FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29
9:00 a.m. – Rembrandt Room
20 THE NATURE AND TEACHING OF HISTORY
Chair: Larry R. Peterson, North Dakota State University
“Reconstructing Alice: A Meditation on the Historian’s
Craft” - Paula M. Nelson, University of Wisconsin–Platteville
“A New Approach to Teaching Twentieth-Century World History”
- Sue C. Patrick, University of Wisconsin–Barron County
“Using Oral History as a Teaching Tool in the College Classroom”
- Kimberly Porter, University of North Dakota
Commentator: Francis M. Carroll, University of Manitoba, emeritus
9:00 a.m. – Renoir-Russell Room
21 SOLDIERING IN EARLY AMERICA
Chair and Comment: Donald Bittner, U.S. Marine Corps
Command and Staff College
“‘Extreme Campaigning: The British Army’s Response
to Climate and Environment in the American Revolution”
- Tabitha J. Marshall, McMaster University
“Henry Knox: America’s Martial Founding Father”
- James McIntyre, Morraine Valley Community College
9:00 a.m. – Wyeth-Rockwell Room
22 EUROPEAN ROMANCE AND WAR
Chair: Fred Stambrook, University of Manitoba
“Lost Lives: Early Historical Accounts of the Thirty Years
War” - David Meier, Dickinson State University
“‘A-Wooing They Would Go’: The Courtship of
Mary of Guise by the Earls of Lennox and Bothwell, 1543-1544”
- Daniel Trifan, Missouri Western State College
Commentator: Timothy L. Bratton, Jamestown College
9:00 a.m. – DaVinci Room
23 COMMUNITIES HANDLING POLITICAL HOT POTATOES: WAR, PROHIBITION,
AND GAMBLING
Chair: Charles Piehl, Minnesota State University, Mankato
“Prohibition, the Police Commission, and the Rise of the
Democratic Party in Rhode Island, 1928-1932” - Debra Mulligan,
Roger Williams University
“‘We’ve come a long way . . .’: Council
Bluffs, Iowa, and Gambling, 1983–2003" - Harl A. Dalstrom,
University of Nebraska at Omaha, emeritus
“‘We Will Not Turn Back’: A Northeast Iowa Community
and the Opening Months of World War II” - Terrence Lindell,
Wartburg College
Commentator: Kathleen Green, Morningside College
9:00 a.m. – Picasso Room
24 RIVERBOATS ON THE UPPER MISSOURI
Chair: J. Michael McCormack, Bismarck State College
“The Rediscovery of the Amelia Poe” - Michael
Casler, National Park Service
“Caulking Irons to Corporate Images: Reflections of Material
Culture” - Mark J. Halvorson, State Historical Society
of North Dakota
“Crossing the Wide Missouri: From Ferry Boats to Bridges
on the Upper Missouri River” - Frank E. Vyzralek, Great
Plains Research
Commentator: William E. Lass, Minnesota State University, Mankato
9:00 a.m. – Liberty Room
25 INDIAN EXPERIENCE AND POLICY
Chair: Joseph Fitzharris, University of St. Thomas
“A Reappraisal of Grant's Indian ‘Peace Policy’”
- Henry Fritz, St. Olaf College, emeritus
“‘Go Now—You Are Forgiven’: General Oliver
O. Howard’s Idea of Indian Policy and Its Effects upon the Nez
Percés War of 1877” - Catherine R. Franklin, University
of Oklahoma
Commentator: Albert Berger, University of North Dakota
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29
11:00 a.m. – Picasso Room
26 LOCAL HISTORY IN FARGO-MOORHEAD
Chair: Richard M. Chapman, Concordia College
“The Life and Times of Peter Bergstrom: A Swedish Immigrant
in Moorhead, Minnesota,1898- 1942” - Joy K. Lintelman,
Concordia College
“The Unhallowed Hollow: Prostitution in Victorian Fargo
and Moorhead” - Carroll Engelhardt, Concordia College
Commentator: David B. Danbom, North Dakota State University
11:00 a.m. – Rembrandt Room
27 SEVEN GENERATIONS SINCE LEWIS AND CLARK
- Chair: Marilyn Hudson, Three Tribes Museum, New Town, North Dakota
- Karen J. Atkinson, Tribal Strategies, Inc.
- Jonathan Cross, University of British Columbia School of Law
- Patricia Cross, Office of Trust Management, Department of the Interior
- Charles Hudson, Jr., Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
- Denise Juneau, University of Montana School of Law
Comment: The Audience
11:00 a.m. – Wyeth-Rockwell Room
28 AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Chair: Virginia L. Heidenreich, Palmyra, Wisconsin
“Black Life Activity and Activism in Omaha’s Black Community:
1900–Present” - Matthew C. Stelly, University of
Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and Michael Payne, Omaha
“African American Studies and the Challenges of Globalization:
A Paradigmatic Analysis” - R. Tunde Adeleke, University
of Montana - Missoula
Commentator: Katharine Bjork, Hamline University
11:00 a.m. – Renoir-Russell Room
29 PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS IN THE 1920S AND 1930S
Chair: Wynne Paasch, State Historical Society of North
Dakota
“Iowa’s Rural Responses to the Presidential Campaigns
of 1932: A New Deal or the Same Stacked Deck?” - Lisa L.
Ossian, Southwestern Community College
“The 1924 LaFollette Campaign on the Northern Plains”
- William C. Pratt, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Commentator: Robert Gough, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
11:00 a.m. – Manhattan-Liberty Room
30 COEDS IN COLLEGE: THE EARLY YEARS
Chair: Eleanor Hannah, University of Minnesota - Duluth
“The Sorin Sisters: Hamline University’s Legacy of
Coeducation” - Kristin Mapel Bloomberg, Hamline University
“Ballots, Beaux, and Arrows: Gender Relations at Carleton
College in the Late Nineteenth Century” - Michael David
Cohen, Harvard University
Commentator: Jane Pederson, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
11:00 a.m. – DaVinci Room
31 UNDERGRADUATE SESSION: THE CHANGER AND THE
CHANGED: INTROSPECTION, INNOVATION, AND THE NATURE OF HISTORICAL EVENTS
Chair: Michael J. C. Taylor, Dickinson State University
“Modernity and Martyrdom: The Assassination of Harvey Milk
and Its Legacy” - Terry G. Hanson, Dickinson State University
“William Jennings Bryan and the Sinking of the R.M.S. Lusitania”
- Bradley D. Kustermann, Dickinson State University
“The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Evolution of President
John F. Kennedy” - Ian Karvo, Dickinson State University
Commentator: Edward J. Pluth, St. Cloud State University, emeritus
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