All sessions will be in the Daniel-Mickel Center on the 8th floor of the University of South Carolina's Darla Moore School of Business, except for the keynote addresses, which will be in the Belk Auditorium on the lower level of the Moore School of Business. The Historical Society is grateful to the University of South Carolina's College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History, and Institute for African American Research for their generous support of this conference, for which the Historical Society also owes thanks to the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles and History, the University of North Carolina's Global Research Institute, the University of South Carolina Press, and the Watson-Brown Foundation. 

Map of the Daniel-Mickel Center
Map of the University of South Carolina Campus


THURSDAY MAY 31
1:00-5:00pm
REGISTRATION
Capstone House lobby

6:00-7:30pm - Top of Carolina, top floor of Capstone House
WELCOME RECEPTION
Sponsored by the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles and History


7:30-9:00PM - Belk Auditorium
INTRODUCTION
Lacy K. Ford, Jr., University of South Carolina

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
"Whose History Is It Anyway? Reaching Real People"
Walter Edgar, University of South Carolina

FRIDAY JUNE 1
8:30-4:40pm
REGISTRATION
Daniel-Mickel Center Lobby

8:30-10:00am
Session IA - Room A
HISTORY AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Chair: Donald A. Yerxa, Historically Speaking / RIHA

“The Rise of Youth Counter Culture after World War II and the Popularization of Historical Knowledge”
Theresa M. Richardson, Ball State University

“Onanism: Charles Knowlton and Writing for Young Adults”
Dan Allosso, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

“Using Computer Games to Popularize History”
James Cobb, Cardinal Stritch University



10:15-11:45am
Session  IIA - Room A
IS BIOGRAPHY HISTORY?

Chair: Hans L. Eicholz, Liberty Fund

“The Life of a Mind: The Collected Writings of Fredric Bastiat”
David M. Hart, Liberty Fund

“History, Praxeology, and the Promise of Biography”
Peter Mentzel, Liberty Fund
 
“The Devolution of Telos: Persönlichkeit and the Origins of the Idea of Context,”
Hans Eicholz, Liberty Fund


Session IIB - Room JK
RELIGIOUS HISTORY AND THE PUBLIC IMAGINATION

Chair: John Fea, Messiah College

“Jonathan Edwards Redivivus: Contemporary Reformed Evangelical Uses of Popular History”
Adam S. Brasich, Florida State University

“Rob Bell, News Media, and the Role of Historians”
Charles A. McCrary, Florida State University

“Popularizing the Sacred: Religious History and the Public Imagination”
Jason Wallace, Samford University


Session IIC - Room 855
CREATING AND CORRECTING HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE

Chair: Christopher Shannon, Christendom College

 “The Strange Career of the Monograph in American Conservatism”
Seth J. Bartee, Virginia Tech

"Presidential Memoir and Biography: Popular History or Serious Profiles in Power and Character?”
Jean-Paul Benowitz, Elizabethtown College

"'We the (Equal) People': Popular Confusion of the Constitution & Declaration of Independence"
Shawn Selby, Kent State University at Stark


11:45-1:00pm
LUNCH
Gibbes Court, on the 1st floor of Capstone House


1:00-2.30pm
Session IIIA - Room A
CONSTRUCTING HISTORICAL TRADITION IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE: THE AMERICAN SOUTH AS A CASE STUDY

Chair: John Mayfield, Samford University

“Thomas Watson and the Populist Reconstruction of Jeffersonian Agrarianism”
 Christopher Michael Curtis, Claflin University

“‘The Monstrous Wilderness of Mr. Faulkner’s Imagination’: Stark Young and the Popular Struggle for Southern Identity”
Sarah E. Gardner, Mercer University

“The Transformation of South Carolina's Public History, 1862-2012:  The
Perspective from the Simms Initiatives”
David Moltke-Hansen, William Gilmore Simms Initiatives
 

Session IIIB - Room JK
LISTENING IN: MUSIC AND AMERICAN HISTORY

Chair: P.C. Richardson, University of South Carolina

“Remixing the Master: Music, Race, and the Central Theme of Southern History Revisited”
Michael T. Bertrand, Tennessee State University

“A Song Is Born (The Public Intellectual)”
Jeff Pennig, Austin Peay State University
Song: "When Anything Goes"


Session IIIC - Room 855
POPULARIZING JACKSONIAN AMERICA AND “FRONTIER” HISTORY

Chair: Heather Richardson, Boston College

“Old Hickory Just Got All Sexypants: History and Politics in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson”
Mark R. Cheathem, Cumberland University

“Moving West: Migrations of a Yankee Family across the Old Northwest, 1780-1869”
Dan Allosso, University of Massachusetts, Amherst


3:00-4:30pm
Session IVA - Room A
THE PERILS AND PROMISE OF POPULAR HISTORY IN A DIGITAL AGE: A ROUNDTABLE  DISCUSSION
 
Chair: Christopher Shannon, Christendom College

“History in HTML: Reimagining Relationships Between Authors and Audiences”
Yoni Appelbaum, Brandeis University

“Exhibits Without Borders: Doing Public History in a Digital Age”
Christopher Cantwell, Newberry Library

“The Perils and the Promise of Historical Blogging”
John Fea, Messiah College

“History in Cyber-Space: Old Questions, New Modes”
Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe, Northwestern University


Session IVB - Room JK
PUBLIC HISTORY AND LOCAL HISTORY

Chair: Carole Watterson Troxler, Elon University

“Historical Travel Writing and Public History”
Gerald Lee Gutek, Loyola University

“Writing Local History”
Ralph B. Levering, Davidson College

“Popularizing Historical Knowledge: State and Local Journals as a Venue”
Robert Zeidel, University of Wisconsin, Stout


Session IVC - Room 855
TEXTBOOKS AND THE POPULARIZATION OF HISTORY

Chair: Linda K. Salvucci, Trinity University

“A Most Successful Case of Historical Popularization: R. R. Palmer’s A History of the Modern World”
James Friguglietti, Montana State University, Billings

“Ideology and Education: Economic Education in Texas Public Schools, 1945-1970”
Jeff Hassmann, Lakeview College


SATURDAY JUNE 2
8:30-4:40pm
REGISTRATION
Daniel-Mickel Center Lobby

8:30-10:00am
Session VA - Room A
POPULAR HISTORY: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

Chair: Donald A. Yerxa, Historically Speaking / RIHA

“Pride in Popular History: The Case for Holding the Course”
Zachery Fry, Ohio State University

“Prejudice Against Popular History:  The Costs of Holding the Course”
Mark Grimsley, Ohio State University


Session VB - Room JK
LEGAL HISTORY AS POPULAR HISTORY

Chair: Deborah Beckel, Joel Williamson Visiting Scholar, Southern Historical Collection

“Abraham Lincoln’s Suspensions of Habeas Corpus in Public and Scholarly Memory”
Robert Faith, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

“Between Evidence, Rumor, and Popular Perception: Marshal Lamon and the 'Plot' to Arrest Chief Justice Taney”
Phillip W. Magness, George Mason University

“The Politics of Habeas during the Civil War and Reconstruction”
Justin J. Wert, University of Oklahoma

“General Thomas Ewing’s Infamous Actions Hostile to Civil Liberties: General Order Numbers 10 and 11”
Timothy C. Westcott, Park University


Session VC - Room 855
POPULAR HISTORY, WOMEN’S HISTORY

Chair: Chris Beneke, Bentley College

“Traveling from the 18th to the 20th Century with Dorothy Quincy Hancock, Margaret Fuller, Sally Baxter Hampton, and Edith Nourse Rogers”
Marcia Synnott, University of South Carolina

“Knowledgeable Human Capital and Education in the Eisenhower Administration: The Role of Women”
Erwin V. Johanningmeier, University of South Florida


10:15-11:45am
Session VIA - Room A
GHENT, USA: LOCAL HISTORY AND DOCUMENTARY FILM

Chair: Wilfred M. McClay, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Joseph A. Amato, Southwest Minnesota State University


Session VIB - Room JK
WRITING FOR NEWSPAPERS

Chair: Jeffrey Vanke, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget 

“Writing for the Press, An Exercise in Expunging What We Learned in Writing Dissertations”
Lawrence A. Clayton, University of Alabama

“From ‘Sweet Ice Tea’ to ‘What We Think Happened’:  The Challenges, Pleasures, and Rewards of Writing a Popular History Column”
William E. Ellis, Eastern Kentucky University
 

Session VIC - Room 855
POPULAR HISTORY FOR TOUGH AUDIENCES

Chair: Charles B. Baxley

“Local History: Perils and Pleasures of Conveying Professional Research to Local Residents”
Carole Watterson Troxler, Elon University

“Murder Histories: Perils and Pleasures of Using Dramatic, Violent Narratives for Teaching College Students”
Deborah Beckel, Joel Williamson Visiting Scholar, Southern Historical Collection


11:45-1:00pm
LUNCH
Gibbes Court, on the 1st floor of Capstone House


1:00-2:30pm
Session VIIA - Room A
WHEN POPULAR MEETS PEDAGOGY: THE USES AND MISUSES OF HISTORICAL FICTION IN THE UNDERGRADUATE CLASSROOM

Chair: Scott Marler, University of Memphis

“Narrative, Memory, and Forgetting: Presenting the Absent in the History Classroom”
Paul A. Custer, Lenoir-Rhyne University

“Achieving Unpopular Ends by Popular Means: Pedagogical Strategies of Historical Fiction Writing”
Veronica Savory McComb, Lenoir-Rhyne University


Session VIIB - Room 855
IDENTITIES, MEMORIES, AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Chair: Pamela Edwards, Jack Miller Center

“American Identity”
Peter Gibbon, Boston University

“Popular History and Myth-Making: The Role and Responsibility of First World War Historians in the Centenary Commemorations, 2014-2018”
Catriona Pennell, University of Exeter

“Policy Entrepreneurship as a Policy-History Heuristic: The Survival of the National Endowment for the Arts in the 1990s”
Gordon E. Shockley, Arizona State University


3:00-4:30pm
Session VIIIA - Room A
CATHOLIC FAITH COMMUNITIES AS AN AUDIENCE FOR PUBLIC HISTORY

Chair: Christopher Shannon, Christendom College

“Historical Catechesis in the General Audiences of Benedict XVI, 2007-2011”
Christopher O. Blum, Thomas More College of Liberal Arts

“Responsible Historical Fiction? - The Spanish Match”
Brennan C. Pursell, DeSales University

“Saints, Sinners & Scholars:  Eamon Duffy’s Catholic Public History”
Christopher Shannon, Christendom College


Session VIIIB - Room JK
THE POPULARIZATION OF HISTORY IN BRAZIL

Chair: Martin J. Burke, CUNY Graduate Center

“The Magazine Revista de História: A Brazilian Model of Scientific Spreading”
Luciano Figueiredo, Universidade Federal Fluminence
 
 “The TV Show/Youtube Channel Leituras da História as an Example of Scientific Accountability”
Oldimar Cardoso, University of Augsburg


Session VIIIC - Room 855
LITERATURE AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY

Chair: Anna Koivusalo, University of Helsinki

“The History Behind the Poetry of Natasha Trethewey”
Daniel Littlefield, University of South Carolina

“Confronting and Correcting the ‘Cheap, Popular Edition’: Hemingway, Dorman-Smith, and the Chivalrous Quest for Historical Truth” 
 Ken Startup, Williams Baptist College


6:00-7:30pm - Top of Carolina, top floor of Capstone House
RECEPTION
Sponsored by the University of South Carolina's College of Arts and Sciences and Department of History


7:30-9:00pm - Belk Auditorium
CHRISTOPHER LASCH LECTURE
"The Politics of Dead Knowledge: What If the Death of History Is a Suicide?"
Jane Kamensky, Brandeis University