FLORIDA COLLEGE TEACHERS OF HISTORY

27th Annual Conference

 

Edison Community College

Ft. Myers, FL April 13, 14, 15, 1989

Co-chairs: David B. Mock, Ph.D. and Irvin D. Solomon, Ph.D.

 

 

FLORIDA COLLEGE TEACHERS OF HISTORY 1989 ANNUAL MEETING

PRESIDENT:  Tom Campbell

VICE PRESIDENT: Dave Mock

SECRETARY-TREASURER: Jim Mayes

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Dave Mock and Irv Solomon

 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

ALL EVENTS WILL BE HELD AT FT. MYERS RAMADA INN-ON-THE-RIVER FT. MYERS, FLORIDA

 

THURSDAY April 13

2:00-6:00                                        REGISTRATION

7:30-??                                           RECEPTION

 

FRIDAY April 14

8:30-11:00 a.m.                               LATE REGISTRATION

9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.                       SESSIONS

11:00 a.m.-12:00 a.m.                     BUSINESS MEETING

1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

3:00-4:00 p.m.                                WORKSHOP: INTEGRATING THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY INTO THE HISTORY CURRICULUM

 

7:00 p.m.                                         Banquet

 

8:00 p.m.                                         Featured Speaker: Dr. Sheldon B. Liss, Professor of History and Government and Chair, Latin American Studies Department, University of Akron

“Marxist Thinkers in Central America”

 

SATURDAY April 15

8:30-12:00                                       Sessions

 

 

SESSIONS

 

FRIDAY April 14

9:30-11:00 a.m.  LOCATION: AFT

 

UNITED STATES SINCE THE NEW DEAL

CHAIR:  J. Larry Durrence, Florida Southern College

“Conservative Reaction to the New Deal in South Carolina”

JoAnn D. Carpenter, Florida Community College at Jacksonville

“Public Funds and Private Schooling from Huey Long to Ronald Reagan”

Roy Mumme, University of South Florida at Ft. Myers

“Civil Construction Projects in Florida”

Paul C. Hartman, University of Central Florida

COMMENT:   J. Larry Durrence, Florida Southern College

 

 

9:30-11:00 a.m.  LOCATION: FORE

 

MEDIEVAL/ EARLY MODERN EUROPE

CHAIR: David Carr, University of South Florida at St. Petersburg

“Two for One: Historical Perspectives in Medieval Literature”

Linda Griffin, Edison Community College

“Chazis, Timars, Kadis, and Scribes: The Ottoman Empire in Greatness and Decline”

Richard Cromwell, Jacksonville University

“Scavengers, Rakers, and Councillors: The Enforcement of Plague Orders in Elizabethan London”

David B. Mock, Edison Community College

COMMENT: David Carr, University of South Florida at St. Petersburg

 

 

1:00-2:30 p.m.  LOCATION  AFT

 

HISTORY OF FLORIDA BUSINESS

CHAIR:  Ernie Hall, Edison Community College

“The History of the Florida Shrimping Industry”

Darryl Paccietti, Edison Community College

“The Controversy over Pari-Mutual Betting in Florida, 1925-1931”

Susan Hamburger, Florida State University

COMMENT:  Ernie Hall, Edison Community College

 

 

1:00-2:30 p.m.  LOCATION: FORE

 

LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY

CHAIR: Rodney D. Anderson, Florida State University

“The Cuban University Student Movement, 1923-1933”

Lisa Tignor, University of South Florida

“Women in Twentieth Century Cuba”

Ginger Williams, University of Florida

“Protestant Evangelism in Ecuador”

Alvin Goffin, Florida State University

COMMENT:  Darrell Levi, Florida State University

 

 

3:00-4:30 p.m. LOCATION: AFT

 

WORKSHOP: INTEGRATING THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY INTO THE HISTORY CURRICULUM

 

 

7:00 p.m.. Banquet

 

8:00 p.m. Featured Speaker:

Dr. Sheldon B. Liss, Professor of History and Government and Chair, Latin American Studies Department, University of Akron

“Marxist Thinkers in Central America”

 

 

SATURDAY APRIL 15

8:30-10:00 a.m.  LOCATION: AFT

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY EUROPE

CHAIR: Will Benedicts, Tallahassee Community College

“Britain’s Blunder in the Balkans: The Failed Policies of the Phony War”

Lynn Curtwright, Tallahassee Community College

“The Holocaust: Assessing the Blame”

David Long, Florida State University

“SS Economist: Otto Ohlendorf and the Economy of the Third Reich”

Ridgeway Murphree, Florida State University

COMMENT: Will Benedicts, Tallahassee Community College

 

 

8:30-10:00 a.m.  LOCATION: FORE

 

THE EXPANSION OF COMMUNISM AND FASCISM

CHAIR: Glen Coston, Pensacola Junior College, Milton Campus

“The Patterns of Communist Expansion”

Roy Lechtreck, University of Montevallo

“The Expansion of Fascism: The Johnson Act, Mussolini, and Fascist Immigration Policy”

Monte Finkelstein, Tallahassee Community College

COMMENT: Glen Coston, Pensacola Junior College, Milton Campus

 

 

10:15-11:45 a.m.  LOCATION: AFT

 

THE MILITARY IN THE U.S. CIVIL WAR

CHAIR: Owen Farley, Pensacola Junior College

“‘They Fought Like Devils’: Black Troops in the 1864 Florida Expedition”

David Coles, Florida State University

“The American Civil War Union Naval Blockade—Success or Failure?”

Donald Anderson, University of North Florida/University of Florida

“Blacks and the Military to the American Civil War”

Irvin D. Solomon, Edison Community College

COMMENT: Owen Farley, Pensacola Junior College and George Watters, St. Johns River Community College at Orange Park

 

 

10:15-11:45 a.m.  LOCATION: FORE

 

AMERICAN DIPLOMACY

CHAIR:  Monte Finkelstein, Tallahassee Community College

“The 1950 New York NATO Conference: The Origins of West German Rearmament”

David Proctor, Florida State University

“The San Francisco Conference on International Organization”

Will Benedicts, Tallahassee Community College

“The United States and the European Defense Community”

Joe Knetsch, Florida State University

COMMENT:  Monte Finkelstein, Tallahassee Community College