The Indiana Association of Historians
Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting
Friday, February 17
7:00-7:15 p.m. Indiana Association of Historians Business Meeting - Classic Hall 101
7:15-8:15 p.m. Movie The Town & Panel Discussion: "Madison, Indiana, and the World War II Homefront" - Classic Hall 102 8:15-8:30 Reception - Classic Hall first floor
8:30-10:15 Movie The Quiet American (2002) - Classic Hall 102
Saturday, February 18
8:00-9:00 Registration - Classic Hall 9:00-10:30 a.m. Concurrent Sessions I I A. Looking Forward to the Past: Interdisciplinary Studies in Applied History - Classic Hall 214 I B. Re-Assessing Indiana Politics in the Mid-Twentieth Century - Classic Hall 213 I C. Imperialism and Its Aftermath - Classic Hall 115 I D. Race, Culture, and Politics in Civil War Indiana - Classic Hall 114 10:30-10:45 a.m. Coffee Break (Classic Hall, first floor) 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions II
II A. Perception and Propaganda in the World War II Era - Classic Hall 202 II B. Early Nineteenth-Century Cultural Encounters - Classic Hall 114 II C. Education and Community Interaction - Classic Hall 214 II D. American Encounters Abroad - Classic Hall 115 12:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Luncheon Program - Science Center Lobby 2:15-3:45 p.m. Concurrent Sessions III III A. Roundtable - "History Education in the US and China: A Comparative Approach" - Classic Hall 114 III B. Twentieth-Century Geopolitics in Asia - Classic Hall 115 III C. The Temperance Movement in Indiana in the Early Twentieth Century - Classic Hall 214 3:45 p.m. Indiana Magazine of History Editorial Board Meeting - Classic Hall 101 2005-2006 Officers of the Indiana Association of Historians Council: Indiana Association of Historians Program Committee:
Daniel P. Murphy (Hanover College), John Staicer (Historic Madison, Inc.), and Larry P. Thornton (Hanover College)
Continental Breakfast
A. James Fuller (University of Indianapolis): "Exploring Careers in Experiential History: The Applied History Program at the University of Indianapolis"
Samantha Meigs (University of Indianapolis): "Future Visions of the Past: Creating an Applied History Program"
Chair and Commentator: Daniel Schoeneberg (Conner Prairie)
Dean Kotlowski (Salisbury University): "Paul V. McNutt: One Biographer's Quest"
William Nixon (Indiana University, Bloomington): "The Pocket Veto Case and the End of Indiana's Elected Appellate Judiciary"
Fred Witzig (Indiana University, Bloomington): "Local Politics in a World of Change: Rural Hoosiers Remember the Mid-Twentieth Century"
Chair and Commentator: Paul V. Murphy (Grand Valley State University)
Daniel Byrne (University of Evansville): "Dealing with DeGaulle's Delayed Decolonization: The Eisenhower and Kennedy Administration Confront the Algerian Crisis after the Fall of the Fourth Republic"
Kenya Davis-Hayes (California Baptist University): "Conquering the Imagined Other: Africanized Caricatures, American Imperialism and the Political Cartoon"
Jeffrey Tenuth (Indiana State Museum): "Hoosier Diplomats and American Foreign Policy in the Caribbean and Pacific at the Turn of the Twentieth Century"
Chair and Commentator: Charles Guthrie (University of Indianapolis)
Mark Furnish (Purdue University): "Indiana's Eleutherian College: Biracial Coeducation on Slavery's Doorstep"
Christopher Mortenson (Texas A&M University): "Indiana's Political General: Lew Wallace and the Lincoln Administration's Policies in Maryland, 1864"
Chair and Commentator: John Schlotterbeck (DePauw University)
Karen Dunak (Indiana University, Bloomington): "'She Was Some Babe': Representations of Soviet Women in Mainstream American Media, 1933-1948"
Erwin Erhardt (Thomas More College): "'Digging for Victory': Propaganda Films for the Agricultural Front During World War II Britain"
Larry Thornton (Hanover College) : "Oxford University Students in the 1930s and the Question of War"
Chair and Commentator: James H. Madison (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Amy K. Rogers Dean (Purdue University): "'The Frenchman Blabs Everything': French Stereotypes and Identity Formation in Early American Print Culture"
Thomas D. Hamm (Earlham College): "The Limits of Quaker Feminism: The Ordeal of Priscilla Hunt Cadwalader"
David A. Nichols (Indiana State University): "A Commercial Embassy in the Old Northwest: The U.S. Indian Trading Factory at Fort Wayne, 1803-1812"
Chair and Commentator: Nicole Etcheson (Ball State University)
Kendra Clauser (Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis): "Haughville: Faith, Fraternity, and Family"
Eric Hall (Purdue University): "Co-Learners and Core: Education Reform at Saint Joseph's College, 1966-1976"
Chair and Commentator: Kay Williams (Hanover College)
Betty S. Anderson (Boston University): "The American University of Beirut (AUB) and the American Relationship in the Middle East"
Ralph D. Gray (Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis): "Hoosier Author as Diplomat - Meredith Nicholson in Latin America, 1933-1941: Hardships, Triumphs, and Mystery"
Chair and Commentator: Anne Foster (Indiana State University)
Welcome - Joanne Passet (Indiana University East), IAH President
Presentation of the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Teaching of History in the Schools and the
Indiana Preserve America Teacher of the Year Award
- William B. Pickett (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology), Chairman of the Indiana Council
for History Education
1:00-2:00 Cornelius and Anna Cook O'Brien Lecture - Science Center Lobby
Walter LaFeber (Cornell University): "The Roller Coaster Course of 'American Empire,' 1750-2006"
The O'Brien Lecture is open to the public without charge.
David G. Vanderstel (Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis)
Christopher McGrew (Indiana Department of Education)
Tripta Desai (Northern Kentucky University): "The Kashmir Issue and Its Impact on India-United States Diplomatic Relations"
Andrew Johns (Brigham Young University): "The Tail Wagging the Dog: The Johnson Administration's Policy Toward Iran and Lessons for the Bush Administration"
T. J. Park (University of Southern Indiana): "The Sino-Centric Order in East Asia and America"
Chair and Commentator: Nicholas Cullather (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Adam Criblez (Purdue University): "Tippecanoe and Temperance, Too: The Moral Crusade for Prohibition in Tippecanoe County, Indiana"
Robert Lay (Taylor University): "Germans for Temperance Laws: Competing Views of Character and Community in Early Twentieth-Century Indiana"
Chair and Commentator: Edward Frantz (University of Indianapolis)
Joanne Passet, Indiana University East, President
Leigh Darbee, Vice President / President Elect
Steve Towne, IUPUI, Secretary
William W. Giffin, Indiana State University, Treasurer
Katherine Tinsley, Manchester College, Past President
Darrell Bigham, University of Southern Indiana (Chair, Membership)
Melissa Bingham, IUPUI
A. James Fuller, University of Indianapolis
John Glen, Ball State University
William Pickett, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Chair, Indiana Council for History Education)
Marianne Wokeck, IUPUI
Jeffrey Brautigam, Hanover College
A. James Fuller, University of Indianapolis
Eric Sandweiss, Indiana University, Bloomington
Matthew N. Vosmeier, Hanover College
Sarah McNair Vosmeier, Hanover College