37th Annual Northern Great Plains
History Conference
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1. Thursday, October 10, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Ballroom A
Chair: Donald R. Gustafson, Augsburg College
“Envisioning Africa: American Slaves’ Ideas about Liberia”
Eric Burin, University of North Dakota
“Monopoly versus Free Trade: England’s 18th Century
Mercantile Conception of Africa”
Ty M. Reese, University of North Dakota
“Scottish Missionaries and the Female Circumcision
Controversy in Kenya, 1900-1960”
Kenneth N. Mufuka, Lander University
Comment: Daniel Ringrose, Minot State University
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2. Thursday, October 10, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Ballroom B
Chair: Robert Hilderbrand, University of South Dakota
“Defense Spending and Employment During the Cold
War: The Failure of Defense Manpower Policy Number 4”
Christopher A. Preble, St. Cloud State University
Steven J. Bucklin, University of South Dakota
“Dick, Alger, Whittaker, and the Grand Jury”
Anthony Rama Maravillas, Columbia College Chicago
Comment: Alec Kirby, University of Wisconsin-Stout
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3. Thursday, October 10, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Ballroom CD
Panel:
Mary Lou Moudry
Crow Wing County Historical Society
Mike Worcester
Cokato Museum
Irene Bender
Minnesota Alliance For Local History Museums
James Lundgren
Blue Earth County Historical
Society
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4. Thursday, October 10, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Graduate Session: Colonial
America
Ballroom E
Chair: Betsy Glade, St. Cloud State University
“Revolution or Evolution: The Process of Legal
Change for Women in Colonial New York”
Kara Dirkson, Minnesota State University, Mankato
“The Luxury of Fashion: The Role of Lady's Fashion
in the Consumer Revolution”
Melissa Vette, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Comment: Elizabeth Dunn, Bemidji State University
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5. Thursday, October 10, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Sponsored by the Society for Military History
Ballroom F
Chair: Charles K. Piehl, Minnesota State University, Mankato
“Twin Ports Shipbuilding at War, 1941-1945”
Christopher Tassava, Northwestern University
“Liberation and Its Aftermath: A Philippine Case
Study”
Stacy Gran, California State University Northridge
Comment: Charles K. Piehl, Minnesota State University, Mankato
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6. Thursday, October 10, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Avalon
Chair: Dennis Gimmestad, Minnesota Historical Society
“First Lady of Historic Preservation: Sarah J.
Sibley and the Mount Vernon Ladies Association in Minnesota, 1858-1869”
David M. Grabitske, Minnesota Historical Society
“A Clash of Two Visions: The Struggle for the
Winona County Courthouse”
Gregory A. Gaut, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
“Historic Preservation as Commemorative Act:
Monumental Movement in the Upper Mid-West”
Sarah Lund, University of Oslo
Comment: Dennis Gimmestad, Minnesota Historical Society
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7. Thursday, October 10, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Fillmore
Chair: Ann Regan, Minnesota Historical Society
“From Saxony to Missouri: The 'Old Lutheran' Immigration to the United States in 1838 and 1839”
Fredrick M. Spletstoser, William Jewell College, and
Lani Kirsch, University of Missouri--Kansas City
“'One Immense Army of True Patriots': Chicago's Germans and Irish in the American Civil War”
Rebekah M. K. Mergenthal, The University of Chicago
Comment: Michael Jacobs, University of Wisconsin-Baraboo
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8. Thursday, October 10, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Savoy
Chair: James Belpedio, Becker College
Brad Bonness, Minot State University
“The Falkland Islands War: A Tough Decision for Washington”
John P. Anderson, Minot State University
“'A Pullman Hell': Working-Class Religion and Labor Crises, A Case Study”
Christopher D. Cantwell, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Comment: Sharon Neet, University of Minnesota – Crookston
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9. Thursday, October 10, 11:00 a.m. –
12:30 p.m.
The Falls of St. Anthony: Power, People, Place and History
Ballroom A
Chair: Anne Kaplan, Minnesota Historical Society
Panel:
John Anfinson, National Park Service
Scott Anfinson, Minnesota Historical Society
Annette Atkins, St. John's University
David Danbom, North Dakota State University
Kate Roberts, Minnesota Historical Society
Barbara Caron, Minnesota Historical Society
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10. Thursday, October 10, 11:00 – 12:30
Ballroom B
Chair: Michael J. Mullin, Augustana College (Sioux Falls)
“A Tale of Two Paddies: The Popular Political Propaganda of John FitzGibbon, Earl of Clare, 1793-1799”
Ann C. Kavanaugh, Concordia College Moorhead
“Matthew Stewart, Earl of Lennox and the Scottish Border Wars, 1546-1548”
Daniel D. Trifan, Missouri Western State College
“Challenging Indenture: Jacobite Prisoners of the 1715 and British Deportation Policies”
Margaret D. Sankey, Minnesota State University, Moorhead
Comment: Robert Nash, University of Nebraska at Omaha
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11. Thursday, October 10, 11:00 a.m. –
12:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the Society for Military History
Ballroom CD
Chair: Robert Gough, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
“Patrolling the Home Front: Control, Identity, and Landscape During the Civil War”
Gregory Downs, Northwestern University
“The Federal Navy and the Consular Service: A Neglected Key to Victory”
Frank T. Edwards, California University of Pennsylvania
“Angie, David and Matt: A Civil War Love Story, 1863-1867”
William Crozier, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
Comment: Robert Gough, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
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12. Thursday, October 10, 11:00 a.m. –
12:30 p.m.
Historians and National History Day
Ballroom E
Chair: Barbara Handy-Marchello, University of North Dakota
Panel:
Tim Hoogland, Minnesota Historical Society
Steven J. Bucklin, University of South Dakota
Claire Strom, North Dakota State University
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13. Thursday, October 10, 11:00 a.m. –
12:30 p.m.
Avalon
Chair: Loretta Burns, Minnesota State University, Mankato
“Keeping Secrets: Women, Syphilis, and the Problem
of Medical Secrecy in Early Twentieth Century America”
Victoria H. Woodcock, University of Minnesota
“A Window Open Onto Women of the World: Clara Bewick Colby's The Woman's Tribune and the Formation of the International Council of Women”
Kristin Mapel-Bloomberg, Hamline University
“Family Ties in the Migration Process: The Journey
to the Minnesota Territory, 1835-1855”
Colette A. Hyman, Winona State University
Comment: Jacqueline deVries, Augsburg College
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14. Thursday,
October 10, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Fillmore
Chair: Hy Berman, University of Minnesota
“Ending Toy Starvation: Juvenile Delinquency and the Milwaukee Toy Loan Project in the Great Depression”
Daryl Webb, Marquette University
“Civil Defense and The Decentralizing City: Frank
Zeidler and the Suburbanization of Milwaukee, Wisconsin”
John M. McCarthy, Marquette University
“Early Suburbanization in Milwaukee: The Relationship between Township and Urbanization”
Christopher Miller, Marquette University
Comment: Robert Zeidel, University of Wisconsin-Stout
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Thursday, October 10, 12:45-2:00 p.m.
Society for Military History Luncheon (preregistration required): Ballroom E
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15. Thursday, October 10, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Great Plains Institutions and Associations
Ballroom A
Chair: Harl Dalstrom, University of Nebraska at Omaha
“Manliness, American Indian Men, and the Women's
National Indian Association”
Benson Tong, Wichita State University
“'On Account of Her Incorrigible Disposition': Adolescent Girls, Juvenile Delinquency, and the Minnesota State Reform School, 1868-1895”
Brie Swenson, University of Minnesota
“Dear Governor: Clemency Requests to Iowa’s
Governors, 1890-1900”
Jeffrey J. Pilz, North Iowa Area Community College
Comment: Betty Bergland, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
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16. Thursday,
October 10, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Ballroom B
Chair: Anne Kaplan, Minnesota Historical Society
“Mothers’ and Daughters’ Connections through Food”
Miriam Meyers, Metropolitan State University
“Rooted Recipes: Looking for Norwegian-American History in Cookbooks”
Deborah Miller, Minnesota Historical Society
“Booya, Hot Dishes and Wild Rice: A Look at Origins
and Development of Three Minnesota Food Traditions”
Steve Trimble, Metropolitan State University
Comment: Andrea Hunter Halgrimson, The Fargo Forum
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17. Thursday,
October 10, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Town Building and the Press: Marshalltown, Iowa, 1851-1933
Ballroom CD
Chair: Joanne Abel Goldman, University of Northern Iowa
“Henry Anson: Town Builder and Land Speculator”
Michael W. Vogt, Iowa Gold Star Museum
“Greenleaf Woodbury: Booster and Entrepreneur”
Thomas B. Colbert, Marshalltown Community College
“Iowa’s Depression Dilemmas: The Editorial
Stance of the Marshalltown Times - Republican, 1929-1933”
Lisa L. Ossian, Southwestern Community College
Comment: Joanne Abel Goldman, University of Northern Iowa, and Lawrence Larsen,
University of Missouri--Kansas City
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18. Thursday,
October 10, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Ballroom E
Chair: Polly Fry, University of Minnesota
“Against the Stream: Rivers, History, and
Narratives of Space”
Anthony Amato, Southwest State University
“Thoreau's Notes on the Journey West: Nature
Writing or Environmental History?”
Daniel Philippon, University of Minnesota
“Reverence for the Tools of the Altar: The
Benedictine Tradition of Stewardship at
St. John's Abbey and University, Minnesota”
Derek Larson, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University
Thomas Scanlan, University of Minnesota
Comment: William Lass, Minnesota State University, Mankato
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19. Thursday,
October 10, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Ballroom F
Chair: Lawrence Williams, Luther College
“Going Native: Zora Neale Hurston's Navigations on
the Borders of Race and Class”
Catherine A. Stewart, Cornell College
“Talking the Talk: Bill Clinton and School
Desegregation”
Lawrence J. McAndrews, St. Norbert College
“Violence as an Option for Free Blacks in the 19th Century Black American Struggle”
Tunde Adeleke, University of Montana-Missoula
Comment: William Green, Augsburg College
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20. Thursday,
October 10, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the Society for Military History
Avalon
Chair: Thomas Buckley, University of Minnesota
Panel:
Adam Scher, Minnesota Historical Society
Hampton Smith, Minnesota Historical Society
Douglas Bekke, Minnesota Military Museum, Fort Ripley
Joseph Fitzharris, University of St. Thomas
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21. Thursday,
October 10, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Fillmore
Chair: Susan Dingle, State Historical Society of North Dakota
“Indigenous Big Game Hunting Weapons on the Northwestern Great Plains and in the Central Subarctic during the 19th century”
Roland Bohr, University of Manitoba
“Pot Hunters and Game Wardens on the Minnesota Prairie: The Case of William Kerr and Robert Poole”
Mark H. Davis, Century College
Comment: James Mochoruk, University of North Dakota
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22. Thursday,
October 10, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Undergraduate Session: Potpourri I
Savoy
Chair: Douglas Biggs, Waldorf College
“It's Not Just About Quilting: Women's Auxiliary Groups in Twentieth Century North Dakota”
Courtney Driscoll, Minot State University
Lisa Plekkenpol, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
“The Politics of Newspaper Coverage in Gilded Age America: 1876 and the Custer Massacre”
Tavia Malone, Morningside College
“Opposites Attract: Creating a Friendship Out of the
Hatred of War, Cpl. Jacob DeShazer and Cmdr. Mitsuo Fuchida, 1941-1976”
Andrew DeCock, North Dakota State University
Comment: Kent Blaser, Wayne State College
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23. Friday,
October 11, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Using Technology to Explore Controversial Topics in the Classroom Online
Ballroom A
Chair: William Jones, Augsburg College
“Evolution and Christianity in an Online Classroom”
Oscar Chamberlain, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
“Lynching in the Classroom and in Intranets”
Selika Ducksworth-Lawton, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Comment: William Jones, Augsburg College
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24. Friday,
October 11, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Mexicanos and More Recent Newcomers to Fargo-Moorhead
Ballroom B
Chair: Dionicio Valdés, University of Minnesota
“Writing them in or Writing them off? Migrants,
Refugees, and the Fargo Forum, 1970-1992”
Richard M. Chapman, Concordia College Moorhead
“The Catholic Church and Migrant Ministry in the
Red River Valley”
Yolanda Lara Arauza, Minnesota State University, Moorhead
Comment: James Norris, North Dakota State University
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25. Friday,
October 11, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
American Colonization Society and Emigration to Liberia
Ballroom CD
Chair: Christopher W. Kimball, Augsburg College
“Mitigating Manumission: The Extent of Sacrifice
among American Colonization Society Emancipators”
Eric Burin, University of North Dakota
“Domestic Emancipators: Female Slaveholders in the
Old South”
Nikki Berg, University of North Dakota
“Dreaming of Africa in Dixie: Emigration and the South's African Americans, 1865-1920”
Jason Digman, University of Minnesota
Comment: Michael Fitzgerald, St. Olaf College
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26. Friday,
October 11, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Responses to War:
Pearl Harbor to 9/11
Sponsored by the Society for Military History
Ballroom E
Chair: David Ulbrich, Temple University
“'No VC Ever Called Me Nigger': African-American Opposition to the Vietnam War, 1965-1975”
Chris Dixon, University of Newcastle
“'Remember Pearl Harbor' and 'United We Stand':
Comparing Artifactual Responses to December 7th and September 11th“
Terrence Lindell, Wartburg College
Comment: David Ulbrich, Temple University
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27. Friday,
October 11, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Ballroom F
Chair: Eric Buffalohead, Augsburg College
“An Unlawful, Scandalous, and Notorious Form of
Marriage: The Additional Court of Michigan Territory and the Decline of
Indian-White Marriage at Green Bay, 1823-1844”
Patrick J. Jung, Marquette University
“'Who is Jane Lamont?': Daughters of Anglo-American
Men and Dakota Women in Minnesota, 1820-1862”
Jane Lamm Carroll, College of St. Catherine
“Wissakode: The Forest of Half-Burnt Trees and the
Forming of Half-Burnt People: The Movement and Migrations of Prairie and Pine
and People across the Upper Great Lakes Region between 1500 A.D. and 2000
A.D.”
Damian Vraniak, Independent Scholar
Comment: John Gregg, Augsburg College
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28. Friday,
October 11, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Fillmore
Chair: Edmund Clingan, University of North Dakota
“Minnesotans During the World War Two Years:
Reflections on Oral History Evidence”
Thomas Saylor, Concordia University, St. Paul
Gerald D. Anderson, North Dakota State University
“V-E Day Program in German Prisoner of War Camps in the United States”
Edward Pluth, St. Cloud State University
Comment: Kevin Byrne, Gustavus Adolphus College
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29. Friday, October 11, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Ballroom A
Panel:
Mark Gleason, Minnesota Humanities Council
Theresa Lippert, Minnesota Online Encyclopedia Coordinator
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30. Friday, October 11, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Ballroom B
Chair: Kurt Leichtle, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
David Riggs, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Erwin P. Grieshaber, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Comment: Valerie Sigwalt, Luther College
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31. Friday,
October 11, 11:00 a.m. –
12:30 p.m.
The Pleasures and Perils of Doing Local History
Avalon
Panel:
Paula M. Nelson, University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Jeffrey D. Kolnick, Southwest State University
David B. Danbom, North Dakota State University
Moderator: Ralph W. Scharnau, Northeast Iowa Community College
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32. Friday, October 11, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the Society for Military History
Fillmore
Chair: Donald Bittner, USMC Command and Staff College
“A Young Man of Ability and Great Enthusiasm: Thomas
Montgomery Gregory, a Black Officer in World War One”
James E. Westheider, University of Cincinnati-Clermont
“Effects of Racial Perceptions on Leadership and Performance in the 24th Regiment”
Selika Ducksworth-Lawton, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Comment: Donald Bittner, USMC Command and Staff College
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33. Friday,
October 11, 11:00 a.m. –
12:30 p.m.
Undergraduate Session: True Crime in the Northern Great Plains
Savoy
Chair: Michael J. C. Taylor, Dickinson State University
“Between Myth and History: The James-Younger Gang and the Northfield, Minnesota, Raid”
Shannon Douglas, Dickinson State University
“Rebels in the Badlands: The Odyssey of Charles
Starkweather and Caril Fugate”
Peter A. Fritz, Dickinson State University
“Kahl It What You Like: The 'Holy' Story of U.S.
Marshals and Gordon Kahl”
Shannon L. Becker, Dickinson State University
Comment: Mark Davis, Century College
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34. Friday,
October 11, 11:00 a.m. –
12:30 p.m.
Andersen Library:
Social History Collections
Andersen Library
Presentation and collection overviews:
Immigration History Research Center
Social Welfare History Archives
Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
YMCA Archives
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35. Friday, October 11, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Andersen Library:
Literature and the Arts
Andersen Library
Presentation and collection overviews:
Children's Literature Research Collection
Givens African American Literature Collection
Sherlock Holmes Collection
Minnesota Orchestra Collection
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36. Friday,
October 11, 11:00 a.m. –
12:30 p.m.
Andersen Library: Science, Technology, and Built Environment
Andersen Library
Presentation and collection overviews:
Northwest Architectural Archives
Science and Medicine in the University Archives
Charles Babbage Archives: History of Information Processing
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Friday , October 11 12:45-2:00
Conference
Banquet: Ballrooms C-F
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37. Friday,
October 11, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Ballroom A
Chair: D. Jerome Tweton, North Dakota Humanities Council
“James J. Hill and William C. Van Horne: A
Partnership in Rivalry”
Paul C. Stone, University of Minnesota
“Reassessing Sir Ernest Shackleton in the Context
of his Times and in Light of the
Current Shackletonmania”
T. H. Baughman, University of Central Oklahoma
“'Soapy:' G. Mennen Williams and American
Liberalism”
Thomas J. Noer, Carthage College
Comment: W. Thomas White, James J. Hill Reference Library
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38. Friday,
October 11, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the Society for Military History
Ballroom B
Chair: Michael Palmer, East Carolina University
“US Navy Planning for the Pacific, 1945-1947”
Jeffrey Barlow, USN Historical Center
“The Use and Abuse of History in Paradise: The Army Air Force’s Useable Pacific War History and Postwar AAF Policy for the Pacific Basin, 1945-1947”
Hal Friedman, Henry Ford Community College
Comment: Michael Palmer, East Carolina University
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39. Friday,
October 11, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Ballroom CD
Chair: Carroll Engelhardt, Concordia College, Moorhead
“Religious Newspapers and the Idea of Chicago”
Drew Digby, University of Minnesota Duluth
“Urban Charity in Cleveland, Ohio: From Religious Expression to Efficient Administration”
Paul Hillmer, Concordia University, St. Paul
Steve Trimble, Metropolitan State University
“The May Day Parade, the Heart of the Beast, and the
Powderhorn Neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota: A Celebration!”
Kellian Clink, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Comment: Mary Lethert Wingerd, Macalester College
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40. Friday,
October 11, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Ballroom E
Chair: Brendan McManus, Bemidji State University
“The Return of Marduk: Assyrian Imperial Propaganda and Babylonian Historical Tradition During the Reign of Ashurbanipal”
John Nielsen, The University of Chicago
“The Birth of the Roman Navy: The Allied Contribution”
Iain McDougall, University of Winnipeg
Kevin Carroll, Arizona State University
Comment: Richard C. Nelson, Augsburg College
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41. Friday,
October 11, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Ballroom F
Chair: Doug Rossinow, Metro State University
“Opportunities Squandered: The Antecedents and
Events of the American Gas Machine Company Strike of 1937”
Jeff A. Jenson, Minnesota State University, Mankato
“Communists and the American Countryside in the 1920s”
William C. Pratt, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Comment: Peter Rachleff, Macalester College
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42. Friday,
October 11, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Avalon
Chair: Angelo Louisa, Creighton University
Gary Wicks, St. Olaf College
“Satchel Paige in Minnesota (1950): A Brief Chapter in Baseball History”
Steven R. Hoffbeck, Minnesota State University, Moorhead
William Green, Augsburg College
Comment: John C. (Chuck) Chalberg, Normandale Community College
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43. Friday,
October 11, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Fillmore
Chair: Leslee K. Gilbert, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
“Virginia 1622: The Death of the Powhatan Achilles, Chief Nemattanew, Re-examined”
Michael Feikema, Minnesota State University, Mankato
“Combatting the 'Pernicious Trade': Smuggling and Embargo in British North America, 1756-1760”
Steven G. Greiert, Missouri Western State College
“Failed Ventures: The Bison and Colony Profitability”
Matthew Taylor, North Dakota State University
Comment: Thomas B. Mega, University of St. Thomas
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44. Friday,
October 11, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Undergraduate Session: “Noble, Wretched, and Redeemable”: Native Americans and European Encounters in Early America
Savoy
Chair: Melodie Andrews, Minnesota State University, Mankato
“Franciscan Techniques of Religious Conversion and Indigenous Cultural Resistance in the Valley of Mexico, 1519-1650”
Jonathan Truitt, Minnesota State University, Mankato
John Paul Mattek, Minnesota State University, Mankato
“A Necessary Alliance: The French and Illinois Indians, 1673-1730”
Dave Mills, Minnesota State University, Mankato
“A Shared Tragedy: Huron Acceptance of Jesuit Salvation in the Seventeenth Century”
Paul Ragatz, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Comment: J. Thomas Murphy, Bemidji State University
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45. Saturday,
October 12, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Ballroom A
Chair: Sharon E. Wood, University of Nebraska at Omaha
“The Reform of Indian Affairs: The Late Progressive Era and 1920s”
Henry E. Fritz, St. Olaf College
“'Exit the Filipino'? The Repatriation Movement in the 1930s”
Roland L. Guyotte, University of Minnesota, Morris,
and Barbara M. Posadas, Northern Illinois University
“Defender of the Faithful: Congressman Isaac Siegel and the Efforts to Combat Anti-Semitic Immigration Policies”
Robert F. Zeidel, University of Wisconsin-Stout
Comment: Bethany Andreasen, Minot State University
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46. Saturday, October 12, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Ballroom B
Chair: Ginette Aley, Virginia Tech
“National Identity and the Agrarian Myth: The American Agriculture Movement and the Rationale to Save the Family Farm, 1977-79”
Ryan J. Stockwell, Miami University (Ohio)
“From Corn to Cob: The Development of Iowa’s Canning Industry in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries”
Derek S. Oden, Iowa State University
Comment: Kimberly Porter, University of North Dakota
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47. Saturday, October 12, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Religious Architecture on the Great Plains
Ballroom CD
Chair: Kristin M. Anderson, Augsburg College
“Building ‘Spiritual Armories’ in the Twin Cities: Evangelicalism and Architecture in the Late Nineteenth Century”
Jeanne Kilde, Macalester College
“Home on the Range: Four Synagogues on Minnesota’s Iron Range”
Marilyn Chiat, Independent Scholar
“Architect Marcel Breuer, the Benedictines, and the
Bell Banner: Marking Monastic Space on the Northern Great Plains”
Victoria M. Young, University of St. Thomas
Comment: Katherine Solomonson, University of Minnesota
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48. Saturday,
October 12, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Sponsored by the Society for Military Historians
Ballroom E
Chair: Dana Miller, Independent Scholar
“Infantry Casualties on Okinawa: Severity and
Implications”
John Reed, University of Utah
“Asking the Wrong Question: S.L.A. Marshall's Ratio
of Fire Revisited”
Thomas A. Bruscino, Jr., Ohio University
Comment: Dana Miller, Independent Scholar
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49. Saturday,
October 12, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Ballroom F
Chair: Eileen Walsh, Concordia University, St. Paul
“A Tourist's Account of Communities Along the
Missouri River in 1859”
Lawrence H. Larsen, University of Missouri-Kansas City,
and Barbara J. Cottrell, National Archives
“Promoting the North Woods: Regional Associations, State Agencies and the Creation of the Upper Great Lakes Tourist Industry”
Aaron A. Shapiro, The University of Chicago
Comment: Eileen Walsh, Concordia University, St. Paul
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50. Saturday,
October 12, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Avalon
Chair: William B. Feis, Buena Vista University
“'He Would Treat Him Like a Man': African-American
Soldiers, Manhood, and the Incident at Pedro Springs”
J. Thomas Murphy, Bemidji State University
“To Be A Warrior: Native Americans from Minnesota
and Wisconsin Participate in the Civil War”
Kathy Wilson, Bemidji State University
“Order in the Midst of Chaos: Union Army
Courts-martial during the Civil War”
Steven J. Ramold, Virginia State University
Comment: Kathleen Gorman, Minnesota State University, Mankato
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51. Saturday,
October 12, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Fillmore
Chair: Paul Burns, Minnesota State University, Mankato
“Jewish Identity and Polish Historians, 1900-1939”
Richard D. Lewis, St. Cloud State University
“Repression under Stalin in the Province of
Voronezh, Central Russia: The Fate of the Riabinin Family”
Youngok Kang-Bohr, University of Manitoba
“The Rosenberg Plan: Building an Eastern Wall in
the Nazi-Occupied Soviet Union”
Anthony Dutton, Valley City State University
Comment: Richard C. Hall, Georgia Southwestern State University
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52. Saturday,
October 12, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Undergraduate Session:
North Dakota History
Savoy
Chair: Claire Strom, North Dakota State University
David J. Hammes, North Dakota State University
“Positive Yet Exclusive: Perceptions of Indians in
Northern Dakota Territory, 1860-1889”
Brooks T. Shannon, North Dakota State University
“The Effect of the Railroad on the Urban Boom/Bust
Economy of North Dakota: 1870-1930”
Andrea Swenson, North Dakota State University
Comment: Larry R. Peterson, North Dakota State University
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53. Saturday,
October 12, 11:00 a.m. –
12:30 p.m.
Thinking and Writing Local
History: Three Approaches
Ballroom A
Chair: Jeanne Ode, South Dakota State Historical Society
“Bowling Together: Community in a Small Town on the
Edge of the Prairie, Clear Lake, South Dakota, 1929 to 1945”
John E. Miller, South Dakota State University
“A Memoir Of Growing Up in Clear Lake, South
Dakota, 1925 to 1942”
Alan Woolworth, Minnesota Historical Society
Joseph Amato, Southwest State University
Comment: Thomas Isern, North Dakota State University
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54. Saturday, October 12, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Ballroom B
Chair: Edward Pluth, St. Cloud State University
“Disarming Germany: The Beginnings of the Safehaven
Program”
Martin Lorenz-Meyer, University of Kansas
“Begging to Return to Normalcy: WWII Evacuees and
the Housing Office in Frankfurt am Main in the 1950s”
Gregory F. Schroeder, St. John's University
Comment: C. Winston Chrislock, University of St. Thomas
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55. Saturday, October 12, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Ballroom CD
Chair: Terry Shoptaugh, Minnesota State University, Moorhead
“Fathers or Soldiers: Dependency Deferment and the Selective Service Policy during World War II”
Robert C. Blackstone, University of Kansas
“Fact or Fantasy: How National Guardsmen Adapted to
Changing Times,
1890-1910”
Eleanor L. Hannah, University of Minnesota Duluth
Comment: Terry Shoptaugh, Minnesota State University, Moorhead
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56. Saturday,
October 12, 11:00 a.m. –
12:30 p.m.
Ballroom E
Chair: Erik Hirschmann, St. Cloud State University
“Between Law and Conscience: Jones v. Van Zandt and
the Foundations of Political Dysfunction in Antebellum America”
Michael J. C. Taylor, Dickinson State University
“The 1888 Frontenac, Kansas, Coal Mine Disaster,
the 1906 Wingate Colliery Disaster of Durham, England, and the Press”
Thomas R. Walther, Pittsburg State University
“Schism, Anti-Catholicism and Americanization: Religious Division in 1830s America”
Corey W. Smith, Wartburg College
Comment: John Campbell, Winona State University
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57. Saturday,
October 12, 11:00 a.m. –
12:30 p.m.
Ballroom F
Chair: Matthew Plowman, Waldorf College
“The Absence of History: The Limited Impact of
Plutarch's Lives on Historical Writing”
Eric Rogness, University of North Dakota
Peter D. Bohlman, University of North Dakota
Comment: Sheldon Anderson, Miami University (Ohio)
Matthew Plowman, Waldorf College
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58. Saturday,
October 12, 11:00 a.m. –
12:30 p.m.
Avalon
Chair: Mark Tranvik, Augsburg College
“Monastic Economy in the Thirteenth Century: The
Case of the Caulite Order”
Phillip C. Adamo, Augsburg College
“Caftans of Culture: The Viking Age Textiles From
Birka as Evidence of 'Oriental' Trade and Travel”
Cathy Ostrom Peters, Augsburg College
“Where’d They Get That Thing? Trade
Indicators of the Longevity of the Greenland Norse Colony”
M. A. Nordtorp-Madson, University of St. Thomas
Comment: Nancy L. Wicker, Minnesota State University, Mankato
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59. Saturday,
October 12, 11:00 a.m. –
12:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the Society for Military History
Fillmore
Chair: Jerry K. Sweeney, South Dakota State University
“William Henry Chamberlain: From Manchuria to the
Sino-Japanese Conflict”
Debra Mulligan, Roger Williams University
“Bored in Bermuda, Died in China: The Military
Career (1890-1900) of Captain H. T. R. Lloyd, Royal Marine Light
Infantry”
Donald Bittner, USMC Command and Staff College
Comment: Jerry K. Sweeney, South Dakota State University
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60. Saturday,
October 12, 11:00 a.m. –
12:30 p.m.
Savoy
Chair: J. Michael McCormack, Bismarck State College
“Deacons for Defense and Justice in Mississippi and
Alabama”
Robert Ecker and Rebecca Reid, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
“Obligations of Justice: Civic Engagement through Civil Disobedience in Milwaukee, 1964-1966”
Seth Zlotocha, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
“La Virgen De Guadalupe and La Malinche: Roles of
Mexican and Mexican American Women”
Silvia Vasquez Anderson, Winona State University
Comment: Anne Klejment, University of St. Thomas
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