Northern Great Plains History Conference Program
Wednesday, 27 September 2023,
8:00 — 9:00 p.m.
“Old Folkies Never Die”: New Light on Old Songs for the Historians’ Repertoire
Off-site Location: Full Circle Book Co-op (123 West 10th St.)
Two singing historians swap folksongs while engaging in dialog as to their artistic appeal and historical import. The content of the session ranges from central Europe to the American prairies.
Moderator: Molly P. Rozum, University of South Dakota
Charlie Barber, Northeastern Illinois University
Tom Isern, North Dakota State University
Thursday, 28 September
8:30 — 10:00 a.m.
Military Actions Through the Ages (Palisade 1)
(Sponsored by the Society for Military History)
Chair & Discussant: Tony R. Mullis, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College—Redstone Arsenal
John Riggs, Independent Scholar, “Medieval Military Monastic Orders—The Buddhist Experience”
Nicholas Knuth, University of Nebraska at Kearney, “British Government in the Era of Buccaneers: 1680–1695”
Jesse Pyles, Independent Scholar, “Counterpoints to Anglocentric Narratives about the Portuguese during the Peninsular War”
Understanding the 1980s (Pallisade 3)
Chair & Discussant: Angela J. Smith, North Dakota State University
Ryan Moore, University of South Dakota, “The Evolution of the Living History Farms (LHF) from the 1960s to the 1980s”
Scott Pate, University of Nebraska at Kearney, “Spam, Solidarity, and Roving Pickets: The Hormel P-9 Strike of 1985-86 in Iowa”
William Connor, University of Wyoming, “Christianity on the 20th Century Rodeo Circuit”
Legal History (Cascade)
Chair & Discussant: Charlie Barber, Northeastern Illionois University
William Bain, Independent Scholar, “The Crow Nation in the Courts, a Sovereignty Upheld”
Charles J. Reid, Jr., University of St. Thomas, “Anti-Masonic Conspiracy Theory and President John Quincy Adams”
Thomas Tandy Lewis, Independent Historian, “The Right of Conquest and Its Demise in International Law”
Book Panel on The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800-1900 (Falls West)
Chair & Discussant: R. Douglas Hurt, Purdue University
Coreen Derifield, East Central College
Kim Gruenwald, Kent State University
Tom Isern, North Dakota State University
Leo Landis, Museum Curator/State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa
Lisa Ossian, Independent Scholar
Connie Goddard, Independent Scholar
Respondent: Jon Lauck, Middle West Review
Roundtable: Surviving and Talking about COVID-19 on the Northern Great Plains (Falls East)
Moderator & Discussant: Jeff Kolnick, Southwest Minnesota State University
Jeff Kolnick, Southwest Minnesota State University
Brie Swenson Arnold, Coe College
Elise Boxer, University of South Dakota
Anthony Dutton, Valley City State University
The Civil War Era and Historical Memory in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries (Skyline)
(Undergraduate Panel)
Chair: Stephen Hausmann, University of St. Thomas
Owen Mische, University of St. Thomas, “‘When You and I Were Young’: The Creation of Individual and Institutional Memory in the Grand Army of the Republic”
Jules Ruark, University of St. Thomas, “‘Respects Unjust to the South’: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and Lost Cause Education”
Laura Murr, University of St. Thomas, “‘Contentious Intentions’: Examining Censored Black Involvement in New Deal Memory Projects”
Comment: Jennifer McCutchen, University of St. Thomas
Thursday, 28 September
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Coal, Trees, and Beets: Montana and the Federal Government (Palisade 1)
(Sponsored by the Northern Grasslands Interest Group)
Chair and Discussant: Dale Potts, South Dakota State University
Jennifer Dunn, Montana State University, “The End of Logging: Antigovernment Anger in a Small Montana Town”
Jacey Anderson, Montana State University, “A Valley of Many Values: Resource Conflict in Montana, 1970-2016”
Micah Chang, Montana State University, “The Imperial and Vulgar Beet: Beet Sugar, Irrigation, and the State”
The American Revolution (Palisade 2)
(Undergraduate Panel)
Chair and Discussant: Mike Worcester, Morrison County Historical Society
Brandon Hamel, Hastings College, “The Pine Bandits: British Irregular Warfare during the American Revolution”
Nolan W. Reynolds, Waldorf University, “Hungry for Blood: An Analysis of the Effects of Starvation on Dissent and Violence, and the Key Role Starvation Played in Sparking the American Revolution?”
Wyatt Kohles, Hastings College, “Defining Liberty in Revolutionary America, France and Haiti”
Women and Health Inequity, Health Sovereignty, and Healing through Poetry (Palisade 3)
Chair and Discussant: Linda Vaningen, University of Nebraska at Kearney
Linda Louise Bryan, Independent Scholar, “Uncovering the Lives of Miss Phillips and Miss Craighead”
Laurel Sanders, University of North Dakota, “Native Nations and Public Health Nurses on the Northern Plains, 1922-1938”
Sneha Chakraborty, University of South Dakota, “Layli Long Soldier and the Significance of Apology in Whereas”
Environmental History I: Snakes, Tornadoes, and Energy (Cascade)
Chair and Discussant: Nate Probasco, Univeristy of South Dakota
Jeff A. Jenson, Gustavus Adolphus College, “Minnesotans and their Most Venomous Reptile, the Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus)”
Kent Sieg, Historian, U.S. Air Force 557th Weather Wing, “Out on a Limb: Air Force Meteorologists Make the First Operational Tornado Forecast”
Angus Cummings, Montana State University, "Lessons from Energy Development on Tribal Lands on the Northern Great Plains”
Civil Rights in the Middle of the Twentieth Century (Falls West)
Chair and Discussant: Jeff Kolnick, Southwest Minnesota State University
Jonathan Soucek, Purdue University, “‘It’s a Family Affair’: The Rainbow Club of the Twin Cities and Multicultural Liberalism in Postwar Minnesota”
Thomas Kahle, University of Oklahoma, “The Forgotten City: Seattle in the Termination Era”
John Pederson, Mayville State University, “An Instrument for Reform: Eugenie Anderson and the United Nations Trusteeship Council for Micronesia and Africa, 1965–1967”
Roundtable on Complicating War’s End: The American Civil War in the West (Falls East)
Moderator: Robert Welch, University of South Dakota
Jennifer Andrella, Knox College
Kurt Hackemer, University of South Dakota
John R. Legg, George Mason University
Lindsey R. Peterson, University of South Dakota
Roundtable on The 1918 Influenza in Montana: Documentary Film as Public History (Skyline)
Screening: A Different, Deadly Beast: The 1918 Influenza in Montana
Moderator: Dee Garceau, Producer/Director, Dance River Productions, LLC
Dee Garceau, University of Montana, Missoula
Lori Ann Lahlum, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Ashby Glover, Dance River Productions Films
Thursday, 28 September, 12:00 p.m.
Society for Military History Luncheon
Lunch Presentation: “Postwar U.S. Armies: Challenges and Responses”
Brian McAllister Linn is Professor of History and Ralph R. Thomas Class of 1921 Professor in Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Real Soldiering: The U.S. Army in the Aftermath of War, 1815–1980, published by University Press of Kansas in 2023.
Thursday, 28 September
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
LGBTQ Lives (Palisade 1)
Chair & Discussant: Nathan Tye, University of Nebraska at Kearney
Larry R. Peterson, North Dakota State University, “Fargo-Moorhead’s First Gay Rights Organization: From Dignity/Lutherans Concerned to Prairie Lesbian/Gay Community”
Jon Rundquist, North Dakota State University, “To Be Two-Spirit in Northern Minnesota: An Exploration of Oral Histories from Leech Lake, Red Lake, and White Earth Nations”
Jake Whitney, University of Nebraska at Kearney, “Love Hard, but Love: Leather, SM and AIDS Activism”
A City of Hustle: Considering Sioux Falls (Palisade 2)
Chair & Discussant: John Pederson, Mayville State University
Michael J. Mullin, Augustana University, “Rethinking the Narrative Structure of Sioux Falls’ Beginnings”
Margaret Preston, Augustana University, “‘Germans and Germs’: The Argus Leader Writes of South Dakota, the Great War and the Spanish Flu”
Patrick Hicks, Augustana University, "Surprising Histories: Editing City of Hustle"
Environmental History II: Wind, Land, and Timber (Palisade 3)
Chair & Discussant: Micah Chang, Montana State University
Julie Courtwright, Iowa State University, “What The Wind Can Do: Becoming a Wyomingite in the ‘Prairie Winds’”
Jonathan Hildebrand, University of Manitoba, “Re-narrating Land: Settler Commemoration and Mennonite Settlement in Manitoba”
John Henris, University of Arkansas–Monticello, “Protecting the No Flesh and Corn Creek Reserves: Timber Conservation and Conflict on the Pine Ridge Reservation, 1908–1911”
Progressive Era Problems on the Plains (Cascade)
Chair & Discussant: Connie Goddard, Independent Scholar
Bryce Tellmann, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, “A Tale of Two Mills: State-owned industries and ‘the people’ of the Dakotas”
Levi Magnuson, North Dakota State University, “Unfit: Eugenics in North Dakota”
Scott E. Randolph, University of Redlands, “Great Plains Banking during the Late pre-Federal Reserve Era: North Dakota, 1905–1912”
Wounded Knee 1973: Architecture, Spirituality, and Internationalism (Falls West)
Chair & Discussant: Karli Tokala Rouse, University of South Dakota
Angelika Joseph, Princeton University, “Wounded Knee II: An Architectural History of Nation-Building”
Jaeden Shaving, Northern State University, “‘Let Me Be a Free Man’: The Origins and Beliefs of the American Indian Movement”
Sharon H. Venne, University of Alberta, “Fifty Years of International Work”
The U.S. Military, Foreign Aid, and Policy (Falls East)
(Sponsored by the Society for Military History)
Chair & Discussant: George Eaton, U.S. Army Historian (Retired)
Michael Cunningham, Del Valle Independent School District, “U.S. Neutrality and Ethnic Cleansing, 1915–1923: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide”
Bernard Lemelin, Laval University, “An Isolationist Economist of the Cold War Era: Elgin Groseclose and U.S. Foreign Aid”
Philip Dotson, University of Nebraska at Kearney, “The Mogadishu Effect: America’s Failure Driven Foreign Policy”
Roundtable on Living Heritage Collections: From People to Paper to Programs (Skyline)
Chair and Discussant: Anne F. Hatch, Traditional Arts Consultant, South Dakota Arts Council
Anne F. Hatch, Traditional Arts Consultant, South Dakota Arts Council
Taylor Burby, Folk Arts Program Manager, Montana Arts Council
Troyd Giest, State Folklorist, North Dakota Council on the Arts
Kirstin Catherwood, Intangible Cultural Heritage Development Officer, Heritage Saskatchewan
Thursday, 28 September
3:30–5:00 p.m.
Indigenous Cultural Influence, Resistance, and Revival (Palisade 1)
Chair & Discussant: Jennifer McCutchen, University of St. Thomas
Tyler Amick, University of Nebraska at Kearney, “Ojibwe and Dakota Cultural Influence on Euro-Americans’ Ideas of Gender, Sexuality, and Intimacy during the Minnesota Fur Trade”
Dave Grettler, Northern State University, “The Tatanka Republic: Agents, Missionaries, and Self-Determination on the Early Sisseton-Wahpeton Reservation”
Steve Potts, Minnesota North College–Hibbing, “‘Recovering Our Culture’: The Sun Dance and Victory Dance Among the Standing Rock Lakota, 1936-1946”
The Crusades and the Kingdom of Jerusalem (Palisade 3)
(Sponsored by the Upper Midwest Ancient History Network)
Chair & Discussant: Graham Wrightson, South Dakota State University
Jonathan Sapp, Birmingham Southern College, “Excommunicated Knights, Oblivion and Cultural Change in the Eleventh- and Twelfth Centuries”
Austin Huwe, South Dakota State University, “The Legacy of King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem”
Roundtable: State of the History Profession in the Midwest (Cascade)
Moderator: Anita Gaul, Minnesota West Community & Technical College
Anita Gaul, Minnesota West Community & Technical College
Jameel Haque, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Ty Reese, University of North Dakota
Stephen R. Cusulos, Independent Scholar
Carly DeLeu, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Brett Neel, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Peg Preston, Augustana University
Navigating Change and Defining Communities in 20th-Century Wisconsin (Falls West)
Chair: Paisley Harris, University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh
Dan Kallgren, University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, “The Monuments and Markers Man of Marinette County”
Mike Jacobs, University of Wisconsin–Platteville, “Self-Proclaimed Reformers in Search of a Problem: A Brief History of the KKK in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin”
Steven T. Sheehan, University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh-Fox City, “‘The Heartland Folks Felt It Belonged to the Them’: The Vietnam War Moratorium Protests in Wisconsin’s Fox Cities”
Comment: Jillian Jacklin, University of Wisconsin–Green Bay
New Directions in Nebraska’s World War II History (Falls East)
Chair & Discussant: David Burrow, University of South Dakota
Amber Alexander, University of Nebraska at Kearney, “‘They Need Us as Much as We Need Them’: The Impact of Nebraska Army Airfields on Nebraska Civilians During World War II”
Nathan Tye, University of Nebraska at Kearney, “‘I send them not secrets. I am no spy’: Wartime Persecution, Perseverance, and the Creation of The Japanese Hall Museum”
Tatiana Moore, University of Nebraska at Kearney, “Welcome Home: The Social and Economic Impact of the Sioux Ordnance Depot on Sidney, Nebraska”
Women’s History in the North American West (Skyline)
(Sponsored by the Women’s History Interest Group)
Chair & Discussant: Tiffany Jasmin González, University of Kansas
Nikki Berg Burin, University of North Dakota, “Sexual Violence and Exploitation in Dakota Territory and Early North Dakota: A Quantitative Investigation”
Drew Donna Folk, Independent Historian, “From ‘Floozies’ to Farm Partners: A Further Examination of Misogyny, Gender, Autonomy, and the Prominent Role Women Played in Nebraska Sandhills Agriculture during the Great Depression, 1929-1941”
Rhonda L. Hinther, Brandon University, “Brothel Museums and the Public Histories They Tell”
Sarah Davis-Kovarik, Peru State College, “‘It’s a cry for help’: Pioneering the Fight against Domestic Violence in Nebraska”
Thursday, 28 September
3:30–5:00 p.m.
WALKING TOUR: Sioux Falls Warehouse District
Thursday, 28 September
5:30–7:30 p.m.
RECEPTION at the Old Courthouse Museum (200 W. 6th St.)
Complimentary drinks sponsored by Middle West Review
Thursday, 28 September
7:00–9:00 p.m.
SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY HUDDLE at Monk’s Ale House
(420 E. Eighth St.)
Thursday, 28 September 2023:
8:00–9:30 p.m.
SPECIAL MEMORIAL SESSION (Cascade)
“William E. Lass (1928–2023): Scholar, Teacher, and NGPHC Supporter”
Friday, 29 September
8:30–10:00 a.m.
History as Grasslands: Bioregional Approaches to the Plains (Palisade 1)
(Sponsored by the Northern Grasslands Interest Group)
Chair & Discussant: Drew Donna Folk, Independent Historian
Mark Boxell, University of Nebraska Omaha, “Inventing Ecology on the Populist Plains”
John K. Babb, Augustana University, “On the Global Hunt for Local Plants: How the USDA Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction Section Reshaped Two Disparate Grasslands”
Will Wright, Augustana University, “Monarch Highway and Milkweed Waystations: Transforming Interstate-35 from Corn Belt to Pollinator Corridor”
U.S. Civil War Reconstruction (Palisade 2)
Chair & Discussant: Steven T. Sheehan, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh-Fox City
Isabelle Craig, Coe College, “Fall from Grace: The Effect of the Lost Cause Movement on the Legacy of General James Longstreet”
David Brodnax, Trinity Christian College, “‘I went South as a soldier’: Collective Civil War Memory in Iowa’s 19th-Century Black Press”
Brie Swenson Arnold, Coe College, “Competing Visions of Reconstruction in Talladega, Alabama”
Medieval Culture and its Reception (Palisade 3)
(Sponsored by the Upper Midwest Ancient History Network / Undergraduate Panel)
Chair & Discussant: James T. Chlup, University of Manitoba
Chad Lemme, South Dakota State University, “The Fallacy of the Al-Andalusian Convivencia”
Isaac Kovash, South Dakota State University, “Peter Abelard and the Incorporation of Scholasticism into Medieval Universities”
Abby Muller, South Dakota State University, “The Failure of the Jesuits in Their Missions to Japan: The Cultural Inhibitions that Heralded Their Doom”
Minnesota History (Cascade)
Chair & Discussant: Perry Hornbacher, Bismarck State College
Mike Worcester, Morrison County Historical Society, “Last Chance Liquor ‘Til South Dakota”: County Option In Minnesota, 1915–1965”
Carly DeLeu, Minnesota State University, Mankato, “A ‘Treasonable Letter’: A German American Pastor and World War I”
Kurt E. Leichtle, University of Wisconsin–River Falls, “The Beginnings of Boys Scouts in Region 10”
Postwar Competition Across Time and Geography (Falls West)
Chair & Discussant: Sean Kalic, the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
David W. Mills, US Army’s Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, “Bread for My Enemies: Feeding Germany from Hitler to Marshall”
Christopher R. Johnson, US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, “General MacArthur and the Reconstruction of Postwar Japan”
Caleb Curfman, Northland Community and Technical College, “Chaplains of the Midwest: Religious Motivation and Multifaceted Support in the American Civil War”
Military Actions and Experiences in World War II (Falls East)
(Sponsored by the Society for Military History)
Chair & Discussant: Connie Harris, Deutsch World War II Roundtable
Olivia Perez, Southern Illinois University, “Legacies of Hate: Judeo-Bolshevism and Kaunas Pogrom”
Robert Nash, Independent Scholar, “Uncle Orville Went to War: Orville Iredale’s World War II Experience”
Gerald R. White, Independent Scholar, “Brigadier General Martinus Stenseth: The World War II Experience of a Son of Minnesota”
Perspectives on the Northern Fur Trade (Skyline)
Chair & Discussant: Leisl Carr Childers, Colorado State University
Jacob Bourboun, University of North Dakota, “‘The Whole A’rickara Nation Owes us Blood’: Violence, the Fur Trade, and the Use of Military Force Against the Arikara, 1823”
Jeremy Kingsbury, University of North Dakota, “Using the Ojibwe Language to Expand Our Understanding of the Fur Trade”
Ty M. Reese, University of North Dakota, “Getting Here: Labor, Transportation and the Northern Plains Fur Trade?”
Friday, 29 September:
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Intellectual Cultures (Palisade 1)
Chair & Discussant: Nikki Berg Burin, University of North Dakota
Timothy R. Mahoney, University of Nebraska, “Bourgeois Imperialists”: Cosmopolitanism, Globalism and the Transformation of the Gilded Age Midwest”
Dustin Malone Gann, Midland University, “Book Clubs and Self-Improvement Salons: Building Community in early 20th century Nebraska”
Connor J. Thompson, University of Alberta, “‘Honouring Our Pioneer Ancestors’: Museums in Alberta and Saskatchewan During Canada’s Centennial”
Roundtable: Emerging Scholarship on Minnesota and its Borderlands (Palisade 2)
Moderator: Blake Johnson, North Dakota State University
Renee Goerdt, St. Cloud State University
Jesse Reintjes, St. Cloud State University
Levi Magnuson, North Dakota State University
Blake Johnson, North Dakota State University
Jon Rundquist, North Dakota State University
Greece and Persia (Palisade 3)
(Sponsored by the Upper Midwest Ancient History Network)
Chair & Discussant: Clayton Lehmann, University of South Dakota
Graham Wrightson, South Dakota State University, “Polybius, Asclepiodotus, and Arrian and Small Unit Command in the Phalanx”
Jeffrey Rop, University of Minnesota, Duluth, “Gendered Politics in Achaemenid Anatolia: Queen Epyaxa of Cilicia and the Revolt of Cyrus the Younger”
Avery Sage, South Dakota State University, “Chaotic Endeavors: Gallienus’ Efforts in Saving Rome from the Crisis of the Third Century”
Railroad History (Cascade)
Chair & Discussant: Steven J. Bucklin, University of South Dakota
Scott Foens, University of Nebraska at Kearney, “Backlash: Railroads, Grange, and Birth of Iowa's Board of Railroad Commissioners”
Paul R. Spyhalski, Minnesota State University, Mankato, “Railroad Expansion Delayed: Western South Dakota as Contested Space”
Mel Prewitt, Eastern Iowa Community College District, “Clinton, Davenport, and Muscatine Electric Interurban Railroad”
Black Hills History (Falls West)
Chair & Discussant: Sabrina Escalante (University of South Dakota)
Elaine Marie Nelson, University of Kansas, “Costa Negra, Côté Noire, and the Black Hills”
Anna Van Kley, University of South Dakota, “A People’s History of the National Parks: Wind Cave National Park and Popular Conceptions of What Ought to be Preserved”
Stephen R. Hausmann, University of St. Thomas, “Wounded Knee ’73 in Context: The Black Hills and Indigenous Environmental Justice Activism in the Twentieth Century”
Military Legacies of World War I, World War II, and the Cold War
(Sponsored by the Society for Military History)
Chair & Discussant: Brian McAllister Linn, Texas A&M University
Eliana Chavkin, University of Minnesota, “Our Boys: A National Portrait of America’s World War I Memorials”
Kristine Swain, University of Alaska Fairbanks, “The Legacy of the 1943 Kiska Campaign in Cold War Alaska”
Jason C. Phillips, Peru State College, “The Day After’s Fallout on the Great Plains”
Education on the Great Plains (Skyline)
Chair & Discussant: Larry Peterson (North Dakota State University)
Nathan Tye, University of Nebraska at Kearney, “Solomon Butcher’s Schoolhouses: Reassessing Great Plains School Photography, 1880s-1910s”
Thomas Weyant, Black Hills State University, “Prairie Protest: South Dakota Students and the Sixties”
Elizabeth Cisar, Augustana University, “Viking Days at Augustana University: Like Always, Like Never Before”
Friday, 29 September, 12:p.m.
Women’s History Interest Group Luncheon
Friday, 29 September
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Book Panel on After Populism: William Pratt’s Landmark Work about Radical Politics on the Northern Plains (Palisade 1)
Moderator: Tom Isern, North Dakota State University
Michael Lansing, Augsburg University
Jeff Kolnick, Southwest Minnesota State University
James Naylor, Brandon University
Respondent: William Pratt, University of Nebraska Omaha
Respecting Native American Identities and Cultures (Palisade 2)
(Undergraduate Panel)
Chair & Discussant: Michael J. Mullin, Augustana University
Aubrey North, Alma College, “NAGPRA & Identity: How Native American Identity is Reaffirmed Through Repatriation and Collaboration”
Gavin Gerald Zempel, University of Minnesota, Morris, “Dakota Perspectives of Boarding School Through a Familial and Tribal Perspective”
Jennifer Gebhardt, Mayville State University, “A Grave Situation: The Contested Possession of Indigenous Remains and the Fight for Repatriation in North Dakota”
Rome (Palisade 3)
(Sponsored by the Upper Midwest Ancient History Network)
Chair & Discussant: Rosemary Moore (University of Iowa)
Noah Segal, University of Minnesota, “The decem stipendia: a Prosopographical Convenience and its Continuing Influence”
James T. Chlup, University of Manitoba, “M. Licinius Crassus the Historian”
Ryan Peldo, South Dakota State University, “The True Threat of Slave Revolts to Rome”
Militaries in the Era of the First World War (Falls West)
(Sponsored by the Society for Military History)
Chair & Discussant: Jonathan Epstein, City University of New York
Pedro Panera Martínez, Instituto Universitario GEN. Gutiérrez Mellado, “Informing from Lisbon: ‘The Portuguese Threat’ Through the Reports of the Spanish Military Attaché’s Office in Portugal (1899–1921)”
George Eaton, U.S. Army Historian (Retired), “The Cavalry Equipment Board of 1912: Improvements for a Dark Future”
Johannes Allert, Swansea University, “Faith, Advocacy, and Service: A Snapshot of Ramsey County’s Welfare Workers in the Great War”
Art and History (Falls East)
Chair & Discussant: Selika Ducksworth-Lawton, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Abigail Bernhardt, University of Wisconsin–LaCrosse, “The Writing on the Wall: Memory and Place in the Murals of Northern Ireland”
Jennifer Tiernan, Minnesota State University, Mankato, “Personal History Out in the Open: Combat Snapshots and the Vietnam Memorial Wall”
James Bland, University of Oklahoma, “A Story on Two Wheels: Bikers and Ledger Art on the Borderlands of Experience”
Paternalism and Power in Colonial North and South America (Skyline)
Chair & Comment: Will Wright, Augustana University
Cory Conover, Augustana University, “Raised Catholic: Priests and their Children in Colonial Bolivia”
Chad McCutchen, Minnesota State University, Mankato, “The Sons and Daughters of Conquest: Mestizaje and Illegitimacy in Early Colonial Peru”
Jennifer McCutchen, University of St. Thomas, “An Environmental Study of the Gunpowder Trade in the Eighteenth-Century Native South”
Friday, 29 September 2023:
3:30–5:00 p.m.
Lakota Land: Loss, Identity, Memory, and Sovereignty (Palisade 1)
Chair & Discussant: Michael Childers, Colorado State University
Thayme Watson, University of Oklahoma, “Land Runs, Lotteries, and Land Lost: The Logic of Elimination of Native Lands in the Dakotas at the Time of Statehood”
Blake Johnson, North Dakota State University, “Reconstructing the Ecological Cosmos: Crisis, Cultural Adaptation, and the Ghost Dance Movement 1870-1890”
Esther Liu, University of Minnesota, “Oceti Sakowin Horse Culture and Memorial Rides across the Northern Great Plains”
Early Twentieth-Century Minnesota Women’s History (Palisade 2)
(Sponsored by the Women’s History Interest Group)
Chair & Discussant: Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, Montana State University
Laura Weber, Independent Historian, “Who Was Ruby Danenbaum? (And why should we care?)”
Lori Ann Lahlum, Minnesota State University, Mankato, “Indigenous Women, Alien Men, Marriage, and Citizenship in World War I Era Minnesota”
Brianna Rose DeValk, University of Nebraska, “‘I was an American citizen’: Expatriation of Norwegian American Women in the Red River Valley”
Representations of Women and Gender (Palisade 3)
(Sponsored by the Upper Midwest Ancient History Network)
Chair & Discussant: Kaia Prose, University of South Dakota
Clayton Lehman, University of South Dakota, “Euripides as a Feminist Icon: Euripides’s Trojan Woman in Class and Gender”
Zac Chase, South Dakota State University, “Greek Women as Monsters in the Odyssey”
Kayla Borchers, South Dakota State University, “A Dangerous Woman: The Integral, Complicated Narrative and Impact of Ancient Roman Sex Workers”
The U.S. Military and Militarization in the West (Cascade)
(Sponsored by the Society for Military History)
Chair/Discussant: Jerry Martin, Independent Scholar
Damon Penner, Kansas State University, “Peace in Alta California: Brig. Gen. Stephen Kearney’s Military Government Policies in California, 1847”
Tony R. Mullis, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College—Redstone Arsenal, “Settler Colonialism and Bleeding Kansas: The U.S. Army’s Role—Enabler or Restraining Influence?”
Donald Keifert, University of South Dakota, “The Community of Igloo and the Black Hills Ordnance Depot”
Reflections on the 10-Year Anniversary of the Midwestern History Association (Skyline)
Chair & Discussant: Jeff Wells, Dickinson State University
Doug Hurt, Purdue University
Brie Swenson Arnold, Coe College
Kurt Leichtle, University of Wisconsin River Falls
Dave McMahon, Kirkwood College
Kurt Hackemer, University of South Dakota
Jon Lauck, Middle West Review
Friday, 29 September: 3:00 – 6:00 p.m.
TOUR: Good Earth State Par
Friday, 29 September
6:00 p.m. RECEPTION (Cash Bar)
7:00 p.m. BANQUET
Falls West
Banquet Presentation: Kent Blansett, University of Kansas
“‘Bleeding Always Stops, If You Press On It Hard Enough’:
A Political History of the 1973 Wounded Knee Occupation”
Saturday, 30 September 2023:
8:30 –10:00 a.m.
Mino Bimaadiziwin, or Living Together in a Good Way: Historic and Academic Considerations (Palisade 1)
Chair & Discussant: Elise Boxer, University of South Dakota
Matthew Beil (Citizen Nation Potawatomi), University of Kansas, “Zisbakwet Zibiwes Dbaknegé Snkodé (Sugar Creek Council Fire)”
Abigail Scott, University of Kansas, “Motherly Intentions: Potawatomi Cultural Integrity and the Virgin Mary”
Patricia Harms, Brandon University and Serena Petrella, Brandon University, “Living out our Treaty Obligations through Academic Research”
Teaching Hard Indigenous History: Social Studies Standards and Teacher Preparation (Palisade 2)
Chair: Kellian Clink, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Kellian Clink, Minnesota State University, Mankato, “Students, Social Studies, and Native History”
Colin Hanke, Minnesota State University, Mankato, “Wisconsin Social Studies Standards, Act 31, and the Examination of Teacher Preparation Focusing on Native Americans”
Early U.S. History (Palisade 3)
Chair & Discussant: Sara Lampert, University of South Dakota
Jennalyn W. MacKay, University of Nebraska at Kearney, “Freedom from Smallpox: Was Inoculation Worth the Risk to 18th Century American Mothers?”
Anna Henderson, Northern Illinois University, “‘Lively and Resolute at Anything He Undertakes’: Mobility, Agency and Self-Liberation among Elderly Enslaved People in Antebellum North Carolina”
Eric Burin, University of North Dakota, “The Elizabeth: Before the Liberian Mayflower Embarked”
Music, Performance, and Cultural History (Cascade)
Chair & Discussant: Timothy Mahoney, University of Nebraska
Janet Meyer, University of South Dakota, "Adaptable Entrepreneur and Purveyor of Entertainment: Oliver Helm and the Grand Opera House in Huron D. T."
Scott Muntefering, Wartburg College, “‘Make it Snappy’: John Philip Sousa Band’s “Third-of-a-Century Tour” Through South Dakota – November 1925”
Paisley Harris, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, “‘Sure Got to Prove It On Me’: Ma Rainey’s Negotiation of the Politics of Respectability”
The Military Experience in the U.S. Civil War (Falls East)
(Sponsored by the Society for Military History)
Chair: Joseph Fitzharris, University of St. Thomas
Ronald Piccirilli, Park University, “The Effects of the Union Naval Blockade”
Christopher Slocombe, Creighton University, “Weather, Soil, and Geology at the Siege of Corinth, Mississippi”
Terrence J. Lindell, Wartburg College, “With the 1863 Sully Expedition: Letters of Siegmund Rothhammer, Sixth Iowa Cavalry”
Comment: Connie Harris, Deutsch World War II Roundtable
Women and Politics (Skyline)
(Sponsored by the Women’s History Interest Group)
Chair & Discussant: Rhonda L. Hinther, Brandon University
Jennifer Helton, Ohlone College, “Wyoming Women In Washington: The First Suffrage State and the Nineteenth Amendment”
Gerard Boychuk, University of Waterloo, “Female Suffrage and the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota, 1915-1917”
Linda Van Ingen, University of Nebraska at Kearney, “The Impact of Nebraska’s Shift from a Bicameral to a Unicameral Legislature on Women’s Early Political Representation”
Saturday, 30 September
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
-Plenary Panel-
“A Movement of families”:
The Legacy of Wounded Knee, 1973 and an Oral History of the American Indian Movement.
Falls West
This panel features the oral histories and perspectives of three esteemed Native elders, AIM activists, and Wounded Knee veterans:
Dorothy Ninham
Madonna Thunder Hawk
William Means
Moderated by Nick Estes, University of Minnestora