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The 34th AnnualOhio Valley History Conference
October 18-20, 2018
WelcomeThe Ohio Valley History Conference started at Western Kentucky University in 1984. Hosting duties rotated among WKU, Eastern Kentucky University, and Murray State University until 1997, when Austin Peay State University and Tennessee Technological University joined. East Tennessee State University became the sixth host institution to join OVHC in 2006. This is the first year the University of Tennessee at Martin has hosted the conference.
2018 OVHC CoordinatorRichard Garlitz
Special Thanks:Barnes & Noble Campus Bookstore, Calista Drone manager
Boling University Center Staff College of Humanities and Fine Arts, Lynn Alexander deanDepartment of History and Philosophy, David Coffey chair
Hampton Inn, MartinSodexo, Anoush Lazarian catering manager
University of Tennessee PressMelanie Warmath, program design
2019 Ohio Valley History Conference will be held at the Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort, Kentucky.
2018 Ohio Valley History ConferenceThursday, October 187-9 Opening Reception and registration (Dunagan Alumni Center)
Friday, October 198-5 Registration (University Center main hallway, 2nd floor) Book Exhibit (University Center Ballroom)9-10:30 Session 1 – University Center10:30-10:45 Morning Break (University Center main hallway)10:45-12:15 Session 2 – University Center 12:15-1:45 Lunch Break (on own)1:45-3:15 Session 3 – University Center3:15-3:30 Afternoon Break (University Center main hallway)3:30-5 Session 4 – University Center6:30-8 Banquet (University Center Ballroom; Keynote: Tom Bruscino)
Saturday, October 208-12 Registration (University Center main hallway, 2nd floor) Book Exhibit (University Center Ballroom)9-10:30 Session 5 – University Center10:30-10:45 Morning Break (University Center main hallway)10:45-12:15 Session 6 – University Center12:15-1:45 Luncheon (University Center Ballroom; Keynote: Rebecca Price)
Thursday, October 18Opening Reception, 7:00-9:00 pm, Dunagan Alumni Center (1900 Alumni Way)
Friday, October 19Registration/Information Table, 8:00-5:00, Second floor main hallway, Boling University Center Book Exhibit, 9:00-5:00, Ballroom, Boling University Center
Session 1, 9:00-10:301. African Americans and the Great War (UC 229) Matthew Isaacs, University of Memphis, “Reclaiming the Revolutionaries”
Michael Shultz, Eastern Kentucky University, “Unwept, Unheralded, Unsung: The 807th Pioneer Infantry”
Adam Wilson, University of Tennessee at Martin, “African American Army Officers of World War I: Fight for a Segregated Officer Training Camp”
Chair/comment: Dan McDonough, University of Tennessee at Martin
2. War and Society, 1914-1945 (UC 230A) Rebecca Bailey, Northern Kentucky University, “Winthrop Lane and the Fight for Peace”
Mike Taint, Independent Historian, “The Colonel, the Sculptor and the Supreme Court Justice: Assessing the Failure of American Aircraft Production in World War I”
Robert Umsted, Univ. Northern Iowa, “Law and War—Was the Aerial Bombardment of Europe during World War II in Accordance with International Law?”
Chair/comment: Dr. Don Barlow, Big Sandy Community and Technical College
3. Slavery, Mammoth Cave, and the Civil War (UC 230C) Joseph Douglas, Volunteer State Community College, “Contesting the Subterranean Space: Mammoth Cave during the American Civil War”
Cassy Jane Werking, University of Kentucky, “Cavernous Colors: How the ‘Sublimity’ of Mammoth Cave Challenged Racial Boundaries for Enslaved Explorer Stephen Bishop in the Antebellum Era”
Chair/comment: Mike Crane, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith
4. The 1960s and the Cold War (UC 231) Keith Chezem, Austin Peay State University, “The Prague Spring: How the Soviet Union’s Brezhnev Doctrine Fractured the Warsaw Pact”
Ian Davis, Mississippi State University, “Senators and Segregationists: James O. Eastland, John C. Stennis, and the Defense of Jim Crow in the 1960s”
Chair/comment: Jeff Bloodworth, Gannon University
Session 2, 10:45-12:155. Missionaries, Modernizers, and Students in U.S-Iranian Relations, 1940-1980 (UC 229) Richard Garlitz, University of Tennessee at Martin, “Point Four and Tent Schools for Iran’s Tribal Nomads, 1951-1955”
Matthew Shannon, Emory and Henry College, “America’s Iran in the Developmentalist Moment, 1940s-1960s”
Will Teague, University of Arkansas, “The Hostage Crisis at Home, 1979-1981”
Chair/comment: Matthew Shannon, Emory and Henry College
6. ‘LessonsfromaConventionalWar:Aviators’:OfficerEducation and Training, and Combined Arms Warfare (UC 230A) Arthur T. Coumbe, United States Military Academy, “’An Operational Success’: ROTC and the Golden Era of Officer Education and Accessions, 1919-1940”
Leo J. Daugherty III, U.S. Army Cadet Command, Fort Knox, “’No More Skulking Wars’ The Marines and the Battle of Soissons: The Origins of Marine Combined Arms Warfare, July 17-18, 1918
Rhonda L. Smith-Daugherty, Alice Lloyd College, “I Remember the Red Devil: Baron von Richthofen in History and Memory”
Chair/comment: Nathan Jones, General George Patton Museum
7. Revisiting Memphis 1968 (UC 231) Jack Lorenzini, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, “United by a Cause: Student Activists and the Memphis Sanitation Strike”
Ann Youngblood Mulhearn, Middle Tennessee State University, “Memphis’s Memory: MLK 50”
Chair/comment: Renee LaFleur, University of Tennessee at Martin
Lunch, 12:15-1:45, on ownThe Skyhawk Dining Hall on the ground floor of the University Center (room 124) serves buffet style lunch from 10:30 until 1:30. The University Center Food Court (room 120) includes Chick-fil-A, Mein Bowl, and Sandella’s Flatbread Café. Restaurants within walking distance of the University Center are located near the intersection of University Street and Lovelace Avenue on the east side of campus.
Session 3, 1:45-3:158. Teaching and Researching 1968 and Its Legacies (UC 111) David Coffey, University of Tennessee at Martin Aram Goudsouzian, University of Memphis Andrew Hartman, Illinois State University Ann Youngblood Mulhearn, Middle Tennessee State University Moderator: David Coffey
9. The United States and the Great War (UC 229) Alice-Catherine Carls, University of Tennessee at Martin, “Saved from Oblivion by Undergraduates: West Tennessee in World War I”
Colonel Greg Eanes, USAF (Ret), Wilson Center for Leadership, Hampden-Sydney College, “Captured, Not Conquered: American Prisoner of War Leadership in the First World War”
John L. Schuler III, Austin Peay State University, “In Search of an Objective Evaluation of the American Doughboy in World War I”
Chair/comment: David Snyder, Austin Peay State University
10.Europeafter1918(UC230A) Abigail Bernhardt, Marquette University, “This Island Isn’t Big Enough for the Two of Us: Soccer and Nationalism in the Irish Free State”
Patrick Bethel, Marquette University, “Taking Down Monto: Gender, Space and the Nationalist (Re)Construction of Dublin”
George Pesely, Austin Peay State University, “Tracking the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918 in Dalmatia”
Chair/comment: Dr. William H. Mulligan, Jr., Murray State University
11. 20th Century Kentucky History (UC 230C) John Burch, University of Tennessee at Martin, “Institutionalizing Poverty in Owsley and Clay Counties in Kentucky: The Poorest White Counties in the United States”
Douglas E. Herman, Big Sandy CTC (retired), “John W. Porter: Champion of Fundamentalism, Part Two”
Christa Kieffer, University of Kentucky, “Old Democrats, New Deal: Happy Chandler, Alben Barkley, and Franklin Roosevelt’s Fight for the Democratic Party”
Dr. Melony Shemberger, Murray State University, “’Ideal Press Work’: An Examination of Suffrage Press Superintendents in Kentucky”
Chair/comment: Adam Wilson, University of Tennessee at Martin
12. Archival Holdings at Ohio Valley History Conference Institutions (Paul Meek Library Archives)Please note: Paul Meek Library is across the plaza from the University Center main entrances. The Archive is on the first floor to the left of the information desk.
Gerald Chaudron, University of Memphis
Jonathan Jeffrey, Western Kentucky University
Dr. Sean J. McLaughlin, Murray State University
Moderator: Sam Richardson, University of Tennessee at Martin
Session 4, 3:30-5:0013.ProgressiveEraTennesseeWomen’sWorkRoundtable(UC111) Carole Bucy, Professor, Volunteer State Community College, “The Successful Female Persuasion of the Tennessee WCTU”
Mary A. Evins, Middle Tennessee State University, “Rural Responses, Local Initiatives: The Perfect 36th and the Other 90 Tennessee Counties”
Mary Ellen Pethel, Belmont University, “A Heartfelt Mission: Women’s Activism and the West End Home Foundation, 1891- 1922”
Miranda L. Fraley Rhodes, Tennessee State Museum, “’Please Do Not Say Anything about a ‘Split’ or ‘Factions’’: Tennessee Suffragists and Their Contested Histories”
Dr. Melony Shemberger, Murray State University, “Writing Woman Suffrage: Tennessee Hometown Newspapers on the Vote for Women”
Minoa Uffelman, Austin Peay State University, “Tennessee UDC’s Version of Progressivism”
Antoinette G. van Zelm, MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, “The Women’s Relief Corps in Tennessee: Encouraging Loyalty and American Ideals in a Hostile Environment, 1890-1913”
Moderator: Renee LaFleur, University of Tennessee at Martin
14. The American Revolution (UC 229) Tony R. Malone, Jr., Rossview High School, “The True Effectiveness of the New Jersey Militia in the American Revolution”
Dan McDonough, University of Tennessee at Martin, “’First Leader in Dirty Matters’: Searching for William Molineaux (Confessions of a Frustrated Historian)”
Jason Moore, David Crockett High School, “The Back Water Men and the Bulldog: Reassessing the Battle of King’s Mountain”
Chair/comment: Jeff Roberts, Tennessee Technological University 15. Political and Demographic Legacies of the 1960s (UC 230A) Jeff Bloodworth, Gannon University, “Know-Nothing Curmudgeons: 1968, Charlie Stenvig, and the Roots of Donald Trump”
Kalie Gipson, University of Louisville, “Allie Corbin Hixson, the New Right, and the Women’s Liberation Movement in Kentucky”
Thomas Weyant, Black Hills State University, “’One Generation Got Old, One Generation Got Soul’: Defining the Baby Boom Generation”
Chair/comment: Andrew Hartman, Illinois State University
16. 20th Century U.S. Foreign Policy (UC 230C) Eric Elliott, Whiterock, “Peace through Corn”
E. Kyle Romero, Vanderbilt University, “’Our People Will Never Forget These Massacres’: American Aid Organizations and the Aftermath of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1930”
Chair/comment: Gregory Zieren, Austin Peay State University
Banquet, 6:30-8:00Ballroom, Boling University CenterKeynote speaker: Thomas Bruscino, U.S. Army War College“From the Old World to the New: The Meuse-Argonne Campaign and the Birth of the American Century”
Dr. Bruscino holds a Ph.D. in military history from Ohio University and has been a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington D.C. and the U.S. Army Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, and a professor at the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies.
He is the author of A Nation Forged in War: How World War II Taught Americans to Get Along (University of Tennessee Press, 2010), and Out of Bounds: Transnational Sanctuary in Irregular Warfare (CSI Press, 2006), and numerous book chapters. His writings have appeared in the Claremont Review of Books, Army History, The New Criterion, Military Review, The Journal of Military History, White House Studies, War & Society, War in History, The Journal of America’s Military Past, Infinity Journal, Doublethink, Reviews in American History, Joint Force Quarterly, and Parameters.
Saturday, October 20Registration/Information Table, 8:00-12:00, Second floor main hallway, Boling University CenterBook Exhibit, 9:00-12:00, Ballroom, Boling University Center
Session 5, 9:00-10:3017. Americans and the North Atlantic World, 1800-1912 (UC 229) Ashley Dabbraccio, University of Memphis, “Mobile Conversations: Exploring Transitory Spaces in Trans-Atlantic Travel, 1870-1912”
Michael S. Fitzgerald, Franciscan University, “’The Storm for the Present’: Post-War of 1812 Threats to American National Security and the Escape of Napoleon from Elba”
Matthew Goetz, George Washington University, “The War at Home: The Contested Characterization of the Barbary Conflict”
Chair/comment: Margaret Lewis, University of Tennessee at Martin
18.OutstandingUndergraduateResearchontheCivilWarEra (UC 230A) Ethan Lett, Murray State University, “Who Never Retreated from the Clash of Spears: Irish-Americans in the Union Army”
Brian Martin, Murray State University, “The Concussion that Stole Fighting Joe’s Nerve”
Chair/comment: William H. Mulligan, Jr., Murray State University
19. Culture, Religion, and History (UC 230C) James Gaston, Franciscan University of Steubenville, “Christopher Dawson and a Realist Interpretation of History and Culture”
Corinne Gressang, University of Kentucky, “Leveraging Identity: Teaching Nuns and the Dissolution of Convents, 1789-1815”
Kevin Tanner, Austin Peay State University, “Amos Dresser and the Nashville Mob”
Chair/comment: Dr. W. Terry Lindley, Union University
20. Culture, History, and Suffrage (UC 231) Dr. Chris Beckham, Morehead State University, “Jesse Stuart’s The Thread That Runs So True and the History of Education in Kentucky”
Charlie B. Dahan, Middle Tennessee State University, “Picking Up the Pieces: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Stax Records in Soulsville, TN”
Gregory Hammond, Austin Peay State University, “The First Attempt at Suffrage in Argentina”
Chair/comment: Alice-Catherine Carls, University of Tennessee at Martin
Session 6, 10:45-12:1521. Media, Policy, and History (UC 229) Beth Bisciglia, Austin Peay State University, “Photography and World War I: How Military Doctrine, Public Perception and Government Policy Were Shaped by Photographs”
Ralph Frasca, College of Saint Elizabeth, “Public-Nuisance Laws as Restraints on Press Freedom”
Lu Li, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, “Bar Girl, Miss America, and Dr. America: Gender and Representations of Parenthood in the Vietnam War”
Chair/comment: Benjamin Guyer, University of Tennessee at Martin
22.BritishExplorationandImperialisminSudanandKenya,1860- 1906 (UC 230A) Thomas Bouril, “The Desire for Uninhabited Lands: The Ethnic Cleansing of the Nadi during the 1905-06 Nadi Expedition”
Miguel Chavez, “The Failed Explorer: John Petherick, Khartoum, and Reputation in Nile Exploration”
Chair/comment: Colonel Greg Eanes, USAF (Ret), Hampden-Sydney College 23.NativeAmericanEncounterswithColonialandU.S.Americans, 1780-1860 (UC 230C) Seth Harden, University of Memphis, “’To Follow to the Tomb the Last of His Race’: The Gnadenhutten Massacre, Frontier Violence, and Indian Removal, 1782-1830”
Nicholas Martin, Washington State University, “McGillvray and the American Southeast: How Biracial Chiefs used Matrilineal Ties to Control Tribal Leadership”
Chair/comment: Michele Butts, Austin Peay State University
24.TheCivilWarEra(UC231) Joshua Camper, University of Tennessee at Martin, “Adolph von Steinwehr and the Army of the Potomac’s Occupation of Cemetery Hill during the Gettysburg Campaign”
Stephanie Sellers, University of Tennessee at Martin, “The War the South Won: Northwest Tennessee and the Birth of Jim Crow”
Chair/comment: David Coffey, University of Tennessee at Martin
Luncheon, 12:15-1:45Ballroom, Boling University CenterKeynote speaker: Rebecca Price, Chick History“The March to the 19th”
Rebecca Price is the founder and President/CEO of Chick History, a nonprofit dedicated to rebuilding history through educational programming, community outreach, and women’s history. She is a museum professional with twenty years of experience in programming, administration, and strategic communications and marketing. She has worked at the National Museum of Women in the Arts; the Institute of Museum and Library Services; the American Association for State and Local History; and several historic homes and museums. She will be speaking on Chick History’s current initiative, “March to the 19th.” This statewide project, in partnership with Humanities Tennessee, features multiple goals and operates as a grassroots public history campaign for women’s history in the state. Two years into the project, March to the 19th has seen great success in its outreach efforts to both those working in the field of public history, and to the public wishing to be part of historic preservation and expanding our definitions and understanding of History.
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