University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Pembroke, North Carolina
Friday Program, 7 April 2017
Adolph Dial Humanities Building
9:00 – 10:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast (Adolph Dial Humanities Building)
10:30 – 11:00 am Opening Remarks
- Melinda Pash, President of the North Carolina Association of Historians, Fayetteville Technical Community College
- Welcome from University of North Carolina – Pembroke
11:00 am – 12:15 pm Session 1 Adolph Dial Humanities Building
Dial Building, Room 214
1A Antebellum and Civil War Era
- Ought to be Taught?: Free People of Color in North Carolina Common Schools – Geoff Harris, Wake Technical Community College
- Lucius Gartrell and Harrison: An Unlikely Partnership in the Defense of Slavery – Dino L. Bryant, St. Augustine University
- “A criminal, useless sacrifice”: Company E & the 20th North Carolina at the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863) – Alan K. Lamm, University of Mount Olive
- Moderator – Jaime Martinez, University of North Carolina – Pembroke
Dial Building, Room 215
1B Industry and Entrepreneurism in New South North Carolina
- The Leder Family: Jewish Entrepreneurs in Eastern North Carolina – James Martin, Campbell University
- Textiles, Trains, Trusts: The Fries Dynasty of Winston-Salem and Continuity in Regional Venture Capital, 1836-1903 – Travis Byrd, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
- The Quest For Streetcar Unionism – Jeffery Leatherwood, University of South Carolina
- Moderator – Gael Graham – Western Carolina University
12:15 – 2:00 pm Lunch (on your own)
2:00 pm – 3:15 pm Session 2 Adolph Dial Humanities Building
Dial Building, Room 214
2A Labor and Regulation in an International Age
- Friendly Persuasion: British Colonial Regulation and the Iron Act of 1750 – Michael Kennedy, High Point College
- A Culture of Temperance and The Roots of Alcohol Regulation Under the Modern State, 1750-1850 – Bradley Kedal, Fayetteville State University
- The Work they did – Chinese Labor Migration to Latin America – from Indentured to “Free” Contract Workers – Dorothea Martin Hoffman, Appalachian State University
- Moderator – Charles Beem – University of North Carolina – Pembroke
Dial Building, Room 215
2B Topics in Early American History and Culture
- Colonial Fundamentalism: Settlement, Society and Economy in the Albemarle – Jacob T. Parks, East Carolina University
- “A politically active physician”: John Sibley and the Fayetteville Gazette, 1789-1802 – James MacDonald, Northwestern State University
- Moderator – Jeff Broadwater, Barton College
3:30 – 4:15 pm Session 3 Adolph Dial Humanities Building
Dial Building, Room 214
3A Current Issues in American & International History
- The State of the Voting Rights Act of 1865 following Shelby County v. Holder (2013) – Ngozi Caleb Kamalu, Fayetteville State University
- Africa’s Mobile Revolution: The Transformation of a Continent by Mobile Services – Fuabeh P. Fonge, North Carolina A&T State University
- Cultural Education: Enhancing Marine Training & Social Engagement Outcomes – Timothy Bagnell, Vance-Granville Community College
- Moderator – Dorothea Martin Hoffman, Appalachian State University
Dial Building, Room 215
3B Perspectives on World War II
- Heroes of the Domestic Sphere: Representations of Women and Femininity in American Anti-Fascist WWII Films, 1939-1941 – Devin Kelly, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
- E.B. Du Bois: From Japanophile to Apologist – Sidney Pash, Fayetteville State University
- The French Resistance in World War II – a Transnational Perspective – Robert Whalen, Queens University
- Moderator – Robert Brown, University of North Carolina – Pembroke
4:30 – 5:30 pm NCAH Business Meeting
Dial Building, Room 214
4:30 – 5:30 pm Tour of the Museum of Southeastern Indians
Evening Program
5:30 – 6:30 pm
Dinner
Chancellor’s Dining Room – Chavis University Center
7:00 – 8:00 pm
Lecture
Dial Building, Room 225
Queenship in Early Modern Europe
Charles Beem, University of North Carolina – Pembroke
Saturday Program, 8 April 2016
8:30 – 10:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast (Adolph Dial Humanities Building)
9:00 – 10:15 am Session 4 Adolph Dial Humanities Building
Dial Building, Room 214
4A The Individual in History
- A Defense of the Great Man Theory of History – Richard Hall, Fayetteville State University
- “If It Sounds Country, Then That is What It Is”: Kris Kristofferson, Authenticity, and Nashville’s New Breed – Alex Macaulay, Western Carolina University
- Moderator – Ryan Anderson, University of North Carolina – Pembroke
Dial Building, Room 215
4B Regional Perspectives: Separatism & War
- Captives of the Empire: Siberian Regionalism and the Siberian Separatist Affair – Anthony Johnson, University of North Carolina –Pembroke
- World War One in Southeastern American Memory – Timothy Reagin, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
- Moderator – Sidney Pash – Fayetteville State University
10:30 – 11:45 am Session 5 Adolph Dial Humanities Building
Dial Building, Room 214
5A Roundtable – Reflections on Historical Simulations in Undergraduate Classes: Reacting to the Past—Struggle for Civil Rights
- Lisa Fowler, North Carolina A & T State University
- Jacynthia Gray, North Carolina A & T State University
- Darryl Leflore, North Carolina A & T State University
- Deion Pate, North Carolina A & T State University
- Moderator – Dwana Waugh, North Carolina A & T State University
Dial Building, Room 215
5B Reform in the 19th & 20th Century
- A Sanitarium for the Lord: Oberlin and Faith Cure in the Old Western Reserve – Matthew Hintz, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
- Mary Sloop’s Miracle in the Hills: Memoir and Reform Work in the North Carolina Mountains, 1909-1953 – Natasha Thompson, Vance-Granville Community College
- Civil Rights Campus: Student Activism in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1960 – Brian Suttell, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
- A Popular and Effective Approach to the War on Poverty?: The Manpower Job Training Program in Eastern North Carolina – Karen Hawkins, Voyager Academy High School
- Moderator – James Martin, Campbell University
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Lunch
Chancellor’s Dining Room – Chavis University Center
1:00 pm
Lecture
Dial Building, Room 225
Frank Merriwell and Reconsidering the All-American Boyhood
Ryan Anderson, University of North Carolina – Pembroke
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