Georgia Association of Historians
February 19-21, 2015
Statesboro GA
February 19
Regents Academic Advisory Committee for History meets 4:00-5:30
Nessmith-Lane Center for Continuing Education
Welcome Reception: 5:30-7:00
Statesboro Convention and Visitors Bureau
222 South Main Street, Statesboro GA 30459
February 20
Registration Table Open: 8:00-5:00
Sessions at the Nessmith-Lane Center for Continuing Education
847 Plant Drive
Statesboro, GA 30458
Regents Academic Advisory Committee Continues Meeting 9:00-12:00
Session Block One: 9:00-10:30
Southern Religion and Reform
Chair: Mary Waalkes, East Georgia College
Victoria Do, Armstrong State University
“Reconsidering the Evangelicalism of George Whitefield in the Great Awakening”
Ashlee Casey, Armstrong State University
“The AME Church: Independent Agent of Change during Reconstruction”
Jordan Fischer, Armstrong State University
“The Golden Key to the Domestic Sphere: Southern Ladies in the WCTU”
Discussant: James M. Woods, Georgia Southern University
Issues of Gender and Race in Museums and Historic Sites
Chair/Discussant: Michael Van Wagenen, Georgia Southern University
Elizabeth Laney, South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation, Tourism
“Untold Stories & Forgotten Legacies: The Remarkable Lives of Henry Slow and Dennis Wigfall”
Elizabeth Worley, Abraham Baldwin College
“The Georgia Museum of Agriculture and Historic Village: A History of Elementary School Field Trips and
Gender from 1976 to the Present”
20th Century Georgia
Helen L. Brackett, Clayton State University
“Women Take to the Skies in the 1930s: a Case Study of Charlotte Frye”
Alan McLarnand, University of West Georgia
"'Marietta, Georgia is in Need of Slum Clearance': Civic Commercialism, Urban Renewal and the
Destruction of the City's Historical African American Communities, 1940-1965"
Graduate Student Potpourri
Chair/Discussant: Laura McCarty, Georgia Humanities Council
Jamie Snyder, Georgia College
“Thomas Jefferson and His Influences: Enlightenment Thought and Philosophy"
Jordan Koper, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
“Politics and Expansionism: The Purchase of Alaska”
Mario Tumen, Georgia College
“Criollos e indigenas: State-building in the Region of Ancash, Peru, 1885-1895”
Session Block Two: 10:45-12:15
The United States and its Allies in World War II
Chair: Olavi Arens, Armstrong State University
Tiffany Bueno, Armstrong State University
“French Resistance and the Downed Allied Flyers during World War II”
Raymond Dominick Franklin, Armstrong State University
“Charles de Gaulle and Recognition by Franklin D. Roosevelt”
Samuel Martin, Armstrong State University
“Operational Collaboration between the Army Air Force and the Soviet Union in the European Theater
of Operations”
Discussant: Teresa Ast, Reinhardt University
Space, Place, and Politics: Georgians on the Move since 1900
Chair/Discussant: Tom Scott, Kennesaw State University
Brian M. Ingrassia, Middle Tennessee State University
“Better than Indianapolis: the Atlanta Automobile Speedway and Progress in the Gate City, 1909”
Ashton Ellett, University of Georgia
“Roads to Power: Jimmy Carter and the Last Days of the State Highway Department”
Edward A. Hatfield, Emory University
“Rails, Roads, and Race: MARTA and the Problem of Metropolitanism”
Teaching Contemporary Chinese History: a Roundtable Discussion
Panelists: Juanjuan Peng, Georgia Southern University
Lin Mao, Georgia Southern University
Pidi Zhang, Georgia Southern University
Hongjie Wang, Armstrong State University
12:15-1:30 Lunch Break (List of Statesboro Dining Options Provided)
Session Block Three: 1:30-3:00
Transcultural Perspectives in Colonial America: Religious, Military, and Social Outlooks
Chair: Lee Ann Caldwell, Georgia Regents University
Jenny Smith, Valdosta State University
“What Small is it that Remains to Keep Us Apart?': New England Congregational Thought on the Need
for Continued Parish Reform in England, 1640-1660"
Garrett Hall, Valdosta State University
"Benjamin Church and the Formation of a Transcultural Military Unit during King Philip's War"
Victoria Rodriquez, Valdosta State University
“Highland Immigration to North Carolina, 1730-1776”
Discussant: Solomon K. Smith, Georgia Southern University
Upheaval in Georgia: Political and Social Movements of the 1960s and 1970s
Chair: Bradley Rice, Clayton State University
Christopher Huff, Beacon College
“Marijuana and Mayhem in Midtown: Atlanta’s Counterculture, 1966-1971”
Glenn Robins, Georgia Southwestern State University
“Dove, Hawk, or Owl: the Vietnam War Cartoons of Clifford Baldowski”
Randall Patton, Kennesaw State University
“They Killed CETA: the Struggle over Job Training and Public Employment in Atlanta and the Nation,
1968-1982”
Discussant: Michelle Haberland, Georgia Southern University
Taming Nature or Being Tamed by It? Engineering across Time
Chair: Bill Speer, American Military University
Stephen Gill, Columbus State
"'Militias, Marshes, and Mobs…Oh, my!' : The Hazards of Civil Service to the Seventeenth-Century
English State."
Mark Smith, Fort Valley State
“The Politics of Military Professionalism: The Engineer Company & the Political Activities of the
Antebellum Engineers
Barry Whittemore, University of North Georgia
“Opening Up Appalachian Virginia: Railroads, Real and Imagined, as Indicators of Accommodation and
Resistance.”
Discussant: Chris Wilhelm, College of Coastal Georgia
Ripped from the Headlines: the Press and History
Chair/Discussant: Patrick Novotny, Georgia Southern University
Thomas Aiello, Valdosta State University
“VIOLENTLY AMOROUS: the Jackson Advocate, the Atlanta Daily World, and the Limits of Syndication”
Seth Weitz, Dalton State College
“Dalton’s Red Menace: Don West and McCarthyism in Northwest Georgia”
Thomas Cody Waters, Georgia Southern University
“All the News That’s Fit to Sing: Phil Ochs, Vietnam, and the National Press
20th C. Music and Popular Culture
Chair/Discussant: Steve Goodson, University of West Georgia
Stephen Taylor, Middle Georgia State
“No Show Tunes: Fiddle Conventions as Arbiters of Tradition and Modernity, 1935-2014”
Matthew Jennings, Middle Georgia State
“See them big plantations burning: Bob Dylan and the South”
Marsha Brockman, Georgia College
“Godzilla: Science, Modernity, and American Influence in Post-World War II Japan”
Session Block Four: 3:15-4:45
Nobody Knows Their Names: New Perspectives on Black Freedom Struggle Activism
Chair: Michael Benjamin, Armstrong State University
Kenja McCray, Georgia State University
“Movement Memories: Cultural Nationalist Women Remember the Long Freedom Struggle”
Nafeesa Muhammed, Georgia State University
“Women in the Nation of Islam”
Rachel Cofield, Columbus State University
"Black Power: Women’s Varying Role in the Movement."
Mark Sciuchetti, Columbus State University
"Hope in the Darkness: Jewish Participation in the Civil Rights Movement, 1950-1969,"
Discussant: Seneca Vaught, Kennesaw State University
From Lunatics to Politics: Defending and Developing Antebellum Georgia
Chair/Discussant: Lisa Denmark, Georgia Southern University
Steven J. Rauch, U.S. Army Historian, Fort Gordon
“Major General Thomas Pinckney and the War of 1812 in Georgia”
Michael Gagnon, Georgia Gwinnett College
“Augustin Clayton, Nullification, and the Emergence of the Whig Party in Georgia”
David Connolly, University of North Georgia
“Straddling the Divide: Competing Legal Systems and Social Authority in Lumpkin County”
Philip Guerty, University of North Georgia
"Nature as Curative: Medical Discourse and the Founding of the Georgia Lunatic Asylum"
Art, Media, and War: Examining the Aftermath of War(s)
Chair/Discussant: Patrick Zander, Georgia Gwinnett College
Katelynd L. Gibbons, MA Candidate, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and Associate editor of Visions
and Revisions journal
“The Value of Art under Nazi Rule”
Jerra Jenrette, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
“World War II and Its Legacy: Germany’s Children”
Martha Donkor, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
“War without Borders: American Media and the War on Women”
History and Memory
Chair/Discussant: Laura T. McCarty, Georgia Humanities Council
Jennifer Smith, University of North Georgia
“The Daughters of the Republic of Texas and the Creation of the Texas Lost Cause”
Joseph Floyd, Georgia State University
“‘The tragedies of knights and princes’: Hernando de Soto and historical memory on the 20th-century
Old Spanish Trail”
Reception: 5:00-6:00 Averitt Center for the Arts
33 East Main Street, Statesboro GA 30458
6:00 Keynote by Steven C. Hahn, St. Olaf College
Saturday, February 21
8:30-12:00 Registration Open
8:30-10:00 Poster Session: Georgia Gwinnett College Students on Jacksonian America
Caitlyn Hanrahan, “Cherokee Removal: The Driving Force Out of Georgia”
Mohamed Kassim, “The Anti-Nullification Movement in Georgia”
Audrey Lynn, “Worcester v. Georgia in Georgia: How Georgian Public Opinion Shaped the Results of the
Case”
Denise Norton, “Removal of the Creek Indians”
Jessica Rayman, “Georgia, Slavery, and the Missouri Compromise”
Session Block Five: 9:00-10:30
Human Experiences in the American Civil War
Chair: Kenneth H. Wheeler, Reinhardt University
Heidi Amelia-Anne Weber, State U. of New York-Orange
“I can not describe my feelings”: Experiences of Georgia’s Women in the Wake of General Sherman’s
Armies
Randell Gooden, Clayton State University
“’Taken Away from Us at this Time’: The Civil War Arrest of a Country Doctor”
Kenneth Alford, Brigham Young University
“William H. Norman aka John E. Davis: A Galvanized Georgia Yankee”
Discussant: David Parker, Kennesaw State University
Religion and Culture: Transnational Perspectives
Chair and Discussant: Christopher Curtis, Armstrong State University
Seth Parry, Emmanuel College
“Defending the Doge: Bernardo Giustiniani on Francesco Foscari”
Jeffrey Burson, Georgia Southern
“Genealogies of Enlightenment among Jansenists and Jesuits”
Michael Granado, Savannah Christian Preparatory School
“No Trifling Matter: Joseph LeConte and Evolution”
Law and Human Rights in the Nineteenth Century Atlantic World
Chair: John Inscoe, University of Georgia
Jonathan Bryant, Georgia Southern
“Human Rights and Natural Rights: Chief Justice John Marshall and the Case of the Antelope”
Felicity Turner, Armstrong State
“Reimagining the African American Mother: Rights and the Racialization of Motherhood in the
Reconstruction South”
Colleen Vasconcelos, University of West Georgia
“Finding Enslaved Children’s Place, Voice, and Agency within the Narrative”
Discussant: Jeffrey R. Young, Georgia State University
The Great War and its Aftermaths
Chair/Discussant: Bronson Long, Georgia Highlands College
Alex Nordlund, University of Georgia
'The Remembrance of Veterans: Britain and Memory of the Closing Year of the First World War'
James H. Galt, Abraham Baldwin College
“Dissension in the Ranks: Baden-Powell’s Boy Scouts, Francis Fletcher Vane and the Kibbo Kift”
Session Block Six 10:45-12:15
Colonial Military History
Chair: Dixie Ray Haggard, Valdosta State University
Solomon K. Smith, Georgia Southern University
“To Chastise the Cherokees [and] reduce them to the absolute necessity of suing for pardon”:
Lieutenant Colonel James Grant and the Anglo-Cherokee War, 1758–1761”
Gary Sellick, University of South Carolina
“'A fleeting glimpse of freedom: The effects of smallpox on British Emancipation policy in the
Revolutionary War'
William Wilson, Camden County High School
"The Governor and the Colonel: Political and Military Maneuvering on the Virginia Frontier"
Discussant: Dr. Charles Thomas, Georgia Southern University
Feminism at Work: Early Stirrings
Chair/Discussant: Anastasia Sims, Georgia Southern University
Susan Bragg, Georgia Southwestern State University
“One Girl Stands at the Door, and a Generation Waits outside: African American Women and the NAACP
Youth Politics in the Early Twentieth Century”
Michael Gunther, Georgia Gwinnett College
“Sea Sounds’ at Midcentury: (Eco) Feminist Stirrings in the Writings of Rachel Carson and Anne
Lindbergh”
Ellen Rafshoon, Georgia Gwinnett College
“The Family Planning Movement in Georgia: A Conservative Revolution”
Wendy Harrison, Abraham Baldwin College
“How Did Members of the Thomasville Study Class Use the Club to Define Themselves and Their
Community?”
History and the Environment: Two Case Studies
Chair/Discussant: Patrizia Stahle, College of Coastal Georgia
Ilaria Scaglia, Columbus State University
“Internationalism on the Alps: Mountains, Emotions, and Internationalism, 1919-1948”
Cathy Skidmore-Hess, Georgia Southern University
“Guns and Globalization: Hunting in the Kalahari during the 19th and 20th Century”
“Exercises in Interaction: Teaching the Past in the 21st Century History Classroom Panel”
Chair/Discussant:
Panelists: Stacy Lynn Tanner, U of Central Florida
Denise Spivey, Florida State University
Anna Alexander, Georgia Southern University