37^th Annual

Northern Great Plains

History Conference

Schedule

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Wednesday, October 9

Registration, 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Holiday Inn Metrodome Lobby

Optional Walking Tour, 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

St. Anthony Falls Historic District

Preregistration required

No-Host Bar, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Holiday Inn Metrodome Foyer

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Thursday, October 10 9:00-10:30 a.m.

Session 1 Outsiders’ Perceptions of Africa

Session 2 Cold War Era

Session 3 Small Museums Roundtable

Session 4 Graduate Session: Colonial America

Session 5 World War II

Session 6 Historic Preservation

Session 7 Antebellum Immigration

Session 8 Undergraduate Session: America

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Thursday, October 10 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Session 9 The Falls of St. Anthony: Power, People, Place and History

Session 10 British History: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century

Session 11 Civil War

Session 12 Historians and National History Day

Session 13 Women’s History

Session 14 Urban History: Milwaukee

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Thursday, October 10 12:45-2:00 p.m.

Society of Military Historians Luncheon, Ballroom E

Preregistration required

Women Historians Luncheon, Ballroom F

Preregistration required

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Thursday, October 10 2:30-4:30 p.m.

Session 15 Great Plains Institutions and Associations

Session 16 Food

Session 17 Town Building and the Press: Marshalltown, Iowa, 1851-1933

Session 18 Rivers, Prairies and People: Narrating the Environmental History of Southern Minnesota

Session 19 African-Americans

Session 20 Sources for Minnesota Military History

Session 21 Hunting and Hunters

Session 22 Undergraduate Session: Potpourri I

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Thursday, October 10 5:00-6:30 p.m.

Reception: Elmer L. Andersen Library

University of Minnesota West Bank Campus

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Friday, October 11 9:00-10:30 a.m.

Session 23 Using Technology to Explore Controversial Topics in the Classroom Online

Session 24 Mexicanos and More Recent Newcomers to Fargo-Moorhead

Session 25 American Colonization Society and Emigration to Liberia

Session 26 Responses to War: Pearl Harbor to 9/11

Session 27 Mètis/Native American History

Session 28 World War II

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Friday, October 11 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Session 29 Minnesota Online Encyclopedia

Session 30 Latin America

Session 31 The Pleasures and Perils of Doing Local History

Session 32 Afro-American Army Officers

Session 33 Undergraduate Session: True Crime in the Northern Great Plains

Session 34 Andersen Library: Social History Collections

Session 35 Andersen Library: Literature and the Arts

Session 36 Andersen Library: Science, Technology and Built Environment

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Friday, October 11 12:45-2:00 p.m.

Conference Banquet, Ballrooms C-F

Banquet Speaker: Karal Ann Marling

Preregistration required

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Friday, October 11 2:30-4:30 p.m.

Session 37 Biography

Session 38 Pacific Basin Policy, 1944-47

Session 39 Midwestern Urban History

Session 40 Ancient Empires

Session 41 Farmers and Workers

Session 42 Sports History

Session 43 Colonial America

Session 44 Undergraduate Session: “Noble, Wretched, and Redeemable”: Native Americans and

European Encounters in Early America

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Saturday, October 12 7:30-9:00 a.m.

Governors’ Council meeting, Boardroom

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Saturday, October 12 9:00-10:30 a.m.

Session 45 Progressives and Ethnicity

Session 46 Rural America

Session 47 Religious Architecture on the Great Plains

Session 48 The Soldiers

Session 49 Tourism

Session 50 Civil War Soldiers

Session 51 Eastern Europe

Session 52 Undergraduate Session: North Dakota History

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Saturday, October 12 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Session 53 Thinking and Writing Local History: Three Approaches

Session 54 Post-War Germany

Session 55 Preparing for America’s Wars

Session 56 Nineteenth Century America

Session 57 Graduate Potpourri

Session 58 Medieval World

Session 59 “On the China Station”

Session 60 Undergraduate Session: Potpourri II

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