2015

Florida Conference of Historians

 

55th Annual Meeting

February 13-15, 2015

Florida Southern College

Lakeland, Florida

 

 

 

Hosted by Florida Southern College

                                                                                               

 


General Information

Transportation to Lakeland (The Terrace Hotel)

If traveling to the meeting by air, the local arrangements committee recommends flying into either Orlando International Airport or Tampa International Airport.  However, flying into Tampa is preferred, if you want to avoid traffic.  Both airports offer car rental services.  In addition, shuttle/taxi service is available through Sundance Shuttle and Limo, 863-512-3334 (website: http://www.sundancelimofl.com).  The Tampa-Lakeland (Terrace Hotel) trip would be $75 one way; the Orlando-Lakeland (Terrace Hotel) trip would be $90 one way.

 

The Terrace Hotel

Lodging is available at the Terrace Hotel (http://www.terracehotel.com).  All guests have complimentary valet parking, which is located at the main entrance off Massachusetts Avenue.  Self-parking is also available for those guests who would prefer it.

 

Directions to the 2015 FCH Annual Meeting

The annual meeting will be held at Florida Southern College in Lakeland.  The address is: 111 Lake Hollingsworth Drive; Lakeland, FL 33801.  The Terrace Hotel is no more than 1 mile away from FSC's campus.  There is no shuttle service; however, you may walk, take a very short taxi or bus ride, or drive to campus.  Parking is available in the VB, VBB, and VA parking lots.  More information on getting to campus, including parking, is available on the Florida Southern College website: http://www.flsouthern.edu

 

Key Locations on FSC’s Campus Map


1) Visitor Parking

Designated Lots: VB, VBB, and VA

Map Location: Northwest part of campus along Frank Lloyd Wright Way and Johnson Avenue

 

2) Christoverson

Humanities Building

Map Location: A-5

Building Code: CH

 

3) McKay Archives

Map Location: B-2

Building Code: AR

 


4) Sharp Family Tourism and Education Center

Map Location: 750 Frank Lloyd Wright Way

Building Code: TO

 

5) Wellness Center Gym

Map Location: F-4

Building Code: HW

 

6) Anne MacGregor Jenkins Recital Hall (Branscomb Auditorium)

Map Location: B-4

Building Code: B



CAMPUS MAP

      


Local Arrangements Chair

James M. Denham

Florida Southern College

 

Program Chair

Jesse Hingson

Jacksonville University


Officers of the

Florida Conference of Historians, 2015-2016

President                            James M. Denham

Florida Southern College

 

President-Elect                 Patricia Farless

University of Central Florida

 

Treasurer                            Jesse Hingson

Jacksonville University

 

Secretary                             David Proctor

Tallahassee Community College

 

FCH Annals:

The Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians

Senior Editor

Michael S. Cole

Florida Gulf Coast University

 

Statement of Governance

According to the FCH Constitution, participation in the annual meeting is open to persons interested in any field of history or any area of study of historical interest.  The Executive Council of the organization includes a president, a president-elect, a vice president, a secretary, and a treasurer. Each year at its annual business meeting, the attending members choose a president-elect to be the person who will host the annual meeting during the following year.  The vice president automatically becomes the president-elect the next year, i.e., the year that she or he hosts the annual meeting.  The president is responsible for organizing the annual meeting.  The secretary and treasurer serve three year terms of office in order to provide some stability to the organization.  Officers are advised as needed by an "Executive Council" composed of past presidents, the treasurer, and the secretary.  Officers receive no compensation.


Friday, February 13, 2015

1:00-5:00 PM: Registration

Location: Christoverson Humanities Building Lobby

 

Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture Tour Available:  

The "Basic Tour" (1 hour) costs for groups varies based on the number, 15-24 people is $17, 25 or more is $15.  The "In-Depth Tour" (2 hours) takes the visitor inside every structure available and the cost for 15-24 people is $27 and 25 or more people $24.  The tour needs to start no later than 3:30 for the "Basic Tour" and 2:30 for the "In-Depth Tour". 

Location: Sharp Family Tourism and Education Center,

Florida Southern College

Contact: 863-680-4597

E-mail: fllw@flsouthern.edu

Website: http://www.flsouthern.edu/fllw-visitors.aspx

 

 

Session One:  Friday, 2:00 PM-3:15 PM

Panel 1A: "Intersections: Teaching and Digital Humanities"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 109,

Wynee's "Moc" Theatre                              

 

Space, Place, and Digital Tools:

Creating A Semester Long Digital Assignment

Julian Chambliss and Mike Gunter, Jr., Rollins College

 

Digging into the Digital Archive 

Scot French, University of Central Florida

 

The Severan Provincial Coinage Project 

Julie Langford, University of South Florida 

 

Chair and Discussant: Will Guzman, Florida A&M University

 


 

Panel 1B: "Congressman James A. Haley (1953-1977)

Addresses the Issues", I

Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 112 

 

Congressman James A. Haley on Campus Disorders, 1969-1971 

Daniel Montes, Florida Southern College

Congressman James A. Haley and Animal Welfare and Animal Experimentation

Miranda Hendricks, Florida Southern College

 

Congressman James A. Haley Addresses the My Lai Massacre

David Verner, Florida Southern College

 

Chair and Discussant: Colleen Moore, Florida Southern College

 

 

Panel 1C: "Early European Colonization of Florida"

Special Interest Section: Florida History

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 207                 

 

Florida's French Settlers in European Context:

Spain, England and France's Wars of Religion    

Denice Fett, University of North Florida

 

On Disparate Grounds: 

French-Timucua Relations in the Early Colonial Period

Christophe Boucher, College of Charleston

 

Breaking the Bank:

Pedro Menéndez, La Florida, and the Siphoning of the Spanish Empire

Katherine A. Godfrey, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg

 

Chair and Discussant: Michael S. Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University

 


 

Panel 1D: "The Relationship between the United States and Cuba"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 208

 

The War that Made Hollywood:

How the Spanish-American War Saved the U.S. Film Industry     

Candice Shy Hooper, Independent Scholar

 

The Struggle Against Bandits: The Cuban Revolution and Responses to CIA-Sponsored Counter-Revolutionary Activity, 1959-1963

Anthony Rossodivito, University of North Florida

 

Recovering the History of the Mariel Boatlift in Mirta Ojito’s Finding Mañana

José Manuel Garcia, Florida Southern College

 

Chair and Discussant: José Manuel Garcia, Florida Southern College

 

 

Session Two: Friday, 3:30 PM-4:45 PM

Panel 2A: "Florida Southern College McKay Archives Exploration"

Meeting Room: McKay Archives              

 

Florida Citrus Labels: Markers of Culture

Anthony Woodside, Florida Southern College

 

From Florida Citrus Queen to Miss Florida Citrus:

A Changing Title for a Changing World

Selys Rivera, Florida Southern College

 

Henry Green Barnett: Man of Wonders

Sean Mold, Florida Southern College

 

Chair and Discussant: Jeff Zines, Florida Southern College

 


 

Panel 2B: Documentary, "Filthy Dreamers", Narrated by Cheryl Hines

Special Interest Section: Media, Arts, and Culture

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 109,

Wynee's "Moc" Theatre                                                              

 

Screening and Discussion:

Lisa Mills, University of Central Florida

Robert Cassanello, University of Central Florida

 

Who should control what is taught in our public universities?  Educators?  Citizens?  Or, politicians?   In 1927 Florida State College for Women in Tallahassee was the only public university available for white females, and it found itself at the center of an ideological battle over faith and science in the classroom.   The outcome depended on the college president, professors, and female students, who defended their right to academic freedom. The religious fundamentalist who initiated the attack called all of them “Filthy Dreamers”.  This 29-minute film features alumna of Florida State College for Women, lively experts, and retired U.S. Senator Bob Graham, who continues to be an outspoken education advocate. They help us understand the relevance of this battle today, as religious fundamentalists continue to urge lawmakers that evolution and climate change should be taught as theory, rather than fact.   This documentary was researched, shot, written, and edited by students in a UCF Interdisciplinary Honors Seminar class under the direction of Dr. Robert Cassanello and Dr. Lisa Mills.

Panel 2C: "Hidden Histories of Tampa"  

Special Interest Section: Florida History                                                

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 206

 

Out of Bounds in Tampa:

Jook Joints and the Anti-VD Campaign during World War II

Andrew Huse, University of South Florida Libraries

 

The Gasparilla Cookbook:

Tampa's Well Behaved Women Making a Difference

Kimberly Wilmot Voss, University of Central Florida

 

The Barber and His Wife: Bonds of Matrimony, Profession, and Activism in Tampa's Black Community   

Charles McGraw, University of Tampa   

 

Chair and Discussant: Deborah L. Bauer,                University of South Florida

 

 

Panel 2D: "Perspectives on Conflict in the Old South"    

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 209 

 

Exploring the Master-Slave Relationship in the Lower Mississippi Valley during the Early Republic

Patrick Luck, Florida Polytechnic University

 

Southerners are Very Territorial:

Dueling and Politics in the Nineteenth Century South      

Matthew Byron, Young Harris College   

 

“There is no difference between a He and a She Adder in Their Venom”:  Confederate Women in the Occupied South

Jacqueline Glass Campbell, Francis Marion University

 

Chair: James M. Denham, Florida Southern College

Discussant: Craig Buettinger, Jacksonville University       

 

Panel 2E: "The Near East and Balkans in the Early Twentieth Century”

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 208

 

Amid the Wreckage of the Great War:

Rev. J. Calvitt Clarke's Inspection Tour with Near East Relief, 1921

J. Calvitt Clarke III, Jacksonville University

 

The Red Terror of Greece's EAM Communist Resistance Movement against the Other Resistance Groups in German Occupied Greece, 1943-1944

Nickolaos Mavromates and George Mavromates,

Independent Scholars

 

Chair and Discussant: Colleen M. Moore, Florida Southern College

 

 

 

 

 

 

5:00-6:00 PM: Welcome Reception

Location: Sharp Family Tourism and Education Center

Florida Southern College

Refreshments Available

 

 


 

Saturday, February 14, 2015

 

8:00 AM-4:00 PM: Registration

Location: Christoverson Humanities Building Lobby

Refreshments Available                                                               

 

Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture Tour Available:

Basic Tour is $20 at 10:00 AM and 12:00 PM; In-Depth Tour is $35 at 10:30 AM or 1:00 PM.  FCH Attendees will receive a 10% discount off the regular price.      

Location: Sharp Family Tourism and Education Center,

Florida Southern College                                                             

Contact: 863-680-4597                                                  

E-mail: fllw@flsouthern.edu                                                      

Website: http://www.flsouthern.edu/fllw-visitors.aspx                               

 

 

Session Three: Saturday, 8:00 AM-9:15 AM

Panel 3A: "New Studies on Non-Western Religions"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 206

 

Sacrifices and their Significance in the Pre-Islamic Arab Religion

Hessa T Al-Hathal,

Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University (Saudi Arabia)         

 

The Rise of Modern Japanese Religions 

Kazuo Yagami, Savannah State University

 

Chair and Discussant: Alan Smith, Florida Southern College

 


 

Panel 3B: "Re-Examining the Impact of World War I"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 208

 

Dependence or Diplomacy? 

The Low Countries and the United States at Versailles    

Hubert P. van Tuyll, Georgia Regents University

 

David Lamar, Wolf of Wall Street and German Agent in World War I Heribert von Feilitzsch, Independent Scholar

 

War and the Ballet Parade

Lylas Rommel, Ave Maria University 

 

Chair and Discussant: Jack McTague, Saint Leo University

 

 

Panel 3C: "History and Pedagogy"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 209

 

The Pedagogical Merits and Pitfalls of Using the Letters of Hernan Cortes to Teach the Conquest of Mexico         

Michael S. Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University

 

Fictionalizing History in the College Classroom

Claudia Slate, Florida Southern College 

 

Chair: Michael S. Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University

Discussant: Nicholas Steneck, Wesleyan College

 

 


 

Panel 3D: "Women Saving Florida"

Special Interest Section: Florida History                                                

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 207 

 

Miami Maven Helen Muir:

Writer, Historian, Advocate & Tea Party Host

Kimberly Wilmot Voss, University of Central Florida

 

Saving Biscayne: Women's Roles in the Effort to Save the Bay

Leslie Kemp Poole, Rollins College

 

The "Housewife Who Roared": Marjorie Harris Carr and the Death of the Cross Florida Barge Canal

Peggy Macdonald, Florida Polytechnic University

 

Chair and Discussant: Kimberly Wilmot Voss,

University of Central Florida

 

 

Session Four: Saturday, 9:30 AM-10:45 AM

Panel 4A: "Immigrant Identities and Experiences"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 206

 

Jacob De Cordova: Immigrant, Messenger and Prophet                

Tom Aiello, Gordon State College

 

Fighting for Freedom through the Press:

The 'Phoenix' and Irish-American Nationalism   

Matt Knight, University of South Florida               

 

Chair and Discussant: Douglas Astolfi, Saint Leo University

 


 

Panel 4B: "Gender and Race in Comics"

Special Interest Section: Media, Arts, and Culture

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 208 

 

The Adventures of Ms. Meta:

Celebrating the Female Superhero through Digital Gaming         

Sarah Zaidan, Emerson College 

 

Iron Maidens:

Female Muslim Superheroes and the Representation of Agency

Helen Tarzwell, Independent Scholar    

 

Ambassadors of Race: The Role of Sports Personalities in Breaking the Color Barrier in American Comics

Christopher Hayton, Florida State University

 

Chair: Julian Chambliss, Rollins College  

Discussant: Lisa Mills, University of Central Florida

 

Panel 4C: "The Politics of Banking and Finance in the US since the Nineteenth Century"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 209 

 

Andrew Jackson's Bank Wars:

"The Bank, Mr. Van Buren is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!"

Michael J. Goodwin, Florida Atlantic University 

 

Eastern Airlines: Deregulation, Labor Wars, and Bankruptcy

Rhonda Cifone, Florida Atlantic University

 

AIG: Why It Couldn't Fail

Douglas Provenzano, Florida Atlantic University                

 

Chair and Discussant:

Lesley Mace, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta-Jacksonville Branch

 

                                                                               

Panel 4D: "Florida, Race, and Ideology at the Turn of the Twentieth Century"

Special Interest Section: Florida History

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 207

 

Defending the Old South: The Myth of the Lost Cause in Florida

Seth A. Weitz, Dalton State College

 

Beating Back the Mob:

One Florida Sheriff’s Fight Against Racial Vigilantism

Billy Townsend, Independent Scholar

 

Chair and Discussant: Sean McMahon, Florida Gateway College

 

Panel 4E: "Russia and the World"

Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 210

 

Russia and the United States:  A Distanced Relationship, 1867-1917

Michael Twillman, New College of Florida

 

Bolsheviks in Bavaria:  Soviet Republics in Central Europe, 1919  

Jim Dickey, New College of Florida          

 

Chair: David Allen Harvey, New College of Florida

Discussant: Hubert P. van Tuyll, Georgia Regents University        

                                                                               


 

Session Five:  Saturday, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM

Panel 5A: "Artistic Representations of Historical Trauma in Latin America"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 206

 

Redeeming Memory through the Dysfunctional, Dis-united "no-body": A Neo-Baroque Approach to Doris Salcedo's Oeuvre

Andrea Villa, University of Florida

 

Memory and Dictatorship in the Antidetective Fiction

of the Southern Cone

Alicia Mercado-Harvey, New College of Florida 

 

Chair and Discussant: Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University

 

Panel 5B: "State Building and Democracy in the Americas during the Late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries"

Meeting Room: Christoverson 209

 

School Boards and the Limits of Local Management of Primary Education:  Brief Democratic Experiments in Argentina’s Interior Provinces, 1872 to 1874

Mark McMeley, Valencia College

 

Vicissitudes of Democratic Party Politics: From the Cross of Gold Crusade to the Great War

Thomas J. McInerney, Metropolitan State University of Denver

 

Chair: Mark McMeley, Valencia College

Discussant: Heribert von Feilitzsch, Independent Scholar

 

 


 

Panel 5C: "Remembering the Ancient World"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 207

 

The Grand Procession at Daphne: An Example of Late Seleucid Strength

Tyler Campbell, University of Central Florida

 

Ancient Roman Women in Modern Cinema

Andrea Schwab, Florida Atlantic University

 

Chair and Discussant: J. Calvitt Clarke III, Jacksonville University

 

 

 

 

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

Options Close to the Meeting Site:

 

·         FSC Cafeteria (FSC Student Union)

·         TuTus Cyber Cafe (directly in front of the FSC Library)

·         Reececliff's Cafe (three blocks from campus, on Florida Avenue)             

·         "Subs and Such" (next to Reececliffs on Florida Avenue)

·         Numerous options downtown next to Terrace Hotel

 

FCH Business Meeting

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 210

 


 

Session Six: Saturday, 1:00 PM-2:15 PM

Panel 6A: "Identities in Colonial Latin American Society”

Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 210

 

Growing Up Mestizo: Forming New Identities in Colonial Society

Madeleine Yount, New College of Florida

 

Santidade in Bahia and the Role of Millenarianism

Victoria McCollough, New College of Florida

 

Chair: Alicia Mercado-Harvey, New College of Florida

Discussant: Sara Rodríguez-Argüelles Riva, The Ohio State University

 

 

Panel 6B: "Southern Drawls: Rhetoric, Discourse, and the US South"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 209

 

Peace If Possible, Justice At Any Rate: The Views of Wendell Phillips

Charles Boyd, Georgia State University

 

"Political Gossip" and the Threat to White Male Supremacy in the South: Woman Suffrage Politics and Rhetoric in Middle Georgia,

1865-1920

Megan Neary, Georgia State University

 

Chair and Discussant: David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College

 

 


 

Panel 6C: "Exploring Irish Legends, Folklore, and History"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 208

 

Evil vs. Enchanted Magic: The Demonization of Morgan le Fay and Preservation of Folkloric Roots in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Cheyenne Oliver, Florida Atlantic University

 

Gender and Comedy in the Medieval Irish Tale "Bricriu's Feast"

Jennifer Dukes-Knight, University of South Florida

 

Redefined Nationhood:

English National Identity and the Irish War of Independence

Michael Makosiej, Florida Atlantic University

 

Chair: Jack McTague, Saint Leo University

 

Panel 6D: "Approaching Modern Germany from a Global and Transnational Perspective"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 206

 

Nation(s) of Provincials? The Role of Multinational Empire, Federalism, and Particularism in Defining Politics, Law, and the State from 1500-2000

Bernd Grewe, Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg (Germany)

 

Germans as World Citizens? The Contradictory Forces of Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Central European Culture and Society, 1500-2000

Eric Kurlander, Stetson University

 

Germany’s Place in the Sun: Capitalism, Empire, and Globalization

Doug McGetchin, Florida Atlantic University

 

Chair: Richards Plavnieks, University of Central Florida

Discussant: Patricia Kollander, Florida Atlantic University

 


 

Panel 6E: "The Environment and Nature in Florida's History"

Special Interest Section: Florida History                                                

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 207

 

"The Dead are in Some Respects Better Than the Living":

Lake City and the Hurricane of 1896        

Sean McMahon, Florida Gateway College

 

From Wasteland to Wonderland:

An Environmental History of Florida's Southwest Gulf Coast

Nano E. Riley, University of South Florida, St.  Petersburg

 

The Hammer, the Sickle, and the Phosphate Rock: The 1974 Political Controversy over Florida Phosphate Shipments to the Soviet Union

Brad T. Massey, Polk State College and the University of Florida

 

Chair and Discussant: Seth Weitz, Dalton State College

Co-Discussant: Robert Hutchings, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Panel 6F: "What Dreams May Come:

Urban Utopia and Dystopia in American Popular Culture"

Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 109

 

Buying the American Dream: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House and Postwar National Consensus

Joy Feagan, New College of Florida

 

Building the 'Noir City': Cultural Visions of the Bradbury Center and the Politics of Urban America

Zane Plattor, New College of Florida

 

For Your Amusement: The Display of Nostalgia and the Production of Desire in Disneyland

Shoshana Lovett-Graff, New College of Florida

 

Chair and Discussant: Brendan Goff, New College of Florida

Session Seven: Saturday, 2:30 PM-3:45 PM

Panel 7A: "Questioning Connections Between Heteronormativity and the Law Throughout History"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 206

 

Against Neutrality: The Law As a Facilitator of Violence Against Women

Sara Rodríguez-Argüelles Riva, The Ohio State University

 

Consent and Citizenship:  Reshaping Women's Relationship to the State from Rape Shield Laws to Affirmative Consent Policies

Erin Tobin, The Ohio State University

 

Controlling Sexuality Through the Construction and Criminalization of Red Light Districts

Joshua Bates, The Ohio State University               

 

Chair: Karen Huber, Wesleyan College

Discussant: Erin Tobin, The Ohio State University

 

Panel 7B: "Visions, Versions, and Voices: Collective and Divergent Histories in the Panama Canal Museum Collection"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 209

 

Balancing Perspectives and Myths in the Center of the Canal Zone

Shelley Arlen, University of Florida

 

Facing Diversity: Challenges of Curating an Exhibit on the Panama Canal

Margarita Vargas-Betancourt, University of Florida

 

Collective Visions of Triumph and Tourism: Portrayals of Panama and the Panama Canal in Stereographs

Rebecca Fitzsimmons, University of Florida

 

Chair and Discussant: Jessica Belcoure, University of Florida


 

Panel 7C: "Emerging (Mass) Markets: Madame Butterfly, Coco Chanel, and the Psychology of Buying and Selling"

Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 207

 

Transpacific Crossings: Performing the 'Far East'              

Nicole Rockower, New College of Florida

 

Chanel No. 5: An Historical Interpretation of a Cultural Staple

Kana Hummel, New College of Florida

 

Conditioning Consumers and Selling to the Subconscious: Psychology and Marketing in Twentieth-Century America

Madi Huffstickle, New College of Florida              

 

Chair and Discussant: Brendan Goff, New College of Florida

 

Panel 7D: "Turbulent Transitions: America in the 1970s and 1980s"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 208

 

From Confrontation to Exclusion: The Military-Press Relationship in the Wake of the Vietnam War

Andrew J. McLaughlin, University of Waterloo (Canada)

 

A Tale of Two Pardons: Gerald Ford's Amnesty for Richard Nixon and Clemency for Draft Dodgers

Jason Friedman, Wasatch Academy

 

Disability Civil Rights Laws through the 1970s and 1980s

Liana Souchet, Florida Southern College               

 

The United States, Reagan, Gorbachev, and Their Implications on the Soviet Collapse

Christopher Walsh, Florida Gulf Coast University

 

Chair and Discussant: Marco Rimanelli, Saint Leo University

                                               

Panel 7E: "Sources for Understanding Early Modern England"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 210

 

Romeo and Juliet: A Statue of Liberty

Olivia Coulomb  University of Clermont-Ferrand, CERHAC

 

Pleasure, Honor, and Profit: Samuel Hartlib in his Papers, 1620-1662

Timothy Earl Miller, Georgia State University

 

Chair and Discussant: Jennifer Dukes-Knight, University of South Florida

 

 

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

Panel 8A: "Constructing and Re-Constructing Race in

Modern Urban America"

Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 206

 

Reconstructing Racial Caste in 'Post-Racial' America: From Racism to Respectability

Patrick Tonissen, New College of Florida              

 

Anglo-Saxon America vs. Pacific Empire: Multi-Racial and Multi-Spatial Perspectives on the Origins of Japanese American Internment

Michael Dorney, New College of Florida               

 

Counterculture Comix and the City: Portraying Racial Tensions and Urban Decay in Underground Comics

Dario Mitchell, New College of Florida

 

A Pineland Understory: Women and African Americans in the Historical Environment of Orange City, Florida

Kimberly Reading, Stetson University    

 

Chair: Brendan Goff, New College of Florida

Discussant: Erin Tobin, The Ohio State University

Panel 8B: "Territorial Florida in Transition"

Special Interest Section: Florida History

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 207

 

"The extraordinary measure of permitting the two Scotsmen to import British trade goods": A Spanish Borderlands Historiographic Reconsideration of the Panton, Leslie, and Company

Kathryn L. Beasley, Florida State University

 

The Contraband Hub: Florida and Smuggling during the Early Republic

Daniel Vogel, Texas Christian University

 

George Brown: Letters of a Florida Pioneer

Keith L. Huneycutt, Florida Southern College

 

Chair and Discussant: Deborah L. Bauer, University of South Florida

 

Panel 8C: "Bubbles and Crises in Florida"

Special Interest Section: Florida History

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 210

 

Currency, Credit, Crises and Cuba: The Fed's Early History in Florida Lesley Mace, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta-Jacksonville Branch

 

Seminole Gaming in Florida:

Tribal Sovereignty, Economics, and the Law

Shellie A. Labell, Florida Atlantic University

 

A Capital Idea: Northern Dollars, Southern Citrus, and the Exploitation of a Tax Shelter in Postwar Florida

Robert Hutchings, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Chair and Discussant: Sean McMahon, Florida Gateway College

 


 

Panel 8D: "France and the World during the Long Nineteenth Century"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 209

 

Blurred Lines: Debating the Status of Free People of Color in the Pre-Revolutionary French Caribbean     

David Allen Harvey, New College of Florida

 

"The Simplicity of the Dove and the Intelligence of the Snake":

Visiting Revolutionary Paris

Dawn Shedden, University of South Florida, St Petersburg

 

Napoleon and America, 1800-1815

Marco Rimanelli, Saint Leo University

 

"Forging a New France": Gustave Le Bon's Vision of Nationalism and Race, 1881-1931

Khali I. Navarro, University of Central Florida

 

Chair and Discussant: Erika Vause, Florida Southern College

 

Panel 8E: "Anglo-American Culture in the Eighteenth Century" Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 208

 

The Jolly Roger and the Bloody Code: Piracy and Capital Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England

Chase Kelly, Valdosta State University

 

Religious Loyalties Transformed: Anglican Liturgy, Presbyterian Polity, and the American Revolution

Jenny Smith, Valdosta State University 

 

Chair: Nicholas Steneck, Wesleyan College          

                                                                               


 

6:00 PM-7:00 PM: Banquet

Wellness Center Gym, Florida Southern College

 

Welcoming Remarks

Dr. James M. Denham

Florida Southern College

FCH President, 2015-2016

 

Presentation of Best Paper Awards

J. Calvitt Clarke III Award for Best Undergraduate Student Paper: Presented by J. Calvitt Clarke III, Jacksonville University

 

Blaine Browne Award for Best Graduate Student Paper:

Presented by Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University

 

Thomas M. Campbell Award for Best Professional Paper:

Presented by David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College

 

FCH Annals Remarks

Dr. Michael S. Cole

Florida Gulf Coast University

Senior Editor, FCH Annals

 

Invitation to the 2016 FCH Annual Meeting in Orlando

Patricia Farless

University of Central Florida

FCH President-Elect

 


 

7:00 PM-8:30 PM: Keynote Address

Wellness Center Gym, Florida Southern College

 

Welcoming Remarks

Dr. Brad Hollingshead

Dean of Arts and Sciences, Florida Southern College

 

Introduction of Keynote Speaker

Dr. James M. Denham

Florida Southern College

 

Keynote Address

Dr. Jane Landers

Vanderbilt University

 

"Filling in the Missing Pieces": The Extraordinary Life of Captain Francisco Menendez, Leader of the Free Black Town of Gracia Real de Santa Theresa de Mose

 

Born of a Spanish father and an African mother, Francisco Menéndez escaped colonial South Carolina and like hundreds of others in similar condition found his way to Spanish Florida, where he received his freedom in exchange for converting to Catholicism and joining the militia in defense of the beleaguered colony.  As a loyal subject of the Spanish crown, Menéndez served his king as a soldier and was appointed head of black militia based at Fort Mose, approximately one mile north of St. Augustine.  Menéndez’s remarkable human saga, as told through primary documents discovered in Spain and Cuba, is a story of the perseverance and resourcefulness under extreme hardships.

Sunday, February 15, 2014

 

9:00 AM-12:00 PM: Registration

Location: Christoverson Humanities Building Lobby

Refreshments Available

 

Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture Tour Available:

Basic Tour is $20 at 10:00 AM and 12:00 PM; In-Depth Tour is $35 at 10:30 AM or 1:00 PM.  FCH Attendees will receive a 10% discount off the regular price.

Location: Sharp Family Tourism and Education Center,

Florida Southern College                                                             

Contact: 863-680-4597                                                  

E-mail: fllw@flsouthern.edu                                                      

Website: http://www.flsouthern.edu/fllw-visitors.aspx               

 

 

 

Session Nine: Sunday, 8:00 AM-9:15 AM

Panel 9A: "Perspectives on Cold War Events at Home and Abroad"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 207

 

Sputnik Verses Eisenhower: Reassessing the Situation

Patrick Gallagher, Florida Gulf Coast University

 

Placing Responsibility for the Bay of Pigs Operation

Hannah Lipsey, Florida Gulf Coast University

 

The Fall of the Communist Government in Bulgaria

Samouil Panayotov, Florida Gulf Coast University

 

Erik D. Carlson, Florida Gulf Coast University

 


 

Panel 9B: "Bloomers, Educators, and Prostitutes: Cultural and Geographical Borderlands of Female Reformers in the 19th Century" Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 206

 

Bloomers Were No Bust: The Role of the Bloomer Campaign in Creating Gender Consciousness

Patricia Farless, University of Central Florida

 

Cosmopolitan Imperialism:

US Teachers Populate the Argentine Public Education System

Carolina Zumaglini, Florida International University

 

"Outline of a Plan for a Self-sustaining Institution for Homeless and Outcast Females": Emma Hardinge and CaroliTransatlantic Mission to Rescue the Lives of Outcast Women in 1860s Boston

Lisa Howe, Florida International University

 

Chair and Discussant: Patricia Farless, University of Central Florida

 

                                                                               

Panel 9C: "Social Change and the Catholic Hierarchy"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 208

Knights and Bishops: Catholic Bishops and the American Labor Movement in the 1880s 

Zach Brasseur, Saint Leo University

 

Race, Cohabitation, and the Archbishop: Antonio Maria Claret and Interracial Marriage in Cuba, 1851-1857        

Sean Mallen, Florida Atlantic University

 

Chair and Discussant: Douglas Astolfi, Saint Leo University

 

 


 

Panel 9D: "Nation-Building in Africa"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 209

 

Food and Nationalism in an Independent Ghana             

Brandi Simpson Miller, Georgia State University

 

Nigeria, 1914-2014: From Creation to Cremation?

Ojo Emmanuel Oladipo,                Ekiti State University (Nigeria)

 

Chair and Discussant: Michael Joseph Mulvey, Saint Thomas University

 

 

Panel 9E: "Exploring the ‘Dark Turn’ in American History:

A Century of Irregular Warfare and Political Violence"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 210

 

“When Our Cannon They Do Roar":

Revolutionary Privateering and Violence at Sea

Kylie Alder Hulbert, University of Georgia

 

Excessive & Expressive: Preston Brooks, Righteous Violence, and the White Southern Male

James Hill Welborn III, Georgia College and State University

 

The Moral High Ground of a Guerrilla Massacre:

Lawrence, Kansas, August 1863

Matthew C. Hulbert, University of Georgia

 

Chair and Discussant: David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College

 


 

Session Ten: Sunday, 9:30 AM-10:45 AM

Panel 10A: "The Modern War Economy and Society"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 206

 

"The Blessing of Being Judged":

Napoleon's Moral Economy of Credit and Debt

Erika Vause, Florida Southern College

 

Russian Peasants, Speculators, and the State: 

A Story of Food Supply Work during World War I

Colleen M. Moore, Florida Southern College

 

Food for Conquerors:

Military Rations and Patriotism as an Advertising Tool

Jordan Malfoy, Florida International University

 

Chair: Nicholas Steneck, Wesleyan College

Discussant: Colleen M. Moore, Florida Southern College

 

Panel 10B: "Congressman James A. Haley (1953-1977) Addresses the Issues," II

Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 207

 

The Gentleman from Florida and His Personal Crusade Against the Kinzua Dam

Michael Warne, Florida Southern College

 

Congressman James A. Haley and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Abby Eskridge, Florida Southern College

 

Congressman James A. Haley and Foreign Aid to Israel in 1977

Jason Kochenburger, Florida Southern College

 

Chair and Discussant: James M. Denham, Florida Southern College

 


 

Panel 10C: "Children and Society during the Twentieth Century"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 208

 

Child Murder and Society in Argentina during the Depression Era

Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University

 

"Children do not have race prejudice as a rule": 

Reforming Children's Radio in the 1940s

Amanda Bruce, Florida Polytechnic University

 

Baby Snowbirds:

Children's Educational Experiences in the Orange Belt, c.1946-1956

Catherine R. Eskin, Florida Southern College

 

Chair: Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University

Discussant: Karen Huber, Wesleyan College

 

Panel 10D: "Latin America during the Twentieth Century"

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 210

 

Clipped Wings: The Truman Administration and the First Attempt at a Bilateral Air Transport Agreement with Mexico, 1945-1947

Erik D. Carlson, Florida Gulf Coast University

 

Reimagining the Primitive:

Tourism and the Golden Ages in Haiti, 1946-1956

Tonya St. Julien, Florida International University               

 

A Killing in Quiriguá, Guatemala:

Race, Nation and Empire in the Caribbean

Joseph Floyd, Georgia State University

 

Chair and Discussant: Michael S. Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University

 

 


 

Panel 10E: "Cultural Representations of Race and Racism"

Special Interest Section: Media, Arts, and Culture

Meeting Room: Christoverson Humanities Building 209

 

Our Land is Our Church: The American Indian Movement's Mission to Retain Spiritual and Cultural Identity

Christina Naruszewicz, University of Central Oklahoma

 

Black Entertainer, White Audience:

R&B, Race, and the Complexities of Crossing Over

C. Wylie Lenz, Florida Polytechnic University

 

The Anti-Semitic Comic Dieudonné M’bala M’bala and Postcolonial Memory of the Shoah in France

Michael Joseph Mulvey, Saint Thomas University

 

Chair and Discussant: Julian Chambliss, Rollins College

 


 

Plenary Session: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM

Documentary: "Voices From Mariel"

Anne MacGregor Jenkins Recital Hall

 

Screening and Discussion:

José Manuel Garcia, Florida Southern College

 

On April 1, 1980, five individuals seeking political asylum crashed a bus through the gates of the Peruvian embassy in Havana, Cuba. Over the next several days up to 10,000 people stormed that embassy’s grounds. Fearing that continued civil unrest might cause further violence or even a coup d’état, Fidel Castro proclaimed that any Cuban who wished to immigrate to the United States could board a boat at the nearby port of Mariel. Thus were born “Los Marielitos.”  Told through the previously unheard stories of ten Cuban-American families, “Voices From Mariel” brings new insight into the lives of over 100,000 Cuban-born immigrants who came to the United States thirty years ago as the survivors of the “Mariel Boatlift.” “Voices From Mariel” explores the legacy of the brave and committed people who risked their lives for a new chance in the United States. Thirty years later, where has that short but dangerous 90-mile sail across the Straits of Florida taken “Los Marielitos?

 


 

The Florida Conference of Historians began in 1962 as the Florida College Teachers of History (FCTH). FCTH founders included Sister Mary Rice of Barry University and Maurice Vance and Tom Campbell of Florida State University. They conceived of an organization covering all historical fields that would give historians an opportunity to share their scholarship and develop a sense of collegiality among historians teaching history in Florida's colleges and universities.  In 1992, the organization changed its name to the Florida Conference of Historians (FCH) to encourage participation by historians outside the state's colleges and universities.  In 1993, the FCH began publishing the Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians.  In 2011, the Executive Council members agreed to change the name of the annual proceedings to the FCH Annals: Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians, currently housed at Florida Gulf Coast University.  The FCH is a federally recognized 501(c) (3) non-profit organization, and contributions (including bequests, gifts, etc) are tax deductible.  Since the organization's first meeting in 1963, thirty different institutions of higher education have hosted the FCH.

 

Special Thanks To:

Kevin Adair, Guest Services, Florida Southern College

Keith Huneycutt, Florida Southern College

Erika Vause, Florida Southern College

Mark Tlachac, Director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Visitor Center, Florida Southern College

Sherri Jackson, Jacksonville University

 

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2015 Florida Conference of Historians! 

 

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for the 56th annual meeting hosted by

the University of Central Florida!

 

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