The North Carolina Association of Historians

Annual Meeting Program 2010

The North Carolina
Association of Historians

March 26-27, 2010
Barton College, Wilson, NC

Friday, March 26

Registration & Welcome—12:45-1:15 p.m.

Issues in World History—1:15-2:15 p.m.
Moderator: Dorothea Martin, Appalachian State University

Fuabeh Fonge, North Carolina A & T State University
The Fate of African Megalomaniacal Dictators

Jingbin Wang, Elizabeth City State University
The Poverty of Dialectics in Mao’s China Studies

Financing the Golden Age of Rail—2:15-2:45 p.m.
Moderator: James Martin, Campbell University

Robert Carl Voigt, Attorney at Law
“Century Bonds”: One-Hundred Year Investments in America’s Railroads

Break—2:45-3:00 p.m.

Race, Ethnicity, & Education in 20th-Century America—3:00-4:30 p.m.
Moderator: Jeff Broadwater, Barton College

Richard E. Mitchell, Auburn University
From Repression to Reform: The Black Experience in Alabama Crime and Punishment

Lenwood G. Davis, Winston-Salem State University
James E. Shepard: Educator, Historian, and Scholar

James Martin, Campbell University
Harry Golden and the Civil Rights Era

Roundtable—4:30-5:30 p.m.
Moderator: Rebecca Seaman, Elizabeth City State University

Topic: Proposed New Department of Public Instruction Guidelines for History in North Carolina Public Schools

NCAH Annual Business Meeting—5:30-6:00 p.m.

Dinner, Hardy Alumni Hall—6:00 p.m.

Gerald J. Prokopowicz, East Carolina University
Did Abraham Lincoln Own Slaves? and Other Hard Questions

Saturday, March 27

Politics, Protest, & Reform in the American South—9:00-10:30 a.m.
Moderator: Gael Graham, Western Carolina University

Matthew Poteat, Central Virginia Community College
Mission Impossible: Confederate Governors in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Study in Leadership

Bruce E. Stewart, Appalachian State University
While You Are Crying, “Law,” Our Little Ones Will Cry, “Bread”: Liquor Manufacturing and Prohibition in Western Carolina during the Civil War

Jeffrey M. Leatherwood, West Virginia University,
Between the Wheels: Quest for Streetcar Unionism in the Carolina Piedmont, 1919-1922

Break—10:30-10:45 a.m.

Issues in European History—10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Moderator: Michael J. Roberto, NC A & T State University

Samuel Williams, Appalachian State University
A Million Dead and a Million Enslaved: Caesar in Gaul and its Political Ramifications

Glen Bowman, Elizabeth City State University
Martin Luther’s On the Jews?: An “Eliminationist" Piece of Polemic?

Matthew D. Henning, Elizabeth City State University
Holocaust Education in Germany and the United States

Unless otherwise indicated, all sessions will be held in the Multi-Purpose Room in Hardy Alumni Hall.

Questions?

For questions about the 2010 annual meeting, contact Professor Jeff Broadwater at Barton College.