2011 Annual Meeting
April 14 -16
Florida Conference of Historians
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Host Institution: Broward College
Bahia Mar Beach Resort and Yachting Center
Current Officers of the Florida Conference of Historians
President – David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College
President – Elect – Blaine T. Browne, Broward College
Treasurer – Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University
Secretary – David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College
Editor, Selected Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians – Michael Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University
Conference Planning:
Conference Coordinator – Blaine T. Browne, Broward College
Program Director – Susan J. Oldfather, Broward College
The Florida Conference of Historians Extends Its Appreciation to those Textbook Sales Representatives who took the time and effort to make our 2011 meeting more pleasurable and informative: Ashley Cain (W.W. Norton), Tracy Light (Pearson Education) and Cindy Rabinowitz (Bedford/St.Martin’s).
A Note to Those Chairing Sessions: Your basic obligations as chair of a session are few but nonetheless important. You should gather basic biographical information about the presenters prior to the session so as to introduce them appropriately. You should inform those present that it is customary to defer questions to the end of the session. It is crucial to manage your scheduled time appropriately. In most sessions, presenters are allotted about twenty minutes and it is the chair’s duty to cue them when their time elapses, perhaps providing a "five minute warning." For the purposes of this conference, there will be no appointed discussants unless specifically noted. As chair, you are also charged with managing the question-answer period and you are certainly free to pose questions or make comments yourself. Finally, you should bring your session to a timely close by thanking all of those who participated.
2011 Meeting
Florida Conference of Historians
Thursday – April 14
Registration and Reception
Bahia Mar Beach Resort, Harbor Lights Room
600 – 800 pm
Friday, April 15
800 – 1000am: Registration in Harbor Lights Room, 2nd Floor
Friday’s Food and Beverages Courtesy of Pearson Education Group
and Bedford / St.Martin’s
Note: Presenters who did not appear have been removed from the program.
800am-1230pm: Concurrent Sessions
800 – 915 am Session I: Topics in World Religion
Seafarer Room, 3rd Floor
Chair: David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College
"Holy Obedience beyond the Covenant: The Autobiography of Cecelia
Ferrazzi, Venice, 1665" – Ashley Lynn Buchanan, University of
South Florida
"The Business of Faith: Lascasian Missionary Practices of the Dominican
Mission Frontier" – Scott Cave, University of North Florida
800 – 915 am Session II: African Americans in the Modern Era
Mariner Room, 3rd Floor
Chair: Julian Chambliss, Rollins College
"Depicting the Black Other on Page and Stage: Historical Interpretations
Of Nineteenth Century Popular Culture and the Scholarship of Blackface
Minstrelsy" – Chris Tucker, Clark University
"’Stony the Road:’ African – Americans in Transition from Jacksonville to
St. Augustine, 1892 – 1918" – Rose C. Thevenin, Florida Memorial University
930 – 1045am Session I: Topics in Florida History
Seafarer Room, 3rd Floor
Chair: Seth A. Weitz, Dalton State College
"Massive Resistance to Civil Rights in Florida, 1945 – 1970"
Kisha King, Broward College
"‘You Can’t Hug a Newspaper:’ Janet Chusmir, the Miami Herald
and Newspaper Management" - Kimberly Voss, University of
Central Florida
"The Florida East Coast Railway: For More than 110 Years America’s
Speedway to Sunshine" – Seth H. Bramson, Barry University /
Florida International University
Session II: India: Empire and Nationhood
Mariner Room, 3rd Floor
Chair: Evan Lampe, St. Thomas University
"Hunting and Imperialism: British Female Hunters in Colonial India,
1860 – 1947" – Fiona Mani, West Virginia University
"Non-Alignment: Nehru’s Wisdom" – Pankaj Kumar, Vidant Hindu
College, Lucknow, India
1100 – 1230am
Session I: Latin America from Colonial to Contemporary Times
Seafarer Room, 3rd Floor
Chair: Sean McMahon, Florida Gateway College
"Witchcraft and the Inquisition in Colonial Latin American: The Case
of Diego Lopez" – Michael Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University
"Bill Delahunt and the Origins of Plan Colombia, 1990 – 2005" –
Landon Hinson, Jacksonville University
Session II: War and Ideology, Ancient and Modern
Mariner Room, 3rd Floor
Chair: Blaine T. Browne, Broward College
"Naval warfare during the Siege of Syracuse and Tyre,"
- Greg Miller, Hillsborough Community College
"From Nazi Youth to Child Soldiers of Today: How and Why Do
Children Get Involved in War?" – Jennifer Kohnke, Aurora University
"’Rosie the Riveter Didn’t Live in Puerto Rico:’ the Home Front in a
Caribbean Island during World War II" – Mirta L. Nieves Meijas,
University of Puerto Rico
"Genocide and Forced Collectivization in Stalinist Russia,"
- Frank Piccirillo, Florida Gulf Coast University
1230 – 130: Lunch on Your Own – FCH Business Meeting
130 – 545pm: Concurrent Sessions
130- 245pm
Session I: War, Nationalism, Revolution and Counter – Revolution in Germany
Seafarer Room, 3rd Floor
Chair: Michael Rodriguez, Florida Gulf Coast University
Discussant: Frank Piccirillo, Florida Gulf Coast University
"Manfred von Richtofen and the Making of a Greater Great War"
- Janet Schalk, Florida Gulf Coast University
"Strange Bedfellows: The SPD, the Freikorps and the Suppression
Of the Far Left in the German Revolution" – William Murphy
"The Night of the Long Knives: The Defeat of the SA and the Rise
of the SS" – Sara Gottwalles, Florida Gulf Coast University
Session II: Politics & Social Change in Europe and the United States, 1900 – 1939
Mariner Room, 3rd Floor
Chair: Nicholas J. Steneck, Florida Southern College
Discussants: Mike Denham and Nicholas J. Steneck, Florida Southern College
"Post-First World War Automobile Advertisements: Defining Social
Roles and Ideals" – Holly Bennett, Florida Southern College
"‘Within Our Moral and Legal Rights’": The Racially Discriminatory
Policies of Progressive Governors Hiram Johnson and Hoke Smith"
- Richard Soash, Florida Southern College
"Fashion and Feminism in Interwar Britain," Mary Yurso,
Florida Southern College
300 – 430pm
Session I: Topics in Modern U.S. History
Seafarer Room, 3rd Floor
Chair: Michael Epple, Florida Gulf Coast University
"Starving the Mill of Soviet Propagandists: Understanding President
Eisenhower’s Response to the Little Rock Desegregation Crisis"
- Roland Brucken, Norwich University
"‘A Vast Wilderness:’ Fulton Sheen Refuses to Follow the Pro-Soviet
Rhetoric during World War II" – Michael Epple, Florida Gulf Coast
University
"African Americans and the Civilian Conservation Corps" –
Michael Sanchez, Florida Gulf Coast University
Session II: The United States: From Republic to Empire
Mariner Room, 3rd Floor
Chair: Daniel Vogel, Texas Christian University
"The Historical Context of the Declaration of Independence"
- Stuart Smith III, Germana Community College
"The Benevolent Empire: The Origins of the U.S. Empire"
- Andrew Cain, Florida Gulf Coast University
"McKinley and the Modern Presidency: How the Spanish-American
War Changed the Power of the Presidency" – Heather Kizkiel,
Florida Gulf Coast Univesity
430 – 545pm
Session I: Africa and Asia
Seafarer Room, 3rd Floor
Chair: Kisha King, Broward College
"Integration and Resistance in the Ethiopian Empire State:
The Case of Qellem, 1886-1941" – Etana Habte Dinka,
Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Session II: Ireland, Scotland and the Empire
Mariner Room, 3rd Floor
Chair: Blaine T. Browne, Broward College
"The Earliest Form of Irish Surety" – William Mattingly,
Florida Gulf Coast University
"For Freedom Alone: The Birth of Scottish Nationalism in the
Scottish War of Independence" – Keith A. Kelso, Southeastern University
"‘Hmph, Slavery was never an institution here!’: Did Slavery Really
Matter in the Cayman Islands?" – Christopher Williams, University
College of the Cayman Islands
Notes:
Fun Florida Facts!
David Levy (Yulee)
David Levy Yulee (1810 – 1886), who served as U.S. senator from Florida from the 1840s through 1861, was the first Jewish member of that chamber. Born in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, David accompanied his father Moses Levy to Florida, where the latter purchased some 50,000 acres of land near present-day Jacksonville with hopes of establishing a "New Jerusalem" for Jewish immigrants. The younger Levy studied law before winning election to the U.S. senate when Florida gained statehood in 1845. The following year he adopted the ancestral Sephardic surname Yulee then married Nannie Wickcliffe, with whom he raised two children. Levy bought a 5,000 acre plantation on the Homosassa River, the remains of which are to be found at the Yulee Sugar Mills State Historic Site. During the 1850s, he began construction of the Florida Railroad, which reached Cedar Key just as the Civil War broke out. In 1861, Levy left the U.S. Senate when he sided with the Confederacy, a decision that cost him a stint as a prisoner in Ft. Pulaski after the war ended. Freed, he rebuilt what became the Yulee Railroad. He later moved to Washington, D.C before dying in New York City in 1886. Both the town of Yulee, Florida and Levy County are named for him. In 2000, he was designated a "Great Floridian" by the Florida Department of State.
630 – 830: Banquet, Installation of New Officers and Keynote Address
Harbor Lights Room, 2nd Floor
(attendees desiring an alcoholic beverage may purchase one in the hotel bar)
Welcoming Remarks: Dr. David Proctor,
Tallahassee Community College
President, Florida Conference of Historians, 2009-2010
Introduction of Guest Speaker: Dr. Blaine T. Browne
Broward College
This Year’s Speaker:
David W. Levy, David Ross Boyd Professor of American History, Emeritus
University of Oklahoma
David W. Levy attended the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago before earning a doctorate in history from the University of Wisconsin in 1967. That same year, he began a lengthy and productive tenure at the University of Oklahoma, where he taught American intellectual history. Having only recently retired, Dr. Levy authored numerous articles and reviews in addition to co-editing the Louis Brandeis letters and Franklin Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats. His other major publications include Herbert Croly of the New Republic (1985), The Debate Over Vietnam (1991), a three volume history of the University of Oklahoma (in progress) and most recently Mark Twain: The Divided Mind of America’s Best-Loved Writer (2010). Dr. Levy’s ambitious scholarship is matched by his teaching skills, which were regularly recognized in the numerous teaching awards he received during his years at the University of Oklahoma.
He now resides in Norman, Oklahoma with his wife Lynne and remains actively engaged in research and writing. Dr. Levy’s address tonight is: "Yossarian and McMurphy: Or Why the Sixties Floundered."
Saturday, April 16, 2011
800-900am: Registration, Harbor Lights Room, 2nd Floor
Food and Beverages Provided by W.W. Norton
800am – 1230pm: Concurrent Sessions
800-915
Session I: Cowboys and Indians: Iconography and Representation in the Americas
Seafarer Room, 3rd Floor
Chair: Jesse Hingson
"Ernest Bellocq’s Storyville Photographs in the Public Memory since
1970" – Kylie Romero, Jacksonville University
"Commercialization and Nostalgia of the Native American Past:
The Chickasaw Cultural Center, 1977 – Present" – Jennifer L. Johnson,
Jacksonville University
"A Comparative Study of the Cowboy as Cultural Icon in the Americas"
- Christine DePasquale, Jacksonville University
Session II: Florida in the Twentieth Century
Mariner Room, 3rd Floor
Chair: Sean McMahon, Florida Gateway College
"The Politics of Control: Florida and the British West Indian Labor
Program" – Erin Conlin, University of Florida
"Flying in the Sun: World War I pilot Training at Carlstrom Field,
Florida, 1917-1918" – Erik D. Carlson, Florida Gulf Coast University
"Strom Thurmond and the Failed Dixiecrat Revolt of 1948 in Florida"
- Seth A. Weitz, Dalton State College
930 – 1045am
Session I: Florida, From Piracy to Nuclear Power
Seafarer Room, 3rd Floor
Chair: Sheila Jones, Broward College
"Plundering the Peninsula: Piracy, Privateering and Smuggling
in Florida Waters" Daniel Vogel, Texas Christian University
"Floating the Idea: The Failure of Nuclear Power in Jacksonville,
1970-1985" – Michael Bunch, Jacksonville University
Session II: Explorations in US Immigration Policy
Mariner Room, 3rd Floor
Chair: Cassidy Henry, Florida Atlantic University
"The Molly Maguires: Creating History, Destroying Fact"
- Ashley Irizarry, Florida Atlantic University
"In the Void: State Policy Making in the Absence of Federal
Enforcement of Immigration" – Robert Bruton, Florida
Atlantic University
"Immigration, Population and the Environment" – Megan Allore,
Florida Atlantic University
1100am – 1230pm
Session I: New Directions in Historical Studies
Seafarer Room, 3rd Floor
Chair: Rowena Hernandez-Muzquiz, Broward College
"Slowly, Yesterday Went: An Overview of Economic Aspects of the
First Decades of the United States Space Industry" – Ian Morris,
Florida Gulf Coast University
"Africa and African-Americans in the Digital Age: Project Mosaic
And Zora Neale Hurston" – Julian C. Chambliss, Rollins College
1100am-1230pm
Session II: Issues in Contemporary European History
Mariner Room, 3rd Floor
Chair: Jack McTague, St. Leo University
Discussant: Will Murphy, Florida Gulf Coast University
"Hitler versus Christ: Nazism’s Shifting Attitudes toward Christianity"
- Michael Rodriguez, Florida Gulf Coast University
"What’s in a Name?: EU Foreign Policy Evaluated through the FYRM"
- Cassidy Henry, Florida Atlantic University
"The Revolution May Be Televised: The Legacy of the Situationist
International" – Leslie Williams, Florida Atlantic University
"NATO from Cold War Plans to Post-Cold War Out-of-Area
Peacekeeping" – Marco Rimanelli, St. Leo University
1230pm: Conclusion of Conference Activities
– See You Next Year in Lake City, February 23- 25, 2012 when FCH meets under the sponsorship of Florida Gateway College and President-elect Sean McMahon.