2012 ANNUAL MEETING
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Annual Meeting and Symposium of the
THEME: Tides of Change—Diverse
The Florida Historical Society seeks submissions for its Annual Meeting & Symposium to be held
Submission guidelines: All topics on
· INDIVIDUAL PAPER: send a title, 150-word abstract and one-page vita.
· THEME PANEL: send a title and brief (150 word) description of the theme; 150-word abstract for each paper and one-page vita for each panel member; a suggested moderator or discussant
· ROUND TABLE FORUMS OR DISCUSSIONS: send a title and brief (150 word) description of the topic and a complete list of the participants and chair/discussant with CVs. Time allocation—90 minutes
Send your submission by email as an MSWord attachment to program organizer James Cusick at jgcusick@ufl.edu (Please put “FHS Paper” in your email heading). Or send a paper copy to James Cusick, Special & Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Library,
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2012 EVENTS AND FEES
REGISTRATION:
NEW FOR 2012: ALL-INCLUSIVE PACKAGE............................................................................$270 ($40 Savings)
Includes:
Conference Registration (all days)
Awards Luncheon
Thursday Tour: Tampa Bay History Center
Thursday Reception
Thursday BEER TASTING BENEFIT
Friday Tour: Henry B. Plant Museum, Hyde Park and Davis Island
Friday Cocktail Reception (cash bar)
Friday Keynote Speaker Banquet
Saturday Picnic and Ybor City Tour
ALL INCLUSIVE SPOUSE/GUEST................................................................................$240 ($30 Savings)
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A LA CARTE:
Attendee Registration.....................................................................................................$120
Spouse/Guest with Attendee only.................................................................................$80
Student (ID Required).....................................................................................................$50
ONE DAY REGISTRATION:
Attendee one day..............................................................................................................$50
Student one day (ID Required)......................................................................................$40
EVENTS:
Thursday Awards Luncheon..........................................................................................$35
Thursday Tampa Bay History Center and Reception................................................$25
OR
Thursday Tampa Bay History Center/Reception/Benefit Beer Tasting...................$40
Friday Tour-Henry B. Plant Museum, Hyde Park and Davis Island.........................$25
Friday Society Reception (cash bar).............................................................................comp
Friday Keynote Speaker Banquet..................................................................................$65
Saturday Picnic catered by Columbia Restaurant/Ybor City Tour...........................$25
Schedule
PLEASE NOTE: ALL SESSIONS/PRESENTER/PAPERS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE
THURSDAY, May 24, 2012
8:00 a.m. Welcome
Ben Brotemarkle (Executive Director, Florida Historical Society)
Bob Buckhorn (Mayor of Tampa)
Rodney Kite-Powell (Tampa Bay History Center)
Kerri L. Post (Florida Department of State)
9:00-10:00 a.m. Session 1: Plenary Session
Robert E. Snyder (Professor, American Studies, USF-Tampa/FHS Board Member)
Photography at the Grass Roots: The Burgert Brothers of Tampa, Florida
10:15-11:30 a.m. Session 2: Change Comes Slowly:
The Evolution of Racial Violence in Madison County, Florida
Chair: Tracy Moore (FHS Board Member)
Tameka B. Hobbs (Visiting Professor, History, Florida Memorial University)
“Judge What We Say Over There By What We Do Over Here”:
Madison County, the Press, and Lynching in the Post-World War II South
Andrea L. Oliver (Associate Professor, History, Tallahassee Community College)
“Today is a Good Day for a Sit-In”: Civic Agency as seen by Rural Activist David Dukes, 1963 – 1965
Moderator: Will Guzmán (Assistant Professor, History, Florida A&M University)
10:15-11:30 a.m. Session 3: The Seminole Indians
Chair: Thomas McFarland (Florida Institute of Technology/FHS Board Member)
Jonathan Grandage (Graduate Student, History, FSU)
Becoming Seminole: Creating New Communities and Identities, 1858-1936
Lauren Thompson (Graduate Student, History, FSU)
The Legacy of the Seminole Wars within the American Civil War Political Discourse and Military Operations:
Sectional Strife and Secession Rhetoric, Contraband, and Guerilla Warfare
Patsy West (Seminole/Miccosukee Photographic Archive)
From Abiaki to Sam Jones: Interpreting a Culture Hero
10:15-11:30 a.m. Session 4: Contributed Papers
Chair: Emily R. Lisska (Executive Director, Jacksonville Historical Society/FHS Board Member)
José Fernández (Dean, College of Arts and Humanities, UCF/FHS Board Member)
Major General Carlos Roloff Mialofsky: A Polish Mambí in Florida
Patty L. Goodson (Anthropology Student, UCF) and
Gregg E. Harding (Florida Public Archaeology Network, East Central Region)
Searching for Brevard’s Forgotten Cemeteries: The Brevard County Historic Cemetery Recording Project
Charles Closmann (Associate Professor, History, UNF)
Voices from the Stream: an Oral History of St. Johns River Shad Fishermen, 1900 to 2000
11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Session 5: Ybor City’s History, Cooked Two Ways
Chair: Abel A. Bartley (Associate Professor, History, Clemson/FHS Board Member)
Gary R. Mormino (Frank E. Duckwall Professor of History, USF-St. Petersburg)
Italian Cuisine in Ybor City
Andrew T. Huse (Librarian, Special Collections, USF Library)
Feast and Famine in Ybor City
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11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Session 6: Tampa as a Seaport
Chair: José Fernández (Dean, College of Arts and Humanities, UCF/FHS Board Member)
Jesus Mendez (Associate Professor, History, Barry University)
Henry Plant, Port Tampa, and the Plant Steamship Line
Alan J. Bliss (Assistant Professor, History, UF)
Tampa’s Postwar Seaport Ambitions
11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Session 7: Round Table on Multimedia Resources For Florida History (Pt 1)
Chair/Moderator: Jonathan Grandage (Graduate Student, History, FSU)
Panelists
James Cusick (P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History, UF/FHS Board Member)
An overview of Florida Digital Collections Online
Daniel Schafer (Emeritus Profesor, History, UNF)
Florida History Online: A Project of UNF
Ben Brotemarkle (Executive Director, Florida Historical Society)
Florida Frontiers: The Radio Program of the Florida Historical Society
1:00 p.m. Awards Luncheon
FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012
8:00-9:30 a.m. Session 8: FAMU during the Civil Rights Movement
Chair: Ameenah Shakir (Assistant Professor, History, Florida A&M University)
Evelyn Jackson (Graduate Student, History, Florida A&M University)
Uncovering the Trail of the Tallahassee Civil Rights Foot Soldiers
‘I Wonder if it’s Really a Matter of Economics’: The Case of the Florida A&M Hospital
Will Guzmán (Assistant Professor, History, Florida A&M University)
James N. Eaton and the Rise of Black Studies in Florida
Reginald K. Ellis (Assistant Professor, History, Florida A&M University)
Commentator
8:00-9:30 a.m. Session 9: Road Rules—Florida and the Coming of the Automobile
Chair: Alan J. Bliss (Assistant Professor, History, UF)
Fon Louise Gordon (Associate Professor, History, UCF)
Automobility in Florida, 1904-1934
Martin T. Olliff (Associate Professor, History, Troy University Dothan Campus)
Pathfinding as Publicity: The Pensacola Journal’s Great-Lakes-to-the-Gulf Pathfinding Trip, 1911
David Burel (Graduate Student, History, UCF)
Florida’s Open Road: The Influence of the Tin Can Tourists of the World on Automobility and Tourism in the Sunshine State
Alan J. Bliss (Assistant Professor, History, UF)
Discussant
8:00-9:30 a.m. Session 10: Violence during the Era of Reconstruction
Chair: Tracy J. Revels (Professor, History, Wofford College)
James M. Denham (Professor, History, Florida Southern College)
Florida's Reconstruction Sheriffs
Dr. Marvin Dunn (Psychology, Ret., FIU)
Black Politician's as Targets of Violence
Daniel R. Weinfeld (Attorney/Independent Researcher)
The Jackson County War: Causes and Explanations
Tracy J. Revels (Professor, History, Wofford College)
Moderator
8:00-9:30 a.m. Session 11: Florida History on Film: The Lost Years of Zora Neale Hurston
Discussants
Ben Brotemarkle (Executive Director, Florida Historical Society)
N.Y. Nathiri (Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community)
Sandra Parks (Board Chair, Stetson Kennedy Foundation/FHS Board Member)
Jon White (Space Coast Government Television)
9:45-11:15 a.m. Session 12: The Civil War
Chair: Eliot Kleinberg (The Palm Beach Post)
R. Gregory Lande (Chief, Psychiatry Continuity Service, Walter Reed National Military Hospital)
The case of Private Lewis Payne, Co I, 2nd Florida Infantry: Madness, Malingering, or Malfeasance?
Judy Connolly (Graduate Student, UNF)
Fort Jefferson: At the Tip of Florida’s Civil War Experience
Thomas W. Logue (Attorney, Independent Researcher)
Confederate Constitution of 1861: Calhoun’s Republic
Tracy W. Upchurch (Assistant Professor, Law & History, Flagler College)
Garrison Towns and the Confederate Frontier: Southern Unionists in East Florida
9:45-11:15 a.m. Session 13: Segregated Education in Florida
Chair: Joe Knetsch (Independent Scholar)
Irvin D.S. Winsboro (Professor, U.S. History, Florida Gulf Coast University/FHS Board Member)
The Roots, Development, and Demise of Segregated Public Education in ‘Moderate’ Florida
Abel A. Bartley (Associate Professor, History, Clemson/FHS Board Member)
Original Sin: Education in Black and White in Jacksonville, Florida
Leonard R. Lempel (Professor, History, Daytona State College/FHS Board Member)
Daytona Beach Junior College and Volusia County Community College: A Case Study of Florida’s Dual Community Colleges
Joe Knetsch (Independent Scholar)
Discussant
9:45-11:15 a.m. Session 14: Borderlands
Chair: KC Smith (Curator of Education/Florida History Fair, Museum of Florida History, and FHS Board Member)
John King (Graduate Student, History, University of Texas at Tyler)
Revisiting West Florida as a Borderland, 1798-1813
Kathryn L. Beasley (Graduate Student, History, Valdosta State)
“I shall sleep either in hell or Amelia tonight”: Gregor MacGregor, Spain, the United States, and the Amelia Island Affair of 1817
Matthew Byron (Assistant Professor, History, Young Harris College)
Crossing Borders Can Be Very Satisfying: The Impotency of Florida’s Dueling Laws
Peter Ferdinando (Graduate Student, History, FIU)
Pedro Menéndez and the Ais Indians: An Environmental Explanation for Conflict on Florida’s East Coast, 1565-1573
9:45-11:15 a.m. Session 15: Florida History on Film: The Johns Committee
Panelists
Robert Cassanello (Assistant Professor, History, UCF/FHS Board Member)
Lisa Mills (Assistant Professor, Film, UCF)
Judith Poucher (Professor, History, Florida State College at Jacksonville)
Logan Kriete (UCF Alumni & film producer)
Amy Simpson (UCF)
11:30a.m.-1:00 p.m. Session 16: The Florida of Visitors & Retirees
Chair: James Cusick (P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History/FHS Board Member)
Jerry Watkins (Graduate Student, American Studies, King’s College London)
Perverts and Pansies and Sissies, Oh My! Queer Circulation and Communities in an Age of Moral Panic
Jody Pennington (Associate Professor, Media and Culture Studies, Aarhus University)
Bringing the North South: Developing and Marketing Sarasota, 1914-1926
Amanda M. Brian (Assistant Professor, History, Coastal Carolina University)
Faking History in a Planned Retirement Community
Pushpa Seth (Independent Researcher, Maitland)
Maitland’s Central Park Lands—Protected or in Peril?
11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Session 17: Eatonville Round Table:The Town that Freedom Built
Panelists
Ben Brotemarkle (Executive Director, Florida Historical Society)
Julian Chambliss (Associate Professor, History, Rollins College)
Robert Cassanello (Assistant Professor, History, UCF/FHS Board Member)
N.Y. Nathiri (Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community)
11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Session 18: Schools of Thought
Chair/Moderator: Judith Poucher (Professor, History, Florida State College at Jacksonville)
William E. McGoun (Journalist and anthropologist)
Keeping Alma Mater Alive
Gary G. DeSantis (Graduate Student, History, FSU)
FSU and the Seminole Tribe of Florida: Mascot Controversy, Agency, and Identity
Imani Asukile (Coordinator, Student Affairs, Pasco-Hernando Community College)
Black Power Movement at Hernando High School, 1968-1972
SATURDAY, MAY 26, 2012
8:00-9:00 a.m. Annual Membership Meeting
9:15-10:05 a.m. Session 19: People and Environment in Florida
Chair: Sherry Johnson (Associate Professor, History, FIU/FHS Board Member)
David P. McCally (Assistant Professor, History, Bethune-Cookman University)
Pragmatic Crackers: Florida Cattlemen and their Lives
Nathaniel Osborn (Graduate Student, History, FAU)
Oranges and Inlets: An Environmental History of Florida’s Indian River Lagoon
9:15-10:05 a.m. Session 20: Progress and Violence in the Jim Crow South (Part One)
Chair: Ameenah Shakir (Assistant Professor, History, Florida A&M University)
David H. Jackson, Jr. (Professor & Chair, History & Political Science, Florida A&M University)
Agency Among African American Businesspeople in Jacksonville, Florida, 1880-1930
Richard A. Buckelew (Associate Professor & Chair, History, Bethune Cookman University)
Arkansas’ Darkest Decades: Lynching in the Jim Crow Era
9:15-10:05 a.m. Session 21: Military and Community in Florida
Chair: Deborah L. Bauer (University of South Florida)
Eric P. Totten (Research Associate, Institute of Simulation and Training, UCF)
I Wonder How Many of the Augustinians of the Olden Time Will Ever Come Back: Union Occupation, Refugees, and
Demographic Change in St. Augustine’s Community, 1862-1865
Matt Coxe (Research Assistant, Institute of Simulation and Training, UCF)
A Timeless Bond Severed or Strengthened? The Relationship between the People of Central Florida and its
National Guard Unit, 2001-2010
10:15-11:30 a.m. Session 22: Tourism and Nature
Chair: Steve Noll (Senior Lecturer, History, UF)
Patrick Cosby (Visiting Assistant Professor, History, UCF)
Nature on a Leash: Paradise, Development, and Nature in Amelia Island, Florida
Billy Shields (Reporter, Miami/Dade County)
Riding the Merry-Go-Round: Laurence Rockefeller, Tourism, and Conservation in the U.S. Virgin Islands
Tom Berson (History, Stetson University)
Making a Northern City in the Post-Bellum South: Tourists and Immigrants in Jacksonville, 1865-1885
10:15-11:30 a.m. Session 23: Progress and Violence in the Jim Crow South (Part Two)
Chair: Ameenah Shakir (Assistant Professor, History, Florida A&M University)
Reginald K. Ellis (Assistant Professor, History, Florida A&M University)
Serving Too Many Masters: The William H. A. Howard Years at FAMC, 1923-1924
Lawrence Tookes (Graduate Student, History, Florida A&M University)
The Sunshine State not so Bright: The 1935 Lynching of Rubin Stacey
Darius J. Young (Assistant Professor, History, Florida A&M University)
Commentator
10:15-11:30 a.m. Session 24: The Arts in History
Chair: Leo Falcón (Coordinator of Academic Programs, Latin American and Caribbean Center, FIU)
Carol Moon (Cannon Memorial Library, St. Leo University)
Florida and Flamenco - From the Time of Edison's Early Motion Pictures
Ashley Hall (Graduate Student, History, Florida Gulf Coast University)
South Florida’s Gold Coast and Its Resemblance to the Harlem Renaissance
Liz Murphy Thomas (Artist & Photographer, Lincoln Memorial University)
The Land of Sunshine
10:15-11:30 a.m. Session 25: Round Table on Outreach in Florida History & Archaeology
Chair/Moderator: KC Smith (Curator of Education/Florida History Fair, Museum of Florida History, and FHS Board Member)
Panelists
Jennifer Brock (Museum Education Program Representative, Museum of Florida History)
Greg E. Harding (Outreach Coordinator, Florida Public Archaeology Network, East Central Region)
Ben DiBiase (Outreach Coordinator & Archivist, Florida Historical Society)
11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Session 26: Recalling the Struggle—Civil Rights and Civil Disobedience
Chair: Leonard R. Lempel (Professor, History, Daytona State College/FHS Board Member)
Doris Van Kampen-Breit (Cannon Memorial Library, St. Leo University)
The Monarch and the Lion: a Student Newspaper, a Catholic College, and Student Activism in the Era of Civil Disobedience
Charlotte Pressler (Professor, English & Philosophy, South Florida Community College)
Oral History Project, Decades of Change:Black and White Avon Park Residents Recall the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s
Dawn Cioffoletti (Graduate Student, History, Florida Gulf Coast University)
The St. Augustine, Florida, Protests of 1964 and Their Influences on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Revisionist Approach
11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Session 27: Civil War & Reconstruction
Chair: Thomas McFarland (Florida Institute of Technology/FHS Board Member)
Edward H. Wiser (Naval War College)
The Battle of Bayport, 1863
Joseph L. Cofield (Graduate Student, History, Florida Gulf Coast University)
The Freedmen’s Bureau Impact on Negro Education in Florida
Rhonda V. Asarch (Graduate Student, History, Florida Atlantic University)
Land Reform in Reconstruction Florida
11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Session 28: Communities and Development
Chair: James Cusick (P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History, UF/FHS Board Member)
Jennifer Kopf (Ph.D., Geography, Independent Scholar)
Against the Tide: Black Migration to Tampa, Florida during the Great Migration
Raymond A. Eberling (Adjunct Instructor, American Studies, Eckerd College)
The MacArthurs, Defense Industries, and the Post-War Boom of Northern Palm Beach County
Shannon Bassett (Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, USF & Bungalow Terrace resident) and
Susan Stewart (Construction Project Manager, Parsons Corporation)
Re-reading Tampa’s Bungalow Terrace unique use of space as a useful historical precedent for the design of meaningful
civic space in Florida’s ongoing urban development
11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Session 29: Round Table on Multimedia Resources For Florida History (Part 2)
Panelists
Connie Lester (Editor, Florida Historical Quarterly and Associate Professor, History, UCF)
The RICHES Project and the Florida Historical Quarterly Online
Jay Clune (Professor and Chair, History, UWF)
NextExit History: A Guide to Historical Places
Thomas Hallock (Associate Professor, Literature, USF—St. Petersburg)
Early Visions of Florida: Primary Sources Online
TOURS
Thursday, May 24
Tampa Bay History Center Tour 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
and Reception 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm $25
Ride the trolley from our hotel and take a guided tour through the interactive exhibits of the spectacular 60,000 square foot Tampa Bay History Center. Displays look at indigenous people of the area, Spanish explorers, pioneers, sports legends and railroad tycoons. You’ll experience a 1920s-era cigar store, a virtual boat ride up the Hillsborough River, and a simulated cattle drive. Enjoy the map gallery, a dramatic theater presentation on the early exploration of Florida, and the traveling exhibition “Spies, Traitors, Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America.” A reception at the museum follows the tour with hors d’oeuvres provided by the Columbia Café and a presentation on the History of Beer in Tampa. Cash bar available.
OR
Tampa Bay History Center Tour 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
with Reception AND Beer Tasting to benefit the FHS hosted by Cigar City Brewing
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm $40
Ride the trolley from our hotel and take a guided tour through the interactive exhibits of the spectacular 60,000 square foot Tampa Bay History Center. Displays look at indigenous people of the area, Spanish explorers, pioneers, sports legends and railroad tycoons. You’ll experience a 1920s-era cigar store, a virtual boat ride up the Hillsborough river, and a simulated cattle drive. Enjoy the map gallery, a dramatic theater presentation on the early exploration of Florida, and the traveling exhibition “Spies, Traitors, Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America.” A reception at the museum follows the tour with hors d’oeuvres provided by the Columbia Café and a presentation on the History of Beer in Tampa. A beer tasting to benefit the FHS will be hosted by Cigar City Brewing. Sample some of the Tampa area’s finest beer while helping the FHS! Cash bar also available.
Friday, May 25
Tour of the Henry B. Plant Museum, Hyde Park, and Davis Island
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm $25
Board a tour bus at our hotel that will take you first to the Henry B. Plant Museum. Enjoy the fanciful Moorish architecture of the 1891 Tampa Bay Hotel which attracted celebrated guests including Teddy Roosevelt, Sarah Bernhardt, and Babe Ruth to this opulent setting. The museum recreates the Tampa Bay Hotel of the late 1800s and interprets the Victorian lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. From there our bus will take you to the historic Hyde Park neighborhood which was established in 1882 near the Tampa Bay Hotel. We will take a brief walking tour before the bus continues to Davis Island. Many of the original 1920s Mediterranean-style structures on Davis Island are still standing and have received National Historic Designation as well as local protections. After a brief walking tour we will return to our hotel in plenty of time to get ready for the evening cocktail reception and banquet dinner.
Saturday, May 26
Society Picnic and Walking Tour of Ybor City including the Ybor City Museum,
with Box Lunch from the historic Columbia Restaurant
1:30 pm to 3:30 pm $25
Don’t miss the spectacular conclusion of our conference! We will enjoy a box lunch of local food prepared by the historic Columbia Restaurant at the Ybor City Museum. Following lunch we will take a guided walking tour of the museum and Ybor City, including a restored cigar worker’s home called a “cassita” from the early twentieth century.