The 42nd Annual

Northern Great Plains

History Conference

October 3-6, 2007

Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites

Downtown Waterfront

Duluth, Minnesota

Photograph courtesy Northeast Minnesota Historical Center, Duluth. Photograph by H. McKenzie S2422 #4339

This view of Superior Street in downtown Duluth is looking East from 6th Avenue West. J & M Oreckovsky Clothing was located at 530 West Superior Street. Joseph and Max Oreckovsky employed Ignatz Friemuth as a department manager. Friemuth would become a competitor with Friemuth's Department store at Lake Avenue and Superior Street.

The large dark building (with flagpole and smokestack) in the next block was the Spalding Hotel built with the resources of William W. Spalding in 1889, by the prominent Chicago architect James J. Egan, on the prominent corner of Fifth Avenue West and Superior Street just a block from each of the two passenger train stations the Union and the Soo Line depots. Until Hotel Duluth (Greysolon Plaza today)opened in 1924, the Spalding was Duluth's premier hotel. The Spalding was razed in 1966.

The lighter building beyond the Spalding is the Alworth business building and bank. Built in a record nine months in 1909-1910, it was and is Duluth's tallest building. It still stands at 306-308 West Superior Street, providing Alworth family offices on the top floor. The November 19, 1909, Duluth Evening Herald newspaper explained: "The skyscraping Alworth building will extend 15 stories. This was made necessary by the inability of Mr. Alworth to secure the adjoining 25ft frontage. The original plans called for a 75ft front, ten story structure."

Northern Great Plains History Conference Council

Chair:

William E. Lass, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Members:

• Gerald Anderson, North Dakota State University
• Harl A. Dahlstrom, University of Nebraska at Omaha
• Kathellen Davison, State Historical Society of North Dakota
• Joesph C. Fitzharris, Society for Military History
• Mary E. Glade, St. Cloud State University
• Robert J. Gough, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
• Eleanor Hannah, University of Minnesota Duluth
• Robert C. Hilderbrand, University of South Dakota
• Steven R. Hoffbeck, Minnesota State University Moorhead
• Anne Kapalan, Minnesota Historical Society
• Chris Kimball, California Lutheran University
• Nancy Tystad Koupal, South Dakota State Historical society
• Lawrence H. Larsen, University of Missouri-Kansas City
• J. Michael McCormack, Bismarck State College
• Dana Miller, Independent Scholars
• James Naylor, Brandon University
• Kimberly Porter, University of North Dakota
• Claire Strom, Women’s History Interest Group
• D. Jerome Tweton, North Dakota Humanities Council

The Council will gather for a breakfast meeting on Saturday, October 6, at 8:00 am in the Lyric II room of the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites. Institutional or organizational representatives wishing to discuss any matter with the Council, including hosting future conferences, should contact one of the members listed above for placement on the agenda.

CHECK THE WEBSITE FOR UP-TO-DATE CHANGES

TO THIS PROGRAM OR TO PRINT ADDITIONAL COPIES:

http://www.d.umn.edu/~ehannah/2007NGPHC/NGPHC2007hp.htm

Conference Information

Conference Headquarters

The conference will be held at the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites, Downtown Waterfront, 200 West First Street, Duluth, Minnesota, 55802, (218) 722-1202. A block of rooms is reserved for NGPHC guests at conference rates. Parking is complimentary for all guests and conference attendees. The ramp attendants have a list of the events in the hotel.

Please call (218) 722-1202 or make an online reservation (http://www.hiduluth.com/) by September 3 to assure yourself of the conference rates. The necessary code for online reservations is NGP. The front desk will take reservations beyond that, but it is a very busy time of year, and rooms will fill up quickly. The rate is $109 plus room tax, which totals $123.17, per room, per night. This is a single/double rate, so if two people are sharing, the rate does not increase. Third and fourth persons add $10 to the room rate for each person. This only applies to adults. Children are free.

Directions to the Holiday Inn

ENTERING DULUTH FROM THE SOUTH (Minneapolis/St. Paul)

• I-35 North into Duluth
• Take exit 256B to Lake Avenue
• Turn left onto Lake Avenue and proceed to 1st Street
• Turn left on 1st Street; travel 2 ½ blocks
• Ramp entrance on left   

ENTERING DULUTH FROM THE SOUTH AND EAST (Wisconsin)

• Entering Duluth from the Blatnik Bridge (Hwy. 53)
• Turn onto I-35 North
• Take exit 256B to Lake Avenue
• Turn left onto Lake Avenue and proceed to 1st Street
• Turn left on 1st Street; travel 2 ½ blocks
• Ramp entrance on left   

ENTERING DULUTH FROM THE NORTH (North Shore)

• Entering Duluth on Hwy. 61 southbound. (London Road)
• Take I-35 (heading southbound on the freeway)
• Exit at Lake Avenue; turn right onto Lake Avenue.
• Turn left at 1st Street (one way); entrance to ramp will be 2 ½ blocks on left

ENTERING DULUTH FROM THE NORTH (Iron Range)

• Hwy. 53 southbound and Hwy. 194 eastbound (Miller Trunk Highway)
• Stay on Hwy. 194 eastbound (Central Entrance)
• Right on Mesaba Avenue, Exit 2nd Avenue West on right.
• Turn right on 1st Street; entrance to ramp on the left

ENTERING DULUTH FROM THE WEST (Grand Rapids/Bemidji)

• Hwy. 2 East (Proctor area as follows - or Hwy. 194 to meet Hwy. 53 - see above)
• Hwy. 2 connects with I-35 North; stay on I-35.
• In Duluth, take the Mesaba Avenue/Superior Street exit and take left exit (Mesaba)
• Turn right on 2nd Street to 2nd Avenue West (3 blocks)
• Turn right on 2nd Avenue West (one way)
• Turn right on 1st Street (one way); entrance to ramp on left

ENTERING DULUTH FROM THE AIRPORT

For those who will be flying to Duluth, there is a complimentary shuttle from the airport to the hotel. Call the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites from the airport kiosk phone, and the front desk will arrange for your pickup.

Registration

We urge conference participants and attendees to pre-register, using the form in the back of this program or download the .pdf version from the conference website: http://www.d.umn.edu/~ehannah/2007NGPHC/NGPHC2007hp.htm. The fee for those registrations received or before September 21 will be $45. For those registering after that date, the fee is $55. Students with a valid student ID may register for $25 on or before September 21, or $30 dollars thereafter. All participants and attendees are expected to register.

Registration will take place from 5:00-7:00pm Wednesday, and from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm on Thursday and Friday in the main lobby of the Holiday Inn & Suites.

Publications Exhibit

The publications exhibit will be in Lyric I, on the first floor of the Holiday Inn. Complimentary coffee will be available inside exhibit area.

Locations of Sessions

All sessions will be held in rooms at the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites except for the Wednesday event at The Richard I. Bong World War II Heritage Center, in Superior, Wisconsin, and the Thursday evening reception at Glensheen, the Historic Congdon Estate, Duluth, Minnesota. Free bus transportation will be provided for these offsite events.

Organizational Luncheons

The Women’s History Interest Group (WHIG) Luncheon will be on Thursday, October 4, at 12:45 pm in Lyric II. (Pre-registration required.)

The Society for Military History (SMH) luncheon will be on Friday, October 5, in the Lake Superior Room. (Pre-registration required.)

Tickets for the luncheons are $15 and $16 respectively and may be purchased using the registration form in the back of the program. The deadline to purchase your ticket is Friday, September 21. Please indicate your preference for meal selection when you make your reservation.

Presentation, Tour and Reception at The Richard I. Bong World War II Heritage Center, Wednesday, 7:30-9:30pm.

The Society for Military History, in association with The Richard I. Bong World War II Heritage Center, invites conference participants to enjoy a brief presentation and tour of the museum followed by refreshments and hors d’oeuvres at The Richard I. Bong World War II Heritage Center, on Wednesday evening. (Pre-registration required).

Tickets for this reception are $5 and may be purchased using the registration form in the back of the program. The deadline to purchase your ticket is Friday, September 21. Free bus transportation to and from the hotel will be provided.

Reception at Glensheen, the Historic Congdon Estate, Thursday,

5:00-8:00pm

Conference participants are invited to enjoy a refreshments and hors d’oeuvres at Glensheen, the Historic Congdon Estate, 3300 London Road, compliments of the NGPHC Council and the School of Fine Arts, University of Minnesota Duluth. Free bus transportation to and from the hotel will be provided.

Social Hour, Banquet, Presentation of the Larry Rowen Remele Award, and the Keynote address by James R. Grossman, Friday Evening. Great Lakes Ballroom, Holiday Inn, Lower Level.

6:00-7:00pm, Social Hour (cash bar)

7:00pm, Banquet

The banquet keynote speaker is Dr. James R. Grossman. Dr. Grossman is Vice President for Research and Education at the Newberry Library, and a Senior Researcher in History at the University of Chicago.   He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of  Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration (U. of Chicago Pr., 1989) and  A Chance to Make Good: African-Americans, 1900-1929 (Oxford U. Pr., 1997).  He was project director and coeditor of The Encyclopedia of Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 2004), and coeditor of The Encyclopedia of Chicago Online (www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/).   He also is the editor of The Frontier in American Culture (U of Calif. Pr., 1994) and coeditor of the series "Historical Studies of Urban America" (U. of Chicago Press, 20 vols., 1992- ). His articles and short essays have focused on various aspects of American urban history, African American history, and American ethnicity.  His book reviews have appeared in the Chicago Tribune and New York Newsday in addition to various academic journals. 

Land of Hope received awards from the Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights and the Illinois State Historical Society.   A Chance to Make Good won awards from the New York Public Library and the National Council for the Social Studies.  The Encyclopedia of Chicago won awards from the Scholarly Publishers Division of the Association of American Publishers and the Illinois State Historical Society.  Grossman was chosen in 2005 as one of seven "Chicagoans of the Year" by Chicago Magazine.

Grossman is responsible for the Newberry’s research centers, fellowship programs, educational initiatives, and public programs.   His consulting experience includes a broad variety of history-related projects (mostly films, exhibits, and research projects) generated by the BBC, the Smithsonian, the Goodman Theater, the Field Museum, the New-York Historical Society, the Chicago Historical Society, the Chicago Public Library, the American Social History Project, Blackside, and a variety of independent film producers. 

Professional service has included elected offices in the American Historical Association, professional ethics committees for the AHA and the Organization of American Historians, and Advisory Boards for the AHA, the Center for New Deal Studies at Roosevelt University, the National History Center, the Illinois Historical Society, the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Chicago Public Library.  He also has served as Chair of the Board of the Chicago Metro History Education Center and President of the Hyde Park Soccer Club.  He co-chaired the Program Committee for the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians in 2005.

Reservations for the banquet must be made by Friday, September 21.

Larry Rowen Remele Award

Established by the Northern Great Plains History Conference to honor the memory of Larry Rowen Remele, this award is presented annually to an individual who has made significant contributions to the betterment of the conference. Remele, a long-time editor of North Dakota History, worked energetically to promote and enhance the conference and was serving as council char at the time of premature death in 1988.

The recipient of the Larry Rowen Remele Award for 2007 is Robert C. Hilderbrand. He holds his degrees from the University of Iowa, where he received his PhD in 1977, the same year he began his career at the University of South Dakota. A specialist in twentieth century U.S. political and diplomatic history, Professor Hilderbrand's publications include Power and the People: Executive Management of Public Opinion in Foreign Affairs, 1897-1921 (1981); The Complete Press Conferences of Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921 (1985); and Dumbarton Oaks: The Origins of the United Nations and the Search for Postwar Security (1990). His current research interest is the Johnson Administration and the Vietnam War.

Professor Hilderbrand is a long-time member of the governing council of the conference, and hosted not one, not two, but three previous Northern Great Plains conferences, in Sioux Falls, SD, including the most recent conference in 2006.

The seventeen previous winners of the Larry Rowen Remele Award are, in order of presentation, D. Jerome Tweton, Archer Jones, Lawrence H. Larsen, James M. Skinner, William E. Lass, William C. Pratt, R. Alton Lee, David B. Danbom, Hans Burmietser, Dana Miller, Malcolm Muir, Jr., Nancy Tystead Koupal, Harl A. Dalstrom, J. Michael McCormack, Charles M. Barber, Janet Daley, Edward Pluth, and Gerald Anderson.

Thanks and Acknowledgements

Supporting Institutions:

• The Richard I. Bong World War II Heritage Center, Superior, Wisconsin
• The College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Duluth
• The School of Fine Arts, University of Minnesota Duluth
• Visit Duluth

Program and Arrangements:

• Joseph C. Fitzharris, University of St. Thomas and the Society for Military History
• Robert Furman, Director, The Richard I. Bong World War II Heritage Center
• Eleanor Hannah, University of Minnesota Duluth
• Kurt E. Leichtle, University of Wisconsin—River Falls
• Claire Strom, University of North Dakota and WHIG
• Robert Ziedel, University of Wisconsin—Stout

• Program prepared in the VIZ/Lab, UMD

Sessions and Activities

Wednesday, October 3 7:30 pm

SMH Reception and Tour, Richard I. Bong World War II Heritage Center, Superior Wisconsin. (See registration form for tickets which must be purchased by September 21.) Bus transportation provided to and from the hotel.

Thursday, October 4 9:00 am

Sessions:

1. WILSONIAN SECURITY, sponsored by SMH, Lake Superior Room

2. NEW DIRECTIONS IN CIVIL WAR SCHOLARSHIP, Lake Michigan Room

3. VETERAN’S MEMORIAL HALL: PARTNERSHIPS IN PUBLIC HISTORY, Lake Huron Room

4. BUILDING THE GILDED AGE AND PROGRESSIVE ERA, Lake Ontario Room

5. EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY SPORTS, Lake Erie Room

Thursday, October 4 11:00am

7. FOREIGN POLICIES AND MILITARY IMPLICATIONS, sponsored by SMH, Lake Superior Room

8. PANEL: WOMEN IN THE PROFESSION, Sponsored by WHIG, Lake Michigan Room

9. SOCIAL CONTROVERSIES AND POLITICAL CONTRARIANISM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND, Duluth Room

10. CRIME AND CRIME CONTROL, Lake Ontario Room

11. WORKING AND THE RAILROADS, LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY, Lake Erie Room

12. NATIVE AMERICAN STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE AND SURVIVAL, Lake Huron Room

Thursday, October 4 12:45 pm

WHIG LUNCHEON, Lyric II

Thursday, October 4 2:30 pm

13. IRREGULAR WAR AT SEA AND ASHORE, sponsored by SMH, Lake Superior Room

14. THE “OTHER SIDES” OF THE VIETNAM WAR, sponsored by SMH, Lake Michigan Room

15. ISSUES OF RESEARCH, Duluth Room

16. RADICALISM AND RELIGION, Lake Ontario Room

17. COMMERCIAL RIVER BOATING ON THE UPPER MISSOURI RIVE, Lake Erie Room

18. MINNESOTA IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY, Lake Huron Room

Thursday, October 4 5:00 pm

Reception with complimentary hors d’oeuvres and refreshments, Glensheen, the Historic Congdon Estate. Sponsored by the Northern Great Plains History Conference Council and the School of Fine Arts, University of Minnesota Duluth. Bus transportation will be provided to and from the hotel.

Friday, October 5 9:00 am

19. THE PERSONAL SIDE OF WAR, sponsored by SMH, Lake Superior Room

20. WOMEN’S HISTORY, sponsored by WHIG, Lake Michigan Room

21. COMMUNISM AND INTERNAL SECURITY, Lake Ontario Room

22. MEDIEVAL EUROPE, Lyric II

23. SOVIET HISTORY, Lake Erie Room

24. NINETEENTH CENTURY GREAT PLAINS, Lake Huron Room

Friday, October 5 11:00 am

25. RACISM AND PERCEPTION IN WAR, sponsored by SMH, Lake Erie Room

26. WORLD WAR II, sponsored by SMH, Lake Michigan Room

27. COLD WAR POLITICS ON THE NORTHERN PLAINS, Lyric II

28. ASSIMILATION AND CONQUEST ON THE NORTHERN PLAINS, Lake Ontario Room

29. THE MEDIEVAL/EARLY MODERN STATE AND THE ‘OTHER’, Dululth Room

30. LANGUAGE, CITIZENSHIP AND STATEHOOD ON THE PLAINS, Lake Huron Room

Friday, October 5 12:45 pm

SMH LUNCHEON, Lake Superior Room

Friday, October 5 2:00 pm

31. LEADERSHIP, VICTORY, AND DEFEAT ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER, 1791-1877, sponsored by SMH, Lake Superior Room

32. PANEL CHERCHEZ LA FEMME, STRATEGIES FOR RESEARCHING WOMEN’S HISTOR, Lake Michigan Room

33. KARELIAN FEVER, Lake Erie Room

34. US AND THE WORLD: 1890-1914, Lake Ontario Room

35. REVOLUTION AND VIOLENCE IN EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY ERA, Lyric II

36. REVOLUTION AND EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD, Lake Huron Room

Friday October 5 6:00 pm

SOCIAL HOUR (cash bar)

Great Lakes Ballroom, Lower Level

BANQUET 7:00 pm

Keynote Address by Dr. James R. Grossman

Presentation of the Larry Rowen Remele Award

Great Lakes Ballroom, Lower Level

Saturday, October 6 8:00am

NGPHC COUNCIL BREAKFAST, Lyric II

Saturday, October 6 10:00am

37. THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, sponsored by SMH, Lake Superior Room

38. TWENTIETH CENTURY US IMMIGRATION, Lake Michigan Room

39. CONSERVATIVE CULTURAL POLITICS OF THE MID TWENTIETH CENTURY, Lake Ontario Room

40. EARLY NATIONAL ERA ECONOMY AND POLITICS, Lyric II

41. LANGUAGE AND POWER IN LATE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY US HISTORY, Lake Erie Room

42. RELIGIOUS MISSIONS AND EMPOWERMENT, Lake Huron Room

Saturday, October 6 Afternoon

SMH TOUR: NORTHWEST COMPANY FUR POST, Pine City, Minnesota. http://www.mnhs.org/places/sites/nwcfp/

Check for further details, time and place of departure, at the registration desk in the Holiday Inn lobby. Tickets at the gate, $7 adults, $6 senior citizens, and $4 children ages 6-17. Free for children under age 6 and MHS members. http://www.mnhs.org/about/members/index.html

Wednesday, October 3, 7:30 PM

Conference Schedule

Wednesday, October 3 7:30 pm

SMH Presentation, tour and reception, Richard I. Bong World War II Heritage Center, Superior, Wisconsin. (See registration form for tickets which must be purchased by September 21.) Bus transportation provided to and from the hotel.

Thursday October 4, 2007 9:00am – 10:30 am

1. WILSONIAN SECURITY, sponsored by SMH

Lake Superior Room

Chair: Katherine Reist, University of Pittsburgh - Johnstown

Presenters:

• “A Time to Refrain from Embracing”: Wilsonian Collective Security After the Cold War” by Albert Berger, University of North Dakota
• “Bedrock for the Post-World War II World: Wilsonianism & Containment” by Connie Harris, SDSU/Independent Scholar

Comment: Katherine Reist, University of Pittsburgh - Johnstown

2. NEW DIRECTIONS IN CIVIL WAR SCHOLARSHIP

Lake Michigan Room

Chair: Eric Burin, University of North Dakota

Presenters:

• “George Fitzhugh: Anti-Exceptionalism and the Slavery Argument” by Travis Cormier, University of North Dakota
• “The Impact of Camps of Instruction on Illinois Solders and Communities” By Daniel Sauerwein, University of North Dakota
• “William Seward: Slavery and the American Republic” By John Wickre, University of North Dakota

Comment: Eric Burin, University of North Dakota

3. PANEL: VETERAN’S MEMORIAL HALL: PARTNERSHIPS IN PUBLIC HISTORY

Lake Huron Room

Chair: Daniel Hartman, Veteran’s Hall

Roundtable sponsored by Veteran’s Memorial Hall, St. Louis County Historical Society, Duluth, Minnesota.

4. BUILDING THE GILDED AGE AND PROGRESSIVE ERA

Lake Ontario Room

Chair: Drew Digby, University of Minnesota Duluth

Presenters:

• “Historical Lessons from the Vernacular of Progressive-era Residential Architecture” by Steve Martens, North Dakota State University
• “Trying to Shape the New High School: The University of Wisconsin’s Accreditation Program, 1880 -1930” by Robert Gough, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
• “ ‘A steep and thorny path to climb’: Establishing a Ballpark in Downtown Minneapolis” by Chris Kimball, California Lutheran University and Kristin Anderson, Augsburg College

Comment: Drew Digby, University of Minnesota Duluth

5. EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY SPORTS

Lake Erie Room

Chair: Jennifer Imsande, University of Minnesota Duluth

Presenters:

• “Conservation Vanguards: Minnesota’s Game Wardens in the Progressive Era” by Mark H. Davis, Century College
• “The ‘Incomparable’ Tommy Milton” by Steven Trimble, Independent Scholar
• “Pitcher Jose Mendez and the Impact of the Cuban Stars Ballclub on American Baseball (1908-1912)” by Steven Hoffbeck, Minnesota State University Moorhead

Comment: Scott Laderman, University of Minnesota Duluth

Thursday October 4, 2007, 11:00am – 12:30 pm

7. FOREIGN POLICIES AND MILITARY IMPLICATIONS, sponsored by SMH

Lake Superior Room

Chair: James Westheider, University of Cincinnati - Clermont College

Presenters:

• “The Military Price of Political Appeasement: What the German Army gained from the Bloodless Victories of 1936-1939” by James F. Rose, Bowling Green State University
• “We demand to know: what are we waiting for?” IDF strategic and operational patterns of action before and during the Six Day War. by Gil-li Vardi, London School of Economics and Political Science
• “Recommendations for the use of military facilities for educational purposes, Wisconsin State University-Stevens Point and the Republic of Vietnam, 1972-74.” by Thomas Reich, University of Wisconson-Stevens Point

Comment: James Westheider, University of Cincinnati - Clermont College

8. PANEL: WOMEN IN THE PROFESSION, Sponsored by WHIG

Lake Michigan Room

Chair: Claire Strom, North Dakota State University

Panelists:

• Bethany Andreasen, Minot State University
• Nikki Berg Burin, Concordia College
• Sue Patrick, University of Wisconsin-Barron County
• Kate Roberts, Minnesota Historical Society
• Claire Strom, North Dakota State University

9. SOCIAL CONTROVERSIES AND POLITICAL CONTRARIANISM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND

Duluth Room

Chair: Richard Hall, Georgia Southwestern State University

Presenters:

• “Opposition to the Married Women’s Property Rights Legislation 1870-1882” by Tracey Hammell, Minnesota State University, Mankato
• “Political Opposition to and Manipulation of the Factory Bill of 1883” by Joseph Galloway, Minnesota State University, Mankato
• “The Smoking Controversy of the 1850s” by Colin Mustful, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Comment: Richard Hall, Georgia Southwestern State University

10. CRIME AND CRIME CONTROL

Lake Ontario Room

Chair: Judith Trolander, University of Minnesota Duluth

Presenters:

• “Crime and Punishment in Shooting Point: The Lynching of the Courtwright Brothers” by Ruth Wachter-Nelson, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
• “J Edgar Hoover and 1930s Organized Crime Control” by Aharon Zorea, University of Wisconsin-Richland
• “Murder in the Roundhouse, Trouble in the Streets: Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1913” by Harl Dalstrom, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Comment: Michael Taylor, Dickinson State University

11. WORKING AND THE RAILROADS, LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

Lake Erie Room

Chair: Nkasa Yelengi, University of Minnesota Duluth

Presenters

• “A Midwestern Working Class Newspaper Chronicles the American Labor Movement, 1917-1935: Joseph Conley and the Dubuque Leader, 1917-1935” by Ralph Scharnau, Northeast Iowa Community College, Peosta
• “James J Hill and the Opening of the Mesabi Iron Range” By Robert Zeidel, University of Wisconsin-Stout
• “Promoting Duluth as a Secondary Railroad for the Northern Pacific” by LaVern Rippley, St. Olaf College

Comment: Charles Piehl, Minnesota State University, Mankato

12. NATIVE AMERICAN STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE AND SURVIVAL

Lake Huron Room

Chair: Marcia Anderson, Minnesota Historical Society

Presenters:

• “Pikuni, Kainai, and Siksika – The Blackfoot People and the Canadian-American Border between Alberta and Montana, 1818-1919” by Rodger Henderson, Penn State University Fayette, the Eberly Campus
• “American Indian Identity as Reflected Through Powwow” by Nichole Ray, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Comment: Robert Schnieders, University of South Dakota

Thursday October 4, 2007 12:45 pm

WHIG LUNCHEON

Lyric II

Thursday October 4, 2007 2:30pm – 4:00 pm

13. IRREGULAR WAR AT SEA AND ASHORE, sponsored by SMH

Lake Superior Room

Chair: Michael Vogt, Iowa Gold Star Military Museum

Presenters:

• “Of Patriots and Pirates: Irregular Naval Warfare during the American War of Independence” by LCDR Steven M. Wendelin, USN
• “Army-Navy Joint Counter-Insurgency Warfare in Western Kentucky and Tennesse, 1863,” Joseph C. Fitzharris, University of St. Thomas

Comment: Thomas Colbert, Marshalltown Community College

14. THE “OTHER SIDES” OF THE VIETNAM WAR, sponsored by SMH

Lake Michigan Room

Chair: Debra A. Mulligan, Roger Williams University

Presenters:

• “Assisting their Country: Women’s Roles in the Vietnam Conflict” by Ladonna Mielke, Minnesota State University, Mankato
• “They Also Served Who Never went to War: Vietnam Era Servicemen Who never Went to Vietnam” by James E. Westheider, U Cincinnati-Clermont College
• “Vietnam Commemoration: Memorials to an Unpopular War?” by Deborah Kidwell, US Army Command and General Staff College

Comment: Betty Bergland, University of Wisconsin - River Falls

15. ISSUES OF RESEARCH

Duluth Room

Chair: Oscar B. Chamberlain, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire

Presenters:

• “An Introduction to National Archives Resources Relating to Minnesota” by Donald Jackanicz, National Archives and Records Administration, Great Lakes Region
• “Implementing an Online Community of Historians as Faculty Members” by Timothy Westcott, Park University

Comment: Kimberly Porter, University of North Dakota

16. RADICALISM AND RELIGION

Lake Ontario Room

Chair: Pam Brunfelt, Vermilion Community College

Presenters:

• “Big Bill Haywood: the Most Dangerous Man in America?” by Brett Hoven, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
• “’We Put the Bible in the Schools’: Religion and the Ku Klux Klan” by David LaVigne, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Comment: Pam Brunfelt, Vermilion Community College

17. COMMERCIAL RIVER BOATING ON THE UPPER MISSOURI RIVER

Lake Erie Room

Chair: J. Michael McCormack, Bismarck State College

Presenters:

• “Bloodgood, Baker and Senechal: Three Commercial Boat Operators in the Last Years of the Upper Missouri River Trade” by Frank Vyzralek, Historic Preservation Specialist, FEMA
• “Fron Winona to Williston: River Towns, Landings and Grain Elevators on the Upper Missouri in North Dakota”, by Mark Halvorson, State Historical Society of North Dakota

Comment: William E. Lass, Minnesota State University, Mankato

18. MINNESOTA IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Lake Huron Room

Chair: Mark H. Davis, Century College

Presenters:

• “Eyes on the Skies: The Ground Observer Corps in Minnesota” by David Mills, North Dakota State University
• “Unnatural” Wilderness: The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness” by Reed Petersen, Minnesota State University, Mankato
• “Rise of Suburban Environmentalism and the Founding of the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge” by John S. Crampton, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Comment: Mark H. Davis, Century College

Thursday October 4, 2007 5:00-8:00 pm

Reception with complimentary hors d’oeuvres and refreshments, Glensheen, the Historic Congdon Estate. Sponsored by the Northern Great Plains History Conference Council and the School of Fine Arts, University of Minnesota Duluth. Bus transportation will be provided to and from the hotel.

Friday October 5, 2007 9:00 am – 10:30 am

19. THE PERSONAL SIDE OF WAR, sponsored by SMH

Lake Superior Room

Chair: Ruth B. Anderson, Minnesota Historical Society

Presenters:

• “Major General A. E. Marchant, CB, RMLI: A ‘Soldier of the Sea” Afloat in the Pacific, Cast Ashore in the Sudan and the South African Veldt” by Donald F. Bittner, USMC CSC
• “Father Joseph Timothy O’Callahan, USN: Chaplain Hero” by David H. Mulligan, Our Lady of Fatima High School and Bristol Community College
• “Rhode Island Prepares for War: J. Howard McGrath as Chief Executive, 1940-1941” by Debra A. Mulligan, Roger Williams University

Comment: Selika Ducksworth-Lawton, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

20. WOMEN’S HISTORY, sponsored by WHIG

Lake Michigan Room

Chair: April Brooks, South Dakota State University

Presenters:

• “Reintroducing the ‘Other’ in History” by Kathleen Brokke, North Dakota State University
• “Scottish Missionaries/Female Circumcision” by Kenneth Mufuka, Lander University
• “Two Grandmothers, and Rewriting Self and National History” by Joe Amato, Southwest Minnesota State University
• “’What appeared to be a Mystery’: Arson, Death and Memory on the North Dakota Frontier” by Michelle McClellan, University of Michigan and Tina Grant, Independent Scholar

Comment: April Brooks, South Dakota State University

21. COMMUNISM AND INTERNAL SECURITY

Lake Ontario Room

Chair: Erik Peterson, University of Minnesota Duluth

Presenters:

• “HUAC in Minnesota” by Josh Harrison, Minnesota State University, Mankato
• “Revolutionaries and Bureaucrats: The American Merchant Marine and the Impact of Communism” by Vernon Pedersen, University of Great Falls
• “The Denial of Civil Liberties: The Case of Japanese-Americans” by Brett Ferguson, Park University

Comment: David Obermiller, University of Wisconsin, Superior

22. MEDIEVAL EUROPE

Lyric II

Chair: Krista Twu, University of Minnesota Duluth

Presenters:

• “God Will Know His Own: The First Albigensian Crusade” by Hana Thornton, Park University
• “Once Bitten, Thrice Great: Ralph Cudworth’s Apologia for Hermes Trismegistus in ‘The True Intellectual System of the Universe’” by John Cirilli, University of Minnesota Duluth
• “The Passive Participant: Female Involvement in Medieval Courtly Love Culture” by Judith Jeremie, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Comment: Steven Matthews, University of Minnesota Duluth

23. SOVIET HISTORY

Lake Erie Room

Chair: Alexis Pogorelskin, University of Minnesota Duluth

Presenters:

• “Red Finns in the North Star Country: Observations from a Moscow Archive” by Bill Pratt, University of Nebraska Omaha
• “Stalinism Reconsidered” by Elizabeth A. Harry, University of St. Thomas

Comment: Alexis Pogorelskin, University of Minnesota Duluth

24. NINETEENTH CENTURY GREAT PLAINS

Lake Huron Room

Chair: Robert Hilderbrand, University of South Dakota

Presenters:

• “A ‘Negro Colony’ for Todd County, Minnesota” An Historical Investigation” by Ed Pluth, St. Cloud State University
• “Can the Terse Northwest Ordinance Say Much About Interpreting State History?” by Steven Keillor, Bethel University
• “Respectable Ladies, Working Women, and the Victorian Underworld in ‘Hell on Wheels’ Era Cheyenne, Dakota Territory, 1867-1869” Chuck Vollan, South Dakota State University

Comment: Chris Kimball, California Lutheran University

Friday October 5, 2007 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

25. RACISM AND PERCEPTION IN WAR, sponsored by SMH

Lake Erie Room

Chair: Kathleen Broome Williams, Cogswell Polytechinical College

Presenters:

• “’The Negro Who Comes up Bravely and Fights’: Iowa’s 60th U.S. Colored Infantry” by Dr. David Brodnax, Sr, Trinity Christian College
• “Interracial Relations in the US Army, 1950” Selika Ducksworth-Lawton, UW-Eau Claire
• “Dorothy Lamour, Where Are You?: Hollywood’s South Seas and American Encounters with the South Pacific, 1941-1945” Sean Brawley, School of History, University of New South Wales, and Chris Dixon, History Department, University of Newcastle

Comment: Albert Berger, University of North Dakota

26. WORLD WAR II, sponsored by SMH

Lake Michigan Room

Chair: Deborah Kidwell, US Army Command and General Staff College

Presenters:

• “From Burlington to Dachau: A Colorado Infantry Company in World War II” by LTC Chris Rein, USAFA
• “ Normative Rules, Pragmatic Rules: The Intellectual Development of Canadian Army Training from the Second World War to the Korean War” by Alexander Herd, U. of Calgary
• “The Work of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsbräberfürsorge” by David Livingstone

Comment: Donald F. Bittner, Marine Command and Staff College

 

27. COLD WAR POLITICS

Lake Huron Room

Chair: Kimberly Porter, University of North Dakota

Presenters:

• “Minister with a Badge: Sheriff Harry Kittelson of Corson County, SD” By Annetta Marie Sanow Sutton, Hazelden Foundation
• “Show Muslims Some Respect!: Senator William Langer’s Maverick Views of 1953” by Charles Barber, Northeastern Illinois University
• “Reaction to the Cuban Missile Crisis on the Northern Great Plains” by David Mills, North Dakota State University
• “’A Curative and Creative Force’: The Exchange of Persons Program and Eisenhower’s inter-American Policies, 1953-61” by Mathew Loayza, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Comment: James Naylor, Brandon University

28. ASSIMILATION AND CONQUEST ON THE NORTHERN PLAINS

Lake Ontario Room

Chair: Betty Bergland, University of Wisconsin-River Falls

Presenters:

• “’Our Great Happiness…In the Midst of So Much Sorrow:’ Euro-American Missionaries and the Deaths of Native Students at Fort Berthold, North Dakota and Santee, Nebraska” by Gretchen Gene Albers, University of Calgary
• “Remembering Minnesota’s War: The Evolving Memory and Commemoration of the U.S.-Dakota War of 186” by Julie Humann Anderson, Georgia State University
• “’The Indians are Loth to Remove, and the Whites to Let Them Go’: Ojibwa Resistance to Indian Removal” by Joel Sipress, University of Wisconsin Superior

Comment: Linda Grover, University of Minnesota Duluth

29. THE MEDIEVAL/EARLY MODERN STATE AND THE ‘OTHER’

Duluth Room

Chair: Gerald Anderson, North Dakota State University

Presenters:

• “Consistencies and Tensions between Patriarchy and the State: Violence in early Colonial Maryland” by Amanda Miracle, Bowling Green State University
• “A Beautiful Island: Dutch Taiwan as a Strategic Link between Japan and Asia” by Michael Laver, University of Pennsylvania
• “The Viking Contribution to the Emerald Isle” by Caleb May, Park University

Comment: Maureen O’Brien, St. Cloud State University

30. LANGUAGE, CITIZENSHIP AND STATEHOOD ON THE PLAINS

Lyric II

Chair: Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson, University of Minnesota Duluth

Presenters:

• “South Dakotans and the Language of Promotion: A Study of South Dakota’s Constitutional Development” by Michael J. Mullin, Augustana College
• “Inclusivity, Feminism and Women Writers of the West,” by Eleanor Hannah, University of Minnesota Duluth
• “ ‘Normal’ Women: the Case of the State Normal School at Minot” by Bethany Andreasen, Minot State University

Comment: Louise Edwards-Simpson, College of St. Catherine

Friday October 5, 2007 12:45 pm

SMH LUNCHEON

Lake Superior Room

Friday October 5, 2007 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

31. LEADERSHIP, VICTORY, AND DEFEAT ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER, 1791-1877, sponsored by SMH

Lake Superior Room

Chair: Donald F. Bittner, Marine Command and Staff College

Presenters:

• “St. Clair’s Defeat (1791): A Study of Leadership and Operational Failure” by Major Brian Lipiec, USMC, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps
• “Frontier Army Mobility: An Analysis of Logistical Decisions at the Battle of the Little Bighorn” by Major Andy Winthrop, USMC, Marine Corps Combat Development Command
• “Similar Commanders, Disparate Fates: A Comparative Analysis of General George Armstrong Custer and Colonel Nelson Appleton Miles during the Sioux War of 1876-1877” by Major Kevin Hutchinson, USMC, Marine Corps Combat Development Command

Comment: Dr. Connie Harris, Independent Scholar

32. PANEL CHERCHEZ LA FEMME, STRATEGIES FOR RESEARCHING WOMEN’S HISTORY Discussion Panel sponsored by WHIG

Lake Michigan Room

Chair: Anne Kaplan, Minnesota Historical Society

Panelists:

• John Bye, director, Institute for Regional Studies, North Dakota State University
• Deborah Miller, reference specialist, Minnesota Historical Society
• Craig Wright, archivist, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library

33. KARELIAN FEVER

Lake Erie Room

Documentary: “Show Me the Way to Go Home” by Alexis Pogorelskin, University of Minnesota Duluth.

Documentary showing will be followed by a brief talk by Dr. Pogorelskin on the making of the film.

34. US AND THE WORLD: 1890-1914

Lake Ontario Room

Chair: Edward Pluth, St. Cloud State University

Presenters:

• “Agree to Disagree: The Role of Political Debate in Defining American Exceptionalism during International Conflict” by Jon Krohn, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
• “The International Railway: The United State’s Failed Pan-American Project, 1890-1914” by Jeremy Kaler, University of Minnesota Mankato
• “Nativist Ideology in Turn of the Century American Anti-Imperialism” by Suzanna Lee, University of Wisconsin-River Falls

Comment: David Danbom, North Dakota State University

35. REVOLUTION AND VIOLENCE IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

Lyric II

Chair: Michael J. Mullins, University of Minnesota Duluth

Presenters:

• “Macedonian Resistance and the Decline of Anglo-Austrian Relations, 1900-1904” by Sean Flynn, Dakota Wesleyan University
• “The Great October Socialist Revolution: Misconceptions of Intelligentsia” by Brian Moon, Park University

Comment: Paul Schue, Northland College

36. PHILADELPHIA IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC

Lake Huron Room

Chair: Fred Speltstoser, William Jewell College

Presenters:

• “Disease and Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in the 1790s” by Sean Taylor, Minnesota State University Moorhead
• “Republicans, Class and Independence” by Thomas Mega, University of St. Thomas

Comment: Fred Speltstoser, William Jewell College

Friday October 5, 2007 6:00-9:00 pm

SOCIAL HOUR 6:00-7:00pm

Great Lakes Ballroom, Lower Level

BANQUET WITH PRESENTATION OF THE LARRY ROWEN REMELE AWARD AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY DR. JAMES R. GROSSMAN 7:00-9:00 pm

Great Lakes Ballroom, Lower Level

Saturday October 6, 2007 8:00 am – 9:30 am

NGPHC COUNCIL BREAKFAST

Lyric II

Saturday October 6, 2007 10:00 am – 11:30 am

37. THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, sponsored by SMH

Lake Superior Room

Chair: Robert Zeidel, University of Wisconsin-Stout

Presenters:

• “A Lodge Divided: Tribal Factionalism in Defeat of the Santee Sioux During the 1862 Sioux Uprising” by Seth S. Grenke, Texas A&M University
• “Military Injustice?: The Court Martial of Union Captain Patrick O’Connor” by Kathleen Gorman, Minnesota State University, Mankato
• “On Blockade Duty:  Letters from the USS Minnesota, 1861-1864” by Terrence Lindell, Wartburg College

Comment: Joseph C. Fitzharris, University of St. Thomas

 

38. TWENTIETH CENTURY US IMMIGRATION

Lake Michigan Room

Chair: Sue Patrick, University of Wisconsin-Barron County

Presenters:

• “Bridging the Atlantic: From Finland to Minnesota” by Zachary Nelson, University of Minnesota Duluth
• “Coming to America: Nineteenth Century Scandinavians Cross the Ocean” by Barbara Larsen, National Archives-Central Plains Region, and Lawrence Larsen, University of Missouri-Kansas City
• “Memoirs of a Bi-Lingual Agent: Norwegian-American Chronicles 1930-1935 Farming” by Kristina Gray, Wisconsin International University, Ukraine

Comment: Sue Patrick, University of Wisconsin-Barron County

39. CONSERVATIVE CULTURAL POLITICS OF THE MID TWENTIETH CENTURY

Lyric II

Chair: Robert Gough, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire

Presenters:

• “An Isolationist Commentator of the Cold War Era: Clarence E. Manion and American Foreign Policy” by Bernard Lemelin, Laval University
• “Born Again: Kennedy, the Church and Birth Control” by Lawrence McAndrews, St. Norbert College
• “The New Deal and the Institutional Development of the Supreme Court of the United States” by J. Mark Alcorn, St. Cloud State University

Comment: Michael Taylor, Dickinson State University

40. EARLY NATIONAL ERA ECONOMY AND POLITICS

Lake Ontario Room

Chair: Betsy Glade, Saint Cloud State College

Presenters:

• “Frontier Capitalism: The Market Revolution in Rural Central Missouri, 1830-1860” by Jeff Bremer, Stephen F. Austin State University
• “Little Revolutions Now and then: State Constitutional Transformation in the Antebellum United States” by Oscar B. Chamberlain, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Comment: Chris Arndt, James Madison University

41. LANGUAGE AND POWER IN LATE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY US HISTORY

Lake Erie Room

Chair: William Miller, University of Minnesota Duluth

Presenters:

• “A Man Who Was a Man: Theodore Roosevelt and the Myth of Masculinity,” by April M. Kiedrowski, Dickinson State University
• “The Warriors Voice: Phillip Johnston and the Power of Unwritten Language” by April Gunsch, Dickinson State University
• “To The Last Breath: The Petersburg and Its Significance” by Michael Hardy, Dickinson State University

Comment: William Miller, University of Minnesota Duluth

42. RELIGIOUS MISSIONS AND EMPOWERMENT

Lake Huron Room

Chair: Robert Galler, St. Cloud State University

Presenters:

• “Father Belcourt’s Relationship with the Metis at Pembina” by Ruth Swan, Independent Schola
• “Brothers and Strangers: Racial Reconciliation and Methodist Missions to Africa” by Paul Harris, Minnesota State University Moorhead
• “The Mission San Lucas Toliman: Toward a Resolution of Rural Poverty in Guatemala and Spiritual Poverty in Rural Minnesota” by Jeff Kolnick, Southwest Minnesota State University

Comment: Robert Galler, St. Cloud State University

Saturday Afternoon, October 6:

SMH Tour: Northwest Company Fur Post, Pine City, Minnesota.

http://www.mnhs.org/places/sites/nwcfp/

Check for further details, time and place of departure, at the

registration desk in the Holiday Inn lobby. Tickets at the gate, $7 adults,

$6 senior citizens, and $4 children ages 6-17. Free for children under age 6

and MHS members.

2007 NGPHC Registration Form

Please complete this form and return it along with check payable to NGPHC to: Bong P-38/NGPHC 2007, Bong Heritage Center, 305 Harbor View Parkway Superior, WI 54880.

Name email

Address City/State/Zip

Institutional affiliation as it should appear on your badge:

Early Registration $45.00 U.S.

(received on or before September 21 )

Student Rate $25.00 U.S.

Registration $55.00 U.S.

(received after September 21)

Student Rate $30.00 U.S.

Conference Banquet $25.00 U.S.

Specify:

pRoasted Pork Loin p Baked Walleye p Pasta Primavera

Society for Military History Reception $5.00 U.S.

at The Richard I. Bong World War II Heritage Center,

Superior, WI. Wednesday, October 3

Women’s History Interest Group Luncheon $15.00 U.S.

Thursday, October 4

Specify:

p Caesar Salad p Vegetable Lo Mien

Society for Military History Luncheon $16.00 U.S.

Friday, October 5

p Barbeque Buffet

Total Amount Enclosed $

(If paying in Canadian funds, please add six percent)

Reception at Glensheen, the Historic Congdon, Duluth, Minnesota –

Thursday, October 4

p No Charge – please indicate intention to attend

Thursday October 4, 9:00 AM

Thursday October 4, 9:00 am

Thursday October 4, 11:00 am

Thursday October 4, 11:00 am

Thursday, October 4, 2:30 pm

Thursday, October 4, 2:30pm

Thursday, October 4, 2:30 pm

Friday, October 5, 9:00 am

Friday, October 5, 9:00 am

Friday, October5, 11:00 am

Friday, October 5, 11:00 am

Friday, October 5, 11:00 am

Friday, October 5, 2:30 pm

Friday, October 5, 2:30 pm

Friday, October 5, 2:30 pm

Saturday, October 6, 10:00 am

Saturday, October 6, 10:30 am

Saturday, October 6, 10:00 am

Saturday, October 6, 10:00 am

Program Index

Name and Page Number

Calls for Papers

Proposals for individual papers or panels in all areas of history are welcome for the 49th annual Missouri Valley History Conference. The conference will meet March 2-4, 2006 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Downtown Omaha. Proposals, consisting of abstract(s) and one-page vitae, should be sent by October 15, 2005 to Prof. Moshe Gershovich, Missouri Valley History Conference Program Chair, Department of History, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182. Those wishing to have their proposals acknowledged should include a stamped, self-addressed postcard. For any questions, e-mail: mgershovich@mail.unomaha.edu. The conference web site is www.unomaha.edu/uno/history/mvhchome. A prize of $200 will be awarded to the best graduate student paper presented at the conference.

Proposals for individual papers or panels in all areas of history are welcome for the 43rd annual Northern Great Plains History Conference. The conference will meet September 24-26 in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. Proposals, consisting of abstract(s) and one-page vitae, should be sent by March 31, 2008 to Prof. James Naylor, Northern Great Plains History Conference Program Chair, Department of History, Brandon University, 270-18th Street, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, R7A 6A9. For any questions, e-mail: Naylor@Brandonu.ca. A prize will be awarded to the best graduate student paper presented at the conference.

Notes

Bong P-38/NGPHC 2007

Bong Heritage Center

305 Harbor View Parkway

Superior, WI 54880