[Paper Presentations and Panel Discussions will take place in the Penick Academic Complex]

• Section A [Room C-17]
  STUDIES IN FRONTIER STRUGGLES
  Chair: Bruce Wheeler, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  Papers and Presenters:
   
  • “Nature’s Rites: Passages in the Wilderness on the Deep Southern Frontier,” Michael A. Jones, Mississippi State University
     
  • “Revival Phenomena and Religious Division on the Frontier,” David W. Fletcher, Middle Tennessee State University
     
  • “Creation Seen Through Indian Eyes,” Fred E. Heifner, Jr., Cumberland University
    
    
• Section B [Room D-52]
  CIVIL WAR: FAITH, HEALTH, AND CULTURE
  Chair: Gary Edwards, Arkansas State University
  Papers and Presenters:
   
  • “Civil War Borderlands, Guerilla Warfare, and the Culture of Paranoia They Create,” Brian D. McKnight, Angelo State University
     
  • “The Struggle for Public Health in Civil War Memphis and Nashville,” James B. Jones, Tennessee Historical Commission
     
  • “God and Soldier: A Christian Confederate, His Religious Faith, and the American Civil War,” Kent Dollar, Tennessee Tech University
     
• Section C [Room D-53]
  “Women Ahead of the Times: Society, the Church, and the Military”
  Moderator: Minoa Uffelman, Austin Peay State University
  Panelists:
  • Carole Bucy, Volunteer State Community College
  • Bill McKee, Cumberland University
  • C. Delane Tew, Carson-Newman University
• Section D [Room C-24]
  20TH CENTURY U.S. POLITICS
  Chair: Terry Lindley, Union University
  Papers and Presenters:
   
  • “Grassroots and Blue-Shoes: The Unconventional Political Career of ‘Dr. Cobb,’” Bob Pickard, Middle Tennessee State University
     
  • “The 1993 Failed Nomination of Lani Guinier and President Clinton,” Daryl A. Carter, University of Memphis
     
  • “The Founding of the Kennedy Army General Hospital in Memphis During the Second World War,” Paul W. White, University of Memphis

• Section E [Room D-53]
  “Making it Stick: The Curse of Knowledge and Teaching World Civ”
  Moderator: James Blythe, University of Memphis
  Panelists:
  • Steven Patterson, Lambuth University
  • Julie Elb, Lausanne Collegiate School
  • Ed Hamelrath, University of Memphis
• Section F [Room C-24]
  HISTORICAL INTERPRETATIONS AND RESOURCES
  Chair: Douglas Cupples, University of Memphis
  Papers and Presenters:
   
  • “Volunteer Voices: A Historical Digital Collection for the 21st Century,” Ken Middleton, Middle Tennessee State University
     
  • “Myth and Mythmaking: Middle Tennessee State University’s Search for a Cohesive Identity,” Richard Wilhite, Middle Tennessee State University
     
  • “The Development of Emerson as an abolitionist Reformer,” Horace K. Houston, University of Memphis
     
• Section G [Room D-52]
  STUDIES IN SLAVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION
  Chair: Charles Crawford, University of Memphis
  Papers and Presenters:
   
  • “Manufacturing in Memphis, 1870-1890: A New Look,” Laura A. Perry, University of Memphis
     
  • “'Freedom to Work, Nothing More Nor Less:' The Freedmen's Bureau, White Planters, and Black Contract Labor in Postwar Tennessee, 1865-1868,” David S. Leventhal, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
     
  • “Facts and Misconceptions: Critical Discourse on Forms and Characteristics of Domestic Slavery in Pre-Colonial West Aftica,” Adebayo Oyebade, Tennessee State University
    
    
• Section H [Room C-17]
  FAITH AND RELIGION IN HISTORY
  Chair: David Thomas, Union University
  Papers and Presenters:
   
  • “The Emergence of Nashville’s Churches of Christ, 1866-1906: Patterns of Evangelism for a Growing Fellowship,” McGarvey Ice, Disciples of Christ Historical Society
     
  • “Nixon and His Men: Religion and Watergate,” Timothy D. Holder, Walters State Community College
     
  • “The Extension of Mainstream Fundamentalism: John R. Rice and the Southern Baptist Conventions ‘Conservative Resurgence,’” Keith Bates, Union University

• Speaker: Mr. Cubert Bell, Sr.
  “Native American History and Culture”
  Mr. Bell is a Choctaw Indian born in Philadelphia, Mississippi. He was raised at the Golddust Community in Lauderdale County Tennessee. Fluent in Choctaw language and writing, he is a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. Mr. Bell resides in Henning, Tennessee with his wife and five children. He is currently employed by the University of Memphis at Chucalissa Archaeological Museum as Assistant Director.
   
• Special Music: Mr. JJ Kent
  Mr. Kent is the adopted son of a full-blooded Lakota woman from the Oglala band, which counts Crazy Horse and Red Cloud among their people. As a speaker, musician and educator, he shares his knowledge of Native American history and story telling tradition with students from elementary to college level. Mr. Kent resides in Goodlettsville, Tennessee.

• Section I [Room C-17]
  THE HOLOCAUST REVISITED
  Chair: Steve Carls, Union University
  Papers and Presenters:
   
  • “The Legacy of the Holocaust,” Alice-Catherine Carls, University of Tennessee, Martin
    
    
• Section J [Room D-52]
  CIVIL RIGHTS, WOMEN, AND LAND ISSUES
  Chair: Bobby Lovett, Tennessee State University
  Papers and Presenters:
   
  • “Surveys, Speculations, and Seismicity North Carolina Land Speculation and the Surveying of Reelfoot and Obion Rivers,” Nathan K. Moran, University of Memphis
     
  • “‘You Must Be True to Yourself’: Frances Fuller Victor Re-Imagines the Heroic in Western Stories and Histories,” Sheri B. Browne, Tennessee State University
     
  • “‘This Ain’t No Vaudeville!’: Popular Music, the Civil Rights Struggle and the 1956 Assault of Nat King Cole,” Michael T. Bertrand, Tennessee State University