"Mining Historical Frontiers"

Thursday:
GAH Board Meeting 4 pm
RAACH Meeting 5-6 pm
Reception and Dinner 6pm

First Session: Friday 10:15 am-11:45 am

RAACH Meeting: 9:30 am - 12 pm

Panel 1-1: Key Ingredients on Tour in Georgia: The Planning and Execution of a Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition

Arden, Williams, Georgia Humanities Council

Panel 1-2: Constructing Home/Protecting Community

Chair: LeeAnn Lands, Kennesaw State University 

• "Disparity as a Matter of Course: The Mismanagement of Summer Hill School, 1889-1968"
  Nicole Woolsey, Kennesaw State University
• "Housing in Black and White"
  Sarah King, Kennesaw State University
• "Speaking for the People: Neighborhood Resistance to Urban Renewal in Atlanta"
  Christopher Smith, Kennesaw State University
• "Neighborhood Resistance to the Georgia Dome"
  Jennifer Dortch, Kennesaw State University

 Discussant: Thomas Scott, Kennesaw State University

Panel 1-3: Views of the Other

Chair:

• ‘We'd look at them and they'd look at us:' German POWs in Griffin, Georgia."
  Sue VerHoek, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
• "Two Southern Gentlemen: E. Merton Coulter and Robert Penn Warren on Race in the South"
  Jeffrey C. Wells, Georgia Military College
• "The Social Imagination of Africans and Asians by Leading African Americans,
  1880-1929" Christine Lutz, Georgia Gwinnett College

Discussant:

Panel 1-4: Recovering and Reinterpreting the Past

Chair:

• "Deer in the Deep South: Transforming the Colonial Low Country"
  Jonathan Bryant, Georgia Southern University
• "Coming Back to Ocmulgee"
  Matthew Jennings, Macon State College
• "Samuel Cohn's Moving Frontier on the Causes of the Black Death"
  Frank Williams, Augusta State University

Discussant:

Second Session: Friday 1:30pm -3:00 pm

Panel 2-1: Mining American Popular Culture from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

Chair: Sandy Pollard, University of West Georgia 

• "Resistance and Identity Rooted in Classicism: Classical Antiquity in Boston's Newspapers, 1763-1770"
  Jonathon D. Awtrey, University of West Georgia
• "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: the Powder/Crack Cocaine Disparity"
  Tim Lumley, University of West Georgia
• Chadwick Miller, University of West Georgia
• John Michael Cunningham, University of West Georgia

Discussant: Mike Proulx, North Georgia College and State University

Panel 2-2: Law and Discipline in the American Past

Chair:

• "A Comparison of the Land Dispossession of the Cherokee and
  the Bapedi in the Nineteenth Century"
  Cathy L. Freemen, Georgia State University
• "Learning How to Govern, Control and Conquer Oneself: College Football Coaches
  and the Discourse of ‘Discipline', 1891-1929"
  Brian M. Ingrassia, Georgia State University
• "Human Right Frontier: The Alien Tort Statute of 1789 and Modern Human Rights Litigations"
  Harry Asa'na Akoh, Georgia State University

Discussant:

Panel 2-3: The East, Art and the City

Chair:  

• "History as Others' Spaces: Using Foucault's Heterotopia to Mine
  the Frontiers of Intangible Heritage in Istanbul"
  Pam Sezgin, Gainesville State College
• "Portrait Dolls created by Vivian Dai"
  Pamela Sachant, North Georgia College and State University
• "Mining the Frontiers of Meiji Japan: Chinese Discover the Modern World in Meiji Japan 1877-1895"
  Douglas Reynolds, Georgia State University

Discussant:

Third Session: Friday 3:15 pm -4:45 pm

Panel 3-1: The Pedagogical Frontier

Chair:

• "Libguides and History"
  Timothy May, North Georgia College and State University
  Jennifer Campbell-Meier, North Georgia College and State University
• "Teaching African History in U.S. Universities: Myths and Realities."
  Mohamed H. Mukhtar, Savannah State University
• "Freshman Learning Communities: Teaching History on a Pedagogical Frontier"
  Larry R. Youngs, Georgia State University

Discussant:

Panel 3-2. New Frontiers in Georgia History

Chair: 

• "The Murder of William Wise: An Eighteenth-Century True Crime Story"
  Julie Anne Sweet, Baylor University
• "Testators: Beneficiaries, and Bondservants: What Early Georgia Wills Reveal"
  Charles H. Wilson III, North Georgia College and State University
• "A Voice of HOPE: Lucy Huie and Clayton County School Desegregation"
  Kathryn W. Kemp, Clayton State University
• "E.C. Morris: From Georgia Slave to National Leader,"
  Velma Thomas Fann, Independent Scholar

Discussant: Lee Ann Caldwell

Panel 3-3: Digging into Russia's Past

Chair:

• "Gender, Identity, and Memory: Patterns of Survival Among Women in the Stalinist Gulag"
  Elaine McKinnon, University of West Georgia
• "Constructions of Self and Society: The Workers' Question in the Radical Press"
  Alice K. Pate, Columbus State University
• "Constructing Societies of the Dead in Russia and the Soviet Union"
  Katya Vladimirov, Kennesaw State University

Discussant:

Panel 3-4: Civil War Panel

Fourth Session: Saturday 8:30-10:00

Panel 4-1: "Teaching History 1112: New Approaches to the Modern World Survey"

Chair and Discussant: Pam Sezgin, Gainesville State College

• "What do you mean Spain is not in South America: The Geographical Perspective of Teaching HIST 1112"
  Johanna Rickman, Gainesville State College
• "Using Themes to Teach World History"
  Clay Ouzts, Gainesville State College
• "The Problem of Slavery in the World History Survey"
  Jeff Pardue, Gainesville State College

Panel 4-2: Politics in War and Exile

Chair:

• "Banishment to the Frontiers: Exile as a Window on Chosun Politics"
  Shung Shin Kim, North Georgia College and State University
• "The Latins and the first year of the Allied War, 90 BCE"
  Dr. Seth L. Kendall, Georgia Gwinnett College
• "Historiography of the Chasseurs Volunteers de Saint-Domingue at the Siege of Savannah, 1779"
  Jeffery D. Parrish, White County Middle School

Discussant:

Panel 4-3: Negotiating Identity at the Frontier of American Memory: From the New South through the First World War

Chair:

• "From Aristocrat to Proletarian: William Raoul's Memories of Contested Honor"
  Steve Blankenship, Georgia Highlands College
• "The Politics of Commemoration: Expanding the American Frontier in Fascist Italy after the Great War"
  Shannon Bontrager, Georgia Highlands College
• "Mussolini's gift to Rome, Georgia: The Capitoline Wolf and the projection of new identities"
  Bronson Long, Georgia Highlands College

Discussant:

Saturday10:15am -11:45 am Fifth Session

Panel 5-1: On the Track of Artifacts, New Tools and Old Slogans

Chair:

• "Submersible Mining: A Case of the Problems of Historic Preservation"
  Jeffery Seymour, Columbus State University
• "The International Tracing Service: A New Frontier in the Study of National Socialist Persecution and Aftermath"
  Joseph Robert White
• "Fooling the People: Tracking Down an Abraham Lincoln Quotation"
  David B. Parker, Kennesaw State University

Discussant:

Panel 5-2: Gender in America's Past

Chair: 

• "Gender and Connectivity between the Living, the Ancestors, and the Gods among the Timucua of Spanish Florida"
  Tamara Spike, North Georgia College and State University
• "Domesticity Comes to the Crows: Mining Gender Frontiers in the Early Reservation Era"
  Becky Matthews, Columbus State University
• "Manufacturing Inequality: Class and Gender in the Civil War"
  Lara Lytle Spradley, Reinhardt College (UG)

Discussant:

Panel 5-3: Race, Riots and Justice in the American South

Chair: Lisa Denmark, Georgia Southern University

• "Moonshining Klansmen in White County Georgia during Reconstruction"
  Keith Hebert, Georgia Department of Natural Resources
• "Riot and Rebellion in Columbus Georgia, 1971"
  Gary Sprayberry, Columbus State University
• "That Spirit Must be Stamped Out: The Mutilation of Joseph Needleman and
  North Carolina's Effort to Prosecute Lynch Mob Participants during the 1920s"
  Vann Newkirk, Fort Valley State

Discussant: