Louisiana State University Shreveport
International Lincoln Center for American Studies
THE ROOSEVELT CENTURY: THEODORE AND FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT
Thursday, 22 October
09:00 am
Session 1: Keynote Address
Chair: Norman W. Provizer, Metropolitan State University of Denver
“Our ‘Nation First’ Presidents: Lincoln, TR and FDR”
William D. Richardson, University of South Dakota
John A. Soubik, University of South Dakota
10:00 am
Session 2: Congress and the Court
Chair: Rodney A. Grunes, Centenary College of Louisiana
“Dealing’ with Congress: TR and FDR”
Samuel B. Hoff, Delaware State University
“TR, FDR and No-Man’s Land: Law, Politics, and Supreme Power”
Stephen K. Shaw, Northwest Nazarene University
“The Roosevelts and the Supreme Court”
Stephen P. Brown, Auburn University
11:30 am
Session 3: Inaugural Addresses, Party Leadership, and Administration
Chair: Danny M. Adkison, Oklahoma State University
“Inaugural Addresses of TR and FDR”
Abdul Karim Bangura, Howard University
“Presidential Party Leadership: TR and FDR”
Sean J. Savage, Saint Mary’s College
“Building Presidential Administrations”
James W. Riddlesperger, Jr., Texas Christian University
James D. King, University of Wyoming
02:00 pm
Session 4: The Vice Presidency
Chair: Henry B. Sirgo, McNeese State University
“Great Men–Insignificant Office”
Danny M. Adkison, Oklahoma State University
“In the shadow of Cousin Teddy: The VP Campaigns of TR and FDR”
James Mac Donald, Northwestern State University
03:00 pm
Session 5: The Media
Chair: Linda Webster, LSU Shreveport
“FDR: Media Master for a Troubled Time”
Todd D. Benz, University of Maine
“Press and the Presidency: FDR as an Innovator”
Chelsea Morgan (Thomas) Eddington, Colorado State University
04:00 pm
Session 6: Peace and Ideology
Chair: Norman W. Provizer, Metroplolitan State University of Denver
“Theodore, Franklin and the Pax Roosevelt”
Gordon P. Henderson, Widener University
“TR, FDR and Marxian Socialism”
James G. Ryan, Texas A and M University at Galveston
Friday, 23 October
09:00 am
Session 7: Health and Physical Fitness
Chair: Ronald J. Byrd, International Lincoln Center, LSU Shreveport
“TR’s and FDR’s Health and Physical Fitness As Symbolic of Their
Presidencies and Their Effects on America”
Max J. Skidmore, University of Missouri–Kansas City
“TR, FDR and George Washington Carver”
Christina Vella, Tulane University
10:00 am
Session 8: Race in the 20th Century
Chair: Norman W. Provizer, Metropolitan State University
“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner: TR and FDR”
Stefano Luconi, University of Padua
“Assimilation or Reorganization? Federal
Indian Policies of TR and FDR”
Thomas A. Britten, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley
11:00 am
Session 9: Annual Abraham Lincoln Lecture
Chair: William D. Pederson, LSU Shreveport
“The Age of Lincoln–A Global Legacy”
William “Jack” C. Davis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
01:00 pm
Session 10: Foreign Policy/Comparative Politics
Chair: Norman W. Provizer, Metropolitan State University of Denver
“Workers Parties and a ‘New Deal’: Corporatist
Alliances in Mexico and the U.S. (1910-1940)”
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, University of Texas–Rio Grande Valley
Ruth Ann Ragland, University of Texas–Rio Grande Valley
“Unequal: U.S. Relations with China during the 2nd FDR Administration”
William Ashbaugh, SUNY Oneonta
04:30 pm05:30 pm
Catered Social Hour at The Pauls
Saturday, 24 October
09:00 am
Session 11: The Lincoln Legacy at Home
Chair: Norman W. Provizer, Metropolitan State University of Denver
“Great White Father Abraham: A Look at Lincoln’s Indian Policy”
Thomas A. Britten, The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley
“Who Would Have Imagined? Lincoln and George Washington Carver at
Pigeon Creek”
Christina Vella, Tulane University
10:00 am
Session 12: Lincoln Legacy Abroad
Chair: Elisabeth Liebert, LSU Shreveport
“Mexico’s Iconic Muralists Honored Lincoln”
Ronald J. Byrd, International Lincoln Center
“Lincoln’s Impact on David Ben-Gurion”
Rodney A. Grunes, Centenary College of Louisiana
“Iran’s Best Kept Secret: World’s Only Epic Poem on Lincoln”
Shahab Ghobadi, International Lincoln Center
Noon
Session 13:
Lincoln’s Lasting Legacy
Chair: William D. Pederson, LSU Shreveport
“Lincoln’s Lasting Legacy”
Max J. Skidmore, University of Missouri–Kansas City
01:-00 pm
Conference Concludes