SELECTED ANNUAL PROCEEDINGS
OF THE FLORIDA CONFERENCE OF HISTORIANS
ISSN 1076-4585
Library of Congress Call Number: D3.F6 A66
VOLUME 1
JUNE 1993
Formerly the Florida College Teachers of
History
EDITORS OF THE
SELECTED ANNUAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE FLORIDA
CONFERENCE OF HISTORIANS
J. Clarke
Jacksonville University
Eric Thomas, asst. ed.
Jacksonville University
Layout of the volume courtesy of
Jacksonville University
Printing of the volume courtesy of
David Richards
and
Lake City Community College
OFFICERS
OF THE
FLORIDA CONNRENCE OF HISTORIANS
President
Wayne Watters
St. Johns River Community College
President-Elect
Virginia York
Gulf Coast Community College
Past President
Owen Farley
Pensacola Junior College
Vice President
Joel York
St. Petersburg Community College, Clearwater
Permanent Secretary
David Mock
Tallahassee Community College
Permanent Treasurer
Will Benedicks
Tallahassee Community College
Local Arrangements Chair, 1993
Wayne Watters
St. Johns River Community College
Local Arrangements Chair, 1994
Virginia York
Gulf Coast Community College
Local Arrangements Chair, 1995
Joel Finley
St. Petersburg Community College, Clearwater
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
This past March, the
Florida College Teachers of History held its annual meeting at the Holiday Inn
in Orange Park, Florida. At its business Meeting, the conferees decided to
change the name of our organization to "The Florida Conference of Historians"
or, more pleasantly, "FCH." We also decided to publish annual
proceedings starting with next year's meeting. At that point, knowing that I
had a year to prepare, I volunteered to edit those proceedings. . . . Then it
was decided to start with this year's meeting.
This decision began
a confused scramble as presenters tried to whip their oral presentations into
publishable shape. With little planning and working under tight time
constraints, my job as editor has been particularly difficult. What are the
"Rules of Engagement," as it were, of my position? I have aimed to
limit my impact on the works included in this volume. I have tried to clean up
the manuscripts essentially only where I thought necessary for clarity and,
more frequently, for consistency of format and style throughout all the papers.
In fairness to the authors, given the limited time, none has had a chance to
comment on the changes I have inflicted upon their papers. I hope that they,
and you, the readers, are satisfied.
I would like to
thank Eric Thomas of Jacksonville University, for his capable assistance in
this editing project.
Unfortunately, not
all presenters were able to submit their papers for this first volume; we hope
to do better next year. The 1993 program displayed a wide range of interests,
and certainly augurs well for the future vitality of the FCH.
J. Calvitt Clarke
III
June 15, 1993
FLORIDA COLLEGE TEACHERS OF HISTORY
1993 ANNUAL PROGRAM
HOLIDAY INN, ORANGE PARK, FLORIDA
HOSTED BY WAYNE WATTERS
ST. JOHNS RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE
THURSDAY March 11
3:00-6:00 pm
Registration
7:00-10:00 pm
Informal reception
FRIDAY March 12
8:00-8:45 am
Registration
8:45-9:00 am
Conference Opening/Welcome
9:00-10:30 am
Session IA
NEW WORLD ORDERS
IN THE POST WAR WORLD: WORLD WAR I AND WORLD WAR II
CHAIR: Bill Martin, Florida Community College at
Jacksonville
1. "An Anomaly
Among Anomalies:" India's Entry into the League of Nations
Karl Schmidt,
Florida State University
2. Arthur Vandenberg
and the UN
Tom Campbell, Florida
State University
3. The Truman
Administration and NSC-68
Will Benedicks,
Tallahassee Community College
9:00-10:30 am
Session IB
THE DONS VERSUS
THE ALDERMEN: THE BATRLE BETWEEN TOWN AND GOWN
CHAIR: David M. Head, South Georgia College
1. The St. Scholastic
Day Riot: Oxford After the Black Death
Carol Miller,
Tallahassee Community College
2. The Riots of
Elizabethan Oxford
David Mock,
Tallahassee Community College
11:00-12:00 am
Business Meeting
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch
1:00-2:30 pm
Session IIA
NATIONALISM AND
ETHNIC RIVALRY IN THE TWEN-TIETH CENTURY WORLD
CHAIR: Kyle Eidahl,
Florida A&M University
1. "Not as a
People, but as Germans:" German and American Views on the Ethnic Impact of
Imperialism
Frank Baglione,
Tallahassee Community College
2. Volcanic Islands:
Ethnic Conflict in Northern Ireland, Cyprus, and Sri Lanka
John McTague, St.
Leo College
3. Contemporary
Eastern Europe in Historical Perspective: Another Look
Lynn Curtright,
Tallahassee Community College
1:00-2:30 pm
Session IIB
VIOLENCE AND
REBELLION IN MODERN MEXICO
CHAIR: Glen Coston, Pensacola Junior College
1. Resistance and
Accommodation: The Working People of Guadalajara, Mexico, 1919-1929
Burton Kirkwood,
Florida State University
2. The Protection of
American Lives and Property: The Sonora Crisis of 1915
Warrick Ridge
Edwards, Tallahassee Community College
3:00-4:30 pm
Session IIIA
NEW PERSPECTIVES
ON MODERN FLORIDA
CHAIR: Owen Farley, Pensacola Junior College
1. Afriran-American
Settlements in the Daytona Beach Area, 1866-1910
Leonard Lempell,
Bethune-Cookman College
2. Social Relations
in the Public Sector Workplace: The Tampa Firefighters, 1943-1979
Mark Wilkins,
University of Florida
3:00-4:30 pm
Session IIIB
STUART ENGLAND
CHAIR: Janet Thompson,
Tallahassee Community College
1. The End of the
Beginning: The Virginia Company of
Plymouth and the
Popham Colony, 1607-1608
2. David M. Head,
South Georgia College
A Bid for Land: The
Duchess of Cleveland, the Earl of Essex and Phoenix Park
Rachelle Wadsworth,
Florida State University
7:00 pm Banquet
SATURDAY, March
13
8:00-9:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Session IVA
AFRICAN-AMERICANS
IN MODERN AMERICA
CHAIR: Neil Betten,
Florida State University
1. Gwendolyn Sawyer
Cherry: A Legislator Who Demanded to Spend a Night in Prison
Rod Waters, Florida
State University
2. The Role of the
Nixon Administration upon Black Higher
Education from 1968
to 1972
Keith Berry, Florida
State University
3. The 1967 Election
in Jacksonville, Florida
Abel Bartley,
Florida State University
10:30-12:00 a.m.
Session VA
FORUM: THE ROLE
OF AMERICA IN THE WORLD
Virginia York, Gulf
Coast Community College
Joel Howell, Gulf
Coast Community College