FLORIDA CONFERENCE OF HISTORIANS
1998
Hosted by
Paul Edson
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Daytona Beach Florida
Thursday, March 12
7:00–10:00 p.m.
Registration & Reception: River Room
Friday, March 13
7:00–8:00
Breakfast Coastal Room
8:45–10:00
Registration Main Lobby
8:45–9:45
1A. Asia and the West in the 20th Century
Chair: Blaine Browne, Broward Community College
“Baptism of Fire: The Yangjiang Incident of November 1927: The Maryknoll Mission Enterprise and the Chinese Nationalist Revolution of 1925–1927"
Paul Rivera, Florida Gulf Coast University
“Japan and Italy Squabble Over Ethiopia: The Sugimura Affair of July 1935”
J. Clarke, Jacksonville University
Discussant: Blaine Browne, Broward Community College
1B. History of Utopias
Chair: Frank Baglione, Tallahassee Community College
“Precis Harmony Society and Jacksonian America”
Lemuel Molovinsky, Broward Community College
“An Untapped Historical Legacy: The Koreshan Unity’s Guide Star Publishing House”
Irvin D. Solomon, Florida Gulf Coast University
Discussant: Frank Baglione, Tallahassee Community College
10:00–11:30
2A. American Foreign Policy
Chair: Will Benedicks, Tallahassee Community College
“John Foster Dulles and the Japanese Peace Treaty”
Philip Cantrell, West Virginia University
“Historical Analogies and American Foreign Policy Waltraud”
Quiser Morales, University of Central Florida
“The U.S. Origins of the South Asian ‘Green Revolution’”
Eric Strahorn, Florida Gulf Coast University
Discussant: Will Benedicks, Tallahassee Community College
2B. Religion and the Military in the Ancient and Early Modern Era
Chair: David B. Mock, Tallahassee Community College
“Atum’s Progeny: The Development and Influence of Ancient Egyptian Theologies”
Frank Baglione, Tallahassee Community College
“Elizabethan Maranos Exposed”
Charlie Meyers, Independent Scholar
“Army Unity and the March on London, March to August, 1647”
Stan Carpenter, Florida State University
Discussant: David B. Mock, Tallahassee Community College
1:30–3:15
3A.
Planting the seeds of interest:
Teaching the Introductory History Survey Course
Chair: Robinson Herrera, Florida State University
“Using the American History Survey Course to Teach Students to ‘Think Historically’”
Larry Youngs, Georgia State University
“Losing Tarzan Forever: Rethinking the Presentation of African History”
David R. Campbell, Michigan State University
“Beyond Generals and Presidents: Natives, Africans, Women and People of Mixed Descent in the Latin American Survey Course”
Robinson Herrera, Florida State University
“Surveying Student Interest: A Project Undertaken by the Florida State University History Department”
Robert Cassanello, Florida State University Daniel S. Murphree, Florida State University
Discussant: Robinson Herrera, Florida State University
3B.
The Smart Classroom: Students and the Integration of Technology
into Florida Gulf Coast University
Chair: Irvin D. Solomon, Florida Gulf Coast University
“Meeting the Challenge: Fulfilling Florida Gulf Coast University’s Mandate for Technology and History”
Irvin D. Solomon, Florida Gulf Coast University
“The Promises and Challenges of Technology and History”
Eric Strahorn, Florida Gulf Coast University
“The Florida Gulf Coast University Experience: New Trends in History and Pedagogy”
Jackie Kent, Florida Gulf Coast University
Discussant: David B. Mock, Tallahassee Community College
3:30–4:45
4A. 20th Century Florida
Chair: Jackie Kent, Florida Gulf Coast University
“‘Like a Comet’: Claude Pepper in the 1929 Florida State Legislature”
Joe Guttman, University of Virginia
“Fighting Fascists in the Sunshine State: Bishop Joseph P. Hurley”
Charles Gallagher, Diocese of St. Augustine
“Breaking the Bank: Darkness at the Sunshine State Bank”
Melissa Soldani, Florida State University
Discussant: Jackie Kent, Florida Gulf Coast University
4B. U.S. Civil War
Chair: Irvin D. Solomon, Florida Gulf Coast University
“‘Bitterly Against Us’: Slave and Free Black Women in Florida”
Tracy J. Revels, Wofford College
“Captain J. J. Dickinson and Partisan Operations in Florida, 1864–1865”
David Coles, Florida State Archives and Tallahassee Community College
Discussant: Irvin D. Solomon, Florida Gulf Coast University
6:30–7:30
Banquet
Speaker, George C. Herring, Department of History University of Kentucky
“Missed Opportunities? A Participant’s Reflections on the June, 1997, Hanoi Conference on the Vietnamese-American War”
Saturday March 14
8:45–10:30
5A. Historical Research Teaching and the Internet
Chair: J. Clarke, Jacksonville University
“An Interpretive Framework for Understanding Florida History”
William Marina, Florida Atlantic University
“New Historicism: A Useful Multi-disciplinary Method”
Donna Barbie, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
“Problems in Researching and Instructing Irish History”
Dennis Rubini, Temple University
Discussant: J. Clarke, Jacksonville University
5B. Modern History
Chair: David Richards, Lake City Community College
“How Aviation Shrank the World Around 1960”
J. Roger Osterholm, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
“Moldava’s Prospects for Continued Independence in Light of Her History and Current Situation”
Thomas Hegarty, University of Tampa
Discussant: David Richards, Lake City Community College
10:45–12:00
6A. Military History
Chair: David Proctor, North Florida Community College
“Controlling the Grand Armée: Napoleonic Regimental Administration, 1806–1812”
Everett Dague, Florida State University
“Fighting to Win: The Life and Service of General James Van Fleet”
Paul F Braim, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Discussant: David Proctor, North Florida Community College
6B. The Japanese-American Connection
Chair: H. Donald Kirkland, Lake City Community College
“Yellow and Black: Japanese Influence on American Blacks Before World War II”
Josh Lewin, Jacksonville University
“The Assimilation of Japanese Americans Since World War II”
Kazuo Yagami, Florida State University
Discussant: H. Donald Kirkland, Lake City Community College