History, Department of
Date of this Version
April 2007
Abstract
Program:
Water, Economic Development, and Federal Policy in the American Midwest
Chair: Dr. Kurt Kinbacher, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1. Constructing Regionalism through Improvement: The Des Moines River Lands Grant and Improvement Project—Rick Woten, Iowa State University
2. Historians as Divorce Lawyers: The Pick Sloan Plan and a Failure of Regionalism—David Nesheim, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
3. Pumping the Well Dry: Irrigation on the Great Plains—Lisa Schuelke, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Comment: Dr. David Wishart, University of Nebraska Lincoln
Race and Regionalism
Chair: Chris Rasmussen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1. Harlem Riots and the White Press’ use of the Brute Negro, the Contested Slave, and the Wretched Freeman—Heather Akin, Purdue University
2. The Morality of Interracial Marriage in the United States in the 1960s—Billie Marsala, Drury University
Comment: Dr. Ann Tschetter, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Iconography and Literature in Regional Identity
Chair: Shannon Meyer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1. Riding Well and Shooting Straight: The Ideal Southern Man in Literature— Catherine Biba, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2. Romanticizing the Past: Indigenous Myth and the Shaping of Historical Memory in Oaxaca—Zahra Moss, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
3. The Journey of Bright Eyes: How an Omaha Woman’s Regional Understanding Inspired FederalIndian Policy Reform—Sam Herley, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Comment: Dr. Margaret Jacobs, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Dissent and Popular Culture on the Great Plains
Chair: Joann Ross, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1. From the Bottom Up: The Fair Housing Movement in Omaha, 1940-1970— Brenda K. Clark, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2. Dissent, Disruption, and a Four-Man Band: A Brief History of Antiwar Protest at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln—Carrie Shipers, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
3. The Hit Record and Great Plains Radio Innovators: The Top 40 Radio Format—Chris Rasmussen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Comment: Dr. Ken Winkle, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Empire, Borderlands, and Conquest
Chair: Leslie Working, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1. Declaring the Boundary: Federal Customs Regulations in the Northwest Territory and the Formation of the Anglo-American Border—Lawrence Hatter, University of Virginia
2. Negotiated Spaces In Between Cultures: Captivity and Assimilation in Early North American Borderlands—Peter K. Johnson, University of Central Missouri
3. Gumbo Flats and Slim Buttes: Visualizing the ‘West River’ Region in Western South Dakota—Nathan Sanderson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Comment: Dr. Andrew Graybill, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“Nationalism, Federalism, and State Formation” — Peter Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor, University of Virginia
Imagined Places and the Politics of National Identity
Chair: Tonia Compton, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1. Justifying Autonomy Through Regional Distinction: Identity Construction and Rhetorical Fallacy in Separatist Transnistria and the Republic of Moldova—Brenden Rensink, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2. The Einwohnerwehr and Bavarian State Politics, 1918-1923—Roy Koepp, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
3. Imagining a Fractured Self: German-American Nazis and the Meaning of American Homeland—Edward Price, University College London
4. Through a Lens Darkly: Constructing French National Identity in the Shadows of Vichy and Setíf—Shayla Swift, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Comment: Dr. Edward Homze, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Populating the Plains: Immigrants, Children, and the State
Chair: Rob Voss, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1. Recruiting Citizens: The Iowa Board of Immigration in 1870—Robert Welch, Iowa State University
2. South Dakota War Brides—Anna Claire Amundson, Augustana College
3. Grandmothers Secured the Future of the Immigrant Family—Kim McVey, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
4. Childbirth in Rural Communities of the Great Plains: 1850-1920—Katie Haselwood, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Comment: Dr. William Thomas III, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Plenary Session
“Getting Your Paper to the People: Regionalism and Publication”
Panelists: Dr. Timothy Mahoney, Director of the Plains Humanities Alliance, University of Nebraska; Chuck Braithwaite, editor, Great Plains Quarterly; Dr. Robert Diffendal, editor, Great Plains Research; and Dr. Peter Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor, University of Virginia
Comments
Held Saturday April 7, 2007, College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Sponsored By: The Nebraska Humanities Council, The Plains Humanities Alliance, The Center for Great Plains Studies, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of History, The University of Nebraska- Lincoln Department of Geography and Anthropology, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Office of Graduate Studies, and The Pepsi Student Event Fund