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Grand Valley State University

History Department

On Top of the World:

Sizing

Up

Global

History

The Great Lakes History Conference Friday, october 20 & Saturday, October 21, 2017

Grand Valley State University, Robert c. Pew Campus

L.V. Eberhard Center & Richard M. DeVos Center

Fulton Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan

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Michigan Council for History Education

The Michigan Council for History Education is organized and maintained to advocate and advance the study and teaching of History in schools throughout the state. Encourage and support the development and implementation of meaningful and effective History curriculum and instruction. Provide a program of professional activities for History educators and students. Provide for educational and professional interaction among History educators.

WELCOME

Welcome to the 2017 Great Lakes History Conference

It is the 43rd year that the GVSU History Department has organized this event in what has become a proud tradition generously supported over the years by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. We, the co-coordinators--David Eaton and Michael Huner--thank you for your participation, and we hope that you enjoy the wide variety of compelling events and sessions. This year’s conference,“On Top of the World: Sizing Up Global History”, will explore the avenues that connect empirical historical research on global history and area studies to those who present it to the public. It also will examine the ways such research on world history informs contemporary political conversations. In essence, we will contemplate how academic conversations move beyond pure research to public dissemination and political action. We thus invite you to join the contemplation, conversation, and fellowship. Enjoy!

History of the Great Lakes History Conference

Acting on the suggestion of Professors Charles Sorensen and Anthony Travis, the History faculty of Grand Valley State University established the Great Lakes History Conference in 1975 to allow faculty from teaching institutions in the Midwest to present their scholarship to colleagues. Until 1982, the conference was held in the famed Pantlind Hotel (Amway Grand) in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The conference has evolved since its founding, attracting faculty, graduate students, public historians, and independent scholars from across the country. The conference places special emphasis on fostering collaboration among scholars in Grand Rapids and West Michigan history, academic and non-academic alike.

Even as the conference changes, it remains a general-interest history conference drawing participants from all fields and all periods. The goals of the conference organizers remain:

- To gather historians to present and discuss their research - To bridge the divide between the university and the public - To cultivate interdisciplinary work

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SPONSORS

Friday, October 20, 2017

8:00 – 8:50 am | Registration & Remarks | Eberhard Center Atrium

8:00 - 10:30 am Light Continental Breakfast

Downtown Restaurant Guide located on Page 6

L.V. Eberhard Center Room Location Map located on Page 20

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Friday, October 20 WORKSHOPS/PANELS THROUGHOUT THE DAY

9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Session A

Panel 1 | [Azt]lansing: A Xicanx Community’s Fight for Representation Chair: Nora Salas (Grand Valley State University) Presenters: Ernesto Todd Mireles (Prescott College) Alex Yanish (Prescott College) Gage Stewart (Prescott College) Willa Murphy (Prescott College)

Panel 1

9:00 am – 12:30 pm

Room 215-A

Panel 2 | Great Lakes Latin American Research Workshop, Session 1 Chair: Michael Huner (Grand Valley State University) Presenters: Jeffrey Erbig, “Unfixing Names: Ethnonyms and Indigenous Pasts in the Río de la Plata” (University of California-Santa Cruz) Bridget Chesterton, “The Duke of Edinburgh and Asunción’s Modernizing Tourist Industry” (SUNY-Buffalo State) Commentators: Michael Huner (Grand Valley State University) Bridget Chesterton (SUNY-Buffalo State) Glen Goodman (University of Illinois) Jeffrey Erbig (University of California-Santa Cruz)

Panel 2

9:00 am – 12:30 pm

Foundation Room

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9:00 am - 3:15 pm | Session B

Panel 3 | Reacting to the Past Session Chair: David Eick (Grand Valley State University)

Preceptors: Cayla Dwyer (Grand Valley State University) Andrew Newton (Grand Valley State University) Amber Sackett (Grand Valley State University) Torey Tibbitts (Grand Valley State University)

Panel 3

9:00 am – 3:15 pm

Room 201

Lunch Break 12:30 to 2:00 pm

Downtown Restaurant Guide located on Page 6 and at the registration desk

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Friday, October 20 AREA RESTAURANT LUNCHEON OPTIONS

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2:00 - 3:30 pm | Session C

Panel 1| Journal of History Chair: Chad Lingwood (Grand Valley State University) Presenters: Cole Robinson, “Questions of Loyalty: Middling Carolinian Elites and the Construction of Sovereignty in the Atlantic World, 1772-1776” (Grand Valley State University) Matthew Goetz, “’The Hour of Manly Opposition:’ The Boston Protests as an Assertion of Masculinity, 1765-1776” (Marquette University) Mitchell Mockerman, "Men of the Fur Trade, ca. 1630-1770s" (Grand Valley State University) Darwin Perry, “The Black Church and Community Empowerment in Grand Rapids" (Grand Valley State University)

Panel 1

2:00 – 3:30 pm

Room 215-A

Panel 2| (MCHE) Historical Thinking in a Global Context: History Lessons Along the K – 16 Continuum Chair: Gordon Andrews (Grand Valley State University) Presenters: Deborah Thomas (Anderson Elementary) John Beck (Heritage Christian Academy) Brenda Mayes (Bates Elementary School) Michele Anderson (John Glenn High School)

Gilder Lehrman Award Winner:

Brenda Mayes (Wood-Brownstown Schools)

James & Annette McConnell Teachers of the Year Award Winners:

Elementary - Deborah Thomas (Anderson Elementary) Secondary - John Beck (Heritage Christian Academy)

Panel 2

2:00 – 3:30 pm

Room 215-B


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2:00 - 3:30 pm | Session C (continued)

Panel 3 | Global Cold War Chair: Eric Jones (Northern Illinois University) Presenters: Eric Jones, “World History Declassified: Using CIA Documents with Students to Engage Public History” (Northern Illinois University) Matthew Jagel, “United States Diplomatic History as World History” (Saint Xavier University) John Soares, “Cuba, Angola, and the End of U.S.-Soviet Détente” (University of Notre Dame)

Panel 1 | Lumumba Film Chair: David Eaton (Grand Valley State University)

Panel 3

2:00 – 3:30 pm

Room 215-H

Panel 4

Panel 1 3:45 – 5:15 pm

Room 201-203

3:45 - 5:15 pm | Session D

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3:45 - 5:15 pm | Session D (continued)

Panel 2| El Atzlán norteño: Southwest Detroit’s Creative Mexican-American Diaspora Chair: Shelli Rottschafer (Aquinas College) Presenters: Shelli Rottschafer (Aquinas College) Gabrielle VandenBerg (Aquinas College) Savannah Maddalena-Miller (Aquinas College) Alyssa Chartier (Aquinas College)

Panel 2

3:45 – 5:15 pm

Room 215-A

Panel 3| (MCHE) The Governor’s Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education Chair: Scott Durham (Michigan State University) Presenters: Scott Durham (Michigan State University) James Cameron (Michigan Department of Education) Corey Harbaugh (Fennville Public Schools)

Panel 3

3:45 – 5:15 pm

Room 215-B

MCHE Board Meeting 5:15 - 5:50 pm

Foundation Room

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5:15 - 5:50 pm | Light Hors d’oeuvres | Exhibition Hall

Sponsored by the Michigan Council for History Education

Keynote Address | Dr. Michelle Moyd 6:00-7:30 pm | Friday, October 20 | Loosemore Auditorium

Welcome: Professor David Eaton, Conference Coordinator, GVSU Introduction: Fredrick J. Antczak, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences GVSU

Friday, October 20 - EVENING EVENTS

Richard M. DeVos Center, GVSU Pew Campus

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Dr. Michelle Moyd

The keynote speaker, Dr. Michelle Moyd, is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Associate Director of the Center for Research on Race and Ethni i in Society at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of African soldiers in the First World War. She is the author of Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa (Ohio University Press, 2014) and the soon-to-be-published Africa, Africans, and the First World War (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). She also has written for The Guardian and the popular website f ica is a Coun y.

Radical Potentials:

World War I as Global South War

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Saturday, October 21 Workshops/panels throughout the day

Saturday, October 21

8:00 am | Registration | Eberhard Center Atrium

Light Continental Breakfast 8:00—10:30 am

8:15 - 10:00 am | Session A

Panel 1 | On Top of the World: Approaches to World History at the High School and College Level Chair: David Eaton (Grand Valley State University)

Presenters: Matt Drwenski, “Divergence and Convergence: Periodizing World History Courses” (University of Pittsburgh) David Eaton, “Exercise in Futility? A New Approach to Nationalism in the Classroom” (Grand Valley State University) Zachary Ross Morgan, “World History: A Thematic Approach” (Penn State University) Bill Strickland, “The Annotated Rubric in the World History Classroom” (East Grand Rapids High School) Jennifer Wahl, “Teaching at Both the High School and College Level: A Project Based Approach to Hands-on Learning vs. Lecture” (Loyalsock Township High School)

Panel 1

8:15 – 10 am

Room 201

Panel 2 | The Civil War Era in Historical Memory Chair: Scott Stabler (Grand Valley State University)

Presenters: Michael Burns, “Fields of Honor: Landscapes, Battlefield Preservation, and Civil War Memory” (Texas Christian University) Martin Hershock, “United States Colored Troops in Civil War Memory” (University of Michigan, Dearborn) Fred Johnson, “The Confederacy in Memory” (Hope College)

Panel 2

8:15 – 10 am

Room 215-B

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9:00 am - 12 pm | Session B

Panel 1| Great Lakes Latin American Research Workshop, Session 2 Chair: Michael Huner (Grand Valley State University) Presenters: Glen Goodman, “Consuming the Café Colonial: German Ethnicity and Touristic Migrant Marketplaces in Southern Brazil” (University of Illinois) Michael Huner, “The Subversive Whims of Paraguayan Military Deserters During the Era of the Great War, 1850-1868” (Grand Valley State University) Commentators: Elizabeth Shesko (Oakland University) Joel Stillerman (Grand Valley State University) Glen Goodman (University of Illinois) Elizabeth Gansen (Grand Valley State University) Jeffrey Erbig (University of California-Santa Cruz) Bridget Chesterton (SUNY-Buffalo State) Andrew Schlewitz (Grand Valley State University)

Panel 3

9:00 am – 12 pm

Foundation

Room

8:15 - 10:00 am | Session A (continued)

Panel 2 | The Civil War Era in Historical Memory (Continued)

Justin Sheldon, “Rethinking Reconstruction: Educating the Freedmen and Historical Memory” (Independent Scholar) Scott Stabler, “Robert E. Lee and Me: Growing up in Texas with General Lee” (Grand Valley State University) Thomas Summerhill, “Remembering the Copperheads: Myth, Reality, and Meanings of Lincoln’s Fire in the Rear” (Michigan State University)

Panel 2

8:15 – 10 am

Room 215-B

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Lunch for Conference Presenters and Special Guests—12 pm in West Gallery

Restaurant information on Page 6 of the program or at registration desk

10:15 am - 12:00 pm | Session C

Panel 1 | Roundtable Discussion: World War I Veteran’s History in a Transnational Comparative Text Chair: Jason Crouthamel (Grand Valley State University) Presenters: Jason Crouthamel (Grand Valley State University) Michelle Moyd (Indiana University) Devlin Scofield (Northwest Missouri State University) Michael Geheran (West Point)

Panel 1

10:15 am – 12 pm

Room 215-A

Panel 2| What is Disciplinary Literacy in World History? Implications for Teaching and Learning Chair: Tamara Shreiner (Grand Valley State University) Presenters: David Zwart (Grand Valley State University) Bob Bain (University of Michigan) Jana Pisani (Ferris State University) Gregory Dykhouse (Black River Public) Nadine Hall (Ann Arbor Greenhills)

Panel 2

10:15 am – 12 pm

Room 215-B

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Post film discussion with Professors Michelle Moyd and Louis Moore

Film Screening | I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO

1:00 –3:00 pm | Saturday, October 21 | Room 215C/D/E/F

Eberhard Center, GVSU Pew Campus

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3:15 - 5:00 pm | Session D

Panel 1| France and Empire Chair and Commentator: Lauren Janes (Hope College)

Presenters: Christopher J. Lee,“Toward a Revolutionary Humanism: Franz Fanon” (Lafayette University) Jennifer Sweatman, “Leïla Sebbar” (Washington and Jefferson College)

Panel 1

3:15– 5:00 pm

Room Foundation

Room

Panel 2 | Reflections on Enlightenment Chair: David Eick (Grand Valley State University)

Presenters: Michael Kimaid, “Words and Power: The Influence of Enlightenment Scientific Discourse on Historical Inquiry” (Bowling Green State University) Amber Sackett, “The Anti-Islamic Narrative in Diderot's Encyclopédie (1751-72)” (Grand Valley State University) Andrew Newton, “Diderot’s (Pseudo-/Proto-) Feminist Contrarieties” (Grand Valley State University) Cayla Dwyer, “Recent Research on the Counter Enlightenment" (Grand Valley State University)

Panel 2

3:15– 5:00 pm

Room 215-A

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3:15 - 5:00 pm | Session D (continued)

Panel 3| Re-Thinking the World History Survey: New Ideas & Approaches Chair: Andrew Peterson (Grand Valley State University)

Presenters: Andrew Peterson, “A Bigger World: Reforming the World History Survey using ‘Big History’” (Grand Valley State University) Alex Holowicki, “Using Maui History and Hawaiian Language Sources to Teach the Historiography of World History” (University of Hawaii, Maui College) Craig Benjamin, “Big History and Liberal Education” (Grand Valley State University) Whitney Dirks-Schuster, “World History (without the) Textbooks” (Grand Valley State University) Leah Gregory, "A Gendered Challenge of the Axial Age’s Role in the World History Survey of the 1st Millennium BCE” (San Diego State University)

Panel 3

3:15– 5:00 pm

Room 201

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Conference events are

LIB 100 and LIB 201 approved!

Thank you! David Eaton and Michael Huner, Co-Coordinators of the 2017 Great Lakes History Conference, would like to thank… Co-Sponsors: History Department College of Liberal Arts and Sciences African & African American Studies Area and Global Studies Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies Latin American and Latino/a Studies Michigan Council for History Education (MCHE)

Great Lakes History Conference Committee Members: Gordon Andrews Grace Coolidge Jason Crouthamel Gabriele Gottlieb Chad Lingwood Sean O’Neill Tamara Shreiner Special Thank You to: President Thomas J. Haas, Grand Valley State University Provost Maria Cimitile, Grand Valley State University Dean Frederick J. Antczak, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dr. William Morison, Department of History Chair Dr. Carolyn Shapiro-Shapin, Acting Chair, Department of History Reda DeYoung, Department of History Secretary Michelle Duram, Department of History Office Coordinator GVSU Department of History Student Workers: Jennifer, Natalie, Amanda, Claire Information Technology Staff Staff of L.V. Eberhard Center and Richard M. DeVos Center Experience Grand Rapids

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N OT E S

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Conference parking is

available in the Fulton Street

parking lot on Friday and

Saturday on a first come,

first served basis. Please

inform the attendant that

you are with the conference.

Eberhard Center

301 Fulton Street West