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47th Annual Missouri Conference on History Schedule (Brief)
Program
Thursday a.m. | Thursday p.m. | Friday a.m. | Friday p.m.
Registration and Information Table
2nd Floor, Student Union
Thursday, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Friday, 8:00 a.m. - Noon
Vendor Displays
Lakeview Room
Thursday, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Friday, 9:00 a.m. - Noon
Thursday Morning Sessions
10:30 a.m. - Noon
Commemorating the Trail of Death
Intellectual and Cultural History
Thursday Afternoon Sessions
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Racial Violence in Northwest Missouri
Farmers, Politics, and Economic Development
Harry Trumans Campaigns in 1940 and 1944
Sexuality in the Early Twentieth Century
3:00-4:30 p.m.
The Future of Missouri History: A Roundtable Discussion
5:00 p.m.
Thursday Evening Reception
Friday Morning Sessions
8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Missouri Slave Families
Womens Roles at Home and at Work
Teaching and Researching Midwestern History through Documents
10:30 a.m. - Noon
Civil War Missouri
Uncovering Sources for Environmental Research at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection (WHMC): How to Locate and Use Them
Missouri Before the Civil War
That Other Stuff Trends in Missouri Social History
12:15 p.m.
Conference Banquet
2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Understanding the Mormon residence in Caldwell and Daviess Counties in Missouri using Tools, Documents, and Maps: A Roundtable in Mormon Archaeology
Using Archival Collections
The Life of the Warrior
Thursday April 14th
10:30 a.m. Noon
Commemorating the Trail of Death
Meeting Room A
Chair:
Shirley Willard, Trail of Death Commemorative Committee
Presentation:
Theresa Living: A Survivor of the Trail of Death
Virginia Pearl, Pawnee Rock, KansasComment:
Mike Steiner, Northwest Missouri State University
Intellectual and Cultural History
Meeting Room B
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Chair:
Ronald Ferris, Northwest Missouri State University
Papers:
El Vacio Cubano: Reevaluating a Forgotten Historical Epoch
Brendan V. Fletcher, Southwest Missouri State UniversityJonathan Edwards and the Enlightenment: Was There a Relationship?
Meri J. Thompson, Missouri Western State CollegeTheaters as Churches, Churches as Theaters: Religion and Recreation in Contemporary
Branson, Missouri Tourism
Aaron K. Ketchell, University of KansasComment:
Joel Benson, Northwest Missouri State University
1:00 2:30 p.m.
Racial Violence in Northwest Missouri
Meeting Room A
Chair:
Tom Spencer, Northwest Missouri State University
Papers:
A Lynching and Its Legacy: The 1931 Murder of Raymond Gunn
Patrick Huber, University of Missouri-Rolla
Gary Kremer, Director, State Historical Society of MissouriHe Needed to be Taught a Lesson: The Murder of Wallace Morgan
Matt Johnson, Northwest Missouri State UniversityComment:
Thomas Carneal, Northwest Missouri State University
Farmers, Politics, and Economic Development
Meeting Room B
Chair:
Diane Mutti-Burke, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Papers:
Voices of the Exodus: Statements on Conditions in the post-Reconstruction South
Bryan Jack, Winston-Salem State UniversityWhats the matter with Nodaway County?: The Failure of Alliance/Populism in Northern Missouri
Michael Steiner, Northwest Missouri State UniversityThe Father of Southeast Missouri: Louis Houck and the Gospel of Wealth
Joel P. Rhodes, Southeast Missouri State UniversityComment:
Harmon Mothershead, Northwest Missouri State University
Harry Trumans Campaigns in 1940 and 1944
Meeting Room C
Chair:
Roger Corley, Northwest Missouri State University
Papers:
American Press Reaction to the 1944 Nomination of Harry S. Truman as Vice President of the United States
Philip A. Grant, Jr., Pace UniversityTruman in 40: The 1940 Democratic Senate Primary in Missouri
John McGuire, Oklahoma State UniversityComment:
Robert Dewhirst, Northwest Missouri State University
Sexuality in the Early Twentieth Century
Meeting Room D
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Chair:
Bonnie Stepenoff, Southeast Missouri State University
Papers:
The Red Menace and the Cultural Turn: Anticommunism, Sex Surveys, and the Power of Community Dissent in the 1920s
Mary Ann Fitzwilson, Moberly Area Community CollegeSocial Vice and World War I
Joseph Koeberl, Northwest Missouri State UniversityComment:
Amber Clifford, Central Missouri State University
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
The Future of Missouri History: A Roundtable Discussion
Union Boardroom
Moderator:
Patricia Zahn, Associate Director, Missouri Humanities Council
Members:
Lawrence Christensen, University of Missouri-Rolla
Steve McIntyre, Southwest Missouri State University
Delia Gillis, Central Missouri State University
Gary Kremer, State Historical Society of Missouri
Joel P. Rhodes, Southeast Missouri State UniversityComment:
Audience
5:00 p.m.
Evening Reception
Nodaway County Historical Society Museum, First and Walnut Streets
Reception sponsored by the State Historical Society of Missouri and the Nodaway County Historical Society
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8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Missouri Slave Families
Meeting Room A
Chair:
Virginia Laas, Missouri Southern State University
Papers:
May we as one family live in peace and harmony: Relations between a Missouri Mistress and Her Slaves
Diane Mutti Burke, University of Missouri- Kansas CityPaternalism, Manhood, and Shifting Family Properties: A Gender Analysis of the Keens from St. Charles County, Missouri
Kimberly Schreck, University of Missouri-ColumbiaComment:
Louis Gerteis, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Womens Roles at Home and at Work
Meeting Room B
Chair:
Janice Falcone, Northwest Missouri State University
Papers:
Women and the American West: Domestic Ideology and the Realities of Frontier Life
Dana Ternus, Northwest Missouri State UniversityTo Suffer for Others: Gender in the California Grape Strikes
Andrea Johnson, University of Missouri-ColumbiaComment:
Debra Greene, Lincoln University
Teaching and Researching Midwestern History through Documents
Meeting Room C
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Chair:
Brian Hesse, Northwest Missouri State University
Papers:
Finding Missouri History in the Delassus-St. Vrain Collection
Christopher A. Gordon, Missouri Historical Society, St. LouisA Letter from Larned: A Unique Snapshot of The Blizzard of January, 1886
Marilyn R. Finke, National Archives, Kansas CityComment:
Audience
10:30 a.m. - Noon
Civil War Missouri
Meeting Room A
Chair:
Louis Gerteis, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Papers:
From Little Dixie to Liberty: The trial and triumph of a Missouri slave family
Ellen Pandolfo, University of Missouri-St. LouisJames E. Yeatman St. Louis Compassionate Philanthropist of the Civil War
Mike Venso, University of Missouri-St. LouisComment:
Ken Winn, Missouri State Archives
Uncovering Sources for Environmental Research at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection (WHMC): How to Locate and Use Them
Meeting Room B
Moderator:
David F. Moore, Associate Director, WHMC, Columbia
Members:
David Boutros, Associate Director, WHMC, Kansas City Mark Stauter, Associate Director, WHMC, Rolla William Fischetti, Associate Director, WHMC, St. Louis
Comment:
Audience
Missouri Before the Civil War
Meeting Room C
Chair:
Patrick McLear, Missouri Western State College
Papers:
Fragmentation of the Osage Nation, 1803-1818 Stephen A. Martin, Carl Sandburg College
Crossing Missouri by River in 1859
Lawrence H. Larsen, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Barbara Cottrell Larsen, National Archives, Kansas CityComment:
Fred Fausz, University of Missouri-St. Louis
That Other Stuff Trends in Missouri Social History
Meeting Room D
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Moderator:
Tom Spencer, Northwest Missouri State University
Members:
Bonnie Stepenoff, Southeast Missouri State University
Deborah Henry, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Janice Falcone, Northwest Missouri State University
Michael Steiner, Northwest Missouri State University
Amber Clifford, Central Missouri State UniversityComment:
Audience
Conference Banquet
12:15 p.m., Union Ballroom
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Welcome:
Kichoon Yang, Provost, Northwest Missouri State University
2005 MCH Award for Best Article
presented by Bonnie Stepenoff, Southeast Missouri State University
Selection Committee: Bonnie Stepenoff, Chair
Mark Stauter, Western Historical Manuscripts, UMR
Kristin Zapalac, State Historic Preservation Office2005 MCH Award for Best Book:
presented by Patrick J. Huber, University of Missouri-Rolla
Selection Committee: Patrick J. Huber, Chair
Gary Kremer, Director, State Historical Society of Missouri
Debra Foster Greene, Lincoln UniversityKeynote Address:
Fred Fausz, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Voyageurs and Virginians: The Rise and Decline of the French Fur Trade in Missouri
Business Meeting:
Tom Spencer, President, 2005 Missouri Conference on History
2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Understanding the Mormon residence in Caldwell and Daviess Counties in Missouri using Tools, Documents, and Maps: A Roundtable in Mormon Archaeology
Meeting Room A
Moderator:
Michael Riggs, Director, Far West Cultural Center and Instructor, Northwest Missouri State University Field School at Hauns Mill
Members:
Ron Romig, Archivist, Community of Christ
Paul DeBarthe, Instructor, Northwest Missouri
State University Field School at Hauns MillComment:
Audience
Using Archival Collections
Meeting Room B
Chair:
William Fischetti, WHMC, St. Louis
Papers:
An Overview of the New York African Burial Ground Archives Collection
Amy McPherson, Project Archivist, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. LouisUniting Collections from Many Archives via the Internet: The Beaumont Papers Project, Washington University, St. Louis
Paul G.Anderson, Archivist, Washington University, St. LouisComment:
Audience
The Life of the Warrior
Meeting Room D
Chair:
Michael Steiner, Northwest Missouri State University
Papers:
The Raven Banner: The worship of the war god in medieval Scandinavian society
Russ Goodrich, University of Missouri-ColumbiaThe Education of Henry Carruthers Roman Nose, a Cheyenne Warrior and Chief in Gilded Age Industrial America
Brad D. Lookingbill, Columbia CollegeJohn C. Pembertons Best Division and the Vicksburg Campaign
Paul Arnold, Curator, Stars and Stripes MuseumComment:
Richard Frucht, Northwest Missouri State University
