2014

Florida Conference of Historians

 

54th Annual Meeting

January 31-February 1, 2014

Renaissance Resort and Convention Center

St Augustine, Florida

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hosted by Jacksonville University

                                                                                               

 

 

Local Arrangements Chair

Jesse Hingson

Jacksonville University

 

 

Officers of the

Florida Conference of Historians

 

President                              David Allen Harvey

                                                New College of Florida

 

President-Elect                    Steven MacIsaac

                                                Jacksonville University

 

Treasurer                              Jesse Hingson

                                                Jacksonville University

 

Secretary                              David Proctor

                                                Tallahassee Community                                                   College

 

 

 

FCH Annals:

The Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians

Editor--Michael S. Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University

                                               

                                               


 

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Early On Site Registration: 6:00-9:00 PM

Renaissance Hotel

The Bar at Villagio: Lounge Area (next to hotel lobby)

 

               

Friday, January 31, 2014

8:00 AM-5:00 PM: Registration

Location: Pre-Convene Area of Convention Center

 

 

Session One:  Friday, 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Session 1A: "Florida Reinvented: Shaping and Selling the Image of the Sunshine State" 

Special Interest Section: Florida History

Meeting Room: Wentworth

 

Navigating New Worlds: Selling the Shape of Florida       

Tiffany Baker, Director, Florida Legislative Research Center,

Florida Historic Capitol Museum               

 

Building Florida's Gateway to the Americas:

Miami's Pan American Business Strategy in the 1930s

Josh Goodman, Tulane University

 

Modern Traditional: The Invention and Diffusion of Alligator Wrestling in Florida Seminole and Miccosukee Culture               

Jonathan Grandage, Archives Historian, State Archives of Florida             

 

Chair/Discussant: Tamara Spike, University of North Georgia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session 1B: "Intellectual Life and Society in Early Modern Europe"

Meeting Room: Troon

 

Creating a Holy Community: 

The Genevan Consistory and Matrimonial Law, 1546-1557           

Jenny Smith, Valdosta State University

 

The Transformative Process of Research in the Intellectual Work of the Early Modern English Polymath Samuel Hartlib: Sharing of Information across Cultural and Geographical Boundaries, 1630-1660

Timothy E. Miller, Georgia State University

 

The Renaissance Man:

Humanist Ideas in 14th and 15th Century Educational Treaties   

Chase Kelly, Valdosta State University

 

Chair/Discussant: Blaine T. Browne, Broward College

 

 

Session 1C: "The Florida Museums Podcast"                      

Special Interest Section: Florida History                

Meeting Room: Legends 1                          

 

Chip Ford            

Ella Gibson         

Katie Kelley       

Daniel Velásquez

 

Chair: Sean McMahon, Florida Gateway College

Discussant: Tracy J. Revels, Wofford College

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session 1D: "Order and Conflict in the Anglo-Atlantic World during the Age of Revolutions"

Meeting Room: "La Privata" (located in the Villagio Italian Grille)

 

Black and White and Red All Over:

Newspaper Coverage of Violence in Boston and Charleston, 1785-1790

Shannon F. Campbell, University of North Florida

 

Refugees in the Revolutionary Mediterranean  

Joshua Meeks, Florida State University

 

The Battle of Havana, 1762: Context, Chronicle, and Consequences

Shawn O'Keefe, Florida Southern College

 

Chair: David Allen Harvey, New College of Florida

 

 

Session 1E: "History and Pedagogy, I: Best Practices in

Teaching the Past"                         

Meeting Room: Masters Boardroom (first floor of Renaissance Hotel)

 

Can an Intensive Course in the History of the Cold War Significantly Improve Critical Thinking among Undergraduates?

Alex G. Cummins, Flagler College

 

Best Practices for Incorporating a Panel Discussion in the Classroom

Michael Rogers, State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota

 

Chair: Douglas Astolfi, Saint Leo University

Discussant: Michael Rogers, State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session Two: Friday, 10:15 AM-11:45 AM

Session 2A: "New Approaches to Modern Combat and Soldiering"

Meeting Room: Troon                  

 

Civil War Nostalgia          

R. Gregory Lande, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

 

In Harm's Way:

War Reporters and the Combat Experience in the Iraq War         

Andrew McLaughlin, University of Waterloo (Canada)

 

Muslims in the Red Army: Perceptions of the Soviet State

Daniel Bradfield, University of Central Florida

 

Chair/Discussant: Rowland Brucken, Norwich University

 

               

Session 2B: "Revolution and Social Conflict in Modern Latin America"

Meeting Room: Legends 1                          

 

Natural Resource Exploitation in the Pilcomayo River Basin: 

Impacts on the Formation of Bolivian National Identity

Brent Spencer, Florida Gulf Coast University

 

Al Paredón: Justice and Armed Struggle in the Cuban Revolution

Anthony Rossodivito, University of North Florida

 

Perón and the Guerillas:

The ERP's Efforts to Unmask the Fascist Dictator

Steven Scheuler, Valdosta State University

 

From Indigenous Resistance to Regional Autonomy: Sandinista/Costeño Relations in Revolutionary Nicaragua

John-Paul Wilson, Virginia Union University

 

Chair/Discussant: Quinn Dauer, Indiana University-Southeast    

 

 

 

Session 2C: "Connecting Movements, I: African Links in Twentieth-Century World History"                         

Meeting Room: Masters Boardroom (first floor of Renaissance Hotel)

 

Imperializing South Asian Struggles in South Africa and Canada before the First World War          

Ian C. Fletcher, Georgia State University

 

Francophone Africans and the African American Freedom Movement, 1955-1965            

Allyson Tadjer, Georgia State University               

 

"Apartheid Goes Better With Coke": The Coke Boycott of the 1980s

Lauren Moran, Georgia State University               

 

Chair: Edmund Abaka, University of Miami

Discussant: Barbara Moss, Georgia Highlands College     

 

Session 2D: "Indigenous Peoples, Imperial Politics, and War in Florida"

Special Interest Section: Florida History                

Meeting Room: Wentworth                       

 

Reconstituting Power in an American Borderland:

Political Change in Colonial East Florida  

Nancy O. Gallman, University of California, Davis

 

Under the King's Protection: A Comparative Analysis of British and Spanish Sovereignty of Amelia Island, East Florida               

Diane M. Boucher, Clark University

 

Kinfolks Diplomacy:  General Jesup’s Creek Emissaries in the Second Seminole War        

John T. Ellisor, Columbus State University

 

How the Third Seminole War in Florida (1855-1858) Was Impacted By the Relationship Between the Creeks and Seminoles in Indian Territory

John D. Settle, University of Central Florida

 

Chair: Michael S. Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University

Discussant: Deborah L. Bauer, University of South Florida

Session 2E: "Storytellers and Their Tales:

The Lives of American Novelists in the Early Twentieth Century"              

Special Interest Section: Media, Arts, and Culture                            

Meeting Room: "La Privata" (located in the Villagio Italian Grille)                               

The Second Life of the Reverend J. Calvitt Clarke: Popular Novelist

J. Calvitt Clarke III, Jacksonville University, emeritus

 

Ernest Hemingway and His Life in Key West        

Anders Greenspan, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

 

Zora Neale Hurston: Studies in Voodoo

Hope L. Black, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg

 

Chair/Discussant: J. Calvitt Clarke III, Jacksonville University, emeritus

 

 

 

 

 

12:00 PM-12:50 PM: Lunch (on your own)                                            

Options Close to the Meeting Site:

--Italian food buffet available to FCH participants (located within the Villagio Italian Grille Restaurant, $13.00 per person)

--Caddy Shack Restaurant (next door to the Renaissance Hotel)

                                               

12:00 PM-12:50 PM: FCH Executive Council Business Meeting

Meeting Room: "La Cortina" (located within the Villagio Italian Grille Restaurant)                              

                                               

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session Three:  Friday, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM

Session 3A: "Religious Movements and Material Culture"

Meeting Room: Masters Boardroom (first floor of Renaissance Hotel)

 

The Thirsty Monk and the Medieval Art of Monastic Beer Brewing

Joshua Mayes, Brevard College

 

Buddhist Viharas and Monastic Art, with Reference to Buddhism in Sikkim          

Sonamla Ethenpa, Sikkim Government College, Burtuk (Sikkim, India)

 

"David with his Sling and I with my Bow": Michelangelo's David and the Struggle between Hebraism and Hellenism in Renaissance Florence

Katelynn Riesenberg, University of West Florida

 

Chair: Anna Smith, Jacksonville University

Discussant: Rowena Hernández-Múzquiz, Broward College

 

                               

Session 3B: "Social Darwinism, Eugenics, and Genocide in the Modern World"   

Meeting Room: Troon                  

 

The Ley de Residencia: Miguel Cané and the Influence of Scientific Discourse on Argentine Immigration Policy, 1852-1902      

Stephen Naylor, University of South Florida

 

Herbert Spencer and American Eugenics:

Claiming Superiority in the Postbellum Era, 1882-1907    

Christopher Harrison, Florida Gulf Coast University

 

Only the Dead Could Smile:

Stalin's Gulag and Its Evolution as a Tool of State and Genocide 

Christopher Fair, University of North Florida       

 

Chair/Discussant: Heather Parker, Saint Leo University

 

 

 

 

 

Session 3C: "Transitions in Political Economy since World War II"

Meeting Room: "La Privata" (located in the Villagio Italian Grille)               

 

From the Japanese Occupation to the Communist Liberation:

The Transformation of a Chinese Textile Manufacturer in the 1940s and 1950s   

Juanjuan Peng, Georgia Southern University

 

Public Dams, Private Power:

Nature, Energy, and the Post-World War II US South

Casey P. Cater, Georgia State University

 

Chair/Discussant: Steven MacIsaac, Jacksonville University

 

 

Session 3D: "Preserving and Exploring the Southern Past in Undergraduate History Programs"                  

Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research                          

Meeting Room: Legends 1                          

 

The Romance has been Knocked out of the Prisoner of War Business:

A Short Documentary on Andersonville Prison, 1864-1865

Jennifer L. Eadie, Wesleyan College        

 

"We are in a life and death struggle to survive":

The Methodist Church and the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1961     

Dylan Parvin, Florida Southern College

 

Moving House: The Porterfield Preservation Project at Wesleyan College            

Cara Gainey, Wesleyan College

 

The Lives of America's Greatest Resource:

Student Life at Florida Southern College during World War II      

Kenneth Hafner, Florida Southern College          

 

Chair/Discussant: Karen Huber, Wesleyan College

 

 

Session 3E: "The Ties That Bind: Women in United States History"

Meeting Room: Wentworth                       

 

Spirited Victorian Performances: Emma Hardinge Britten's use of Seances and Trance Lectures in Promulgating Modern Spiritualism

Lisa Ann Howe, Florida International University

 

Playing With Matches: Nineteenth-Century Mock Weddings

Sarah Jünke, University of South Florida

 

Florida Women: Forestry and Fire

Leslie Poole, Rollins College

 

Chair/Discussant: Patricia L. Farless, University of Central Florida

 

 

 

Session Four: Friday, 2:45 PM-4:15 PM

Session 4A: "Florida Dream, Florida Reality:

Themes in Sunshine State Tourism"                       

Special Interest Section: Florida History                

Meeting Room: Troon

                               

Cypress Gardens: Promoting Racial Hierarchy in Paradise

Katie Kelley, University of Central Florida             

 

A Castle in the Sky: Perspectives on Florida's Citrus Tower

Chip Ford, University of Central Florida 

 

A Different Dream, A Different Identity: The Florida Dream After Disney

Daniel Velásquez, University of Central Florida  

 

Chair/Discussant: Tracy J. Revels, Wofford College

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session 4B: "History and Pedagogy, II: How Technology, Common Core, and Information Literacy are Changing the History Classroom"

Meeting Room: Legends 1

 

The Research Paper is Dead: New Strategies to Engage and Teach Undergraduate Students How to Conduct Research            

Andrea Vicente, Hillsborough Community College           

 

Common Ground on Common Core: How University Faculty and Undergraduate Students Can Benefit from Online Resources Aligned with the Common Core Standards    

Jonathan Grandage, Archives Historian, State Archives of Florida             

 

Comparability:  How Traditional History Survey Courses are Improved with Online Components

Monica Hardin, Liberty University            

 

Chair/Discussant: Sarah Franklin, University of North Alabama

 

 

Session 4C: "The Long Journey, I: The Civil Rights Movement in Local and National Perspective"                

Special Interest Section: Florida History

Meeting Room: Wentworth                       

 

Jacksonville's Greatest Generation: The Contribution of African American Veterans to the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1960

Bryan Higham, University of North Florida

 

The Development of the Local Civil rights Movement in

St. Augustine, Florida, 1900-1960

Jay Smith, University of North Florida

 

Congressman James A. Haley and the American Civil Rights Movement

Jeffrey Zines, Florida Southern College 

 

Harry S. Truman and His Motivations for Civil Rights Reform

Christopher Meinert, Florida Gulf Coast University

 

Chair: Craig Buettinger, Jacksonville University

Session 4D: "Germany in the American Mind"                   

Meeting Room: Masters Boardroom (first floor of Renaissance Hotel)

 

A Review of the History of German Language in Florida 

Ghazal Soleimanzadeh, University of Florida

 

Operation "Perez": The German Attempt to Own American Newspapers in World War I

Heribert von Feilitzsch, Independent Scholar

 

Chair/Discussant: Nicholas Steneck, Florida Southern College

 

 

 


 

Session Five:  Friday, 4:30 PM-6:00 PM

Session 5A: "Connecting Movements, II: African Links in Twentieth-Century World History"                        

Meeting Room: Troon                  

 

Africa in Cuba/Cuba in Africa: A Trans-Atlantic Relationship in the Crucible of Slavery, Revolution and Decolonization               

Edmund Abaka, University of Miami

 

Developments in Post-Independence United Nations Trust Territories:  A Re-appraisal of the Africa Experience

Talla Ngarka Sunday, Taraba State University (Jalingo, Nigeria)

 

Post-Independence Development of National Cuisines:

A Comparative Study of Belize and Ghana

Brandi Simpson Miller, Georgia State University

 

Chair/Discussant: Ian C. Fletcher, Georgia State University

 

 

Session 5B: "Remembering Florida's Civil War at the Sesquicentennial"

Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research                          

Meeting Room: Masters Boardroom (first floor of Renaissance Hotel)

 

The Forgotten Minority: Pro-Unionism in Florida's Secession Crisis

Tyler Campbell, University of Central Florida      

 

May the Living Profit: Commemorating the Battle of Olustee

Lindsay Keller, University of Central Florida         

 

A Young Mother's War: Octavia Bryant-Stephens, Family Life, and Death in Northern Florida during the Civil War               

James Thomas, Jacksonville University

 

Chair/Discussant: Daniel Murphree, University of Central Florida              

                                               

 

 

 

Session 5C: "Challenges of International Dialogue and Cooperation since World War II"                 

Meeting Room: "La Privata" (located in the Villagio Italian Grille)                               

Prelude to the Peace Corps:

International Voluntary Service in the 1950s       

E. Timothy Smith, Barry University

 

"Factual Certainty is Desired but Should Not be a Fetish":

The Eisenhower Administration's Aborted 1953 Human Right Offensive at the United Nations   

Rowland Brucken, Norwich University

 

Khrushchev's Thaw: Art, Critical Discourse, and Wilhelm Matevosyan in Soviet-Armenian Art Context    

Gohar Vardanyan, Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts (Armenia)/

Fellow at Tufts University

 

Back to the Future:

The Incomplete Transitions to Democracy in Spain and Portugal

Alicia Mercado Harvey, New College of Florida

 

Chair: Jessica Howell, Flagler College

Discussant: J. Calvitt Clarke III, Jacksonville University, emeritus

                                               

Session 5D: "Art, Literature, and Representations of Empire"

Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research                          

Meeting Room: Legends 1

 

The Manifest Destiny of Violence:

Knowledge and Power in Moby Dick and Blood Meridian             

Thayer Warne, New College of Florida

 

Frederic Remington: "Our Lovely Man From the North Country"

Deborah Shaw, Flagler University

 

Artistic Representations of the War on Terror    

David Canfield, New College of Florida

 

Chair/Discussant: Anders Greenspan, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

Session 5E: "Florida and the New South:

Culture and Politics since the Nineteenth Century"                         

Special Interest Section: Florida History                

Meeting Room: Wentworth                       

 

George Franklin Drew: Florida's Yankee Redemption Governor

Seth A. Weitz, Dalton State College

 

Historic Preservation and New Deal Key West   

Matthew G. Hyland, Duquesne University

 

José Martí Meets Jim Crow: Cubans in the Deep South: Tampa, Florida

Maura Barrios, University of South Florida

 

Chair/Discussant: Leslee F. Keys, Flagler College

 

 

6:30 PM-9:00 PM: Keynote Address and Banquet            

Participants and Guests must wear meeting their conference badges to attend the Keynote Address and Banquet

 

6:30 PM-7:30 PM: Keynote Address                                       

Meeting Room: Legends 1

Introduction of Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University                            

                                               

Dr. Sherry Johnson, Florida International University

"When Good Climates Go Bad:

Climate Change and Opportunities for Florida History"                  

                                               

7:30 PM-9:00 PM: Banquet

Meeting Room: Legends 2 and 3

Welcoming Remarks: Dr. Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University

Campbell and Clarke Awards Presentation:                                               Dr. David Allen Harvey, New College of Florida, FCH President

Remarks on the FCH Annals:                                                                         Dr. Michael S. Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University, Editor

Remarks on the 2015 FCH Annual Meeting in Lakeland:                         Dr. Nicholas Steneck, Florida Southern College

 

Saturday, February 1, 2014                              

                                               

8:00 AM-5:00 PM: Registration

Location: Pre-Convene Area of Convention Center

 

8:00 AM-8:30 AM: Media, Arts, and Culture, Plenary Screening

Documentary: "A Civil Rights Roundtable"

Julian Chambliss, Rollins College                               

Meeting Room: Legends 1                          

               

Session Six:  Saturday, 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Session 6A: "Intellectual and Social Movements in the Atlantic World at the Turn of the 20th Century"                   

Meeting Room: Troon                  

 

Sunny or Hurricane Days:  A Progressive Era Autopsy     

Thomas J. McInerney, Metropolitan State University of Denver

 

Transatlantic Suffragism: British Perceptions of the American Suffrage Movement Prior to World War I

Kristina Graves, Georgia State University

 

Reconciling the Individual and the Collective:

Emile Durkheim, Secular Morality, Anthropology, and the Creation of Republican Positivism, 1893-1911 

Khali Navarro, University of Central Florida

 

Filling the Well of Gender Consciousness             

Patricia L. Farless, University of Central Florida

 

Chair/Discussant: Lela Kerley, University of North Florida

                               

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session 6B: "Shipwrecked in the Atlantic World:

Native Americans, Enslaved Africans, and Jonathan Dickinson"

Meeting Room: Legends 2                          

 

Indigenous Wrecking in the Late Seventeenth Century:

The Ais' Maritime Adaptation and Jonathan Dickinson   

Peter Ferdinando, Florida International University

 

Jonathan Dickinson's Itinerary from Jobe to Ais

Alan Brech, Independent Scholar

Before God's Protecting Providence:

Rethinking Jonathan Dickinson's Journal through Manuscript

Jason Daniels, Indian River State College

 

Chair: Daniel Murphree, University of Central Florida

Discussant: Denise Bossy, University of North Florida     

 

 

Session 6C: "Crucibles of War and US Power since 1898"                               

Meeting Room: Legends 3                          

 

"Jingo" Ministers and Armed Intervention:

Late-Nineteenth Century Political Debates in the Pulpit                

Tiffany West, Florida International University

 

Anti-American Sentiment and the Portuguese Opposition during the Vietnam War

Dario Macieira Mitchell, New College of Florida

 

The Empire Next Door: US-UK Relations in the US Invasion of Grenada

Christian Lazenby, University of North Florida

 

Resistance to the Government in Afghanistan's Modern History:

A Case Study

Mohammad Attarabkenar, University of Ferrara (Italy)

 

Chair/Discussant: Jack McTague, Saint Leo University

                                               

 

Session 6D: "World War I and Its Aftermath"      

Meeting Room: Wentworth                       

 

Impressions of Care: The Alice-Schwestern, World War I, and

Images of the Red Cross              

Kara Smith, Middle Georgia State College            

 

"Native" Status: One Impact of the League of Nations' Mandate System on East Africans             

Charlotte Miller, Middle Georgia State College  

 

Spy Games: German Sabotage and Espionage in the United States, 1914-1916

Tracie Provost, Middle Georgia State College     

 

Austrian Choices, 1918-1919: Independence or Anschluss?

Kevin Mason, South Georgia State College

 

Chair/Discussant: Tracie Provost, Middle Georgia State College

                               

Session 6E: "Based on a True Story: Identities in the Media"

Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research                          

Meeting Room: Legends 1

Rocky, Bullwinkle and Soviet Propaganda as

Manifestations of the Cold War

Nicole Sirotaplotnikov, Saint Leo University

 

Finding Balance: Jidai-geki (period films) and their Influence on Postwar Japanese Identity in the Historical Context of Japan's Long Struggle for Ethnic Definition

Andrew Kustodowicz, Flagler College

 

Comedy Films as Commentary on American Society

Jacqueline McKeon, Saint Leo University

 

Expanding Identity: How Two Decades Contributed to Florida's Modern Tourism Industry            

Amber DV Atteberry, Flagler College

 

Chair/Discussant: Brendan Goff, New College of Florida

Session Seven: Saturday, 10:15 AM-11:45 AM

Session 7A: "Debates on Labor Systems in the Atlantic World"

Meeting Room: Legends 2          

A Capitalist Solution to Slavery?  Daniel Lescallier and Colonial Reform in the Last Years of the French Old Regime               

David Allen Harvey, New College of Florida

 

Indentured Servants as "White Slaves": Metaphor or Reality?

Matthew Pursell, University of West Florida

 

Weapons of Persuasion: Saint-Domingue and Imperial in British Abolitionist Discourse   

Antony W. Keane-Dawes, University of South Carolina

 

Chair: Will Guzmán, Florida A&M University

Discussant: David Allen Harvey, New College of Florida 

 

Session 7B: "Thicker Than the Water Between Us: US-Cuban-Puerto Rican Networks since the Nineteenth Century"                               

Meeting Room: Legends 3

Annexation, Autonomy, or Independence? The Politics of Cuban Identity in the Émigré Communities of New York and Florida, 1840s-1890s              

Evan Matthew Daniel, Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY)

 

Cigar-Makers and the Business of Empire:  Cross-Border Business and Social Networks of Tampa and Havana, 1898-1919

Brendan Goff, New College of Florida

 

A Panamerican Paradise? Cuban and Puerto Rican Migrants, Musicians, and Ethnic Social Clubs in the Making of Latino/a Miami, 1940-1960

Christina D. Abreu, Georgia Southern University

 

The Boricua Triangle: Tampa, Miami and Orlando-A Historical Overview of the Development of a Transnational Puerto Rican Diaspora in Florida

Victor Vázquez-Hernández, Miami Dade College

Chair/Discussant: Stephanie Hinnerhitz, Valdosta State University

Session 7C: “Buried, Sunk, and Forgotten: The Saga of East Florida's Loyalists”

Special Interest Section: Florida History                

Meeting Room: Legends 1

An Archaeological Perspective on East Florida's Loyalist Influx:

The Excavation of a Loyalist Refugee Vessel Lost at St. Augustine on 31 December 1782

Chuck Meide, Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (LAMP)

 

"Are They to Die in the Wilderness?" The Price of British Liberty in East Florida

Roger Clark Smith, St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum

 

Leaving the Ancient City: The Loyalist Slave Diaspora from St. Augustine

Jennifer K. Snyder, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg/Florida Humanities Council

 

Chair/Discussant: James G. Cusick, Curator of the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History at the University of Florida Library

 

Session 7D: "Gender and Social Change in the United States during the Civil Rights Era" 

Meeting Room: Troon

The Men Behind the Golden Era of the Florida Women's Pages:

Jim Bellows, Lee Hills, and Al Neuharth

Kimberly Voss, University of Central Florida

 

Seeing "The basic similarities which define people as people":

The Desegregation of Agnes Scott College          

Charles H. "Trey" Wilson III, University of North Georgia

 

Re-educating the Movement: Race, Gender, and the Battle for Public Sector Unionism during the 1968 Florida Teacher Strike  

Jody Noll, Auburn University

 

Competing Voices: Political Contests over the EEOC's Sexual Harassment Policy, 1980-81              

Sheila Jones, Broward College

Chair/Discussant: Sheila Jones, Broward College               

Session 7E: "Florida's Recent Past and Present"

Special Interest Section: Florida History

Meeting Room: Wentworth

 

"A Step to Protect the Public": Violent Crime and Drug Prevalence in Jacksonville, Florida, 1971-2012      

Kyle Bridge, University of North Florida

 

The Slow Road to Abolition: A History of Capital Punishment in Florida, 1972-2010            

Travis Bates, University of North Florida

 

GlobalJax: A Non-Profit Organization, 1990-2013

Altaye A. Alambo, Independent Scholar

 

Chair: David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College

Discussant: Seth A. Weitz, Dalton State College

 

 

 

 

12:00 PM-12:50 PM: Lunch (on your own)                                            

Options Close to the Meeting Site:

--Mexican food buffet available to FCH participants (located within the Villagio Italian Grille Restaurant, $13.00 per person)

--Caddy Shack Restaurant (next door to the Renaissance Hotel)

 

12:00 PM-12:50 PM: Media, Arts, and Culture Special Event,

Book Signing

Location: Pre-Convene Area outside of Troon and Wentworth

Coffee and Dessert Available

 

Ages of Heroes, Eras of Men: Superheroes and the American Experience, Julian Chambliss (Rollins College), William L. Svitavsky (Rollins College), and Thomas C. Donaldson (Edison State College)                       

Hotel Ponce de Leon: The Architecture and Decoration, Thomas Graham (Flagler College, emeritus) and Leslee F. Keys (Flagler College)

 

 

Session Eight: Saturday, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Session 8A: "Twentieth-Century American Crime and Punishment"

Meeting Room: Wentworth                       

 

"Not a Matter of Racial Conflict":

Homicide in Jim Crow Memphis, 1917-1926         

Brandon T. Jett, University of Florida

 

Soccer Moms, Superpredators, and Symbolic Crusades:

Historical Perspectives on a Modern Moral Panic              

Alexander Tepperman, University of Florida      

 

Chair/Discussant: David T. Courtwright, University of North Florida

 

 

Session 8B: "Negotiating European Colonialism in the Americas"              

Meeting Room: Legends 2                          

 

The Mesón of Xalapa: Native Defense of Community Interests in Colonial Mexico           

Michael S. Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University

 

European Disease, Timucuan Healing:

Contesting Colonialism through Shamanic Medicine

Tamara Spike, University of North Georgia

 

Chair: Michael S. Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University        

Discussant: Margarita Vargas-Betancourt, University of Florida

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session 8C: "The Long Journey, II: The Civil Rights Movement in Florida"                               

Special Interest Section: Florida History                

Meeting Room: Legends 1                          

 

"Stay True to Nonviolence":

The Tallahassee Inter-Civic Council's Fight Against Segregation

Darius J. Young, Florida A&M University

 

The Battle for Justice:

Judge Bryan Simpson and the St. Augustine Uprising, 1963-1964               

James M. Denham, Florida Southern College

 

Chair: John Paul Hill, Warner University

Discussant: Richard Buckelew, Bethune-Cookman University

 

 

 

Session 8D: "Tourism and Imagery in Florida"                     

Special Interest Section: Florida History                

Meeting Room: Troon                  

 

I Remember: Tourism, Photography, and Iconography in Florida               

Liz Murphy Thomas, Florida State College at Jacksonville

 

Bunny Yeager Exposed: 'The World's Prettiest Photographer' as a Florida Cultural Icon

Cheyenne Oliver, Florida Atlantic University

 

Chair/Discussant: Kelly Enright, Flagler College

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session Nine: Saturday, 2:15 PM-3:45 PM

Session 9A: "The Transformation of Modern Great Britain"

Meeting Room: Wentworth                       

 

The Development of Radical Environmentalism in Great Britain,

1960-2013           

Ariel Szaks, University of North Florida

 

Shifting Identities: The Change in English National Identity in Modern British History       

Michael Makosiej, Florida Atlantic University

 

Chair/Discussant: Blaine T. Browne, Broward College

 

 

 

Session 9B: "Rediscovering the Distant Past through Material Culture and Printed Sources"

Meeting Room: Legends 3

 

Jarawas of Andaman Islands

A. Meera, Government Arts College, Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu, India)

 

Role of Iron Technology in Urbanization in India and Nigeria:

A Comparative Analysis

Anshul Bajpai, Yobe State University (Damaturu, Nigeria)

 

Reception of the Delian League by 5th Century Greek Allies

Andrea Schwab, Florida Atlantic University

 

Mada'in Saleh: A Model of Pre-Islamic Arab Civilization 

Hessa Al-Hathal, Princess Mora Bint Abdul Rahman University

(Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

 

Chair: David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College

 

 

 

 

 

Session 9C: "One Hundred Years of Health Care:

From Europe to America"

Meeting Room: Troon                  

 

Stuttering Treatments in Europe: A Case Study of Henry Freund, Co-Founder of the Stuttering Foundation of America

Sharon M. DiFino, Jacksonville University

 

One Hundred Years of Dentistry: How Women Redefined Dentistry: From Therapeutic to Preventive Oral Health               

Lanette Merkt, Jacksonville University

 

An Overview of Hearing Devices and Technology

over the Last 100 Years 

Caitlin O’Neill, Jacksonville University

 

The Lung Block: Epicenter of Crisis in Progressive-Era New York City

Adrienne D. deNoyelles, University of Florida

 

Chair/Discussant: Sharon M. DiFino, Jacksonville University

 

Session 9D: "Leading the Sunshine State: Florida Governors during the Early Cold War Years"                     

Special Interest Section: Florida History                

Meeting Room: Legends 1                          

 

Revisiting the Legacy of Governor LeRoy Collins

Carol S. Weissert, Florida State University

 

LeRoy Collins and Brown

Michael J. Goodwin, Florida Atlantic University

 

Cold War Concerns at the 1963 National Governor's Conference in Miami            

Michael Epple, Florida Gulf Coast University

 

His Name Was Dan McCarty       

Robert Buccellato, Independent Scholar

 

Chair/Discussant: Michael Epple, Florida Gulf Coast University

Session 9E: "Religion, Power, and Conflict in the Medieval World"

Meeting Room: Legends 2                          

 

Jihad Propaganda during the Career of Imad al-Din Zengi

Nicholas Belotto, Florida Atlantic University

 

The Cathar Heresy of Languedoc: Lay Spirituality and the Catholic Church of Southern France

Bryan E. Peterson, Flagler College

 

The Cross, Crescent, and Star:

Triangular Persistence into the 13th and 14th Centuries

Derrick Routier, University of North Florida

 

Chair/Discussant: Rowena Hernández-Múzquiz, Broward College

 

 

Session Ten:  Saturday, 4:00 PM-5:30 PM

Session 10A: "Cultures and Communities in the Modern Media Age"

Special Interest Section: Media, Arts, and Culture                            

Meeting Room: Legends 1                          

 

The Role of Broadcast Media in Mobilizing Youth for Political Participation: Historical Underpinnings        

Halidu Yahaya, Dokuz Eylul University (Turkey)

 

"What Can You Expect from a Guy in Charge of Joysticks?"

The Masculine Realm and Video Games in the United States      

Anne Ladyem McDivitt, George Mason University

 

Fairy Tales: A Decline in Violence or a Shift in Presentation?

Rebekkah Link, University of North Florida

 

Stark Contrasts: Reinventing Iron Man for 21st Century Cinema

Sarah Zaidan, Northeastern University

 

Chair/Discussant: Julian Chambliss, Rollins College

 

 

Session 10B: "The Cross as Rod and Scepter: The Church as Antagonist and Redeemer in Transnational Perspective"                               

Meeting Room: Legends 2                          

 

The Cross and the Sword:

The Catholic Church and the Armed Left in Pinochet’s Chile        

Alison J. Bruey, University of North Florida

 

Crying out in His Name: Redemptive Justice in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Chau Kelly, University of North Florida

 

Slavery as a Survival Mechanism: The Catholic Church in the Old South

Justin Stuart, University of North Florida              

 

“Deliver Us From Evil”: Religious Responses to Earthquakes in Argentina and Chile during the Long Nineteenth-Century

Quinn Dauer, Indiana University-Southeast

 

Chair/Discussant: Brandi Denison, University of North Florida

 

Session 10C: "Race, Gender, and Social Control in the United States South during the Nineteenth Century"                        

Meeting Room: Troon                  

 

An Intersectional Perspective on Rape Trials in Antebellum Florida

Erin Tobin, The Ohio State University

 

Rudimentary Eugenics in Slavery: Slave Breeding and Medical Experimentation on Black Women              

Jessica Bromfield, Florida Atlantic University

 

"Animal-like and Depraved": Racist Stereotypes, Commercial Sex, and Black Women's Identity in New Orleans, 1825-1917

Porsha Dossie, University of Central Florida

 

The Enslaved and a Jury Trial in Florida

Chris Day, Florida State University

 

Chair/Discussant: Heather Parker, Saint Leo University

Session 10D: "An Interactive Exhibit on a Forgotten Community: West Tampa"  

Special Interest Section: Florida History                

Meeting Room: Legends 3                          

 

Melissa Badcock, University of South Florida

Chelsea Watts, University of South Florida                          

Angela Ruth, University of South Florida                              

Paul Dunder, University of South Florida                              

 

Chair/Discussant: Brendan Goff, New College of Florida

 

                               

Session 10E: “The Wars Within: War, Politics, and Society during the 1930s and 1940s”

Meeting Room: Wentworth                       

 

Kooe Fumimaro and Chiang Kai-shek: Political Duel over Japan's Quest: A New Order in the Far East for An Establishment of Asia for Asia 

Kazuo Yagami, Savannah State University

 

Nazi Persecution of Male Homosexuals in Adolf Hitler's Germany: Section 175   

Brian Allan Little, University of North Florida

 

The Nazi State and Jewish Resistance    

Rhonda Cifone, Florida Atlantic University

 

"No Work, No Eat": The Influence of Race on Prisoner of War Labor within the United States during World War II

Adam S. Rock, University of Central Florida

 

Chair/Discussant: Nicholas Steneck, Florida Southern College

                               


 

Special Thanks To:

Sherri Jackson, Chair, Division of Social Sciences, Jacksonville University

Jenna Vallimont and the Staff at the

Renaissance WGV Resort

 

 

Thank you for coming to the 2014 Florida Conference of Historians! 

 

We hope to see you again in Lakeland for the 55th annual meeting hosted by Florida Southern College!

 

Please go to our website http://www.floridaconferenceofhistorians.org

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