KHTA Meeting Schedule

Friday, March 31-Saturday, April 1, 2006

Friday

2:15 - 3:30 Executive Committee Meeting, Social Science Building, Room 14

2:30-6:00 Registration, Hospitality, Book Exhibits, Levin Room, Student Union,

3:30-5:00 Social Science Building, Room 15

On Line, Digital Sources, and Other Sources for Teachers

Chair: Anita Specht, Kansas Wesleyan University

Heather Wade, University Archivist, Emporia State University
"Using the Walter M. Anderson Collection of Historic Photographs to Teach Kansas History."

Henry Fortunato, Director, kansashistoryonline, University of Kansas
"Kansas History, On Line."

James Barkley, Education Director, Liberty Memorial, Kansas City.
"Lessons of Liberty: WWI in the Classroom."

Social Science Building, Room 16

Transformation and Transition

Chair: Todd Leahy, Fort Hays State

Stacy Prickett, Graduate Student, Fort Hays State
"The Civil War and the Transformation of Southern Women."

Kevin Derby, Registrar, Bethany College
"The Fire Eater as Reactionary: The Mind of Edmund Ruffin."

Raymond Nolan, Graduate Student, Fort Hays State
"California v. Cabazon: The Beginning and End of Indian Gaming"

6:00 - 7:15 Reception (see map for location)

Brick Street Gallery, Small World Gallery

7:30 - 9:30 Dinner: Lindquist Hall

Speaker: James Leiker, Associate Professor, Johnson County Community College
“Race, Region & Representation: The Lives and Memoirs of Four African American Men in the West”

Saturday April 1

7:30-8:30 Continental Breakfast Cafeteria

8:00-11:30 Registration, Hospitality, Book Exhibits, Levin Room

8:15-9:45 Social Science Building, Room 15

Bicentennial Reflections: Zebulon Montgomery Pike and the American West

Chair: Virgil Dean, Director for Publications, Kansas Historical Society

Leo Oliva, former university professor, editor of Wagon Tracks, member, Zebulon Pike Bicentennial Commission
"Enemies and Friends: Zebulon Montgomery Pike and Facundo Melgares in the Competition for the Great Plains, 1806-1807."

Michael Olsen, Division of Communications, Humanities and Technical Studies, Pikes Peak Community College.
"Zebulon Pike and American Popular Culture, or Has Pike Peaked?"

Richard Gould, Site Administrator, Pawnee Indian Museum State Historic Site
"An Uncertain Welcome: Zebulon Pike Meets the Pawnee"

Social Science Building, Room 16

Student Award Winning Papers

Chair: Kim Perez, Fort Hays State

Social Science Building, Room 17

The "Ins" and "Outs" of Baseball

Chair: Mark Corriston, National Archives, Central Plains Region

Tim Rives, National Archives, Central Plains Region
"The Unique Role of Kansas in Prison Baseball History."

Travis Larsen, Graduate Student, Fort Hays State
"Against All Odds: Curt Flood and the Legal Challenge of Baseball's Reserve Clause."

9:45-10:00 Break

10:00-11:30 Social Science Building Room 15

American Politics: The 1940s and 1950s

Chair: Zbysek Brezina, Bethany College

Norman Saul, Professor of History, University of Kansas
"The Program that Won the War?: Reappraising American Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union, 1941-1945."

James Duram, Emeritus Professor of History, Wichita State University
"The Challenge to Moderation: Southern Correspondence with the Eisenhower Administration Regarding Desegregation, 1954-1960."

Social Science Building Room 16

Kansas History

Chair: Robert Knecht, Kansas Historical Society

Isaias McCaffery, Independence Community College
"Mennonite Low German Sayings and Proverbs in Kansas: Language Erosion and Conservation of Ethnic Heritage in the Wake of Language Extinction

John Mack, Labette Community College
"The Settling of the Osage Ceded Territory: Conflict or Cooperation?"

11:30 - 12: 15 Business meeting. Adoption of new constitution and bylaws.

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch: Lindquist Hall

Presentation: William Tsutsui, Associate Professor, University of Kansas

“Gamma Rays, DDT, and Giant Insects: Screening Unseen Horrors in the 1950s”

2:00 Announcements and adjournment

revised, 3-6-06