Thursday, March 17

 

6:00-8:00 p.m.

Registration

Florida Room

 

 

Friday, March 18

 

8:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

Registration

Book Exhibits

Florida Room

 

 

8:30-10:00 a.m.

1. Religion and Identity in the South

Tampa Room I

Chair: TBA

 

Politics in the Pews: East TennesseeÕs Religious Conflicts During and After the Civil War

Michael Taylor, University of Tennessee

 

David Levy Yulee: Conflict and Continuity in Social Memory

Maury Wiseman, University of Florida

 

 

2. Race and Nationalism in the Americas

Tampa Room II

Chair: Jack McTague, Saint Leo University

 

A Single Universe: Cuban Cigar Makers in Havana and South Florida, 1853-1899

Evan Daniel, New School for Social Research

 

Race and Racialization in Canada: Stories and Their Reconstruction Over 137 Years

Lea Caragata, Wilfrid Laurier University

 

Soccer, Race, Politics and National Identity in Brazil During the Pel  Era Era: 1958-1970

R. Michael Booker, University of Tennessee

 

 

10:30-12:00 a.m.

3. Religion and Trade in Europe

Clearwater Room

Chair: David B. Mock, Tallahassee Community College

 

ÔThe Riotous AssemblyÕ: The British East India Company as a Foundation of British Economic Imperialism

Leslie Schumacher, Hamline University

 

Francis of Assisi Among the Saracens

Brad Pardue, University of Tennessee

 

A QueenÕs Piety: Elizabeth of Habsburg and the Veneration of Saints

Joseph Patrouch, Florida International University

 

 

4. War and Media Coverage

Tampa Room I

Chair: Jack McTague, Saint Leo University

 

Cold War Newspaper Coverage in Northeast Ohio

Michael J. Epple, Florida Gulf Coast University

 

A Visual Conversation: Mainstream and Alternative American Media Images During Wartime, 1898-1918

Denise Spivey, Florida State University

 

 

5. Government and Citizenship in Florida

Tampa Room II

Chair: Sean McMahon, Lake City Community College

 

Confederate Conscription in Florida, 1862-1865

R. Boyd Murphree, Florida State University

 

Importing Republicanism: Migration and the Florida Republican Party in the Postwar Period

Michael Bowen, University of Florida

 

The Great Society in Central Florida: Struggle Over Orange CountyÕs Community Action Program, 1966-1968

Michael Hoover, Seminole Community College

 

 

12:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch on your own, FCH Working Lunch and Annual Business Meeting

 

 

1:30-3:00 p.m.

6. Historic Preservation and Urban Planning

Clearwater Room

Chair: Robert Kerstein, University of Tampa

 

Beautification and Regional Identity: Conflict and Compromise in Chicago and Atlanta during the City Beautiful Movement

Julian C. Chambliss, Rollins College

 

The Once and Future NAS Richmond Project

Anthony D. Atwood, Florida International University

 

Save Our History: The Political Battle to Save FloridaÕs Old Capitol Building

Seth A. Weitz, Florida State University

 

 

7. Designing History: The Cross Florida Greenway as a Community and Classroom Resource

Tampa Room I

Chair: Jennifer Trost, Saint Leo University

 

Using Local History in the High School Classroom

Chris Beckmann, Oak Hall School

 

Local Subject, Broad Issues: Using the Cross Florida Barge Canal to Examine Twentieth Century Environmental and Political History

Steven Noll, University of Florida

 

Developing an Interdisciplinary Course on FloridaÕs History and Environment

David Tegeder, Santa Fe Community College

 

 

8. U.S. Foreign Policy in the Cold War Era

Tampa Room II

Chair: David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College

 

Hans Morgenthau; The Evolution of a Political Activist

Brian Keaney, University of South Florida

 

Journalist Felix Morley and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1945-1960

Bernard Lemelin, Laval University

 

Riddles of Empire: Wilsonianism, Self-Determination, and Race in Modern American Diplomacy

Jason Parker, West Virginia University

 

 

3:30-5:00 p.m.

9. Race and Identity in Florida

Clearwater Room

Chair: Gregory Padgett, Eckerd College

 

Did Slaves Have Free Will? Luke, a Slave, v. Florida and Crime at the Command of the Master

Craig Buettinger, Jacksonville University

"Sneaking Curs" and "Negro Brutes": Official Transcripts of Racial Otherness in Tampa, Florida, 1890-1920

Dennis P. Halpin and Jared G. Toney, University of South Florida

 

An Historical Perspective on Public School Desegregation in Florida: Lessons From the Past for the Present

Irvin D. S. Winsboro, Florida Gulf Coast University

 

 

10. Protest and Education in Asia

Tampa Room I

Chair: Maria Rost Rublee, University of Tampa

 

On the Perceived Value of Studying American History by University Students: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

Daniel Robison, Troy University

 

The Tydings-Kocialkowski Act of 1939 and the Demise of a Development Coalition in the Philippines

Steve MacIsaac, Jacksonville University

 

Historical Beginnings of Modern Protest in North and South Korea

Dennis Hart, Kent State University

 

 

11. Monarchs and Revolution in Turn-of-the-Century Europe

Tampa Room II

Chair: David Richards, Lake City Community College

 

Reasons for the Gradual Decline of the British Aristocracy in the Long Nineteenth Century

Chris M. Tenn, Florida Gulf Coast University

 

Changing Working Conditions of British Children in the Working Class During the Industrial Revolution

Scott Ortolano, Florida Gulf Coast University

 

The Radical English Press and the Trial of Louis XVI

David B. Mock, Tallahassee Community College

 

 

6:00 p.m. Cocktails

Bayside Terrace

 

Welcome from Dr. Arthur F. Kirk Jr., President of Saint Leo University

 

7:00 p.m. Banquet and Keynote speech

Bayside Terrace Tent

 

How Tampa Women Have Changed American WomenÕs History

Professor Nancy A. Hewitt, Rutgers University

 

 

 

Saturday, March 19

 

8:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

Registration

Book Exhibits

Florida Room

 

 

8:30-10:00 a.m.

12. The Civil War on the Silver Screen

Clearwater Room

Chair: Robert Snyder, University of South Florida

 

Clods and Generals: Why Hollywood Cannot Make a Good Civil War Movie

Chad Morgan, Independent Scholar

 

The Evolution of the Civil War Films

William Russell, Florida State University

 

 

13. Migration and Culture in the Atlantic World

Tampa Room I

Chair: Philip Levy, University of South Florida

 

Reproduction and Resistance: Medicine Under the Virginia London Company, 1607-1624

Michele Hinton Riley, Saint Louis University

 

Freedom at Christmas: Andrew Gue, Black Maritime Communication Networks, and the Underground Railroad in the Bahamas

Frank Marotti, Cheyney University

 

The "I" in History: An HistorianÕs Self-Indulgent Foray into Family History--The Calvets from France to the American Frontier

Jay Clarke, Jacksonville University

 

 

14. American and German Military History

Tampa Room II

Chair: David Jervis, Saint Leo University

 

HitlerÕs "Stand Fast" Orders and the Defeat of Army Group Center in 1944

Lee Baker, University of Cincinnati, Raymond Walters College

 

The UnionÕs Strategy and History of Holding Fort Pickens in 1861

John M. Brackett, Florida State University

 

Between Liberation and Repatriation: The American Administration of Post-Liberation Buchenwald

Henry Staruk, University of Tennessee

 

 

10:30-12:00 a.m.

15. Sexuality and Southern Responses

Clearwater Room

Chair: David Johnson, University of South Florida

 

Bathing Beauties, Citrus Queens, and Royal Reactionaries: Florida Beauty Pageants, 1920s-1972

Crista Hosmer, Florida State University

 

"A Veritable Refuge for Practicing Homosexuals": The Johns Committee and the Persecution of Homosexuals at the University of South Florida

Daniel Bertwell, University of South Florida

 

Good Girls, Bad Girls and Wicked Men: Prostitution and Small Town Values in 20th Century Texas

Patricia Norred Derr, Kutztown University

 

 

16. Race Relations in Higher Education

Tampa Room I

Chair: Irvin D. S. Winsboro, Florida Gulf Coast University

 

Talking Sense: The Race Relations Institutes of Fisk University, 1944-1970

Keith W. Berry, Hillsborough Community College

 

Crucibles of Leadership: Army ROTC and AmericaÕs Historically Black Colleges in the South, 1948-1968

Michael E. Long, Pasco-Hernando Community College

 

A Memoir of Notre Dame Law School, 1970-1973: Jock M. SmithÕs Climbing JacobÕs Ladder

George S. Swan, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

 

 

17. Life of American Soldiers

Tampa Room II

Chair: Robert Ingalls, University of South Florida

 

"Remarkably Productive Civilians": The G.I. Bill and the "Silent Majority" of Successful Vietnam Veterans

Mark Boulton, University of Tennessee

 

Bands in Combat During the American Civil War

James A. Davis, SUNY College at Fredonia