2016 Program

Friday, 1 April 2016
North Carolina A & T State University

Greensboro, North Carolina

8:30 – 10:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast (Gibbs Hall and Hodgin Hall Conference Room)

9:00 – 9:30 am Opening Remarks (Hodgin Hall, Room TBA)

Brian Edwards, President of the North Carolina Association of Historians, College of the Albemarle

Welcome from North Carolina A & T State University

9:30 – 10:45 am Session 1 Hodgin Hall

1A Ideologies and Conflicts in the New Deal and Early Cold War United States (Hodgin Hall, Room TBA)

Community Resistance and Black Rebellion in the Civilian Conservation Corps: Virginia, North Carolina, and California, 1933–1942 – Olen Cole, North Carolina A & T State University

“You seem just consumed by patriotism, Mr. Isaacs”: The Ohio Un-American Activities Commission Clashes with Communists in the Cold War Fifties – Philip F. Rubio, North Carolina A & T State University

The ‘The Lost Discourse’ on Fascism in America – Michael Joseph Roberto, North Carolina A & T State University

Moderator – Dwana L. Waugh, North Carolina A & T State University

1B Rethinking Southern History (Hodgin Hall, Room TBA)

Slaves in the Colonial Chesapeake: No Typical Runaway – Timothy M. Reagin, University of North Carolina-Greensboro

The Telegraph Comes to North Carolina: How a New Communications Technology Impacted the Tarheel State – Thomas C. Jepsen, Independent Scholar

Moderator – Rebecca Seaman, Elizabeth City State University

11:00 am – 12:15 pm Session 2 Hodgin Hall

2A Disease, Infirmity, and War in the Late 19th Century (Hodgin Hall, Room TBA)

Cholera Morbus and Conflict in the 19thCentury: Guanajuato, Mexico – Angela Thompson, East Carolina University

At Freedom’s Margins: Race, Disability, Violence and the Brewer Orphan Asylum in Southeastern North Carolina, 1865-1872 – Hilary Green, University of Alabama

Civil War Blockade Runners and the Spread of Disease – Sonia Valenica, East Carolina University

Moderator – Rebecca Seaman, Elizabeth City State University

2B The Usages of Christianity: Spiritual, Political, and Social (Hodgin Hall, Room TBA)

The Synod of Whitby: Irish, Romans, and the Politics of Faith – Brian Edwards, College of the Albemarle

Crossing Boundaries: Japanese Christian Women at the Turn of the Twentieth Century – Sarah Griffith, Queens University

Re-civilizing the Germans: God Talk in Cold War West Germany – Dorothee Sölle, Jürgen Moltmann, and Johann Baptist Metz – Robert W. Whalen, Queens University

Moderator – James Martin, Campbell University

12:15 – 2:00 pm Lunch (on your own)

2:00 – 3:15 pm Session 3 Hodgin Hall

3A Early American Religion and Faith (Hodgin Hall, Room TBA)

Freedom and the Loss of Freedom: The Journey to Carolina by Swiss and German Palatines – Matthew Esterline, University of North Carolina-Greensboro

“Serve God in Our Own Way”: Afro-Christianity in Virginia, 1800–1865 – Anderson Rouse, University of North Carolina-Greensboro

A Plan for the West: The Roots of Radical Egalitarianism on Ohio’s Western Reserve – Matthew Hintz, University of North Carolina-Greensboro

Moderator – Brian Edwards, College of the Albemarle

3B Political and Cultural Identities across a Diasporic African World (Hodgin Hall, Room TBA)

Paris, 1919: Pan-Africanism and the Case for Imperial Citizenship – Charles V. Reed, Elizabeth City State University

The Domestic Contexts of the Nigeria-based Boko Haram Terrorist Insurgency in West Africa – Ngozi Caleb Kamalu, Fayetteville State University

Remittances by Africans in the Diaspora: Staying Connected With the Homeland – Fuabeh P. Fonge, North Carolina A & T State University

Moderator – Percy Murray, North Carolina A & T University

3:30 – 4:15 pm Session 4 Hodgin Hall

4A The American Civil War: Past and Present (Hodgin Hall, Room TBA)

Contested Destiny: Political Dissent among Antebellum Elites in Forsyth County, North Carolina – Rick Shelton, Surry Community College

The Boys of Company E: The 20thNorth Carolina’s Confederate Grays in the Civil War – Alan K Lamm, University of Mount Olive

Civil War Museums after Charleston – Chris Graham, University of North Carolina-Greensboro

Moderator – Hilary Green, University of Alabama

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“. . . and other articles too numerous to mention”: The Rationale of Property Theft among Eighteenth-Century Runaways – Michael Kennedy, High Point University

Chinese in Central American: Labor Sojourners and Immigrants, 1840s to 1940s – Dorothea Martin Hoffman, Appalachian State University

Montmorenci and Fairntosh Plantations: Symbolically Emblematic of the North Carolina Planters, Allegorically Reflective of the Slaves – Heidi Weber, State University of New York – Orange

Moderator – James Martin, Campbell University

4:30 – 5:30 pm Dudley Building

North Carolina Association of Historians Business Meeting (Dudley Building, Second Floor)

Dudley Building University Galleries
Exhibits to Tour on Your Own:

African Art Collection

NC A & T and the NC A & T 125th Anniversary Newspaper Exhibit, The NC A&T Register, 100 Years Plus

Evening Program

5:30 – 6:30 pm

Dinner (Dudley Building, Multi-Purpose Room)

6:45 – 8:30 pm

Gibbs Lecture and Public Reception (Academic Classroom Building Auditorium and Lobby)

The Sit-in Student Movement and Present Student Movements and News/Social Media
Kenneth Campbell, University of South Carolina

Saturday, 2 April 2016

8:30 – 10:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast (Gibbs Hall Conference Room)

9:00 – 10:15 am Session 5 Gibbs Hall

5A The Civil Rights Dilemma of Assimilation and Acculturation (Gibbs Hall, Room 318)

Oglala Lakota Tribal Chairman Dick Wilson and the Threat of Termination, 1973–1978 – John Truden, University of North Carolina-Wilmington

Hearts and Minds: Race, Religion, Sport, and Assimilation in the Civil Rights Era South – Jeff Frederick, University of North Carolina-Pembroke

Moderator – Hilary Green, University of Alabama

5B Archives, Documents, and Apps in the History Classroom (Gibbs Hall, Room 315)

Dale Sauter, East Carolina University

Monkia Fleming, Edgecombe County Community College

John Grilli, University of North Carolina-Wilmington

David Trowbridge, Marshall University

Moderator – Charles V. Reed, Elizabeth City State University

10:30 – 11:45 am Session 6 Gibbs Hall

6A Historical Dilemmas (Gibbs Hall, Room 318)

When History Met Geography: Teaching the Columbian Exchange – Rebecca Dobbs, Western Carolina University

The Corps of Discovery: 200 Years of Dilemmas –Stephen Sylvester, Rowan-Cabarrus Community College

A Stitch in Time: Sewing for Redemption – Carolyn Holbert, Rowan-Cabarrus Community College

Moderator – Stephen Sylvester, Rowan-Cabarrus Community College

6B Europe and the World (Gibbs Hall, Room 315)

John Locke and American Political Doctrine – Melanie Smith, Greensboro College

Nationalism and British Foreign Policy – Sofia Sedergren, Greensboro College

The Character of the Kaiser: How Wilhelm II Led Germany to War – Shawn Reagin, University of North Carolina-Greensboro

Moderator – Jeff Broadwater, Barton College

11:45 – 1:00 pm Lunch (on your own)

1:00 – 2:15 pm Session 7 Gibbs Hall

7A The “Dream” of “Red Chamber”: The Quest for Power, Legitimacy and Stability in Contemporary China  (Gibbs Hall, Room 317)

Creating the Cult of Xi Jinping: The China Dream as a Leader Symbol – Brian Hart, Wake Forest University

Online Activism, Sina Weibo, and Popular Justice in Contemporary China – Qiaomu Peng, Wake Forest University

Exploring the “New Dominion”: A Look at China’s Terrorism Narrative – Millicent S. Hennessey, Wake Forest University

Moderator – Qiong Zhang, Wake Forest University

Discussant – George Xuezhi Guo, Guildford College

7B Maritime History and Material Culture  (Gibbs Hall, Room 315)

Surgery at Sea: An Analysis of Shipboard Medical Practitioners and Their Instrumentation – Robin Croskery Howard, East Carolina University

A Crisis in Gender: Femininity, Necessity, and the Civil War Naval Blockade – Emily Schwalbe, East Carolina University

The Pirates of the Pamlico: A Maritime Cultural Landsca­­pe Investigation of the Pirates of Colonial North Carolina and their Place in the State’s Cultural Memory – Allyson Ropp, East Carolina University

American Maritime Heritage on African Shores: Case Studies of Confederate Raider CSS Alabama and Liberty Ship – Thomas Tucker, East Carolina University

Moderator – Lynn Harris, East Carolina University

2:30 – 3:45 pm Session 8 Gibbs Hall

8A Roundtable – China’s Expansion into the South China Sea: Local and Global Implications (Gibbs Hall, Room 317)

Lee Wei-chin, Wake Forest University

Peng Deng, High Point University

Dorothea Martin Hoffman, Appalachian State University

Moderator – Dorothea Martin Hoffman Appalachian State University

8B Race, Rhetoric, and Law (Gibbs Hall, Room 315)

Cuzqueño Caciques and Legal Rhetoric in the Early Colonial Litigation – Renzo Honores, High Point University

Jim Crow at Nuremberg: Virginia’s Quest for “Racial Integrity” as the Nazi Model – Stephen Comer, University of North Carolina – Greensboro

From North Carolina to Nuremberg: Internationalism and Human Rights in the Life of Judge John Parker – Joseph Ross, University of North Carolina-Greensboro

Moderator – Jeff Broadwater, Barton College

4:00 – 5:15 pm Session 9 Gibbs Hall

9A Conflict and Cronyism in Latin America (Gibbs Hall, Room 318)

“A Most Useful Purpose”: The Anti-Imperialists Struggle for Spanish-American War Memory – Peter S. D’Arpa, University of North Carolina-Greensboro

Somoza and the Triple Alliance: An Examination of Cronyism and Corruption in Pre-Revolutionary Nicaragua – John-Paul Wilson, St. John University

Moderator – Angela Thompson, East Carolina University

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