OCTOBER 4-5, 2019

ORGANIZATION OF EDUCATIONAL HISTORIANS 2019 ANNUAL MEETING

LIFT EVERY VOICE: UNCOVERING HIDDEN STORIES IN THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION

KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION CONFERENCE CENTER KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI

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ORGANIZATION OF EDUCATIONAL HISTORIANS

"Lift Every Voice: Uncovering Hidden Stories in the

History of Education”

2019 Annual Conference

Kauffman Foundation Conference Center

Kansas City, Missouri

October 4-5, 2019

Special thanks to the University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Education

for its support of this meeting.

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Organization of Educational Historians "Lift Every Voice: Uncovering Hidden Stories in the

History of Education” Kauffman Foundation Conference Center

Kansas City, Missouri October 4-5, 2019

Keynote Speaker:

Dr. John L. Rury, The University of Kansas

Organization of Educational Historians Officers

President Ann Marie Ryan, Ph.D.

University of Texas at San Antonio

Vice President/Program Chair Donna M. Davis, Ph.D.

University of Missouri-Kansas City

2019 Assistant Program Chair Dennis Gunn, Ph.D.

Iona University

Executive Secretary Glenn Lauzon, Ph.D.

Indiana University—Northwest

Past President Theordore G. Zervas, Ph.D.

North Park University

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ORGANIZATION OF EDUCATIONAL HISTORIANS 2019 Annual Meeting Kansas City, Missouri

October 4-5, 2019

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2019 8:00-8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:30-8:45 Welcome (TOWN SQUARE) 8:45-10:00 Sessions 1-3 10:00-10:15 Break 10:15-11:30 Sessions 4-7 11:30-1:00 Lunch on Your Own 1:15-2:30 Sessions 8-10 2:30-2:45 Break 2:45-4:00 Keynote Address: Dr. John Rury (TOWN SQUARE) 4:00-5:00 Reception/Refreshments (TOWN SQUARE)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2019

8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast and Editor’s Session: Dr. S. Marie McCarther (TOWN SQUARE)

8:30-9:15 Presidential Address: Dr. Ann Marie Ryan (TOWN SQUARE)

9:15-9:30 Break 9:30-10:45 Sessions 11-13 10:45-11:00 Break 11:00-12:15 Sessions 14-17 12:15-12:30 Break and Afternoon Refreshments 12:30-1:30 Business Meeting (TOWN SQUARE) 1:30-2:00 Closing

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2019

Session One (8:45-10:00) PASEO ROOM Symposium Studying School Buildings: Building an Understanding of a Ubiquitous Community Resource Convener/Chair: Lynn M. Burlbaw, Texas A&M University burlbaw@tamu.edu Once a Pirate, Always a Pirate Lauren G. Santarelli, Texas A&M University Eagle Pass High School: A Cross Border Community Legacy Karla Adelina Garza and M. R. Graham, Texas A&M University Educating Young Minds for 60 Years: The Evolution of Waltrip High School from 1959-2019 Ashley M. Williams, Texas A&M University

Session Two (8:45-10:00) BRUSH CREEK ROOM Governance and Schooling in the 20th Century: Three Case Studies Chair: Glenn Lauzon, Indiana University—Northwest glauzon@iun.edu The ‘Shortridge Plan’ and Unigov: Indianapolis and the Creation of an Unjust System of Public Secondary Schools, 1950 to 1980 Kyle P. Steele, University of Wisconsin Commemorating Ocean Hill-Brownsville: The Multifarious “Lessons” of New York City’s Battle over Community Control Erin R. Santana, Rutgers University Beyond the Boundaries of the Primary Grades: Kentucky’s Radical Reform Jared R. Stallones, University of Kentucky

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Session Three (8:45-10:00) TROOST ROOM Equity and Activism in Kansas City, Missouri Chair: S. Marie McCarther, University of Missouri-Kansas City mccarthers@umkc.edu “’Backward Children” to Children with Disabilities: The History of Special Education in the Kansas City” Jennifer Hurst, The University of Kansas Project 21: Promoting LGBTQ Inclusion in Kansas City Schools Austin Williams, University of Missouri-Kansas City More Than a Score: How the ACT Fails to Capture the Higher Education Potential of Marginalized Student Populations in Kansas City, MO Elizabeth Walter, Rockhurst University

Session Four (10:15-11:30) PASEO ROOM Listening to and Uplifting Silenced Voices Chair: Kyle P. Steele, University of Wisconsin steelek@uwosh.edu From Archive to Classroom: Using a 1933 Murder Trial Transcript to Engage Educational History Robert K. Poch, University of Minnesota What Do We Know about the Slaves’ Reaction to Slavery?:” George Rawick and The American Slave Matthew D. Davis, University of Missouri-St. Louis Indigenous Education across Three Regimes: New Mexico, 1598-1912 Bernardo Gallegos, National University

Session Five (10:15-11:30) BRUSH CREEK ROOM Race and Schooling in Kansas City, Missouri Chair: Loyce Caruthers, University of Missouri-Kansas City caruthersl@umkc.edu Desegregation in Kansas City: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Black Students at Central High School, 1955-1960 Bradley W. Poos, Avila University Loyce Caruthers, University of Missouri-Kansas City

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Dangerous Memories of School Desegregation: Kansas City Speaks Loyce Caruthers, Jennifer Friend, and Candace Schlein, University of Missouri-Kansas City Exploring the History of the Civil Rights Movement through Travel Bradley W. Poos, Avila University Jennifer Friend, Rockhurst University Loyce Caruthers, University of Missouri-Kansas City Jennifer Waddell, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Session Six (10:15-11:30) TROOST ROOM Illuminating Stories of Silence and Struggle Chair: Ann Marie Ryan, University of Texas at San Antonio Annmarie.ryan@utsa.edu An Educational Portrait of the Inmate from the Common School Age to the Progressive Era: Reconstructing a Silent Voice through the Perceptions of Directors and Reformers Luana Salvarani, Università di Parma “To See with Their Hands”: Education of the Blind at the American Museum of Natural History in the Early Twentieth Century Dennis Gunn, Iona University Lost in Plain Sight; Abe J. B. Desmore and Emil Blume: The Struggle for Dignity, Place and Service in Southern Africa Richard Glotzer, University of Akron

Session Seven (10:15-11:30) KANSAS CITY ROOM Industrial Influences in the Educational Setting Chair: Curtis Mason, Columbia College tcmason@ccis.edu Sugarcane Pedagogy: William Carter Stubbs and the Early Evolution of the Audubon Sugar School R. Eric Platt, University of Memphis Company Vocational Education Programs in Mining Towns Lynn M. Burlbaw and Larry J. Kelly, Texas A&M University The “Nursery of American Ideals:” Americanization Initiatives in Southern Colorado Mining Towns Heather K. Caldwell, Colorado State University—Pueblo

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Session Eight (1:15-2:30) PASEO ROOM Race, Activism, and Schooling in the Show Me State Chair: S. Marie McCarther, University of Missouri-Kansas City mccarthers@umkc.edu Herman Dreer: A 20th c. Black Radical Curriculum Activist Cheryl D. Osby, University of Missouri-St. Louis Jim Crow Activism in St. Louis’ African American Middleclass Neighborhood—The Ville Vanessa Garry, University of Missouri-St. Louis William Torrey Harris and James Greenwood: Exploring the connections between two influential Missouri Superintendents Curtis Mason, Columbia College Give Us the Railroad First, and Then the School Education in Missouri during Reconstruction Mark Groen, California State University—San Bernardino

Session Nine (1:15-2:30) BRUSH CREEK ROOM Separate and Unequal Education: Segregation, Teaching, and Learning Chair: Dennis Gunn, Iona University dgunn@iona.edu 644 Robert L. Booker, The University of Kansas Uncovering Oral Histories beyond the 1957 Crisis in Little Rock: Lessons for Social Justice School Leaders Kendra Lowery, Ball State University Negro Teachers as the Collateral Damage of Brown v. Board of Education: The Case of Jessie Simmons Val Hill-Jackson, Texas A&M University Documenting Durable Inequality: The Association between Redlining and Contemporary Patterns of School Segregation Jeanne M. Powers & Lydia Ross, Arizona State University

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Session Ten (1:15-2:30) TROOST ROOM Whose History? Curriculum Development, Americanization, and Student Voice Chair: Larry Kelly, Texas A&M University lkelly@tamu.edu Not the NEA Committee of Ten or Fifteen Lynn M. Burlbaw, Texas A&M University Americanization in the Schoolroom: 1880-1920 Debbie Schaefer-Jacobs, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Against the Waves: A Pioneering Effort by Elementary Students to Reconstruct the ‘Pacific Mission’ Paul E. Binford, Mississippi State University

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2019

Session Eleven (9:30-10:45) PASEO ROOM Symposium Early 20th Century Education in One Texas County Convener/Chair: Karla Adelina Garza, Texas A&M University Karla.garza@tamu.edu Academic Details of Children in Brazoria County Emily A. Hardin, Lindsey A. Lawson, and Karen McIntush, Texas A&M University Teachers and Their World Lindsey A. Lawson, Emily A. Hardin, and Karla Adelina Garza, Texas A&M University A Glimpse into the Life of a Brazoria County Educator Karla Adelina Garza, Texas A&M University

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Session Twelve (9:30-10:45) BRUSH CREEK ROOM Complexities in the Educational and Professional Experiences of Women in the 20th Century Chair: Dennis Gunn, Iona University dgunn@iona.edu Feminism Fettered: Interpreting Mrs. MacMahon’s Secretarial School Courtney Van Petten, Bard College Hidden Voices in the History of Montessori Education Angela K. Murray and Luz Casquejo Johnston, The University of Kansas “Peculiarly Fitted For:” Women’s Service on the Kansas City School Board, 1922 to 1940 K. David Hanzlick, Rockhust University

Session Thirteen (9:30-10:45) TROOST ROOM Uncovering Histories in Higher Education Institutions Chair: Tiffani Riggers-Piehl, University of Missouri-Kansas City Riggers-piehlt@umkc.edu How Capitalism Broke Ohio Higher Education Jonathan Tyler Baker, Miami University Women’s Higher Education on the Mississippi Gulf Coast [1800-1972]: A Case Study Revealing the Unacknowledged History of Gulf Park College by the Sea Summer Cutrer Tierno, University of Southern Mississippi Rediscovering Agricultural Extension before the Smith-Lever Act: A Case Study of Michigan Glenn Lauzon, Indiana University Northwest

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Session Fourteen (11:00-12:15) PASEO ROOM Civil Rights Exploration in Higher Education: Pedagogy and Student Voice Chair: Michelle Maher, University of Missouri-Kansas City mahermi@umkc.edu The Civil Rights Era and Activism in Student Affairs Etinosa Ogbevoen and Kerry Overfield, University of Missouri-Kansas City “Christ and the Homosexual” on Campus: Life of a Mattachine Seminarian in the 1950s Andrew C. Patty, The University of Kansas Team Teaching in Higher Education History: Using Graduate Students’ Interests and Developing Expertise to Engage Them in Learning Tiffani Riggers-Piehl, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Session Fifteen (11:00-12:15) BRUSH CREEK ROOM Innovation in Teaching and Learning: Conventional and Unconventional Practice Chair: Luana Salvarani, Università di Parma Luana.salvarani@unipr.it Unlikely Duo: The Impact of Educators in the United States on the 1954 and the 1971 Comic Codes Diana Uhlman, Independent Scholar Statewide Public School Music Competitions/Festivals in Kansas and Oklahoma: The Beginnings of the School Music Contest Movement in the United States George H. McDow, Liberty University Daniel L. Stiffler, Emporia State University Liminal Spaces on the Prairie: Playgrounds in the Works of Laura Ingalls Wilder Kipton Smilie, Missouri Western State University Ethan K. Smilie, College of the Ozarks Historicizing Global Displacement in Children’s Literature for Critical Literacy: Process for Classroom Teachers Ekaterina Strekalova-Hughes and Nora Peterman, University of Missouri-Kansas City

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Session Sixteen (11:00-12:15) TROOST ROOM Considering the Histories of Teacher Education and Curriculum Integration Chair: Bernardo Gallegos, National University bgalleg@gmail.com Harry S. Broudy, Champion of Foundational Studies within Teacher Education Jayson Evaniuck, Eastern New Mexico University To Have What We Must: Teacher Education in Texas Following World War II Wesley Null, Baylor University A Return to the Past: Integration in the 21st Century Social Studies Classroom Rachel K. Turner and Lynn M. Burlbaw, Texas A&M University

Session Seventeen (11:00-12:15) KANSAS CITY ROOM Symbols, Myths, and Norms: Deconstructing Higher Education Practice

Chair: Theodore Zervas, Northpark University tzervas@northpark.edu The First Experiment in Mass Higher Education: Prelude and Postlude John Shoup, California Baptist University Regalia Remembered: Exploring the History and Symbolic Significance of Higher Education Academic Costume R. Eric Platt and Lauren Huffman Walker, University of Memphis Muscular Christianity within College Football Coaching: The Creation of a Safe Space for Religion in the Academy Nick Pearce, Indiana University

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OEH 2019 Conference Participants

Name Email

Barber, Marlin MCBarber@MissouriState.edu

Baker, Jonathan Tyler bakerjt@miamioh.edu

Belew, Ryan belewryan@ku.edu

Binford, Paul E. Peb137@msstate.edu

Booker, Roger L, Jr. rlbookerjr@ku.edu

Burgette, Jeffrey jbmz9@mail.umkc.edu

Burlbaw, Lynn M. burlbaw@tamu.edu

Caldwell, Heather hkcaldwell@gmail.com

Caruthers, Loyce Caruthersl@umkc.edu

Casey, Amy Amy.Casey@nkcschools.org

Davis, Donna M. DavisDon@umkc.edu

Davis, Matt Mddavis_467@yahoo.com

Dowdell, William wddmb2@mail.umkc.edu

Dutzel, Jeffrey jadn8m@mail.umkc.edu

Evaniuck, Jayson Jayson.evaniuck@enmu.edu

Frain, Brian Brian.frain@rockhurst.edu

Friend, Jennifer Jennifer.friend@rockhurst.edu

Gallegos, Bernardo bgalleg@gmail.com

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Name Email

Garry, Vanessa garryv@umsl.edu

Garza, Karla Adelina Karla.garza@tamu.edu

Glotzer, Richard glotzer@uakron.edu

Graham, Margaret

Quiestinliteris@tamu.edu

Groen, Mark mgroen@csusb.edu

Gunn, Dennis dgunn@iona.edu

Hanzlick, David davidhanzlick@hotmail.com

Haws, Andrew hawsad@umkc.edu

Hill-Jackson, Val vhjackson@tamu.edu

Hinojosa, Eliel, Jr. elielhinojosajr@tamu.edu

Huffman Walker, Lauren Lhuffman624@gmail.com

Hurst, Jennifer Jhurst84@ku.edu

Jacobson, Charice cjvx8@mail.umkc.edu

Kelly, Larry lkelly@tamu.edu

Lauzon, Glenn glauzon@iun.edu

Lawson, Lindsey lindseyl_124@tamu.edu

Lewis, Abram arlxr9@mail.umkc.edu

Lowery, Kendra kplowery@bsu.edu

Maher, Michelle mahermi@umkc.edu

Mason, Curtis tcmason@ccis.edu

McCarther, S. Marie mccarthers@umkc.edu

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Name Email

McDow, George ghmcdow@gmail.com

Milner, Robert robertmilner@mail.umkc.edu

Morgan, Michelle MichelleMorgan@MissouriState.edu

Murray, Angela akmurray@ku.edu

Northcutt, Jennifer jnng3c@mail.umkc.edu

Null, Wesley Wesley_null@baylor.edu

Ogbevoen, Etinosa Eogf7@mail.umkc.edu

Osby, Cheryl cdosby51phd@hotmail.com

Paden, Lezile lezlie.paden@mail.umkc.edu

Patty, Andrew C. acpatty@ku.edu

Pearce, Nick nepearce@iupui.edu

Perry, Justin perryjust@umkc.edu

Peterman, Nora petermanno@umkc.edu

Platt, R. Eric replatt@memphis.edu

Poch, Robert Pochx001@umn.edu

Poos, Bradley Bradley.poos@avila.edu

Potts, Vincent vppnn3@mail.umkc.edu

Powers, Jeanne M. Jeanne.powers@asu.edu

Riggers-Piehl, Tiffani A. Riggers-piehlt@umkc.edu

Rorvig, Mark mlrnwm@mail.umkc.edu

Rury, John L. jrury@ku.edu

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Name Email

Ryan, Ann Marie Annmarie.ryan@utsa.edu

Salvarani, Luana Luana.salvarani@unipr.it

Santana, Erin R. Erin.r.santana@rutgers.edu

Santanelli, Lauren lrnsanta@gmail.com

Schaefer-Jacobs, Debbie schaeferjacobsd@si.edu

Schlein, Candace schleinc@umkc.edu

Shoup, John jshoup@calbaptist.edu

Smilie, Ethan esmilie@cofo.edu

Smilie, Kipton D. ksmilie@missouriwestern.edu

Smith, Anjanette anjanette.walker@mail.umkc.edu

Soberon, April aas2cc@mail.umkc.edu

Stallones, Jared Jared.Stallones@UKY.edu

Steele, Kyle steelek@uwosh.edu

Stiffler, Dan dstiffle@emporia.edu

Strekalova-Hughes, Ekaterina strekalovahughese@umkc.edu

Tierno, Summer Summer.c.tierno@usm.edu

Turner, Rachel K. Rkt002@tamu.edu

Uhlman, Diana duhlman1862@gmail.com

Van Petten, Courtney Cv0439@bard.edu

Wallace, Deyrle dkwm85@mail.umkc.edu

Walter, Elizabeth Elizabeth.walter@rockhurst.edu

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Name Email

Williams, Ashley Amcraft91@tamu.edu

Williams, Austin R. arwadd@mail.umkc.edu

Zahner, Mary A. mzahner@woh.rr.com