GAH Program - DRAFT
GAH, February 25-27 2022
Draft schedule (11/11/2021_updated 11/22/21)
All events in Russell Building, Special Collections Libraries.
Friday, February 25
6:00-7:30pm Welcome Reception, Ted Turner exhibition hall
Saturday, February 26
930-1130: RAACH meeting
1000-1130: Session 1
“Remember the Ladies”: Methods and Approaches for Centering Women’s History in US History Survey Courses
Chair and Commentator: Felicity M. Turner, Georgia Southern University
“‘Her Duty to You and Her Love to Her Child’: Flora Lee’s Revolution,” G. Patrick O’Brien, Kennesaw State University
“Women’s History as U.S. History and the Murder Trial of Caroline Dement,” Melissa DeVelvis, Augusta University
“‘In our efforts at reconstruction, the family codes have not yet been written:’ Women, the Great Depression, and New Deal Policy,” Lauren MacIvor Thompson, Kennesaw State University
Reckoning with Enslaved Georgians in Education and Public Humanities
Chair and Moderator: Christopher Lawton, Putnam County Charter School System
Randy Reid, Athens Academy
Laura Nelson, Princeton University
Elizabeth Delancy, Albany State University
Mark Evans, Piedmont University
Jonathan Deen, Putnam County High School
Leanne Stanley, Putnam County Middle School
Topics in Education history
Chair and Commentator: Katherine Rohrer
“Early Georgia Education Through the Lens of the Gignilliat Sampler,” Lynn Tinley, Independent Scholar
“Campus Revivalism in Christianity: Sanctification and Sacrifice,” Jason Tatlock, Georgia Southern University
“Sunnyside School: 100 Years and Still Going Strong,” Lou Brackett, Clayton State University
1130-115: Lunch
115-245: Session 2
The Problem with OER and How to Liberate Your Students from Textbooks Now
Chair and Moderator: Stacy Tanner
Stacy Tanner, Seminole State College
Bronson Long, Georgia Highlands College
Montgomery Wolf, University of Georgia
Melissa E. Johnson, Augusta University
Jayme Feagin, Georgia Highlands College
Civil War in History and Memory
Chair and Commentator: Trae Wellborn, Georgia College and State University
“Georgia's Confederate Monument: History, Memory, Politics,” Chris Wilhelm, College of Coastal Georgia, Brunswick
“Joseph E. Brown and the Origins of Convict Labor in Georgia,” Kenneth Wheeler, Reinhardt University
“The Fort at the Rip Raps and the Meaning of Names,” Mark Smith, Fort Valley State University
Journalism and the Battle against Racist Ideas in the Segregated South
Chair and Commentator: Daleah B. Goodwin, Warren Wilson College
“Challenging White Supremacy: Jesse O. Thomas, The Atlanta Urban League and 1920s Black Journalism,” David S. Bennett, University of North Florida
“Sol Johnson and the Savannah Tribune during the Great War,” Matthew Lloyd Adams, Savannah State University
“The Transregional Civil Rights Activism of J. Richardson Jones, Atlanta Daily World Reporter,” Christina L. Davis, Savannah State University
Race and Violence in the North and Central America
Chair and Commentator: Matt Jennings, Middle Georgia State University
“The Life and Death of a French/Native Creole and the Ephemeral Fourth Choctaw District, 1700-1765,” Dixie Haggard, Valdosta State University
“Dressing Up as the Ku Klux Klan: Child's Play, Queer Innocence, and the Memory of Racial Terror,” Aaron Jacobs, Brown University
“Slaves’ Access to the Courts in Colonial Spanish Central America,” Doug Tompson, Columbus State University
300-430: Session 3
Writing Biography
Chair and Commentator: Gus Giebelhaus, Georgia Institute of Technology
“Augustin Smith Clayton (1783-1839): Historical Imagination in Writing a Biography,” Michael Gagnon, Georgia Gwinnett College
“Chip and Evie Go to D.C.: L.W. Robert, Jr. and the Politics of Southern Development in the New Deal Era,” Randall Paton, Kennesaw State University
“The Pros and Cons of Writing Popular Biography as an Academic: The Experience of a Historian of Southern Populism in Tackling the Story of Andy Gibb,” Matthew Hild, Georgia Institute of Technology
Postwar Racial and Cultural politics in and around Georgia
Chair and Commentator: Ashton Ellett
“Senator Richard B. Russell and Military Racial Integration: From an Open Demagogue to a ‘Silent’ Obstructionist during the Vietnam War Era,” Jason Kirby, Francis Marion University
“’A Shameful Invasion by Hordes of Degenerates’: Lester Maddox and the Anti-Rock Festival Campaign in Georgia,” Gary Sprayberry, Columbus State University
“Desegregating the Universities of Georgia, Alabama and Florida: A Comparative Analysis,” Harley Herman, Virgil Hawkins Historical Society
Atlantic World Histories
Chair and Commentator: Ruth McClelland-Nugent, Augusta University
“Charles Drayton Scientist and Naturalist,” Barbara Spence Orsolits, Breman Museum
“Witch Prosecutions in the Colonies vs. the Mother Country: An Examination of Empire,” Lashonda Slaughter-Wilson, Albany State University
“’I Would Never, Under Any Circumstances, Try to Separate Persons Who Really Loved’: British Abolitionists Who Criticized America on Interracial Marriage, Charles Boyd, Georgia State University
530-630: Michael L. Thurmond keynote speech
630-730: Reception
Sunday, February 27
830-1000: Session 4
What We Did When The World Stopped: Resources for Historical Research That We've Made Available since the Outbreak of Covid-19
Moderator: Ashton G. Ellett, UGA
“News You Can Use: Recent Newspaper Digitization Efforts at the Digital Library of Georgia,” Donnie Summerlin, University of Georgia
“Always Free, Always Online: New Statewide Collections from the Digital Library of Georgia,” Mandy Mastrovita, University of Georgia
“From the Cloakroom to the Coastline: New Collections at the Richard B. Russell Library,” Robert Lay, University of Georgia,
Changing Southern Protestantism in the late 19th century
Chair and Commentator: John Hayes, Augusta University
“Conflict and Change in Appalachian Religion as a Microcosm of the Modernist Controversy,” Barry Whittemore, University of North Georgia
“Voices Crying Out In The Wilderness: Black Methodist Leaders In Georgia During Reconstruction,” Alicia Jackson, Covenant College
“The Intersection of Home Mission Work and Conservative Progressivism, 1880-1920,” Katherine Rohrer, University of North Georgia
Black Women’s Arts and Cultural Leadership
Chair and Commentator: Dee Gillespie, University of North Georgia
“’I Got Something to Tell You’: The Life and Comedy of Jackie ‘Moms’ Mabley,” Sarah FitzGerald, Valdosta State University,
“Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey, Assassinator of the Blues,” Matt Jennings, Middle Georgia State University
“’Education is the Root of Development [and] Defense’: Women, Gender, and Leadership in Black Cultural Nationalist Educational Programs,” Kenja McCray, Georgia Tech
930-1115: Undergraduate Poster Session
Undergraduate Poster Session
Chair: Michael Gagnon, Georgia Gwinnett College
“The Pandemic of 2020 Oral History Project at Georgia Gwinnett College,” Emily Morris and Aryn Ruiz, Georgia Gwinnett College
“’Hidden on the River’: Georgia's Lost Maroon Colony, 1778-1787,” Theodore Paden, Georgia Southern University
“The Tuscarora Who Remained in the Southeast after 1803,” Chandler Allred, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke
1000-1030: Coffee Break
1030-1200: Session 5
Trailblazers, Hellraisers, and Radical Citizen Change-Makers: Transgressing the Traditional Confines of Southern Womanhood in the 20th Century American South
Chair and Commentator: Lauren Thompson, Kennsaw State University
“Plenty Woman Enough to Act Like a Man: Women, Drinks, Drugs, and Country Music,” Dana Wiggins, Perimeter College/GSU
“Breaking the Nuclear Secrecy in Atomic Appalachia: Erwin Citizens Action Network (ECAN), Nuclear Fuel Service (NFS), and Southern Women’s Citizen - Science as Nuclear Resistance, 1974-2017,” Aubrey Underwood, Clark Atlanta University
“All In a Day’s Work: The Radical Pacifism of Jessie Wallace Hughan,” Katherine Perrotta, Mercer University
Georgia Sports History
Chair and Commentator: John Paul Hill, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
“Clarence Campbell's March to the Sea: Race and the National Hockey League's Move to Atlanta,” Thomas Aiello, Valdosta State University
“Creating an International City: The 1996 Centennial Olympic Games,” Maya Brooks, University of Georgia
“’Above the Golfer Stands the Man’: Bobby Jones and Atlanta in the 1920s,” Eric Steagall, Georgia Institute of Technology
War, Politics, and Memory
Chair and Commentator: Joshua Butler, Valdosta State University
“The Fight for Equality While in Uniform: Mary McLeod Bethune's Involvement with the WAAC during World War II,” Zaakira Sadrud-Din, Albany State University
“Man's Faithful Friend: Dogs and the Gendered Politics of Violence in the Great War,” Susan Bragg, Georgia Southwestern State University
“Hattie Barnett (1869-1923): Atlanta’s First Woman Detective,” Robert Scott Davis, Wallace State College
1215-145: Luncheon
Lives in History: Lee Ann Caldwell, Augusta University
Business Meeting to Follow
Draft schedule (11/11/2021_updated 11/22/21)
All events in Russell Building, Special Collections Libraries.
Friday, February 25
6:00-7:30pm Welcome Reception, Ted Turner exhibition hall
Saturday, February 26
930-1130: RAACH meeting
1000-1130: Session 1
“Remember the Ladies”: Methods and Approaches for Centering Women’s History in US History Survey Courses
Chair and Commentator: Felicity M. Turner, Georgia Southern University
“‘Her Duty to You and Her Love to Her Child’: Flora Lee’s Revolution,” G. Patrick O’Brien, Kennesaw State University
“Women’s History as U.S. History and the Murder Trial of Caroline Dement,” Melissa DeVelvis, Augusta University
“‘In our efforts at reconstruction, the family codes have not yet been written:’ Women, the Great Depression, and New Deal Policy,” Lauren MacIvor Thompson, Kennesaw State University
Reckoning with Enslaved Georgians in Education and Public Humanities
Chair and Moderator: Christopher Lawton, Putnam County Charter School System
Randy Reid, Athens Academy
Laura Nelson, Princeton University
Elizabeth Delancy, Albany State University
Mark Evans, Piedmont University
Jonathan Deen, Putnam County High School
Leanne Stanley, Putnam County Middle School
Topics in Education history
Chair and Commentator: Katherine Rohrer
“Early Georgia Education Through the Lens of the Gignilliat Sampler,” Lynn Tinley, Independent Scholar
“Campus Revivalism in Christianity: Sanctification and Sacrifice,” Jason Tatlock, Georgia Southern University
“Sunnyside School: 100 Years and Still Going Strong,” Lou Brackett, Clayton State University
1130-115: Lunch
115-245: Session 2
The Problem with OER and How to Liberate Your Students from Textbooks Now
Chair and Moderator: Stacy Tanner
Stacy Tanner, Seminole State College
Bronson Long, Georgia Highlands College
Montgomery Wolf, University of Georgia
Melissa E. Johnson, Augusta University
Jayme Feagin, Georgia Highlands College
Civil War in History and Memory
Chair and Commentator: Trae Wellborn, Georgia College and State University
“Georgia's Confederate Monument: History, Memory, Politics,” Chris Wilhelm, College of Coastal Georgia, Brunswick
“Joseph E. Brown and the Origins of Convict Labor in Georgia,” Kenneth Wheeler, Reinhardt University
“The Fort at the Rip Raps and the Meaning of Names,” Mark Smith, Fort Valley State University
Journalism and the Battle against Racist Ideas in the Segregated South
Chair and Commentator: Daleah B. Goodwin, Warren Wilson College
“Challenging White Supremacy: Jesse O. Thomas, The Atlanta Urban League and 1920s Black Journalism,” David S. Bennett, University of North Florida
“Sol Johnson and the Savannah Tribune during the Great War,” Matthew Lloyd Adams, Savannah State University
“The Transregional Civil Rights Activism of J. Richardson Jones, Atlanta Daily World Reporter,” Christina L. Davis, Savannah State University
Race and Violence in the North and Central America
Chair and Commentator: Matt Jennings, Middle Georgia State University
“The Life and Death of a French/Native Creole and the Ephemeral Fourth Choctaw District, 1700-1765,” Dixie Haggard, Valdosta State University
“Dressing Up as the Ku Klux Klan: Child's Play, Queer Innocence, and the Memory of Racial Terror,” Aaron Jacobs, Brown University
“Slaves’ Access to the Courts in Colonial Spanish Central America,” Doug Tompson, Columbus State University
300-430: Session 3
Writing Biography
Chair and Commentator: Gus Giebelhaus, Georgia Institute of Technology
“Augustin Smith Clayton (1783-1839): Historical Imagination in Writing a Biography,” Michael Gagnon, Georgia Gwinnett College
“Chip and Evie Go to D.C.: L.W. Robert, Jr. and the Politics of Southern Development in the New Deal Era,” Randall Paton, Kennesaw State University
“The Pros and Cons of Writing Popular Biography as an Academic: The Experience of a Historian of Southern Populism in Tackling the Story of Andy Gibb,” Matthew Hild, Georgia Institute of Technology
Postwar Racial and Cultural politics in and around Georgia
Chair and Commentator: Ashton Ellett
“Senator Richard B. Russell and Military Racial Integration: From an Open Demagogue to a ‘Silent’ Obstructionist during the Vietnam War Era,” Jason Kirby, Francis Marion University
“’A Shameful Invasion by Hordes of Degenerates’: Lester Maddox and the Anti-Rock Festival Campaign in Georgia,” Gary Sprayberry, Columbus State University
“Desegregating the Universities of Georgia, Alabama and Florida: A Comparative Analysis,” Harley Herman, Virgil Hawkins Historical Society
Atlantic World Histories
Chair and Commentator: Ruth McClelland-Nugent, Augusta University
“Charles Drayton Scientist and Naturalist,” Barbara Spence Orsolits, Breman Museum
“Witch Prosecutions in the Colonies vs. the Mother Country: An Examination of Empire,” Lashonda Slaughter-Wilson, Albany State University
“’I Would Never, Under Any Circumstances, Try to Separate Persons Who Really Loved’: British Abolitionists Who Criticized America on Interracial Marriage, Charles Boyd, Georgia State University
530-630: Michael L. Thurmond keynote speech
630-730: Reception
Sunday, February 27
830-1000: Session 4
What We Did When The World Stopped: Resources for Historical Research That We've Made Available since the Outbreak of Covid-19
Moderator: Ashton G. Ellett, UGA
“News You Can Use: Recent Newspaper Digitization Efforts at the Digital Library of Georgia,” Donnie Summerlin, University of Georgia
“Always Free, Always Online: New Statewide Collections from the Digital Library of Georgia,” Mandy Mastrovita, University of Georgia
“From the Cloakroom to the Coastline: New Collections at the Richard B. Russell Library,” Robert Lay, University of Georgia,
Changing Southern Protestantism in the late 19th century
Chair and Commentator: John Hayes, Augusta University
“Conflict and Change in Appalachian Religion as a Microcosm of the Modernist Controversy,” Barry Whittemore, University of North Georgia
“Voices Crying Out In The Wilderness: Black Methodist Leaders In Georgia During Reconstruction,” Alicia Jackson, Covenant College
“The Intersection of Home Mission Work and Conservative Progressivism, 1880-1920,” Katherine Rohrer, University of North Georgia
Black Women’s Arts and Cultural Leadership
Chair and Commentator: Dee Gillespie, University of North Georgia
“’I Got Something to Tell You’: The Life and Comedy of Jackie ‘Moms’ Mabley,” Sarah FitzGerald, Valdosta State University,
“Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey, Assassinator of the Blues,” Matt Jennings, Middle Georgia State University
“’Education is the Root of Development [and] Defense’: Women, Gender, and Leadership in Black Cultural Nationalist Educational Programs,” Kenja McCray, Georgia Tech
930-1115: Undergraduate Poster Session
Undergraduate Poster Session
Chair: Michael Gagnon, Georgia Gwinnett College
“The Pandemic of 2020 Oral History Project at Georgia Gwinnett College,” Emily Morris and Aryn Ruiz, Georgia Gwinnett College
“’Hidden on the River’: Georgia's Lost Maroon Colony, 1778-1787,” Theodore Paden, Georgia Southern University
“The Tuscarora Who Remained in the Southeast after 1803,” Chandler Allred, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke
1000-1030: Coffee Break
1030-1200: Session 5
Trailblazers, Hellraisers, and Radical Citizen Change-Makers: Transgressing the Traditional Confines of Southern Womanhood in the 20th Century American South
Chair and Commentator: Lauren Thompson, Kennsaw State University
“Plenty Woman Enough to Act Like a Man: Women, Drinks, Drugs, and Country Music,” Dana Wiggins, Perimeter College/GSU
“Breaking the Nuclear Secrecy in Atomic Appalachia: Erwin Citizens Action Network (ECAN), Nuclear Fuel Service (NFS), and Southern Women’s Citizen - Science as Nuclear Resistance, 1974-2017,” Aubrey Underwood, Clark Atlanta University
“All In a Day’s Work: The Radical Pacifism of Jessie Wallace Hughan,” Katherine Perrotta, Mercer University
Georgia Sports History
Chair and Commentator: John Paul Hill, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
“Clarence Campbell's March to the Sea: Race and the National Hockey League's Move to Atlanta,” Thomas Aiello, Valdosta State University
“Creating an International City: The 1996 Centennial Olympic Games,” Maya Brooks, University of Georgia
“’Above the Golfer Stands the Man’: Bobby Jones and Atlanta in the 1920s,” Eric Steagall, Georgia Institute of Technology
War, Politics, and Memory
Chair and Commentator: Joshua Butler, Valdosta State University
“The Fight for Equality While in Uniform: Mary McLeod Bethune's Involvement with the WAAC during World War II,” Zaakira Sadrud-Din, Albany State University
“Man's Faithful Friend: Dogs and the Gendered Politics of Violence in the Great War,” Susan Bragg, Georgia Southwestern State University
“Hattie Barnett (1869-1923): Atlanta’s First Woman Detective,” Robert Scott Davis, Wallace State College
1215-145: Luncheon
Lives in History: Lee Ann Caldwell, Augusta University
Business Meeting to Follow