HISTORY SESSIONS
DENVER 2009
Thursday 8:30 - 9:45 a.m.
HI
01: DIVERSIONS AND DIGRESSIONS IN
SCIENCE: EUROPE AND JAPAN AS CASE STUDIES.
Chair: Jeffrey Hankins,
Louisiana Tech University
1. “Spiritual Chemistry: The Theosophic Roots of
Newtonian Alchemy,”
Jeffrey S. Tucker, Brigham Young University
2. “Medicine, Philanthropy, and Imperialism: The
Dojinkai in China,”
Chieko Nakajima, Assumption College
Discussant: Jeffrey Hankins, Louisiana Tech University
Thursday 8:30 - 9:45 a.m.
HI 02:
THE KLAN AND THE NAACP
Chair: Sharon C. Sewell, Darton
College
1. “’Klanaheim’:
Suburbia, Christianity, and the Second Ku Klu Klan
Phyllis Anne Sowers, California State
University
2. "The NAACP’s Centennial: Blacks’ identity between politics,
black movies and Hollywood,”
Laetitia Baltz, Bordeaux Institute of Political Science
Discussant: Sharon C. Sewell, Darton
College
Thursday 8:30 - 9:45 a.m.
HI 03:
THE NEXUS OF RELIGION AND SCIENCE
Chair: Eddie Weller, San Jacinto College South
1.
“The Need for Unity: Henry Adams,
Alexander Humboldt and
the
search for unifying theories of history and Science,”
Robert Lee, St. Louis Community College at Meramec
2. “I
Preach Abundant Heresies”: Theodore
Parker and the
Conversion to Liberal Religion in Antebellum America,”
Benjamin E. Park, Brigham Young University
3.
“’Toward the Well-Being of All Mankind’:
Creating the
Rockefeller Foundation, 1906-1913,” Albert I. Berger,
University
of North Dakota
Discussant: Eddie Weller, San Jacinto College South
Thursday 8:30 - 9:45 a.m.
HI
04: PRIVATE LIVES: MAKING WOMEN’S
HISTORY IN SOUTH TEXAS
Phi
Alpha Theta Session
Chair: Mark Beasley, Hardin-Simmons University
1. “An Educator’s Life in Mexico and South
Texas,” Sanjuanita
Castillo, Texas A&M
University-Kingsville
2. “Patriarchy and Migration: One Mexican
American Woman’s
Story,” Maricela Luna, Texas A&M
University-Kingsville
3. “Working for Western Union,” Shari
Ruschhaupt, Texas A&M
University—Kingsville
4. “Women in the Modern World of Sports,” Tim
Byerly,
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Discussant: Mark Beasley, Hardin-Simmons University
Thursday 10:00 - 11:15 a.m.
HI
05: FALSE DUALITIES, FILIPINOS, AND
FRANCIS DRAKE
Phi
Alpha Theta Session
Chair: Mark Beasley, Hardin-Simmons University
1.
“Colonized, Criminalized, and Controlled: Filipino Nurses in
U.S. History,” Christine Peralta,
St. Mary’s University
2.
“Beyond the False Dualities of Drugs and the Drug Trade,”
Melissa Chavez, St. Mary’s University
3.
“The Falling of the Miwok,” Tyler Gamboa, Victor Valley
College
Discussant: Mark Beasley, Hardin-Simmons University
Thursday 10:00 -
11:15 a.m.
HI 06: FAMOUS DIVIDES: WALLS AND MEMORIES
Chair: Michael Meyer,
California State University-Northridge
1. “The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall and
the
Proposed US-Mexico Border Fence,” Helmut
Langerbein,
University of Texas-Brownsville
2. "The Yalta Conference in Polish
Historiography," Aleksander
Kocol, California State
University-Northridge
3. "Problematic Memory: Ronald Reagan and
the Cold War
Dilemma of Bitburg," David M.
Livingston, Moorpark College
Discussants:
Arvid
Perez, Indiana State University
Kathleen
Hitt, College of the Canyons
Thursday 10:00 -
11:15 a.m.
HI
07: DILEMMAS AND CHANGES IN INDIA AND
NEPAL
Chair: Jeffrey Burson, Macon State College
1. "Child Labor in India," Tripta
Desai, Northern Kentucky
University
2. "Off the Beaten Path" Changing
Patterns of Migration Among
the Nepalis in Asia," Lopita Nath,
University of the Incarnate
Word
3.
"Being Integrated into the National Theme by the Government
of India," Tripta Desai, Northern
Kentucky University
Discussant: Jeffrey Burson, Macon State College
Thursday 10:00 -
11:15 a.m.
HI
08: NOUVELLE APPROACHES TO TEACHING
HISTORY IN
SECONDARY
AND HIGHER EDUCATION
Chair: Wendy Elliott-Scheinberg,
California State University-Fullerton
1. "Bridging the Gap: Preparing Secondary Teachers to Teach
World History," Patricia
Juarez-Dappe, California State
University- Northridge
2. "Teaching Sustainability in College
World History Courses,"
Michael F. Hamm, Centre College
3. "Mapping Mass Murder: The Comparative
Structures of
Genocide," Brenda Melendy, Texas
A& M- Kingsville
Discussant: Annika Frieberg,
University of Northern Colorado
Thursday
11:30 - 12:45
HI 09:
AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY
Chair: Sharon
C. Sewell, Darton College
1.
“Eleanor Roosevelt: How Franklin
Changed Her Life,” Alicia
Gamboa, Victor Valley College
2.
“Class Politics and Nashville’s Mechanics Association, 1840-
1846,” Eric Owens, Lamar State
College-Orange
3.
“Reforming Louisiana: The
Administration of Governor David
C.
Treen,” Mike Nettles, Southeastern Louisiana University
Discussant: Sharon C. Sewell, Darton
College
Thursday
11:30 - 12:45
HI
10: TRAVELERS ACCOUNTS OF LATIN AMERICA:
MYTHS AND VIEWS OF THE “OTHER”
Chair: Tamara Deranteriasian, California State
University, Northridge
1. "Making the Myth: ‘El Dorado’,” Jana
Ingram, California State
University-Northridge
2. "The Coming Storm: How the
Pre-American Revolution
Travelers and Settlers in America Helped
to Conquer its
Native Peoples,” Mitch Poll, California
State University-
Northridge
3. "The Modern Conquerors: 19th Century
American Travelers
in Latin America,” Marco Antonio Torres,
California State
University-Northridge
Discussant: Tamara Deranteriasian, California State
University-Northridge.
Thursday
11:30 - 12:45
HI
11: NIHILISM, NATIONALISM AND GENOCIDE
Phi
Alpha Theta Session
Chair: Brenda Melendy, Texas A&M
University-Kingsville
1.
“Sex and Dying in High Society: Gender Identity and the
Nihilist Movement of the 1870s,” Andrew Beck, California
State University-Fullerton
2.
“Witness to Nationalism: American Travelers in Nineteenth
Century Eastern Europe,” Tiffany A. Wilson, University of
Wyoming
3.
“Genocide: ‘What does that make us in the world?’” Joseph
Schantz, California State University-Fullerton
Discussant: Brenda Melendy, Texas A&M -Kingsville
Thursday
11:30 - 12:45
HI 12:
RECONTRES OF CULTURAL AND
THEOLOGICL HISTORY THROUGH THE AGES:
HISTORY PEASANT THEOLOGY, EVANGELICAL
PERFECTION AND SACRAL KINGSHIP
FROM LATE ANTIQUITY TO EARLY MODERN EUROPE
Chair: Jeffrey Burson, Macon State College
1.
"History Wars: Images of Emperors in the Writings of Julian
and John Chrysostom," Justin Stephens, Metropolitan State
College of Denver
2.
"A Secular Master's Conception of Evangelical Perfection
Nicholas of Liseux's Contra Pecham
et Thomam," Andrew
Traver, Southeastern Louisiana University
3.
"The Formation and Dissemination of Peasant Theology
During the Carolingian Period," Michael Martin, Fort Lewis
College
Discussant: Jeffrey Burson, Macon State College
Thursday
1:00 - 2:15
HI 13:
MONEY, ILLNESS, AND MIGHT IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE
Phi
Alpha Theta Session
Chair: Jeffery R. Hankins, Louisiana Tech University
1.
“Numismatic Power: A Comparative Analysis of World Coins
and
the Propaganda of Power,” Abraham Joseph Johnson,
California State University-Fullerton
2.
“Leprosy and Christian Thought,” Natalie J. Kohout, Wayne
State University
3.
“Mightier than the Sword: Arthur, Roland, and Joan of Arc,”
Mark
Hartmann Ruffalo, California State University-Fullerton
Discussant: Glen Melancon, Southeastern Oklahoma State
University
Thursday
1:00 - 2:15
HI 14:
THE JUDICIARY BEFORE,DURING, AND AFTER THE NAZIS: DO UNTO OTHERS...
Chair: Michael Meyers, California State
University-Northridge
1.
"The Trial of Soshomon Tehlirian: A Trial of Chance and
Redemption for Weimar Germany," Osik Moses, California
State University-Northridge
2.
"The Role of the Judiciary in the Nazi Rise to Power," William
F.
Mill, California State University- Northridge
3.
"The War Crimes Trial of Kurt 'Panzer' Meyer," Robert W.
Shafer, Pennsylvania State University
Discussants:
Helmut Langerbein, University of
Texas-Brownsville
Donal O'Sullivan, California State
University-Northridge
Thursday
1:00 - 2:15
HI
15: NATIVE AMERICA
Phi
Alpha Theta Session
Chair: Stephen S. Michot, Nicholls State University
1.
“Conflict between Bureaus,” Renee Rodriguez, University of
Texas-Pan American
2.
“American Indian Papers and Indian Territory,” Robert Miller,
California State University-Fullerton
3.
“Challenge to Existing Meanings: the Story of a ‘Native
American Alien,’” Susan Takeda, California State
University-Fullerton
Discussant: Roger Tuller, Texas A&M
University-Kingsville
Thursday
1:00 - 2:15
HI 16:
SEX, MARRIAGE AND THE RESPECTABLE RAPIST
Joint Session with Gender Studies
Chair: Shelly Lemons, St. Louis
Community College at Meramec
1. “French
and Quapaw: Sex, Marriage, and the Birth
of
“Common Ground,” Sonia Toudji,” University of Arkansas
2.
"A Respectable Rapist – The Case of Reverend F.A. Strale,”
Alexandra Forward-Preedy, University of Colorado
Discussant: Shelly Lemons, St. Louis
Community College at Meramec
Thursday
2:30 - 3:45
HI 17: GENDER ROLES THROUGHOUT THE CENTURIES;
MIND, BODY AND SOUL
Joint Session with Gender Studies
Chair: Michael Martin, Fort Lewis College
1.
"Power in Hagiography: The Importance of Gender in
Merovingian Hagiography," Kimberly A. Dyer, Wayne
State University
2.
"Equality and Difference: British Feminism and the Second
World War," Harold. L. Smith, University of Houston-Victoria
3.
"Comfort Women," Jianyue Chen, Northeast Lakeview
College
4.
"Comrade: Women, Love and Revolution," Philippa Winkler,
Northern Arizona University and Webster University
Discussant: Michael Martin, Fort Lewis College
Thursday
2:30 - 3:45
HI 18:
HISTORICAL POTPOURRI
Chair: Robert Lee, St. Louis
Community College at Meramec
1.
"Behind the Orange Curtain:
University and Community
Relations in 1960s Orange County,” Meka Haglund Manchak,
California State University, Fullerton
2.
“Tobacco and Political Economy in Alexander Spotswood’s
Virginia, 1712-1717,” Matthew L. Rhoades, West Texas A&M
University
3.
“U.S. Supreme Court Obscenity Rulings and Gay Literature,
1948-1978,” Roger Tuller, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Discussant: Robert Lee, St. Louis
Community College at Meramec
Thursday
2:30 - 3:45
HI
19: POWER GAMES: POLITICS, MEDIA AND FOREIGN INTERVENTION
IN
TWENTIETH CENTURY LATIN AMERICA
Chair: Patrick Barr-Melej, Ohio University
1. “Peace through
Strength, Soviet Style: Khrushchev's Cuban
Missile Gambit,” Jon Eckel, California
State University-
Northridge
2. “Panama 1989: Just Cause or Just Because,”
William
Shaner, California State University-
Northridge
3. “Skeletons in the Backyard: CIA Involvement
in Nicaraguan
Counter-Revolutionary Activities
(1981-1990),” John Paul
Wilson, St. John’s University, Queens, NY
4. “Defeating Dictators and Redefining
Democracies: the 1988
Campaign against Pinochet,” Mark Rice,
SUNY Stony Brook
Discussant: Patrick Barr-Melej,
Ohio University
Thursday
2:30 - 3:45 p.m.
HI
20: UNITED STATES CULTURAL AND SOCIAL
HISTORY
Phi
Alpha Theta Session
Chair: J. Howell Smith, Wake
Forest University
1.
“‘Along the Line of Progress’: The Transition from Orphanage
to Institution,” John K. Elliott, California State University-
Fullerton
2.
“Ending the Enigma: A History of Hemp and the Fight to
Change It,” Kyle Keel, Midwestern State University
3. “‘Wolves to Lambs’: Captive Missionaries and
the Ursuline
School for Girls,” Albert D. Ybarra,
California State
University-Fullerton
Discussant: J. Howell Smith, Wake
Forest University
Thursday
4:00 - 5:15 p.m.
HI 21: CLEAR AND CONFUSING NAZI POLICIES: A
REDEFINING NATION IN ACTION
Chair: Michael Meyer,
California State University-Northridge
1. "Racial Hygiene in Nazi Germany: Toward
a Nazi
Conscience," Jessica W. Rosen,
California State University-
Northridge
2. "Suntanned Bots, Girls in Uniform:
Contested Sexualities in
Germany from the Weimar Republic to the
Third Reich,"
Sascha Elise Cohen, California State
University-Northridge
3. "Nazi Foreign Policy Under Ribbentrop: A
Question of
Authority," Hans Christian Brestell,
California State
University-Northridge
Discussants:
Kathleen Hitt,
College of Canyons
Cathy Kay, Seabea
Museum and Archives-U.S. Navy
Friday, 4:00 – 5:15
p.m.
INTERDISCIPLINARY
SESSION
SO53: ROUNDTABLE:
ACADEMIC FREEDOM
Organizer: Doug
Eckberg, Winthrop University
Chair: Rachel Rayburn, University of Central Florida
Participants: Mehdi Noorbaksh,
Harrisburg University
Henry Sirgo, McNeese State University
Joanne Ardovini, Metropoliltan College of New
York
Thursday 6:00 – 8:00
p.m.
SOUTHWESTERN SOCIAL
SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
PRESIDENT’S RECEPTION
Hosted by
The Southwestern
Social Science Association
Thursday 9:00 p.m.
SOUTHWESTERN SOCIAL
SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
STUDENTS’ SOCIAL
Graduate
and undergraduate students are cordially invited to
enjoy
snacks, beverages, music, and each others’ company,
courtesy
of SSSA and its affiliate organizations.
Friday 8:30 - 9:45
HI 22:
RACE RELATIONS
Chair: Eric Owens, Lamar State
College-Orange
1.
“Martin Robison Delaney: The
changes, controversies and
contradictions of a 19th Century African-American journalist
and black leader,” James Hill, California State University-
Northridge
2.
“Natchez National Cemetery, Mississippi and World War I:
Burial
in Black and White,” Shane Peterson, California State
University- Northridge
3.
“Lincoln’s Hired Girls: A Look
into African American, Irish,
and Portuguese Life during Abraham Lincoln’s Springfield
Years, 1841-1861,” Camesha Scruggs, Texas Southern
University
Discussant: Eric Owens, Lamar State
College-Orange
Friday 8:30 - 9:45
HI
23: A CULT OF MODERNITY: MATERIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE NATION IN LATIN
AMERICA
Chair: Patricia Juarez-Dappe, California
State University- Northridge
1. "Guatemala on Display: The Central
American Exposition of
1897,” Lisa Munro, University of
Arizona-Tucson
2. "Shocking Mexicans: Reconstructing
Social Meanings of an
Electrified Future,” Diana Montaño,
University of Arizona-
Tucson
3. "Razzle Dazzle Them with Gold: The Monte
Alban Treasure
at the 1933 World’s Fair,” Zahra M. Moss,
University of
Arizona-Tucson
Discussant: Harry Hewitt, Midwestern State University
Friday 8:30 - 9:45
HI
24: SLAVERY IN AMERICA
Phi
Alpha Theta Session
Chair: Rich Traylor, Hardin-Simmons University
1. “‘A Powerful Lever’: Fugitive Slave Law and
Voices Against
Slavery,” Emily J. Arendt, University of
Wyoming
2. “Slaveholders and Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation
in
Revolutionary Virginia,” Drew Bledsoe, Rice University
3. “Revolutionary Enthusiasm to Antebellum
Gridlock: American
Clergy and the Slavery Debate,” Benjamin G. Wright, Rice
University
Discussant: Rich Traylor, Hardin-Simmons University
Friday 8:30 - 9:45
HI 25: TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENTS IN TWENTIETH
CENTURY TEXAS
Chair: Eric Rust, Baylor University
1. "The History of the Gulf Intra-Coastal
Waterway in Texas,”
Rebecca N. Rice, Baylor University
2. "The Interstate Highway System Comes to
Texas,” Daniel J.
Hoover and Joshua R. Hyles, Baylor
University
3. "The Rebirth of Urban Light-Rail
Transportation in Texas,”
Richard H. Fair, Baylor University
Discussant: Ashley W. Cruseturner, McLennan Community
College
Friday 10:00 - 11:15
HI 26: BAPTIST INFLUENCES ON TWENTIETH CENTURY
HISTORY
Chair: Eric Rust, Baylor University
1. "Baptists and
the Separation of Church and State in the
Twentieth Century,” Aaron D. Weaver, Baylor
University
2. "Baptists and the Struggle over
Prohibition,” Michelle L.
Grose and Joshua L. Tackett, Baylor
University
3. "Baptist Involvement in Overseas
Missionary Work,” Courtney
A. Lyons and Elizabeth G. Wilson, Baylor
University
Discussant: John R. Parnell, Cowan University
Friday 10:00 - 11:15
HI 27: CRUSADES AND MILTARY ORDERS
Chair: Jochen Burgtorf,
California State University-Fullerton
1. "Crusade at Eye Level: Space,
Subjectivity, and the
Capture of Silves in 1189," Martin
Patail, Portland State
University
2. "Templar and Hospitaller Ideology from
12th/13th Century
Syrian-Muslim Perspectives," Uri
Shachar, University of
Chicago
3. "Piracy as an Act of Holy War in the Age
of the Crusades,"
Nikki Marie Goodrick, University of
California-Santa Barbara
Discussant:
Theresa Vann, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
Friday 10:00 - 11:15
HI
28: OLD APPROACHES AND NEW QUESTIONS IN
ARGENTINE HISTORY
Chair: Patricia
Juarez-Dappe, California State University- Northridge
1. "The Railroads of Argentina from
1850-1945: A
Historiographical Introduction,” Carlos Dimas, California State
University-Northridge
2. "The 'Barcelona' of Argentina: the Case of Rosario, Santa
Fe,” Tamara Deranteriasian, California State
University-
Northridge
3. "The Nationalist Transition in Argentina
1910s-1940s: A
Historical Review,” Jesse Sosa, California
State University-
Northridge
Discussant: Patricia
Juarez-Dappe, California State University- Northridge
Friday 11:30 - 12:45
HI
29: THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
Phi
Alpha Theta Session
Chair: Mark Beasley, Hardin-Simmons University
1.
“The African-American Experience in the Louisiana Lafourche
Region during theCivil War,” Stephen S. Michot, Nicholls
State University
2. “‘This Boiling Cauldron of Secession’:
Reconstruction
Violence in a Texas County,” L. Ray Gunn, University of Utah
3.
“James D. Bulloch, Confederate Agent Abroad,” Rusty
Hawkins, Texas Tech University
Discussant: The Audience
Friday 11:30 - 12:45
HI
30: RETHINKING THE CITY: IDENTITY,
POLITICS, AND SPACE, 1870-1930
Chair: Chris Hill, University of Colorado- Colorado
Springs
1. "Surface Tension: Space, Identity, and
Power in the Making
of Los Angeles,” David Torres-Rouff, The
Colorado College
2. "The ‘Charleston Girl:’ Rethinking 1920s
Istanbul,” Carole
Woodall, University of Colorado-Colorado
Springs
3. "The Networked City: Urban Social
Networks in Morelia,
Mexico, 1890-1920,” Christina M. Jiménez,
University of
Colorado- Colorado Springs
Discussant: Chris Hill, University of
Colorado-Colorado Springs
Friday 11:30 - 12:45
HI
31: INTOLERANCE AND POLITICS IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
Chair: Andrew Traver, Southeastern Louisiana
University
1. "The Persecution of a 'Rable of Vagrant
Fryers:" Elizabethan
Propaganda and the Jesuit Mission of
1580-1581," Ellena C.
Jenkins, University of Louisiana-Lafayette
2. "English Reformation and Its Impact: The
Nationalization of
Religious Imagery," Ramazan Hakki
Oztan, University of
Wyoming
3. "Draining the Fens or Drowning the
Commons?: Provincial
Politics, Immigrant Labor and State
Building in Early-
Stuart England," Jeffrey Hankins,
Louisiana Tech University
Discussant: Andrew Traver, Southeastern Louisiana
University
Friday 11:30 - 12:45
HI
32: NEWS AND SECRETS FROM THE FRONT:
WORLD WAR II IN PERSPECTIVE
Chair: Helmut Langerbein, University of
Texas-Brownsville
1. "The Blitzkrieg Evolution: From
Tannenberg to Barbarossa,"
Jon Eckel, California State University-
Northridge
2. "Himmler's Yugoslav Division: The Role
of the 7th SS
Volunteer Mountain Division 'Prinz Eugen'
in the Balkans,"
Bojan Bosanac, California State
University-Northridge
3. "Soviet POW's in British Hands:
Operation Mamba, 1944,"
Donal O'Sullivan, California State
University-Northridge
Discussant: Helmut Langerbein, University of
Texas-Brownsville
Friday 1:00 - 2:15
HI
33: DESPOTS AND RULERS IN RUSSIA,
ENGLAND AND FRANCE
Phi
Alpha Theta Session
Chair: Alexander d’Erizans, Borough of Manhattan
Community College
1.
"Catherine the Great: The Enlightened Despot-Russia’s
Caring, Innovative and Revolutionary Ruler,” Lara Ann
Kolinchak,
California State University-Fullerton
2.
“Popular Representations of Catherine the Great of Russia
and Elizabeth I of England,”
Michelle P. Gardner, California
State University-Fullerton
3.
“The Treaties of Tilsit: The Diplomatic Beginning of the End
for Napoleon Bonaparte,” Chad Tomaselli, Midwestern State
University
Discussant: Alexander d’Erizans, Borough of Manhattan
Community College
Friday 1:00 - 2:15
HI
34: "BETTER TO DIE ON ONES FEET THAN LIVE ON ONE'S KNEES,"
(IBARRURI):
ATTEMPTING
TO STAND THROUGH RELIGION, WRITING AND TRAVEL
Chair: Dirk Lindemann, Midwestern State University
1. "Natural Rights Discourse in 1790's
Denmark-Norway's Free
Press," Timothy C. Wright, Brigham
Young University
2. "Jesuits, Jansenists and Justice: The
Role of the Society of
Jesus During the French Revolution,"
William Schultz,
Southeastern Louisiana University
3. ”Analysis of the Impact of George Ticknor's
Journey's On His
Views of Spain," Douglas Thomas, Brigham
Young
University
Discussant: Dirk Lindemann, Midwestern State University
Friday 1:00 - 2:15
HI 35:
MILITARY MEDICINE
Chair: Rhonda J. Keen, Texas Christian University
1.
"The Air War and Military Medicine in the Eighth Air Force:
Developing Technology and the Impact of the
High Altitude
Daylight Bombing Campaign on American Forces in East
Anglia in World War II,” Vernon L. Williams, Abilene Christian
University
2.
"Medicine and the Ground War: Chalkboard Training and
Combat Reality on the Battleline in Europe, 1944-1945,”
Tracy M. Shilcutt, Abilene Christian University
3.
"Origins of Professional Nursing and the Influence of War,"
Rhonda J. Keen, Texas Christian University
Discussant: Audience
Friday 1:00 - 2:15
HI
36: WAR AND SOCIETY IN NINETEENTH
CENTURY LATIN AMERICA
Chair: Elisabeth Kalé Haywood, Allegheny College
1. "Governor Armejo’s Dilemma or Why he
Abandoned Santa
Fe in 1846, Without Firing a Shot: The
Mexican Perspective,”
Harry Hewitt, Midwestern State University
2. "War’s End and a Tentative Peace: The
Martínez Campo
Campaign and the Peace-Making Process
Ending the Ten
Years’ War in Cuba,” Vanessa M. Ziegler, Hartwick College
3. "Military Recruitment and the
Quebra-Quilos Movement in
Brazil, 1874-1875,” Kim Richardson,
University of South
Carolina, Lancaster
Discussant: Elisabeth Kalé Haywood, Allegheny College
Friday, 2:30-3:45
HI 37:
AMERICANS, GERMANS AND THE IRISH
Chair: Robert Lee, St. Louis
Community College at Meramec
1.
"’The Yankees of Europe’:
American Attitudes toward
Germans from the Civil War to the Franco-Prussian War,
1861-1871,” K. Dirk Voss, Saint Louis Community College
2.
"Irish Settlement and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Texas:
An
Historical Archaeology,” Tadhg O’Keefe and Julie Richko,
University College Dublin
3.
"Degenerate Art and Premature Anti-Fascists: A Benefit for
the
Hollywood Anti-Nazi League for the Defense of American
Democracy, David Miller Parker, California State University
Northridge
Discussant: Robert Lee, St. Louis
Community College at Meramec
Friday, 2:30-3:45
HI 38:
CLOWNS, "POETS, PRIESTS AND POLITICIANS, HAVE TO THANK
FOR THEIR POSITIONS" (THE POLICE) IN
MODERN RUSSIA AND EASTERN EUROPE
Chair: Judith Fai-Podlipnik, Southeastern Louisiana
University
1. "'I Will Be Devoted to Service With Body and Soul:' Institutionalized Atheism of the Security Service Officers in Communist Poland (1944-1989)," Leszek Murat, State University of New York-Albany2. "' Hasanaginica,' vuk Karadzicandher's Theory of Language," Peter Wright, Brigham Young University3. "The Circus Turned Upside Up: Revolutionizing the Soviet Circus 1919-1928," Miriam Neirick, California State University-NorthridgeDiscussants:
Judith Fai-Podlipnik, Southeastern Louisiana University Annika Freiberg, University of Northern Colorado Friday, 2:30-3:45
HI 39: THE MIDDLE EAST OVER TIME
Phi Alpha Theta
Session
Chair: Jeff Burson,
Macon State University
1.
"The 1953 Coup d’État: The Catalyst of Anti-American
Sentiment in Iran," Michael Matini, California State University-
Fullerton
2.
“Nationalism: Awakening the Egyptian Women’s Movement
during 1919-1935,” Erline Maingot, Texas Southern University
3. “Ifham al-Yahud: Latent Muslim Debate in
a Polemic Against
the Jews,” Andrew Mecham, Brigham Young University
Discussant: Jeff Burson, Macon State University
Friday, 2:30-3:45
HI 40: TEXAS IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH
CENTURIES
Phi Alpha Theta
Session
Chair: Eddie Weller,
San Jacinto College South
1.
"Challenging a Culture: Evangelicals and the Prohibition
Movement in Texas, 1887- 1918,” Joe Locke, Rice University
2. “The Texas Two Step: the Incorporation and
Dispossession of
the Tigua of Ysleta Del Sur, 1848-1889,” Scott Comar,
University of Texas—El Paso
3.
"This One Thing I Do: How the ERA Movement Changed
Texas Politics,” Kyle Goyette, Texas State University—San
Marcos
Discussant: Eddie Weller, San Jacinto
College South
Friday
4:00-5:15
HI 41: ROUND TABLE: THE BATTLE ROYALE OF AUTHOR VS.
EDITOR: PREPARING A
JOURNAL FOR PUBLICATION IN A
CLASSSROOM SETTING
Phi Alpha Theta
Session
Moderator: Blake McWhorter, California State
University-Fullerton
Participants:
Ryan Tew, California
State University-Fullerton
Adam Kelley,
California State University-Fullerton
Albert Ybarra,
California State University-Fullerton
Jennifer Yaeger,
California State University-Fullerton
Robert Przeklasa,
California State University-Fullerton
Wendy
Elliott-Scheinberg, California State University-Fullerton
Friday
4:00-5:15
HI 42: ADVENTURERS AND EXPLORERS IN LATIN AMERICA:
PERCEPTIONS AND
BEHAVIORS
Chair: Charles Macune,
California State University, Northridge
1. "'Ruined and Lost:’ Spanish Destruction
of the Pearl Coast in
the Early Sixteenth Century,” Michael
Perri, Texas A&M
University-Texarkana
2. "Into the Sunset: Travelers' Perceptions
of the Diocese of
Michoacan, 1760-1900,” Elisabeth Kalé
Haywood, Allegheny
College
3. "The brothers
Edward J.C. and Achilles Kewen: Papers and
findings about two filibusters,” Manuel
Araya Incera,
University of Costa Rica
4. "Imprisoned through Time,” Diana Z. Pinto, California State
University, Northridge
Discussant: Charles Macune, California State
University, Northridge
Friday
4:00-5:15
HI 43: IDENTITY AND POLITICS IN 20TH CENTURY GERMANY
Chair: Judith Fai-Podlipnik, Southeastern Louisiana University
1. "Maximillian Harden, The Conscience of
the Second German
Empire," Dirk Lindemann, Midwestern
State University
2. "Teaching History, Pursuing Peace:
Franco-German
Textbook Reform in the Twentieth
Century," Mona Seigel,
California State University-Sacramento
3. "The Volksgemeinschaft
is Put to the Test: Germans in
Hanover During the Second World War,"
Alex d'Erizans,
Borough of Manhattan Community College
4. "German Expellees in Polish-German
Post-War Relations,
1956-1970," Annika Frieberg, University of Northern
Colorado
Discussants:
Miriam Nierick, California State University-Northridge
Friday
4:00-5:15
HI 44: UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY AND THE MILITARY
Chair: Mark Hove, U.S. State Department
1. "The Log in America’s Eye: How Jim Crow torpedoed
American Attempts to Censure Human Rights
in Eastern
Europe, 1945-1950,” Rowland Brucken, Norwich
University
2. "The Naughty Child: Johnson’s Paternal Relationship with
Israel and the Failure of American
Diplomacy during the
Israeli-Arab Six-Day War,” Kara Patton,
University of
Louisiana-Lafayette
3. "Bed Time for the Bomb: Ronald Reagan and the Impact of
the Nuclear Freeze Movement, 1980-1984,”
Henry R. Maar
III, University of California, Santa
Barbara
4. “Jimmy Carter and the U.S. Air Force: Ironic Aspects of
Military Innovation,” Donald J. Mrozek,
Kansas State
University
Discussant: Mark Hove, U.S. State Department
Friday 6:00-7:00
HI 45: SOUTHWESTERN
HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING
Presiding: Patrick Barr-Melej, Ohio University
President of the Association
Friday 7:30-9:00
HI 46: SOUTHWESTERN
HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
PRESIDENT’S RECEPTION
Officers, Members, and Friends of the Southwestern
Historical Association
Are Cordially Invited to Attend
Saturday 8:30 - 9:45
HI 47: ENERGY AND COAL MINING
Chair: Steven L. Sewell, College of the Mainland
1. "The Relationship Between Fuel and
Energy on the Santa Fe
Trail,” Twyla Dell, Independent Scholar,
2. "Reforming a Danger-Prone Industry: Monogah Mine
Disaster and the Bureau of Mines,” Jeffery
Cook, North
Greenville College
Discussant: Steven L. Sewell, College of the Mainland
Saturday 8:30 - 9:45
HI 48: EUROPEAN STUDIES IN RELIGION AND SCIENCE
Phi Alpha Theta
Session
Chair: Jochen Burgtorf,
California State University-Fullerton
1.
"Papal Suzerainty and Angevin Overlordship of Ireland, 1154-
1214,” Erin V. Abraham, Saint Louis University
2.
"A Departure from the Ancients: Mathematical Progression
through
the Renaissance,” Thomas Gray, Midwestern State
University
3.
"The Religion of the True Levellers,” Hunter Huffman,
Midwestern State University
Discussant: Jochen Burgtorf, California State
University-Fullerton
Saturday 8:30 - 9:45
HI 49: LIONS, DOLLARS, AND BEARS
Chair: Tamsen Emerson Hert, University of
Wyoming Libraries
1. "Big Bucks: Hunting in New Mexico’s Gila Country, 1880-
2000, Provender, Predator Control,
Recreation,” Nancy
Coggeshall, Freelance Writer
2. "Renegade Bears in Yellowstone: Literary Creation, Policy-
Making, and Hunters,” Jeremy Johnston,
Northwest College
3. "’A Beast of Stealth and Rapine’: Mountain Lions and the
American West, 1850-1920,” Frank Van Nuys,
South Dakota
School of Mines and Technology
Discussant: John H. Monnett, Metropolitan State
College of Denver
Saturday 8:30 - 9:45
HI 50: MYTHOLOGY AND MURDER IN LATIN AMERICA
Phi Alpha Theta
Session
Chair: Harry Hewitt,
Midwestern State University
1.
"Dark Omens and the Return of a God: The Mythopoetic
Discourse on the Battle for Tenochtitlan (1521),” Raymond A.
Martin, California State University-Fullerton
2.
"‘These Men Are Gods’: The Quetzalcoatl-Cortes Myth and
the Spanish Conquest of Mexico,” Daniel A. Vidrio, California
State University-Fullerton
3.
"The Riddle of Femicide in Guatemala,” Jacqueline Alvarino,
California State University—Fullerton
Discussant: Teresa Van Hoy, St. Mary’s University
Saturday
10:00 - 11:15
HI 51: "FLYIN'" AND
"DIVIN:'" AIR AND NAVAL SECRETS OF WWII REVEALED
Chair: Alex d'Erizans, Borough of Manhattan
Community College
1.
"The Doolittle Raid: The Army Air Corps' Daring Mission and
the Japanese Response," Tomomi Ishihara, Claremont
Graduate School
2.
"Forgotten Warriors," James Gunn, Victor Valley Community
College
Discussant: Alex d'Erizans, Borough of Manhattan
Community College
Saturday
10:00 - 11:15
HI 52: HISTORIANS AND HISTORIOGRAPHY
Phi Alpha Theta
Session
Chair: Gordon Morris
Bakken, California State University-Fullerton
1.
"The Laughing Muse: “The Historical World of Thomas W.
Africa,” Frank L. Vatai, California State University-Northridge
2. “Edward Gibbon and the Impact of Christianity
on the Decline
of
Rome,” Robert Watkins, Midwestern State University
3. "A Study of History: Arnold Toynbee and
the World Historical
Perspective,” Curt Pitton, Texas A&M
University—Commerce
Discussant: Gordon Morris Bakken,
California State University-Fullerton
Saturday
10:00 - 11:15
HI 53: LINCOLN AND THE CIVIL WAR
Phi Alpha Theta
Session
Chair: Rich Traylor, Hardin-Simmons University
1.
"A Necessary War Measure: Lincoln’s Social Reconstruction,”
Amy Perez, Texas A&M University—Kingsville
2.
“Secretary of State William H. Seward’s Relationship with
President Abraham Lincoln During the Civil War,” Miriam E.
Villanueva, Texas A&M University--Kingsville
Discussant: Steven W. Short, Collin
County Community College
Saturday
10:00 - 11:15
HI 54:
UNITED STATES/JAPANESE HISTORY
Chair: Ron Petrin, Oklahoma State
University
1.
"Issei Immigration to the United States since the Late
Tokugawa Period to the establishment of the Immigration Act
of
1924,” Hosak O, Oklahoma State University
2.
"Cultural Analysis of America’s 442nd Regimental Combat
Team and Japan’s Kamikaze Force during WWII,” Yuki O,
Oklahoma State University
Discussant: The Audience
Saturday
11:30-12:45
HI 55: FROM TEXAS TO GERMANY AND BACK
Phi Alpha Theta
Session
Chair: Rusty Hawkins,
Texas Tech University
1.
"Tenayuca and San Antonio’s Depression-Era Political
Machine,” Kelly Gallo, St. Mary’s University
2.
"Pachucos and Pachucas: Not Deviant but Defiant,” Ralph
Thomas Peña, St. Mary’s University
3.
“From Inkwells to Firebombs: the Career Path of Ulrike
Meinhof,” Ben Atkins, Midwestern State University
Discussant: Rusty Hawkins, Texas Tech
University
Saturday
11:30-12:45
HI 56: LAND AND WATER
Chair: John Howard Smith, Texas A&M
University-Commerce
1. "La
Mano Negra: Role of the “Black Hand”
in Resisting Land
Grant Loss in Northern New Mexico,” Robert J. Torrez,
Independent Historian
2. "Water, Speculation, and Violence Along
the Trans-Pecos
Frontier,” Stephen Dean Bogener, West
Texas A&M
University
3. “Inscribed Upon the land,” James Comer,
Victor Valley
College
Discussant: John Howard Smith, Texas A&M
University-Commerce
Saturday
11:30-12:45
HI 57: THEMES IN TWENTIETH CENTURY MILITARY STUDIES
Phi Alpha Theta
Session
Chair: Vernon Williams,
Abilene Christian University
1.
"The Birth of a Fighter Plane: the North American P-51
Mustang,”
Ashton Paniagua, Midwestern State University
2. “Punitive or Preparation? The Hunt for Poncho Villa,” Donald
E.
Booth, Jr., Midwestern State University
3. “The United States Marine Corps Women’s Reserve
Program: Educated Women Contributing
their Talents to
Free a Marine to Fight,” Chris Freeman, California State
University-Fullerton
Discussant:
Vernon Williams, Abilene Christian University