Friday, 26 March 2021
Virtually hosted by Elizabeth City State University
9:30 – 9:45 am Welcome and Opening Remarks
Michael Kennedy, High Point University
North Carolina Association of Historians President
Farrah J. Ward, Elizabeth City State University
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
10:00 am – 11:15 am Session 1
Session 1A (Moore): Black Freedom Struggles
The Curious Life of Princess Quango Hennadonah Perceriah: Creating an Emancipated Identity
Adrienne Berney, NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
Harriet Jacobs as Heroine and Mother
Tamara Hill, Fort Valley State University
Built by William: Slavery and the University of Alabama
Hilary Green, University of Alabama
Moderator: Latif A. Tarik, Elizabeth City State University
Session 1B (Bias): Roundtable: Fighting for Control of Coastal Carolina, 1861-65
Andrew Duppstadt, North Carolina Division of State Historic Sites (chair)
Jaime Martinez, University of North Carolina, Pembroke (moderator)
Derrick Brown, Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site
Chris Meekins, Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
11:30 am – 12:45 pm Session 2
Session 2A (Moore): Politics, Power, and Culture
Student Panel
Fashion and Symbolism in Portraiture of Queen Elizabeth I
Anne Baldwin, High Point University
Margaret Thatcher’s Visit to Yugoslavia and Macedonia in September 1980 and Its Implications on Political Issues of the Time
Luka Pavikjevikj
Eugenics Movement in the United States
Alyssa Bennett, High Point University
Moderator: Jarvis Hargrove, East Carolina University
Session 2B (Bias): African-American Schools
The Negative Impact of Sharecropping on Schooling for African Americans in Edgecombe County, North Carolina: 1965-1970
Kelvin Spragley, North Carolina Wesleyan College
Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: Charismatic Advocacy, Educational Activism, and Community Building in Desegregation-Era Charlotte, 1969-1996
Sonya Ramsey, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Moderator: Hilary N. Green, University of Alabama
12:45 – 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm – 3:15 pm Session 3
Session 3A (Moore): Politics and Competition in North Carolina
“A Commanding Position for”: Competition for Wireless Stations on the North Carolina Coast, 1901-1919
Thomas Jepsen
The Kitchin Dynasty: Power and Politics in North Carolina
TImothy Reagin, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Building Better Beans and Better Genes: Better Baby Contests at the North Carolina State Fair
Jessica Brabble, Virginia Tech
Moderator: Melinda Pash, Fayetteville Technical Community College
Session 3B (Bias): War and Memory
Not Quite a War Story: Lou Glist in India and China, 1945-1946
Gael Graham, Western Carolina University
War Monuments, Prussian Sculpture, and the Iconography of Moses Ezekiel’s Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery
Robert Brown, University of North Carolina, Pembroke
The Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina, and the Memory of Confederate Victory
Eric Medlin, Wake Technical Community College
Moderator: Dorothea Hoffman, Appalachian State University
3:30 pm – 4:45 pm Session 4
Session 4A (Moore): Global Connections and Movements
Carolina Sunset, Cuban Sunrise
Eric Walls, East Carolina University
Slavery By Another Name: Chinese Indentured Labor in Latin America and the Caribbean
Dorothea Hoffman, Appalachian State University
The Orlando Plan: Saving Volos, Greece
Lisa Camichos, Hickory High School
Moderator: Jingbin Wang, Elizabeth City State University
Session 4B (Bias): Religion and Culture from Cape Fear to Calcutta
Havell’s Defending of Indian Art and Culture
Nicholas Brothers, Western Carolina University
News Photographs that Weren’t: The Early News Photography of Ben Dixon MacNeill
Stephen Fletcher, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Speaking in Tongues: The 1911-1912 Glossolalia Controversy in the N.C. Cape Fear Conference of Original Free Will Baptists
Alan Lamm, University of Mount Olive
Moderator: Charles V. Reed, Elizabeth City State University
5:00-5:45 pm NCAH Business Meeting (Moore)
6:00-7:00 pm Keynote Address (Moore)
Dr. Melissa N. Stuckey, Elizabeth City State University
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