Saturday, February 18

8:00-8:45 Registration - Classic Hall
Continental Breakfast

8:15-8:45 a.m. From Hanover College Duggan Library's Special Collections: "Obstacles to Success"
An informal hands-on presentation of nineteenth-century travel literature
Doug Denné, Archivist and Curator of Rare Books

8:45-10:15 a.m. Concurrent Sessions I

I A. Whigs, Republicans, and Spies: Midwestern Transportation, Politics, Business, and War - Classic Hall 214
"The Travels of an Ambitious Young Man, 1835-1840"
Matthew N. Vosmeier (Hanover College)
"The Nationalist Road: The Intersection of Roads and Ideas in the Life of Oliver Morton"
A. James Fuller (University of Indianapolis)
"The Embattled River: The Ohio River as Military Frontier, Battlefield, and Spy Haven during the American Civil War, 1861-1865"
Stephen E. Towne (Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis)
Chair and Commentator: Anita Morgan (Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis)

I B. Youth and American Popular Culture: Camp Songs and Boys with Guns - Classic Hall 213
"Magalena Hagalena: The World View of a Camp Song"
Fredericka Schmadel (Indiana University, Bloomington)
"Boys with Guns: Gun Culture, Violence, and Manhood in the Rover Boys and Tom Swift Series"
Joel D. Shrock (Anderson University)
Chair and Commentator: Daniel P. Murphy (Hanover College)

I C. Migration and Ethnic Identity - Classic Hall 202
"Serbs in Albania: Language, Allegiance, and Activism"
Rebecca Mueller (Indiana University, Bloomington)
"Where is My Homeland? Czechs and Slovaks in the USA and Their Ties to the Motherland, 1880-1918"
Stepanka Korytova (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Chair and Commentator: Marianne Wokeck (Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis)

I D. Politics, Basketball, and Medicine in 20th-Century Indiana - Classic Hall 203
"Road Warriors: Wingate High School's Basketball Championship Odysseys, 1913 & 1914"
S. Chandler Lighty (Papers of Abraham Lincoln)
"Great Expectations: Charles P. Emerson and the Indiana University School of Medicine, 1911-1922"
Elizabeth J. Van Allen (Kentucky Historical Society)
"The 1948 Truman Campaign in Indiana"
Philip A. Grant, Jr. (Pace University)
Chair and Commentator: Edward Frantz (University of Indianapolis)

10:15-10:30 a.m. Break (Classic Hall, second floor)

10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions II

II A. Publishing and Moral Improvement in the Antebellum Ohio Valley and Upper South - Classic Hall 202
"The Unpopular Mr. Morrow, Publisher and Abolitionist"
Steven H. Jobe (Hanover College)
"Spreading the Gospel in the Upper South: Evangelical Efforts to Create a Marketplace for Religious Newspapers in the 1850s"
Scott Stephan (Ball State University)
Chair and Commentator: Sara Patterson (Hanover College)

II B. Preserving and Constructing Historical Space and Memory at National Parks and Presidential Homes - Classic Hall 203
"Visceral History: Interpreting Independence National Historical Park"
Michael Chornesky (Purdue University)
"The James A. Garfield House, Mentor, Ohio: Living and Vibrant in the 21st Century"
Erwin F. Erhardt, III (Thomas More College)
"Paving the Way Underground: Building a National Park In and Above Mammoth Cave"
David H. Kime (Northern Kentucky University)
Chair and Commentator: Tovah Bender (Hanover College)

II C. Germans Abroad - Classic Hall 214
"'They Smack of the Steppe': German Colonists on the Cusp of Russian Asia"
Timothy Olin (Purdue University)
"Germans in Paradise: Immigration and Community Formation in Costa Rica in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries"
Christine C. Nemcik (Franklin College)
"Back on Straw: The Shanghai-Gruppe Experience in Bremen after Having Fled German National Socialism, A Japanese Ghetto, and Chinese Communism, July 1950-February 1952"
Kevin R. Ostoyich (Valparaiso University)
Chair and Commentator: David T. Murphy (Anderson University)

II D. Urban Indiana: Exploring the Growth, Decline, and Revival of Hoosier Cities - Classic Hall 213
"Indiana's Small Urban Network: A Century of Change"
Eric Sandweiss (Indiana University, Bloomington)
"Gary, Indiana, and the Heyday of American Industrialism"
S. Paul O'Hara (Xavier University)
"Reconnecting Indiana's Industrial Small Cities: Evidence from America's Middletown"
James Connolly (Ball State University)
Chair and Commentator: Jon C. Teaford (Purdue University)

12:10 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Luncheon Program - J. Graham Brown Campus Center Lobby
Welcome - Joel D. Shrock (Anderson University), IAH President

1:00-2:00 Indiana Association of Historians Annual Meeting Keynote Address
John R. Hale(University of Louisville): "Dragons of the North: Voyages of the Viking Longboats"
The IAH Annual Meeting Keynote Address is open to the public without charge.
The History Department and the Indiana Association of Historians thank the Rivers Institute at Hanover College for its generous support in bringing Professor Hale to campus.

2:15-3:45 p.m. Concurrent Sessions III

III A. Contest for the Old Northwest: Law and Politics in the Early National and Antebellum Eras" - Classic Hall 213
"Legal Baggage of Early Indiana Judges"
Elizabeth Brand Monroe (Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis)
"'Most People in this Country would advize the killing of every Savage young, & Old': How the Conquest of Canada Myth has Obscured White-Native Interactions in the Northwest Territory"
Brandon C. Downing (University of Cincinnati)
"'The true and living principle of States Rights and Popular Sovereignty': Indiana Republicans and Douglas Democrats Allied"
Gregory Peek (Pennsylvania College of Technology)
Chair and Commentator: George W. Geib (Butler University)

III B. Merian Cooper and the Call of the Wild - Classic Hall 102
Film: Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925)
"Merian Cooper and the Call of the Wild"
Daniel P. Murphy (Hanover College)

III C. Mapping Migrations: Identity and Movement from the Carolingians to Modern Genealogists - Classic Hall 214
"Where is Gothia?"
James B. Williams (University of Indianapolis)
"Connecting the Dots: A Proposal for Cooperation between Historians and Genealogists about Mapping Ancestors' Migrations"
Marianne S. Wokeck (Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis)
Chair and Commentator: Samantha Meigs (University of Indianapolis)

III D. Adventure, Reclusiveness, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century America - Classic Hall 202
"'The Wife Believed in Her Husband': Lydia Roosevelt and the 1811-1812 Voyage of the New Orleans"
Sarah McNair Vosmeier (Hanover College)
"Symptoms of Withdrawal: An Anti-Social History of Reclusiveness in 19th-Century America"
Colin R. Johnson (Indiana University)
Chair and Commentator: Robyn R. Ryle (Hanover College)

3:50-4:05p.m. Indiana Association of Historians Business Meeting - Classic Hall 102

4:10 p.m. Indiana Magazine of History Board Meeting - Classic Hall 101

Indiana Association of Historians Program Committee:
A. James Fuller, University of Indianapolis
Daniel P. Murphy, Hanover College
David T. Murphy, Anderson University
Joel D. Shrock, Anderson University
Matthew N. Vosmeier, Hanover College
Sarah McNair Vosmeier, Hanover College