Carrie Schlupp ’13 examines James Monroe’s apron as part of the “World of James Monroe” history course.

“The World of James Monroe” history course, offered for the first time this semester, provides insight into the late 1700s and early 1800s in an innovative way.

For more information, see “Bringing History to Life,” a feature article at the University of Mary Washington’s own “Great Minds at Work” newsletter.

Schedule:  (see here for a schedule file that can be downloaded)

History and American Studies Symposium

Spring 2013

University of Mary Washington – Department of History and American Studies

Friday, April 26, 2013

SESSION ONE. 9 AM. Monroe 210—Politics and Memory of the Civil War Era

Moderator: Dr. Porter Blakemore

James Hitch—The Federal Folly Along the Rappahannock (JM)

Hannah Laughlin—The Memory of Civil War Ironclads: The Battle of Hampton Roads in American Memory (JM)

Sarah E. Tagg—Analyzing the Rhetoric in the Seven Lincoln-Douglas Debates (WM)

SESSION TWO. 9 AM. Monroe 211—Forging National and Ethnic Identities in Ancient, Medieval, and Modern History

Moderator: Dr. Jess Rigelhaupt

James Myers—Let Me Be Frank: Conceptions of National Identity in the Frankish Kingdoms, 450-1108 (BO)

William T. Roark—”So Radical a Revolution”: The Ku Klux Act and Trials and the Retreat from Reconstruction (CF)

Stuart Bolling Smith—Warriors of the Faith: Understanding Spartan Identity in the History of Sparta’s Religious and Societal Practices (BO)

SESSION THREE. 10 AM. Monroe 210—The Politics of Food Production and Urban Redevelopment in American Towns and Cities

Moderator: Dr. Steven E. Harris

Samantha Corron—Garnering Social Capital to Create Change: A Case Study of the Fredericksburg Community Garden (KM)

A. A. Shipman—Southern Exposure Seed Exchange: Seed Preservation in the Twenty First Century (KM)

Rachel Tippett—Stigma of the Court: Urban Planning in Post World War II Richmond, Virginia (JR)

SESSION FOUR. 10 AM. Monroe 211—Battles and Campaigns of Total Wars in the 20^th Century

Moderator: Dr. Jeff McClurken

Dan Healy—The Allied Failure at Anzio: 1944 (PB)

Matthew Meyer—Ambiguity in Victory: The East Prussian Campaign of 1914 (PB)

Aakash Ramsay—It Was As If the Very Gates of Hell Had Opened: The United States Marine Corps in World War I (PB)

SESSION FIVE. 11 AM. Monroe 210—Midwives, Mothers, and Fighters: Constructions of Feminine Identity

Moderator: Dr. Susan Fernsebner

Kelsey Matthews—”Here Again, Let It Be Observed and Remembered”: Midwifery Education in Early America (KM)

Kendall Simonpietri—Ignorant Mothers: Infant Mortality and the Role of Mothers in the Early Twentieth Century (JM)

Amalia Richards—The Forgotten Fighters: British and American Women in the Second World War (PB)

SESSION SIX. 11 AM. Monroe 211—The Radical Politics of Anarchists and Assassins in American and Russian History

Moderator: Dr. Claudine Ferrell

Josh Furnary—Anarchist Interpretations of the Russian Revolution (SH)

Erin O’Neill—History’s Greatest ‘Who Done It?’: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy (CF)

Quincy Schmidt—Leon Czolgosz: Motives for the McKinley Assassination (WM)

SESSION SEVEN. 1 PM. Monroe 210—Steelworkers, Nurses, and Miners at the Forefront of the American Labor Experience

Moderator: Dr. Bruce O’Brien

Michael Corrigan—“When We Lost It, We Lost Everything”: An Oral History of Pittsburgh Steelworkers (JR)

Kelly FitzGibbon—Nurses, Labor and the National Labor Relations Act Amendment in 1974 (JR)

Calvin Sherwood—Raging Boomtowns Among Gold Mines: The Turbulent and Diverse Demography of the California Gold Rush (JM)

SESSION EIGHT. 1 PM. Monroe 211—American Popular Culture at the Crossroads of Race, Gender, and War

Moderator: Dr. Allyson Poska

Josephine Appiah—Muhammad Ali and Jack Johnson Creating a New Version of Black Masculinity in the 1910s and 1960s (CF)

Kaitlin Barrell—Protest Songs in the Vietnam Era: Movement Meets Counterculture (CF)

Rachel Icard—The Little Black Dress and the 1920s Cultural Climate that Led to Its Success in America (KM)

SESSION NINE. 2 PM. Monroe 210—The Role of Women in American and European History

Moderator: Dr. Will Mackintosh

Kelly McKenna—Women and Gender in the Workplace in World War II (CF)

Mary Ogle—Ladies of the Blue and Gray: Female Soldiers and Spies in the Civil War (JM)

Karita Redmon—Teresa, Reformer, Teacher, and Saint (AP)

SESSION TEN. 2 PM. Monroe 211—The Power and Rationale of Great Power Diplomacy

Moderator: Dr. Jason Sellers

Arielle Carrick—Israel: A Result of the Cold War (JR)

Will Hechmer—The Impact of the British Consulate in Japan from 1854 to 1870 (SF)

Jared Smith—Soviet Union: Significance of Art in the First Half of the Cold War (SH)

Greene is currently completing her doctorate at the University of California, San Diego. Her dissertation, “The Sound of Ghosts: Chuanqi, Ghost Opera, and the Staging of a New China,” considers the celebrated and vilified genre of chuanqi (supernatural tales) and guixi (ghost plays) in Chinese society, culture, and politics in the period after 1949.  The project builds on Greene’s earlier research on Meng Chao and his 1961 kun ghost opera, Li Huiniang.

For a closer look at her research, see Greene’s recent article, “A Ghostly Bodhisattva and the Price of Vengeance: Meng Chao, Li Huiniang, and the Politics of Drama, 1959-1979,” published in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 24.1 (Spring 2012). An abstract can be found here.