2007 Program
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 73rd ANNUAL MEETING
Headquarters: Richmond Marriott
Richmond, Virginia
October 31 - November 3, 2007 Note: If you would like to view a list of all
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Wednesday,
October 31: 8:00 P.M.
1. OPENING NIGHT ADDRESS
PRESIDING: Julian Bond, University of Virginia
Black Under White: The Haunting and the Disabling
Roger Wilkins, George Mason University
Immediately following this session, the University of Richmond and the Local Arrangements Committee will host a
reception for SHA members and their guests in the room next door.
Thursday,
November 1: 9:30 A.M.-11:30 A.M.
2. RETHINKING RELIGION IN THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
CHESAPEAKE
PRESIDING: Douglas L. Winiarski, University of Richmond
The Eschatological Origins of the English Empire
Douglas Bradburn, SUNY Binghamton
A Puritan Virginia? The Role of English Religiosity in the Settlement of the
Chesapeake
Rebecca Anne Goetz, Rice University
Papists, Indians, and Conspiratorial Politics in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
Owen Stanwood, Catholic University of America
COMMENTS: Karen Ordahl Kupperman, New York University
Thursday,
November 1: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
3. REVISITING BERTRAM WYATT-BROWN’S SOUTHERN HONOR AT TWENTY-FIVE
PRESIDING: Orville Vernon Burton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
PANELISTS:
Edward E. Baptist, Cornell University
Stephen W. Berry II, University of Georgia
Kenneth S. Greenberg, Suffolk University
Mark M. Smith, University of South Carolina
Mia Bay, Rutgers University
COMMENTS: Bertram Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida, Emeritus
Thursday,
November 1: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
4. HOMECOMINGS: CIVIL WAR VETERANS’ TRANSITIONS
TO PEACE
PRESIDING: J. Matthew Gallman, University of Florida
“When I Think of it Now I Shudder”: Civil War Veterans and the Challenge
of Peace
James Marten, Marquette University
"Traitors Among Us Still": Punishment of Confederate Veterans
William Blair, Pennsylvania State University
“And, if Spared, and Growing Older”: Post-war Comradeship in the Grand
Army of the Republic (GAR)
Barbara A. Gannon, Washington, DC
COMMENTS: LeeAnn Whites, University of Missouri, Columbia
Thursday,
November 1: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
5. DESIGNING THE NEW SOUTH, DEFINING THE NEW
SOUTHERNER
PRESIDING: Nina Silber, Boston University
The Chicago of the South: Atlanta Architecture and the New South Creed
Reiko Hillyer, Willamette University
Marse Chan, New Southerner: Or, Taking Thomas Nelson Page Seriously
K. Stephen Prince, Yale University
“Their Best Productions”: Black Southerners and the Politics of Fairs
in the New South
Seulky McInneshin, Westminister College
COMMENTS: Grace Elizabeth Hale, University of Virginia
Thursday,
November 1: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
6. SOUTHERN HISTORY AND FILM
PRESIDING: Gary Gallagher, University of Virginia
Military-Cinematic Complexions: Filming the Spanish-American War,
Broadcasting the American Empire
Robert Jackson, University of Virginia
The Southern Rape Complex: From “The Birth of a Nation” to “Gone With the Wind”
Deborah Barker, University of Mississippi
Hollywood and Southern History in Australia: The South as Seen from Further
South
Bruce Dennett, Macquarie University
COMMENTS: David Davis, Wake Forest University
Melissa Ooten, University of Richmond
Thursday,
November 1: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
7. NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE LITTLE ROCK CRISIS
PRESIDING: Adam Green, University of Chicago
Legacies of Little Rock: Culture Wars, “Race Neutral” Law, and Law-Breaking
as Political Strategy
Karen Anderson, University of Arizona
Constitutional Force and Symbolism: Little Rock and America’s Civil Rights
Struggle
Tony Allan Freyer, University of Alabama
The Power of the Purse: Little Rock Businessmen and Desegregation Revisited
Elizabeth Jacoway, Newport, Arkansas
COMMENTS: John A. Kirk, University of London
Thursday,
November 1: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
8. DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR EUROPEAN HISTORY
PRESIDING: T. Mills Kelly, George Mason University
Making the History of 1989
John Olsen, George Mason University
Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives
Steven Barnes, George Mason University
European Sources and World History Matters
Kristin Cay Lehner, George Mason University
COMMENTS: T. Mills Kelly
Thursday,
November 1: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
9. PERSPECTIVES ON INTERWAR GERMAN LIFE
PRESIDING: Donald McKale, Clemson University
Paul Tillich’s Socialist Decision
Stefan Vogt, University of Amsterdam
The Multiple Roles of the Press in Documenting the Early Nazi Camps,
1933–1945
Joseph White, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
A National/Socialist Army?
Bruce Campbell, College of William and Mary
COMMENTS: Robert Herzstein, University of South Carolina
Thursday,
November 1: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
10. IMPERIALISM ON THE GULF COAST
PRESIDING: Andrew McMichael, University of Western Kentucky
Alachua Chiefs King Payne and Bowlegs: Policies Leading Up to the First
Seminole War, 1780–1812
Jim Cusick, P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History,
University of Florida
In the Face of Conquest: Seminole Culture and the Preservation of Political
Sovereignty in Long War
Andrew Frank, Florida Atlantic University
Expansion of the Southern Cattle Industry and its Impact on the Push of Anglo Culture into Florida
Joe Knetsch, Florida Department of Environmental Protection
COMMENTS: Kathryn Braund, Auburn University
Thursday,
November 1: 11:45 A.M.
11. GRADUATE STUDENT LUNCHEON
Funded by the John and LaWanda Cox Fund
LESSONS FROM GRADUATE SCHOOL: FOUR MENTORS SPEAK
OUT
PANELISTS:
Theda Perdue, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Gary Gallagher, University of Virginia
Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern University
James C. Cobb, University of Georgia
Free to all registered graduate students.
Complete form and return with
preregistration materials.
Thursday,
November 1: 11:45 A.M.-1:30 P.M.
12. WORKSHOP I: TEACHING SOUTHERN HISTORY ABROAD
A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
PRESIDING: Don H. Doyle, University of South Carolina
PANELISTS:
Manfred Berg, University of Heidelberg
Susanna Delfino, University of Geno
Vitor Izecksohn, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Louis Mazzari, University of Bosphorus, Istanbul
Betty Wood, Cambridge University
Thursday,
November 1: 1:45 P.M.
13. SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION BUSINESS
MEETING
PRESIDING: Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University
Thursday,
November 1: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
14. NEW DIRECTIONS IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY VIRGINIA
HISTORY: A PANEL DISCUSSION
PRESIDING: Warren M. Billings, University of New Orleans
PANELISTS: John C. Coombs, Florida International University
Alexander Haskell, College of William and Mary
April Lee Hatfield, Texas A&M University
James Horn, The Colonial Research Foundation, Williamsburg
Thursday,
November 1: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
15. RELIGION IN THE EARLY NATIONAL SOUTH:
MICROHISTORICAL APPROACHES
PRESIDING: Randy J. Sparks, Tulane University
“It Fills my Mind with Horror and Desolation”: Daniel Grant, Race, and the
Limits of Methodist Antislavery in Early Republic Georgia
Daryl Black, Chattanooga Regional History Museum
Race, Religion, and Politics in Henry Evan’s Methodist Church, 1785–1835
Monte Hampton, North Carolina State University
The Poisoning of James Ireland: Atlantic Revolutions and the Configuration
of Baptist Household Mastery in Virginia
Jewel Spangler, University of Calgary
COMMENTS: John B. Boles, Rice University
Randy J. Sparks
Thursday,
November 1: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
16. RISKY BUSINESS: MORTGAGING, WARRANTING, AND
INSURING SLAVES IN THE UPPER SOUTH
PRESIDING: Steven H. Deyle, University of Houston
Profits and Perils: Mortgaging Slaves in Virginia, South Carolina, and
Louisiana
Bonnie M. Martin, Southern Methodist University
“Warranted Sound But Proved Otherwise”: Slave Warranties and the
Business of Slave Trading in Kentucky
Pen Bogert, Bardstown, KY
“A Guarantee for the Value of the Slave”: Risk, Slaveholders, and
Insurance in the Upper South
Karen Ryder, University of Delaware
COMMENTS: Sharon Ann Murphy, Providence College
Thursday,
November 1: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
17. NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE 1875 CIVIL RIGHTS BILL
PRESIDING: Paul Cimbala, Fordham University
The Jim Crowing of Public Transportation: Respectability and the Meaning
of Public Space, 1840–1905
Robert Cassanello, University of Central Florida
Equality Lives On: Northern Civil Rights Law in the Wake of the Civil
Rights Bill of 1875
Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School
Law School
“White and Negro Rioters”: Sumner’s Civil Rights Bill as a Call to
Violence in the Unreconstructed South
Bob Hutton, Vanderbilt University
COMMENTS: Kate Masur, Northwestern University
Thursday,
November 1: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
18. EDUCATIONAL REFORM, SOUTHERN UNIVERSITIES, AND
REGIONAL IDENTITY
PRESIDING:Peter Wallenstein, Virginia Tech
Learning to be Southern: Higher Education and Southern Identity, 1880–1980
Clarence L. Mohr, University of South Alabama
Starting from Scratch in an Age of Reform: The Origins of the Rice
Institute, 1906–1929
Melissa F. Kean, Rice University
Introducing the South to the History of American Higher Education
Anja Becker, University of Leipzig
COMMENTS: John R. Thelin, University of Kentucky
Peter Wallenstein
Thursday,
November 1: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
19. LATINOS IN THE U.S. SOUTH, 1850–2006
PRESIDING: Nancy Hewitt, Rutgers University
“Different... from that which is Intended for the Colored Race”: Mexico
and Mexicans in the Mississippi and Arkansas Deltas, 1908–1964
Julie M. Weise, Yale University
Las Tiendas de Chatham Avenue: Visual Culture and Contested Public
Spaces in a Nuevo New South Town, 1990–2006
Chad Seales, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
COMMENTS: Leon Fink, University of Illinois, Chicago
Carlos Blanton, Texas A&M University
Thursday,
November 1: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
20.
MEDIEVAL AND EARLY PERSPECTIVES ON RELIGION
AND STATE
PRESIDING: Fred Baumgartner, Virginia Tech University
Shelters for Endangered Women in Counter-Reformation Milan
Stefano D’Amico, Texas Tech University
Legitimacy and Coronation in Fifteenth-Century England
Darcy Kern, Georgetown University
The Meaning of Food Anecdotes in the “Dialogues” of Pope Gregory I
Kathy Pearson, Old Dominion University
COMMENTS: Fred Baumgartner
Thursday,
November 1: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
21. NATIONAL IDENTITY, RACE AND THE QUESTION OF SLAVERY
IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AND REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE
PRESIDING: Edward Rugemer, Yale University
Representations of the Chinese in French Enlightenment Thought
Jeffrey Burson, Macon State College
Lafayette’s Cayenne Emancipation Experiments
Robert Rhodes Crout, College of Charleston
Pierre Caron de Beaumarchais and the Slavery Question
Nupur Chaudhuri, Texas Southern University
Clash of Cultures: French Views of the English Economy
James Munson, Longwood University
COMMENTS: Edward Rugemer
Thursday,
November 1: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
22. KIMBERLY HANGER MEMORIAL PANEL
RACE AND POWER IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH
CENTURY CARIBBEAN
PRESIDING: John Day, Quincy University
Emancipation and Citizenship in Cuba’s Tobacco Field: 1868–1898
William Morgan, University of Texas, Austin
Commodified Identities: Foreign and Domestic Caribbean Migrant Labor
in the Northeast
Wendi Manuel-Scott, George Mason University
Owning Bay Street: Economic Hegemony of the Nassau’s Merchant
Class, 1942–1967
Nona P. Martin, George Mason University
Virgil Henry Storr, George Mason University
COMMENTS: Matt D. Childs, Florida State University
Thursday,
November 1: 4:30-5:30 P.M.
23. SOUTHERN HISTORY IN ITALY: THE FULBRIGHT PROGRAM
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GENOA, 1971–2005
PRESIDING:
Constance B. Schulz, University of South Carolina
Elizabeth Hayes Turner, University of North Texas
PANELISTS:
Valeria Gennaro Lerda, University of Genoa
Giovanni Fabbi, University of Genoa
Jack Temple Kirby, Miami University, Ohio
Robert C. McMath, University of Arkansas
Thomas E. Terrill, University of South Carolina
Dan T. Carter, University of South Carolina
Reception to follow in Dominion, across the hall.
Thursday,
November 1: 8:30 P.M.
24. ANNUAL PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS OF THE
ASSOCIATION
PRESIDING: Pete Daniel, Smithsonian Institution
Was Marie White? Divergent Views of America by Alexis de Tocqueville and
Gustave de Beaumont
Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University, Emerita
RECEPTION: Following the Presidential
Address, Princeton University, W.W. Norton & Company, Harvard University
Press, and the University of North Carolina Press invite
the members and guests of the Southern Historical Association
to a reception in recognition of the Presidency of Nell Painter
and to be held in the foyer outside the ballroom.
Friday,
November 2: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
25. RHYS ISAAC’S THE TRANSFORMATION OF VIRGINIA: A
TWENTY-FIVE YEAR RETROSPECTIVE
PRESIDING: James Sidbury, University of Texas
PANELISTS:
Kathleen M. Brown, University of Pennsylvania
Woody Holton, University of Richmond
Camille Wells, College of William and Mary
COMMENTS: Rhys Isaac, La Trobe University
Friday,
November 2: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
26. MONEY, HATS, GIFTS: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON OLD SOUTH
POLITICAL ECONOMIES
PRESIDING: Thavolia Glymph, Duke University
The Political Economy of Hats in Disunionist Charleston
Lawrence T. McDonnell, University of Illinois, Urbana
“A Fixed and Settled Order”: Merchant Capitalism in Antebellum New
Orleans
Scott Marler, University of Memphis
“Daily Gifts”: Commodification and Exchange in Antebellum Southern
Communities
Kathleen Hilliard, University of Idaho
COMMENTS: James Oakes, CUNY Graduate Center
Manisha Sinha, University of Massachusetts
Friday,
November 2: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
27. THE CONTOURS OF LOYALTY: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON
UNIONISM AND DISSENT IN THE CONFEDERACY
PRESIDING: Daniel E. Sutherland, University of Arkansas
Occupied at Home: Confederate Assaults on Pro-Union Women in the
Civil War South
Victoria E. Bynum, Texas State University
Negotiating Neutrality: Divided Loyalties and Guerrilla Conflict in
Coastal North Carolina
Barton A. Myers, University of Georgia
“They Will Whip Us Sooner Than All Lincolndom”: Cotton Planters and
the Rise of Dissent in the Civil War South
David Williams, Valdosta State University
COMMENTS: Brian S. Wills, University of Virginia, Wise
Friday,
November 2: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
28. EXPLORING DEATH IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY SOUTH
PRESIDING: Stephen C. Messer, Taylor University
Little Eva’s Last Breath: Romanticizing Antebellum Southern Children’s Deaths
Craig Thompson Friend, North Carolina State University
“Not A Mere Eulogist of the Dead”: Southern Baptists, Funeral Sermons, and the
Rituals of Death in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
A. James Fuller, University of Indianapolis
“By His Own Hand”: Suicide in Nineteenth-Century North Carolina
David Silkenat, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
COMMENTS: Mark S. Schantz, Hendrix College
Stephen C. Messer
Friday,
November 2: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
29. THE ROLE OF VIOLENCE IN SHAPING AFRICAN AMERICAN
LIVES AND COMMUNITIES
PRESIDING: Mark R. Schultz, Lewis University
To Punish and Humiliate the Entire Community: The Impact of Rape and
Sexualized Violence on Black Women in Texas, 1865–1868
Rebecca A. Kosary, Texas Lutheran University
“If This Be the Spirit of Jesus”: Postbellum Southern Violence against
African American Ministers and Churches
Patrick Q. Mason, American University in Cairo
“True” Victims: Black Women and Violence during the World War II Era
Theresa Napson-Williams, Richard Stockton College of
New Jersey
COMMENTS: Ralph E. Luker, The Vernon Johns Papers, Atlanta
Friday,
November 2: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
30. WHITE WOMEN AND THE POLITICS OF MASSIVE RESISTANCE
PRESIDING: Sandra Treadway, Library of Virginia
Sara McCorkle and the Women of the White Citizens’ Councils
John White, College of Charleston Library
Beauty Queens and Massive Resistance in the Civil Rights South
Blain Roberts, California State University, Fresno
Massive Resistance in the 1970s: White Women and the Antibusing
Campaigns
Elizabeth Gillespie McRae, Western Carolina University
COMMENTS: Andrew Lewis, Hamilton College
Friday,
November 2: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
31. HEROS AND HEROIC MYTHS
PRESIDING: Annette Finley-Croswhite, Old Dominion University
Ireland’s French Viceroy: The Controversial Career of Henri, Earl of
Galway, 1692–1701
Raymond Pierre Hylton, Virginia Union University
Hellish Bandit or Noble Hero? Jean Lafitte and the Myth of Piracy
Virginia Lunsford, U.S. Naval Academy
Cowboy Contests: Italy and the Construction of the Tuscan “Old West”
Aliza Wong, Texas Tech University
COMMENTS: Annette Finley-Croswhite
Friday,
November 2: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
32. WORLD WAR: IMPACT AND REMEMBRANCE
PRESIDING: Graydon (Jack) Tunstall, University of South Florida
German Role in the American Occupation, 1945–1946
Curtis Morgan, Lord Fairfax Community College
Towards a Common Foreign Policy
Davide Zampoli, Florence University
Pressure of Space—Holocaust Museums
Wendy Koenig, Middle Tennessee State University
Would Probably Mean War: Wilson and Austria-Hungary
Roman Puff, Vienna University Economic and BA
COMMENTS: Graydon (Jack) Tunstall
Friday,
November 2: 9:30-11:30 A.M.
33. REVOLUTIONARY AND POST-REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE
IN MEXICO PRESIDING:
James Garza, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
The Mormons and Mennonites as Cultural Role Models in Post-Revolutionary
Mexico
Andreae Marak, California University of Pennsylvania
Family Disorganization When the Mother Works: Mexican Attitudes
Towards Working Mothers, 1940–1970
Nichole Sanders, Lynchburg College
Eduardo Urzaíz’a Concept of Tocofobia: Race, Sexuality, and Reproductive
Politics in Socialist Yucatán, México
Sarah Buck, Florida State University Libraries
COMMENTS: Jürgen Buchenau, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Friday,
November 2: 11:45 A.M.-1:30 P.M.
34. WORKSHOP II—GENDER, RACE, AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Sponsored by the Southern Association for Women Historians
PRESIDING: Laura Edwards, Duke University
PANELISTS:
Stephanie Cole, University of Texas, Arlington
Natalie Ring, University of Texas, Dallas
Claire Strom, North Dakota State University
Megan Shockley, Clemson University
Friday,
November 2: 11:45 A.M.-1:30 P.M.
35. WORKSHOP III—INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
STYLES IN THE SUNBELT SOUTH
Sponsored by the Southern Industrial Project
PRESIDING: Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Too Much Icing and Not Enough Cake”: The Campaign to Diversify
Huntsville’s Economy, 1945–1965
Matthew Downs, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Developer-in-Chief: The Evolving Role of South Carolina Governors in
Economic Development, 1950–1965
Phillip Stone, Wofford College
Learning to Drawl: Southernization of Industrial Immigrants
Marko Maunula, Clayton State University
COMMENTS:Kenneth Lipartito, Florida International University
The Business Meeting of the Southern Industrial Project will follow immediately in the same room.
Friday,
November 2: Noon
36. PHI ALPHA THETA LUNCHEON
PRESIDING: Thomas G. Alexander, Brigham Young University, Emeritus
From Tuskegee to Moscow: The Intellectual Journey of a Black Communist,
1919–1939
Glenda C. Gilmore, Yale University
Friday,
November 2: Noon
37. EUROPEAN HISTORY SECTION LUNCHEON
PRESIDING: Nancy Rupprecht, Middle Tennessee State University
From Destiny to Dilemma: Feminism and Motherhood in Europe, 1900–1970
Ann Taylor Allen, University of Louisville
Friday,
November 2: Noon
38. LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN SECTION
LUNCHEON/BUSINESS MEETING
PRESIDING: Sherry Johnson, Florida International University
Anecdotes from the Archives: The Times They are A-Changing
N. David Cook, Florida International University
Friday,
November 2: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
39. GENDER AFTER JAMESTOWN
PRESIDING: Mary Beth Norton, Cornell University
Intermarriage as Political Strategy: Native American Women and the
Virginia Colonists
Camilla Townsend, Rutgers University
Gender, Race, and Indentured Servitude in Early Virginia
Terri L. Snyder, California State University, Fullerton
Beauty and Racial Science: Making and Remaking Race
Stephanie M. H. Camp, University of Washington, Seattle
COMMENTS: Anthony S. Parent, Wake Forest University
Mary Beth Norton
Friday,
November 2: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
40. INDIANS AS SOUTHERNERS: RACE AND SLAVERY IN THE
NATIVE SOUTH, PART I
PRESIDING: Adam Rothman, Georgetown University
From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The Early Colonial Indian Slave Trade and the
Transformation of a Mississippian Chiefdom
Robbie Ethridge, University of Mississippi
Native Southerners and their “Owned People”: Captivity and Slavery
Christina Snyder, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Power of Possession
Barbara Krauthamer, New York University
COMMENTS: Brett Rushforth, Bringham Young University
Friday,
November 2: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
41. INTIMATE RECONSTRUCTIONS: FAMILY LIFE AND FEMALE
IDENTITY AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
PRESIDING: Robert Tracy McKenzie, University of Washington
Children in the Reconfiguration of Virginia’s Postemancipation Households
Catherine A. Jones, University of California, Santa Cruz
Private Battles: Black and White Women in Reconstructed South Carolina
Sara Marie Eye, University of South Carolina
Mary Bayard Clarke’s Reconstruction: Race, Class and Humor
Jane Turner Censer, George Mason University
COMMENTS: Michele K. Gillespie, Wake Forest University
Robert Tracy McKenzie
Friday,
November 2: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
42. VIOLENCE, AMUSEMENT, AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE
SOUTH
PRESIDING: David F. Godshalk, Shippensburg University
The Ku Klux Klan in the Memphis Mardi Gras Parade, 1872
Elaine Parsons, Duquesne University
The Evolution of Circus Day Violence, 1865–1930
Gregory Renoff, Drury University
“Killing the Elephant”: Executions and the Circus in the South
Amy Louise Wood, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
COMMENTS: Janet Davis, University of Texas, Austin
Friday,
November 2: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
43. “JUSTICE WAS FAR FROM THAT COURT HOUSE”: AFRICAN
AMERICAN LEGAL ACTIVISM IN SOUTH CAROLINA,
1907–1929
PRESIDING: Kevin Boyle, Ohio State University
“The Word Failure has Yet to be Written in My Pathway”: The Pink Franklin
Case and Black Leadership in Jim Crow South Carolina
Eric Bargeron, University of South Carolina
The Lowman Lynchings of 1926: A Contemplation of Law & Order in Jim Crow South Carolina
Elizabeth Robeson, Columbia University
An Unpardonable Crime?: Ben Bess and the Tyranny of White Supremacy
Janet G. Hudson, University of South Carolina
COMMENTS: W. Lewis Burke, University of South Carolina Law School
Kevin Boyle
Friday,
November 2: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
44. REPORTING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT:
A PANEL DISCUSSION
PRESIDING: Susan Youngblood Ashmore, Oxford College of
Emory University
PANELISTS:
Julian Bond, University of Virginia
Robert Ellis Smith, The Southern Courier, Montgomery
Lee A. Daniels, Columbia University Journalism School
Hank Klibanoff, The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Friday,
November 2: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
45. SUNBELT EVANGELICALISM: THE REGIONAL IDENTITY
OF AMERICAN RELIGION
PRESIDING: Donald T. Critchlow, St. Louis University
The South’s “Found It!”: Evangelicalism and the Making of the Sunbelt
Steven P. Miller, Webster University
God and Black Gold: The Politics of Evangelicalism, Oil, and the Right
in the Sunbelt
Darren Dochuk, Purdue University
Jerry Falwell’s Sunbelt Religion: The Christianity of a Suburban Majority
Daniel K. Williams, University of West Georgia
COMMENTS: Nancy MacLean, Northwestern University
Donald T. Critchlow
Friday,
November 2: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
46. LATIN AND MEDITERRANEAN IDENTITY IN THE ERA OF
THE WORLD WARS PRESIDING: Mirjana Morosini-Dominick, Georgetown University
Pan-Latinism during World War I
Aaron Gillette, University of Houston, Downtown
The Universal Mission: Latin Imperialism in Fascist Italy, 1935–1943
Joshua Arthurs, University of Chicago
Both Other and Brother: The Place of the Jew in British Imperial Thought
Eric Reisenauer, University of South Carolina, Sumter
COMMENTS: Mirjana Morosini-Dominick
Friday,
November 2: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
47. COLONIAL IMMIGRANTS SHAPING CULTURE IN EARLY
LATIN AMERICA
PRESIDING: William F. Connell, Christopher Newport University
Chinos in Colonial Mexico’s República de Indios
Tatiana Seljas, Yale University
A Culture of Cleanliness: West African Slaves, Hygiene and their Influence
on Western Cleanliness
Kevin Dawson, Fairfield University
“He . . .Lives Genteely”: Gentility and Refinement in Eighteenth-Century
Kingston, Jamaica
Douglas Mann, Liberty University
COMMENTS: Trey Proctor, Denison University
Friday,
November 2: 5:00-6:30 P.M.
48. FILM SHOWING: “APPALACHIA: A HISTORY OF MOUNTAINS
AND PEOPLE”
PRESIDING: Ross Spears, James Agee Film Project
A 55-minute preview of a new four-part PBS film series on the environmental and cultural
history of the world’s oldest mountains. Narrated by Sissy Spacek and produced by Ross Spears and
Jamie Ross of the James Agee Film Project, the series will air nationwide in the summer of 2008.
To be followed by discussion and commentary by Spears and Ross.
Saturday,
November 3: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
49. CONSCIENCE AND COMMONWEALTH: PATRICK HENRY
AND RELIGIOUS ISSUES IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
PRESIDING: Thad W. Tate, Omohundro Institute for Early American
History, Emeritus
Henry and the Presbyterians: Pulpit Oratory, Presbyterian Polity and the
Rhetorics of Liberty in Colonial Virginia
C. Jan Swearingen, Texas A&M University
Patrick Henry and Religious Freedom in Virginia
Thomas E. Buckley, S.J., Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley
COMMENTS: Edward Lawrence Bond, Alabama A&M University
Thad W. Tate
Saturday,
November 3: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
50. FAMILY VALUES IN THE ANTEBELLUM CHESAPEAKE: SLAVE
MARKETS, SENTIMENT, AND SYSTEMS OF KNOWLEDGE
PRESIDING: Gregg Kimball, Library of Virginia
Bonds of Knowledge in Communities of Bondage: Rethinking the Nat
Turner Event
James Bryant, College of Holy Cross
Enslaved Families and the Second Middle Passage in the Antebellum
Chesapeake
J. L. Calvin Schermerhorn, University of Virginia
Sentiment and the Slave Market Revolution: Mapping a “History of Emotions”
Phillip Troutman, George Washington University
COMMENTS: Susan O’Donovan, Harvard University
Saturday,
November 3: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
51. RECONSTRUCTING VICTORY FROM DEFEAT:
REMEMBRANCES OF THE “SUCCESSES” AND “FAILURES”
OF RECONSTRUCTION
PRESIDING: Ted Tunnell, Virginia Commonwealth University
Re-imagining the Klan: Changing National Perceptions of the Reconstruction-
Era Ku Klux Klan
J. Vincent Lowery, University of Mississippi
“Such Calm Dignity and Splendid Self-restraint”: Elite Memories of
Mississippi Reconstruction
William Bland Whitley, Library of Virginia
“The Contact of Living Souls”: Remembering Reconstruction’s Northern
White Teachers During the Age of Jim Crow
Edward Blum, San Diego State University
COMMENTS: Kathleen Clark, University of Georgia
Saturday,
November 3: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
52. INDIANS AS SOUTHERNERS: RACE AND SLAVERY IN THE
NATIVE SOUTH, PART II
PRESIDING: Bryant Simon, Temple University
Becoming West: Race, Region, and the Muskogee Creek People in Oklahoma
David Chang, University of Minnesota
Segregation and Indian Policy in the Twentieth-Century South
Malinda Maynor Lowery, Harvard University
Plantation Life and the Political Awakening of Peggy Vann Crutchfield
Tiya Miles, University of Michigan
COMMENTS: Elsa Barkley Brown, University of Maryland
Saturday,
November 3: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
53. IRONY, IDENTITY, AND THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE IN
SOUTHERN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
PRESIDING: Kathryn L. Nasstrom, University of San Francisco
“The Mississippi These Young People Talked of Was a Different Place. . .”:
Autobiographies and the Ironic Structure of the Jim Crow South
Jennifer Jensen Wallach, Georgia College & State University
Private Productions of Little Scripts: Memory, Narrative and Sense of Self
in Autobiographies of the Jim Crow South
Jennifer Ritterhouse, Utah State University
Life Lessons and the Meaning of Truth in African-American Autobiographies
since the 1990s
Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi
COMMENTS: Susan Cahn, SUNY, Buffalo
Kathryn L. Nasstrom
Saturday,
November 3: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
54. COURTROOM, CLASSROOMS AND CONFLICT: DIVERSE
FORMS OF STUDENT ACTIVISM IN THE 1960s SOUTH
PRESIDING: Ian Lekus, Tufts University
Chicanismo and the Southern Courts: 1960s Agitation and Litigation by
Mexican-American Students in Texas
Steven Harmon Wilson, Tulsa Community College, Metro Campus
Black Student Activism at a Southern University
Lois Stickell, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Bridgette Sanders, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
The New Left in a New South City: Student Activism at Georgia State
University, 1963–1973
Christopher Huff, University of Georgia
COMMENTS: Gordon Harvey, University of Louisiana, Monroe
Saturday,
November 3: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
55. SOUTHERN TOURS AND SOUTHERN TOURISM: LOCATING
POSTBELLUM CONFEDERATE NATIONALISM AND
RECONCILIATION PRESIDING: Anthony J. Stanonis, Texas A&M University
Destination Richmond: The Development of Confederate Tourism, 1890–1945
Karen L. Cox, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
“No Longer Anybody’s Pride”: Historical Redevelopment at Somerset Place,
1940s–1960s
Alisa Harrison, Duke University
“No North, No South”: Touring the South for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Joan Marie Johnson, Northeastern Illinois University
COMMENTS: Stephanie Yuhl, College of the Holy Cross
Saturday,
November 3: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
56. EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM AND UNRAVELING EMPIRES
PRESIDING: Richard Voeltz, Cameron University
Challenging the Empire: The First Round Table Conference
Valerie McKito, Texas Tech University
Is There Life after Empire: Colonial Expositions in Belgium
Matthew Stanard, Berry College
North Africa’s Ethnic Mosaic
Lee Whitfield, Wheelock College
COMMENTS: Richard Voeltz
Saturday,
November 3: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
57. GENDER IDEOLOGY AND GENDER PRACTICE IN SPANISH
AMERICA AND NEW FRANCE
PRESIDING: Kris E. Lane, College of William and Mary
Hagiography and Community: Resisting Female Exceptionalism in
Hagiographical Writing by and about Women
Tamara Harvey, George Mason University
Bravery, Modesty, and Indefatigable Zeal: Religious Ideas for Men and
Women in Eighteenth-Century Mexico
Joan Bristol, George Mason University
Sugar, Coffee, and Female Slaves during the Cuban Plantation Boom
William Van Norman, James Madison University
COMMENTS: Kris E. Lane
Other
Concurrent Sessions
Thursday,
November 1: 4:45 P.M.
CS 1. PHI ALPHA THETA-AMERICAN
PRESIDING: Andrea S. Watkins, Northern Kentucky University
Revisions and New Interpretations of the Militant South Thesis
F. Evan Nooe, Clemson University
“Keep On Keeping On”: The NAACP and the Campaign for School Integration
in Virginia, 1954–1968
Brian James Daugherity, College of William and Mary
The Hubble Space Telescope: Perceptions through the Media and Public
Opinion
Giny Cheong, George Mason University
COMMENTS: Stephanie A. Carpenter, Murray State University
Thursday,
November 1: 5:30 P.M.
CS 2. SOCIETY OF CIVIL WAR HISTORIANS DINNER
CIVIL WAR RICHMOND
PRESIDING: George Rable, University of Alabama
Three Stories of the Civil War
H. Alexander Wise, Jr., American Civil War Center,
Tredagar Iron Works
The Burden of Confederate History
John Coski, Museum of the Confederacy
“War So Terrible”: Interpreting Combat at Civil War Sites
A. Wilson Greene, Pamplin Historical Park
COMMENTS: The Audience
Thursday,
November 1: 6:00 P.M.
CS 3. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH DISPARITIES AND
AFRICAN AMERICANS IN VIRGINIA
Sponsored by Virginia Commonwealth University and the Black
Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia
CONVENER: David C. Sarrett, D.M.D., MCV campus, Virginia Commonwealth
University
The Current Problem of Health Disparities in Virginia
Wally Smith, M.D., VCU Center for Health Disparities
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Health
Rodney G. Hood, M.D., School of Medicine,
University of California, San Diego
The Freedmen, Jim Crow, and Hospital Segregation in Richmond
Sheryl Garland, VCU Health System
Roice Luke, Ph.D., MCV campus, VCU, and the
Virginia Freedman Project
Friday,
November 2: 4:45 P.M.
CS 4. PHI ALPHA THETA-EUROPEAN
PRESIDING: James A. Ramage, Northern Kentucky University
Death in the Cellar: Guy Fawkes and His Involvement in the Gunpowder Plot
Rebecca Swords, Mississippi College
Decline of an Empire: The Impact of Spanish Neutrality in the First World War
Carolyn S. Lowry, University of South Florida
Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust: An Examination or an Exoneration or
Conscience?
Thomas Albert Cogliano, George Mason University
COMMENTS: Howell Smith, Wake Forest University
Friday,
November 2: 4:45 P.M.
CS 5. PHI ALPHA THETA-LATIN AMERICAN
PRESIDING: Sherry Johnson, Florida International University
Gender and National Building in Afro-Agrentine Cofradias and Cabildos
Erika Edwards, Florida International University
Lost in Translation: Nahua-Christian Interaction in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
Lindsey Newman, Christopher Newport University
COMMENTS: Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University
Friday,
November 2: 5:00 P.M.
CS 6.
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN HISTORIANS
PRESIDING: Cynthia Kierner, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Making Herself Modern: Katharine Smith Reynolds and the New South
Michele Gillespie, Wake Forest University
Reception and book sale will immediately follow this session.
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