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The 51st Annual Missouri Conference on History
Hosted by the
Missouri State University Department of History
April 15-17, 2009, in Springfield
University Plaza Hotel and Convention Center
Program
Wednesday Evening
Welcome Reception
5:30-6:30 p.m., John Q. Room
Appetizers and Cash Bar
Thursday Morning
Continental Breakfast
8:00-10:00 a.m., Ballroom Lobby
Conference Registration
8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m., Ballroom Lobby
Vendor Displays
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Ballroom Lobby
Steering Committee Meeting
8:30-9:45 a.m., Lake of the Ozarks Room
10:00-11:30 a.m.
Teachers as Historians: Results from a Teaching American History Grant
Colorado A
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Chair and Comments: |
Virginia Laas, Missouri Southern State University |
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Papers: |
“The Gold Rush and Northeast Missouri” Carolyn Chrisman, Kirksville R-III |
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“Orphan Trains” Nicky Carter, Carthage R-9 |
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“Hometown History” |
For All We Call Mizzou: The University during the Nineteenth Century
Colorado B
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Chair: |
Diane Mutti Burke, University of Missouri-Kansas City |
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Papers: |
“The Green Paper Trail: Slavery and the Founding of the University of Missouri” |
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“Measuring the Influences of the U.S. Civil War on the University of Missouri” |
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“The Black Rollinses: A Comparison of Their Lives Before and After Emancipation” |
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Comments: |
Gary Cox, University of Missouri |
Memorializing Missourians at War
Kansas A
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Chair: |
Robert Wiegers, Central Methodist University |
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Papers: |
“Missouri Institutions Afloat: Higher Education and the Victory Ship Program” |
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“A Missouri World War I Memorial in Cheppy, France” |
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“The Last Missouri World War I Veteran and the Missouri National Guard Veteran History Program” |
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Comments: |
Orval Henderson, Missouri Society of Military History |
11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Luncheon
Illinois
“A Place on the Firing Line or in the Petticoat Brigade: Emily Newell Blair’s Search for Women’s Voice and Power in Politics”
Virginia Laas, Missouri Southern State University
Virginia J. Laas has long been a supporter of Missouri history studies and the Missouri Conference on History.
A professor at Missouri Southern State University for more than twenty years, Dr. Laas has twice served the conference as president, in addition to presenting numerous papers, providing comments, and chairing the proceedings of many sessions. She is a dedicated historian of nineteenth-century America and has published several books and articles such as Lincoln’s Lee: The Life of Samuel Phillips Lee with Dudley Cornish, which won the John Lymon Book Award from the North American Society for Oceanic History. Laas has also been awarded Missouri Southern’s Outstanding Teacher Award (1994) and “Missouri Professor of the Year” from The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching/Council for Advancement and Support of Education (2000).
Laas is currently working on a biography of Emily Newell Blair, a writer, suffragist, political leader, and southwest Missouri native.
Thursday Afternoon
1:15-2:45 p.m.
A Gendered Experience: The Incorporation of Women into the U.S. Armed Forces in the Twentieth Century
Colorado A
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Chair and Comments: |
Catherine Rymph, University of Missouri |
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Papers: |
“A Gendered Disruption: The Women Air Force Service Pilots of World War II” |
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“Soldiers in Skirts: Servicewomen in the Vietnam War Era” |
Records and Manuscript Collections in Southwest Missouri - Roundtable
Colorado B
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Chair: |
Teresa Hernandez, Springfield-Greene County Library District |
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Panelists: |
David Richards, Missouri State University |
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Jeff Patrick, Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield |
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Linda Myers, Missouri State Archives |
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Brian Grubbs, Springfield-Greene County Library District |
Early Modern Europe
Kansas A
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Chair and Comments: |
Charles Parker, St. Louis University |
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Papers: |
“Chaumont-sur-Loire: A Case Study of the Effects of the Counter-Reformation on a Rural Parish” |
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“Rebellious Children: The Persecution of Netherlanders in the Spanish Inquisition” |
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“English Perception of the Dutch and the Trade Depression of the 1620s” |
2:45-3:00 p.m. Refreshments, Ballroom Lobby
3:00-4:30 p.m.
Images of Missouri in German Immigrant Guidebooks
Colorado A
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Chair and Comments: |
Walter D. Kamphoefner, Texas A&M University |
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Papers: |
“Gottfried Duden’s Broken Dreams of a New Germania in Missouri” |
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“Responsible Opposing Viewpoint: Gustav Körner’s Illumination of Gottfried Duden’s Report” |
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“Luxembourgers and other Germans in Nodaway County, Missouri” |
Medical History
Colorado B
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Chair and Comments: |
Thomas Dicke, Missouri State University |
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Papers: |
“A New Perspective on Meriwether Lewis’s Death” |
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“The 1918-19 Spanish Influenza in Kansas City” |
Modern Germany
Kansas A
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Chair and Comments: |
Bela Bodo, Missouri State University |
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Papers: |
“Ein Ende zu der ‘verachtlichen Stellung’ machen: The Role of Interest Groups in the Foundation of the German Colonial Empire” |
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“Distorted Historiography: Changing Perceptions of German Resistance in Nazi Germany” |
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“Rethinking Atomic Euphoria in Bavaria: Josef Baumgartner’s Campaign Against Munich’s Atomic Research Reactor, 1953-1957” |
Thursday Evening
7:00 p.m.
Banquet and Keynote Address
Illinois
“Irish” and “Scotch-Irish” in Ireland and America: Only “Two Traditions”?
Kerby Miller, University of Missouri
For more than twenty years, Kerby Miller has demonstrated excellence in teaching and scholarship. He has been named by the University of Missouri as the Curators’ Professor (fall 2007) and the Middlebush Professor of History (2000-2003), awarded the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence in 1997, and given several student-determined awards for outstanding teaching and research by MU Greek and Panhellenic councils.
In 2002 Miller was visiting professor at Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, where he taught courses on Irish history and comparative Irish migration history. His national scholarly and teaching awards include appointment in 2002 as Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians (OAH); the James S. Donnelly Prize for Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan; and the 1986 Merle Curti Award (best book in U.S. social history) from OAH and 1986 Theodore Saloutos Award (best book in U.S. immigration and ethnic history) from the Immigration History Society, both for Emigrants and Exiles, which also was a finalist for that year’s Pulitzer Prize.
Friday Morning
Continental Breakfast
7:00-8:30 a.m., Ballroom Lobby
Registration
8:00 a.m.-12:00 noon, Ballroom Lobby
Vendor Displays
8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., Ballroom Lobby
8:30-10:00 a.m.
The Civil War and Reconstruction in Missouri
Colorado A
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Chair and Comments: |
Louis S. Gerteis, University of Missouri-St. Louis |
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Papers: |
“William Carson: On Duty with the Missouri State Militia Cavalry” |
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“The Cup of Human Suffering: Reconstructing Missouri during the American Civil War” |
Politics in the Postwar Era
Colorado B
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Chair and Comments: |
Thomas Gubbels, Lincoln University |
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Papers: |
“Missouri National Recreational River: A New Approach to Federal River Management” |
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“’This is Not a Cotton-Picker’s Dream’: The National Commission on Constitutional Government and the Formation of the ‘New Right’” |
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“American Press Reaction to the Death of Harry S. Truman” |
Exploiting the Land: The Agriculture and Timber Industries in Missouri and Arkansas
Kansas A
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Chair and Comments: |
David Benac, Southeastern Louisiana University |
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Papers: |
“John Sliker Bilby: Platte Purchase Land Baron” |
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“The T. J. Moss Tie Company” |
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“Struggling to Reconstruct the Past: The Three States Lumber Company” |
10:00-10:30 a.m. Refreshments, Ballroom Lobby
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
The Experience and Memory of War in the Twentieth Century
Colorado A
Chair and Comments: |
William G. Piston, Missouri State University |
Papers: |
“My Brother’s Keeper: World War II Prisoners of War and the German and Italian Communities in Missouri” |
“The Quantrill Reunions: The Border War in Missouri, Fifty Years On” |
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“The Lie of Remembrance: Remembering World War One” |
Gender and History
Colorado B
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Chair and Comments: |
Kimberly Schreck, Washington University |
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Papers: |
“Sex and Marriage between French and Quapaw Indians” |
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“Aunt Fanny the Feminist: Frances Dana Gage and Women’s Rights in St. Louis” |
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“Girls Writing Region: Gender, Race, and Class in Kansas City, 1901-1920” |
Assessing Missouri’s Historical Records - Roundtable
Kansas A
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Chair: |
John R. Dougan, State Archivist of Missouri |
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Panelists: |
Gary R. Kremer, Executive Director, The State Historical Society of Missouri |
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Robert P. Neumann, Director, Greene County Archives and Records Center |
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David E. Richards, Head, Special Collections & Archives, Missouri State University |
Friday Afternoon
12:15-1:15 p.m.
Awards Lunch and Business Meeting
Illinois
2009 MCH Award for Best Book
presented by Thomas M. Spencer, Northwest Missouri State University
Selection Committee
Chair: Thomas M. Spencer, Northwest Missouri State University
Bela Bodo, Missouri State University
Jeremy Neely, Independent Scholar, South Greenfield, Missouri
Nominees
(See Awards)
2009 MCH Award for Best Article
presented by Antonio F. Holland, Lincoln University
Selection Committee
Chair: Antonio F. Holland, Lincoln University
Rhonda C. Chalfant, State Fair Community College
Patrick Huber, Missouri University of Science & Technology
Nominees
(See Awards)
2009 MCH Award for Best Graduate Student Paper
presented by Stephen L. McIntyre, Missouri State University
Selection Committee
Chair (non-voting): Stephen L. McIntyre, Missouri State University
John R. Dougan, Missouri State Archives
Robert W. Frizzell, Northwest Missouri State University
Kimberly Schreck, Washington University in St. Louis
Nominees
(See Awards)
1:30-3:00 p.m.
The Back Lot of War: Three Stories
Colorado A
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Chair: |
Gregory Edwards, Graceland University |
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Papers: |
“Lighthouse Keeping: Drama at Inchon” |
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“The Purple Cross Society” |
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“Saga of the USS Lanikai” |
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Comments: |
Stan Adamiak, University of Central Oklahoma |
German Immigrants in Antebellum Missouri
Colorado B
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Chair and Comments: |
Ken S. Mueller, Ivy Tech Community College |
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Papers: |
“The Crisis of the Foreign Element: Benton Democrats and German Immigrants in Antebellum Missouri” |
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“The Saxons of Missouri: Faith and Immigration” |
African History
Kansas A
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Chair and Comments: |
Jamaine Abidogun, Missouri State University |
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Papers: |
“Setting the Stage: University Policies in Postcolonial Kenya, 1963-1978” |
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“‘Sexploiting the Starved’: Tourism and the Sojourns of Big Mama and Big Daddy in Kenya” |
3:00-3:15 p.m. Refreshments, Ballroom Lobby
3:15-4:45 p.m.
The State of Ozarks History - Roundtable
Colorado A
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Chair: |
Brooks Blevins, Missouri State University |
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Panelists: |
Lynn Morrow, Missouri State Archives |
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Gordon McKinney, Berea College |
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Brooks Blevins, Missouri State University |
