THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28
9:00 a.m. – DaVinci Room
1 NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
Chair: Perry Hornbacher, Bismarck State College
“Transnationalism, the Slave Trade, and the Corsico Company”
- Ernst Pijning, Minot State University
“Rum and Felons: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade during the Age
of Democratic Revolution” - Ty M. Reese, University of
North Dakota
“The Slave Trade in Liberia” - Eric Burin, University
of North Dakota
Commentator: James Mochoruk, University of North Dakota
9:00 a.m. – Rembrandt Room
2 SHOWING YOUR STUFF: SHARING
MUSEUM ARTIFACTS WITH THE PUBLIC
Chair: Felicia Sargeant, National Buffalo Museum
“No Two Horns: A Gallery of Art and Exploits”
- Michael D. Frohlich, State Historical Society of North Dakota
“TIES: Binding the Plains Together” - Shawn F. Holz,
State Historical Society of North Dakota
“Nautical North Dakota” - Mark J. Halvorson,
State Historical Society of North Dakota
Commentator: Kathryn Higdon, South Dakota State Historical Society
9:00 a.m. – Renoir-Russell Room
3 CITIZENS AND SOLDIERS DURING THE VIETNAM WAR
Chair and Commentator: Margaret Sankey, Minnesota State
University Moorhead
“‘The fairest way and with the least amount of fuss’:
Hamilton County, Ohio, Draft Boards and the Vietnam War”
- James Westheider, Clermont College, and Chris Dixon, University
of Newcastle
“This Was Their Finest Hour: The South Dakota National Guard
and the Black Hills Flood, 1972” - Steven Bucklin, University
of South Dakota
9:00 a.m. – Manhattan Room
4 ISSUES OF CONTROL IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY
AMERICA
Chair: Thomas Howard, University of North Dakota, emeritus
“Morality and Mastery in the Old South: How White Women
Exercised Authority on the Slave Plantations of the Cotton Kingdom”
- Nikki Berg, University of Minnesota
“Separate Spheres of Influence: Charles River Bridge v.
Warren Bridge (1837) and the Foundations of Dual Sovereignty”
- Michael J. C. Taylor, Dickinson State University
Commentator: Mary E. (Betsy) Glade, St. Cloud State University
9:00 – Liberty Room
5 ECONOMICS AND GOVERNMENT FROM MANITOBA
TO RHODESIA
Chair: Dalton McMahon, Mayville State University
“Cecil John Rhodes and the Rhodesian Land Problem, 1890–1920”
- Kenneth Mufuka, Lander University
“The End of the Agent?: Western Canadian Insurance Agents
and Professionalization, 1896–1970” - Heather E.
Nelson, McMaster University
Commentator: James Naylor, Brandon University
9:00 a.m. – Picasso Room
6 DOCUMENTING RECENT AGRICULTURAL HISTORY
IN THE RED RIVER VALLEY: CANADIAN AND AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Dana Miller, Hibbing, Minnesota
“A Look at Documenting Change in Agriculture and Rural Life”
- Gerald Newborg, State Historical Society of North Dakota
“Reaping the Harvest: the Records of Agricultural Life in
Manitoba” - Shelley Sweeney, University of Manitoba Archives
& Special Collections
Commentator: Duane Swanson, Minnesota Historical Society
9:00 a.m. – Wyeth-Rockwell Room
7 INFLUENCES THAT SHAPE HISTORY
Chair: Terry Shoptaugh, University of Minnesota Moorhead
“Values in History As Reflected in Statuary Hall, U.S. Capitol”
- Gerald Lange, Dakota State University
“Indians as Ethnographic Exhibits” - Birgit Hans,
University of North Dakota
“The Henry Villard Papers and the Harvard Commission on
Western History” - Paul Stone, University of Minnesota
Commentator: W. Thomas White, James J. Hill Library
THURSDAY, OCTOBER
28
11:00 a.m. – Liberty Room
8 RACISM, THE BLACK SOLDIER, AND ACTIVISM
Chair: Robert Zeidel, University of Wisconsin-Stout
“The Impact of Army Service on the Civil Rights’ Movement:
The Deacons for Defense and Justice in Louisiana” - Selika
Ducksworth-Lawton, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
“Slavery’s Front Lines: The Suppression of an 1816
Slave Revolt from both Northern and Southern Perspectives”
- Oscar Chamberlain, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
Commentator: James Westheider, Clermont College
11:00 a.m. – Rembrandt Room
9 LIVES OF NATIVE AMERICANS ON THE NORTHERN PLAINS
Chair: Cheryl Schreier, Knife River Indian Villages
National Historic Site
“Mandan-Hidatsa Unhyphenated: Tensions at the Knife River,
1804–1812” - Tracy Potter, Fort Abraham Lincoln Foundation
“‘To Restore These Children’: Fort Totten’s
Preventorium, 1935–1940” - Carla Kelly, Valley City,
North Dakota
“Ojibway Women in Transition: The Influence of the Church
in Canada in the Nineteenth Century” - Anastasia Bowe,
West St. Paul, Manitoba
Commentator: Jon Brudvig, University of Mary
11:00 a.m. – Wyeth-Rockwell Room
10 NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION
SOCIETY
Chair and Commentator: Eric Burin, University of North
Dakota
“Church membership among Maryland Colonization Society Emigrants
to Cape Palmas, Liberia” - Kit Lim, University of North
Dakota
“Nineteenth-Century Liberia: A Gendered Interpretation”
- Erik Towne, University of North Dakota
“Postbellum Emigration to Liberia: A Gendered Analysis”
- Joy Greger, University of North Dakota
11:00 a.m. – Picasso Room
11 FRONTIER MAPPING AND TRAVELING
Chair: Michael Funchion, South Dakota State University
“Dreaming Dakota: A Cartographic History of South Dakota,
1697–1889” - Michael J. Mullin, Augustana College
“Medal and Flags: Zebulon Pike, Lewis and Clark, and National
Identity” - Robert P. Sherwood
“The 1859 Chouteau Expedition Goes Down the Missouri River”
- Lawrence H. Larsen, University of Missouri–Kansas City, and
Barbara J. Cottrell Larsen, National Archives, Central Plains Region
Commentator: Mark Harvey, North Dakota State University
11:00 a.m. – Renoir-Russell Room
12 EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM
Chair: Gerald Anderson, North Dakota State University
“The Beginning of the End of the British Empire in North
America: The Earl of Halifax—A New Man at the Helm of the Board
of Trade, 1748” - Steven G. Greiert, Missouri Western State
College
“Egalité and Empire: Race War and the Louisiana Purchase,
1794–1803” - Charles M. Barber, Northeastern Illinois
University, emeritus
“Sins of Our Fathers: Historians and the Slesvig (Schleswig)
Holstein Issue After World War II” - John M. Pederson,
Mayville State University
Commentator: Donald Pryce, University of South Dakota, emeritus
11:00 a.m. – DaVinci Room
13 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS DOING LOCAL HISTORY
Chair: Tom Isern, North Dakota State University
“Easy Money: The Socio-Economic Impact of the Fargo Divorce
Mill in the Late 1890s” - Scott Aubinger, North Dakota
State University
“The Women’s Movement and Fargo Divorce Cases”
- Erica Eckhoff, North Dakota State University
“The World War II Home Front: A Look at the War through the
Eyes of Those Who Remember” - Deborah Anderson, Valley
City State University
Comment: Kimberly Porter, University of North Dakota
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28
2:30 p.m. – Renoir-Russell Room
14 QUESTIONS OF CLASS AND DEMOCRACY
Chair: Thomas Colbert, Marshalltown Community College
“Democracy, Socialism, Nationalism: A Holy Trinity? Giuseppe
Mazzini’s Response to the Liberal Tradition” - David
G. Rowley, University of Wisconsin–Platteville
“The Allotment of Jurors in Athenian Law Courts”
- Kevin K. Carroll, Arizona State University
“A Slave Revolt in the Hellenistic Period” -
Iain McDougall, University of Winnipeg
Commentator: John Helgeland, North Dakota State University
2:30 p.m. – Rembrandt Room
15 PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS, 1962–1973
Chair: Rebecca Leber-Gottberg, University of North Dakota
“What Makes a Hero? An Examination of John F. Kennedy and
the Cuban Missile Crisis” - Jeffery W. Bakke, Moorhead,
Minnesota
“A Very Close Heartbeat Away: Spiro Agnew and Watergate”
- Justin P. Coffey, Depaul University
Commentator: Richard E. Collin, State Historical Society of North
Dakota
2:30 p.m. – Picasso Room
16 TEACHING NORTH DAKOTA HISTORY: HOW WE ARE DOING IT AND
HOW WE’D LIKE TO BE DOING IT
Chair: D. Jerome Tweton, University of North Dakota,
emiritus
David B. Danbom, North Dakota State University
Lori Ann Lahlum, Valley City State University
Kimberly Porter, University of North Dakota
Richard Stenberg, Williston State College
2:30 p.m. – Wyeth-Rockwell Room
17 WILSONIAN IDEALS
Chair and Commentator: Robert Zeidel, University of
Wisconsin-Stout
“Woodrow Wilson’s Nightmare: The Second Iraq War and
the Crisis of Collective Security” - Albert Berger, University
of North Dakota
“‘Onward Wilsonian Soldiers!’: Wilsonianism
and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization” - Connie K.
Harris, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2:30 p.m. – Manhattan-Liberty Room
18 BLACK MIGRATION IN THE UNITED STATES
Chair: Gail Di Donato, University of Nebraska at Omaha
“Junius Groves and the Exoduster Movement” -
Tisa Anders, Denver, Colorado
“Robert Crawford: From Slave to Church Leader”
- Kurt E. Leichtle, University of Wisconsin–River Falls
Commentator: Ty Reese, University of North Dakota
2:30 p.m. – DaVinci Room
19 DISCOVERING AND REDISCOVERING LEWIS AND CLARK
Chair: Anne Kaplan, editor, Minnesota History
“Treasures in the Attic: Finding the William Clark Letters
in a St. Paul Home” - Ruth Bauer Anderson, Minnesota Historical
Society
“‘Visiting the Corps of Discovery’: Commemoration
of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial as Living History”
- J. Thomas Murphy and Elizabeth E. Dunn, Bemidji State University
Commentator: Gregory Camp, State Historical Society of North Dakota
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