SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL
OHIO VALLEY HISTORY
CONFERENCE
Garrett Conference
Center
Western Kentucky
University
Bowling Green, Kentucky
October /18/19/20,
2001
CONFERENCE COORDINATOR
MARION B. LUCAS
Ph: (270) 745-5736
E-Mail:
marion.lucas@wku.edu
CONFERENCE HEADQUARTERS
TRAVELODGE HOTEL
1000 Executive Way,
Bowling Green KY 42103 (Exit
22 on I-65)*
Ph: (270) 781-6610
Fax: (270) 781-7985
See OVHC Web Page:
http://www.wku.edu/ovhc
*Traveling
north on I-65 cross the interstate, turn right at the second light;
traveling
south on I-65 turn right at the first right.
To obtain the special conference rate of $55.00 per room (1-4 people; please specify: single bed, or 2 double beds), contact the Travelodge Hotel directly at (270) 781-6610 (you must mention the Ohio Valley History Conference). A block of rooms (non-smoking) will be held until September 30. Because of Homecoming ceremonies at Western and other conventions, lodging will be at a premium for the weekend of the conference. Participants are urged to make reservations at the Conference Headquarters as soon as possible. Those desiring a smoking room must request one.
Hospitality Suite Thursday Night, October 18. After registering at the Travelodge Hotel on Thursday, please visit the OVHC Hospitality Suite 203 beginning at 7:00 p.m. The Conference Banquet and all social hours are at the Travelodge Hotel.
AIR TRAVEL: Participants flying into Nashville Airport may purchase shuttle service to Bowling Green from Airport Anytime Express by phoning 1-800-419-5261. Round Trip $65; one way $50 (lower prices for multiple passengers).
PARKING: The OVHC will provide shuttle transportation between the TRAVELODGE HOTEL and the Garrett Conference Center. Those who prefer to drive to campus will find parking is scarce on "top of the hill," but some may find spaces in front of Cherry Hall on side streets (such as Kentucky St.) three or four blocks away. Please consider driving down Campbell Lane or Cave Mill Road to the South Campus area and taking the WKU Shuttle to campus. Please see the OVHC Web Page: http://www.wku.edu/ovhc for maps to campus.
CONFERENCE PRE-REGISTRATION: Conference participants are urged to pre-register. The registration fee of $40.00 includes the Friday night banquet at the Travelodge Hotel; the Thursday and Friday night social hours; and Friday and Saturday morning coffee and pastries. Make checks to OVHC and mail to Marion B. Lucas.
ALTERNATE LODGING: Best Western Motor Inn 1-800-343-2937 (direct to motel, mention OVHC) offers participants a rate of $49 through October 1.
All OVHC sessions are scheduled for Central Daylight Time in Garrett Conference Center at Western Kentucky University ("on top of the Hill" behind Cherry Hall on College Street).
Friday, October 19, 2001
7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Registration: Garrett Conference Center
7:30 - 10:30 a.m.
Coffee and Pastries: Garrett Executive
& Memorial Rooms
Book Exhibits: Garrett Lobby
Session I-A Friday, 8:00-9:15 a.m.
GCC 100
GEORGE ROGERS CLARK: REVOLUTIONARY FOR TWO NATIONS
Chair: Robert Haynes, Western Kentucky University
"The History and Archaeology of George
Rogers
Clark's Fort Jefferson"
Kenneth C. Carstens, Murray State University
"George Rogers Clark and the French
Revolution"
Nancy Son Carstens, Murray State University
Commentator: Robert Haynes, Western Kentucky University
KENTUCKY IN TRANSITION: VALUES, CULTURE, AND CLASS
Chair: James Duane Bolin, Murray State University
"The Janus-Faced Eden: Trans-nationalism
and
Trans-distinctiveness in Kentucky Prior to the Civil War"
Chris Snow, Eastern Kentucky University
"Brothers in the Bluegrass: Freemasonry and
the Middle Class in Kentucky, 1870-1930"
Joseph C. Smyth, Eastern Kentucky University
"No Room For Possum or Crawfish:
African-American
Migrants and Civil Rights in Louisville, Kentucky 1930-1960"
Luther Adams, University of Pennsylvania
Commentator: James Duane Bolin, Murray State University
GENERAL GEORGE MCCLELLAN 1861-1862: MILITARY POLITICIAN AND MILITARY COMMANDER
Chair: Michael S. Fitzgerald, Franciscan University of Steubenville
"General McClellan's 1861 Misadventure in
Interstate
Diplomacy"
Ethan S. Rafuse, University of Missouri-Kansas City
"The Role of Technology in the Peninsula
Land
Campaign"
Rhonda Smith, Eastern Kentucky University
Commentator: Michael S. Fitzgerald, Franciscan University of Steubenville
TRAVEL AND ROMANCE LITERATURE IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL EUROPE
Chair: James T. Baker, Western Kentucky University
"The Guilty Pleasures of Reading the
Travels
of John Mandeville, Knight"
Richard Gildrie, Austin Peay State University
"The Uses of Romance in Early Christian
Literature:
the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies and the Acts of Paul and
Thecla"
Lisa R. Holliday, University of Kentucky
Commentator: James T. Baker, Western Kentucky University
NORTHERN MINISTERS AND SOUTHERN BAPTIST EDUCATORS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Chair: Larry Whiteaker, Tennessee Technological University
"Race and Religion: Northern Responses to
the
End of the Civil War"
Edward J. Blum, University of Kentucky
"Nineteenth Century Baptist Higher
Education
in the South"
Christopher Beckham, Morehead State University
Commentator: Larry Whiteaker, Tennessee Technological University
PEACE AND JUSTICE: THE MILITARY IN PEACETIME ROLES
Chair: Robert Rusnak, Dominican University
"Peace Enforcing: The Marines in
Hispaniola,
China and Nicaragua, 1919-1929"
Leo Daugherty, American Military University
"Traditions versus Modernity: The Problem
of
Integrating Military and Civilian Legal Institutions"
George F. Hofmann, University of Cincinnati
Commentator: Robert Rusnak, Dominican University
CULTURAL AND POLITICAL EXCHANGE: EUROPEANS, NATIVE AMERICANS, AND THE UNITED STATES IN THE MISSISSIPPI AND OHIO VALLEY REGIONS
Chair: Kathryn Abbott, Western Kentucky University
"From Mercenaries to Nation-Builders: The
Shawnees
and their Neighbors in Lower Missouri, 1780-1820."
Stephen Warren, Eastern Kentucky University
"Sebastien Racle's Early Missions in the
St.
Lawrence and Great Lakes Region."
Thomas J. Lappas, Indiana University
"The Illinois: Navigating the New World's
New
Opportunities."
Alan Shackelford, Indiana University
Commentator: Kathryn Abbott, Western Kentucky University
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN SLAVERY AND FREEDOM: FREE BLACKS AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY IN THE OLD NORTHWEST
Chair: Elizabeth A. Perkins, Centre College
"'The black race were not inferior to the
white'":
Edward Coles, Emancipation and the Persistence of Paternalism"
Suzanne Cooper Guasco, College of William and Mary
"Recently Freed Blacks in the Ohio
Countryside:
Manumitters' Ideals and the Structure of Economic Opportunity for a
'New
People' ca. 1800-1861"
Stephen Vincent, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Commentators: Elizabeth A. Perkins, Centre
College
Kirsten Fischer, University of Minnesota
RECALLING THE PAST: HISTORY AND MEMORY
Chair: Mary Munsell Abroe, Kendall College
"After the Fall: What Really Happened After
the French Took Fort Oswego?"
Robert S. Salisbury, State University of New York at Oswego
Richard V. Salisbury, Western Kentucky University
"Significance of the Lincoln Boyhood
National
Memorial"
Mike Capps, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
Commentator: Mary Munsell Abroe, Kendall College
RURAL AND URBAN ELITES IN SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRANCE
Chair: Robert Dietle, Western Kentucky University
"Social Violence and Hunting in France: The
chasse
destructif, 1515-1650"
Michael Aradas, Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus
"Local Elites and Political Power:
Municipal
Elections in Dijon, 1790-1795."
Lee Baker, University of Illinois at Chicago
Commentator: Robert Dietle, Western Kentucky University
PACIFIC WAR STUDIES
Chair: Don Barlow, Prestonsburg Community College
"Voices from Tokyo: The Failure to
Heed
the Warning"
Justin Libby, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
"Comairsols Against Rabaul: The Final Air
Battle
of the South Pacific Theater"
Ronnie Day, East Tennessee State University
Commentator: Jeff Roberts, Tennessee Technological University
MANIFEST DESTINY: NATIONS AND PEOPLES
Chair: Carlton Jackson, Western Kentucky University
"Manifest Destiny: An Inherited
Characteristic
of Nations"
Penny Sonnenburg, East Tennessee State University
"Wherefore Do You Suffer the Whites to
Dwell
Upon Your Lands?: Neolin and Archaism among the Delaware 1760-1765"
Sändra Henson, East Tennessee State University
Commentator: Carlton Jackson, Western Kentucky University
COMMON SOLDIERS IN THE CIVIL WAR: TWO REMARKABLE REGIMENTS
Chair: Christopher Phillips, University of Cincinnati
"Reaching beyond 'Glory' and the 54th
Massachusetts: The Men of the 102nd United States Colored Troops"
Sharon Roger Hepburn, Radford University
"Benjamin Franklin Terry: From Civilian
through
the Battle of Woodsonville, Kentucky"
Lonnie Maness, University of Tennessee-Martin
Commentator: Christopher Phillips, University of Cincinnati
HANDS-ON EXPERIENCES: MATERIAL CULTURE IN ANTEBELLUM KENTUCKY
Chair: Paula Trafton, Western Kentucky University
"Constructing Lexington, Kentucky, as the
‘Athens
of the West'"
Patrick Lee Lucas, Michigan State University
"Regional Forms and Preferences: Early
Kentucky
Furniture and Its Makers, 1790-1840"
Marianne P. Ramsey, Eastern Kentucky University
Diane C. Wachs, Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington, Kentucky
"Simple Silver: Silversmiths in South
Central
Kentucky"
Carol Crowe-Carraco, Western Kentucky University
J. Michael Sisk, Central Hardin High School
Comments: Paula Trafton, Western Kentucky University
DEPRESSION YEARS IN ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA
Chair: John Hennen, Morehead State University
"If Women Ran the City of Erie: Courage,
Conflict,
and Change among Erie's Women During the 1930's"
Jerra Jenrette, Edinboro University
"Burning Problems: The Edna Mumbulo Case in
Erie, Pennsylvania, 1930"
Joseph Laythe, Edinboro University
"Northwest Pennsylvania and the Great
Depression:
A Statistical Overview"
Ihor Bemko, Edinboro University
Commentator, John Hennen, Morehead State University
HOLLYWOOD MOVIES: TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES
Chair: Charles Bussey, Western Kentucky University
"Beyond Accuracy: Interpreting the Past
through
Historical Film Genres"
Brian Sandberg, Millikin University
"Hell's Home Office: Censorship and the
Production
Codes of Early Hollywood"
Becky Williams, Eastern Kentucky University
"Hollywood History: Film and the
Credibility
Gap in Late Twentieth Century America"
Daniel McDonough, University of Tennessee-Martin
Commentator: Charles Bussey, Western Kentucky University
RACE AND CLASS DURING THE WORLD WAR I ERA
Chair: Doug Herman, Prestonsburg Community College
"'To Be Leaders of Men': Black Officers,
Camp
Des Moines, and World War One"
James Westheider, University of Cincinnati-Clermont College
"Selectively Southern: The Racial Policies
of Louisville and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad through the
World
War I Era"
Russell Wigginton, Rhodes College
Commentator: Doug Herman, Prestonsburg Community College
FEDERAL POLICY AND CIVILIAN RESPONSE IN THE CIVIL WAR UPPER SOUTH
Chair: Tom Matijasic, Prestonsburg Community College
"Organizing trade with the Enemy: The Board
of Trade System on the Inland Waterways, 1861-1865"
Clinton W. Terry, University of Cincinnati
"Loyalty, Debt, and Resistance to the
Second
Confiscation Act in Kentucky's Bluegrass Region: October 1862-July 1863"
Stephen Rockenbach, University of Cincinnati
"On the Trail of the Crab Orchard Gang:
Race,
Violence and Politics in Post-Civil War Kentucky"
J. Michael Rhyne, University of Cincinnati
Commentator: Tom Matijasic, Prestonsburg Community College
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND
Chair: Carol Crowe-Carraco, Western Kentucky University
"Graphic Expressions of English Commerce:
Thames
School Cartography and the Expansion of Seventeenth-Century English
Trade"
Alistair Maeer, University of Texas at Arlington
"Gone to Heaven: Agnes Beaumont and the
Nonconformist
Tradition"
Alana Cain Scott, Morehead State University
Commentator: Carol Crowe-Carraco, Western Kentucky University
WESTERN MINING COMMUNITIES: TRADITIONAL AND NON-TRADITIONAL
Chair: Michèle T. Butts, Austin Peay State University
"The Merchant Prince of the Copper Country:
One Immigrant's American Success Story"
William H. Mulligan, Jr., Murray State University
"Sex and the Law: Religion and Moral
Fluidity
in the Nineteenth-Century Boulder, Colorado Mining Community"
Robin Henry, Indiana University
Commentator: Michèle T. Butts, Austin Peay State University
MEDICAL CARE: THE FEDERALIST NORTHEAST AND MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY KENTUCKY
Chair: Nancy Disher Baird, Western Kentucky University
"A Whole New World? Change and
Persistence
in the Medical Milieu of the Northeastern United States, 1780-1810"
David McCarter, Indiana State University
"Before the Coronary Valley: Doctors and
the
‘Hog and Hominy' Diet In Antebellum Kentucky"
Eric Howard Christianson, University of Kentucky
"Medical Care and the Freedmen's Bureau in
Kentucky"
R.C. Gordon, Western Michigan University
Commentator: Nancy Disher Baird, Western Kentucky University
REBELLIONS AND POWER PLAYS: TWO WORLDS APART
Chair: David Dalton, College of the Ozarks
"The Urbanization of Rebellion: Power
Relations
and the Virginia Slave Uprising of 1800"
Michael H. Auterson, Eastern Kentucky University
"Struggling For Peace: The Unrecognized
Sacrifices
of Buddhist Women During the Vietnam War"
Robert J. Topmiller, Eastern Kentucky University
Commentator: David Dalton, College of the Ozarks
CAN WORLD CIVILIZATION COURSES GO BEYOND THE BOX? POSSIBLE METHODS OF INCORPORATING HUMANITIES MATERIALS INTO THE ‘CIV' SEQUENCE
Chair: Carol Osborne, Murray State University
"MSU's Answer to 'You Can't Get There From
Here': The History of the CIV-HUM Program at Murray State University"
Ken Wolf, Murray State University
"See One Teach One: Interdisciplinary Cross
Training in CIV-HUM Courses"
Bill Schell, Murray State University
"The Chronological-Topical Approach: The
Condensation
of the Current CIV course and the Incorporation of Enhanced Textual
Analysis
of Literature and Philosophy"
Terry Strieter, Murray State University
Comment: Carol Osborne and The Audience
POST-WORLD WAR II FOOD SHORTAGES: AUSSIES AND WHALES TO THE RESCUE
Chair: Bill Brinker, Tennessee Technological University
"Whales to the Rescue: One Solution to
Japan's
Postwar Food Crisis"
T.H. Baughman, University of Central Oklahoma
"Vital Support: The Commonwealth Rallies to
Britain's Food Shortages, 1946"
Rebekah Peck, University of Central Oklahoma
Commentator: Bill Brinker, Tennessee Technological University
ALABAMA: STATES' RIGHTS TO CIVIL RIGHTS
Chair: Charles Durham, Troy State University-Montgomery
"Dixon Hall Lewis: From Nullification to
Southern
Rights in Alabama"
Frederick M. Beatty, Troy State University-Montgomery
"She Sat, TSUM Built, and They Will Come:
The
Rosa Parks Library and Museum"
J. Drew Harrington, Troy State University-Montgomery
Commentator: Ray Wallace, Troy State
University-Montgomery
Speaker:
Margaret Ripley Wolfe
Senior Research Professor in
History
East Tennessee State University
Topic:
"STILL THINKING OF IT ALL
TOMORROW:
SOUTHERN WOMEN'S STORY
AS TOLD BY A TIRED OL'
FEMINIST"
7:30 - 9:30 a.m.
Registration: Garrett Conference Center
7:30 - 9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Pastries: Garrett Executive
& Memorial Rooms
Session VI-A Saturday, 8:00-9:15 a.m.
GCC 100
EUROPEANS IN AFRICA DURING THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES
Chair: John Hardin, Western Kentucky University
"A Failure of Early French Imperialism in
Africa:
The French-Jesuit Effort in Ethiopia at the Turn of the 18th Century"
Theodore Natsoulas, University of Toledo
"Lord Chelmsford and the Cost of Racial
Pride
in the Zulu War, 1879"
Kenneth Mufuka, Lander University
"Africa is a Hard Place for Women"
Nancy Disher Baird, Western Kentucky University
Commentator: John Hardin, Western Kentucky University
Sponsored by the Society for Military History
REASSESSING EFFECTIVENESS: GAS AND CARTOONS
Chair: Richard Muller, US Air Command and Staff College
"The Impact of World War One's Poison Gas"
Marion Girard, Yale University
"Technical Fairy, Junior Grade:
Warner
Bros.' Private SNAFU in World War II"
Michael Birdwell, Tennessee Technological University
Commentator: Richard Muller, US Air Command and Staff College
PRESENTING HISTORY TO THE PUBLIC: REWRITING TRADITIONAL HISTORY AND THE INTERNET
Chair: Richard G. Stone, Western Kentucky University
"GI Jane Remembered: Using Autobiographies
and Memoirs to Rewrite
History"
Denise R. Johnson, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
"WWW.SouthernHistory.net: An Experiment in
Public History Internet Publications"
James B. Jones, Tennessee Historical Commission
Commentator: Richard G. Stone, Western Kentucky University
CHANGING TENNESSEE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Chair: Calvin Dickinson, Tennessee Technological University
"New Laws, New Freedom: Tennessee Women in
the Opening Decades of the Twentieth Century"
Ruth A. Thompson, Georgia Southern University
"Struggle Within, Struggle Without: The
TEPCO
Case and the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1936-1939"
Aaron Purcell, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Commentator: Calvin Dickinson, Tennessee Technological University
CREATING LAW ON THE FRONTIER: THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE AND THE OHIO VALLEY
Chair: Patricia H. Minter, Western Kentucky University
"Property, Union, and Constitution: The
Role
of Property Rights in the Northwest Ordinance"
Matthew Festa, Vanderbilt University
"Culture, Gender, and Law in the Ohio
Valley"
Elizabeth R. Osborn, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Commentator: Patricia H. Minter, Western Kentucky University
AT THE MOVIES: HISTORY OR BUNK
Chair: Ted Hovet, Western Kentucky University
"Intrigue, Superstition, and Peril: The
Image
of the Balkans in Post-Expressionist Film"
Stu Burns, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
"The Holocaust Goes to the Movies: An
Analysis
of the Final Solution in Film"
Christine A. Colin, Millikin University
Commentator: Ted Hovet, Western Kentucky University
KENTUCKY'S SLAVE DIASPORA
Chair: Thomas Appleton, Jr., Eastern Kentucky University
"Sold for My Account: The Origins of the
Slave
Trade between Kentucky and the Natchez and New Orleans Markets,
1787-1803"
Pen Bogert, The Filson Historical Society
"Footprints of the Underground Railroad in
Carroll and Trimble Counties, Kentucky"
Diane Perrine Coon, Independent Scholar
Commentator: Thomas Appleton, Jr., Eastern Kentucky University
CULTURAL ADAPTATION, HISTORICAL CHANGE AND INDIAN IDENTITIES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Chair: Katherine M.B. Osburn, Tennessee Technological University
"For the Protection and Advancement of His
Race: The Society of American Indians and the Redefining of Identity"
Kathryn A. Abbott, Western Kentucky University
"Metis Identity North and South of the
U.S.-Canadian
Border"
Amy Slade, Western Kentucky University
"The Resurrection of Indian Tribal Identity
in Eastern North Carolina"
Christopher Arris Oakley, University of Tennessee
Commentator: Katherine M.B. Osburn, Tennessee Technological University
EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY RURAL SOCIETY IN THE DIARIES OF MAGNOLIA LE GUIN.
Chair: T. Howard Winn, Austin Peay State University
"Not Sisters Not Slaves: The
Ambiguity
of Race in Rural Georgia"
Karen Rubin, Florida State University
"Self-identity of a Strong and Independent
Farm Woman: Family and Community in the Diaries of Magnolia Le Guin"
Minoa Uffelman, Austin Peay State University
Commentator: T. Howard Winn, Austin Peay State University
WAR AND U.S. DEFENSE POLICY IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
Chair: Gregory R. Zieren, Austin Peay State University
"The Impact of World War I on Heavy and
Light
Industry in the United States"
Stuart C. Knee, University of Charleston
"Not for Ourselves Alone: Conservative
Women
and the Gendering of National Defense in the 1920s and 1930s"
Christine Erickson, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Commentator: Robert Rusnak, Dominican University
MILITARY ADAPTATION IN THE MODERN ERA
Chair: Matthew Schwonek, US Air Command and Staff College.
"Strange War: Military Adaptation in
Korea"
Bryan Gibby, The Ohio State University
"Lost Opportunities: Why Military
Organizations
Fail to Learn from their Last Wars"
Bryon Greenwald, US Army
Commentator: Matthew Schwonek, US Air Command and Staff College
WORLD HISTORY IN THE CLASSROOM: PERSPECTIVES ON TEACHING AND LEARNING
Chair: Randolph Hollingsworth, Kentucky Virtual University
"Globalizing U.S. History"
Jeffrey W. Coker, Belmont University
"Why World History: Political Correctness
or
Real Imperative?"
Daniel Schafer, Belmont University
"Learning World History: The Student
Perspective"
Rose Gatens, Belmont University
"What Students Must Know:
Contingency
and Comparison in a World History Class"
Douglas Bisson, Belmont University
Commentator: Randolph Hollingsworth, Kentucky Virtual University
RACE, COMMUNITY, AND POLITICS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
Chair: John A. Collins, Freed Hardeman University
"Corbin: A Complex Railroad ‘Boom' Town,
1893-1930"
H.E. Everman, Eastern Kentucky University
"American Press Reaction to the Death of
Alben
W. Barkley of Kentucky"
Philip A. Grant, Pace University
"The True President Harding v. Rating Polls"
Erving E. Beauregard, University of Dayton
Commentator: John A. Collins, Freed
Hardeman
University
Five Year OVHC Schedule
Austin Peay State
University,
October 2002
Eastern Kentucky University,
October 2003
Tennessee Technological
University,
October 2004
Murray State University,
October
20-21, 20005
East Tennessee State
University,
October 2006
Western Kentucky University,
October 2007