Thirty-second Annual Mid-America Conference on History DoubleTree Hotel September 23-25, 2010 Little Rock Arkansas (Image) local scene LR or UALR Hosted by University of Arkansas at Little Rock Department of History Mid America Conference on History September 23-25, 2010 DoubleTree Hotel, Little Rock, Arkansas Registration Form Name:_________________________________________________________ Organization____________________________________________________ Address:_______________________________________________________ City, State:______________________________________________________ Phone:__________________________E-mail__________________________ Registration ____ Regular @ $50.00 $____ ____ Student @ $25.00 $ ____ ____ Retired @ $25.00 $ ____ ____ Elem/Secondary Teachers @ $25.00 $ ____ Meals _____ Thursday Lunch Ticket @ $20.00 $ ____ ____ Friday Lunch Ticket @ $20.00 $ ____ ____ Friday Banquet Ticket @ $30.00 $ ____ Tours ____ Clinton Presidential Library @ $5.00 $ ____ ____ Central High School Civil Rights Museum @ $5.00 $ ____ ____ Heifer International Headquarters @ $5.00 $ ____ ____ Scott Connection – Living Farm Museum @$10.00 $ ____ (Saturday 1:30pm. Approximately 20 minute bus ride to 19th century restored cotton plantation. Tour takes approximately 1 hour. Minimum of 25 people) Total $____* Electronic Registration: https://www.meetingsintherock.com/iebms/reg/reg_p1_form.aspx?oc=20&ct=WEBREG &eventid=5184 Mail registration Credit Card Number_____________________________________ Exp Date_____________ Name as it appears on credit card_______________________________________ Send forms and payment to: Mid America Conference on History, C/O LRCVB, P O Box 207, Little Rock, AR. 72203 or fax to 501-376-4143 Lodging: DoubleTree Hotel (Conference Hotel) $99.00 per night – 501-372-4371 Wyndham Hotel (Across the Arkansas River from the DoubleTree), $88 per night – 501-371-9000 LaQuinta Hotel (6 Blocks from the DoubleTree), $72.00 per night – 501-374-9000 Each hotel has free van service for airport pickup and local transportation. Contact the hotel to request service. The Conference Missouri State University originated the Mid-America Conference on History in 1977. It has become an annual conference co-sponsored by the departments of history at Missouri State University, Oklahoma State University, and the Universities of Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma and rotates between them. Location The 2010 Mid-America Conference on History, sponsored by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock will be held at the Double Tree Hotel, 424 West Markham Street, Little Rock, Arkansas. Registration Wednesday Thursday and Friday Saturday 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm 8:00 am – 5:00 pm 8:00 am – 10:00 pm Book Exhibits Thursday and Friday Saturday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm 8:00 am – 10:00 am Refreshments Sponsored by Department of History UALR Next Year Oklahoma State University will host the 33rd Annual Mid-America Conference on History in 2011. Please contact Prof. Michael Logan (michael.logan@okstate.edu) for more information 3 Conference Organizers C. Fred Williams, Conference Coordinator, Chair Program Committee Program Committee Ed Anson Clea Bunch Tom Kaiser John Kirk Jeff Kyong-McClain Moira Maguire Kristin Mann Carl Moneyhon Jess Porter Charles Romney Frances Ross Jim Ross Laura Smoller Vince Vinikas L. T. Williams Administrative and Technical Support Katie Wolford Heeral Patel Chad Garrett Tamisha Cheatham Special thanks to the graduate student volunteers in the UALR Public History Program Funding The Conference is being funded in part by grants from: The Office of the Chancellor, Joel Anderson The Office of the Provost, David Belcher The Dean of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences, Deborah Baldwin The conference organizers are grateful for this financial support. Book Exhibitors Truman State University Press University of Arkansas Press 4 Luncheon & Banquet Informaton Tickets Required for Meals Thursday Lunch – Solon A 12:00 noon David Cook, Department of Rice University (dbcook@rice.edu) Religious Studies Lecture Topic: TBA Friday Lunch – Solon A 12:00 noon Poshek Fu, Professor of History, Asian American Studies, and East Asian Languages and Culture, University of Illinois (poshekfu@illinois.edu) Lecture Topic: Screening the Opium War: The Politics of Chinese Cinema under Japanese Occupation Friday Banquet – Arkansas Queen Riverboat 7:00 pm Vernon Burton, Burroughs Professor of Southern History and Culture, Coastal Carolina University (vburton@coastal.edu) Lecture Topic: The Age of Lincoln: Then & Now 5 Schedule-At-A Glance Thursday, September 23 Registration Book Exhibits Session 1 Session 2 Lunch Session 3 Session 4 Dinner (On your own) 8:00 am – 5:00 pm 8:00 am – 5:00 pm 8:45 am – 10:15 am 10:30 am – 11:45 am 12:00 noon – 1:30 pm 1:45 pm – 3:00 pm 3:15 pm – 4:00 pm Friday, September 24 Registration Book Exhibits Session 5 Session 6 Lunch Session 7 Session 8 Tours Banquet Lecture 8:00 am – 5:00 pm 8:00 am – 5:00 pm 8:45 am – 10:15 am 10:30 am – 11:45 am 12:00 noon – 1:30 pm 1:45 pm – 3:00 pm 3:15 pm – 4:00 pm 4:15 pm 6:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:45 pm Saturday, September 25 Registration Book Exhibits Session 9 Session 10 8:00 am – 10:00 am 8:00 am – 10:00 am 8:45 am – 10:15 am 10:30 am – 11:45 am 6 Thursday - 23rd 8:45 – 10:15am Palisades Room Expansion & Conflict in the Formative Period of U.S. History Chair: James Giglio, Missouri State University (JamesGiglio@missouristate.edu) Paper: The Other Numic Empire: Horses, Guns, Smallpox, and the Fate of the Eastern Shoshones, Adam R. Hodge, University of NebraskaLincoln (arhodge@huskers.unl.edu Paper: Settlers of Destiny: The Rhetoric of Expansion to the Oregon Territory 1837-1845, Matt McDonough, Kansas State University (McDonough_MD@yahoo.com) Paper: For 'Old Abe and Andy': Union Soldiers from Southeastern Ohio and the Election of 1864, Gregory R. Jones, Kent State University (grjones83@gmail.com) . Thursday - 23rd 8:45 – 10:15am Riverside West Geography and History Chair: Gerald Hanson, University of Arkansas at Little Rock ? (gthanson@ualr.edu) Paper: The Last Apache Raid Begins, 1886 How Geography Informs History, Michael Logan, Oklahoma State University (Michael.logan@okstate.edu) Paper: Jess Porter, Investigating Prehistoric and Historic Interactions of Climate, Vegetation, Large Herbivores, and Fire on the Great Plains, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (jcporter@ualr.edu) Comment:: Brooks Green, University of Central Arkansas (brooksg@uca.edu) 7 Thursday - 23rd 8:45 – 10:15am Riverside East Christian Youth & Missionary Culture Chair: Jim Ross, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (jdross2@ualr.edu) Paper: Sons and Daughters of the Lord: The Radicalism of the Methodists' Youth Culture, 1780-1820, John P. Ellis, Purdue University (jpellis@purdue.edu) Paper: Every Tribe on This Terrestrial Ball": Missionaries, Hymns, and Evangelism in British Missionary Societies, Kirk Fatool, Purdue University (kirkfatool@gmail.com) Comment: Ray Granade, Ouachita Baptist University (granade@obu.edu) Thursday - 23rd 10:30 – 11:45am Palisades Room Military History Ancient & Modern Chair: Steven Wagner, Missouri Southern State University (wagner-s@mssu.edu) Paper: Counter-Insurgency: The Lessons of Alexander the Great, Edward Anson, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (emanson@ualr.edu) Paper: Afghanistan, The dangers of history in the Graveyard of Empires,” Dan A. Powers, University of Utah (dan.powers@utah.edu Comment: William Shea, University of Arkansas at Monticello (shea@uamont.edu) 8 Thursday - 23rd 10:30 – 11:45am Riverside West Gender and Technology Chair: Pat Ramsey, University of Central Arkansas (ramseyp@uca.edu) Paper: Tale of Women and Washing Machines: The Reflection of Housewives through Advertisements, Morgan Ty Hendricks, University of Central Arkansas (Mhendricks2@cub.uca.edu) Paper: Women: The Right Tools For the Job, Krystle Payne, University of Central Arkansas (krystlepayne1@gmail.com) Comment: Angela Boswell, Henderson State University (boswela@hsu.edu) Thursday - 23rd 10:30 – 11:45am Riverside East 19th Century German-French Social Theory & Military Action Chair: Raymond Screws, Independent Scholar (randascrews@att.net) Paper: The Inequality of Human Races: Using race as a refuge for aristocratic prestige in the mythology of J.A. de Gobineau, Kevin Jones, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (kwamplerjones@gmail.com) Paper: Evaluating the Efficacy and Legacy of Irregular Warfare in the Franco-German War of 1870-1871, Paul Hatley, Rogers State University (PHatley@rsu.edu) Comment: Roger Pauly, University of Central Arkansas (rpauly@uca.edu) 9 . Thursday - 23rd Lunch – 12:00 – 1:30pm Salon A Introduction of Speaker: Clea Bunch, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (cebunch@ualr.edu) Speaker: David Cook, Department of Religious Studies, Rice University (dbcook@rice.edu) Topic: TBA Thursday - 23rd 1:45 – 3:00 pm Palisades Room Disease, War, and Native Americans Chair: Vince Vinikas, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, (vxvinikas@ualr.edu) Paper: Doubtless it was Some Pestilential Disease: The Native American Plague of 1616-19 and the Colonization of New England, Steve Buckingham, University of Memphis (sbucking@uthsc.edu) Paper: Savage Barbarities and Petty Depredations: The Tattered Sinews of War on the Niagara Border, 1812-1814, Dan Glenn, Delta State University (dglenn@deltastate.edu) Comment: Joe Key, Arkansas State University (jkey@astate.edu) 10 1:45 – 3:00 pm Thursday - 23rd Riverside West Economic Development and Self Interest in England & Ireland Chair: Julie Harris, Harding University jeharris@harding.edu Paper: The Citie Calls for Beere: The Introduction of Hops and the Foundation of Industrial Brewing in London, 1200-1700, Kristen Burton, Oklahoma State University (kd.burton@okstate.edu) Paper: The Tyrone Rebellion: Queen Elizabeth I, Irish relations, and the future of the English Crown in Ireland, Katie Skelton, Oklahoma State University (Katie.skelton@okstate.edu) Comment: Julie Harris, Harding University jeharris@harding.edu Thursday - 23rd 1:45 – 3:00 pm Riverside East Education & Racial Progress in Oklahoma Chair: T. Greg Barrett, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (tgbarrett@ualr.edu) Paper: The Territorial Normal School: Education, Statehood, and Citizenship During the Oklahoma Territorial Period, Rowan F. Steineke, University of Oklahoma (Rowan.F.Steineker-1@ou.edu) Paper: Oklahoma City's James "Jimmy" E. Stewart: Race Progress in the Sooner State and Beyond, Stacy M. Reikowsky, University of Central Oklahoma (sreikowsky@uco.edu) Comment: James F. Willis, Southern Arkansas University (jfwillis@saumag.edu) 11 Thursday - 23rd 3:15 – 4:30 pm Palisades Room Politics & Ideology in Nazi Germany Chair: J. Laurence Hare, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (jharejr@uark.edu) Paper: The Helmuth Hübener Group and the German Youth Resistance Movement, Steven Carter, Henderson State University (carters@hsu.edu) Paper: Adolf Eichmann: Nazi Party Careerist or Intentionalist?, John Lange, Park University (John.Lange@park.cdu) Comment: Ralph Brown, University of Louisiana, Monroe (rbrown@ulm.edu) Thursday - 23rd 3:15 – 4:30 pm Riverside West Transnational Connections in World History Chair: John Herron, University of Missouri Kansas City (herronj@umkc.edu) Paper: The “Free Russia” Campaign: American Crusaders unite with Russian Nihilists, 1890-1910,” Tim Westcott, Park University (Tim.westcott@park.edu) Paper: Comparing Imperial Legal Authority in Ghana and Hawaii, 1890-1920,” Charles Romney, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (cwromney@ualr.edu) Comment: John Herron, University of Missouri, Kansas City (herronj@umkc.edu) 12 . Thursday - 3:15 – 4:30 pm 23rd Riverside East Civil Rights in Arkansas Chair: Jeannie Whayne, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (jwhayne@uark.edu) Paper: The Sit-Ins and the Courts: Little Rock, Lupper and the Law, 19601964, John Kirk, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (jakirk@ualr.edu) Paper: Race Traitors, Outside Agitators, and Homegrown Radicals: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Arkansas, Jennifer Wallach, University of North Texas (Jennifer.Wallach@unt.edu) Comment: Cherisse Jones-Branch, Arkansas State University (crjones@astate.edu Dinner (on your own) Hosted groups will organize in the lobby of the DoubleTree beginning at 6:00pm 13 Friday - 24th 8:45 – 10:15am Palisades Room Music as a Cultural Medium in History Chair: Lorri Glover, Saint Louis University (lglover1@slu.edu) Paper: Migration and the Blues Aesthetic: Blues Music as a Cultural Bridge, Anthony Di Lorenzo, Loyola University (adiloren@gmail.com) Paper: Hillbilly” Social Consciousness and Country Music in Chicago’s Uptown, 1957-1970, Devin Hunter, Loyola University Chicago (dvhunter@gmail.com) Paper: Cowboys from Hell: The American Cowboy, Lawman, and Outlaw in Heavy Metal Music Lyrics,Cody Smith, Oklahoma State University, (codyhsmith@gmail.com) Comment: David Stricklin, Butler Center for Arkansas Studies (dstricklin@cals.lib.ar.us) Friday - 24th 8:45 – 10:15am Riverside West Intellectual Thought: Transcendentalism & Peace Theory Chair: Dominic Capeci, Missouri State University (DominicCapeci@missouristate.edu) Paper: The Impact of Transcedentalist Thought on the Movement to Abolish Slavery, Vanessa Garza, Park University (vanessa.garza@park.edu) Paper: In Search of a Theory of Peace, Jack Knight, Missouri State University (JackKnight@missouristate.edu) Comment: Trisha Posey, John Brown University (TPosey@jbu.edu) 14 Friday - 24th 8:45 – 10:15am Riverside East Symbols of War & Revolution in Modern China Chair: Robert Markman, Missouri Southern State University Markman-R@mssu.edu Paper: National Treasure or Local Pride? Conflicting Interpretations of the Archaeological Artifact in Chengdu's Wartime Museums, 1937-45, Jeff Kyong-McClain, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (jwkyongmoccl@ualr.edu) Paper: An American Perception of the Chinese Revolution: The Papers of Capt. John F. Manning, Jeff Wells, Texas Christian University (jeffwells@tcu.edu) Comment: Aiquin Hu, Arkansas State University (aiqunhu@astate.edu) Friday - 24th 10:30 – 11:45am Palisades Room Landscapes, Ecology & Environmentalism Chair: Thomas Kaiser, University of Arkansas at Little Rock tekaiser@ualr.edu Paper: War Among the Trees: The Effect of World War I on French Forested Landscapes. Buck T. Foster, University of Central Arkansas (histphd@hotmail.com} Paper: Ecology Is a Racist Shuck:' Opposition to Environmentalism, 19631972, Katrina Lacher, University of Oklahoma (klacher@ou.edu) Comment: Jeffrey Kosiorek, Hendrix College (Kosiorek@hendrix.edu) 15 Friday - 24th 10:30 – 11:45am Riverside West Post World War II Southern Labor Chair: Bob Miller, Missouri State University, (BobMiller@missouristate.edu) Paper: John McClellan, the Teamsters, and Biracial Labor Politics in Arkansas,1947-1959, Michael Pierce, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (mpierce@uark.edu) Paper: A Great Step Forward?:" Senator John C. Stennis and The Textile Fiber Products Identification Act of 1958, Whitney Snow, Mississippi State University (was140@msstate.edu) Comment: Trey Berry, Arkansas Department of Heritage (trey@arkansasheritage.org) Friday - 24th ` 10:30 – 11:45am Riverside East Media and the American Indian Chair: Gary Lindsey, Oklahoma Christian University (gary.lindsey@oc.edu) Paper: Photographing the Dakota, Jennifer McKinney, Oklahoma State University (Jennifer.mckinney10@okstate.edu) Paper: Personifying the Bad Indian: The Media and Wahoo McDaniel, Travis Larson, Oklahoma State University (travis.larsen@okstate.edu) Comment: Gary Lindsey, Oklahoma Christian University (gary.lindsey@oc.edu) 16 10:30 – 11:45am Friday - 24th Edgehill Room Politics & Poverty in Different Environments Chair: Frances Ross, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (fmross@ualr.edu) Paper: The United Progressive Alliance and the 2009 Elections in India, Tripta Desai, Northern Kentucky University, desai@nku.edu Paper: Wanderers on the Fringe: An Examination of Nomadic Development in Kenya and Uganda, 1900-2008, Jared Phillips, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (jmp006@uark.edu) Comment: Micheal Tarver, Arkansas Tech University (mtarver@atu.edu) . Friday - 24th Lunch 12:00 – 1:30pm Salon A Introduction of Speaker: Jeff Kyong-McClain, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (jwkyongmccl@ualr.edu) Luncheon Speaker: Poshek Fu, Professor of History, Asian American Studies, and East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois. (poshekfu@illinois.edu Topic: Screening the Opium War: The Politics of Chinese Cinema under Japanese Occupation 17 Friday - 24th 1:45 – 3:00pm Palisades Room Radicalism and Reaction in the 1960’s Chair: Lee Williams, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (DrLee629@aol.com) Paper: JOIN: A Participatory Democracy of the Poor, Renee LaFleur, Ohio University (renee.lafleur@gmail.com) Paper: Fear’s Two Faces: Reaction to Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination in New York City and Memphis Tennessee, Joel Baehler, Oklahoma State University (joeleb@okstate.edu) Comment: John Rhodes, Southeastern Missouri State Unversity (jrhodes@semo.edu) . Friday - 24th 1:45 – 3:00pm Riverside West Interpreting Colonial America Chair: Johanna Miller Lewis, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (jmlewis@ualr.edu) Paper: Telling the Truth about the Seventeenth Century Hudson Valley Susanah Shaw Romney, The Huntington Library (susanahshaw@yahoo.com) Paper: The Interpretation of American Gentility According To Colonists and Traveling Englishman, Chelsea Larson, Oklahoma State University (Chelsea.l.larsen@okstate.edu) Comment: Josh Piker, University of Oklahoma (jpiker@ou.edu) 18 Friday - 24th 1:45 – 3:00pm Riverside East Protestant Missionaries and Persecution Chair: Charles Bolton, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (scbolton@ualr.edu) -Paper: France, Spain, and the Persecution of Protestant Heresy: 15501650, Gregory E. French, Missouri State University (French417@live.missouristate.edu) Paper: “Souldiers for Christ and Profit in the Wilderness": English Missionaries, Religious Idealism, and Material Interest in Colonization of the New World, 1607-1660, Bryan C. Rindfleisch, University of Oklahoma (Bryan.C.Rindfleisch-1@ou.edu) Paper: A Very Rare Sight in Haiti: Early Protestant Missionaries in Haiti, 1815-1871, Miles Smith, Texas Christian University. (Miles.J.Smith@tcu.edu) Friday - 24th 3:15 – 4:30pm Palisades Room Japanese Americans in Arkansas & Beyond Chair: Sondra Gordy, University of Central Arkansas (sondrag@uca.edu) Paper: The Oishi Family and the War Relocation Experience, Tracie Rushing, University of Central Arkansas (trarushing@yahoo.com) Paper: The Yada Family after the Relocation Experience, Sondra Gordy, University of Central Arkansas (sondrag@uca.edu) Comment: Richard Yada, Rhower, (Arkansas) Relocation Camp (richardyada@yahoo.com) 19 3:15 – 4:30pm Friday - 24th Riverside West Public Policy & Native American Culture Chair: Billy Higgins, University of Arkansas, Fort Smith (bhiggins@uafortsmith.edu) Paper: A Failure to “Renew the Covenant Chain” with the Iroquois: The Board of Trade and British Policy on the New York Frontier, 17501754, Steven Greiert, Missouri Western State University (greiert@missouriwestern.edu) Paper: “A Relic of Barbarism”: Government Suppression of the Sun Dance at Pine Ridge Agency, 1879-1886, Matthew Deepe, Oklahoma State University (matthew.deepe@okstate.edu) Comment: Billy Higgins, University of Arkansas, Fort Smith (bhiggins@uafortsmith.edu . Friday – 24th 3:15 – 4:30pm Riverside East Faith, Family, and Memory Chair: Laura Smoller, University of Arkasnas at Little Rock, (lasmoller@ualr.edu) Paper: The Christian Family and Civil Leadership in late Antiquity, Nathan Howard, University of Tennessee at Martin (nhoward@utm.edu) Paper: Damasus I and the Constructed Memory of the Roman Church, Natalie Hall, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (nahall@uark.edu) Comment: Terry Carter, Ouachita Baptist University (cartert@obu.edu) 20 Friday - 24th Tours 4:45 – 6;00 pm Tour A – Central High Civil Rights Museum Tour B – William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library Tour C – Heifer International . Friday - 24th Banquet – 7:00pm Introduction of Speaker: John Kirk, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Speaker: Vernon Burton, Burroughs Professor of Southern History and Culture, Coastal Carolina University Topic – “The Age of Lincoln: Then and Now” 21 Saturday – 25th 8:45 – 10:15pm Palisades Room Civil War Politics and Culture Chair: Patrick Williams, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (pgwillia@uark.edu) Paper: Union Sentiment and Secession Holes: Civil War Politics in Kentucky, Keith Altavilla, Texas Christian University (k.f.altavilla13@atu.edu) Paper: Little Rock in the War, 1864-1866: Transitions in Attitude, Monette Reinhard, University of Wisconsin-Eau Clair (moberein@yahoo.com) Comment: Tom DeBlack, Arkansas Tech University, (tdeblack@atu.edu) . Saturday – 25th 8:45 – 10:15am Riverside West Baseball: Opportunities & Challenges Chair: Kimberly Little, University of Central Arkansas (klittle@uca.edu) Paper: A Diamond in the Rough: Taylor Field and Minor League Baseball, 1937-1947, George Lea, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (glea3@yahoo.com) Paper: Not Just a Test: Major League Baseball, Drugs, and the Privacy Issue, 1984-1989, Nathan Corzine, Purdue University (ncorzine@purdue.edu) Comment: John Kinder, Oklahoma State University (john.kinder@okstate.edu) 22 Saturday - 25th 8:45 – 10:15am Riverside East Women and Image Chair: Paula Barnes, Independent Scholar (drbarnes@bellsouth.net) Paper: Anne Boleyn: A Woman with Two Faces-Determining which of them was a Mask,Amber Ables, Park University ( 549796@park.edu) Paper: Are We There Ye? Women’s Image in Advertising, Amanda Whitley, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (alw8819@aol.com) Comment: Tricia Starks, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (tstarks@uark.edu) Saturday - 25th 10:30 – 11:45am Palisades Room Legal History & Public Policy Chair: Don Zelman, Tarleton State University (Zelman@tarleton.edu) Paper: Indian Preference in the Bureau of Indian Affairs: Occupation of the BIA Center in Littleton, Colorado and Morton v. Mancari, Azusa Ono, Osaka University of Economics, Osaka Japan ( azusaono@gmail.com) Paper: The History and Impact of Presumptive Disability Laws for Firefighters,” Jonathan P. Phillips, Mississippi State University (jpphillips82@yahoo.com) Comment: Martin Halpern, Henderson State University (HALPERN@hsu.edu) 23 Saturday - 25th 10:30 – 11:45am Riverside West African American Politics in the 19th Cenutry Chair: Susan O’Donovan, University of Memphis (odonovan@memphis.edu) Paper: One Speech Does Not Make a Career: Congressional Black Republican 1870-1881, Adam Carson, University of Arkansas Fayetteville (anc012@uark.edu) Paper: Louis Porter Featherston: The Arkansas Farmers’ Alliance and Jim Crow Politics, 1874-1900, Brad Jordan, University of Arkansas Little Rock (bradley_s_jordan@yahoo.com) Comment: Calvin White, University of Arkansas (calvinwh@uark.edu) Saturday- 25th 10:30 – 11:45am Riverside East Intellectual Thought & Regional Culture Chair: Ben Johnson, Southern Arkansas University (bfjohnson@saumag.edu) Paper: John Woolman – Quaker Divine; A Model for Integrity and Spirit in the Midst of Conflict, Mike Thompson, Oklahoma State University (mike.thompson@okstate.edu) Paper: The Memory and Thought of Herbert Ravenel Sass, Alan James Harrelson, Mississippi State University (ajharrel@edisto.cofc.edu) Comment: Ben Johnson, Southern Arkansas University (bfjohnson@saumag.edu) 24 . Saturday 25th Tour – 1:45 – 3:00 pm Scott Connection – Open Air Plantation Museum & Toltec Mounds State Park (Mississippian Era Cultural Site) 25