48th Annual Meeting
February 27 through February 28, 2009
Hosted by
Florida Gulf Coast University
Fort Myers, Florida
Officers of the Florida Conference of Historians
President
J. Calvitt Clarke III
Jacksonville University
President Elect
Michael Epple
Florida Gulf Coast University
Treasurer
Jesse Hingson
Jacksonville University
Secretary
David Proctor
Tallahassee Community College
Editor, Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians
Anthony Atwood
Florida International University
Local Arrangements
Erik Carlson
Michael Cole
Michael Epple
Nicola Foote
Florida Gulf Coast University
BANQUET SPEAKER
FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27
Dr. Michael Sugrue
Ave Maria University
Selected papers and summaries of roundtable discussions will be published in the
Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians
A refereed journal
Committed to Undergraduate Research,
the FCH offers
Special Panels for Superior Undergraduate Presentations
Panel Meetings held at
Harborside Event Center
1375 Monroe St
Fort Myers, Fl 33901
239-332-6888
Dinner Cruise and Keynote Speech to be held on Friday, Feb. 27, departing 7:00 pm
JC Cruises
1300 Hendry Street
Fort Myers, FL, 33901
239-334-7474
Friday, Feb. 27
8:30-10:00: Registration
9:00 - 10:30 Session
Panel: “Florida History” Room 1
Chair: Sean McMahon, Lake City Community College
o “The Impact of the Smith-Lever Act on Florida Schools”
§ David Mock, Tallahassese Community College
o “Ransom Clark vs. Joseph Sprague: Will the Real Survivor of the Dade Massacre Please Stand Up”
§ Threse Aloia, Florida Atlantic University and Colleen Gleason, Atlantic Community High School
o “Rebuilding the Panhandle: Political Triumphs and Failures”
§ Michael Gattis, Gulf Coast Community College
o “Comparing George Gillman Smith’s The History of Methodism in Georgia and Florida (1877) and John Atkin’s Memorials of Methodism in New Jersey ( 1860)”
§ Martha L. Reiner, Independent Scholar
o “William Poe Duval: Florida Founder and Frontier Bon Vivant”
§ James Denham, Florida Southern College
Panel: “Age of Heroes, Eras of Man” Room 2
Chair: Julian Chambliss, Rollins College
o “’You Made Them Strong, We’ll Make Them Army (Avengers) Strong’: How the Marvel Universe’s Story Arc and Ad Usage Serve as Propaganda for Army Recruitment”
§ Michael Lecker, George Mason University
o “Surburban Heroes: The Superhero Family in ‘The Incredibles’ and ‘Sky High’”
§ Claire Jenkins, Warwick University, UK
o “Clobberin’ Commies During the Cold War: Superheroes and Nationalism”
§ John Donovan, Air Force Academy
o “Wearing the Cape and Glasses: Dissolving the Dual Identity of Superman and Clark Kent”
§ Michael Goebel, George Mason University
Panel: “Starting the Second World War” Room 3
Chair: Mike Epple, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “Soviet Relations with Ethiopia Before the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936”
§ J. Calvitt Clarke III, Jacksonville University
o “Were the Western Powers Worth Having as Soviet Allies in 1939?”
§ Teddy J. Uldircks, University of North Carolina-Asheville
o “Governmental Crisis in Italy in November 1943: The Role of Count Sforza and the Position of the Western Allies”
§ Yana Pitner University of North Carolina-Asheville
Graduate Panel: “Witches, Religion, and Psychology” Room 4
Chair: Michael Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “The Challenge of Recruiting American Indians into Psychology”
§ Don Routh, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “Reconsidering the Creationist Protest as an Ethno-religious Displacement: J. Gresham Machen and the Missing Triangulation of Science, Religion, and Law”
§ Josh Abraham, University of Florida
o “The Representation of Prostitutes, Witches and Murderous Women”
§ Alexandra N. Hill, University of Central Florida.
10:30 - 11:00: Break
11:00 -12:30 Session
Editor’s Roundtable: “Ages of Heroes, Eras of Men” Room 1
· Participants: Julian Chambliss, Thomas C. Donaldson, William Svitavsky
Panel: “Britain and the Empire” Room 2
Chair: Marco Rimanelli, St. Leo University
o “Nationalism and Communal Violence in Lucknow, India”
§ Eric Strahorn, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “Missionaries as Agents of Colonialism in the Kingdom of Buganda”
§ Krista Ziegler, Flagler College
o “Boxing , Race, and Resistance in Georgian England, 1780-1820”
§ Stanley Arnold, Northern Illinois University.
Panel: “American Politics” Room 3
Chair: Sean McMahon. Lake City Community College
o “Smoke and Mirrors: Presidential Rhetoric and the Politics of Inclusiveness in Mid-Twentieth Century America”
§ Heather R. Parker, St. Leo University
o “When Keynes ‘Wasn’t Cool’: The Emergence of the Supply Side Paradigm, 1979-1980”
§ John Farris, Georgia Perimeter College.
o “Politics and the Park”
§ Greg Miller, Hillsborough Community College
Panel: “Racial Issues Around the World” Room 4
Chair: Nicola Foote, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “’No One Forgets the Oil’: The Struggle of African American Civil Rights in Cold War Angola, 1956-1975”
§ Ashley Materio, Florida International University
o “Garrett Smith: Perspectives on Race”
§ Adam C. Molloy, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “Understanding A Shouting Man”
§ Brett Seferian, University of Florida
o “Tourist Paradise or Land of Plantation Servitude?: An Authentic Working History of Hawaii”
§ Matthew Diamond, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “Indians and the Inquisition in New Spain”
§ Michael Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University
LUNCH 12:30 – 2:00 [On your own]
2:00 - 3:30 Session
Roundtable: “The Citrus Hall of Fame Project at Florida Southern College” Room 1
Chair: Tollin Hoffman, Florida Southern College
o Participants: Eugene Fanning, Richard Soash, and Ashleah Zigmond, Florida Southern College
o Discussant: James Denham, Florida Southern College
Panel: “History Education” Room 2
Chair: Michael Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “Thirty-Year Old Cassette Tapes: A Catalyst for Learning”
§ Betty Sample, Maitland Historical Society
o “Undergraduate History Student Papers: The Effect of Library Instruction on Citation Quality”
§ Rachel Cooke and Danielle Rosenthal, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “Shepherding Students Through History-in-the-Making: The Importance of Foundation Learning in Study Abroad Programs”
§ Pamela Seay, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “Pop Goes Florida: Documenting Florida’s History Through Fugitive Collections”
§ Cristina Favretto, University of Miami’s Otto G. Richter Library
Panel: “Undergraduate Research on Social and Racial Injustice” Room 3
Chair and Commentator: John Cox
o “Jane Addams and the Legacy of Hull-House”
§ Angela Webb, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “The Consequences of Conviction: John Brown”
§ Lewisa Dove, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “The Social Injustices of ‘Bloody Sunday’ and their Effect on the Irish Republican Cause”
§ Stefanie Babb, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “U.S. Foreign Policy in Rwanda: A Success on its Own Terms”
§ Ajla Memic, Florida Gulf Coast University
Panel: “European Empires” Room 4
Chair, Mike Epple, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “The Suez Crisis in International History: Rethinking the Meaning of Empire”
§ Bard Keeler, Florida Gulf Coast Unversity
o “Vladislav Surkov’s ‘Sovereign Democrac’”: Kremlin Ideology to Russian National Identity”
§ Jennifer Snyder, University of Central Florida
o “Reconceptualizing France: The Romantic Historians”
§ Renee Waller, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “The Relevance of Von Clausewitz to Modern Strategic Thinking”
§ Anthony D. Atwood, Florida International University
o “’War Psychosis’: German Public Sentiment, The Spanish Civil War, and the Specter of Bombing”
§ William Greer, University of Florida
Business Meeting 3:30-4:30 Harborside Event Center Conference Room
Dinner Cruise 6.30-10.30 pm
JC Cruises, 1300 Hendry Street, Fort Myers
Saturday, Feb. 28
8:30-10:00: Registration
9:00 - 10:30 Session
Panel: “American Foreign Relations” Room 1
Chair: Mike Epple, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “A Survey of Ethiopian-United States Relations"
§ Altaye Alaro Alambo, Independent Scholar and Former Ethiopian Representative to London and Vienna
o “America’s Atrocious Imperialism: From Jamestown to My Lai”
§ Roy Lechtreck, University of Montevallo
o “ Guarding the Gates to Oblivion: Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Nuclear Secrets and the
Truman Administration at the Start of the Atomic Age, 1945”
Joshua Goodman, Florida State University
Panel: “Women, the Law, Politics, and Media” Room 2
Chair: Heather Parker, St. Leo University
o “Married Women and Homestead Law in Illinois”
§ Patricia L. Farles, Instructor and GEP Coordinator, University of Central Florida
o “Edee Greene: Fort Lauderdale Editor and Advocate”
§ Dr. Kimberly Wilmot Voss, University of Central Florida
o “The Last Will and Testament of Spanish Borderlands Woman: Luisa Gertrudis de la Rua and Her 1820 Will”
§ Amy M. Porter, Georgia Southwestern State University
o “Satiric Inequality: Why Are There So Few Women Cartoonists in Newspapers
Today”
§ Larry Bush, Florida Gulf Coast University
Panel: “Undergraduate Research on Race, Power, and Imperialism” Room 3
Chair: Bard Keeler, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “Responsible Accountability: An Examination Into German and American Medical Experiments on Humans”
§ Nicole Tesoriero, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “Why Rosewood?: Unprecedented Racial Violence in Peaceful Community”
§ Terri Crowley, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “Revering the Emperor: Understanding Twentieth Century Japanese Nationalism”
§ Andrew Cain, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “Mercenaries of the Angevin Empire: The False Portrayal and Their Effects on Royal Power”
§ Andrew Rice, Florida Gulf Coast University
Panel: “Cubans in the Americas” Room 4
Chair: Nicola Foote, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “Jose Marti: Revolutionary Organizer, Recruiter and Racial Unifier”
§ Rick Ramos, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “’Sermons Mixed With Patriotism’: Reconstructing the Political and Religious
Association of Cuban Émigrés in Key West, 1868-1878”
§ Sitela Alvarez, Florida International University
o “The Role of Women in the Formation and Activities of La Resistencia, 1899-1910”
§ Alexander Jordan, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “’Vamos a la Conga!’: Reevaluating ‘Authentic’ Cuban Culture in New York City During World War II”
§ Julio Capo, Jr., Florida International University
11:00 - 12:30 Session
Panel: “Florida Past” Room 1
Chair: Antony Espositio, St. Leo University
o “The Origins of Fort Caroline National Memorial”
§ David Seurkamp, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “Desperado Coast: The Union Presence at Fort Myers in the Civil War,
1864-65”
§ William Mack, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “’I Pledge Allegiance to the American Way’: Florida’s ‘Americanism versus Communism Course,’ 1961-1989”
§ Andrea Oliver, Florida State University
Panel: “Undergraduate Perspectives on History” Room 2
Chair: Don Routh, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “’Sed Magis Amica Veritas,’ or the Middle Way as a Philosophy of History”
§ Thomas J. Gillan, University of Central Florida
o “How the Irish Mythological Cycle Derived From Greek Mythology”
§ William Mattingly, Florida Gulf Coast University
Panel: “Undergraduate Research on American Politics and Society” Room 3
Chair: Jack McTague, St. Leo University
o “Under Pressure: Pressures and Expectations Placed Upon Men’s Lives in the 1950s”
§ Thomas Joyce, Stetson University
o “The Red Scare of the 1950s”
§ Andrea Stevens, Florida Gulf Coast University
o “Barry Goldwater and the Political Readjustment of the South”
§ Michael Murphy, University of Florida
o “The Progression of Women and the First Ladies of the American Presidency”
§ Heather Kiszkiel, Florida Gulf Coast University
Panel: “Law, Literature, and Fashion in Fascist Europe” Room 4
Chair: David Allen Harvey, New College of Florida
o “Race, Religion, and Anti-Fascist Rhetoric about the Spanish Civil War”
§ Adam Schafer, New College of Florida
o “Femininity and the Fatherland: The Interaction Between Fashion and the ideal Woman of the German Fascist State, 1933-1945”
§ Kinley Paisley, New College of Florida
o “Justice within Injustice? The German Legal System Within the Third Reich”
§ Chad Bickerton, New College of Florida