WAKULLA
SPRINGS STATE PARK LODGE
THURSDAY
15 FEBRUARY 2018
WELCOME
RECEPTION AND ROUNDTABLE
VERANDA
5:30-6:30
“The
Status of the General Education History Requirements in Florida State Colleges
and Universities”
Appetizers
and Refreshments Provided
FRIDAY 16 FEBRUARY
8:00AM-12:00NOON
REGISTRATION
WAKULLA
SPRINGS LODGE MAIN LOBBY
SESSION
ONE: FRIDAY 8:00AM-9:15AM
PANEL 1A: World War I
MEETING ROOM: VERANDA
“Career-Analysis of Hungarian
Soldiers in the US Military in World War One”
“The German Firebombing Campaign of
1915-1916”
Heribert von Feilitzsch, Independent Scholar
“World War I: The Death of Man and the Birth of Art – How
the Great War Forever Changed Modern
Art”
Abigail MacKenzie,
Saint Leo University
Chair and Discussant:
Chris Ely, Florida Atlantic University
PANEL 1B: History Education
MEETING ROOM: DOGWOOD PAVILION
“Dispatches from the War over
Florida's History Textbooks”
Jesse Hingson,
Jacksonville University
“The
Textbook Indian: Defining Native Americans in early 20th Century Anthropology
and Social Biology”
Tiffany Owens, University of Central Florida
A Call
for Content Experts; Supporting the U.S. History End-of-Course (EOC) Assessment
Stacy Skinner, Florida Department of Education
Chair and Discussant:
Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University
PANEL 1C: Florida History: Reconstruction and the Gilded Age
MEETING ROOM: LIBRARY
“The Hidden Community: Revealing the
Lives of African Americans in a Florida
Community, 1870-1920”
Heather
Parker, Saint Leo College
“Agency
and Culture in the Winter Park Advocate”
Julian Chambliss, Rollins College
Chair and
Discussant: Julian Chambliss, Rollins
College
SESSION
TWO: FRIDAY 9:30-10:45AM
PANEL 2A: Viewing Chinese History from Empress Wu of the Tang
Dynasty to Popular Media in the Republican Period to Rural Elections in the
Contemporary Era
MEETING ROOM: CYPRESS
“The Emperor of Satisfaction: Wu
Zetian in Late Imperial Chinese Literature
Rachael
Rothstein-Safra, University of Central Florida
“Real
and Imagined Modernity: Advertising in Tianjin Pictorials during the Republican
Period:
Hong Zhang,
University of Central Florida
“China’s Village Elections: Goals and
Reality”
Yusheng Yao,
Rollins College
Chair and
Discussant: Patty Farless, University of Central Florida
PANEL 2B: Modern United States
MEETING ROOM: VERANDA
“The Vietnam War In Toombs County: A
Homefront Perspective”
Anna
Louise MacIntyre, Georgia Southern University
“The Death of the American Dream”
Joshua
Mason, Florida Atlantic University
“The Florida Legislative Investigation Committee: A Question of
Accountability”
Thomas Long, Florida
State University
Chair and Discussant: Sean
McMahon, Florida Gateway College
PANEL 2C: The American South
MEETING ROOM: DOGWOOD PAVILION
“A Few
Lines to All Fair-Minded Floridians: Abbott Charles Mohr's Answer to Governor
Catts”
Doris Van Kampen-Breit, Saint Leo University
“Reconstructing
Women: Male Hegemony in Southwest Georgia”
Kathryn Patterson, Bainbridge State College
“The Shah, the Servicemen, and the South:
Politics, Presumptions, and the
Power of Community in Columbus,
Mississippi-1976-1980”
Anna
Caney, Tallahassee Community College
Chair and Discussant: Tracy Revels,
Wofford College
PANEL 2D: World War II
MEETING ROOM: LIBRARY
“Candor
and Censorship: German Soldiers and the Feldpost System of WWII”
Steve Nicklas and Jonas Kauffeldt, University
of North Georgia
“Rousing
the Nation: Narratives of Dunkirk in the British Media, 1939-1940”
Colin Cook, University of Central Florida
“Poland: Where to Draw the Boundary”
Michael Epple,
Florida Gulf Coast University
Chair and
Discussant: Mike Epple, Florida Gulf Coast University
SESSION
THREE: 11:00-12:15
PANEL 3A: Latin American and Caribbean History
MEETING ROOM: VERANDA
“The
Female Experience in 18th Century Caribbean Slavery”
Diane Bova, Florida Gulf Coast University
“Early Central Veracruz: A Hybrid Cultural
Landscape”
Michael Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University
Hurricanes and Hegemony: A Study of American
Imperialism in Puerto Rico 1898-1940
Ian
Seavey, University of Tampa
Chair and Discussant: Michael Cole, Florida
Gulf Coast University
PANEL 3B: European and World History
MEETING ROOM: CYPRESS
“The Relationships and Circumstances
Surrounding the Diplomatic Conclusion of the Sixth Crusade”
Edward Marchant, Florida Gulf Coast University
“Monks
and Kings: Symbiosis in the Anglo-Saxon World”
Travis Garmager, Florida Gulf Coast University
“De-Publicized: Eunuchs, Castration, and
the Gendering of Space in Imperial China”
Rory Sharp, New
College of Florida
Chair and Discussant:
Mike Epple, Florida Gulf Coast University
PANEL 3C: Art, Music, and Vampires
MEETING ROOM: LIBRARY
“Scrutinizing the Art History Canon: The Case of Oscar Bluemner”
Abigail
Ramsbottom, Stetson University
“Criticizing His Mojo: How Jim Morrison Cleansed the Doors of
Perception & the Legacy
He Left Behind”
Christopher McKenzie,
Saint Leo College
“Tuberculosis Bites: Understanding the Connection between Folklore
and Medicine
through the Case Study of Vampirism and Tuberculosis”
Maiah Letsch, Stetson University
Chair and Discussant:
Dan Dubois, Saint Leo College
PANEL 3D: The American West
MEETING ROOM: DOGWOOD PAVILION
“The Transatlantic Economy and the Transformation of North Texas”
Tom Aiello, Gordon
State College
Representing the Alamo: Television and the Production of Historical
Memory
Cole Zelnak, New College of Florida
Chair and Discussant:
Tracy Revels, Wofford College
FLORIDA
CONFERENCE OF HISTORIANS BUSINESS MEETING 12:00-1:00
LUNCH IN
THE WAKULLA SPRINGS LODGE DINING ROOM
SESSION FOUR:
FRIDAY 1:00-2:15PM
PANEL 4A: Paradoxical Consequences of Finance throughout United
States History
MEETING ROOM: CYPRESS
“The Paradox of Perpetual Debt: The Example
of the United States”
Noah Baslaw,
New College of Florida
Marketing Debt and Stabilization: A
Framework for Peonage
Ashley
Brockway, New College of Florida
Debt Vultures: The Historical Implications
of Debt and Its Mechanisms
Alex Caruso,
New College of Florida
Chair and
Discussant: Brendan Goff, New College of Florida
PANEL 4B: Modern Florida
MEETING ROOM: VERANDA
“Deep
Throat in the Deep South: A Moral Panic in Florida During the 'Porn Chic' Era”
David
Nelson, Bainbridge College
Adventureland,
Frontierland, Tomorrowland: Florida's "Golden Age" of Tourism and the
Changing Face of the State, 1940-1975
Allison Dupuis, Agnes Scott College
“Buildings of Function with Distinction: Francis and Phillip Kennard
and 20th Century
Florida-Centric Architecture”
Tom Adamich, Visiting
Librarian Service
Chair and Discussant:
David Nelson, Bainbridge College
PANEL 4C: Florida Antebellum Gubernatorial Leadership
MEETING ROOM: DOGWOOD PAVILION
“An Ambivalent Jacksonian Legacy: The Territorial
Governorships of Robert Raymond
Reid and John Branch”
James
Denham, Florida Southern College
“An Uneasy Democrat: Governor William
Dunn Moseley’s Dealings with Native Peoples,
Slaves, and the Mexican-American War”
Richard Soash, Florida State
University
“The Evolving
Emancipator: An Analysis of Abraham Lincoln and the Progression and Development
of His Emancipationist Impulse.”
Sharon Rodriguez, University of Central Florida
Chair and Discussant:
David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College
PANEL 4D: McKay
Archives Students: Stories from Avalon Groves
MEETING ROOM: LIBRARY
"The Land, Groves, and
Exhibit"
Kelsi Shanks, Florida
Southern College
"Who
Was Who on the Board of Directors"
Peter
Edgar, Florida Southern College
"The Orlando Land Bust"
Alice Lader, Florida
Southern College
Chair and Discussant, Gerrianne
Schaad, Florida Southern College
SESSION
FIVE: FRIDAY 2:30-3:45PM
PANEL 5A: 18th Century Europe and the Atlantic World
MEETING ROOM: CYPRESS
“Alexander
Hamilton: Social Ascent and Sensibility”
Michelle Carrigan, Indian River State College
“The
Grievances of British Colonials and Merchants and the War of Jenkin's Ear,
1739”
William Cobb, Florida Gulf Coast University
“The Dowager Queen-Duchess and the Sun King: The Challenges Faced
by an Early Modern
Female
Regent”
Charles Lipp, University
of West Georgia
Chair and Discussant:
Michelle Carrigan, Indian River State College
PANEL 5B: American Social and Economic History
MEETING ROOM: DOGWOOD PAVILION
“Breaking the Fourth Wall: Corporate
Strategies of Inclusion at Chicago’s Century of
Progress Exposition, 1933-1934”
Brendan Goff, New College of
Florida
“Garlic and Garbage, Criminality and
Class: The “Smell”of Italian Americans, 1890-
1924”
Ryan Antonucci, University
of South Carolina
“Exploring the Villains of Child Labor:
American Coal Mines & Child Labor 1880-1920”
Christine Kenney,
Florida Southern College
Chair and
Discussant: Mike Denham, Florida
Southern College
PANEL 5C: Early 19th Century Florida
MEETING ROOM: LIBRARY
“Tracking a Prophet's Last Betrayal”
Madeleine Hirsiger
Carr, Independent Scholar
"The Last War Whoop": The Second
Creek War in Middle Florida”
John Ellisor, Columbus
State University
“Atlantic Mestizo: Vicente Pazos Kanki
and the Amelia Island Affair in the Age of
Revolutions, 1812-1820”
Caleb Wittum, University of
South Carolina
Chair and Discussant: Madeleine Hirsiger-Carr,
Independent Scholar
RECEPTION
5:30-6:30
VERANDA
BANQUET
6:30
JAY
CALIVITT CLARKE AWARD
BLAINE BROWNE
AWARD
THOMAS CAMPBELL
AWARD
KEYNOTE
SPEAKER
DR. MONTE FINKELSTEIN
SATURDAY
17 FEBRUARY
SESSION SIX: SATURDAY 9:00-10:15
PANEL 6A: Southeastern Academic Community for the Digital
Humanities: An Exploration of Digital Humanities in the Region
MEETING ROOM: VERANDA
“History in the Community”
Jesse Hingson,
Jacksonville University
“Jacksonville Historical Society:
Imagining New Forms”
Alan Bliss,
Jacksonville Historical Society
RICHES Mosaic: A Model”
Connie Lester,
University of Central Florida
Chair and Discussant:
Julian Chambliss, Rollins College
PANEL 6B: Historical, Ideological, and Religious Identity
MEETING ROOM: DOGWOOD PAVILION
“Rationalizing Indian Removal: Representation of Indigenous Peoples and
American
Identity”
Jeffrey
Coltman-Cormier,
“The Significance of Anarchist Identity”
Joseph Elmo, Wilkes
Honors College, Florida Atlantic University
“Los Bautistas: A Historigraphical
Study of the Cuban Baptists”
Colton Babbitt,
Florida Atlantic University
Chair and Discussant:
Madeleine Hirsiger-Carr, Independent Scholar
PANEL 6C: Asian History
MEETING ROOM: LIBRARY
“No Friend in Sight: U.S.-Chinese
Relations and the 1921-1922 Washington Conference”
Daniel DuBois, St. Leo
University
“War and Its Aftermath”
Kazuo Nagami,
Savannah State University
Chair and Discussant:
Kazuo Nagami, Savannah State University
PANEL 6D: Life, Labor, and Race in Florida
MEETING ROOM: CYPRESS
“’Commanders of the Dining Room': Black Hotel Waiters and the Negotiation
of Professional Identity at the Turn of
the Twentieth Century"
Charles McGraw Groh,
University of Tampa
“Collective Action: Soup Houses,
Boycotts, and Cooperatives Among Tampa’s Cigar Workers, 1887-1920,” Andrew
Huse, University of South Florida,
"When the Cold War Came Crashing
Down: Aircraft Accidents, Pollution, and How MacDill Air Force Base Shaped
Tampa during the Cold War,"
Brad Massey, Polk State
College
Chair and Discussant: Brad Massey, Polk State College
SESSION
SEVEN: SATURDAY 10:30-11:15
PANEL 7A: Perspectives on the American Revolution
MEETING ROOM: CYPRESS
“Patrick Tonyn: Britain’s Most
Effective Revolutionary Era Royal Governor”
Jim Piecuch,
Kennesaw State University
“Thomas Paine’s Abolitionism: A
Historiographical Analysis”
Savannah Beeson,
Kennesaw State University
“Few but Valuable: America’s Indian Allies
in the War for Independence”
Jeff Dennis,
Southwestern Michigan College
Chair and
Discussant: Jim Piecuch, Kennesaw State University
PANEL 7B: Florida Environmental History
MEETING ROOM: VERANDA
“Florida
River Tragedies: How Economics Trumped Ecology to Damage the Fenholloway and
Ocklawaha Rivers”
Leslie Poole, Rollins College
“Military
Environmentalism in Florida, 1945 to 2000”
Charles Closmann, Independent Scholar
Chair and
Discussant: Sean McMahon, Florida
Gateway College
PANEL 7C: History of Space
Exploration
MEETING ROOM: DOGWOOD PAVILION
“Dead or Alive: Viking and the Biological Experiments on Mars”
Ian Varga, Florida
State University
“Wielding
Words: Propaganda in the Space Race”
Abby Eskridge, Florida
Southern College
Chair and Discussant:
David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College
PANEL 7D: Beyond Trump and Brexit: Ethnic Nationalism Around the
World
MEETING ROOM: CYPRESS
“Ethnic
Nationalism in India and Israel”
Jack McTague, Saint Leo University
“Ethnic
Nationalism in Hungary and Turkey”
Marco Rimanelli, Saint Leo University
Chair and Discussant: Jack McTague, Saint Leo
University
SESSION
EIGHT: SATURDAY 12:00-1:15am
PANEL 8A: Public History and
K-12 Teaching
MEETING ROOM: LIBRARY
“What We
Can and Cannot See: Public History at an Art Park in Post-Industrial Appalachia”
Mark Watson, Clayton State University
“Historians and K-12 Education”
Danielle Kendrick, Independent Scholar
Chair and
Discussant: Mark Watson, Clayton State University