This annual conference, presented by the History Graduate Students’ Association, is held in honor and memory of his years of service to the university, the History Department, and friends, students, and colleagues around the world.
2008
Uncle Sam’s Farm: Congress and Free Land Policies in the Nineteenth Century, Tonia M. Compton
Uncertain Transformation: The Role of Asceticism in Death in The Sayings of the Desert Fathers, Paul Ferderer
Communities Of Comfort: Quilts to Comfort the Families of America’s Fallen in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, Jonathan Gregory
The UNL Botanical Seminar: Establishing a Scientific Community at the Turn of the Century, Susannah Hall
Revisiting Elwyn B. Robinson’s History of North Dakota: How the State’s History Created a Community, Jennifer Heth
Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Africana Womanist Vision of Environmental Justice, Julie Iromuanya
War and Memory: The Creation of the American Memory of the Atomic Bombings and the End of the War in the Pacific, Michael Mishler
Community of Coercion and Compliance: Scientific Agriculture at Lake Andes, South Dakota, in the 1920s, David Nesheim
Protestant England Revisited: A Study on English National Consciousness between 1540 and 1559, Ramazan Hakki Oztan
Lonely Sounds: Sonic Self Sufficiency, Personal Control, and Social Shields, Chris Rasmussen
Americanization versus Open Society: Answering the Challenge of Multicultural Education, Svetlana Rasmussen
Indians, “Esquimaux,” and Race: Identity and Community in the Lands West of Hudson’s Bay in the Eighteenth Century, Strother Roberts
The Historical Community and the Digital Future, Brent M. Rogers
Pine Ridge Reservation Fairs: Building Intercultural Communities through Play, Elisabeth Saunders
Nurses, Patients, Physicians, and Science: Changing Nursing Ideals in the United States, 1924-1955, Lisa Schuelke
Newsworthy: Implications of Gender and Class in the January 12, 1888, Blizzard, Heather Stauffer
Stoking a White Backlash: Race, Violence, and Yellow Journalism in Omaha, 1919, Nicolas Swiercek
Duncan Hines’ Consumption Community and the Geography of American Gastronomy, 1936-1956, Damon Talbott
Enticing the Iron Horse: The Unexpected Effects of Railroads on Town-Building in the Great Plains, Robert Voss
2007
‘Riding Well and Shooting Straight’: The Ideal Southern Man in Literature, Catherine Biba
German-American Nazis and the Meaning of American Homeland, 1935–1939, Edward S. Price
Gumbo Flats and Slim Buttes: Visualizing the “West River” Region in Western South Dakota, Nathan B. Sanderson
2006
1st Annual Conference Program: Coming to Terms: Legacies of Conflict and Resolution
A Path of Healing and Resistance: Lydia Chukovskaya’s Sofia Petrovna and Going Under, Amber Marie Aragon
The Literature and Memory of World War I. Remarque, Aldington and Myrivilis: Fictionalizing the Great War., Zacharoula Christoupolou
Machine Guns, Cows, and Quarantines: Foot and Mouth Disease in the United States, Mexico and Argentina, David Nesheim
Ugly and Monstrous: Marxist Aesthetics, Chris Rasmussen
The Toilsome March: An Indiana Soldier’s Experience in the Mexican War, Nathan B. Sanderson
Lost Lessons: American Media Depictions of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 1963-1965, Shayla Swift
Balancing Democracy with Power: Responsibility, Order, and Justice in Reinhold Niebuhr’s World View, 1940–1949, Andy Ulrich