WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2010
REGISTRATION
1:00-5:00 p.m.
Palm Court
***All delegates must sign in at the registration table***
COUNCIL MEETING
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Crown Point
MEET AND GREET
4:15-5:15 p.m.
Mariner Point
OPENING RECEPTION
(Tickets Required)
5:30-7:00 p.m.
Palm II
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2010
REGISTRATION
9:00-11:30 a.m.
12:30-5:00 p.m.
Palm Court
BREAKFAST
(Tickets Required)
7:00-8:15 a.m.
Palm II
HOW-TO PANELS
7:30-8:15 a.m.
PUBLISHING BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Mariner Point
Chair: Graydon A. Tunstall, University of South Florida
Gordon Morris Bakken, California State University, Fullerton
Jochen Burgtorf, California State University, Fullerton
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2010
PLANNING A SUCCESSFUL REGIONAL
Crown Point
Chair: Jeff Plaks, University of Central Oklahoma
Ronald B. Frankum, Jr., Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Jason D. Hardgrave, University of Southern Indiana
Timothy C. Westcott, Park University
THURSDAY PAPER SESSIONS
8:30-9:45: SESSION 1 - BELMONT
THE INFLUENCE OF THE MEDIA
Chair: Kevin Borg, James Madison University
A Voice to the World: Eleanor Roosevelt's Transition from First Lady to World Figure Told
Through Her Column “My Day”
Sarah Bell, Truman State University
Gendered Cigarettes: The Responsive Ad Campaigns of the 1950’s
Rachel Rosen, University of Maryland, College Park
Coca-Cola=America
Wyatt Skinner, University of Arizona
8:30-9:45: SESSION 2 - MARINER POINT
LATIN AMERICA
Chair: David K. Burden, Indiana Wesleyan University
Marketing Indigeneity: Dynamics of Craft Production in Otavalo, Ecuador
Angela Corsa, Augustana College
Che in Bolivia: Vision and Reality
Bob Ice, New Mexico State University
Religious Syncretism and the Power of the Church in Late Eighteenth Century Colonial Peru
Jonathan Olivito, Ohio University
8:30-9:45: SESSION 3 - CROWN POINT
BRITAIN IN THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES
Chair: Annette Parks, University of Evansville
Rump Justice: The Unlawful Trial and Execution of Charles I
Taylor Bowman, University of the Cumberlands
The English Sweate: The Tudor’s Plague
Jennifer McPherson, Murray State University
The Unnatural Mother: Infanticide Stories in Seventeenth-Century London
Ashley Satterwhite, Arizona State University
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2010
8:30-9:45: SESSION 4 - PALM I
FACULTY PANEL - THE UNITED STATES AND WAR
“Such a Business Woman”: Amanda Ragan Stone and Female Property Ownership in Civil War
Louisiana
Mary Farmer-Kaiser, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Renegotiating the Social Contract: Northern Black Veterans in Post-Civil War America
Kelly D. Selby, Walsh University
Voices of Patriotism: The Four Minute Men during The Great War
Timothy C. Westcott, Park University
8:30-9:45: SESSION 5 - CABRILLO
WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
Chair: Thomas G. Alexander, Brigham Young University
Shifting Sands: Changing Perceptions of the American Desert, 1842-1986
Sherrie Bakelar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
From King Copper to Quality of Life: The Relatively Rapid Dislocation of Copper Mining in the
Public the Public Mind of Southern Arizona, 1966-1986
Cody Ferguson, Arizona State University
Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant: Environmentalism in East Texas
Lynn A. Wartberg, East Texas Baptist University
8:30-9:45: SESSION 6 - POINT LOMA
EASTERN EUROPE IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Chair: Graydon A. Tunstall, University of South Florida
A Satellite Nation Divided: Establishment, Dissolution, andReemergence of the Hungarian
Communist Party from 1918-1956
Kristopher Masszi, Salem State College
Revolution and Counter-revolution in Czechoslovakia
Ryan E. Mayberry, Marywood University
The Rise of the Intellectuals against Censorship and Disillusionment: The Origins of the Prague
Spring
Elizabeth Perry, Park University
8:30-9:45: SESSION 7 - CONFERENCE SUITE #211
RACE AND VIOLENCE
Chair: Ken Hendrickson, Midwestern State University
The 1921 Tulsa Massacre
Rachael Hill, San Francisco State University
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2010
The “Terrible Remedy”: Violence and the Influence of the Ku Klux Klan in the Reconstruction
South
Thomas Robins, Hendrix College
Colfax Massacre: A Memory Lost and A Story Untold
Alexes M. Toomes, Louisiana Tech University
8:30-9:45: SESSION 8 - CONFERENCE SUITE #204
SOCIETAL CHANGES IN THE UNITED STATES
Chair: John Thomas Scott, Mercer University
Courtship Rituals in Boston, 1880-1930
Rebecca Baker, Salem State College
From Yellow Peril to Model Minority: Chinese and Asian Stereotypes in United States Media
from the Mid-1800's to Present
Laura J. Sweeney, California State University, San Marcos
Religion as the Cause of Temperance and Abstinence: How the Second Great Awakening took
the Fun out of Nineteenth Century America
Savannah Williamson, Stephen F. Austin State University
8:30-9:45: SESSION 9 - CONFERENCE SUITE #214
POLITICS IN AFRICA
Chair: Martin Atangana, City University of New York-York College
Exit Wounds: The Counterrevolution and the Collapse of Algérie Française
Connor McNulty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mozambique: The Environmental and Human Disaster, 1977-1992
Henri S. Minion, Georgetown University
The U.S. and Mozambique: A Shift in Anti-Communist Doctrine
Karen Nielsen, Chapman University
8:30-9:45: SESSION 10 - CONFERENCE SUITE #217
EUROPE IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Chair: Tammy Proctor, Wittenberg University
Pepperland and the New Way: The "Yellow Submarine" as an Analysis of European Youth
Culture
Stephanie Coughtry, California State University, Fullerton
The Role of Women in Spanish Society from the Early 20th Century to the Post-Franco Era
Jessica Drizin, California State University, San Marcos
Bloody Sunday, 1972: Divisions of Memory
Sarah Ganderup, Chapman University
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2010
8:30-9:45: SESSION 11 - CONFERENCE SUITE #218
WOMEN’S HISTORY
Chair: Marcia Gallo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
A History of Midwifery and Women’s Thoughts Toward Midwives
Emily Curry, Stephen F. Austin State University
Lady Drivers: Women's Self-Reliance in Early Autocamping
Jennifer Goodland, University of Colorado-Denver
Fallen Women, Unadjusted Girls and Sex Workers: The Changing Discourse of Prostitution in
Twentieth-Century America
Jennifer L. Hellman, California State University, Dominguez Hills
10:00-11:15: SESSION 12 - PALM I
BRITAIN IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Chair: Jason D. Hardgrave, University of Southern Indiana
Anatomists as Martyrs: The Intellectual Penetration of Human Bodies in Early Modern England
Nickoal Eichmann, California State University, Fullerton
The ‘Trewe Communes’ of the Peasant’s Revolt
Craig Kline, University of Arizona
“She hath no remedy by the common law”: English Wives and the Medieval Court of Chancery
Michelle Seiler, Texas State University-San Marcos
10:00-11:15: SESSION 13 - CABRILLO
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Chair: James A. Ramage, Northern Kentucky University
The Equality of Every Living Man: Lincoln's Moral Egalitarianism and the Loss of the Lincoln-
Douglas Debates
Lee J.F. Depperman, Brigham Young University
Lincoln Confronts the Mexican War
Dale Kretz, Miami University
In a Land of Little Giants and Tall Frontiersmen: Manhood and the Election of 1860
Paula Tarankow, California State University, Los Angeles
10:00-11:15: SESSION 14 - POINT LOMA
FACULTY PANEL - RELIGIOUS HISTORY
Adapting Christianity to the West: Charles F. Parham and the Birth of Pentecostalism in
Topeka, Kansas
Alan Bearman, Washburn University
From John Wyclif to Roger Williams: the English separatist tradition
John Navin, Coastal Carolina University
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2010
To Be Useful “On Heathen Ground”: The Double Bind of Women's Roles in the Sandwich
Islands Mission, 1819-1863
Michelle R. Stonis, Grand Canyon University
10:00-11:15: SESSION 15 - BELMONT
U.S. SOCIAL ISSUES
Chair: Deborah Marinski, Ohio University
Mental Illness in Late Colonial through Antebellum America: A Reform of Understanding
Examined in Terms of Gender, Class, and Ethnicity
Angie Blumberg, Saint Louis University
Disappearing Tattoos
Jennifer Hero
Divine Drug to Feared Fiend: The Social Transformation of Cocaine in the United States from
1884-1914
Jannell McConnell, Samford University
10:00-11:15: SESSION 16 - MARINER POINT
EAST ASIA
Chair: Kenneth Holloway, Florida Atlantic University
Confucianism and the West: Historical Analysis as a Guide for Contemporary Dialogue
Edwin Breeden, Presbyterian College
Japanese Organized Crime in Modern Politics
Rebekah George, Erskine College
Economics of Excrement: Public Health and Urban Planning in Meiji Japan
Anthony Walsh, Santa Clara University
10:00-11:15: SESSION 17 - CROWN POINT
GERMAN HISTORY
Chair: Petra DeWitt, Missouri University of Science and Technology
“The Burnt City of Gold”: Henrich Schliemann and Philhellenism in Germany
Kayla Reno, Murray State University
German Unification: its origins and subsequent effects upon European history
Jeremy W. Saunders, Francis Marion University
Otto Von Bismarck and ‘blood and iron’: the architect of the modern German State
Bryan Jason Wells, Francis Marion University
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2010
10:00-11:15: SESSION 18 - CONFERENCE SUITE #211
NATIVE AMERICANS
Chair: Everett W. Kindig, Midwestern State University
A Longhouse Divided: Class Conflict and the Iroquois Legal Standing in New York, 1760 - 1776
Anthony Spatola, Rowan University
Blackrobes and Bibles: Flathead-Nez Perce Delegations to St. Louis
Kristen Wegener, Saint Louis University
10:00-11:15: SESSION 19 - CONFERENCE SUITE #204
EASTERN EUROPE AND THE BALKANS
Chair: Jeff Plaks, University of Central Oklahoma
Human Right Infringements in the Balkans: Post World War II
James Hodges, Park University
The Evolution of the Bosnian Muslim Identity in Former Yugoslavia
Laura Janssen, The College of New Jersey
Subduing the Sublime: Russia, the Ulema, and Muslim Nationalism in the 19th century
Fernando Jara, California State University, Bakersfield
10:00-11:15: SESSION 20 - CONFERENCE SUITE #214
POTPOURRI
Chair: Naum G. Kats, Carnegie Mellon University
Education Policy in the United Arab Emirates: Past and Present
Laith Al Gaz, Carnegie Mellon University
Modern Public and Private Receptions of the Shāhnāmeh
Paul Kuhns, New Mexico State University
The Encounter at Lepanto: An Analysis
Curtis W. Leeth, Washburn University
10:00-11:15: SESSION 21 - CONFERENCE SUITE #217
IDEOLOGY IN WARFARE
Chair: Stephen D. Carls, Union University
A Portrayal of Warfare: World War I in the Journals and Novels of Soldiers
Claire Petersen, Park University
Operations Barbarossa and Bagration: The Nazi Ideological War on the Eastern Front as
depicted in the Völkischer Beobachter, 1941 and 1944
Justin Pfeifer, University of Toledo
Propaganda for Women's Equality in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
Rebecca Swanger, Susquehanna University
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2010
10:00-11:15: SESSION 22 - CONFERENCE SUITE #218
WOMEN IN THE CIVIL WAR
Chair: Stephanie Carpenter, Murray State University
Shifts in Gender Roles: Confederate Civil War Letters
Cassandra Bennett, Stephen F. Austin State University
Spies, Wives, and Women of the Night: Marriage and Contempt During the Occupation of
Nashville
Landon Mason, Austin Peay State University
Through Woman’s Eyes: The Civil War as Experienced by Women of the Shenandoah Valley
Kelly Weber, James Madison University
PHI ALPHA THETA LUNCHEON
(Tickets Required)
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Palm II
Luncheon Speaker
Dr. Sandra Horvath-Peterson, Vice President
Georgetown University
Peering into the Crystal Ball: Whither History?
12:45-2:00: SESSION 23 - MARINER POINT
SPORTS IN THE UNITED STATES
Chair: Kathleen P. Munley, Marywood University
Of Game and Nation: Integration and Baseball in the United States
Toby Bernert, Northern Kentucky University
Carl Stotz and the Creation and Recreation of Little League Baseball
Andrew Girio, Susquehanna University
NASCAR’s “High Speed Heroes”
Erin Ragsdale, Murray State University
12:45-2:00: SESSION 24 - CROWN POINT
BRITAIN IN WORLD WAR II
Chair: Shirley Eoff, Angelo State University
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2010
The Unsung Juggernaut: The Avro Lancaster and the Standards of the British Royal Air Force
Bomber Command During the Second World War
Adam Belfield, Chapman University
Victory at Great Cost: Winston Churchill and the Allied Bombing of Dresden
Ben Peterson, Oklahoma Christian University
From Ashley Wilkes to Horatio Smith: Leslie Howard and his World War II Propaganda
Campaign for Britain
Alyson Sanders-Hunter, Angelo State University
12:45-2:00: SESSION 25 - BELMONT
FACULTY PANEL - POTPOURRI
The Shadows of Bondage: the Changing Use of the African Image in Eighteenth Century Britain
Rita R. Thomas, Northern Kentucky University
Leibnizian Optimism: History Reassesses Voltaire’s ‘Pangloss’
Steven M. Watkins, University of Louisville
Tarleton Lee: A Case Study in Book History
Cherié L. Weible, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
12:45-2:00: SESSION 26 - POINT LOMA
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Chair: Sandra Horvath-Peterson, Georgetown University
Fall Revolution: French Women in the October Days of 1789
Amande Bongard, Susquehanna University
The Directory and Democracy of the French Revolution
Holly Garnett Ownby, California State University, Dominguez Hills
Composing the Revolution: Music’s Role in Revolutionary France
Micah Snow, Union University
12:45-2:00: SESSION 27 - PALM I
NAZISM AND THE GERMAN PEOPLE
Chair: L. M. Stallbaumer-Beishline, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
The Status of Women in Nazi Germany
Jamee Horgan, Marywood University
Female Hitler Youth and the Path to Committing Nazi Crimes
Christina Matzen, Ohio University
The Power of Propaganda: Nazi Influence on the German Masses
Krista Solie, Luther College
12:45-2:00: SESSION 28 - CABRILLO
SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES
Chair: John Thomas Scott, Mercer University
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2010
The Impact of Transcendentalist Thought on the Movement to Abolish Slavery
Vanessa Garza, Park University
“Effectually to secure to them the blessings of freedom”: the Experiences in Slavery and
Freedom of the Free Black Haynes Family, 1799-1850
Ashley Schmidt, Lynchburg College
12:45-2:00: SESSION 29 - CONFERENCE SUITE #211
ISSUES IN POST-WORLD WAR II AMERICA
Chair: Hyman Rubin III, Columbia College
Tear Down This Wall: Ronald Reagan and the Myth of American Triumph Over Communism
Kate Baldwin, New Mexico State University
The Tort Revolution: Progressivism in the Courts
Ian Drake, University of Maryland, College Park
Project Retrospect: Understanding Energy Independence
Paul Niebrzydowski, Case Western Reserve University
12:45-2:00: SESSION 30 - CONFERENCE SUITE #204
PERCEPTIONS OF CONFLICT
Chair: Timothy C. Westcott, Park University
Floating Redemption: Kim Il Sung and the USS Pueblo Crisis
Theresa Monserrat, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Artistic Views of the American Civil War
Richard Spoor, Thomas More College
The Failed Reyes’ Plot: America's Search for Order in the Midst of Revolution
Travis Taylor, Angelo State University
12:45-2:00: SESSION 31 - CONFERENCE SUITE #214
FOUNDATIONS OF FREEDOM
Chair: David P. Dewar, Angelo State University
The Evolution of States’ Rights as Reflected in America’s Foundational Documents
Elizabeth M. Blevins, Union University
When Common People Demand Independence: A Look into Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Ryan Wagner, Park University
12:45-2:00: SESSION 32 - CONFERENCE SUITE #217
LIFE ON THE PLANTATION
Chair: V. Elaine Thompson, Louisiana Tech University
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2010
Slave Perceptions of White Mistresses: The “Mistress” and the
“Dear White Mother”
Charlotte Arbogast, Lynchburg College
Sports in Shackles: The Recreational Habits of Slaves on Southern
Plantations
Jon Griffith, Chapman University
Rising Souls: Music and Slave Identity in the Antebellum South
Rebecca Simon, California State University, Northridge
12:45-2:00: SESSION 33 - CONFERENCE SUITE #218
STUDENT ACTIVISM IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Chair: Ronald B. Frankum, Jr., Millersville University of Pennsylvania
‘Our Struggle is Yours:’ Power, Language and the Emergence of
the Student-Worker Action Committees of May ‘68
John Cowles, Chapman University
A History of Higher Education Reform through Social Movements: The
1969 UC Berkeley third World Strike and 1993UCLA hunger Strike
Pedro Navarro Jr., University of California, Los Angeles
Kent State and Berkeley: Manifestations of Student Unrest
Spencer Schwerdtfeger, Chapman University
2:15-3:30: SESSION 34 - CABRILLO
THE REFORMATION
Chair: Keith Bates, Union University
The Secularization of the London Livery Companies
Elizabeth Naomi Fox, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Martin Luther and Women
Leah Elizabeth Long, Oklahoma Christian University
Quel horreur!: Popular Religious Violence in Reformation France
Christopher McFadin, Marquette University
2:15-3:30: SESSION 35 - POINT LOMA
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY
Chair: Kelly D. Selby, Walsh University
Behind the Casinos: The Black Struggle for Residential Equality in Las Vegas, 1940-1970
Evan Casey, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
From ‘One Drop’ to ‘Black Enough’: The Post-Emancipation Battle for Black Authenticity
through the Body of T. Thomas Fortune
Guy Mount, San Diego State University
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2010
The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 and the Christiana Riot of 1851: A Juxtaposition of Two
Illuminating Events on Race Relations in Free Northern States
William Skidmore II, Mars Hill College
2:15-3:30: SESSION 36 - PALM I
CHANGES IN THE IMAGES OF WOMEN
Chair: Judy LeForge, Union University
“Yes, Sir, I am Here:” Images of American Women in World War I Propaganda
Alexandra Bisio, Santa Clara University
What Women Wore: A Look at the Female Ideal
Sarah E. Clemo, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Moving the Chorus One Step Backward: “Glorification,” Glamour, and Boundaries in the
Follies and Ziegfeld’s 1926 Declaration
Morgan Hoodenpyle, Arizona State University
2:15-3:30: SESSION 37 - MARINER POINT
EGYPT IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Chair: C. Cymone Fourshey, Susquehanna University
Redemption and Reconciliation: The Impact of the 1967 War on the Political Career of Anwar
Sadat
Sanjeev Baidyaroy, Carnegie Mellon University
Leveraging Lies - The Impact of Egyptian Radio Propaganda during the 1967 Arab-Israel War
Nicholas Sciannameo, Carnegie Mellon University
The Aswan High Dam in Egypt
Marissa A. Stevens, Washington & Jefferson College
2:15-3:30: SESSION 38 - CROWN POINT
CULTURAL HISTORY IN EARLY AMERICA
Chair: John Navin, Coastal Carolina University
Royall Tyler's “The Contrast” and Republicanism in the Theatre in the Early American
Republic
Zachary Elmassian, Denison University
Puritans, Persecution, and Prosecution: An Archival Investigation of the claims in Bradford's
Journal
Sandra Goodall, Arizona State University
Colonial American Freemasonry and the American Cultural Landscape
Joseph Payne, Northern Kentucky University
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2010
2:15-3:30: SESSION 39 - BELMONT
POTPOURRI
Chair: James A. Ramage, Northern Kentucky University
Out of the Ashes: Populism and Post-Reconstruction Virginian Society and Politics
Adam Koslin, Union College
The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral: Myth or History
Angela M. Lobien, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Big Bone Lick: From Salt Lick to State Park
Robert Spoor, Thomas More College
2:15-3:30: SESSION 40 - CONFERENCE SUITE #211
THE UNITED STATES AFTER WORLD WAR II
Chair: Jeff Bloodworth, Gannon University
Winning the Peace: The United States and the Marshall Plan in Post World War II Europe
Kathryn Baird, Texas Woman’s University
Black Thoughts on the Red Scare: African American Reaction to the Annie Lee Moss Case
Lauren Bimmler, Florida Atlantic University
Violence, Crime, and Spaghetti: The Role of Ethnic Identity in the Italian–American Mafia
Through the Case Study of Hit Man, Jack “the Dandy” Parisi
T’rese Evancho, Susquehanna University
2:15-3:30: SESSION 41 - CONFERENCE SUITE #204
SITES AND HISTORY
Chair: Emmett M. Essin, East Tennessee State University
Arlington National Cemetery as a monument to American History: The meeting place of
collective memory and the identity of the American Hero
Tessa Knight, Rowan University
The Price of Civic Pride: the Legacy of the “Great American Pyramid”
Caroline Mitchell, Christian Brothers University
2:15-3:30: SESSION 42 - CONFERENCE SUITE #214
19TH CENTURY EUROPE
Chair: Paulette L. Pepin, University of New Haven
The Origins of Chartism: 1837-1840, England and the politicization of the working class
Sarah M. Breaux, Francis Marion University
The Italian Risorgimento
Maria Anna dela Paz, St. Peter’s College
Read All About It! The role of the British Press in the Social Construction of the Cult of
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2010
Domesticity through the lens of Divorce Law Reform, 1840-1870
Jonathan Shipe, Lynchburg College
2:15-3:30: SESSION 43 - CONFERENCE SUITE #217
THE 1970S
Chair: Marcia Gallo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The Lost Environmentalists: The Struggle Between Conservative Christianity and the
Environment in the 1970s
Neall Pogue, North Dakota State University
Harvey Milk and the Gay Rights Movement in the 1970s
Amy Trostle, Northern Kentucky University
From Social Activists to Violent Criminals: The Media’s Portrayal of the Black Panther Party in
the 1970s
Alicia Williams, University of California, Los Angeles
2:15-3:30: SESSION 44 - CONFERENCE SUITE #218
WOMEN IN THE 19TH CENTURY
Chair: Tammy Proctor, Wittenberg University
Women West of the Imagination
Laura Ansley, Case Western Reserve University
A History of Female Live-in Servants at the Biltmore House
Natasha Cannon, Mars Hill College
Privileged Mistresses: The Intellectualism of Antebellum Plantation Mistresses in Natchez
County, Mississippi, 1830–1855
Rebekah Harding, California State University, Northridge
3:45-5:00: SESSION 45 - BELMONT
THE 1918 FLU PANDEMIC
Chair: Kevin Borg, James Madison University
Getting “la grippe” of the Situation: Rochester and Buffalo, New York and the Spanish Influenza
Bradley Fetes, Westminster College
Influenza in Alfred, New York, 1918
Ann Halbert-Brooks, Alfred University
Timing is Everything: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 in Mahoning County, Ohio
Kevin Kapraly, Westminster College
Autumn of Death: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Colfax, Washington
Joy Zornes, Washington State University
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2010
3:45-5:00: SESSION 46 - CROWN POINT
RUSSIAN HISTORY
Chair: Jeff Plaks, University of Central Oklahoma
Evolutionary Thinking in Revolutionary Russia: Science Pitted Against Radical Politics
Amy Billinger, Washburn University
Ivan IV Just Tsar or Tsar of Death? The elusive image of Ivan the Terrible in Russian History
Natasha Danielle Escobar, University of Texas at
Brownsville
The Western Intervention in the Russian Civil War: The Battles and The Consequences
David Lakeman, University of Evansville
The Katyn Massacre
Shenandoah Strojek, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
3:45-5:00: SESSION 47 - MARINER POINT
FACULTY PANEL - UNDERSTANDING MODERN EUROPE
Overt and Covert Opinions, Survival in a Subjugated State
Christopher Kennedy, Francis Marion University
Creating “Problems” to Understand the Holocaust
L. M. Stallbaumer-Beishline, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
3:45-5:00: SESSION 48 - CABRILLO
SOUTHERN HISTORY
Chair: Hyman Rubin III, Columbia College
Man of Many Voices: John Temple Graves II and the Transition from Southern Liberal to
“Voice of the Segregated South”
Haley Aaron, Samford University
The Appalachian Exodus
Catherine Lewis, Murray State University
Coweta County, Georgia, during the Great Depression: Society in the Rural South
Kayla McLain, Mercer University
3:45-5:00: SESSION 49 - PALM I
U.S. IMPERIALISM
Chair: Michael L. Collins, Midwestern State University
The Filipino Effect: The Significance of the Philippine Reservation in Furthering the Imperialist
Agenda at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Victorian Anderson, Point Loma Nazarene University
The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy
Justin Gilmore, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2010
Replacing Britain: The Mosquito Coast Affair of 1894
Nathaniel Edwards Osborn, Florida Atlantic University
The Imperial Dangers of Deference
Gerald Tower, The College of New Jersey
3:45-5:00: SESSION 50 - POINT LOMA
RENAISSANCE ITALY
Chair: Jason D. Hardgrave, University of Southern Indiana
Catherine de Medici: Woman Who Ruled like a King
Keishelle Ross, Columbia College
The Problem of Female Identity in Botticelli's “La Primavera”
Ryann Schroder, Northern Kentucky University
Awakening the Female Renaissance Voice through Giovanni Boccaccio
Chantal Walker, California State University, Dominguez Hills
3:45-5:00: SESSION 51 - CONFERENCE SUITE #211
CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Chair: David L. Snead, Liberty University
Edit this History: Competing Historiographies of the Arab-Israeli Conflict on Wikipedia,
1999-2009
Jonathan Cohen, Chapman University
Palestinianization of Israel’s Arabs Beginning in 1948: A Louder Voice
Leslie J. Coletti, Carnegie Mellon University
Unraveling the myth: the specious social mobility of the Israeli woman soldier following the
1967 Six Day War
Amelia E. Nichols, Carnegie Mellon University
3:45-5:00: SESSION 52 - CONFERENCE SUITE #204
THE UNITED STATES IN THE 19TH CENTURY
Chair: Andrea S. Watkins, Northern Kentucky University
Be Strong, and Quit Yourselves Like Men: A Case Study of Civil War Soldier Motivation in
Beverly, Massachusetts
Rebecca Bascom, Salem State College
Texas Slave Notions of Freedom: 1820s – 1865
Clayton Billadeau, St. Mary’s University
Free But Not Free: Slave Hiring In Lynchburg’s Antebellum Tobacco Manufacturing Industry
John Marks, Lynchburg College
A Tale of Two Presidents: The 23rd Ohio Volunteer Regiment and the Civil War Experiences of
Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley
Tim Rozelle, University of California, Los Angeles
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2010
3:45-5:00: SESSION 53 - CONFERENCE SUITE #214
WITCHCRAFT IN THE UNITED STATES
Chair: Alan Bearman, Washburn University
Witchcraft in New England: Confusion in History
Jeremiah Blaha, Colorado State University-Pueblo
“Though Shalt Not Suffer a Witch to Live”: Law and the Salem Witch Trials
Monica Gaudioso, Rhodes College
Enchanted Newbury: A Prelude to Salem’s Witch Trial
Wendy West, Salem State College
3:45-5:00: SESSION 54 - CONFERENCE SUITE #217
MIDDLE EAST HISTORY
Chair: Maribel Dietz, Louisiana State University
Pro-life or Pro-choice in Medieval Islam?
Amy DeNisco, Alfred University
Kings as an Exilic Work: Connections Between the Historiography in Kings and Babylonian
Chronicles
David Osborn, Roanoke College
3,000 Years Later: The Jebusites Rise Again
Josh Wheatley, Brigham Young University
3:45-5:00: SESSION 55 - CONFERENCE SUITE #218
THE UNITED STATES AND CENTRAL AMERICA
Chair: Brenda Farrington, Chapman University
Development of Refugee Policy Toward Central America during the 1980s
John Rosinbum, Arizona State University
The Grey-Eyed Man of Destiny: A Study of William Walker's Exploits in Nicaragua
Claire Wolnisty, Creighton University
PHI ALPHA THETA BANQUET
(Tickets Required)
5:30-6:45 p.m.
Palm II
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010
REGISTRATION
9:00-11:45 a.m.
12:45-5:00 p.m.
Palm Court
BREAKFAST
(Tickets Required)
7:00-8:15 a.m.
Palm II
HOW-TO PANELS
7:30-8:15 a.m.
PUBLISHING STUDENT JOURNALS
Crown Point
Chair: James A. Ramage, Northern Kentucky University
Gordon Morris Bakken, California State University, Fullerton
IMPROVING YOUR CHAPTER
Mariner Point
Chair: Stephen D. Carls, Union University
John Kyle Day, University of Arkansas at Monticello
Brenda Farrington, Chapman University
ROLL CALL OF DELEGATES
BUSINESS MEETING
8:30-10:00 a.m.
Palm I
***All delegates must sign in and attend***
REPORTS OF NATIONAL OFFICERS
President James A. Ramage
Vice President Sandra Horvath-Peterson
Chair, Advisory Board Thomas G. Alexander
Executive Director Graydon A. Tunstall
FRIDAY PAPER SESSIONS
10:15-11:30: SESSION 56 - BELMONT
AFRICA
Chair: Patricia G. Clark, Westminster College
Xenophobia and Migration in South Africa: the Zimbwean Experience
Piper Pehrson, University of California, Los Angeles
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010
Decolonizing Education through Dance in Ghana
Jennifer Petrie, Ohio University
The Necessity of Women: Gender Roles in West African Slavery
Katherine Prichard, Luther College
10:15-11:30: SESSION 57 - MARINER POINT
BRITAIN AND WAR
Chair: Dawn M. Digrius, Stevens Institute of Technology
Reports from the front: What the British reading public knew of the Franco-Prussian War
Gregory D. Collins, Francis Marion University
The Balham Tube Station Disaster and the Use of Underground Platforms
Annie Johnson, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
How to Win a War: English-Argentine Football Relations, the Falklands War, and the 1980s
World Cup Tournaments
Tyler Perkins, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
10:15-11:30: SESSION 58 - CROWN POINT
FACULTY PANEL
Big History and World History
Craig G. Benjamin, Grand Valley State University
Spectacle, Arenas and Martyrdom in the late antique Roman world
Maribel Dietz, Louisiana State University
10:15-11:30: SESSION 59 - PALM I
THE UNITED STATES AND CUBA
Chair: De Anna J. Reese, California State University, Fresno
The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Twentieth Century Point v. Counterpoint
Aaron Barber, Park University
Misinformation and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Hailey McCord, Susquehanna University
The Kennedy Administration And Their Vendetta Against Fidel Castro: Operation Mongoose
James G. Moran, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
10:15-11:30: SESSION 60 - CABRILLO
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY
Chair: Stephanie Carpenter, Murray State University
Complicating Identity: Indians as Free People of Color in Virginia and North Carolina
Warren Milteer, Jr., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010
The Massacre at Sand Creek and its Meaning in American Violence towards Natives
Heather Perry, Angelo State University
Mourning Dove: A Native American Woman's Struggle for Identity
Mary Beth Ricke, Rhodes College
10:15-11:30: SESSION 61 - POINT LOMA
POLITICS IN ROME
Chair: Jochen Burgtorf, California State University, Fullerton
Septimius Severus: An Imperial Innovator?
Ellis Bridgers, Elon University
The Contribution of Imperialism and Extended Terms of Command on the Fall of the Roman
Republic
John Napier, James Madison University
Bloodline Accession and Gifted Power: Nero Claudius Drusus and the Struggle to Define
Heirship in Rome During the Reign of Tiberius
La’akea Yoshida, University of Hawai’i at Hilo
10:15-11:30: SESSION 62 - CONFERENCE SUITE #211
THE LEGACY OF NAPOLEON
Chair: Sandra Horvath-Peterson, Georgetown University
Napoleon’s Military Victories: Bicentennial Celebrations and Reenactments
Kate Cline, Union University
The Other Napoleonic War: Competing Conceptions of Economic Practice in the First Empire
Hannah Earl, Lee University
A Battle through History: The Debate of Napoleon’s Legacy in Historiography
Gloria Lopez, California State University, Dominguez Hills
Napoleon's Religious Education: Making the Shift from Egypt to France
Amanda Palmer, Muhlenberg College
10:15-11:30: SESSION 63 - CONFERENCE SUITE #204
THE CRUSADES
Chair: Keith Sisson, University of Memphis
Edward of England's Crusade, 1270-1272
Gavin Fort, California State University, Fullerton
By Land, not by Sea: Naval Power during the Crusades, 1099-1291
David Kloster, California State University, Fullerton
Spiritual Impetuses in Context of First Crusade Warfare
Nik Walker, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010
10:15-11:30: SESSION 64 - CONFERENCE SUITE #214
EXPANDING AMERICA
Chair: John Navin, Coastal Carolina University
“Let us fly to the mountains”: Lewis and Clark among the Shoshone
Amanda Bills, University of Evansville
Loyalty & Identity on the Tennessee Frontier
David Britton, Austin Peay State University
Yankees and White Folks: A Story of Frontier Illinois Through the Memoirs of Christiana Tillson
Amanda Saner, University of Evansville
The Siege of Louisburg in the French and Indian War
Paul Smith, Coastal Carolina University
10:15-11:30: SESSION 65 - CONFERENCE SUITE #217
CALIFORNIA HISTORY
Chair: Thomas G. Alexander, Brigham Young University
MacLaren Hall: The History of Child Protection in Los Angeles, CA
Kirsten Anderberg, California State University, Northridge
The Bum Blockade: Los Angeles and the Great Depression
Hailey Giczy, Chapman University
Alliance Formation: Political Mobilization and the 1978 Briggs Initiative
Samantha Huang, University of California, San Diego
Uniting a Community: The Founding of the Jewish Community Center in San Francisco
Jessica Rosen, California State University, Northridge
10:15-11:30: SESSION 66 - CONFERENCE SUITE #218
ISSUES IN SOCIETY
Chair: Jonathan Foster, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The American Dream: A Life of Steel or a Life in the Woods?
Emily R. Cerrone, Washington & Jefferson College
Zadock Pratt’s Model Dairy Farm: A Case Study of Translating Scientific Agriculture Principles
to Practical Farmers in Antebellum New York
Kelli Huggins, Siena College
Organizing in the Service City: Labor and Rights in Las Vegas
Justin Ponkow, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010
PHI ALPHA THETA LUNCHEON
(Tickets Required)
11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Palm II
Luncheon Speaker
Dr. James A. Ramage, President
Northern Kentucky University
Abraham Lincoln: Public Speaker
1:00-2:15: SESSION 67 - PALM I
EARLY MEXICO
Chair: Craig G. Benjamin, Grand Valley State University
Spanish-Native Alliance: Spanish Success in Conquering the Aztec Empire
Ashley Rudeen, Point Loma Nazarene University
The Historical Significance of Chimalpahin’s Diario
Rachel Schimke, University of California, Los Angeles
1:00-2:15: SESSION 68 - CABRILLO
FACULTY PANEL - NOTIONS OF RACE WITHIN THE AFRICAN ATLANTIC
Sponsored by the World History Association
Chair: Jonathan Reynolds, Northern Kentucky University
Race, Culture, and Marriage in Eighteenth-century Europe: Free African Experiences
David Northrup, Boston College
Ambiguous Race, Ambiguous Mission: Episcopal Dreams and the Transatlantic Failure of
Liberia
Joel E. Tishken, Washington State University
W.E.B. Du Bois, Religion, and the African Atlantic
Phil Sinitiere, Sam Houston State University
1:00-2:15: SESSION 69 - POINT LOMA
RACE AND THE MEDIA
Chair: V. Elaine Thompson, Louisiana Tech University
Sensationalized Violence: Newspaper Coverage of Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1856
Alexandra Garris, Rhodes College
The Changing Perspective on African Americans in DeBow’s Review, 1866-1869
Micki Kaleta, Murray State University
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: National Reactions to a New Orleans Tragedy
Paul McDowell, James Madison University
1:00-2:15: SESSION 70 - BELMONT
SOCIAL ISSUES IN THE VICTORIAN PERIOD
Chair: Michael J. Galgano, James Madison University
“Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies”: The Social Perception of Tuberculosis in
Victorian England and Reflections of the Common Stereotypes in Victorian English Literature
Meredith M. Hoog, Saint Louis University
Finding Charles Spurgeon: Rewriting Victorian History through Popular Culture
Sara Kincaid, Baylor University
Philanthropy, Charity and Social Reform: The Positive Side of Social Problems in European
Cities
Kyle Robbins, Marywood University
1:00-2:15: SESSION 71 - MARINER POINT
CHRISTIANITY IN THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD
Chair: Alex J. Novikoff, Rhodes College
The Black Death and the Weakening of the Catholic Church
Douglas Allen, Troy University
Witches in the Basque Country: Towards a Unified Inquisitorial Policy on Witchcraft in Spain
William Lacy, Boston College
An Analysis of the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi
Hilda Moeller, University of Texas at San Antonio
1:00-2:15: SESSION 72 - CROWN POINT
ALABAMA HISTORY
Chair: Andrea S. Watkins, Northern Kentucky University
Making Waves: The Steamboat “Bloomer” and Alabama’s Deepening Engagement in the Civil
War
Noah H. Arnold, Union University
The Struggling Remains of a Powerful Past: Sand Island Lighthouse, Alabama’s Only Coastal
Lighthouse
Kerry Cohen, University of Alabama
Alabama and Nullification: Policies and Politicians During the Crisis of 1832
Bryan Kessler, Samford University
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010
1:00-2:15: SESSION 73 - CONFERENCE SUITE #211
CENTRAL ASIA
Chair: C. Cymone Fourshey, Susquehanna University
Globalization and the Indian Film Industry: Testing Benjamin Barber’s Thesis
Kelly Jones, Lynchburg College
Saffron, Spice and Everything Nice?: A Study of Women in Hindutva
Deepti Shenoy, Santa Clara University
Mohammad Ali Jinnah: How a Secular Indian Nationalist became the Founding Father of the
Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Brittany Stenger, Stetson University
1:00-2:15: SESSION 74 - CONFERENCE SUITE #204
JEWISH HISTORY
Chair: Maribel Dietz, Louisiana State University
Claiming God: Christian Martyrs and the Hebrew Crusade Chronicles
Jamie M. Anderson, Portland State University
East Meets West: A Cross-Generational Analysis of Jewish Immigration from Russia
Polina Nicole Kats, Carnegie Mellon University
1:00-2:15: SESSION 75 - CONFERENCE SUITE #214
WOMEN IN PRINT MEDIA
Chair: De Anna J. Reese, California State University, Fresno
Dreams from Domesticity: Careers, Community, and Consumerism in American Film Fan
Magazines of the 1930s
Mallory Furnier, California State University, Northridge
The Power of Motherhood in Print
Dorothy Rivera, University of Maryland, College Park
Hegemonic Discourse of Women's Magazines: The Last Fifty Years
Mary Brett Stringer, Sam Houston State University
1:00-2:15: SESSION 76 - CONFERENCE SUITE #217
U.S. POSTWAR DIPLOMACY
Chair: Kenneth Osgood, Florida Atlantic University
Khrushchev Comes to America: The Advent of Mutual Understanding
Kyle Kordon, Chapman University
In the Absence of Diplomacy: U.S.-Iraqi Relations during the Nixon Administration
Brett Perlman, Florida Atlantic University
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010
1:00-2:15: SESSION 77 - CONFERENCE SUITE #218
BRITISH IMPERIALISM
Chair: Shirley Eoff, Angelo State University
Through the British Looking Glass: Constructing the “Other” in the Nineteenth Century
Cherish Bolton, California State University, Northridge
The Price of Empire: Britain’s Transportation Costs during the Seven Years’ War
Jeremy Michael Land, Appalachian State University
Problematic Power Dynamics in The Bridge on the River Kwai and the “Public” Debate on
Decolonization
Evan McLaughlin, Muhlenberg College
2:30-3:45: SESSION 78 - MARINER POINT
WORLD HISTORY ASSOCIATION-PHI ALPHA THETA PAPER PRIZE WINNERS
Sponsored by the World History Association and Phi Alpha Theta, featuring winners of the WHA-PAT Paper Prize in World History
Chair: Charles Cavaliere, Executive Editor, Oxford University Press
Decolonising Medicine: Professionalization and the Pharmaceutical Industry in Independent
India
Preston Bakshi, University of California, Irvine
Coterminous Companions: Nationalism, Class, and Arab-Jewish Cooperation in Mandatory
Palestine
Kevin Smith, University of California, Davis
The Book of Secrets: Alchemy and the Laboratory Manual from Al-Razi to Libavius, 920-1597
Gail Taylor, University of California, Irvine
2:30-3:45: SESSION 79 - CROWN POINT
LIFE IN ANCIENT ROME
Chair: Jochen Burgtorf, California State University, Fullerton
The Importance of Traditional Roman Religion in the Augustan Age
Rachel Helton, Oklahoma Christian University
Everlasting Flame: The Power of the Vestal Virgin
Lauren Talley, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Roman Gluttony and Virtue
Valorie Tucker, Old Dominion University
2:30-3:45: SESSION 80 - BELMONT
POLITICS IN THE UNITED STATES
Chair: Jeff Bloodworth, Gannon University
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010
The Teapot Dome Scandal: A Reflection on the Harding Administration and its Tragic Lack of
Political Potency
Claire Malloy, Saint Louis University
The Founders of Modern Peace or Destruction? A Study of Charles G. Dawes and President
Calvin Coolidge’s Policies Towards German War Guilt and It’s Influence Upon United States
Diplomatic Relations from 1923-1927
Nevin Werner, Rowan University
2:30-3:45: SESSION 81 - POINT LOMA
EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY
Chair: Clayton J. Drees, Virginia Wesleyan College
Plunder, Pillage, and Prosper: Alfred the Great and Anglo-Saxon England, 850-900AD
Michael Massey, St. Peter’s College
The Legendary King Arthur: The Romance and the Reality
Meghan Pope, University of Arkansas at Monticello
The Weaving Currency
Keshia Runyon, Marshall University
2:30-3:45: SESSION 82 - PALM I
ISSUES IN THE MODERN U.S. MILITARY
Chair: David L. Snead, Liberty University
The Plagues of Modern War: The illnesses of the first Gulf War and the long road to validation
Richard Jeremy Padgett, Florida Atlantic University
What Does the Military Learn About the Military-Industrial Complex?
Bradley Smith, California State University, Northridge
Don't Ask Don't Tell: Step Forward or Step Back?
Christina Wagoner, Texas Woman’s University
2:30-3:45: SESSION 83 - CABRILLO
WORLD WAR II
Chair: Leonard G. Shurtleff, Western Front Association
Drafting for Victory: The Debate Over the US Draft in World War II
Jonathan Contrades, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Neither Vengeance Nor Victory
Adrian Philp, Shepherd University
Convincing the Nation: U.S. Propaganda in World War II
Lacy Stone, Texas Woman’s University
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010
2:30-3:45: SESSION 84 - CONFERENCE SUITE #211
LITERATURE AND HISTORY
Chair: Petra DeWitt, Missouri University of Science & Technology
“And They Lived Happily Ever After”: The Origin of Twenty-First-Century Romantic Love
Sarah Vining, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
“Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” The Story behind the Story of Little Red Riding Hood
Amy Walp, Wittenberg University
Charles Dodgson: A Bilateral Diagram Representing the Properties of a Mathematician and an
Author
Debra A. Walters, Francis Marion University
2:30-3:45: SESSION 85 - CONFERENCE SUITE #204
NAZI GERMANY
Chair: L. M. Stallbaumer-Beishline, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Indoctrinating the Doctor: Social Darwinism and the Young Josef Mengele
Alicia Gutierrez, California State University, San Bernardino
Why Adolf Hitler isn’t Unique
Morgan Hillard, Murray State University
Loyalty Unto Death: Audacity and Atrocity with the Waffen SS
Russell Zimmerman, Northern Kentucky University
2:30-3:45: SESSION 86 - CONFERENCE SUITE #214
MEXICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY
Chair: Robert C. Carriker, Gonzaga University
The Forgotten Workers: Chicano Child Labor in the Southwest United States, 1900-1960
Nicholas Beyelia, California State University, Los Angeles
Mexican American Segregation in the Inland Empire
Mark Ocegueda, California State University, San Bernardino
Intricate Simplicity: The fasts of Cesar Chavez
Kelsey Rice, Hamilton College
2:30-3:45: SESSION 87 - CONFERENCE SUITE #217
INFLUENTIAL AMERICANS
Chair: John Kyle Day, University of Arkansas at Monticello
The Elusive Howard Hughes: The Death that Fascinated America and the Fight for the Nation’s
First Billion Dollar Fortune
Lindsey Hinebaugh, Chapman University
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010
Louis Brandeis and the Rise of American Zionism
Amanda Tester, University of Arizona
Tupac Culture & the myth of immortality
Jana Yampolsky, University of Hartford
2:30-3:45: SESSION 88 - CONFERENCE SUITE #218
THE CIVIL WAR
Chair: John V. Cimprich, Thomas More College
The Role of the 14th West Virginia Infantry Regiment in the Civil War
Charles Walker Googe, Union University
Civil War Amphibious Operations in North Carolina
Marshall Barry Lamm, East Carolina University
Memphis and the Civil War
Cameron White, Union University
4:00-5:15: SESSION 89 - CABRILLO
FACULTY PANEL - MEXICAN HISTORY
A Revolution Foretold?: Precursors of La Reforma in Mexico's Immigration Debate, 1848-1855
David K. Burden, Indiana Wesleyan University
Deserters of the Mexican-American War 1846-1848
Sandra Simmons, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Festering Fecundity: Representations of Female Fertility in Mexico and the Borderlands
Teresa M. Van Hoy, St. Mary’s University
4:00-5:15: SESSION 90 - POINT LOMA
RACE AND THE SCHOOL SYSTEM
Chair: Kathleen P. Munley, Marywood University
A Community’s Loss of Identity: School Integration in Nacogdoches, Texas
Chris Elzen, Stephen F. Austin State University
“Freedom Will Ring From ‘Y’ Mountain”: Student Perceptions of Martin Luther King, Jr. at
Brigham Young University
Ardis Smith, Brigham Young University
Midwestern and the Negroes: The Desegregation of Midwestern University
Robert J. Stewart III, Midwestern State University
4:00-5:15: SESSION 91 - PALM I
ANCIENT HISTORY
Chair: Keith Sisson, University of Memphis
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010
Defining Ancient Magic: A Brief Historiography and Exploration
Colleen Bradley, San Francisco State University
The Peisistratid Tyranny at Athens: Conflicting Sources andRevisionist History at Work
Mara Kutter, University of California, Los Angeles
Misogyny in the Theogony
Britt Cecelia Roberts, Florida Atlantic University
Belisarius’ Campaign against the Vandals
Franklin Smith, Saint Louis University
4:00-5:15: SESSION 92 - MARINER POINT
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Chair: Everett W. Kindig, Midwestern State University
“Thy Power, O Liberty, Makes Strong the Weak:” African-American Experience in
Revolutionary Boston and Philadelphia
Jacqueline Beatty, Boston College
George Washington and His Association with the Society of the Cincinnati, 1783-1799
Constance Golding, George Washington University
“The late Declaration of the American Congress” Debated: Reaction to the Declaration of
Independence in The Gentleman’s Magazine
Gregory Michna, Texas Woman’s University
“Sunk deep in the American breast”: A Reexamination of The Battle of the Waxhaws and an
Analysis of its Effect on Southern Nationalism during the American Revolution
Austin W. Smith, University of Arizona
4:00-5:15: SESSION 93 - CROWN POINT
DISEASE IN HISTORY
Chair: Kelly D. Selby, Walsh University
The Serpent Vanquished: Edward Jenner, the Smallpox Vaccine, and Modern British Health
Policy
Jill Nagy Anderson, University of New Mexico
“The Storms of Controversy:” Naval Medical Advocacy and Venereal Disease in the Late
Eighteenth-Century Royal Navy
Monica Ayhens, University of Alabama
Observations of Madness: The Philosophy of Philippe Pinel on Mental Illness
Michael A. Ortega, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
4:00-5:15: SESSION 94 - BELMONT
POTPOURRI
Chair: Gordon Morris Bakken, California State University, Fullerton
Married to a Mongol: Wife vs. Mother in the Secret History of the Mongols
Lisa C. Donnelly, Portland State University
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010
The Imprisonment of Men and the Freedom of Nations
Robert Hickman, The College of New Jersey
The Tale of Two Pirates: Samuel Bellamy, William Fly, and Freedom within Pirate Culture
Alisha Hoffman-Mirilovich, Lehigh University
Record Progressions: the Role of Technology in the Development and Dissemination of Jazz,
1917-1929
Gregory Surber, Ohio University
4:00-5:15: SESSION 95 - CONFERENCE SUITE #211
20TH CENTURY EUROPE
Chair: Stephen D. Carls, Union University
The Influence of Paganism and the Occult in Nazism
Andrew Coons, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Engendering Marianne: Vichy, the National Revolution and the Construction of Femininity
during World War II
Amy T. Long, Arizona State University
The anti-Semitism of the British Fascist Oswald Mosley
Michael Phillip Ortiz, Florida Atlantic University
4:00-5:15: SESSION 96 - CONFERENCE SUITE #204
CIVIL WAR GENERALS
Chair: Timothy C. Westcott, Park University
Gettysburg and General Hancock
Ryan E. Barrick, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
James Longstreet: Lost By the Lost Cause
Douglas V. Edwards, Washington & Jefferson College
A Georgian in Maryland: Major General Lafayette McLaws, C.S.A., in the 1862 Maryland
Campaign
Alex Wieberg, Mercer University
4:00-5:15: SESSION 97 - CONFERENCE SUITE #214
THE UNITED STATES IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Chair: Emmett M. Essin, East Tennessee State University
Colin Kelly: Why He Should Win the Medal of Honor
Mikal Altman, Murray State University
Happily Ever After? Or: How Americans Never Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in
American Cold War Cinema
Kevin Anders, Oklahoma Christian University
The Myth of Rocky’s Self-Made Man Ending the Cold War
Paul Bixby, University of Nebraska at Omaha
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010
The Importance of Skiing in World War II and the Legacy left Behind
Stephanie Fox, Rhodes College
4:00-5:15: SESSION 98 - CONFERENCE SUITE #217
NATURAL DISASTERS IN HISTORY
Chair: Michael S. Martin, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
I Still Have my Smile: The Triumph of Consumer Culture in the Dayton Flood of 1913
Peter S. Cajka, Marquette University
Race and Relief: A Look at the Great Mississippi Flood and Hurricane Katrina
Tiffany Houchin, University of Evansville
The Night of Terror: The Galveston Storm through Women’s Eyes
Amanda Mendiola, St. Mary’s University
4:00-5:15: SESSION 99 - CONFERENCE SUITE #218
EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Chair: Annette Parks, University of Evansville
Two Challenges to Aristotle in the Late Medieval Era
William W. Coleson, Oklahoma Christian University
What Joan of Arc Saw in the Prison Mirror
Hannah K. Jones, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
The Reality behind the Spectacle: A Study of Corporal Punishment in Medieval Art, 1200-1600
Rebecca Millard, California State University, Fullerton
PRESIDENTIAL BANQUET
(Tickets Required)
6:00-7:30 p.m.
Palm II
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 2010
BREAKFAST
(Tickets Required)
7:00-8:15 a.m.
Palm II
SATURDAY PAPER SESSIONS
8:30-9:45: SESSION 100 - BELMONT
LIFE IN THE BORDERLANDS
Chair: Teresa M. Van Hoy, St. Mary’s University
A Tumultuous Border: Riots, Raids, and Massacres
Jacob Kuhaneck, University of Arizona
Violencia Contra las Mujeres: Industrialization along the U.S. Mexico Border and its Adverse
effect on Mexico's Female Population
Tiara Moultrie, St. John’s University
Mexican-American societies, Border towns, and Cinco de Mayo
Keily Rivero, St. Mary’s University
8:30-9:45: SESSION 101 - MARINER POINT
FACULTY PANEL - EUROPE IN THE MIDDLES AGES
Gender, Mysticism and Traitorous Words: Elizabeth Barton and the English Treasons Act of
1534
Clayton J. Drees, Virginia Wesleyan College
Iberian Medieval Queenship – A Partnership
Paulette L. Pepin, University of New Haven
Hildegard of Bingen against the Cathars: A Dualist Heresy?
Keith Sisson, University of Memphis
8:30-9:45: SESSION 102 - CROWN POINT
WORLD WAR II STRATEGY
Chair: Leonard G. Shurtleff, Western Front Association
Battle of Monte Casino: Benedictine Monastery
Kevin D. Burton, Washburn University
On Land, At Sea, And In The Air: An Examination Of How Geography Affected Military
Decision Making In World War II
Bryan Nies, Cameron University
The Sky is Falling: American Strategic Bombing over Germany
James Turkal, University of Houston-Downtown
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 2010
8:30-9:45: SESSION 103 - PALM I
THE 1950’S AND 1960’S
Chair: Cherstin M. Lyon, California State University, San Bernardino
White Anti-racist Activism of the Civil Rights Movement
Jason Curry, Chapman University
The Viva Kennedy Clubs in Southern California: Civic Hopes, Community Disappointment
Jorge Leal, California State University, Northridge
The Failure of the Civil Rights Movement, 1955-68
Sara Patenaude, Washington State University
8:30-9:45: SESSION 104 - CABRILLO
INDOCHINA AND VIETNAM
Chair: Ronald B. Frankum, Jr., Millersville University of Pennsylvania
The Lost Opportunity for Peace: The Geneva Conference, 1954
Trevor Henson, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Chivalry, Honor, Masculinity and the American Experience in Vietnam
Christopher J. Levesque, University of Alabama
Exporting and Importing Culture: The construction of “L’Indochine Francaise”
Cindy Nguyen, University of California, Los Angeles
8:30-9:45: SESSION 105 - POINT LOMA
WOMEN PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES
Chair: Judy LeForge, Union University
“Their Eggbeaters Aren’t in the Kitchen”: The Whirly-Girls Women Helicopter Pilots in the
United States, 1955-1965
Leslie Lindsey, Texas Woman’s University
Rosies, WAACs and Everyday Betties: Women in East Texas, 1941-1945
Meredith May, Stephen F. Austin State University
8:30-9:45: SESSION 106 - CONFERENCE SUITE #211
THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND RELIGION
Chair: Michael J. Galgano, James Madison University
Pierre du Moulin’s Vision of Ministerial Vocation and the Problem of Reformed Episcopacy in
France and England
Blake Smith, Hendrix College
Spiritual Chemistry: The Theosophic Roots of Newtonian Alchemy
Jeffrey Tucker, Brigham Young University
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 2010
Enlightenment Embodied: Carl Friedrich Bahrdt's Critique of Hierarchical Religion
Timothy Wright, Brigham Young University
8:30-9:45: SESSION 107 - CONFERENCE SUITE #204
SCOTLAND AND IRELAND
Chair: Dawn M. Digrius, Stevens Institute of Technology
William Wilberforce and his Humanitarian Impact on the Working Class
Nicole Carroll, Chapman University
An Posta Tu Me?: An Analysis of the Conquest of Ireland through Habitualization
Rachel Emelock, Salem State College
The Trial of Patrick Sellar, 1816: Improvement and Tragedy in the Scottish Highlands
Annie McCausland, Chapman University
8:30-9:45: SESSION 108 - CONFERENCE SUITE #214
YOUTH IN THE UNITED STATES
Chair: Michael S. Martin, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Anchored in Education: The Making of Drew Central Schools
Karla Fuqua, University of Arkansas at Monticello
The Counter Culture at UAM
Sarah D. Pasterniak, University of Arkansas at Monticello
Young Americans, New Conservatives
Travis L. Seay, Arizona State University
8:30-9:45: SESSION 109 - CONFERENCE SUITE #217
EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY
Chair: Alan Bearman, Washburn University
“Furious Creatures”: Jesuit Perceptions of Alcohol Use by Indians in New France
Zachary Dowdle, Angelo State University
The Life-Consuming Quest: Alexander Hamilton
Jessica Gamache, Western Connecticut State University
Timelines of the Movement of Ancient Americans in North America
Hillary Householder, Westminster College
8:30-9:45: SESSION 110 - CONFERENCE SUITE #218
NATIVE AMERICANS AND WAR
Chair: Ken Hendrickson, Midwestern State University
Native Children on Foreign Soil: Native American Involvement in World War II
Jonathan Brantley, St. Peter’s College
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 2010
Beyond Mestizaje: Indigenous Agency in the San Elizario Salt War of 1877
Scott Comar, University of Texas at El Paso
A Man of Strong Medicine: Tecumseh and Native American Resistance in the War of 1812
Mary Wise, Ohio University
10:00-11:15: SESSION 111 - PALM I
FACULTY PANEL - THE UNITED STATES IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES
Contested Citizenship: The Legacy of Wong Kim Ark
Cherstin M. Lyon, California State University, San Bernardino
‘Right to Work’ Proposals in Post-World War II Louisiana
Michael S. Martin, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
The Kennedy Presidency: A Reassessment
David L. Snead, Liberty University
10:00-11:15: SESSION 112 - CABRILLO
NAZI GERMANY
Chair: Enrique A. Sanabria, University of New Mexico
The Einsatzgruppen Reports as Proof of Intentionalism
Daniel Brandt, Park University
A Cruel and Accursed Fate: The Jewish Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau
Jennifer Ferguson, California State University, San Bernardino
A Light Was Lit In Darkness
Thomas Riebs, University of California, Los Angeles
10:00-11:15: SESSION 113 - POINT LOMA
TEXAS HISTORY
Chair: Michael L. Collins, Midwestern State University
The Lost Story of Oliver Loving
Ricardo Aguirre, St. Mary’s University
Feeding Victory: Texas and Spanish Logistics in North America, 1779-1783
Jack D. Andersen, University of North Texas
George Washington Celebration Redefines Power in Laredo
Elisabeth Jones, St. Mary’s University
Llano Leatherstockings: German Texans resistance to the Civil War
Mary Ohlrich, St. Mary’s University
10:00-11:15: SESSION 114 - BELMONT
WOMEN’S POLITICAL ACTIVISM
Chair: Brenda Farrington, Chapman University
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 2010
Sisters and sorelle : A Comparative Analysis of the Women’s Movement in Italy and the United
States
Erin Knutson, Brigham Young University
Similar Ideals With More Success: Utah's Women's Political Activism in the 1920s
Paige Tuft, Brigham Young University
10:00-11:15: SESSION 115 - MARINER POINT
FILM AND U.S. HISTORY
Chair: William L. Cumiford, Chapman University
Et tu, Saddam?: Imperial Rome as a Method of Propaganda and Commentary in 20th Century
America
Sarah Beeler, Ohio University
Analyzing the Portrayal of Juvenile Delinquents in Film (1988-1997)
Christopher L. Franzi, Carnegie Mellon University
Thrills! Action! Punch!: An Analysis of the Relationship between Film Studios and the Douglass
Theatre
Rachel Gilbert, Susquehanna University
10:00-11:15: SESSION 116 - CROWN POINT
WOMEN IN MEXICO
Chair: Teresa M. Van Hoy, St. Mary’s University
Malinche, of Woman and Myth: A Study of the Legend, Woman, and Mother
Chad O’Connor, Salem State College
Mexican Women: A Traditional Society
Maria Schrock, New Mexico State University
Women Between Two Patriarchies: Military Regimes and the Catholic Church in Chile and
Argentina
Elizabeth Wilson, Baylor University
10:00-11:15: SESSION 117 - CONFERENCE SUITE #211
THE CARIBBEAN
Chair: Jacob Blosser, Texas Woman’s University
“Browning”: Causes and Consequences of Skin Bleaching in Contemporary Jamaica
Jacqueline Alvarino, California State University, Fullerton
Bahamas Junkanoo Festival
Keila Davis, Clark Atlanta University
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 2010
10:00-11:15: SESSION 118 - CONFERENCE SUITE #204
PERCEPTIONS OF WAR
Chair: John Kyle Day, University of Arkansas at Monticello
Lyrics of the Most Popular American Songs During America’s Military Involvement in Vietnam
Jacob Overdorff, Westminster College
Dispelling the Myth of War: The American Media’s Evolving Role as Purveyors of News From
My-Lai to Abu-Ghraib
Cortnye Stone, University of Evansville
Heritage or Heresy: Military Reenactment and its Effect on Historical Perception
Wesley Underhill, Arkansas State University-Jonesboro
10:00-11:15: SESSION 119 - CONFERENCE SUITE #214
CHINA
Chair: David B. Gordon, Shepherd University
Religious and cultural influences: Chinese influence of the Taoist practices of the non-Sinitic
people of the 19th and 20th Century
Daniel Balmert, Ohio University
Images and Identities: Photography and Perceptions of Chinese National Essence - 1919-1943
Joseph Ho, University of California, San Diego
Saving China: Dissidents and their movements since 1989
Beatrice Kwok, The College of New Jersey
10:00-11:15: SESSION 120 - CONFERENCE SUITE #217
EUROPEANS IN AFRICA
Chair: Christopher Kennedy, Francis Marion University
Sir Frederic Cardew: Soldier as Governor
Chase Arnold, Brigham Young University
The Rwandan Genocide and the Body Politic
Ryan Riley, California State University, San Bernardino
Mapping Trust: Trade and Cartography in Luso-African History
Nathan Rolf, Northern Kentucky University
Leopold II’s Congo: Promises, Atrocities, and Protest, 1885-1908
Sarah Thullbery, Erskine College
11:30-12:45: SESSION 121 - MARINER POINT
MEXICO
Chair: David K. Burden, Indiana Wesleyan University
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 2010
Las Voces Mexicana: Oral Histories of the Bracero Program
Mayra L. Avila, California State University, Dominguez Hills
From Baldíos to ‘Modern Productive Citizens’?: Begging in Mexico City and the Unsuccessful
State-led Reforms, 1871-1946
Lance Ingwersen, Arizona State University
The Plan de San Diego and Tejanos in the Mexican Revolution
Michael Obregon, St. Mary’s University
The Mexican Catholic Church in Paso del Norte and New Mexico 1821-1853
James Starling, University of Texas at El Paso
11:30-12:45: SESSION 122 - CROWN POINT
THE MODERN WEST
Chair: Robert C. Carriker, Gonzaga University
Communities of Conservation: An Analysis of Groundwater and Arizona’s Changing Landscape
in the Post-War Boom Years
Sean P. Harvey, University of Arizona
Sandia Spawns Sprawl in Postwar Albuquerque
Layne Karafantis, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Dummy Doomtown in the Desert: Civil Defense and the Nevada Test Site
Angela Moor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Oil, War, and the Development of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in Texas
Rebecca Rice, Baylor University
11:30-12:45: SESSION 123 - BELMONT
SANTA BARBARA AND PUBLIC HISTORY
Chair: Gordon Morris Bakken, California State University, Fullerton
The Santa Barbara Presidio: Colonial Living History on California’s Central Coast
Rachel Garcia, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Queen of the Missions”: Santa Barbara’s Mission, the Archives, and the Franciscans
Catherine Kwon, University of California, Santa Barbara
Beyond the Spanish Colonial Revival: Stow House and the Historical Identity of Goleta
Shauna E. Woods and Christy A. Mason, University of California, Santa Barbara