SCHEDULE

2020 NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS HISTORY CONFERENCE

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

 

All sessions are 90 minutes in length. 

Only a few sessions occur “live” or “synchronous” within that period. 

A few sessions were previously recorded, and that recording is posted. 

The majority of sessions are a mixture of posted presentations in file form (Word, pdf, Ppt etc.), posted recordings of presentations, and occasionally, a “synchronous live” presentation  - that is along side posted presentations.  

People can pose questions in all of these.  The time the audience will have will range from the usual conference 20 minute slot to nearly all the time when all the presentations are in file form.  

 More information, including instructions on accessing the Conference, will be forwarded to registered participants.


Track A     Session  I     9:00am to 11:30am

American History I: Indigenous Americans

Chair: Andrew Sturtevant, UW-Eau Claire

  • Grace Tomassi, “Root of the Tree: Ojibwe Tribal Sovereignty amidst National Strife, 1864”

  • Claire Thomson, “‘To hell with this, I’m going back to Wood Mountain’: Second Generation Wood Mountain Lakota Connections in Lakȟóta Tȟamákȟočhe (Lakota Country) in the U.S.-Canada Borderlands, 1900-1930”

  • Kevin Mason, Forces of Nature:  Inkpaduta, the Environment, and Autonomy, 1840-1857

 

Track A     Session  II     1:00 pm to 2:30pm

American History 2: Lessons for today

Chair: Robert Zeidel, UW-Stout

  • Jonathan Banse, “The Impacts and coverage of the Spanish Flu on Rural Communities: The Social Impacts of the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 on Clayton County Iowa”

  • Drake Burke, “#NoJusticeNoPeace:    A Collection of Minnesota Histories on the 2020 Protest Movement”

  • Thomas Kahle, “The Occupation of Alcatraz Island”

 

Track A     Session III     3:00pm to 4:30pm

American History 3: Assimilation

Chair: JoAnne Janke-Wegner, US-Eau Claire

  • Bob Zeidel, “Exigencies of War and the Threat to Civil Liberties:  The Americanization of Immigrants as an Egregious Case”

  • Tracie Grube-Gaurkee, “The Americanization of German Wisconsin: How Women Led the Americanization Effort in World War I”

  • Kaitlyn Weldon, “Activist, Victim, or Savior? The Many Roles of Caroline Weldon”

 

Track B     Session  I     9:00am  to 11:30am

American History 4: Rural history

  • Charles Barber, Charles, “Returning the Musical Favor in the Waning Years of the Cold War: The German-American Singers of Chicago in Germany, June 28-July 11, 1983”

  • Scott MacKenzie, “‘The Smoke of its Torment”: How West Virginia became a Free State 1850-1872”

 

Track B     Session  II      1:00 pm to 2:30pm

American History 6:  African Americans

  • Kellian Clink, “Rondo Days”

  • Mary Elise Antoine, “Enslaved Africans in the Upper Mississippi”

  • Dustin Gann, “Advancing the Cause: Municipal Activism and African American Publishing in Early 20th-Century Omaha”

 

Track B     Session III     3:00pm to 4:30pm

Society for Military History:  War and Population

  • Robert Gough, “Framers Miscounting the Populace”

  • Gabiela Abreu, “Chocalheiro” and “Deformed Transparent”: A Comparison of Indigenous and Technological Images”

  • Maxwell Harrison,”‘The Plight of the ‘Official Toilet Inspectors’: Rural School Reform and Public Health, 1890-1930”

  • Sarah Zacher, “A Peaceful State Heads Into Battle:  North Dakota During the World Wars.”

 

Track  C     Session I       9:00am  to 11:30am

Society for Military History: Global History

  • Anotida Chikumbu, “African Ex-Servicemen, Revolutionary Nationalism, Colonial Zimbabwe, 1945-1979”

  • Christian D. McCall, “The Third Crucial City and the Pacific War Air Raids: Nagoya’s 20th Century Revival”

  • Jonathan Hedeen, “The Institutional Perspective of Unilateral Action and the Modern American Presidency”

 

Track  C     Session II     1:00 pm to 2:30pm

Society for Military History: The Second World War  

  • Gregory Falcon, “Having a Hull of a Time: Rethinking Service and Heroism across the Pacific, Rethinking Heroism”

  • Hal Friedman, “Perpetual Problems in Paradise:  The Army-Navy Fight over Barbers Point”

  • David Bath, “Captive Samurai: Japanese Rebellion in American POW Camps.”

 

Track  C Session III 3:00pm to 4:30pm

Society for Military History:  Race and Gender and World War II

Chair: Christopher Rein, Air University Press

  • Benjamin Nestor, Marquette University, “A Case of Ideology or Retroactive Myth-Making? The Judeo-Bolshevik Synthesis in Holocaust Perpetrator Testimony”

  • Nina Kostic, University of Rhode Island, “German Soldiers and Female Combatants on the Ostfront”

  • Billy Croslow, Kansas State University, “From Pearl Harbor to POM: Re-Characterizing Nisei Military Service” 

 

Track D     Session I     9:00am to 11:30am 

Women’s History Interest Group:  South Dakota Suffrage and Suffragists
Chair: Kristin Mapel Bloomberg, Hamline University

  • Kelly Kirk, Black Hills State University, “A Campaign of Her Own”

  • Elizabeth J. Almlie, South Dakota State Historical Society, “At the Pivot Point: Lydia B. Johnson and South Dakota’s 1910 Votes for Women Campaign”

  • Ruth Page Jones, Independent Scholar, “Mamie Shields Pyle and the South Dakota Universal Franchise League”

 

Track D     Session II     1:00pm to 2:30pm

Women’s History Interest Group Roundtable: Reflections on Woman Suffrage on the 100th Anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment: The Midwest

Moderator: Lori Lahlum

  • Kristin Mapel Bloomberg, Hamline University 

  • Sara Egge, Centre College

  • Misti Nicole Harper, Gustavus Adolphus College

  • Kate Roberts, Minnesota Historical Society 

 

Track D     Session III     3:00pm to 4:30pm

Women’s History Interest Group Roundtable: Reflections on Woman Suffrage on the 100th Anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment: The Northern Great Plains

Moderator: Lori Lahlum

  • Dee Garceau, University of Montana, Missoula and Documentary Filmmaker

  • Jennifer Helton, Ohlone College

  • Kelly  Kirk, Black Hills State University

  • Ruth Page Jones, Independent Historian

  • Molly Rozum, University of South Dakota


Track E 3:00pm to 4:30pm

Historical Perspectives on the Modern Middle East

 Chair: Jameel Haque, Minnesota State University, Mankato

  • Shelby Hart, Minnesota State University, Mankato, “Correcting ‘Problems in the Historiography of Women’: Gender, Orientalism, and the “New Woman” of Turn-of-the-Twentieth Century Egypt”

  • Jacob Fager, Minnesota State University, Mankato, “‘There was and There was not’: A Historiography of the Armenian Genocide”

  • Sarah Fischer, Minnesota State University, Mankato, “Medicine in the Ottoman Empire”

  • Jesse Brown, Minnesota State University, Mankato, “Kurdistan’s Fight for Freedom”