinnati
Legal War Mongering? The British Anti-War Rhetoric of the South
African War, 1899-1902
Jodie Mader, Thomas More College
Torture, Homosexuality, and Masculinities in French Central Africa:
The Faucher-d'Alexis Affair of 1884
Jeremy Rich, Middle Tennessee State University
COMMENTS: Steven Reinhardt, University of Texas, Arlington
Saturday,
November 7: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
53. RECONSIDERING NEW APPROACHES TO AVIATION HISTORY
IN LATIN AMERICA
PRESIDING: Theron Corse, Tennessee State University
National Authenticity or Aerial Cosmopolitanism: Peruvian Participation
in World History through 1920s International "Prestige" Flights
Willie Hiatt, University of California, Davis
Female Flyers in Latin America and the Caribbean between the World Wars
Barbara Ganson, Florida Atlantic University
Five Days in April: Air Combat for the Bay of Pigs, 1961
Lawrence Clayton, University of Alabama
COMMENTS: Theron Corse
Saturday,
November 7: 5:00 P.M.
54. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN HISTORIANS
ANNUAL ADDRESS
PRESIDING: Melissa Walker, Converse College
Remembering Past One Another: Idella Parker, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,
and Autobiography at Cross Creek
Rebecca Sharpless, Texas Christian University
Reception and book sale will immediately follow at the Actors Theater of Louisville,
located at 316 W. Main Street. Walk two blocks north on South 3rd Street to West Main Street. Actors Theater
is in the first block to the right.
Saturday,
November 7: 5:00-7:30 P.M.
55. THE OHIO VALLEY AND UPPER SOUTH: EXPLORING THE
HISTORY OF A SOUTHERN SUB-REGION
PRESIDING: Mark V. Wetherington, The Filson Historical Society
Whether it Really be Truth or Fiction: Reuben T. Durrett, the Filson Club,
and Historical Memory in Postbellum Kentucky
Jacob L. Lee, The Filson Historical Society
On the Border of the South: History Collections at the Cincinnati Historical
Society Library
Ruby Rogers, Cincinnati Historical Society Library
Researching Kentucky and the Upper South at the Kentucky Historical
Society
R. Darrell Meadows, Kentucky Historical Society
Researching Women and Families in the Upper South at the
University of Kentucky Archives
Deirdre A. Scaggs, University of Kentucky Libraries
The Ohio Valley as Southern Borderland: Research Opportunities and
Issues
Christopher Phillips, University of Cincinnati
Reception will immediately follow this session. Shuttles will
take attendees to and from The Filson Historical Society, beginning at 4:45 from the front entrance
of the Marriott. For those who prefer driving their own cars,
from the Marriott turn west on W. Jefferson St. toward S. 3rd St. Take first left (south)
onto S. 3rd St. Drive south 1.5 miles until you reach The Filson Historical Society, at 1310 S.
3rd St.
Saturday,
November 7: 8:00-10:00 P.M.
56. A TRIBUTE TO THREE "GIANTS" IN SOUTHERN HISTORY:
JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN (1915-2009), DAVID HERBERT DONALD (1920-2009) AND
KENNETH M. STAMPP (1912-2009)
PRESIDING: Raymond Arsenault, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg
PANELISTS:
Catherine Clinton, Queens University, Belfast
William J. Cooper, Louisiana State University
Thavolia Glymph, Duke University
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harvard University
Peter Kolchin, University of Delaware
Leon F. Litwack, University of California, Berkeley
James Oakes, City University of New York
Loren Schweninger, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Patricia Sullivan, University of South Carolina
Sunday,
November 8: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
57. RECONSIDERING RESISTANCE: AGENCY, SURVIVAL AND
AFRICAN AMERICAN ENSLAVEMENT
PRESIDING: Catherine Clinton, Queen's University, Belfast
Selling Themselves: Slavery, Self-promotion and the Path of Least Resistance
Ben Schiller, University of East Anglia
The Persistence of Paternalism: Planter Ideologies and the "Problem" of Agency
in the Era of Reconstruction
Richard Follet, University of Sussex
"Never Thought I Would Run Away": Evaluating Slavery and Freedom in
the Ohio River Valley
Matt Salafia, University of Notre Dame
COMMENTS: Susan Eva O'Donovan, University of Memphis
Sunday,
November 8: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
58. DAVID POTTER AND CIVIL WAR NATIONALISM:
A FORTY-FIVE YEAR PERSPECTIVE ON HIS ESSAY
"THE HISTORIAN'S USE OF NATIONALISM AND VICE VERSA"
PRESIDING: Brooks D. Simpson, University of Arizona
PANELISTS:
Susan-Mary Grant, Newcastle University
Brian Dirck, Anderson University
Anne Sarah Rubin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Aaron Sheehan-Dean, University of North Florida
Sunday,
November 8: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
59. NARRATIVES OF CAPTIVITY AND INCARCERATION: FROM
SLAVERY TO PRISONS IN THE MAKING OF THE MODERN
SOUTH
PRESIDING: Kali Gross, Drexel University
Vigilantism, Honor, and Community during a Mississippi Slave Insurrection
Scare
Lydia Plath, University of Warwick
On Strike and in the Hole: Convict Labor Resistance in North Carolina,
1900-1935
Susan Thomas, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Collective Trauma: Prison Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Creation of a
Prison-Made Civil Rights Movement
Rob Chase, Case Western Reserve University
Treatment, Punishment, and Persistent Scandal in Texas Juvenile
Confinement
Norwood Andrews, Southern Methodist University
"The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Cuts Cordwood": Exploring Black Women's
Lives and Labor in Georgia's Convict Lease and Chair Gang Systems
Talitha LeFlouria, Florida Atlantic University
Sunday,
November 8: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
60. AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY IN KENTUCKY:
A TRIBUTE TO GEORGE C. WRIGHT
PRESIDING: John Hardin, Western Kentucky University
Slavery and Slave Resistance on the Border of the South
J. Blaine Hudson, University of Louisville
Lynching in Reconstruction Era Kentucky: Contested Terrain
Deborah Alexander, University of Minnesota
Civil Rights and the African American Experience in Twentieth Century
Kentucky
Gerald Smith, University of Kentucky
COMMENTS: George C. Wright, Prairie View A&M University
Sunday,
November 8: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
61. NEW PERSPECTIVES ON POPULISM
PRESIDING: Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania
A Craze or a Fetish: The Magic of Silver and American Populism
Gregory P. Downs, City College of New York, CUNY
"Each Individual Hick Makes National Politics": Southern Populism
and National Reform
Charles Postel, California State University, Sacramento
Parting their Hair in the Middle: Evolution over Revolution in Agrarian
Reform, 1890-1915
Connie Lester, University of Central Florida
COMMENTS: Scott Reynolds Nelson, William and Mary University
Sunday,
November 8: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
62. BLACK POLITICAL POWER AND RACIAL UNITY
AFTER THE 1960s
PRESIDING: Jonathan Holloway, Yale University
Black Power Meets the Republicans: Devolution, Self-Determination, and
the Politics of Community Development
Thomas Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania
The National Black Political Conventions of 1972-1974 and the Quest for
Racial Unity
David L. Chappell, University of Oklahoma
COMMENTS: Daryll Scott, Howard University
Jonathan Holloway
Sunday,
November 8: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
63. THE UNITED STATES, EUROPE, AND THE POST-WAR
WORLD IN TRANSITION
PRESIDING: Susan Carrafiello, Wright State University
Cold-War Anti-Communism in Italy (1945?1956): National Features
and International Perspectives
Andrea Mariuzzo, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Yugoslav Labor Migration and Its Effects on Yugoslavia, 1965-1980
Brigitte Le Normand, Indiana University Southeast
American Post-War Cultural Policy and Generalissimo Franco's Vision
of Iberian Painting
Carmen De Michele, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
COMMENTS: Joel Dark, Tennessee State University
Sunday,
November 8: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
64. FAMILY LIFE IN URBAN MEXICO: WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
PROBLEMS AND STRATEGIES, NINETEENTH-TWENTIETH
CENTURY
PRESIDING: Tamara Spike, North Georgia College and State University
"Educar es redimir": Rehabilitating Child Criminals in Post-Revolutionary
Mexico City
Jonathan Weber, Florida State University
The Gendered Politics of Aging: Widows in Nineteenth Century
Guadalajara, Mexico
Andrea Vicente, Michigan State University
Women and Labor in Guadalajara, 1821-1822
Jonathan Grandage, Florida State University
Persisting Households and Family Mobility in Nineteenth-Century
Guadalajara
Monica L. Hardin, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
COMMENTS: Barry Robinson, Samford University
Other
Concurrent Sessions
Friday,
November 6: 4:45 P.M.
CS 1. PHI ALPHA THETA-AMERICAN
PRESIDING: Andrea S. Watkins, Northern Kentucky University
The Peculiar Institution: A Pivotal Work in Slave Culture Historiography
Micki Y. Kaleta, Murray State University
Anti-Slavery Society of Clermont County, Ohio
Bethany Richter Pollitt, Wright State University
Memories Bitter and Bittersweet: Evansville, Indiana's Farragut Post of the
G.A.R. and the First North-South Reunion
Matthew E. Stanley, University of Cincinnati
COMMENTS: John V. Cimprich, Thomas More College
Friday,
November 6: 4:45 P.M.
CS 2. PHI ALPHA THETA-LATIN AMERICAN
PRESIDING: Roseanne Adderly, Tulane University
Cuban Exiles' Rejection of "Imperialist" Catholicism in Key West, 1870-1895
Sitela Alvarez, Florida International University
Enemies and Allies: Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and his Interactions with Florida's Indians
during the First Ten Years of Spanish Florida
Erin Woodruff, Vanderbilt University
Social Interaction and Reaction in Haiti during the Era of the "Massacre" in
the 1930s
Adam Silvia, Florida International University
COMMENTS: Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University
Saturday,
November 7: 4:45 P.M.
CS 3. PHI ALPHA THETA-EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN
PRESIDING: Stephanie A. Carpenter, Murray State University
Authority in Tertullian
Jordon R. Dongell, University of Kentucky
An Equal Opportunity: The Indianapolis Classical School for Girls
Mary E. Osborne, Indiana University Purdue University,
Indianapolis
Defining Western Womanhood: A Reevaluation of Western Women during
the Twentieth Century
Jennifer L. McPherson, Murray State University
COMMENTS: Howell Smith, Wake Forest University
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