Friday, 4 August 2000

8:30 -9:45 AM
Continental Breakfast
(tickets reqired; price included with registration)

Welcome to Iowa State University

President Martin Jischke

Keynote Address: What Kids CAN Do: The National History Day Perspective on "I Just Hate History"

Laura Simmons Bullion, National History Day - Missouri

Crystal Johnson Bailey, National History Day - Iowa

Ronald C. Naugle, National History Day - Nebraska

A student presentation will be included.

10:00 AM-12:00 PM

A. Interpreting and Teaching Military History

Presiding: James T. Stensvaag, U.S. Army

Michael Vogt, Iowa Gold Star Museum

Bill Johnson, State Historical Society of Iowa

Chris Rolwes, Marshalltown High School

Comment: John Votaw, Cantigny First Division Museum

B. State of the Art--Political History

Richard Jensen, University of Illinois at Chicago
Mark Summers, University of Kentucky
Allan Lichtman, American University

C. State of the Art--Women's History vs. Gender History

Lee Ann Whites, University of Missouri
Catherine Kelly, University of Oklahoma

D. Whither the Heartland: The Idea and Reality of Midwestern Regional Identity

Presiding: Susan Gray, Arizona State University

You Can Go Home Again--Or, Can You? Small Town Midwesterners Return to their Roots, John E. Miller, South Dakota State University

Is Minnesota in the Midwest Yet?: Contemplating the Middle from its Edges, Elizabeth C. Raymond, University of Nevada, Reno

The Apex of Midwestern Culture?: Recent Historiography and Reinterpretations of the Midwest, Kenneth Wheeler, Reinhardt College

Comment: Susan Gray

E. The African American Experience: The Twentieth Century

African American Migration and Family Strategies in Gary, Indiana, 1906-1925, Nelson Ouellet, Université de Moncton

FDR, the New Deal, and the African Americans: Optimism for an Improved Socioeconomic Future, Judith Gordon-Omelka, Wichita State University

We were the Ones That Picked the Fights": Action and Civil Rights Militarism in St. Louis, Missouri, 1964-82, Clarence Lang, University of Illinois

Comment: Valerie Grim, Indiana University

F. From the Old World to the New: Reaction, Transplantation or Transformation

Presiding: Christine Daniels, Michigan State University

Dangerous Food: Old World Reactions to New World Vegetables in Early Modern Europe, Anne Hawkins, University of Kansas

The Counter Enlightenment in French Colonial Louisiana, Margaret Hawthorne, University of Kansas

"Richest and Best / Is the Wine of the West": The Ohio River Valley as Jewish Frontier, Amy Hill Shevitz, California State University, Northridge

Comment: Christine Daniels

G. America in the 1950s: Critiques of the "Golden Age"

Presiding: Carol Weisenberger, University of Northern Iowa

Cold War in Latin America? A Reconsideration of the Eisenhower Administration's Inter-American Policies, 1953-1959. Matthew H. Loayza, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Samuel Ordway and the Limits of Growth, Fred Nielsen, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Comment: Ellen Nore, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville

A. Teaching History with the Soul of the New Machine

Presiding: Clair Keller, Iowa State University

Establishing a New Tradition: Introducing ComputerTechnology into the Old History Seminar, Andrew Kersten, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

Using Digital Video Technology to Teach Critical Thinking About History, Russell Olwell, Eastern Michigan University

Comment: Clair Keller

B. Designing the Future: Curriculum and History

Presiding: H. Shelton Stromquist, University of Iowa

Internationalizing U. S. History in the Classroom, Judith Ann Trolander, University of Minnesota, Duluth

Using the Past to Remake the Present: Historians and Curriculum Revision, Bethany Andreasen, Minot State University

Comment: Michael Zahs, Ainsworth, Iowa; Thom Determan, Dubuque High School

C. State of the Art: Biography

R. David Edmunds, University of Texas-Dallas

D. Reexamining The Fringe: The Politics of Alternative Medicine and the Anti-Abortion Movement

Presiding: Glen Jeansonne, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Conspiracy, Quackery, and Anti-Communism: The Bond Between Alternative Medicine and the Far Right, Eric Juhnke, University of Kansas

Reclaiming Our Past: Feminists for Life and the Progressive Anti-Abortion Movement, Richard Hughes, University of Kansas

Comment: Glen Jeansonne

E. The New Women in the Midwest

From New Womanhood to Companionate Marriage in Progressive Era Ohio: The Case of Francis Cochran MacDaniels, Douglas Slaybaugh, St. Michael's College

Moving Forward: Midwestern Women and the Modern Women's Movement, Marie Laberge, University of Delaware

Comment: Stephanie Carpenter, Murray State University

F. Visualizing the Past: Form, Rhetoric, Memory, and Permanence

Presiding: Bryan Le Beau, Creighton University

From Theory to Practice: How to Use Film Effectively in the College History Classroom, Jackie Stroud, Winona State University

Between Buildings & Words: Architects, Historians, and Authenticity, Caleb Christopher, Art Institute of Chicago

Comment: Kenneth Cox, Hawkeye Community College

G. Agriculture and Republicans: From McNary-Haugen to Eisenhower

Presiding: Anne Effland, U.S.D.A.

McNary-Haugenism and the Construction of a Republican Farm Policy, Karen Miller, Oakland University

The Soil Bank: Eisenhower's "Middle Way'"for Agriculture, Steven Wagner, Missouri Southern State University

Comment: David Hamilton, University of Kentucky

3:30-5:00 PM

A. History, Science, and Modeling: Two Approaches

Presiding: Philip D. Jordan, Hastings College

Molecular Physics, Industrial Relations, and History: An Interdisciplinary approach to Understanding Early American Work, David Riggs, University of Wisconsin-River Falls

Complex Adoptive System in History, Christopher Newman and Vassilios Damiras, Elgin Community College

Comment: Alan I. Goldman, Iowa State University; Philip D. Jordan

B. State of the Art--History of Popular Culture

Jim Gilbert, University of Maryland

David Katzman, University of Kansas

C. State of the Art--Rural History

David Vaught, Texas A& M University

C. Fred Williams, University of Arkansas

D. If You Plant It, They Will Come: Grassroots Politics, Midwestern Style

Presiding: George McJimsey, Iowa State University

Rethinking the Destruction of the Kansas City Pendergast Machine, Jon E. Taylor, University of Missouri

Still the Iowa Idea: The Resurgence of the Iowa Socialist Party, 1978-1988, Matt Schaefer and Duncan Stewart, State Historical Society of Iowa

Comment: John Braeman, Nebraska

E. Racial Violence

Presiding: Pamela Smoot, Southern Illinois University

The Assault on the "Northerner": An Episode of Rivalry between Blacks and the Irish of St. Paul, 1863, William Green, Augsburg Collegex

Chaos Between Colors: Causes of the 1921 Tulsa Riot, Daniel Cassell, Southern Illinois University

Comment: Herbert Shapiro, University of Cincinnati

F. Taking the Past From Under Glass: Museums and the Construction of History

Presiding: Doug Hurt, Iowa State University

The Public Memory of Industrialization at Museums of Industry in Detroit and Chicago, Russell Jones, Case Western Reserve University

Zay Wright's Bedroom: Using History in Hands-on Exhibits, Trevor Jones, Early American Museum

Comment: Patricia Mooney-Melvin, Loyola University of Chicago

8:30-10:00 PM
Multimedia Event

Hollywood's Midwest: Themes and Trends in Motion Pictures, hosted by Alan I. Marcus, Iowa State University