FRIDAY, JANUARY 30
6:00 p.m.-7:30 pm: Welcome Reception – Happy Hour
Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace
10 E Oglethorpe Ave, Savannah, GA 31401 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 31
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.: Registration

First Session
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a. m.
 
Session 1-1: Teaching History as Practice: Pedagogy, Memory, and Civic Context (Room )
Chair/Commentator: Laura Davis, Columbus State University

• “Teaching Prussia,” Gunter Bales, Georgia State University
• “Teaching the Declaration of Independence in Georgia at the Semiquincentennial,” Michael Gunther, Georgia Gwinnett College
• “Enhancing the History of Georgia Undergraduate Course,” Lashonda M. Slaughter-Wilson, Albany State UniversityLaura Nelson, Princeton University

Session 1-2: 19th Century and Memory (Room 108)
Chair/Commentator: Casey Cater, Georgia State University

• “Remembering Tyranny: Women and Memory of Tudor Ireland,” Melissa Cuzzo, Georgia Southern University
• “Remembrance in the Black Belt: Understanding the African American Family in Georgia's Interior during the 19th and 20th Centuries,”  Destinee Walker, Georgia Southern University
• “From Monuments and Myths: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Shaping of Civil War Memory in Macon, GA,” Angel Lockett, Georgia Southern University

 
Session 1-3:  Local History on the Silver Screen: Education with the Athens Film Project (Room )
Panelists:

• Megan McPherson, New South Associates
• Bryan Barnes, University of Georgia

 
Session 1-4: Gender, Identity, and Grassroots Mobilization in Recent American History (Room )
Chair/Commentator: Jody Noll, Georgia State University

• “The Expectations of Upper-Class and Middle-Class Women as Seen through Advertising by John Wanamaker’s,” Sterling Kalnins, Georgia Southern University
• “Creating Community Through Print: How the Network News of the First City Network Helped Form Georgia’s Oldest Still-Operating LGBTQ+ Organization, Hayden Reeves, Georgia Southern University
• “Pussy Hats to the Polls: Voices of the Women’s Resistance Movement in Georgia since 2016,” Ellen G. Rafshoon, Georgia Gwinnett College

 
Session 1-5:  Faith, Authority, and Social Power in Twentieth-Century America (Room )
 
Chair/Commentator: Ashton Ellett, University of Georgia
 

• “Journey to Liberty’s Inception: Jerry Falwell’s Path to Creating the Largest Christian University in the U.S.A.,” Kobby Barda, The Multidisciplinary School of HIT, Holon. Israel
• “‘They Want to Stomp on the Little Folks’: Tom Murphy’s Quest to Remake the Georgia High School Association,” Scott Blusiewicz, University of Mississippi
• “Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits Movement: Spirit Mediumship as an Eco-Womanist Heritage Practice,” Leslie Whitmire, Georgia State University

 
Session 1-6: Irish Migration and Regional Identity in Georgia (Room )
Chair/Commentator: David Parker, Kennesaw State University
 

• “The Irish in Georgia,” Bryan McGovern, Kennesaw State University
• “‘It’s St. Patrick’s Day in Savannah’: An American Irish Sense of Place and the Performance of Regional Ethnic Identity,” Meaghan Dwyer-Ryan, Georgia Southern University

  
Lunch on your own
11:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
 

 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m. Executive Board Meeting (Room ) 

Second Session
1:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
 
Session 2-1: Culture Wars in Southern Classrooms and Campuses (Room 104)
Chair/Commentator: Katherine Rohrer, University of North Georgia

• “Eugene Talmadge’s Library Book Purge of 1941,” David Parker, Kennesaw State University
• “The State has Entered the Classroom: The Great Speckled Bird, Academic Freedom, and a Cold War Moral Panic in Savannah, Georgia,” Michelle Haberland, Georgia Southern University
• “Memphis State University’s Production of Hair, 1970,” Gary Sprayberry, Columbus State University

 
Session 2-2: Literature, Criticism, and Cultural Contexts in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Room )
Chair/Commentator: Meaghan Dwyer-Ryan, Georgia Southern University

• “How Not to Write a Biography: A Review of Virginia’s Clare’s The Life of Mildred Rutherford,” Lauren Yarnell Bradshaw, University of North Georgia
• “The Changing Aesthetics of Savannah (1920s and 1930s): Examining the Works of Harry Hervey and Christopher Murphy,” Carey Olmstead Shellman, Georgia Gwinnett College
• “Feminist Consciousness in Colonial India: Analysis of the text Stree Purush Tulana,” Samiha Chandwani, Georgia State University

 
Session 2-3: Cities as Microcosms of Broader Historical Matters in World History (Room )
Chair/Commentator: Jason Tatlock, Georgia Southern University

• “Salvador da Bahia, Brazil: A Microcosm of Broader Historical Processes in World History,” Michael Hall, Georgia Southern University
• “Luanda: Port City of the South Atlantic,” Cathy Skidmore-Hess, Georgia Southern University
• “Iquitos: The Gateways to Peruvian Amazonian Folktales and Myths,” Ana Torres, Georgia Southern University
• “Jerusalem: Contextualizing its Names,” Jason Tatlock, Georgia Southern University

 
Session 2-4: More than just the Trail of Tears: The State of the Native South Field in the 21st Century (Room 105)
Panelists:

• Dixie Ray Haggard, Valdosta State University
• Matthew Jennings, Middle Georgia State University
• Kevin Kokomoor, Coastal Carolina University

Session 2-5: Community Engagement and Historical Practice in the Classroom and Beyond (Room )
Chair/Commentator: Alisha Cromwell, Georgia Gwinnett College

• “Preserving Sacred Ground: A Digital Community History Project on River Hill Missionary Baptist Church,” Bonnie Hamer, Valdosta State University
• “Preservation Pedagogy: A Community Outreach and Active Learning Project in Athens, GA,” Katie Marages, University of Georgia
• “Assessing Historical Thinking,” Patrick Ludolph, Georgia Gwinnett College

 
Third Session
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
 
Session 3-1: Ideas, War, and Empire in Modern European History (Room )
Chair/Commentator: Larry Grubbs, Georgia State University

• “Metric and the French Revolutionary Calendar, The Story of Two Revolutionary Ideas,” Medha Mediratta, Georgia State University
• “The Eagles of the Desert: Comparing Erwin Rommel and Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck’s Tactics in the Africa campaigns during the World Wars,” Hayden Clint Norman, Georgia Southern University
• “The Viceroys Return: Restructuring Soviet Imperial Power in 1956,” Melissa Faris, Georgia Southern University

Session 3-2: Implementing Jim Crow, Resisting Jim Crow: Local Struggles in Georgia  (Room )
Chair/Commentator: Dee Gillespie, University of North Georgia

• “‘The Beach’: George Washington Carver Park and the Segregated Georgia State Park System,” Megan McPherson, New South Associates
• “Beyond the Spotlight: Randy Battle and the Daily Work of SNCC Organizing in Southwest Georgia,” Joshua Butler, Albany State University
• “On Ass Kissing and Integration: Worth County, Georgia’s School Boycott, 1968-1969,” Thomas Aiello, Valdosta State University

Session 3-3: Where Does Asia Fit? Integrating East Asia into the History Curriculum (Room )
Panelists:

• Juanjuan Peng, Georgia Southern University
• Robert Batchelor, Georgia Southern University
• Hongjie Wang, Georgia Southern University
• Ganghao Poh, Mercer University
• Justin Bryant, Prairie View A&M University

 
Session 3-4: New Directions in Southern Politics and Culture (Room )
Chairs/Commentators: Aubrey Underwood, Clark Atlanta University and Gary Sprayberry, Columbus State University

• “Tearing Down the Voting Rights Act,” Joseph Bagley, Perimeter College of Georgia State University
• “Plenty Woman Enough to Act Like a Man: Women, Drinks, Drugs, and County Music,” Dana Wiggins, Perimeter College of Georgia State University
• “Industrial Unionism, Democracy, and Black Workers in Mobile, Alabama, 1937-1942,” Robert Woodrum, Perimeter College of Georgia State University

 
Session 3-5: Enduring Grounds of Indigenous Power and Place in Early America (Room )
Chair/Commentator: Kevin Kokomoor, Coastal Carolina University

• “Passaconaway’s Spiritual Sovereignty: Manitou, Witchcraft, and Spiritual Dialogue in the Merrimack River Valley,” Tyler Daniels, Florida State University
• “Tomochichi’s Grave: Burials, Identity, and Alliances in Early Georgia,” Hendry Miller, Georgia Archives
• “Indigenous People of the Wiregrass Region: Native Resistance, Removal, and Memory,” Vickie Everitte, Valdosta State University

 
 
Keynote Address
Ralston Room (308)
Cranmer Hall
St. John’s Church
27 W Charlton St, Savannah, GA 31401.
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
 
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Green-Meldrim House
Thank you to the Keepers of Historic Green-Meldrim House as well as Green-Meldrim House staff and volunteers for making the keynote lecture and reception happen.
 

Paul Pressly
"Black Georgians, Spanish Florida, and the Seminoles"
The Keynote is sponsored in part by
The Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Foundation
and the Georgia Southern University
Department of History
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1
Fourth Session
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

 
Session 4-1: Remembering, Interpreting, and Contesting the Past in 19th and 20th-Century Georgia (Room )
Chair/Moderator: Trae Welborn, Georgia College and State University

• “Challenging Historical Silence: Public History and Reconstruction Memory,” Joshua Butler, Albany State University
• “Memory and Memorialization of the Korean War in Fayette County, Georgia,” Victoria Turner, Georgia Southern University
• “Rural Electrification and Jenkins County,” Max Besselman, Georgia Southern University

 
 
Session 4-2: Enhancing Engagement: A Roundtable Discussion on Strategies for Supporting Student Success  (Room )
Panelists:

• Casey Cater, Georgia State University
• Joseph Bagley, Georgia State University
• Larry Grubbs, Georgia State University
• Jody Noll, Georgia State University
• Matt Sparacio, Georgia State University

Session 4-3: Playing with the Past: Bringing Archives to Life with Game-Based Learning  (Room )
Panelists:

• Autumn M. Johnson, Georgia Southern University
• Erin K. Patterson, Georgia Southern University
• Willow Farmer, Georgia Southern University

 
Session 4-4: Conflict in Ukraine and Responses from the Global South (Room )
Panelists:

• Melissa Faris, Georgia Southern University
• Dorothea Hoffman, Appalachian State University
• Aran Mackinnon, Georgia College and State University
• Elain Mackinnon, University of West Georgia
• Brian Parkinson, Georgia Southwestern University
• Sudha Ratan, Augusta University
• Cathy Skidmore-Hess, Georgia Southern University

 
Session 4-5: Protecting Waterways in 20th Century Georgia (USA), France, and Russia  (Room )
Chair/Moderator: Jeffrey Burson, Georgia Southern University

• “The Thiokol Chemical Disaster: The Worst Industrial Disaster in Georgia History and Its Environmental Impacts,” Roy Williams, Georgia State University
• “Think Globally, Act Locally: Jacques Ellul and Environmentalism in Aquitaine, 1968-1988,” Bronson Long, Georgia Highlands College
• “Fishing for Survival: The Lake Baikal Omul,” Christopher Ward, Clayton State University

 
 
Poster Session
9:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

• ““Eras in Judgement: Shifting Interpretation in United States v. E.C. Knight Co. and Standard Oil of New Jersey v. United States,” Dylan Bailey, LaGrange College
• “Cook Like Mammy, Dine Like Scarlett: Lost Cause Ideology in Southern Food Culture,” Grace Brannen, Georgia Southern University
• “‘Opening the Eyes’: Exhibit Interpretation of Chinese Cult Statuary,” Christian Cotten-Dixon, Georgia Southern University
• "From Curiosity to Controversy: American Perception of the Japanese, 1853-1924," Chloe Curbelo, Columbus State University
• “The Death of Isolationism: U.S. Foreign Policy and Afghanistan,” Alexandria Currier, Kennesaw State University
• “Cataclysm within the Court: The Bosnian Genocide Case and its Implications on Historical Understanding of Calamity,” Alexandria Currier, Kennesaw State University
• “Generational Legalities: The Chinese Exclusion Act and the Fourteenth Amendment’s Impact on the First and Second Generations of Chinese Immigrants,” Trey Galbraith, LaGrange College
• “Forging Paths to Freedom: The Wexford Chapter of American Abolitionism,” Tiffany Le Gates, Georgia Southern University
• “Religion, Race, and Realism: Flannery O’Connor and Georgia in the Mid-1900s,” Sarena Hall, LaGrange College
• “Peace and Violence: Antiwar Protests at the University of Georgia in 1970,” Sahra King, University of Georgia
• “Glasgow Veterans in Law Enforcement,” Enzo Montero, Georgia Southern University
• “Confederate Memory and Identity at the University of North Georgia,” Sergio Monterroso-Ortega, University of North Georgia
• “The Roman King on Golgotha: The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius’ Transformation of the Christian Apocalyptic Tradition,” Antonio Mora, Columbus State University
• “Identity and Treatment: Mapping the Black Loyalist Diaspora,” Ariana Taylor Williams, Georgia Southern University

 
Fifth Session
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Session 5-1: Faith and Power: Religion in Moments of Political Crisis (Room )
Chair/Commentator: Drew Swanson, Georgia Southern University

• ““‘Despisest Thou the Riches of His Goodness and Forbearance’?: William Richardson, Chota, and Christian Missions on the Eve of the Anglo-Cherokee War,” Jessica L. Wallace, Georgia College and State University
• “All Reforms are Anti-Bible: How Many Abolitionists Learned to Stop Worrying and Not Love Literalism,” Charles O. Boyd. Georgia State University
• “‘I Had Then a Little Taste of the Rule We Now Propose’: Georgia, Anti-Mormonism, and Bourbonism in the 1880s,” Randall S. Gooden, Clayton State University

 
Session 5-2: Authority, Belief, and Mobility in the Medieval and Early Modern World (Room )
Chair/Commentator: Cathy Skidmore-Hess, Georgia Southern University

• “The Duke as the Guarantor of Episcopal Stability and Security in Thirteenth-Century Cracow,” Sebastian Piotr Bartos, Valdosta State University
• “The English Origins of Diabolical Witchcraft Belief,” Lashonda M. Slaughter-Wilson, Albany State University
• “Roaming the Americas: The Travels of an Illiterate Peasant Across the Atlantic World, 1680s-1700s,” Juan José Ponce Vázquez, University of Alabama

Session 5-3: Black Culture, Faith, and Politics in the Jim Crow South (Room )
Chair/Commentator: Aubrey Underwood, Clark Atlanta University

• “The Black Chautauqua Movement in the Lower South 1890 – 1940,” Cynthia Patterson, University of South Florida
• “Mamie George S. Williams: Getting Everything Worthwhile Out of It for the Race,” Velma Fann, New South Associates

 
Session 5-4: We Are No Accidental Thing: Women’s Rights and Wrongs in Georgia Archival Records (Room )
Chair/Commentator: Lauren LeDesma, Georgia Public Library Services

• “‘Yours in the Bonds of Honor:’ Lineage Societies and Archives in Georgia,” Camilla Stegall, Georgia Archives
• “Constructing Representation: Women’s Records in the Georgia Archives,” Lily Kim, Georgia Archives
• “Research Tactics for Women’s History in Archives,” Stegall, Kim, and LeDesma

Session 5-5: Making Colonial Power: Slavery, Science, and Empire in Georgia and South Carolina (Room )
Chair/Commentator: Matt Sparacio, Georgia State University

• “‘I can venture to assure you there is a prospect of good Sales for Negroes’: A Brief Introduction into the Origins of Henry Lauren’s Slaving Empire,” Greg Brooking, Fulton County (GA) Public Schools
• “Colonial Science in Early Trustee Georgia, Zackary Dow, Independent Scholar
• “The Kingsley Plantation: A Case-Study of How Gender Played a Role in Colonial American Servitude,” Paula Key, Liberty University

 
Luncheon
Beach Institute
502 E Harris St
Savannah, GA 31401
12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
 
 
Lives in History
Kay A. Reeve
*Business Meeting to Follow*