The NEHA Fall 2019 Conference was held at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island on Saturday, October 26, 2019
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Finalized: 11/6/19 Download as PDF
Program Chair: NEHA Vice President Sean Perrone
All sessions held in the Global Heritage Hall (GHH)
8:00-8:30 REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
First Morning Sessions, 8:30-10:00
Session 1: Politics, War, and American Society (GHH 101)
Chair/Comment: Erik Christiansen, Rhode Island College
“’The Thing to Do Now’: The Four Pillars of American War Preparations, May – December 1940â€
Alex Beckstrand, University of Connecticut
“The Congressional Career of Edmund S. Muskie of Maineâ€
Philip A. Grant, Pace University
“The Conflicted Soldier — The GI Antiwar Movement and Exploring the Narratives and Myths of the Vietnam Era Soldier that Morally Rejected Service in Vietnamâ€
Shawn Driscoll, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
Session 2: Religious Reform and the Common Good in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century New England (GHH 105)
Chair/Comment: Thomas Balcerski, Eastern Connecticut State University
“Like a Candlestick Forgotten: John Myles and Early Baptists in Americaâ€
Charles Kennedy Hartman II, Roger Williams University
“A Pox on their Blasphemous Houses: Isolating Disease and Religious Dissent in Colonial New Londonâ€
Dominic DeBrincat, Missouri Western State University
“’To Promote One Common Good’: African American Leaders in Providence in the 1790sâ€
Christopher J. Martin, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Session 3: Women Educators and Associations in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts (GHH 106)
Chair/Comment: Elizabeth DeWolfe, University of New England
“With Diligence and With Success: The Role of Women Caregivers at Schools for the Intellectually Disabled in 1850s Massachusettsâ€
Naomi Schoenfeld, Rivier University
“’Like the Pages of a Great Book’: Diaries of the Worcester Normal Schoolâ€
Nicole O’Connell, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
“Democracy and the New England Women’s Auxiliary Associationâ€
Kathryn Angelica, University of Connecticut
Session 4: England Through the Ages (GHH G01)
Chair/Comment: Troy Paddock, Southern Connecticut State University
“Context and Meaning in Bede’s Abbreviated Psalterâ€
Sally Shockro, Merrimack College
“Mary in the World: Finding the ‘New’ Catholic Women in Britain, 1880-1920â€
Kathryn Lamontagne, Boston University
“Selling Bright Young Things: Advertising Aristocracy in Interwar Britainâ€
Thomas J. Sojka, Boston University
Second Morning Sessions, 10:30-12:00
Session 5: Teaching Slavery in The Public Square and in the Classroom: A Roundtable Discussion (GHH 101)
Chair: Erik Jensen, Salem State University
Roundtable Participants:
Bethany Jay, Salem State University
Jessica Parr, Simmons University
Johanna Obenda, Yale University Art Gallery
Session 6: U.S. Women’s Political Activism in the Early Twentieth Century (GHH 105)
Chair/Comment: Lauren Kozakiewicz, University of Albany
“’The Obligation of Opportunity’: Maud Wood Park and the Activism of the College Equal Suffrage Leagueâ€
Kelly Marino, Sacred Heart University
“Mary Norton’s Revolution of ’28: From Jersey City to National Affairsâ€
Robert Chiles, University of Maryland – College Park
“Maryland Grassroots Suffragists, 1900-1930â€
Hayley Crum, Birmingham City Schools
Session 7: Erasing / Finding Race and Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century America (GHH 106)
Chair/Comment: Eric C. Cimino, Molloy College
“From ‘Mulatto’ to ‘Negro’: The 1930 United States Census and the Erasure of Mixed-Race Peopleâ€
Gabby C. Womack, Merrimack College
“Slavery Markers in the Big Easy: Historic Interventions in the Tourist Landscape of New Orleansâ€
Ella Howard, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Session 8: Commemorating and Remembering Tragedy in the United States (GHH 108)
Chair/Comment: Laura D’Amore, Roger Williams University
“Tragedy, Memory, and Horror: Revisiting the Cocoanut Grove Fire, November 28, 1942, in Boston Massachusetts and Its Significance in United States Historyâ€
Brian Peterson, Shasta College
“Historicizing Anthracite (Part Two): Commemorative Modes and Representational Formsâ€
Philip Mosely, Emeritus, Penn State University
Session 9: Using the Past to Understand the Present (GHH G01)
Chair/Comment: Miriam Reumann, University of Rhode Island and Thomas Carty, Springfield College
“Democratic National Chairman J. Howard McGrath and the ‘Jewish Vote’: The 1948 Election and the Recognition of Israel: A Case Studyâ€
Debra A. Mulligan, Roger Williams University
“Shocking Remedies: A Historically-based Evaluation of Medical Electricity for Pain Managementâ€
Lisa Nocks, IEEE History Center
Session 10: New Perspectives on Ireland and America during the Great Irish Potato Famine (GHH G05)
Chair/Comment: Kristen Petersen, MCPHS University
“Merchant Involvement in Irish Famine Relief Organizationsâ€
Katherine Carper, Boston College*
“Transatlantic Abolitionism and the Great Irish Potato Famineâ€
Ian Delahunty, Springfield College
“’Rememember … You Promised to Take Me Out of Ireland’: Famine-Era Migration Chains in the United Statesâ€
James Zibro, Kent School
Lunch
Afternoon Sessions, 1:30 – 3:00
Session 11: Entrepreneurial Women and their Contributions to the Nineteenth-Century New England Economy (GHH 101)
Chair: Laura Prieto, Simmons University
“The Clockmaker’s Wife: Tila Oates Willard and the Economy of Household Weaving in Early Federal New Englandâ€
Mary Sherman Lycan, University of Connecticut*
“Carrie’s Hair: Customer Networks and Hair Work Jewelry in Mid-Nineteenth Century Maineâ€
Elizabeth DeWolfe, University of New England
Session 12: Ambiguous Agency: Slavery, Exile, and Mission in Asia (GHH 105)
Chair/Comment: Debra A. Mulligan, Roger Williams University
“Freedom in Bondage, Exploring the Subjectivity of Slaves in Southeast Asiaâ€
Stephen Michael Brown, Southern Connecticut State University*
“Exile, Imprisonment, and Narratives of Territoriality in Colonial India, 1914-1924â€
Sharmishtha Roy Chowdhury, Queens College CUNY
“Recreating the Legacy: The Story of the Huamei Hospital and the Wagner Family, 1886-2015â€
Beth Shinn, Roger Williams University
Session 13: Historical Curiosities in Nineteenth-Century America (GHH 106)
Chair/Comment: Lukas Rieppel, Brown University
“Searching for the Woolly Mammoth: A Nineteenth-Century Endangered Speciesâ€
Edward Guimont, University of Connecticut
“Nellie Horsford: Forgotten Proponent of the Viking Theory of American Discoveryâ€
Brian Regal, Kean University
Session 14: Contending Forces: Philosophy, Theology, and Politics of Empathy in Nineteenth-Century New England (GHH 108)
Chair/Comment: Elizabeth Francis, Rhode Island Council for the Humanities
“Weaving History: Rowland Hazard, Free Will, and the Politics of Empathyâ€
Todd S. Gernes, Stonehill College
“’An Indwelling Spirit’: Sophia Little’s Prison Reform and the Limits of Activismâ€
Sarah C. Holmes, New England Institute of Technology
“Wars of Religion: Adin Ballou’s Newspaper Polemics of 1828-1831â€
Deborah Kisatsky, Assumption College
Session 15: Female Reformers in the Nineteenth Century: A Showcase of Student Research from AP US History at Portland High School (GHH 109)
Chair/Comment: Gavin Glider, Portland High School
“Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Fight for Women’s Suffrage and Beyondâ€
Lucy Howe, Portland High School
“Harriet Tubman’s Unifying Effects on Abolitionism and Feminismâ€
Zoe Bertsch, Portland High School
“Dorothea Dix and Prison Reform in the 1800sâ€
Hannah Prue, Portland High School
Session 16: Teaching and Writing History in the Modern World: Challenges and Opportunities (GHH G01)
Chair/Comment: Dominic DeBrincat, Missouri Western State University
“Teaching Sexual Violence in Historical Context in the Era of Me Tooâ€
Laura D’Amore, Roger Williams University
“Preventing, Recognizing, and Destigmatizing Vicarious Trauma in Historiansâ€
Nicolas Hardisty, Rhode Island College
“’What we Did to Indians’: Why the Memory of Native Dispossession Mattersâ€
Christian Gonzales, University of Rhode Island
Session 17: Designing Public History: Faculty, Student, and Community Perspectives (GHH G05)
Chair/Comment: Charlotte Carrington-Farmer, Roger Williams University
“Faculty Perspective: Connecting Historians and Designers through Community Partnerships Projectsâ€
Charlotte Carrington-Farmer and John Farmer, Roger Williams University
“Student Perspective: Experiential Learning in the History Departmentâ€
Rebecca Farias, Daniel Perkins, Samantha DaRocha, and Carolyn Westgate*
“Community Partners Perspective: Creating a New Heritage Area in New Englandâ€
Dave Weed, Sowams Heritage Area Project Coordinator