“A Cartoon History of the Civil War” - Richard Beringer, University of North Dakota, emeritus
Manhattan-Liberty Room

Society for Military History Luncheon - Empire Room
See registration form for tickets, which must be purchased by October 15.

Women’s History Interest Group Luncheon - Ballroom Foyer
See registration form for tickets, which must be purchased by October 15.

Reception at the North Dakota Heritage Center
Conference participants are invited to enjoy refreshments and hors d’oeuvres at the North Dakota Heritage Center on the capitol grounds on Thursday evening, compliments of the sponsoring institutions: Bismarck State College and the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
An exhibit titled “This Grand Scene . . . North Dakota from the Palette and Pen of George Catlin” opens at the Heritage Center on October 23. Five original Catlin paintings on loan from the Smithsonian Institution, as well as 22 Catlin prints based on his field paintings and sketches, on loan from the Holland Hart law firm in Denver, will be featured, along with American Indian artifacts and archeological material from the Society’s collections.

Sponsored by the State Historical Society of North Dakota and Bismarck State College (bus transportation provided to and from the hotel)
North Dakota Heritage Center, Capitol Grounds

Presentation by Joan Troccoli on George Catlin at the North Dakota Heritage Center
Joan Carpenter Troccoli, founding director and curator of the Denver Art Museum's Institute of Western American Art, will speak about the Catlin exhibit at 7:30 p.m. in the Russell Reid Auditorium at the North Dakota Heritage Center. Formerly the director of the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Troccoli was a contributing author for the recently published book, George Catlin and His Indian Gallery, published by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Russell Reid Auditorium, North Dakota Heritage Center

TO BE ANNOUNCED

Northern Great Plains History Conference Council Breakfast Meeting
Empire Room, Radisson Hotel

Circle of Cultures: National Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Signature Event at the University of Mary (events scheduled throughout the afternoon)

Free bus transportation will be provided from the hotel leaving every half-hour from 12:30 until 2:00 and returning from the University of Mary every half-hour from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.

Parking at the university is limited; thus conference attendees are encouraged to indicate their intention to ride the bus on the registration form.

Compact and Covenants: 200 Years Downstream with the Doctrine of Discovery
Arno Gustin Hall, University of Mary

A panel discussion with Paul VanDevelder, author of Coyote Warrior; Ray Cross, the subject of the book; Chief Justice Gerald VandeWalle; and Ken Rogers, editor, Bismarck Tribune.

Social Hour (cash bar) - Ballroom Foyer

Keynote Address by James P. Ronda
Keynote speaker is James P. Ronda, H. G. Barnard Chair in Western American History at the University of Tulsa and a past president of the Western History Association. A specialist in the history of the exploration of the American West, he is the author of many books, essays, and presentations at scholarly conferences, as well as consultant for many museum projects and television documentaries. Professor Ronda’s books include Lewis and Clark among the Indians (1984), From Conquest to Conservation: Thomas Jefferson and the Changing West (1997); Voyages of Discovery: Essays on the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1998); and Beyond Lewis and Clark: The Army Explores the West (2003). He is the co-author (with Carolyn Gilman) of Lewis and Clark: Across the Divide (2003), the catalogue of the National Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Exhibition. Professor Ronda's newest book is The Western Writings of Washington Irving (2004). He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello and gave the keynote address there for the official opening of the National Lewis and Clark Bicentennial in January 2003.

Presentation of Larry Rowen Remele Award
Established by the Northern Great Plains History Conference to honor the memory of Larry Rowen Remele, this award is presented annually to an individual who has made significant contributions to the betterment of the conference. Remele, a long-time editor of North Dakota History, worked energetically to promote and enhance the conference and was serving as council chair at the time of his premature death in 1988.
The recipient of the Larry Rowen Remele Award for 2004 is Janet Daley. She served as the editor of North Dakota History from 1993 to 2002, also publishing fourteen books during her tenure. The program chair of the 1997 NGPH Conference in Bismarck and an enthusiastic participant in eight other meetings between 1993 and 2004, Jan was a member of the Governing Council from 1996 to 2001. Presently a freelance editor and scholar, Jan most recently was the managing editor of A Vast and Open Plain: The Writings of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in North Dakota, 1804–1806, with annotations by Clay S. Jenkinson and a foreword by James P. Ronda. She helped organize this thirty-ninth annual conference program for the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
The fifteen previous winners of the Larry Rowen Remele Award are, in order of presentation, D. Jerome Tweton, Archer Jones, Lawrence H. Larsen, James M. Skinner, William E. Lass, William C. Pratt, R. Alton Lee, David B. Danbom, Hans Burmeister, Dana Miller, Malcolm Muir, Jr., Nancy Tystad Koupal, Harl A. Dalstrom, J. Michael McCormack, and Charles M. Barber.

Invitation to the 2005 NGPHC

Tickets for the banquet must be purchased by October 15, using the registration form.

AFTERNOON TOURS

#1 Military Tour to Fort Abraham Lincoln, Fort McKeen, On-a-Slant Village, and the Veterans’ Memorial Cemetery
Historian J. Michael McCormack, Bismarck State College. (1:00 – 4:00 p.m.)

#2 Encounters Tour to Double Ditch State Historic Site to learn about groundbreaking new discoveries and the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center/Fort Mandan in Washburn
Archeologist, Fern Swenson, State Historical Society of North Dakota (1:00 – 5:00 p.m.)

Tickets for the guided tours must be purchased in advance, using the registration form. The charge covers transportation and all entrance fees.