Saturday, 5 August 2000

7:30-8:30 AM
Continental Breakfast
(tickets reqired; price included with registration)

A. Workshop: Using Public History to Enhance Undergraduate Teaching

Presiding: Barbara Howe, West Virginia University

Using Things and Doing History: Using Material Culture to Stimulate Undergraduate Research, Laura Tuennerman-Kaplan, California University of Pennsylvania

The Way You Do the Things You Do: Using Public History to Teach Historical Methods, Gary Daynes, Brigham Young University

Teaching Public History With Internships, Phillip Payne, St. Bonaventure University

Comment: Barbara Howe

B. State of the Art--Religious History

Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi

Paul E. Johnson, University of South Carolina

Charles Cohen, University of Wisconsin

C. Locating Health's Locus: Industry, Community, and Fraternity

Presiding: Susan Lawrence, University of Iowa

Metabolic Experiments, Mechanical Environments: Physiological Hygienists and the Uses of Urban-Industrial Space, Time, and Motion Studies, Mark Hamin, Iowa State University

Influenza's Impact on Indiana: Public and Private Reactions to the Great Pandemic of 1918-1919, Katherine Tinsley, Manchester College

Community Machinery for the Discovery of Tuberculosis: Donald B. Armstrong and the Framingham Demonstration, Phillip Frana, University of Minnesota

Comment: Charlotte Borst, Saint Louis University

D. From the Ground Up: The Development of the Middle West in Local, State, and National Perspective

Presiding: Timothy Mahoney

"An Exclusively Agricultural State can Never be Prosperous": Agrarianism and Manufacturing at the Iowa State Fair, 1854-1900, Chris Rasmussen, University of Nevada at Las Vegas

Buying into the System: Conflicting Consumer Strategies of Local, State, and National Farm Institutions in the Early Gilded Age, David Blanke, Briar Cliff College

There Must be a Good Town Somewhere There: Boosterism and Town Competition on the Upper Mississippi River in the 1850s, Andrea Foroughi, Union College

Comment: Timothy Mahoney

E. Sowing American Culture: Historical Perspectives of Agriculture and Rural Life in Multi-ethnic North America

Presiding: Richard S. Kirkendall, University of Washington

Agriculture and Civility in Nineteenth-century Acadia, Daniel Thorp, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

The Rural Irish in Nineteeth-century Indiana, Ginette Aley, Iowa State University

Settlement Patterns in Territorial Nebraska, Nicholas Aieta, St. Cecilia Academy

Comment: Paula Nelson, University of Wisconsin, Plattville

F. Women and Reform in Antebellum Indiana and Ohio

Presiding: David Harmon, Washtenaw Community College

Where Were the Women? Grass Roots Activism at the Indiana and Ohio Constitutional Conventions, Elizabeth Osborn, Indiana University

Defining Business as a Woman's Profession in the 1850s, Anita Ashendel, Indiana University-Purdue University at Columbus

Comment: James Schmidt, Northern Illinois University

G. Huzzahs for Hoover, Kudos for Kennedy, Wails for Wallace: Presidential Campaigns and Public Response in the Twentieth Century.

Presiding: Richard Fried, University of Illinois-Chicago

Hoover Goes Dixie: The Tours of the South, 1928-1933, Edward Frantz, University of Wisconsin

From a New Frontier to Old Dixie: Race and Politics in the 1960 and 1964 Wisconsin Presidential Primaries, Alexander Shashko, University of Michigan

Comment: Greg Schneider, Emporia State University

A. The Joys and Pains of Interdisciplinary Courses Involving History

Presiding: Judith Spraul-Schmidt, University of Cincinnati

Learning Community on American Ethnicity and Race: Critical Thinking or Bull Session?, Sue C. Patrick, University of Wisconsin-Barron County

Team Teaching an Interdisciplinary Course: Lessons from My First Experience, Oscar B. Chamberlain, University of Wisconsin-Barron County and University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Comment: Nancy Peterson, Gilbert Middle School

B. Strategies for Infusing Civic Responsibility in History Curricula from K-12 Grades to the University

Presiding: Lori Gates, Missouri Valley College

Delores McBroome, Humboldt State University, Armeda Reitzel, Central College

Comment: Lori Gates

C. State of the Art--Urban History

John Teaford, Purdue University
David Goldfield, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

D. State of the Art--Native American History

Donald Fixico, University of Kansas
Jackie Thompson-Rand, University of Iowa

E. Wartime Disruptions of the Social Fabric

Presiding: Edward Goedeken, Iowa State University

Chicago Public School Teachers and the Campaign for Equal Pay during World War II, John Lyons, University of Illinois at Chicago

Bombers But No Bomber City: The Politics of Housing Southeastern Michigan's Defense Workers During World War II, Sarah Jo Peterson, Yale University

Comment: Ellis Hawley, University of Iowa

F. Reform and the Dark Side: Christianity, Tolerance, and Social Change

Presiding: Paul Boyer, University of Wisconsin

The Social Gospel, the Country Life Movement, and Recommendations for the Rural Church: Wallace's Farmer as a Case Study, John Fry, University of Iowa

The Political Theology of Hate: Gerald B. Winrod and Politicized Evangelicalism in America, 1927-1957, Robert Kemp, Concordia University

Comment: Robert McMath, Georgia Institute of Technology

G. Forgotten Missouri: What the Books Don't Tell
(A Slide Presentation and Discussion on African American History and Heritage Tourism)

Presiding: John R. Dichtl, Organization of American Historians

Presenting: Angela da Silva, President of the Midwest Organization for the Recognition and Recording of Ethnic Heritage

12:30-1:30 PM
Lunch

Boxed lunch. Grab a quick bite to eat inside or explore the campus with your colleagues. (Tickets required.)

A. Public Controversy, Private Debates and Historical Inquiry

Presiding: Rosemary Carroll, Coe College

The Carrie Chapman Catt Controversy: The Rhetoric of History in the Public Sphere, Virginia Allen and Lynn Wellnitz, Iowa State University

History as Argument: A Scholarly Teaching Project, Joel Sipress, University of Wisconsin-Superior

Comment: Lynda Domino, St. Anthony's School, Des Moines

B. State of the Art--Labor History

Peter Rachleff, Macalester University
David Montgomery, Yale University
Kimberly Phillips, College of William and Mary

C. Celebrating Diversity: Pleas, Plans, and Programs

Black History Month, Herman Blake, Iowa State University

Women's History Month, Audrey McCluskey, Indiana University

Museums and Jewish Women, Linda Schloff, Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest

Comment: The audience

D. The Great Lakes Region: Where Maritime History and Public History Meet

Presiding: Joseph E. Taylor III, Iowa State University

Collaborative Strategies for Great Lakes Maritime History, Kristin Szylvian, Western Michigan University

Public History and the Representation of Great Lakes Maritime History, Michael J. Chiarappa, Western Michigan University

Comment: Lisa Boehm, University of Michigan-Dearborn

E. Creating Historical Reputation

Presiding: Richard Lowitt, University of Oklahoma

The Image of the Military Hero in Whig Biography, Eric Daniels, University of Wisconsin

Shaping History: The Two Faces of Charles Goodyear, Cai Guise-Richardson, Iowa State University

Choosing `Choice': George Bush and Federal Aid to Nonpublic Schools, Lawrence McAndrews, St. Norbert College

Comment: Richard Lowitt

F. Rural Families and Change in the Post-Frontier Midwest

Presiding: Marvin Bergman, Annals of Iowa

Questioning the Capitalist Transformation: Land Markets, Immigrants, and Families, 1850-1900, Franklin Yoder, University of Iowa

Farm Childhood and Life Choices: The American Midwest, 1870-1920, Pamela Riney-Kerhberg, Illinois State University

American Pastoral: The Family Farm and the Making of a Nation, Susan Sessions Rugh, Brigham Young University

Comment: Jane Pederson, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

G. Promise of the Past: History and Historical Societies

Presiding: Ian Stuart, Minnesota Historical Society

Thomas Morain, Iowa State Historical Department

Gary Ness, Ohio Historical Society

Larry Sommers, Nebraska Historical Society

Georgianna Contigugulia, Colorado Historical Society

6:00 PM
Dinner

Barbecue at Moore Park, followed by a barn dance with music provided by the Central Iowa Barn Dance Association. Demonstrations by the Onion Creek Cloggers. Shuttles will depart Maple Dormitory at 5:45. (tickets required)