2019 program will be posted by late February 2019.
Friday, March 2, 2018
North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching
Cullowee, North Carolina
8:00 – 9:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:30 – 9:45 am Opening Remarks
Hilary Green, President of the North Carolina Association of Historians, University of Alabama
10:00 am – 11:30 am Session 1
Session 1A, Room 130: Topics in North Carolina History
“Escaped from Dixie:” North Carolina’s Unionist Refugees and Social Networking during the Civil War – Stefanie Greenhill, University of Kentucky
“Help Bring Charlotte to God”: The New South and Sam Jones’ 1890 Campaign in Charlotte and Wilmington – Anderson Rouse, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Beyond Modernizers and Traditionalists: Reconsidering Paul Luebke’s Dichotomy of Tar Heel Politics – William Goldsmith, Duke University
Moderator – James Martin, Campbell University
Session 1B, Room 131: Forms of Protest from the Colonial to the Modern Era
From Dragging Canoe to the Declaration – The Greater Impact of the Dragging Canoe Rebellion – Michael Morris, College of Coastal Georgia
The Sound of Resistance: The Women’s Movement in 20th and 21st Century Atlanta – Emily Hunt, Georgia State University
“Continue the Spirit of the Festival” The International Feminist Art Movement in the Decade for Women and Beyond – Megan Neary, Georgia State University
Moderator – Hilary Green, University of Alabama
11:45 – 1:00 pm Lunch (on own)
1:15 pm – 2:30 pm Session 2
Session 2A, Room 130: Roundtable–Epidemics and War: The Impact of Disease on Major Conflicts in History
Christopher Davis, University of North Carolina–Greensboro
Hilary Green, University of Alabama
Angela Thompson, East Carolina University
Beccie Seaman, Olympic College
Moderator – Beccie Seaman, Olympic College
Session 2B, Room 131: The Greater World – Aspects of Globalization and Conflict
The Silk Roads and the West African Gold Trade – Teaching and Understanding Globalization Trans-Historically – Brian Goldsmith, Lenoir-Rhyne University
Crying Nights: Identification of PTSD in a First Generation African Slave – Joel Cook, East Carolina University
The 1905 Revolution in Tomsk: The Siberian Dimensions of Revolution – Anthony Johnson, University of North Carolina-Pembroke
Moderator – Gael Graham, Western Carolina
2:45 pm – 4:00 pm Session 3
Session 3A, Room 130: American Communities in North Carolina and the Nation
The Columbus County Jewish Community – James Martin, Campbell University
The History of Latinx Students at Duke University – Elizabeth Barahona, Duke University
“Minority Doesn’t Mean Just Black”: The “Hispanic Vote” and the Economics of Identity in the Carter Years – Benjamin Francis-Fallon, Western Carolina University
Moderator – Angela Thompson, East Carolina University
Session 3B, Room 131: Industry, Labor, Trade
Cutting to the Chase: The Importance of Free Persons of Color, Slaves and Convicts in Support of the Colonial Iron Industry – Michael Kennedy, High Point University
Eden’s Water: Environmental and Economic Decline in North Carolina – Robert Ferguson, Western Carolina University
One Belt, One Road …The Silk Road Reinvented. – Dorothea A. L. Hoffman, Appalachian State University
Moderator – Jeff Broadwater, Barton University
4:00 – 4:45 pm Session 4
Session 4A, Room 130: The Usage of Technology in Applied History
Mapping the Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor: An Integration of Faculty-Student Research with Applied GIS for Digital Public History – Barry Robinson, Queens University
Using Digital Technologies to Model and Manage Historical Landscapes: GIS-Based Approaches to Documenting the Unicoy Turnpike Corridor, Trail of Tears National Historic Trail – Rebecca Dobbs, Brett Riggs, Paige Tester, Western Carolina University
Moderator – Geoff Harris, Wake Technical Community College
5:00-5:45 pm NCAH Business Meeting
Western Carolina University – McKee Building, Room 209
6:00 pm Dinner at Mad Batters, Sylva, North Carolina
Special Thanks to The North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching
For conference information, please contact:
Dr. James Martin
Dept. of History, Criminal Justice, and Political Science
Campbell University
Buies Creek, NC 27506
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