Friday,
March 22, 2019
North Carolina Central University
Durham, North Carolina
8:00 – 9:15 am Registration and Continental Breakfast (BBRI)
9:30 – 9:45 am Welcome and Opening Remarks
Jim C. Harper, II, Chair, Department of History, North Carolina Central University
Angela Thompson, President of the North Carolina Association of Historians, East Carolina University
10:15 am – 11:30 am Session 1 (Edmonds)
Session 1A, Edmonds 201A: Colonial America
The Paper Money of Colonial North Carolina, 1712–74: Reconstructing the Evidence – Farley Grubb, University of Delaware
“Receta . . . para curar toda . . .”– Angela Thompson, East Carolina University
The Colonial Iron Industry, 1735-1786 – Michael Kennedy, High Point University
Moderator – Rebecca Seaman, Olympic University
Session 1B, Edmonds 203: International Upheaval
The Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon: Impact of the United Nations-Sponsored Plebiscite in the Southern Cameroons – Fuabeh Fonge, North Carolina A&T State University
From Combatants to Contractors’: The Role Played by Southern Rhodesia’s War Veterans in Post-war Society, c.1919-1939 – Anotida Chikumbu, University of Zimbabwe
Tomsk in 1917: Provincial Politics and National Upheaval – Anthony Johnson, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Moderator – Joshua Nadel, North Carolina Central University
Session 1C, Edmonds 207: Topics in North Carolina History
The Eccentric Career of Arthur T. Abernathy, North Carolina’s First Poet Laureate – David Oks, independent scholar
The Cape Fear Ran Red: The Wilmington Race Riot, a Coup D’état and its Legacy – Jacob Thomas, Marshall University
The Integration of Professional Baseball in North Carolina, 1951-2 – James Holaday, North Carolina Central University
Moderator – Barry Malone, Wake Technical
Community College
11:45 am – 1:00 pm Session 2 (Edmonds)
Session 2A, Edmonds 201A: Roundtable: Why Engaging Campus Histories Matters in the 21st Century?
Hilary Green, University of Alabama
Charles Reed, Elizabeth City State University
Melissa Stuckey, Elizabeth City State University
Moderator – Hilary Green, University of Alabama
Session 2B, Edmonds 203: North Carolina in the Great War
Claude Kitchin’s Crusade: The Majority Leader’s Fight Against the American Preparedness Campaign during the Great War – Timothy Reagin, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
“To Save Wayward and Willful Boys from the Sad and Certain Consequences of Ignorance and Sin”: Governor Thomas Bickett and the Case of the Ashe County Deserters during World War I – Robert Anthony, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Moderator – Gael Graham, Western Carolina University
Session 2C, Edmonds 207: Labor and Capital in the 20th Century
‘Owned, Lock Stock and Barrel by Colored People’: The Mechanics and Farmers Bank in Durham, North Carolina and the Power of Black Finance in the New South– Brandon Winford, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Remembering the Great Postal Strike of 1970 – Philip Rubio, North Carolina A&T State University
Moderator – Baiyina W. Muhammad, North Carolina Central University
1:00 – 2:00 pm Lunch (on own)
2:15 pm – 3:30 pm Session 3 (Edmonds)
Session 3A, Edmonds 201A: Religion in America
The Great Linwood Park Revivals: Bringing God’s Medicinal Hand to the Great Lakes – Matthew Hintz, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Like a Clown at a Circus”: Sam P. Jones, Revivals, and Gilded Age Mass Culture – Anderson Rouse, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Hostile Takeover: The Fight to Save Mount Olive College from the Fundamentalists (1961-1962) – Alan Lamm, University of Mount Olive
Moderator – Jim Martin, Campbell University
Session 3B, Edmonds 203: Training Tomorrow’s Historians
Making Meaning: Empowering Undergraduates to Shape a Research Agenda – Christine Nugent, Warren Wilson College
The Art of Being a Master among the Masterless – Seth Bartee, Guilford Technical Community College
Moderator – Geoff Harris, Wake Technical Community College
Session 3C, Edmonds 207: Slavery and Freedom
“RAN AWAY from the subscriber”: John Sibley, The Fayetteville Gazette, and Runaway Slave Ads – James MacDonald, Northwestern State University
Pirates of Morality: The British Navy’s Suppression of the Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century – Eric Walls, East Carolina University
Moderator – Hilary Green, University of Alabama
3:45 pm – 5:00 pm Session 4 (Edmonds)
Session 4A, Edmonds 201A: The Southern Black Press and the Long Black Freedom Struggle
Through The Eyes of The Louisiana Weekly: The Black Press and the Long Freedom Struggle in the Deep South – Julisa Canty, North Carolina Central University
Percy the Spy: Percy Greene, the Jackson Advocate, and the Civil Rights Struggle in Mississippi, 1940s to 1960s – Yaseen Abdul-Malik, North Carolina Central University
John H. McCray and The Lighthouse and Informer: The Fight for Educational and Political Equality, 1941-1954 – Shelena Sutton, North Carolina Central University
Moderator – Jerry Gershenhorn, North Carolina Central University
Session 4B, Edmonds 203: The Silk Road: Past and Present
The “Happy” Horse and the Establishment of the Silk Road – Nathan Love, Rowan-Cabarrus Community College
China’s New Silk Road – Remaking Central Asia with a Silk Belt! – Dorothea Hoffman, Appalachian State University
Moderator – Dorothea Hoffman, Appalachian State University
Session 4C, Edmonds 207: Sources in European History
The Fictional Dialogue as Devotional Guide in England, 1603–1611 – Josh Rodda, Appalachian State University
Perceptions of Paris in 1839: Thomas Shotter Boys and his Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen, etc. – Robert Brown, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Moderator – Angela Thompson, East Carolina University
5:00-5:45 pm NCAH Business Meeting (Edmonds 201A)
6:00-8:00 pm Dinner and Keynote Address (Chancellor’s Dining Space)
The Universal Ethiopian Students’ Association, 1927-1948: Mobilizing Diaspora — TaKeia Anthony, North Carolina Central University
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