FLORIDA
CONFERENCE OF HISTORIANS
1994
ANNUAL PROGRAM
GULF COAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE
PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA
HOSTED BY
VIRGINIA YORK AND HERB McGUIRE
GULF COAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Editors of
Selected Annual Proceedings
of the
Florida Conference of Historians
J. Clarke, Editor
Jacksonville University
Eric Thomas, Assistant Editor
Jacksonville University
Assisted by
Craig Buettinger
Jacksonville University
Mariko A. Clarke
Jacksonville, FL
Layout and printing courtesy of
Jack Tyner
Kay Jones
Jacksonville University
Cover Design
Joe Walter
Jacksonville University
ISSN 1076-4585
Library of Congress Call Number D3.F6
A66
OFFICERS
OF THE
FLORIDA CONFERENCE OF HISTORIANS
President
Virginia York
Gulf Coast Community College
President-Elect
Joel Finley
St. Petersburg Community College
Clearwater
Past President
Wayne Watters
St. Johns River Community College
Vice President
Blaine T. Browne
Broward Community College, North Campus
Permanent Secretary
David Mock
Tallahassee Community College
Permanent Treasurer
Will Benedict
Tallahassee Community College
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
Local Arrangements Chairs, 1994
Virginia York
Herb McGuire
Gulf Coast Community College
Local Arrangements Chair, 1995
Joel Finley
St. Petersburg Community College
Clearwater
LETTER FROM THE PAST PRESIDENT
This year's meeting
of the Florida Conference of Historians was a very successful one. Most of the credit goes to the local
arrangements made by Virginia York and Herb McGuire of Gulf Coast Community
College. All of our members are
grateful for their hard work.
Clearly the highlight of the meeting was Professor George Brown Tindall's
presentation, "Natives and Newcomers:
Ethnic Southerners and Southern Ethnics." His insight into southern immigrants and his sly humor by
themselves made attending the conference worthwhile.
I would also like to express our organization's gratitude to J. Clarke of
Jacksonville University for undertaking the thankless task of editing our Selected Annual Proceedings.
Finally, a sad note: the announcement at the conference of the death of
Professor Tom Campbell of Florida State University. Dr. Campbell was one of the founding fathers of the Florida
Conference of Historians. His
enthusiasm and dedication to the organization will be sorely missed.
Wayne Watters
St. Johns River Community College
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
It is with great
pleasure that the Florida Conference of Historians offers the second volume of
our Selected Annual Proceedings. I believe this year's fare demonstrates the
wide-ranging interests of the FCH's membership. We fully anticipate that in the coming years we will increase the
number, variety, and quality of included articles.
I would like to add that two fine presentations, one by Thomas Dye, "Rosewood,
A Testimony of Surviving Witnesses" and the other by John Dunn,
"Polish Cavalry 1939, Fact and Fiction From the September Campaign"
are not included in the present volume.
The two authors have molded their oral presentations into articles,
which have been accepted for publication in other journals. Our loss is their gain.
Any project such as putting together this volume would be impossible to
complete without the cooperation of many.
I would like to thank Eric Thomas, Craig Buettinger, Mariko Clarke, Jack
Tyner, Kay Jones, and Joe Walter for their able assistance. Jacksonville University is also to be
thanked for the generous offer of its facilities in producing this volume.
We are looking forward to meeting next year at St. Petersburg Community College
in Clearwater, Florida.
J. Clarke
Jacksonville University
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
THURSDAY
March 3, 1994
7:30-8:00 p.m. Registration
8:00-9:00 p.m. Hospitality Hour
Ramada Inn, Panama City, FL
FRIDAY March 4
7:45-8:15 am Continental breakfast and late registration
8:15 am Welcome
Dr. Robert L. McSpadden
President, Gulf Coast Community College
SESSION ONE
8:30-9:45 a.m.
ISRAEL AND THE THIRD WORLD: RELATIONS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
CHAIR:
Carrie Nelle Moye, Gulf Coast Community College
1. "Israel and Ethiopia: From the Cold War to Eritrea's
Independence"
Michael B. Bishku, University of North
Florida
2. "Israel and China's Road to Rapprochement"
Jacob Abadi, Pace University
AFRICAN AMERICANS: VICTORIES AND
RESPONSE TO DEFEAT
CHAIR:
Mark Goldman, Tallahassee Community College
1. "African American Newspaper
Reaction to Italy's Invasion of Ethiopia"
Abel Bartley, Florida State University
PLENARY SESSION
10:00-10:50 am
"Natives and Newcomers: Ethnic
Southerners and Southern Ethnics"
George Tindall, Professor Emeritus,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
SESSION TWO
11:00 am-12:30 p.m.
IMPACT OF WOMEN OVER THE CENTURIES
CHAIR:
Will Benedicks, Tallahassee Community College
1. "Women in Monasticism in the
Early Middle Ages"
Jennifer Linn Hamilton, Florida State
University
2. "Henry Howard vs. the
Misogynists: The Issue of Female Sovereignty in the Sixteenth Century
England"
David Mock, Tallahassee Community College
3. "World War II: Military Women
Photographers and Their Photographs"
Pat Mathews, Florida State University
CIVIL WAR AND FLORIDA
CHAIR:
Neil Betten, Florida State University
1. "The Governor and the Gun Boat, a
Civil War Incident"
Peter Doherty, Florida State University
2. "Everybody is Tired of This War,
Desertion Among Confederate Troops in Florida"
Jessica Slavin, Florida State University
3. "Black Mobility in Florida in the
Decades Following the Civil War"
Christopher E. Linsin, Florida State
University
LUNCH
12:30-1:30
p.m.
SESSION
THREE
1:30
- 3:30 p.m.
WORLD
WAR II
CHAIR: Paul Strait, Florida State University
1. "Italy and Plan Barbarossa"
J. Clarke, Jacksonville University
2. "Polish Cavalry 1939, Fact and Fiction From the September
Campaign"
John Dunn, Florida State University
3. "The SS Economic Administration and the German War Economy 1939 to
1945"
Boyd Murphree, Florida State University
4. "Zone of Destiny: German Strategy Against Allied Convoys in the Arctic
Theater, 1942-1943"
Stanley Carpenter, Florida State University
5. "Uniqueness of the Liberty Ships"
Peggy Pelt, Gulf Coast Community College
IDEOLOGY
AND SETTLEMENT
CHAIR: Edward Keuchel, Florida State
University
1. "The Cross Florida Barge Canal, a long History of Controversy"
Adam Ritchin, Florida State University
2. "A People Providential, Elect and Opportunistic: Common Experience in
British North America"
Erik Gross, Florida State University
PLENARY SESSION
STUDENT
UNION AUDITORIUM
3:45 - 4:45
"Russia Today: An American Professor Teaching in Vorkuta and
Goriovka"
Owen Farley, Pensacola Junior College
BANQUET
5:00
Presidential Remarks and Business Meeting
SATURDAY, March 5
8:00 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast
SESSION FOUR
8:30 - 10:00
VIOLENCE AND CONFLICT IN THE SUNSHINE
CHAIR: Neil Betten, Florida State University
1. "Rosewood, A Testimony of Surviving Witnesses"
Thomas Dye, Florida State University
2. "The 1968 Teacher's Strike in Florida Revisited"
Mike Makowski, Florida State University
SESSION
FIVE
10:15 -11:30
CUBAN MIGRATIONS TO THE UNITED STATES
CHAIR: Owen Farley, Pensacola Junior College
1. "Cuban Migration to the United States, 1899-1910"
by Melissa Soldani, Florida State University
2. "The Cuban Children's Migration"
by Alisha Otaro, Florida State University
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
CHAIR: Herb McGuire, Gulf Coast
Community College
1. "Beauty and Science: Aesthetic Impulse in Scientific Progress"
Richard Baldwin Gulf Coast Community College and Florida State University
2. "The Engineer in Medieval Siege Warfare: The Case for the Common
Man"
Jason Maddox, Central Florida University