2008 Program
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 74th ANNUAL MEETING
Headquarters: Sheraton New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana
October 9 - 12, 2008 Note: If you would like to view a list of all
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Friday,
October 10: 12:00 P.M.
1. BLACK WOMEN IN THE ACADEMY: ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES
A Roundtable Discussion
Sponsored by the Committee on Women in the SHA
PRESIDING: Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University
PANELISTS:
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Morgan State University, Emeritus
Sharon Harley, University of Maryland, College Park
Crystal Feimster, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The participants consist of the editor and several of the
contributors to Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower (UNC Press, 2008). A book-signing will follow the session. This session may be filmed by C-Span for “BookTV.”
Friday,
October 10: 12:00 P.M.-1:30 P.M.
2. PHI ALPHA THETA LUNCHEON
PRESIDING: Graydon (Jack) Tunstall, University of South Florida
The Personal Choice of Life or Death: Pragmatism and Paranoia along the
Civil War Borderland
Brian D. McKnight, Angelo State University
Friday,
October 10: 12:00-1:45 P.M.
3. GRADUATE STUDENT LUNCHEON
Sponsored by the John and LaWanda Cox Fund
“HOW I GOT PUBLISHED”: FIRST-TIME AUTHORS DISCUSS
THE MOVE FROM DISSERTATION TO BOOK
PANELISTS:
Susan Eva O'Donovan, Harvard University
Author of Becoming Free in the Cotton South
Chandra Manning, Georgetown University
Author of When This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War
Kent B. Germany, University of South Carolina
Author of New Orleans after the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship,
and the Search for the Great Society
Mary G. Rolinson, Georgia State University
Author of Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro
Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927
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Friday,
October 10: 12:00-1:30 P.M.
4. LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN SECTION LUNCHEON/BUSINESS MEETING
PRESIDING: Barbara Ganson, Florida Atlantic University
Terror on Land and Sea: The Barbary Corsairs and their Rivals, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Dauril Alden, University of Washington, Emeritus
Friday,
October 10: 2:00-4:00 P.M.
5. ETHNICITY, RACE, AND LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL
PRACTICES IN COLONIAL LOUISIANA
PRESIDING: Jennifer Morgan, New York University
The Language of Ethnicity: The Use and Appropriation of Ethnonyms in French
Colonial Louisiana
Cecile Vidal, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
White Linens or Washed Bodies?: Cleanliness and Definitions of Ethnicity in French Colonial Louisiana
Sophie White, Notre Dame University
Dangerous Words: Slander and Honor in Spanish Colonial New Orleans
Mary M. Williams, Brown University
COMMENTS: Amy Turner Bushnell, John Carter Brown Library
Friday,
October 10: 2:00-4:00 P.M.
6. LANDSCAPES OF EARLY NATIONAL SLAVERY: SPACE AND
MOBILITY IN THE MULTIRACIAL SOUTH
PRESIDING: Judith Schafer, Tulane University
Collusive Republic: Regulating the Landscape of Slavery in Eighteenth-Century
Kentucky
Honor Sachs, Yale University
Fugitive Geographies: Slaves on the Road in Creek Country, 1790s–1830s
Angela Pulley Hudson, Texas A&M University
Ascending the Santee: Understanding the Lowcountry Landscape, 1790–1825
Ryan A. Quintana, University of Wisconsin, Madison
COMMENTS: Bradley Bond, University of Northern Illinois/p>
Friday,
October 10: 2:00-4:00 P.M.
7. ENFORCING RACIAL/GENDER NORMS IN THE CIVIL
WAR SOUTH
PRESIDING: Mark Grimsley, Ohio State University
Suspicious Characters, Forlorn Union Savers, and Ugly Women: Castle Thunder
and the Problem of Dissent in the Confederacy
Angela M. Zombek, University of Florida
Establishing Order during a “Social Revolution”: Black Troops and a “Low Frenchman”
in Union Occupied New Orleans, 1862–1863
Frank J. Byrne, State University of New York, Oswego
Robert E. Lee’s Support of Slave Enlistments in the Confederate Army
Leonne M. Hudson, Kent State University
COMMENTS: Elizabeth D. Leonard, Colby College
Friday,
October 10: 2:00-4:00 P.M.
8. DOCTORING THE RACE: BLACK PHYSICIANS AND
RACIAL POLITICS IN PROFESSIONAL MEDICINE
PRESIDING: James H. Jones, San Francisco, California
Freedman Physician: Dr. Moses Camplin and Charleston’s Medical Marketplace
Gretchen Long, Williams College
The Integration of Harlem Hospital: Racial Politics and the New Negro Physician
Adam Briggs, Claflin University
Race, Syphilis and Science at Tuskegee Institute
Susan Reverby, Wellesley College
COMMENTS: Karen Kruse Thomas, Florida State University
James H. Jones
Friday,
October 10: 2:00-4:00 P.M.
9. YOUTH ORGANIZING IN THE STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL
EQUALITY
PRESIDING: Constance Curry, Emory University
“A Crime Against Childhood”: Voices of Protest in Southern Juvenile Justice
William S. Bush, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Girls on the Front Lines: Gender and School Desegregation, 1940–1954
Rachel Devlin, Tulane University
“Young Squirts . . . Are Hell-Bent on Revolution”: Youth and the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Rebecca de Schweinitz, Brigham Young University
COMMENTS: Gail S. Murray, Rhodes College
Friday,
October 10: 2:00-4:00 P.M.
10. CUBA AND THE “BENEVOLENT EMPIRE”: RACE, CLASS,
DEMOCRACY AND HISTORICAL MEMORY IN THE MAKING
OF THE CUBAN NATION
PRESIDING: Leon F. Litwack, University of California, Berkeley
A Sunken War Ship, a Bronze Eagle, and the Politics of Memory: Cuba-U.S.
Relations through the History of the Maine Monument in Havana, 1898–1961
Marial Inglesias Utset, Universidad de La Habana, Cuba
Black Activists, Race and Social Hierarchies in Cuba in the Early Years of
Independence, 1912–1916
Loredana Giolitto, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas,
Madrid, Spain
The Role of Spanish Anarchists in the Making of the Early Twentieth Century Cuban
Working Class
Amparo Sanchez Cobos, Universidad Jaume I. Castillon, Spain
All the President’s Men and Women: Machado, the “Tropical Mussolini”, and the
U.S.-Cuban Relations, 1924–1934
Alessandra Lorini, University of Florence, Italy
COMMENTS: Alejandra Bronfman, University of British Columbia, Canada
Ronald W. Pruessen, University of Toronto, Canada
Friday,
October 10: 2:00-4:00 P.M.
11. WRITING RACE, NATION AND EMPIRE ACROSS THE AMERICAS
PRESIDING: Natalie J. Ring, University of Texas, Dallas
Challenges to U.S. Imperial Designs by Frederick Douglass and José Marti
Jana Evans Braziel, University of Cincinnati
Race, Modernism and Comparison: Gilberto Freyre’s U.S. South
Sarah Ann Wells, University of California, Berkeley
Frederick Law Olmsted’s Travel Writing and “Racing” the U.S./Mexico Border
James Nichols, SUNY Stonybrook
COMMENTS: Marilyn G. Miller, Tulane University
Friday,
October 10: 2:00-4:00 P.M.
12. PIETY AND REPENTANCE IN PRE-MODERN EUROPE
PRESIDING: Allyson Delnore, Mississippi State University
The Ricordanze as Tools for Salvation on the Eve of the Reformation
Louis Haas, Middle Tennessee State University
The Unrepentant: Transgressive Behavior and Performance on the Gallows
Ethan Treviño, University of Manchester
Flirting and Philandering around the Boundaries of Lay and Catholic
Enlightenment: the Abbés of Paris during the Century of Lights
Jeffrey D. Burson, Macon State College
COMMENTS: Joseph Byrne, Belmont University
Friday,
October 10: 2:00-4:00 P.M.
13. CREATIVE APPROACHES TO HOLOCAUST SCHOLARSHIP
AND EDUCATION
PRESIDING: Gerhard L. Weinberg, University of North Carolina, Emeritus
The Moment of Impact: Art as a Catalyst in Holocaust Education
Wendy Koenig, Middle Tennessee State University
Popular Culture as Protest: Flusterwitz–Political and Protest Humor of the Pre-
War Third Reich
Nancy Rupprecht, Middle Tennessee State University
The Many Faces of Holocaust Education: An On-Site Approach to Holocaust
Pedagogy
Alice Catherine Carls, University of Tennessee, Martin
COMMENTS: Steven L. Jacobs, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Friday,
October 10: 4:15-6:00 P.M.
14. COUNTRY MUSIC AND THE ACADEMY: A FORTY YEAR
RETROSPECTIVE ON BILL C. MALONE’S COUNTRY MUSIC, U.S.A.
PRESIDING: James C. Cobb, University of Georgia
PANELISTS:
Michael Bertrand, Tennessee State University
Pete Daniel, Smithsonian Institution
Tracey E. Laird, Agnes Scott College
RESPONSE: Bill C. Malone, Tulane University, Emeritus
To be followed by music from Bill and Bobbie Malone and friends.
Friday,
October 10: 4:30-6:30 P.M.
15. DISPLACEMENT AND DIASPORA: SLAVERY, FREEDOM,
AND FAMILY BETWEEN SAINT-DOMINGUE AND LOUISIANA
PRESIDING: Ada Ferrer, New York University
From Senegambia to Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: An African Woman’s
Itinerary, 1780–1836
Rebecca Scott, University of Michigan
Unexpected Fortunes: Reconstructing a Life after the Haitian Revolution
Jean M. Hebrard, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales,
Paris
Haiti Re-Enslaved: Saint-Domingue Refugees and American Law in the Slave
Markets in New Orleans
Martha S. Jones, University of Michigan
This session will be held at the Historic New Orleans Collection,
at 533 Royal Street in the French Quarter.
Friday,
October 10: 8:30 P.M.
16. PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
PRESIDING: Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University, Emerita
“Fight the Power!”: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
Leon F. Litwack, University of California, Berkeley
RECEPTION: Following the Presidential
Address, the University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University
Press, and Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. invite
the members and guests of the Southern Historical Association
to a reception in recognition of the Presidency of Leon Litwack
to be held in the Armstrong Ballroom located on the 8th floor.
Saturday,
October 11: 8:30-10:15 A.M.
17. GENDER AND LAW IN THE EARLY ENGLISH, FRENCH,
AND SPANISH SOUTH
PRESIDING: Holly Brewer, North Carolina State University
“Certainty is the Mother of Repose”: Widowhood, Gender, and Probate Law in Colonial Maryland and South Carolina
Vivian Bruce Conger, Ithaca College
Gender and Race in the New Orleans City Court
Kenneth R. Aslakson, Union College
Citizenship and Gender in Territorial Florida
Philip M. Smith, Texas A&M University
COMMENTS: Sara Brooks Sundberg, University of Central Michigan
Holly Brewer
Saturday,
October 11: 8:30-10:15 A.M.
18. RETRIEVING THE “VANISHING INDIAN”: FLEXIBLE
COMMUNITIES AND INDIGENOUS PERSISTENCE IN THE
WOODLAND SOUTHEAST, 1706–1833
PRESIDING: Michelle LeMaster, Lehigh University
“Scatter’d upon the English Seats”: Indian Identity and Land Occupancy in the Colonial Virginia Tidewater
Edward DuBois Ragan, Old Dominion University
Survival in Indian Woods: Tuscaroras in North Carolina after 1713
Stephen Feeley, McDaniel University
“Keeping up with the Joneses”: Education, Prestige, and Choctaw Identity,
1765–1823
Gary Coleman Cheek, Jr., Mississippi State University
COMMENTS: Greg O'Brien, University of Southern Mississippi
Saturday,
October 11: 8:30-10:15 A.M.
19. RE-EXPLORING NEW ORLEANS DURING THE CIVIL WAR
AND RECONSTRUCTION
PRESIDING:Wendy Hamand Venet, Georgia State University
White Unionists in New Orleans: The Many Fates of the Fort Jackson Mutineers
Michael Pierson, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
“The Cement of Morality Is Gone”: Union Soldiers Describe Wartime New Orleans
Sean A. Scott, Purdue University
(Mis)remembering General Ordor No. 28: Benjamin Butler, the Woman Order, and Historical Memory
Alecia Long, Louisiana State University
Re-asserting Manhood: John Bell Hood, New Orleans and the Construction of Civil War Memory
Brian Craig Miller, Emporia State University
COMMENTS: Frank Towers, University of Calgary
Saturday,
October 11: 8:30-10:15 A.M.
20. AFRICAN AMERICAN HEROES IN TWENTIETH CENTURY
AMERICAN CULTURE AND MEMORY
PRESIDING: Harvard Sitkoff, University of New Hampshire
Emblematic Patriot or Token Black?: Crispus Attucks in American Memory
Mitch Kachun, Western Michigan University
The Haitian Revolution in Twentieth Century African American History, Life,
and Culture
Maurice Jackson, Georgetown University
Our Heroes Are Not Our Equals: The Embrace of Joe Louis and America’s Racial Divide
Marcy S. Sacks, Albion College
COMMENTS: Roy E. Finkenbine, University of Detroit, Mercy
Saturday,
October 11: 8:30-10:15 A.M.
21.
THE DYNAMICS OF CIVIL RIGHTS REFORM IN THE
BORDER SOUTH
PRESIDING: Rhonda Williams, Case Western Reserve University
“A Northern State with a Southern Exposure”: School Desegregation and the
Social Construction of Region in Delaware
Brett Gadsden, Emory University
School Desegregation and the Battle for Open Housing in the “Gateway to the
South”
Sarah Blum, San Diego Mesa College
“No Where to Move”: Urban Renewal, African American Migration and the Struggle for Open Housing in Louisville, Kentucky
Luther Adams, University of Washington
COMMENTS: Andrew Wiese, San Diego State University
Saturday,
October 11: 8:30-10:15 A.M.
22. CULTURE AND CATHARSIS: COMING TO GRIPS WITH
THE SOUTHERN PAST AT THE MILLENNIUM
PRESIDING: Steve Goodson, University of West Georgia
Ole Miss and Racial Reconciliation: From James Silver to the James S. Meredith
Monument
Robert E. Luckett, University of Georgia
Images of a Nu South: Southern Masculine Identity in the Eyes of Generation Hip Hop
Franklin Forts, Allegheny College
“The Past is Really Never Dead, at Least Not as Long as You Deny its Existence”: Southern Identity and Memory in the Crime Fiction of James Lee Burke
Justin Nystrom, University of Mississippi
COMMENTS: Renee Romano, Wesleyan University
Saturday,
October 11: 8:30-10:15 A.M.
23. MEXICO’S U.S. AND CARIBBEAN BORDERS: NEW
PERSPECTIVES
PRESIDING: James D. Huck, Stone Center, Tulane University
Mexico Meets the New South at the 1884 Cotton Exposition in New Orleans
Timothy Henderson, Auburn University
General Abelardo Rodriguez and the Making of Baja California, 1920–1940
Jürgen Buchenau, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Caribbean Outpost: Jalapa, Veracruz, and Coastal Culture in Nineteenth
Century Mexico
Rachel Chico, Clemson University
COMMENTS: Gregory Crider, Wingate University
Saturday,
October 11: 8:30-10:15 A.M.
24. TEACHING EMPIRES: APPROACHES, PERSPECTIVES, AND
STRATEGIES
PRESIDING: Jennifer Hudson Allen, Bishop Lynch School
Using a Leadership Studies Approach to Teaching Empire
Georgia Mann, North Georgia College and State University
Using a Social Perspective in Teaching the British Empire
Stephen Stillwell, University of Arizona
Strategies for Teaching the Spanish Empire in North America
Jean Stuntz, West Texas A&M University
COMMENTS: Sara Sohmer, Texas Christian University
Saturday,
October 11: 10:30 A.M.-12:15 P.M.
25. BEYOND THE BINARY: PROBLEMATIZING ‘INDIAN’ AND ‘BLACK’ IN THE SOUTHEAST
PRESIDING: James Brooks, School of American Research
What is a Black Indian? Misplaced Expectations and Lived Realities
Robert Collins, San Francisco State University
Trapped in the Margins: (Re)Locating Indians in the Nineteenth Century Southeast
Judy Kertesz, Harvard University
Reclaiming the Name: White Supremacy, Tribal Identity, and Racial Policy in the Early Twentieth Century Chesapeake
Gabrielle Tayac, Smithsonian National Museum of the American
Indian
COMMENTS: Cynthia Chavez, Indian Arts Research Center
Saturday,
October 11: 10:30 A.M.-12:15 P.M.
26. A CONTESTED PAST: THE USES OF MEMORY IN POST-CIVIL
WAR AMERICA
PRESIDING: Joan Waugh, University of California, Los Angeles
Electing General “Fitzhugh Smith”: Partisan Uses and Abuses of the Lost Cause
in 1885 Virginia
Eric Taylor, University of Pennsylvania
“The Unending Work of the Republic”: Emancipation and the National
Commemorative Ethos, 1885–1915
M. Keith Harris, University of Virginia
“To Remember Our Men”: African-American Women’s Memorialization in
Missouri
Megan Boccardi, University of Missouri
COMMENTS: Caroline Janney, Purdue University/font>
Saturday,
October 11: 10:30 A.M.-12:15 P.M.
27. FEAST OF REGION: FOOD IN THE INTERPLAY OF NORTHERN
AND SOUTHERN CULTURES, 1820–1917
PRESIDING: Psyche Williams-Forson, University of Maryland
Eating Dixie in the Big Apple: New York City’s Food Connections
to the South, 1820– 1860
Cindy R. Lobel, Lehman College, CUNY
Okra v. Baked Beans: Food and Regionalism in America, 1865–1917
Megan Elias, Queensborough Community College
Yankee Seed for Southern Gardens
Caroline Sloat, American Antiquarian Society
COMMENTS: Psyche Williams-Forson
Saturday,
October 11: 10:30 A.M.-12:15 P.M.
28. A CENTURY IN SHUBUTA: RACE, RIGHTS, AND VIOLENCE
IN A MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY AND BEYOND
PRESIDING: John Dittmer, DePauw University
“Not A Place Made Safe for Democracy”: The Shubuta Lynchings of 1918
Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University
The 1942 Shubuta Lynchings and the White South’s “Double V”
Jason Morgan Ward, Mississippi State University
Poverty and Violence in Shubuta in the 1960s
Joseph Crespino, Emory University
COMMENTS: Timothy Tyson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Saturday,
October 11: 10:30 A.M.-12:15 P.M.
29. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE REVOLUTION: RETHINKING THE
WHITE SOUTH DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS YEARS
PRESIDING: Jason C. Sokol, University of Pennsylvania
PANELISTS:
Kevin M. Kruse, Princeton University
Jane Dailey, University of Chicago
Matthew D. Lassiter, University of Michigan
Saturday,
October 11: 10:30 A.M.-12:15 P.M.
30. CRESCENT CITY ROOTS: DISLOCATING AND RELOCATING
NEW ORLEANS COMMUNITIES, 1718–2008
PRESIDING: Emily Clark, Tulane University
Home/Port: Gender, Race, and the Spatial Dynamics of the Atlantic Economy
in Early New Orleans, 1718–1815
Shannon Lee Dawdy, University of Chicago
St. Tammanards: St. Bernard Parish and the Refashioning of Community
after Katrina
Karen Trahan Leathem, Louisiana State Museum
Black Middle Class Mobility Into and Relocation from New Orleans East
Todd M. Michney, Tulane University
COMMENTS: Don H. Doyle, University of South Carolina
The papers for this session will be available after Sept. 8 on the SHA website. Those attending this session are encouraged to read them in advance, so that the session can be more of a discussion of the papers rather than a mere reading of them.
Saturday,
October 11: 10:30 A.M.-12:15 P.M.
31. RACE, NATION AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN
NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY SOUTH AMERICA
PRESIDING: Edith Wolfe, Stone Center, Tulane University
Early Football Spectatorship and the First Republic of Brazil
Gregg Bocketti, Transylvania University
Race, Intellectuals and Indigenous Heritage in Ecuador, 1870–1960
Nicola Foote, Florida Gulf Coast University
Zumbi and the Black Almiral: Constructing Afro-Brazilian Historical Heroes
Ana Lucia Araujo, Carleton University
COMMENTS: Seth Garfield, University of Texas, Austin
Saturday,
October 11: 10:30 A.M.-12:15 P.M.
32. COMPARING FEMALE EXPERIENCE AND IDENTITY IN
WORLD WAR I FRANCE, ITALY, AND RUSSIA
PRESIDING: Michele Strong, University of South Alabama
Loosening Up? The Great War and French Women’s Sexual and
Reproduction Decision-Making
Karen Huber, Wesleyan College
“Adventurous Altruists” or Female Patriots: Redefining Femininity at the
Italian Front
Allison Scardino Belzer, Armstrong Atlantic State University
The Red Cross under the Golden Eagle: Russia’s Sisters of Mercy of World
War I
Laurie Stoff, Louisiana Tech University
COMMENTS: Sandra Dawson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Saturday,
October 11: 10:30 A.M.-12:15 P.M.
33. TECHNOLOGY, SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE POST-WAR
STATE IN THE SOVIET UNION AND GERMANY PRESIDING:
Hunt Tooley, Austin College
Between Detroit and Moscow: A Left Liberal “Third Way” in the Third Reich?
Eric Kurlander, Stetson University
Building the Leviathan: Thomas Hughes’ Model and the Development of
the Soviet State
Juliana Bibas, University of Delaware
Displaced Populations: Personal and Political Identity in Post-World War
II Germany
Kathleen Isaacson, American University
COMMENTS: James Tent, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Saturday,
October 11: 12:30-2:15 P.M.
34. SOCIETY OF CIVIL WAR HISTORIANS LUNCHEON
THE CIVIL WAR IN A NEW AGE: BLOGS, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE INTERNET
PRESIDING: George Rable, University of Alabama
Blogging the American Civil War
Kevin Levin, St. Anne’s-Belfield School
Mapping Memory: Digitizing Sherman’s March
Anne Sarah Rubin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The Virtual Archive Rat: Exploiting the Online Availability of Traditional
Sources
Mark Grimsley, Ohio State University
Saturday,
October 11: 12:30-2:15 P.M.
35. EUROPEAN HISTORY SECTION LUNCHEON
PRESIDING: Robert D. Billinger, Jr., Wingate University
Satchmo Meets Amadeus
Reinhold Wagnleitner, University of Salzburg
Reinhold Wagnleitner is a noted Austrian cultural historian whose recent book, Satchmo Meets Amadeus, has attracted much attention on both sides of the Atlantic. Because of the broad interest in the topic, the EHS invites other SHA attendees to come hear Professor Wagnleitner’s lecture, which will begin just after 1 p.m. in Lagniappe, where extra seating will be available for those not attending the luncheon.
Saturday,
October 11: 12:30-2:15 P.M.
36. WORKSHOP I—TEACHING AND WRITING IN A NEW
MEDIA WORLD
Sponsored by the Southern Association for Women Historians
PRESIDING: Melissa Walker, Converse College
Southern Spaces: Region on the Web
Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
Will the Internet Kill the Letterpress Edition? Documentary Editing in the
Twenty-First Century
L. Diane Barnes, Youngstown State University
Historical Thinking Online
Kelly Schrum, George Mason University
Saturday,
October 11: 12:30-2:15 P.M.
37. WORKSHOP II—THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURE
Sponsored by the Southern Industrial Project
PRESIDING: Robert C. McMath, University of Arkansas
“There are Objections to Black and White, But One Must Be Chosen”: Farm
Management in Northern Maryland, 1820–1860
Max L. Grivno, University of Southern Mississippi
“Trees are Jobs!”: Boosterism, Tree Farming, and the Rise of the Kraft Paper
Industry in Savannah, Georgia, 1930–1940
Lesley-Anne Reed, University of Georgia
“An Atmosphere of Intimidation”: Tyson Foods and the Decline of Independent
Poultry Farming, 1935–2005
Brenton E. Riffel, Arkansas Historical Quarterly
COMMENTS: Alex Lichtenstein, Rice University
Saturday,
October 11: 12:30-2:15 P.M.
38. FILM SHOWING: “FAUBOURG TREMÉ”
PRESIDING: Lawrence N. Powell, Tulane University
“Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans” (68 minutes)
A Film by Dawn Logsdon and Lolis Eric Elie
To be followed by comments by the filmmakers.
This documentary film, named for what may be the oldest African American neighborhood in America, has been called “a lament
for a drowned culture” and “a celebration of the venerable African American history of New Orleans, . . .once an incubator
of enlightenment and tolerance.” Directed by Logsdon, and co-directed and written by Elie, both native New Orleanians, it
premiered at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival in April 2008.
Saturday,
October 11: 2:00-2:30 P.M.
39. SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION BUSINESS
MEETING
PRESIDING: Leon F. Litwack, University of California, Berkeley
Saturday,
October 11: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
40. EARLY NATIONAL NEW ORLEANS: A CITY IN TRANSITION
PRESIDING: Daniel H. Usner, Jr., Vanderbilt University
Jean Boze to Henri de Sainte-Gome (1818–1839): Races and Ethnicities in
Early American New Orleans
Nathalie Dessens, University of Toulouse
The Battle of New Orleans: New Perspectives on an Epic Confrontation
Shelene C. Roumillat, Tulane University
International Politics in Early New Orleans
Vanessa Mongey, University of Pennsylvania
COMMENTS: Adam Rothman, Georgetown University
Mary Beth Norton
Saturday,
October 11: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
41. THE VOYAGE OF THE AMISTAD IN TRANS ATLANTIC
PERSPECTIVE: NEW ARCHIVAL EVIDENCE
PRESIDING: David W. Blight, Yale University
New Evidence from Cuban Archives
Orlando Garcia Martinez, University of Cienfuegos, Cuba
New Evidence from British Archives
Michael Zueske, University of Cologne, Germany
COMMENTS: David W. Blight
Saturday,
October 11: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
42. RECONSTRUCTION AND THE AMERICAN WEST
PRESIDING: Leslie Rowland, University of Maryland
The Reconstructions of Mormon Utah and the South
David Prior, University of South Carolina
Savages All! The Intersection of Native American and African-American
History during Reconstruction
Carole Emberton, University of Buffalo
Friends and Enemies: Reconstruction in the Multiracial West
D. Michael Bottoms, George Mason University
COMMENTS: Elliott West, University of Arkansas
Saturday,
October 11: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
43. JUST AROUND THE BEND: TEACHING THE CIVIL RIGHTS
MOVEMENT ON THE ROAD
PRESIDING: David Carter, Auburn University
PANELISTS:
Melissa Ooten, University of Richmone
Brian Daugherity, Virginia Commonwealth University
Alyssa Picard, Wayne State University
Charles Cobb, Jr., AllAfrica.com
Phyllis Boanes, Earlham College
COMMENTS: Georgette Norman, Troy University, Montgomery
Rosa Parks Museum
Saturday,
October 11: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
44. SOUTHERN FRIED FEMINISM
PRESIDING: Sara Evans, University of Minnesota
Women’s Liberation in New Orleans
Janet Allured, McNeese State University
The Impact of the 1977 IWY Conferences: Gender and Racial Politics in the
New Politics of the South
Marjorie Spruill Wheeler, University of South Carolina
The Seven Sisters of the South and Student Activism in the 1960s
Barbara Spence Orsolits, George State University
COMMENTS: Stephanie Gilmore, Trinity College
Kevin Boyle
Saturday,
October 11: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
45. THE ENSLAVEMENT OF INDIANS IN NEW SPAIN
PRESIDING: Donald Chipman, University of North Texas
Slave Raiding and Spanish Settlement in New Galicia
Ida Altman, University of Florida
Native Slavery and Agricultural Settlements in Early Spanish Guatemala
Robinson A. Herrera, Florida State University
“Traces of Christians”: Bondage in Spanish Texas
Juliana Barr, University of Florida
Spanish Forms of Enslavement and Indigenous Resistance in Colonial
Mexican Northeast
José Cuello, Wayne State University
COMMENTS: Susan Deeds, Northern Arizona University
Saturday,
October 11: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
46. OLD BONES AND NEW WORLDS: REINTERPRETATIONS IN
THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
PRESIDING: Shelly Smith, University of Texas, Arlington
John Dee’s Imperial Geography
Mike Downs, Tarrant County College
What, Really, is Whig History? Episodes from the History of Science
Keith Parsons, University of Houston, Clear Lake
The Bordes-Binford Debate: A Transatlantic History of Mid-Twentieth Century
Paleolithic Archaeology
Melissa Canady Wargo, Western Carolina University
COMMENTS: Kennard Bork, Denison University
Saturday,
October 11: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
47. IMAGE, MYTH, AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY PRESIDING: David Hendon, Baylor University
A Thousand Words: Themes and Trends in Homefront Poster Propaganda
of World War II
Chris Thomas, Texas A&M University
Through the Looking Glass: The Use of National Myth in Manipulating
Irish Identity in Northern Ireland
Christine A. Colin, Mercyhurst College
Latinas and Assimilation through the World War II Experience
Joanne R. Sánchez, St. Edward’s University
COMMENTS: Tom L. Auffenberg, Ouachita Baptist University
Saturday,
October 11: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
48. LAND TENURE AND MARGINALIZATION IN LATIN AMERICA
AND LOUISIANA
PRESIDING: William Quigley, Loyola University School of Law
Evolution of Land Tenure and Ownership Law in Louisiana, Chile and
Mexico
Margaret M. Mahoney, New Orleans, Louisiana
Land Tenure Among Chile and Louisiana’s Disenfranchised in Times
of Crisis
Janie Simms Hipp, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Working Class Squatter Communities in Nineteenth and Twentieth
Century New Orleans
Michael Mizell-Nelson, University of New Orleans
COMMENTS: William Quigley
Saturday,
October 11: 4:45 P.M.
49. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN HISTORIANS
PRESIDING: Laura Edwards, Duke University
Pioneers to Power Brokers: Women Office Holders in Twentieth Century Virginia
Sandra Gioa Treadway, Library of Virginia
Reception and book sale will immediately follow at the Historic New Orleans
Collection, 533 Royal Street in the French Quarter.
Saturday,
October 11: 4:45-6:15 P.M.
50. RACE, CLASS AND LABOR IN THE NEW SOUTH: A
RETROSPECTIVE ROUNDTABLE ON ERIC ARNESEN’S
WATERFRONT WORKERS OF NEW ORLEANS
Sponsored by the Southern Labor Studies Association
PRESIDING: Michael K. Honey, University of Washington, Tacoma
PANELISTS:
Arnold r. Hirsch, University of New Orleans
Robert J. Norrell, University of Tennessee
Bernadette Pruitt, Sam Houston State University
Judith Stein, Graduate Center and City College of the City University of New York
RESPONSE: Eric Arnesen, University of Illinois, Chicago
Reception to follow in Napoleon A Foyer with book signing by Michael Honey of his book Going Down Jericho Road:
The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign.
Saturday,
October 11: 5:00-6:15 P.M.
51. AN EDITORS’ TRIBUTE TO A MASTER HAND: CELEBRATING
JOHN BOLES’S 25-YEAR EDITORSHIP OF THE JOURNAL OF
SOUTHERN HISTORY
PRESIDING: John C. Inscoe, University of Georgia
PANELISTS:
Jeffrey J. Crow, North Carolina Office of Archives and History
Elizabeth Jacoway, Newport, Arkansas
Claire Strom, North Dakota State University
Elizabeth Hayes Turner, University of North Texas
Patrick George Williams, University of Arkansas
RESPONSE: John B. Boles, Rice University
Sunday,
October 12: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
52. AFRICAN AMERICAN REFLECTIONS ON AFRICA AND THE
SLAVE TRADE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
PRESIDING: Erica Armstrong Dunbar, University of Delaware
Folkloric Visions and Memories of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Walter Rucker, Ohio State University
“Ethiopia Shall Stretch Forth Her Hands”: Debates Over Pan-Africanism,
Moral Uplift and Black Nationalism in Slave Trade Commemorations, 1808–1815
Leslie M. Alexander, Ohio State University
“We Will Resist All Attempts to Send us to the Burning Shores of Africa”:
Black Abolitionism, Colonization, and the Changing Meanings of Africa, 1817–1840
Dianne Chappiello, Cornell University
COMMENTS: Jason Young, State University of New York, Buffalo
Sunday,
October 12: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
53. RACE AND IDENTITY AMONG THE CHOCTAW INDIANS
PRESIDING: Theda Perdue, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The “Full Blood” Rule of Evidence: Rights, Race, and Identity among the
Mississippi Choctaws
Katherine M. B. Osburn, Tennessee Technological University
Slavery and Nationalism among the Five Tribes
Troy D. Smith, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Shifting Contours of Race: The Federal Census and the (Trans)Formation of
of “Black” and “Indian” Self-Understanding and Identity
Angela A. Gonzales, Cornell University
COMMENTS: Clara Sue Kidwell, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Sunday,
October 12: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
54. CHRISTIAN PRIMITIVISM IN THE SEGREGATED SOUTH:
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON RACE AND RELIGION
PRESIDING: Don Haymes, Christian Theological Seminary
Theologies of Resistance: Exclusivism, Lawlessness, and Segregationist
Rhetoric in Churches of Christ
Barclay Key, Western Illinois University
“The Greatest Missionary in the Church Today”: Marshall Keeble, A. M.
Burton, and the Rise of African-American Churches of Christ in the South, 1914–1968
Edward J. Robinson, Abilene Christian University
In the Beginning There Stood Two: The Formation of the Church of God
in Christ and Its Cultural Impact Upon the Politics of Respectability
Calvin White, Jr., University of Arkansas
COMMENTS: Anthea D. Butler, University of Rochester
Kathryn L. Nasstrom
Sunday,
October 12: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
55. NOLA RISING?: PERSPECTIVES ON HURRICANE KATRINA
PRESIDING: Adam Fairclough, Leiden University
Hurricane Katrina as a Providential Catastrophe
James M. Boyden, Tulane University
Explaining the Unexplainable: Hurricane Katrina, FEMA and the Bush
Administration
Romain Huret, University of Lyon, France
American Sodom: New Orleans’ Past as Prologue
Randy J. Sparks, Tulane University
COMMENTS: Matthew Mulcahy, Loyola College in Maryland
Sunday,
October 12: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
56. BEYOND THE VOODOO DOLL
PRESIDING: Charles Joyner, Coastal Carolina University
The Perils of Hoodoo: Scholarly Pitfalls in the Study of African American
Supernaturalism
Jeffrey E. Anderson, University of Louisiana, Monroe
Superstition and Supernaturalism in White and Black Southern Folk Culture
Philip Gibbs, Middle Georgia College
Supernaturalism in the Body: Black Pentecostalism in the U.S.
Clarence Hardy, Dartmouth College
The Commercialization of Voodoo and Hoodoo
Carolyn Morrow Long, Smithsonian Institution
Motives and Meanings of Black Christianization in the Colonial and
Antebellum Eras
Randolph Ferguson Scully, George Mason University
Voodoo, Women’s Religion, and Social Suffering in New Orleans: New
Research on Old Spiritualities
Martha C. Ward, University of New Orleans
Sunday,
October 12: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
57. COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON THE NAACP IN THE SOUTH
PRESIDING: Merline Pitre, Texas Southern University
Gender and the NAACP in Louisiana, 1915–1945
Lee Sartain, University of Portsmouth
“Every Man Should Try”: John L. LeFlore and the NAACP in Mobile, Alabama,
1919–1956
Kevin Verney, Edge Hill University
“They Don’t Understand What It Takes in Mississippi”: The NAACP and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
Emilye Crosby, SUNY Geneseo
COMMENTS: Robert J. Norrell, University of Tennessee
Fred A. Bailey, Abilene Christian University
Sunday,
October 12: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
58. KIMBERLY HANGER MEMORIAL PANEL
BLACK SOCIETY IN THE LATE COLONIAL GULF SOUTH
AND CARIBBEAN
PRESIDING: Virginia Gould, Tulane University
Enslaved and Free Blacks in Spanish Mobile, 1780–1813
Richmond F. Brown, University of Florida
Enslaved, Free Blacks and Mulattoes in Ouachita Post: The Case of Zadoc
Harmon, 1780–1813
H. Sophie Burton, Dallas, Texas
Slavery, Ethnicity and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century Havana
Keith A. Manuel, University of Florida
COMMENTS: Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University
Sunday,
October 12: 9:00-11:00 A.M.
59. GERMAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE UNITED STATES IN CRISIS
PRESIDING: David Redles, Cuyahoga Community College
“Battles of a Nation”: German Film Propaganda in the United States, 1915–1917
Chad Fulwider, Emory University
The “Operational History (German) Section” and her Successors: German-American Military
Contacts in the Memory of War and Geschichtspolitik, 1945–1961
Ester Krug, University of Augsburg
Martin Luther King, Jr. in East and West Germany
Joel Dark, Tennessee State University
COMMENTS: Wayne H. Bowen, Southeast Missouri State University
Other
Concurrent Sessions
Friday,
October 10: 4:45 P.M.
CS 1. PHI ALPHA THETA-EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN
PRESIDING: Stephanie A. Carpenter, Murray State University
Justinian and the Nico Rebellion
Travis Paul Collins, Faulkner University
Jesuits in the Pacific Northwest in the Nineteenth Century: De Smet and St.
Mary’s Mission
Kyle D. Harvey, Illinois State University
Judge Walter B. Jones
Rachel Merritt Ryan, Faulkner University
COMMENTS: Stephanie A. Carpenter
Friday,
October 10: 4:45 P.M.
CS 2. PHI ALPHA THETA-AMERICAN
PRESIDING: John V. Cimprich, Thomas More College
Imperial Carpetbaggers: Reconstruction Memory and the Debate over Hawaiian
Annexation
Becky L. Bruce, University of Alabama
Education in Southern Appalachia: The Struggle of Tallulah Falls School
Andra M. Knecht, Mississippi State University
Crisis Averted: The 1968 Capture of the USS Pueblo
Daniel T. Mauldin, Georgetown University
COMMENTS: John V. Cimprich
Saturday,
October 11: 4:45 P.M.
CS 3. PHI ALPHA THETA-AMERICAN
PRESIDING: Howell Smith, Wake Forest University
The Ideology of the Alabama Woman Suffrage Movement, 1894–1903
Jamie E. Smith, University of South Alabama
Prostitution, Public Health, and Police in Birmingham, Alabama, 1941–1954
Stephanie Chalifoux, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Shifting Patterns of African American Protest in Mobile, Alabama, 1940–1985
Scotty E. Kirkland, University of South Alabama
COMMENTS: Howell Smith
Saturday,
October 11: 4:45 P.M.
CS 4. PHI ALPHA THETA-LATIN AMERICAN
PRESIDING: Amy Bellone-Hite, Xavier University of Louisiana
“Always Cuba in Your Heart”: Cuban Resettlement in Alabama During
the 1960s
Jensen Branscombe, University of Alabama
Ethnoracialized Labor in the Mid-Nineteenth Century U.S. South and
Puerto Rico
Zhandarka Kurti, SUNY Binghamton
Immigrant Labor Strife and Solidarity in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Leo B. Gorman, University of New Orleans
Laboring Experience of New Orleans Banana Workforce in Comparative
Context
Gary T. Van Cott, Tulane University
COMMENTS: Ted Henken, Baruch College, CUNY
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