Midwestern Regional Conference Program

Sunday, 6 August 2000

9:30-11:30 AM

A. Buenker, Bunker, Bunkers: "All In The Family": A Conversation Spanning Oceans, Generations, and Disciplines

Presiding: Jerry Garcia, Iowa State University

John D. Buenker, University of Wisconsin-Parkside

Suzanne L. Bunkers, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Comment: The audience

B. The Past As Active Learning

Touching the Past: Using Material Culture to Promote Active Learning, Kristin Anderson-Bricker, Loras College

Connecting Students with the Past Through Active Learning, Peter Frederick, Wabash College

Comment: Dick Steffen, South Hamilton High School

C. State of the Art--History of Technology and Science

Bruce Seely, Michigan Technological University
Sally Kohlstedt, University of Minnesota
Mark Finlay, Armstrong State University

D. The Native American Experience and Public Policy

Presiding: Raymond Wilson, Fort Hays State University

"The Hinge on Which All the Affairs of the Sauk and Fox Indians Turns": Keokuk and the United States Government, Thomas Burnell Colbert, Marshalltown Community College

"The Indian Problem is Theirs to Solve": State and Local Government and Native Americans During the 1920s, Angela Firkus, Cottey College

Comment: Bert Ahern, University of Minnesota-Morris

E. Agricultural History and Public Policy: Why Bother?

Presiding: Gloria Campbell, Old Cow Town Museum

The Inside and Outside of Agricultural History: Agricultural History Programming at Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, Leo Landis, Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village

History of a Disappearing Landscape: The Conner Prairie Museum Rural History Project, Timothy R. Crumrin, Conner Prairie Pioneer Settlement

Comment: Rebecca Martin, Kansas Museum of History

F. Placing History: Space, Theme, and Audience

Presiding: Christopher Rossi, Humanities Iowa

Imagine the River: Place and Time in the Upper Mississippi Valley, Patrick Nunnally, University of Minnesota

Telling a Neighborhood's Story: Who Talks - Who Listens, Anne Ketz, The 106 Group, Inc.

Traditional Cultural Properties: Documenting Place for Public Protection and Interpretation, Beth Nodland, Institute for Minnesota Archaeology

Comment: The audience

G. Archiving the History of Midwestern Women

Presiding: Karen M. Mason, Curator, Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa.

Rural Women, Tanya Zanish-Belcher, Iowa State University and Doris Malkmus, University of Iowa

Guardianship Records: A New Source for Historical Research of Gender, Class, and Urban Studies in Cook County, 1884-1914, Anne Peschke, Independent Scholar

Comment: Patricia Michaelis, Kansas State Historical Society

Par For the Course: Designing Leisure

Presiding: James Hansen, Auburn University

Perry Maxwell's Mulligan: Designing and Constructing Veenker Golf Course, Jason Chrystal, Iowa State University

Comment: James Hansen

*A 9- or 18-hole tournament will follow the session. Cost is $33.50 for the round and a cart. Tournament participants must register on the registration form.