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2007 Illinois History Symposium
Twenty-Fifth
Annual Illinois History Symposium:
Knowledge on the Prairie
Bone Student Center
Illinois State University, Normal
PRELIMINARY Schedule of Presentations
Thursday, February 15
8-9:30 am:
Registration
(Prairie Room)
11:00 am:
Plenary Session (Prairie Room)
The Founding of Illinois State
Normal University:
Normal School or State University?
John B. Freed, Distinguished Professor Emeritus,
History, Illinois State University
1:00 pm:
ISU Founders' Day Lecture
(Braden Auditorium)
David McCullough, PhD, Pulitzer
Prize-winning Historian
Friday, February 16, 2007
8-9:30 am:
Registration
(Prairie Room)
Concurrent Morning Sessions
(9:00 am - 10:30 am)
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Session I: The
Price of Freedom (3
West Lounge)
Chair: Roger Bridges, Illinois State Historical
Society
Commentator:
Shirley
Portwood, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
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Chicago
and the Underground Railroad
Larry McClellan, Pastor 1st Christian
Church, Chicago Heights |
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An
Unwelcome Presence: African Americans in Antebellum
Union County
Robert Spellman, Southern Illinois
University-Carbondale |
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Black
and White: A History of the 1st Regiment
Illinois Colored Volunteers
Carl Adams |
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Session II:
Demonstration: History and Technology
(Ballroom)
Moderator: Terri Cameron, Illinois State Historical
Society
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Using
GIS Satellite Technology to Teach Illinois History
Jenni Dahl, John Taylor, and Students of Springfield
High School |
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Session III: Educating
Women at ISU (College of Business
132)
Chair: Sandra Harmon, Illinois State University
Commentator:
Michael Batinski, Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale
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An
Unusual Person: June Rose Colby and Literacy
Instruction at Illinois State Normal University
Lori A. Ostergaard, Illinois State University |
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The
Impact of World Wars on the Experience of Women on the
Campus at Illinois State Normal University
Jo Ann Rayfield, Illinois State University |
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Sarah
Raymond: A Case Study of a Female Education Leader
Ahead of Her Time
Monica Cousins Noraian, Illinois State University |
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Session IV:
Activists and Abolitionists
(3 East Lounge)
Chair: Roland Cross, Illinois State Historical
Society
Commentator:
Stacy
Robertson, Bradley University
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The Short Bobsleds’ Approach to Owen Lovejoy
and Archibald Williams
William Moore, Lovejoy Society |
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Are You Still Alive?’: Letters of Elizabeth
Lovejoy
Jane Anne Moore, Lovejoy Society |
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Reverend James Frazier Jaquess and Abraham
Lincoln, 1862-1865
Patricia Burnette, MacMurray College |
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Concurrent Morning Sessions
(11:00 am - 12:00 pm)
Four concurrent sessions, four different rooms
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PANEL: Analyzing the Big Picture through the Lens
of Local History, Part I
Presenters: American History Teachers’ Collaborative,
Urbana
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Part1: Drop me a Line: Connecting Primary
Sources and Letter Writing to the Larger Historical
Landscape (College of Business
133)
Chris Adrian, Jefferson Middle School, Champaign |
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Part 2:
Seeing the World Through New Eyes: A Look at How Film
has, and Continues to, Affect our Vision of the World
(College of Business
148)
Chuck Kopliknski, Urbana Middle School |
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Part 3: Lesson Study: What is History and
How Do We Know It?
(College of Business
150)
Alexis Jones and Tiffany Clark, Urbana School
District |
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Part 4: Campbell Soup: Discrimination and
the Committee on Fair Employment
Donald Owen, Urbana School District
(College of Business 149) |
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12:00 Brown
Bag Lunch Presentation
(Circus Room)
Preservation Summer
Robert Swenson, Southern Illinois
University-Carbondale
Concurrent Afternoon
Sessions (1:15 pm - 2:45 pm)
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Session VI:
PANEL: Lincoln's Friends and the University
(3 East Lounge)
Moderator:
Tim Townsend, Lincoln Home National Historic Site
Panelists:
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Robert Eckley, President emeritus,
Illinois Wesleyan University |
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Ms. Jeani Stark, Illinois State University
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Mark Plummer, Professor emeritus history,
Illinois State University |
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Session VII:
PANEL: Great Books in Illinois History
(3 West Lounge)
Moderator:
Redd Griffin, Illinois State Historical Library
Panelists:
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William Craig Rice, President, Shimer College |
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Daniel Born, editor of The Common Review,
quarterly magazine of the Great Books Foundation |
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Claire Pearson, Graham School of General Studies,
University of Chicago |
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Session VIII:
PANEL: Strategies and Outcomes: The Gubernatorial
Election of 2006
(Ballroom)
Moderator:
Herbert Channick, Illinois State Historical
Library
llinois Issues
Panelists:
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Mike Lawrence, Director of the Public Policy
Institute, SIU-Carbondale |
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Chris Mooney, University of Illinois at
Springfield |
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Peggy Boyer Long, Illinois Issues |
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John Jackson, Professor emeritus,
Department of Political Science, SIU-Carbondale |
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Session IX: “Teaching Native American History Online”
(College of Business 148)
Moderator: Robert McColley, University of
Illinois-Urbana/Champaign
Demonstration by:
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Frederick Hoxie, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
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Michael Sherfy, Ohio State
University, Newark |
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Session
X: PANEL: Analyzing the Big Picture through the Lens of
Local History, Part II (College of
Business 132)
Moderator: Robyn Williams, Harrisburg High
School, Illinois State Historical Society
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Chinese
Immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Why
Do Many Large American Cities have a China Town?
Don Barbour, Urbana Middle School |
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Strike
to Become More Human!
Mark Foley, Urbana Middle School
American History Teachers’ Collaborative, Urbana
School District |
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Concurrent Afternoon
Sessions (3:15 pm - 4:45 pm)
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Session XI: Pioneering Education
in Illinois (3 East Lounge, Bone
Student Center)
Chair: Patricia Walton,
Kline Creek Farm,
Illinois State Historical Society
Commentator:
Wolf Fuhrig, Illinois College
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Illinois State University in
Springfield: Pioneering in Lutheran Education
Terri Cameron, Illinois State Historical Society |
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Teacher, Lawyer, Congressman:
The Career of John R. Eden, early ISU Trustee
Robert D. Sampson, University of Illinois |
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It Started Before Dewey: Morgan
Park Academy as Prep School for the University of
Chicago
Barry Kritzberg, Morgan Park Academy |
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Session
XII: Theology and the Classroom (Old
Main)
Chair: Charlotte Renehan, Illinois State Historical
Society
Commentator:
Rand Burnette, MacMurray College
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New Wine into Old Wine Skins:
Transition and Conflict at Wheaton College in the 1860s
David E. Maas, Wheaton College |
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Reconciling Adventist Theology
with the Building of a College
Susan Palmer, Aurora University |
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Lyceum on the Prairie: A Step
Toward the Professionalism of Knowledge, or Humanistic
Dead End?
Stewart L. Winger, Lawrence Technological
University |
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Session
XIII: PANEL: The Civil Rights Struggle in Cairo, Illinois
(3 West Lounge, Bone Student Center)
Moderator: Lawrence Hansen, Illinois State Historical
Society
Panelists:
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Michael Seng, John Marshall Law
School |
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Jake Blevans |
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Larry Ruemmler, Land of Lincoln,
Mt. Vernon |
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Preston Ewing, Cairo |
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Session
XIV: PANEL: The Conditions of Teaching History in the
Public School of Illinois (College
of Business 148)
Moderator: David W. Scott, Illinois State Historical
Society
Illinois Council for the Social Studies Panelists:
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John Craig, Illinois State Board of
Education |
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Roger LaRaus, National Lewis
University |
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Fred Drake, Illinois Council for
the Society Studies |
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Robyn Williams, History Teacher,
Harrisburg High School |
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Session XV:
PANEL: Analyzing the Big Picture through the Lens of Local
History, Part III (College of
Business 132)
Moderator: John Weck, Illinois State Historical
Society
Illinois Council for the Social Studies Panelists:
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Exploring the Past: Exposing
Students to Different Times in History Through Reading
and Writing
Mary Reger, Robeson Elementary School, Champaign |
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Civil Liberty for All: To Be or
Not to Be
Izona Burgess, Marianne Whitacre, Jennifer Varvel,
Champaign Unit 4 Schools
American History Teachers' Collaborative, Urbana School
District |
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6:30 pm
Symposium Banquet (Bone
Student Center Banquet Hall)
Keynote Speaker: Douglas L Wilson
President Lincoln's Hidden Asset
Saturday, February 17, 2006
8:30-9:45
am: Registration
Concurrent Morning Sessions
(10:00 am - 11:30 am)
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Session XVI: Lifting Souls, Moving
Mountains (3 East Lounge, Bone
Student Center)
Chair: Stuart Fliege, Illinois State Historical
Society
Commentator: Catherine O'Connor, Illinois Historic
Preservation Agency
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The American Windows of the
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Sister Susan Karina Dickey, Archivist, Springfield
Diocese |
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Houses to Go: Structural Moving,
from Houses to Bridges to Depots
Lee Brooke, author and independent researcher, Oak
Park
Marcy Kubat, author and independent researcher, River
Forest |
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WPA Libraries in Southernmost
Illinois
Jennifer Musselman, Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale |
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Session
XVII: Frontier Boundaries (3 West
Lounge, Bone Student Center)
Chair: Bill Steinbacher-Kemp, McLean county
Museum of History
Commentator: Robert Swenson, Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale
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Landscape Impact of an 1816
Illinois Indian Treaty
Michael D. Sublett, Illinois State University |
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George Rogers Clark, the Treaty
of Paris, and the Establishment of a Western Boundary at
the Mississippi River,
Steven Schneider |
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Session
XVIII: PANEL: Making the film, The Illiniwek
(Ballroom)
Moderator: Sandra Harmon, Illinois State
University
Panelists:
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Dan Heckenberger, Southern Illinois
University-Carbondale |
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Jeff Specker, Southern Illinois
University-Carbondale |
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Session
XVIX: Dreaming the Future (Founder's
Room)
Chair: Anne Marie Fuhrig, Illinois State Board of
Education
Commentator: Andrew Hartman, Illinois State University
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The Great
Transformation of Higher Education in the 1960s
David W. Scott, Illinois State Historical Society |
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The
History of the University of Illinois
Winton Solberg |
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Session XX:
Demonstration: Mark Twain’s Mississippi River, 1830-1890
(Old Main)
A multi-media digital presentation by Drew VandeCreek,
Northern Illinois University |
12:00 Brown
Bag Lunch Presentation
(Circus Room)
Video Presentation: Mother Jones,
America's Most Dangerous Woman
Rosemary Feurer
Concurrent Afternoon
Sessions (1 pm - 2:45 pm)
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Session XXI: Prairie Demographics
(3 West Lounge, Bone Student Center)
Chair: Patricia Walton, Kline Creek Farm,
Illinois State Historical Society
Commentator: Clifton Jones, Illinois State University
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Trading Coveralls for
Cannonballs: The Cause and Effect Cycle of Illinois
Agriculture
Tiffany Taylor, Natchez National Historical Park,
Mississippi |
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Illinois in 1880: Defective,
Dependent, and Delinquent Classes as Recorded on the
Federal Census
Cherie L. Weible, University of Illinois |
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Settlement Patterns, Church
Adherence, and Illinois Regionalism: Implications for
Attitudes Toward Knowledge
James A. Ward, Urbana Theological Seminary |
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Session XXII: Alternatives in Education
(3 East Lounge, Bone Student Center)
Chair: Mark Sorenson, Illinois State Archives
Commentator: Richard L Hughes, Illinois State University
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The
College in the Hills: A Failed Experiment in Democratic
Education
Michael Batinski, Southern Illinois
University-Carbondale |
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Learning
from Oral Interviews: Focus on the WWII Generation
Suzanne Broderick, Illinois State University |
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Session
XXIII: Politics of Place (Founder's
Room)
Chair: Lawrence Hansen, Illinois State Historical
Society
Commentator: D Bradford Hunt, Roosevelt University,
Illinois State Historical Society
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The Appointment of Frank Knox of
Illinois as Secretary of the Navy
Philip A. Grant, Jr |
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Illinois and the Gathering
Storm, 1938-1941
Robert McColley, Professor emeritus, history,
University of Illinois |
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Don Rumsfeld’s First Campaign,
Seen as an Exercise in Newspaper Politics
Thomas B. Littlewood, retired professor of
Journalism, University of Illinois |
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Session
XXIV: PANEL: Indigenous Illinois
(Old Main)
Chair: David Brady, Illinois State Historical Society
Commentator: R David Edmunds, University of Texas, Dallas
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Beyond the Fairy Tales: Residual
and Emergent Voices at a Fork in the Road of an Illinois
History
D Anthony Tyeeme Clark, American Indian Studies,
University of Illinois, Urbana |
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Indians and Illinois Historians:
Old Habits, New Opportunities
Michael Sherfy, Ohio State University, Newark |
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Afternoon
Session: 3:15 pm - 5 pm
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Session XXV: Searching for Sparta:
A 40-Year Retrospective on the Movie “In the Heat of the
Night (Old Main)
James DuBose, Film historian |
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