ANNUAL MEETING
March 1-3, 2001
Hosted by
North Florida Community College
Local Arrangements Chair
Will Benedicks
Tallahassee Community College
Program Chair
David Proctor
North Florida Community College
OFFICERS OF THE FLORIDA CONFERENCE OF HISTORIANS
President
Anthony Beninati
Valencia Community College
President Elect
David Proctor
North Florida Community College
Vice President:
Blaine Brown
Broward Community
College
Permanent Secretary
David Mock
Tallahassee Community College
Permanent Treasurer
Will Benedicks
Tallahassee Community College
Acknowledgments
FCH officials would like to express their thanks to David Mock, Will
Benedicks, and David Proctor for
organizing the conference and selecting the keynote speaker. Carol Phillips,
nfcc departmental secretary, generously assisted in the preparation of the
conference brochure and program.
WELCOME
On behalf of the North Florida Community College Board of
Trustees, administration, faculty, and staff, it is my pleasure to welcome the
Florida Conference of Historians to Tallahassee, Florida.
NFCC, located in Madison, Florida, is a rural community college serving
Madison, Hamilton, Lafayette, Suwannee, Taylor, and Jefferson counties. At NFCC, we believe that learning history is
essential for community college students and we make that subject an integral
part of our general education requirements.
Our instructors are convinced that historical knowledge enables NFCC students to achieve a stronger
and more intellectually sophisticated
understanding of the state, nation, and world in which they live. Most
importantly, we believe that a well-informed and historically literate citizenry is vital to the health
and vibrancy of our republic.
NFCC is proud to be a part of the thirty-nine year tradition of the Florida
Conference of Historians. I hope that
your discussions are stimulating and productive and that they contribute to and
strengthen the teaching of history in Florida.
Sincerely,
Dr.
Beverly Grissom
President
North Florida Community College
FLORIDA CONFERENCE OF
HISTORIANS
PROGRAM
MARCH 1, 2003, THURSDAY
7:00-10:00 p.m. Registration &
Reception
MARCH 2,
2003, FRIDAY
8:00-9:00 a.m. Registration with coffee and
doughnuts, Pre-Function Area
9:00-10:00
a.m. Session 1A
Slavery In the American South, Cambridge Room
Chair: Mary Louise Ellis, Tallahassee Community College
1. “No Isolated Incident: The Sexual
Exploitation of Female Slaves.”
Jennifer McCarley, Florida State University
2. “Slave Health in the Deep South in
Dollars, Cents, and Sense: The Economic Implications for the Institution.”
Andrea Howard, Florida State University
9:00-10:00 a.m. Session 1B
Medieval Europe, Regency 3
Chair: Paul Edson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Carol Miller, Tallahassee Community College, "The Foure Sonnes of Aymon ”
as an Introduction to Knightly Culture.”
Frank Williams, Augusta State University, "The Decline of the Governing
Role of the Church in Agen, 1453-1562.”
10:30-11:30 a.m. Session
2A
Japan: Medieval and Modern, Cambridge
Chair:
Blaine T. Browne, Broward Community College
Kazuo Yagami, Florida State University, “The Internment of Japanese-Americans
and Earl Warren.”
Taneo Ishikawa, Florida State University, “Japan’s Asuka Period (600-710)
Revisited.”
10:30-11:30 a.m. Session 2B
U.S. History, Regency 3
Chair: Sean McMahon, Lake City Community College
Matt McCook, Florida State University,
“Tracing American Liberalism: A Comparative
Study on the Minds of William Ellery Channing and Ralph Waldo Emerson.”
Barbara Mattick, Florida Department of State Bureau of Historic Preservation
“Bishop John Henry Hopkins’ Plan for Saving the Union.”
2:00-3:00 p.m. Session
3A
Florida History, Cambridge
Chair: David Proctor, North
Florida Community College
David Jackson, Florida A & M University, “Following the Smoke to the Fire:
Race Relations in Florida in the Early Twentieth Century.”
Joe Akerman, North Florida Community College, "Jake Summerlin: Cattle King
and Philanthropist.”
2:00-3:00 p.m. Session 3B
History and Education, Regency 3
Chair: Blaine Brown
Irving Solomon, Florida Gulf Coast University, “Reinventing History Education
for the New Millenium.”
David Mock, Tallahassee Community College, “Clio Confronts Complexity.”
3:30-4:30 p.m. Session
4A
American Historical Association Presents: Preparing
Future Faculty in Florida: A Roundtable Discussion, Cambridge
Chair: Jonathan Grant, Florida State University
Participants:
Will Benedicks, Tallahassee Community College
Kyle Eidahl, Florida A&M University
Jeff Strickland, Florida State University
Pamela Robbins, Florida State University
3:30-4:30 p.m. Session
4B
Military History, Regency 3
Chair: John J. McTague, St. Leo University
Jay Clarke, Jacksonville University, “The Politics of Arms Not Given: Japan and
Ethiopia in the 1930s.”
Krista Himmelstrand, Jacksonville University, “A Fatal Mistake: Hitler’s
Decision to Declare War on the United States.”
MARCH 3, 2003, SATURDAY
8:00-9:00 a.m.
Late Registration, Pre-Function Area
Coffee and Doughnuts
9:00-10:15 a.m. Session 5A
Military History, Cambridge
Chair: David Mock, Tallahassee Community College
Mark O’Neill, Florida Department of Health, “ Military Technology Transfer
between Communist States: USSR and the PRC during the Early Cold War.”
Monte Finkelstein, Tallahassee Community College, “Sicily, The United States,
and the 49th State, 1943-1947.”
9:00-10:15 a.m. Session 5B
U. S. Women’s History, Regency 3
Chair:
Elna Green, Florida State University
Jennifer Trost, St. Leo University,
"Motherhood in Private and Public: Domestic Relations in the Rural South and
Maternalism in Memphis Juvenile Court.”
Kevin Witherspoon, Tallahassee Community College, “Occupied New Orleans in
the Civil War, Beauty and the Beast: The Women of New Orleans and Benjamin
Butler.”
10:45 a.m. -12:00 noon Session 6A
U. S. Women’s History, Cambridge
Chair: Elna Green, Florida State University
Karen Rubin, Florida State University, “Not Sisters, Not Slaves: Domestic
Relationships between Black and White Women
in Rural Georgia, 1901-1913.”
Tameka Hobbs, Florida State University, “Black Midwives in Florida and the
Intersection of Race, Gender and Medieval Practices.”
10:45 a.m. -12:00 noon Session 6B
U.S. Ethnic History, Regency 3
Chair: Monte Finkelstein, Tallahassee Community College
Madeleine Carr, Florida State University, “The
Other Great Migration: Cultural Contact Zones in Florida.”
Neil Betten, Florida State University, “The German-American Response to Nazi
Germany: The 1939 World’s Fair Incident.”