CONFERENCE COORDINATOR
MARION B. LUCAS
Ph: (270) 745-5736
E-Mail: marion.lucas@wku.edu

CONFERENCE HEADQUARTERS
TRAVELODGE HOTEL
1000 Executive Way,
Bowling Green KY 42103 (Exit 22 on I-65)*
Ph:  (270) 781-6610
Fax: (270) 781-7985
See OVHC Web Page: http://www.wku.edu/ovhc
*Traveling north on I-65 cross the interstate, turn right at the second light; traveling south on I-65 turn right at the first right.

To obtain the special conference rate of $55.00 per room (1-4 people; please specify: single bed, or 2 double beds), contact the Travelodge Hotel directly at (270) 781-6610 (you must mention the Ohio Valley History Conference). A block of rooms (non-smoking) will be held until September 30. Because of Homecoming ceremonies at Western and other conventions, lodging will be at a premium for the weekend of the conference. Participants are urged to make reservations at the Conference Headquarters as soon as possible. Those desiring a smoking room must request one.

Hospitality Suite Thursday Night, October 18. After registering at the Travelodge Hotel on Thursday, please visit the OVHC Hospitality Suite 203 beginning at 7:00 p.m. The Conference Banquet and all social hours are at the Travelodge Hotel.

AIR TRAVEL: Participants flying into Nashville Airport may purchase shuttle service to Bowling Green from Airport Anytime Express by phoning 1-800-419-5261. Round Trip $65; one way $50 (lower prices for multiple passengers).

PARKING: The OVHC will provide shuttle transportation between the TRAVELODGE HOTEL and the Garrett Conference Center. Those who prefer to drive to campus will find parking is scarce on "top of the hill," but some may find spaces in front of Cherry Hall on side streets (such as Kentucky St.) three or four blocks away. Please consider driving down Campbell Lane or Cave Mill Road to the South Campus area and taking the WKU Shuttle to campus. Please see the OVHC Web Page: http://www.wku.edu/ovhc for maps to campus.

CONFERENCE PRE-REGISTRATION:  Conference participants are urged to pre-register. The registration fee of $40.00 includes the Friday night banquet at the Travelodge Hotel; the Thursday and Friday night social hours; and Friday and Saturday morning coffee and pastries.  Make checks to OVHC and mail to Marion B. Lucas.

ALTERNATE LODGING:  Best Western Motor Inn 1-800-343-2937 (direct to motel, mention OVHC) offers participants a rate of $49 through October 1.

All OVHC sessions are scheduled for Central Daylight Time in Garrett Conference Center at Western Kentucky University ("on top of the Hill" behind Cherry Hall on College Street).

Friday, October 19, 2001

7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Registration: Garrett Conference Center

7:30 - 10:30 a.m.
Coffee and Pastries: Garrett Executive & Memorial Rooms

Book Exhibits: Garrett Lobby
 

Session I-A  Friday, 8:00-9:15 a.m.
GCC 100

GEORGE ROGERS CLARK: REVOLUTIONARY FOR TWO NATIONS

Chair: Robert Haynes, Western Kentucky University

"The History and Archaeology of George Rogers Clark's Fort Jefferson"
            Kenneth C. Carstens, Murray State University

"George Rogers Clark and the French Revolution"
            Nancy Son Carstens, Murray State University

Commentator: Robert Haynes, Western Kentucky University

KENTUCKY IN TRANSITION: VALUES, CULTURE, AND CLASS

Chair: James Duane Bolin, Murray State University

"The Janus-Faced Eden: Trans-nationalism and Trans-distinctiveness in Kentucky Prior to the Civil War"
            Chris Snow, Eastern Kentucky University

"Brothers in the Bluegrass: Freemasonry and the Middle Class in Kentucky, 1870-1930"
            Joseph C. Smyth, Eastern Kentucky University

"No Room For Possum or Crawfish: African-American Migrants and Civil Rights in Louisville, Kentucky 1930-1960"
            Luther Adams, University of Pennsylvania

Commentator: James Duane Bolin, Murray State University

GENERAL GEORGE MCCLELLAN 1861-1862: MILITARY POLITICIAN AND MILITARY COMMANDER

Chair: Michael S. Fitzgerald, Franciscan University of Steubenville

"General McClellan's 1861 Misadventure in Interstate Diplomacy"
            Ethan S. Rafuse, University of Missouri-Kansas City

"The Role of Technology in the Peninsula Land Campaign"
            Rhonda Smith, Eastern Kentucky University

Commentator: Michael S. Fitzgerald, Franciscan University of Steubenville

TRAVEL AND ROMANCE LITERATURE IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL EUROPE

Chair: James T. Baker, Western Kentucky University

"The Guilty Pleasures of Reading the Travels of John Mandeville, Knight"
            Richard Gildrie, Austin Peay State University

"The Uses of Romance in Early Christian Literature: the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies and the Acts of Paul and Thecla"
            Lisa R. Holliday, University of Kentucky

Commentator: James T. Baker, Western Kentucky University

NORTHERN MINISTERS AND SOUTHERN BAPTIST EDUCATORS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Chair: Larry Whiteaker, Tennessee Technological University

"Race and Religion: Northern Responses to the End of the Civil War"
            Edward J. Blum, University of Kentucky

"Nineteenth Century Baptist Higher Education in the South"
            Christopher Beckham, Morehead State University

Commentator: Larry Whiteaker, Tennessee Technological University

PEACE AND JUSTICE:  THE MILITARY IN PEACETIME ROLES

Chair: Robert Rusnak, Dominican University

"Peace Enforcing:  The Marines in Hispaniola, China and Nicaragua, 1919-1929"
            Leo Daugherty, American Military University

"Traditions versus Modernity: The Problem of Integrating Military and Civilian Legal Institutions"
            George F. Hofmann, University of Cincinnati

Commentator:  Robert Rusnak, Dominican University

CULTURAL AND POLITICAL EXCHANGE: EUROPEANS, NATIVE AMERICANS, AND THE UNITED STATES IN THE MISSISSIPPI AND OHIO VALLEY REGIONS

Chair: Kathryn Abbott, Western Kentucky University

"From Mercenaries to Nation-Builders: The Shawnees and their Neighbors in Lower Missouri, 1780-1820."
            Stephen Warren, Eastern Kentucky University

"Sebastien Racle's Early Missions in the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes Region."
            Thomas J. Lappas, Indiana University

"The Illinois: Navigating the New World's New Opportunities."
            Alan Shackelford, Indiana University

Commentator: Kathryn Abbott, Western Kentucky University

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN SLAVERY AND FREEDOM: FREE BLACKS AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY IN THE OLD NORTHWEST

Chair: Elizabeth A. Perkins, Centre College

"'The black race were not inferior to the white'": Edward Coles, Emancipation and the Persistence of Paternalism"
            Suzanne Cooper Guasco, College of William and Mary

"Recently Freed Blacks in the Ohio Countryside: Manumitters' Ideals and the Structure of Economic Opportunity for a 'New People' ca. 1800-1861"
            Stephen Vincent, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Commentators: Elizabeth A. Perkins, Centre College
                           Kirsten Fischer, University of Minnesota

RECALLING THE PAST: HISTORY AND MEMORY

Chair:  Mary Munsell Abroe, Kendall College

"After the Fall: What Really Happened After the French Took Fort Oswego?"
            Robert S. Salisbury, State University of New York at Oswego
            Richard V. Salisbury, Western Kentucky University

"Significance of the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial"
            Mike Capps, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial

Commentator:  Mary Munsell Abroe, Kendall College

RURAL AND URBAN ELITES IN SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRANCE

Chair: Robert Dietle, Western Kentucky University

"Social Violence and Hunting in France: The chasse destructif, 1515-1650"
            Michael Aradas, Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus

"Local Elites and Political Power: Municipal Elections in Dijon, 1790-1795."
            Lee Baker, University of Illinois at Chicago

Commentator: Robert Dietle, Western Kentucky University

PACIFIC WAR STUDIES

Chair: Don Barlow, Prestonsburg Community College

"Voices from Tokyo:  The Failure to Heed the Warning"
            Justin Libby, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
 

"Comairsols Against Rabaul: The Final Air Battle of the South Pacific Theater"
            Ronnie Day, East Tennessee State University

Commentator: Jeff Roberts, Tennessee Technological University

MANIFEST DESTINY: NATIONS AND PEOPLES

Chair: Carlton Jackson, Western Kentucky University

"Manifest Destiny: An Inherited Characteristic of Nations"
            Penny Sonnenburg, East Tennessee State University

"Wherefore Do You Suffer the Whites to Dwell Upon Your Lands?: Neolin and Archaism among the Delaware 1760-1765"
            Sändra Henson, East Tennessee State University

Commentator: Carlton Jackson, Western Kentucky University

COMMON SOLDIERS IN THE CIVIL WAR: TWO REMARKABLE REGIMENTS

Chair: Christopher Phillips, University of Cincinnati

"Reaching beyond  'Glory' and the 54th Massachusetts: The Men of the 102nd United States Colored Troops"
            Sharon Roger Hepburn, Radford University

"Benjamin Franklin Terry: From Civilian through the Battle of Woodsonville, Kentucky"
            Lonnie Maness, University of Tennessee-Martin

Commentator: Christopher Phillips, University of Cincinnati

HANDS-ON EXPERIENCES: MATERIAL CULTURE IN ANTEBELLUM KENTUCKY

Chair: Paula Trafton, Western Kentucky University

"Constructing Lexington, Kentucky, as the ‘Athens of the West'"
            Patrick Lee Lucas, Michigan State University

"Regional Forms and Preferences: Early Kentucky Furniture and Its Makers, 1790-1840"
            Marianne P. Ramsey, Eastern Kentucky University
            Diane C. Wachs, Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington, Kentucky

"Simple Silver: Silversmiths in South Central Kentucky"
            Carol Crowe-Carraco, Western Kentucky University
            J. Michael Sisk, Central Hardin High School

Comments: Paula Trafton, Western Kentucky University

DEPRESSION YEARS IN ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA

Chair:  John Hennen, Morehead State University

"If Women Ran the City of Erie: Courage, Conflict, and Change among Erie's Women During the 1930's"
            Jerra Jenrette, Edinboro University

"Burning Problems: The Edna Mumbulo Case in Erie, Pennsylvania, 1930"
            Joseph Laythe, Edinboro University

"Northwest Pennsylvania and the Great Depression: A Statistical Overview"
            Ihor Bemko, Edinboro University

Commentator, John Hennen, Morehead State University

HOLLYWOOD MOVIES: TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES

Chair: Charles Bussey, Western Kentucky University

"Beyond Accuracy: Interpreting the Past through Historical Film Genres"
            Brian Sandberg, Millikin University

"Hell's Home Office: Censorship and the Production Codes of Early Hollywood"
            Becky Williams, Eastern Kentucky University

"Hollywood History: Film and the Credibility Gap in Late Twentieth Century America"
            Daniel McDonough, University of Tennessee-Martin

Commentator:  Charles Bussey, Western Kentucky University

RACE AND CLASS DURING THE WORLD WAR I ERA

Chair:  Doug Herman, Prestonsburg Community College

"'To Be Leaders of Men': Black Officers, Camp Des Moines, and World War One"
            James Westheider, University of Cincinnati-Clermont College

"Selectively Southern: The Racial Policies of Louisville and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad through the World War I Era"
            Russell Wigginton, Rhodes College

Commentator: Doug Herman, Prestonsburg Community College

FEDERAL POLICY AND CIVILIAN RESPONSE IN THE CIVIL WAR UPPER SOUTH

Chair: Tom Matijasic, Prestonsburg Community College

"Organizing trade with the Enemy: The Board of Trade System on the Inland Waterways, 1861-1865"
            Clinton W. Terry, University of Cincinnati

"Loyalty, Debt, and Resistance to the Second Confiscation Act in Kentucky's Bluegrass Region: October 1862-July 1863"
            Stephen Rockenbach, University of Cincinnati

"On the Trail of the Crab Orchard Gang: Race, Violence and Politics in Post-Civil War Kentucky"
            J. Michael Rhyne, University of Cincinnati

Commentator: Tom Matijasic, Prestonsburg Community College

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND

Chair: Carol Crowe-Carraco, Western Kentucky University

"Graphic Expressions of English Commerce: Thames School Cartography and the Expansion of Seventeenth-Century English Trade"
            Alistair Maeer, University of Texas at Arlington

"Gone to Heaven: Agnes Beaumont and the Nonconformist Tradition"
            Alana Cain Scott, Morehead State University

Commentator: Carol Crowe-Carraco, Western Kentucky University

WESTERN MINING COMMUNITIES: TRADITIONAL AND NON-TRADITIONAL

Chair:  Michèle T. Butts, Austin Peay State University

"The Merchant Prince of the Copper Country: One Immigrant's American Success Story"
            William H. Mulligan, Jr., Murray State University

"Sex and the Law: Religion and Moral Fluidity in the Nineteenth-Century Boulder, Colorado Mining Community"
            Robin Henry, Indiana University

Commentator: Michèle T. Butts, Austin Peay State University

MEDICAL CARE: THE FEDERALIST NORTHEAST AND MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY KENTUCKY

Chair: Nancy Disher Baird, Western Kentucky University

"A Whole New World?  Change and Persistence in the Medical Milieu of the Northeastern United States, 1780-1810"
            David McCarter, Indiana State University

"Before the Coronary Valley: Doctors and the ‘Hog and Hominy' Diet In Antebellum Kentucky"
            Eric Howard Christianson, University of Kentucky

"Medical Care and the Freedmen's Bureau in Kentucky"
            R.C. Gordon, Western Michigan University

Commentator: Nancy Disher Baird, Western Kentucky University

REBELLIONS AND POWER PLAYS: TWO WORLDS APART

Chair: David Dalton, College of the Ozarks

"The Urbanization of Rebellion: Power Relations and the Virginia Slave Uprising of 1800"
            Michael H. Auterson, Eastern Kentucky University

"Struggling For Peace: The Unrecognized Sacrifices of Buddhist Women During the Vietnam War"
            Robert J. Topmiller, Eastern Kentucky University

Commentator:  David Dalton, College of the Ozarks

CAN WORLD CIVILIZATION COURSES GO BEYOND THE BOX?  POSSIBLE METHODS OF INCORPORATING HUMANITIES MATERIALS INTO THE ‘CIV' SEQUENCE

Chair: Carol Osborne, Murray State University

"MSU's Answer to 'You Can't Get There From Here': The History of the CIV-HUM Program at Murray State University"
            Ken Wolf, Murray State University
 

"See One Teach One: Interdisciplinary Cross Training in CIV-HUM Courses"
            Bill Schell, Murray State University

"The Chronological-Topical Approach: The Condensation of the Current CIV course and the Incorporation of Enhanced Textual Analysis of Literature and Philosophy"
            Terry Strieter, Murray State University

Comment: Carol Osborne and The Audience

POST-WORLD WAR II FOOD SHORTAGES: AUSSIES AND WHALES TO THE RESCUE

Chair: Bill Brinker, Tennessee Technological University

"Whales to the Rescue: One Solution to Japan's Postwar Food Crisis"
            T.H. Baughman, University of Central Oklahoma

"Vital Support: The Commonwealth Rallies to Britain's Food Shortages, 1946"
            Rebekah Peck, University of Central Oklahoma

Commentator: Bill Brinker, Tennessee Technological University

ALABAMA: STATES' RIGHTS TO CIVIL RIGHTS

Chair: Charles Durham, Troy State University-Montgomery

"Dixon Hall Lewis: From Nullification to Southern Rights in Alabama"
            Frederick M. Beatty, Troy State University-Montgomery

"She Sat, TSUM Built, and They Will Come: The Rosa Parks Library and Museum"
            J. Drew Harrington, Troy State University-Montgomery

Commentator: Ray Wallace, Troy State University-Montgomery

7:30 - 9:30 a.m.
Registration: Garrett Conference Center

7:30 - 9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Pastries: Garrett Executive & Memorial Rooms
 

Session VI-A Saturday, 8:00-9:15 a.m.
GCC 100

EUROPEANS IN AFRICA DURING THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES

Chair: John Hardin, Western Kentucky University

"A Failure of Early French Imperialism in Africa: The French-Jesuit Effort in Ethiopia at the Turn of the 18th Century"
            Theodore Natsoulas, University of Toledo

"Lord Chelmsford and the Cost of Racial Pride in the Zulu War, 1879"
            Kenneth Mufuka, Lander University

"Africa is a Hard Place for Women"
            Nancy Disher Baird, Western Kentucky University

Commentator: John Hardin, Western Kentucky University

REASSESSING EFFECTIVENESS: GAS AND CARTOONS

Chair: Richard Muller, US Air Command and Staff College

"The Impact of World War One's Poison Gas"
            Marion Girard, Yale University

"Technical Fairy, Junior Grade:  Warner Bros.' Private SNAFU in World War II"
            Michael Birdwell, Tennessee Technological University

Commentator:  Richard Muller, US Air Command and Staff College

PRESENTING HISTORY TO THE PUBLIC:  REWRITING TRADITIONAL HISTORY AND THE INTERNET

Chair: Richard G. Stone, Western Kentucky University

"GI Jane Remembered: Using Autobiographies and Memoirs to Rewrite
History"
            Denise R. Johnson, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

"WWW.SouthernHistory.net: An Experiment in Public History Internet Publications"
            James B. Jones, Tennessee Historical Commission

Commentator: Richard G. Stone, Western Kentucky University

CHANGING TENNESSEE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Chair: Calvin Dickinson, Tennessee Technological University

"New Laws, New Freedom: Tennessee Women in the Opening Decades of the Twentieth Century"
            Ruth A. Thompson,  Georgia Southern University

"Struggle Within, Struggle Without: The TEPCO Case and the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1936-1939"
            Aaron Purcell, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Commentator: Calvin Dickinson, Tennessee Technological University

CREATING LAW ON THE FRONTIER: THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE AND THE OHIO VALLEY

Chair: Patricia H. Minter, Western Kentucky University

"Property, Union, and Constitution: The Role of Property Rights in the Northwest Ordinance"
            Matthew Festa, Vanderbilt University

"Culture, Gender, and Law in the Ohio Valley"
            Elizabeth R. Osborn, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Commentator: Patricia H. Minter, Western Kentucky University

AT THE MOVIES: HISTORY OR BUNK

Chair: Ted Hovet, Western Kentucky University

"Intrigue, Superstition, and Peril: The Image of the Balkans in Post-Expressionist Film"
            Stu Burns, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign

"The Holocaust Goes to the Movies: An Analysis of the Final Solution in Film"
            Christine A. Colin, Millikin University

Commentator: Ted Hovet, Western Kentucky University

KENTUCKY'S SLAVE DIASPORA

Chair: Thomas Appleton, Jr., Eastern Kentucky University

"Sold for My Account: The Origins of the Slave Trade between Kentucky and the Natchez and New Orleans Markets, 1787-1803"
            Pen Bogert, The Filson Historical Society

"Footprints of the Underground Railroad in Carroll and Trimble Counties, Kentucky"
            Diane Perrine Coon, Independent Scholar

Commentator: Thomas Appleton, Jr., Eastern Kentucky University

CULTURAL ADAPTATION, HISTORICAL CHANGE AND INDIAN IDENTITIES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Chair: Katherine M.B. Osburn, Tennessee Technological University

"For the Protection and Advancement of His Race: The Society of American Indians and the Redefining of Identity"
            Kathryn A. Abbott, Western Kentucky University

"Metis Identity North and South of the U.S.-Canadian Border"
            Amy Slade, Western Kentucky University

"The Resurrection of Indian Tribal Identity in Eastern North Carolina"
            Christopher Arris Oakley, University of Tennessee

Commentator: Katherine M.B. Osburn, Tennessee Technological University

EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY RURAL SOCIETY IN THE DIARIES OF MAGNOLIA LE GUIN.

Chair: T. Howard Winn, Austin Peay State University

"Not Sisters Not Slaves:  The Ambiguity of Race in Rural Georgia"
            Karen Rubin, Florida State University

"Self-identity of a Strong and Independent Farm Woman: Family and Community in the Diaries of Magnolia Le Guin"
            Minoa Uffelman, Austin Peay State University

Commentator: T. Howard Winn, Austin Peay State University

WAR AND U.S. DEFENSE POLICY IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

Chair:  Gregory R. Zieren, Austin Peay State University

"The Impact of World War I on Heavy and Light Industry in the United States"
            Stuart C. Knee, University of Charleston

"Not for Ourselves Alone: Conservative Women and the Gendering of National Defense in the 1920s and 1930s"
            Christine Erickson, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

Commentator: Robert Rusnak, Dominican University

MILITARY ADAPTATION IN THE MODERN ERA

Chair: Matthew Schwonek, US Air Command and Staff College.

"Strange War:  Military Adaptation in Korea"
            Bryan Gibby, The Ohio State University

"Lost Opportunities: Why Military Organizations Fail to Learn from their Last Wars"
            Bryon Greenwald, US Army

Commentator: Matthew Schwonek, US Air Command and Staff College

WORLD HISTORY IN THE CLASSROOM: PERSPECTIVES ON TEACHING AND LEARNING

Chair: Randolph Hollingsworth, Kentucky Virtual University

"Globalizing U.S. History"
            Jeffrey W. Coker, Belmont University

"Why World History: Political Correctness or Real Imperative?"
            Daniel Schafer, Belmont University

"Learning World History: The Student Perspective"
            Rose Gatens, Belmont University

"What Students Must Know: Contingency and Comparison in a World History Class"
            Douglas Bisson, Belmont University

Commentator: Randolph Hollingsworth, Kentucky Virtual University

RACE, COMMUNITY, AND POLITICS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

Chair: John A. Collins, Freed Hardeman University

"Corbin: A Complex Railroad ‘Boom' Town, 1893-1930"
            H.E. Everman, Eastern Kentucky University

"American Press Reaction to the Death of Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky"
            Philip A. Grant, Pace University

"The True President Harding v. Rating Polls"
            Erving E. Beauregard, University of Dayton

Commentator: John A. Collins, Freed Hardeman University