Georgia Association of Historians--Annual Meeting

Greetings Colleagues:
(Thank you Susan McGrath for this notice)

Call for Papers Georgia Association of Historians
Annual Meeting: February 23-25, 2012

Macon, GA (Marriott Macon City Center)
The GAH invites proposals from historians from all areas and subfields .

The Georgia Association of Historians invites proposals for its 2011 Conference to be held in centrally located Macon (dates). The GAH welcomes proposals from all areas and subfields of history, including African, American, Asian, European, and Latin American history, global history, public history, historic preservation, and regional studies, as well as proposals focused on resource or archival management and historical pedagogy. Proposals for full sessions as well as individual papers will be considered. The deadline for proposal submission is October 5, 2011.
Session proposals should be 500 words and include a tentative session title, the names, affiliations, and full contact information of each presenter and the session discussant, and a description of each paper in session.
Individual proposals should be less than 200 words and include a full description of the proposed paper.
Instructions for submitting your proposal:

1) Fill out THIS FORM (http://goo.gl/p9JKK)

2) Send electronic proposal to Jennifer Smith, jlsmith@northgeorgia.edu
Additional information and links can be found at: http://a-s.clayton.edu/gah/
Papers are to be original works of scholarship. Presentations will be limited to 15-20 minutes, depending on panel size.
Scholars willing to serve as moderators/discussants should fill out THIS FORM (http://goo.gl/fOk7v)

Dr. Kara Smith's dissertation awarded AAHN top prize

Colleagues,

Good News! We have just been informed by the author that Dr. Kara Smith's dissertation, "A Legacy of Care: Hesse and the Alice Frauenverein, 1867-1918," has been awarded the Teresa E. Christy Award (see http://www.aahn.org/awards.html#christy for the description) from the American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN). Kara says that this news is especially extraordinary since "half of the award's previous recipients were from either the University of Pennsylvania or the University of Virginia (where the two main nursing history centers in the country are located)." Smith clarified that her win was "a fairly big deal in my little neck of the discipline." Smith will be officially awarded at the AAHN's annual conference (September 8-11).

Congratulations Dr. Smith! That's a wonderful achievement--no wonder you were, as you said, "speechless" when you got the AAHN award letter.-WS

Local LGBT StoryCorps Event

You're invited!

In honor of the Atlanta Pride Committee's Stonewall
Week, please join us as we celebrate stories of love
and community from Atlanta's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community. Hosted by
John Lemley of WABE's City Café.


StoryCorps Atlanta Out & OutLoud
A CELEBRATION OF STORIES
FROM THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY

Wednesday, June 22, 2011


DOORS OPEN: 6:30 pm
PROGRAM BEGINS: 7:00 pm

The Philip Rush Center
1530 Dekalb Avenue NE, Suite A
Atlanta, GA 30307
(Near the Candler Park MARTA station)
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This event is free and open to the public.
Complimentary refreshments will be served.

Hudson and Mirza Stone Mountain history book

GPC's Southern Academy for Literary Arts & Scholarly Research invites you to the exciting book launch for ATLANTA's STONE MOUNTAIN: A MULTICULTURAL HISTORY (The History Press: Charleston, London) by GPC faculty members—historian Paul Hudson and research librarian and photographer Lora Mirza. It will be held in the Cole Auditorium of GPC's Clarkston Campus on the evening of Wednesday, June 15th, 2011, from 7:30 to 9:00pm.

This beautifully written and visually rich saga of Stone Mountain has been hailed by John Inscoe, editor of the New Georgia Encyclopedia, as “a major contribution to both Atlanta and Georgia history.” Audience members and lovers of Stone Mountain will experience fascinating stories of the ancient and modern peoples who have shaped the mountain into the cherished treasure and destination that it is today.

This program will feature shared stories of adventures and explorations of Atlanta's "Rock of Ages"—part playground and part mystic mountain—ever timely, yet timeless. Paul and Lora will greet guests and sign copies of this new multicultural history at a reception/book signing immediately following the program.

We hope you will join us in celebrating this major achievement in publishing and historiography by our distinguished colleagues and friends, Paul Hudson and Lora Mirza. There will be a buffet at the book signing, and faculty are welcome to invite groups of students to attend this event.

Best,

Liam Madden, Distinguished Chair
The Southern Academy for Literary Arts & Scholarly Research Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston Campus Office phone: 678-891-3275 Cell phone: 770-883-8811

Middle East History guest speaker

Dr. Timothy Furnish will be on Dunwoody Campus, Tuesday, April 26 as a guest speaker in Professor Tiarsmith’s Middle East class; the subject will be terrorism.

The discussion will be held in room D1240 from 1:00 - 2:15 PM. Interested individuals are welcome to attend.

Southern Labor Studies Conference April 7-9, 2011

Collegues,

Robert Woodrum, GPC History, Alpharetta Center, presented on a panel at the recent Southern Labor Studies Conference. The panel which Woodrum organized included papers by Chad Pearson, University of Alabama (subject: N.F.Thompson's ideas on labor), and Robert Cassanello, University of Central Florida (subject: 1912 Jacksonville Streetcar Strike)

Dr. Woodrum's essay, "'We Are Poor Devils': Race, Unionism, and the Open Shop Movement Along the Waterfront, Mobile, Alabama," examined employer efforts to destroy unions along the waterfront in Mobile, Alabama in the years following World War I. Shipping companies united behind an “Open Shop” campaign to defeat the International Longshoremen’s Association, which had grown among mainly African American dock workers during the wartime era. The longshoremen established the union along the wharves and piers with protections from the federal government, which at the time saw unions as a way to ensure production and labor peace. After the war, however, federal protections were weakened and, in some cases, removed altogether. In the fall of 1923, the longshoremen went on strike for higher wages, and the companies united behind the “Open Shop” movement and defeated them. In some ways the victory for the shipping companies in Mobile was more complete than it was for the companies in other major Gulf Coast ports, where longshoremen went on strike at about the same time.

Dunwoody-GPC Welcomes the Tuskegee Airmen

In preparing for the upcoming visit to the Dunwoody campus of the Tuskegee Airmen on Wednesday, April 6; the Dunwoody History and Politics Club will view the PBS documentary “The Tuskegee Airmen” on Tuesday, April 5 at 1 PM in B 1602. Hope to see you there.

2011 Appalachian Studies Conference--Richmond, KY

At the 34th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference, Professor Will Simson convened "Sources of Public History," a panel that included several important presentations.

• John Cuthbert and Lori Hostuttler of West Virginia University Library and Archives on the 250,000 plus digital images now available through an online search engine to the public for viewing and personal use; the digital repository now provides a new and significant revenue stream for the Library and Archives.
• Lori Thompson, Marshall University, on Huntington, WV digitized TV reportage and reporters' scripts for all of WSAZ-TVs broadcasts; the station served as the Tri-state's main television link for local people through the mid-20th century. Thompson has been instrumental in making the station's videos available to locals online.
• Ross Burger, North Georgia College and State University, discussed the renovation and relocation of an 1830s Dahlanega, Georgia Gold Rush era cabin to University grounds for use as a craftways learning center.
• Marshall University students Katie McWhorter, and Rebecca Falcon described new, free data analysis application, "Trendalyzer," available through Google; used initially for identifying cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural reasons behind health needs, the application is perfect for combining disparate Appalachian demographic information into more useful data.

Professor Simson also presented at the conference. Drawn from his dissertation research, "Victory Gardens and Munitions from the Old Red Scar: The Chemicals Industry in the (East Tennessee) Ducktown Basin During WWII," Simson discussed the successful rational management schemes of Tennessee Copper Company owner Sam A. Lewisohn and general manager J.N. Houser that provided nationally recognized and awarded war work for thousands.

Dunwoody-GPC Welcomes the Tuskegee Airmen

Summary--recent GAH conference

Hello all,

Several of your colleagues convened panels or presented at the recent Georgia
Association of Historians Conference, Savannah, Georgia, 24-26 February 2011.

Kara Smith, Alpharetta, who presented a paper titled "Motivations for Care:
Princess Alice and the Establishment of a Secular Nursing Association in Hesse"

David Moon, Dunwoody,
"Southern Baptists and Southern Honor: Negotiating Masculinity in
Nineteenth-Century Georgia"

Susan McGrath, Clarkston, chaired a panel titled The Modern South.

Please note that the Georgia Association of Historians 2012 conference will be held in Macon, Georgia. Exact location in that town has yet to be determined. Georgia Association of Historians

April 2011 The Southern Labor Studies Conference

MEMORY AND FORGETTING: LABOR HISTORY AND THE ARCHIVE -April 7-10, 2011, Sheraton, Atlanta, Georgia

Note: GPC Faculty Member Robert Woodrum (Dunwoody/Alpharetta) will present his paper, "We are poor devils: Race, Unionism, and the Open Shop Movement along the waterfront, Mobile, Alabama," Friday 8 April @ 10:15 AM

• Mission of the Southern Labor Studies Association: http://southernlaborstudies.org/about/
• Program for the Conference: http://flipflashpages.uniflip.com/2/47068/82954/pub/
  

Cambridge in America lecture: Herculaneum: Living with Catastrophe

Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (Master, Sidney Sussex) to
speak at Emory Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 6:15pm



Professor
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge;
Professor of Roman Studies) will lecture on "Herculaneum: Living with
Catastrophe" in the
Departments of
Art History and Classics at Emory College in Atlanta.

Herculaneum, which shared the fate of Pompeii in the
eruption of Vesuvius, has been the object of a major conservation campaign
sponsored by Packard Humanities Institute and directed by Dr. Wallace-Hadrill
since 2001. New discoveries made in the course of the project provide dramatic
evidence for major geological activity dating back a century before the
eruption, and to a long drawn-out catastrophe with which the inhabitants lived.

Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Location:Reception Hall,
Michael
C. Carlos Museum

Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Emory University

Departments of Art History and Classics

Atlanta, GA

Time: 6:15pm

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Contact: Eric Varner,
mailto:evarner@emory.edu

Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill has been Master of Sidney Sussex College
since 2009. Previously Director of the British School at Rome for 14 years, he
has directed projects in both Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Other US appearances by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill:

March 24 -

Northampton, MA

March 28 -

Gainesville, FL

March 29 -

Atlanta, GA

March 31 -

San Antonio, TX

April 1 -

Austin, TX

History Discipline Meeting, 3.1.2011

At our discipline meeting yesterday we discussed the
following topics and decided on a plans of action regarding several.

1. SACS preparation: Current discipline assessment averages by course.
Our goal is to see averages for all instructors at a (C) level. While classes
taught by term-to-term, tenure-track, and tenured faculty reflect acceptable (C)
assessment averages, it’s clear from a review of the assessments that the
unsatisfactory averages across our course array reflect:

a. Academic year 2009-10 as the first one in which ALL history faculty gave
a weight of 5-10% to their course assessments; the previous two years’ numbers
thus drag down averages.

b. Communication and enforcement of adjunct participation in the assessment
process has been wanting; we have no idea how well adjuncts prepare their
students for the assessments.

To address these problems the
history faculty has decided on the following plan of action:

i. Mario Bennekin and David Moon (with assistance) will re-crunch the
numbers and remove the extreme highs and lows from the cache of assessments.
Typically the lowest scores represent instances where students tossed off the
exam; only one student got all 20 questions correct.

ii. History faculty will tweak the prose for questions most often missed by
the students and compose an amended assessment; there has been concern about the
accuracy of a couple questions.

iii. History faculty and adjuncts will get the revised assessment tool by
August 1, 2011 so as to incorporate both a Pretest and the course-end
assessment into their syllabi. Both tests will be the same so as to better
measure student learning.

iv. Professor Simson asked all faculty to contact their mentees and remind
them of the importance of preparing students for the assessment and to weight
the assessment appropriately.

v. The faculty agreed that this last effort will need Department Chair
support for its success.

2. SACS/GPC hiring and teaching accreditation requirements. Professor
Simson assured faculty that the draft of the hiring credentials forwarded by
Dean Brown were not going to be used to limit current faculty members’ ability
to teach a course, that the credentials were not an invention, but based upon
previous GPC faculty SACS recommendations and state guidelines. Furthermore
there was room in the proposed teaching requirements for chair and VPAA approval
of personal and professional experience.

3. Preparation for Textbook selection for 2012-13 academic year. At
present there are no changes (2011-12 year), but the history faculty agreed to
let Salli Vargis (world) and Robert Alderman (American) continue as the textbook
selection committee chairs for future selection; Marc Zayac and John Farris will
assist Vargis and Alderman, respectively. Selection will take place by poll,
Fall 2011.

4. Tom Graham reviewed his idea for the WWII Veterans Commemorative
symposium and dance for Fall 2011 term; faculty suggested the event
be mid-term and Tom (has now) agreed on an 11 November (or thereabouts) date.
Simson encouraged all faculty to participate and faculty began brainstorming
about panels, subjects, etc. As a whole, the faculty are excited about this
event.

5. Future events: Faculty decided that the academic year 2011-12 see
GPC put on a Georgia and the World history symposium—more on this to
come.

6. GPC budget effects on term-to-term faculty explained and
discussed.

7. Professional Development: Colleagues discussed recent and future
conference attendance, presentations, articles, and pertinent upcoming
student/faculty events. Simson stated he would request all faculty to forward
such information for him for distribution among colleagues. Simson will renew
use of the History Matters blog at www.gpc.edu/history for such purposes.

-Will

Dunwoody History and Politics Club-March event

Just a reminder: On Wed. March 16th, the History and Politics Club and GPC Hillel will jointly sponsor and lunch n learn discussion of the state of the middle east today compared with the time of Queen Esther (sixth century BCE). Bring your own lunch but Hammantashen will be available for desert!

The event will begin at 11 AM in NB 2100 and should last until 1. Please feel free to come and go as you need to without worry about arriving late or leaving early. The discussion will hopefully be free flowing.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Steve Koplan
GPC Hillel Faculty Advisor

lunch for Akoh and Wiggins

Two Dunwoody historians, Harry Akoh and Dana Wiggins, have successfully defended their dissertations at Georgia State. After our May 6 Clarkston meeting (ending hopefully between 11 AM and noon), we will go to Bambinelli’s and celebrate their achievements. If you can attend, let me know. Hope to see you there. Finley

Website and address/direction of restaurant is at http://www.bambinellispizza.com/.

US-CHINA PEOPLES FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION

The GPC Faculty/Staff Development Program to China last spring was facilitated by Drs Ed and Sylvia Krebs. Your colleagues learned much and enjoyed their vast knowledge and experience. May 3 they will be part of a discussion of their recent travel to Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. This event is open to the public at Agnes Scott College.


US-CHINA PEOPLES FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION
The Silk Road Then and Now: Perspectives on Xinjiang Sunday, May 3, at 4 p.m.
Lower Evans Hall
Agnes Scott College
Atlanta Chapter-USCPFA members, Jean and Lou Boos and Ed and Sylvia Krebs, all of whom traveled in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in September of 2008, will participate in the forum. They will draw on their observations and experiences to present perspectives on Xinjiang’s past, present, and future.
For more information call 770-949-5112 or shkkse@yahoo.com.



Debra Denzer
Director, Center for International Education Georgia Perimeter College
Phone: 678-891-3232
Fax: 678-891-3240
Debra.Denzer@gpc.edu

The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement

The Sixteenth Annual Diane Jennings Seminar will be held on Tuesday, April 21 at 2 p.m. in the Jim Cherry Lecture Hall of the JCLRC on Clarkston Campus. This year’s speaker will be Susan Youngblood Ashmore, Associate Professor of History at Oxford College of Emory University. She will be discussing her book:

Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964—1972

Carry It On is an in-depth study of how the local struggle for equality in Alabama fared in the wake of new federal laws—the Civil Rights Act, the Economic Opportunity Act, and the Voting Rights Act. Professor Ashmore focuses on the Alabama Black Belt and on the local projects funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity, the federal agency that supported programs in a variety of cities and towns in Alabama. Professor Ashmore looks closely at the interactions among local activists, elected officials, business people, landowners, bureaucrats, and others who were involved in or affected by OEO projects. The result is a nuanced picture of the OEO, an agency too broadly criticized; a new look at the rise of southern Black Power; and a compelling portrait of local citizens struggling for control over their own lives.

I hope you can attend and encourage your students to attend. (A little extra credit is always a good incentive.) This event is sponsored by the Business and Social Sciences Department, the Honors Program, and the History and Politics Club. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at 678-891-3298.


Susan M. McGrath
Professor of History
Georgia Perimeter College
Clarkston Campus
555 North Indian Creek Drive
Clarkston, GA 30021-2396
678-891-3298 (Office)
678-891-3084

Dunwoody History and Politics Club--Truman and the Bomb

The Dunwoody History and Politics Club ... ponders whether or not the U.S. should have used nuclear weapons on Japan to end World War II. On Wednesday, April 1 at 11 AM in C 1100 (Dunwoody) we will view the remarkable documentary about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the making of the atomic bomb; then on Thursday, April 2 at 2 PM in A 2200 (Dunwoody) we will sponsor a student-ledmock trial on whether President Truman should have been tried for crimes against humanity due to his decisions to use nuclear weapons.
>Hope to see you there.

Foreign Service Officer Michael Varga speaks at Dunwoody

FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICER MICHAEL VARGA SPEAKS
E 0360/Dunwoody 2 PM Monday, March 2
Michael Varga was a Foreign Service Officer from 1985 to 1996. His overseas assignments included Dubai, Damascus, Casablanca and Toronto. In Washington, he worked as an Economist in the Economic Bureau and as desk officer for Lebanon in the Near East Bureau. He was a Pearson Fellow at the World Trade Center Miami. Prior to the Foreign Service, Mr. Varga was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Chad.

U.S. should shape its policy for world, not just Iraq

By MICHAEL VARGA
Friday, January 30, 2009
“Hillary Clinton’s arrival as the 67th Secretary of State is an opportunity for the Obama administration to re-think the goals of today’s foreign service. Clinton inherits a mess unlike any we have seen since the United States had to wrestle with how to stop Hitler from attaining his domination of Europe.
The singular focus on the war on terror and the battle for a new Iraq after Saddam has created a U.S. Foreign Service that is so weighted toward one country that the U.S. has largely abandoned the role it needs to play on the world stage. Having built the largest embassy in the world in Baghdad, and staffed that monstrous entity, the Bush foreign policy fixated on Iraq. And the Foreign Service grudgingly went along with it, allowing embassies in many other nations to go understaffed.
When I was in the Foreign Service, I remember how diplomats from other nations were always anxious to hear what steps the United States was willing to take first before discussing what they might do. Everyone looks to the United States for leadership. But when our talking-points memos and our guidance from Washington were only about Iraq and al-Qaida, other nations eventually stopped listening to what we had to say.
Funding for the Foreign Service has to take a “big picture” approach that recognizes that for eight years so many diplomatic positions were abolished in other nations because of the gargantuan needs of Baghdad’s embassy.
We need more money committed to diplomacy in Asia, South America, Africa and other regions we’ve ignored. This is hard in a weak economy and mounting unemployment and deficits. But it is smart diplomacy to recognize that in the long term, rebuilding the U.S. diplomatic corps will pay rich dividends for this nation. When future crises arise in other parts of the world, rather than resorting to a military option we will have the expertise in our own embassies to tell us what is truly in the U.S. national interest.
Our departure from Iraq can be smooth, but there is going to be some chaos, violence and killing, no matter how or when we withdraw. We need to understand that the enmity built up over centuries among the Kurds, the Shia’ and the Sunnis will continue to cause repercussions as scores are settled for wrongs committed against so many prior generations.
When I was involved in Middle East peace talks after the Madrid conference of 1991, the chief of the Lebanese delegation used to reply to my nudges toward making confidence-building measures with Israel with the soft reply, “In due time, we’ll make peace. But only after the horrors we have endured have been addressed. We owe that to our ancestors.”
But the smart foreign-policy choice is to allow Iraq “to stand up,” so long promised by the Bush administration, so that we can “stand down.” Smart diplomacy calls for Iraq to no longer rely on U.S. troops for its stability. We can make that transition easier for Iraq by beefing up civilian assistance provided to Baghdad through the Foreign Service, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and funding non-governmental organizations.
Clinton needs to see that an Iraq-centric diplomatic corps only perpetuates the notion that we’ve drawn a line in the sand in Iraq, and nothing else matters as much. This is the mistake the last administration made. We should not repeat it. Our unique position on the world stage demands that we not.”

World History Institute

We are pleased to announce this summer’s World History Institute at Gettysburg College, focused upon Asia in World History. During July 26 to 31, we are inviting teachers at the middle school, high school, and collegiate level to join us for a week of instruction and conversation at the college. This year Michael Adas, Howard Spodek, and Megan Greene will be our guest lecturers; in addition, we will have experienced master teachers, members of Gettysburg’s faculty, and specialists in using computers in world history instruction and research on hand. Of course, we are going to offer tours of the Battlefield and the Eisenhower farm just for our group, accompanied by experienced guides. Accommodations are in single rooms with private baths. And daily drive-in participant are also welcome.

Last year we had a great group of participants from across the United States—from middle school to collegiate teachers--and we are looking forward to another fun and worthwhile session.

If you have any questions, you can email me (mweber@gettysburg.edu) or Liz Johns (johnel05@gettysburg.edu) for registration information.

Michael Weber, Co- Director WHI at Gettysburg College

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Masako N. Racel
Instructor of History
AP World History Summer Institute Director Department of History and Philosophy Kennesaw State University
(770) 423-6715
http://ksuweb.kennesaw.edu/~mracel/

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