2014 Society for Military History Annual Meeting – Program Details (as of 140210) DAILY EVENTS SCHEDULE Thursday, April 3
Exhibitor Setup Location: Century Ballroom A 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Registration Location: Westport Room 12:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Trustee Meeting and Lunch Location: Roanoke Room 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Opening Reception Location: Liberty Memorial, National World War I Museum 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. (Shuttles provided from the hotel to the Museum)
Friday, April 4
Journal of Military History Editorial Board Breakfast Location: Independence Room 7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Registration (continued) Location: Westport Room 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Awards Luncheon Location: Century Ballroom C 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Book Exhibits Location: Century Ballroom A 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Truman Library Tour (By preregistration only.) Location: Front Lobby for a 12:30 bus departure 12:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Historical Weapons Display Location: Century Ballroom Foyer 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 .pm.
Graduate Student Reception Location: Amigoni Winery (Graduate students and by invitation) 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. (Shuttles provided from the hotel to the Winery)
Saturday, April 5
Tour of Fort Leavenworth (By preregistration only) Location: Front Lobby for a 9:00 a.m. bus departure 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Banquet Reception Location: Century Ballroom C 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
SMH Banquet Location: Century Ballroom C 7:15 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Sunday April, 6
SMH Business Meeting Location: Liberty Room 7:15 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
SESSION SCHEDULE
Session #1: Friday 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
All Day – Chinese Military History Society Room: Pershing South
Session 1/Panel 1 Room: Pershing West Title: COLLABORATION, LIAISON AND THE LEGACY OF THE MEUSE-ARGONNE, 1918
Chair: Richard S. Faulkner, US Army Command and General Staff College
The French Army in the Meuse-Argonne Campaign, Sept-Nov 1918 Elizabeth Greenhalgh, Australian Defense Force Academy, University of New South Wales
“An Antipathy of Arms”: The 79th Division and French Tank Support during the First Phase of the Meuse-Argonne Campaign. Patrick R. Osborn, National Archives and Records Administration
New Light on the Cause of Failure at Montfaucon William T. Walker, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum
Comments: Timothy K. Nenninger, National Archives and Records Administration
Session 1/Panel 2 Room: Pershing East Title: THE "OTHER" IN EARLY AMERICAN WARFARE: NEW SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Holly A. Mayer, Duquesne University
"Insufferable Insolence”: Civilians and the Military in the Fort-City of Albany, 1755-1763 Elizabeth Horner, MidAmerica Nazarene University
A Loyal People at War: Virginia Loyalists, Military Service, and the Fate of the Revolution at Yorktown Stephanie Ann Seal, University of Southern Mississippi
Symbolizing the Other War: Red Stick Creek Adornment and the War of 1812 Alice A. Ivas, University of Southern Mississippi
Comments: Holly A. Mayer, Duquesne University
Session 1/Panel 3 Room: Penn Valley Title: THE TRANSFORMATION OF GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY: NAVAL POWER AND COERCIVE DIPLOMACY 1870-2011
Chair: Nikolas Gardner, Royal Military of Canada
Frontier Gunboats: The Experience of Royal Navy Officers in the SW Pacific in the 1870s and 80s Robert L. Davidson, Wilfrid Laurier University
Maritime Intervention: America and the Brazilian Navy Revolt of 1893-1894 Karina Esposito, West Virginia University
Israel's Naval Response to the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, 2010 Corri Zoli, Syracuse University
Effect without Regret: Gunboat Diplomacy in Libya in 2011 Steven Paget, Australian National University
Comments: Douglas C. Peifer, US Air War College
Session 1/Panel 4 Room: Roanoke Title: EASTERN FRONTS IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Chair: Everett Dague, Independent Scholar
"Viribus Unitis”: Nationalities within the Austro-Hungarian Army during the First Year of the War (August 1914-May 1915) Rian Van Meeteren, Independent Scholar
"When Laws Were Silenced”: Criminalization of Imperial Russia's Southeastern Borderlands (1914-1918) Margarita Karnysheva, University of Kansas
Liberated Conscripts: Civilian Labor and Preparations for the Battle of Kursk Daniel Giblin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Comments: Jonathan M. House, US Army Command and General Staff College
Session 1/Panel 5 Room: Shawnee Title: WAR AND GENDER NORMS
Chair: Janet G. Valentine, US Army Command and General Staff College
"Let Me Give This Woman the Way of Going on the War Path”: Warrior Women and Womanish Men in the 19th Century Pawnee and Arikara Indian Warfare Mark van de Logt, Texas A&M University, Qatar
Are They for Real? Women Who Take a Proactive Approach to War Mary Kathryn Barbier, Mississippi State University
Fashioning Citizenship: American Civilian Women in Military Uniform During WW I Alexandria Marie Elias, Syracuse University
Comments: Lisa Beckenbaugh, Trideum Corporation
Session 1/Panel 6 Room: Mission Title: WHAT HISTORY CAN TEACH US ABOUT INSURGENCY, COUNTERINSURGENCY, AND COUNTERTERRORISM
Chair: Bryon Greenwald, National Defense University
Internalizing Reality: Missouri's Civil War as Context for Future Conflicts David Holstead, US Army Command and General Staff College
Reassessing Reagan's Counterterrorism Policy Josh Potter, National Defense University
The Exit through the Ivory Gate: Securing the Peace - Lessons from Iraq Mark Hovatter, National Defense University
Comments: Gregory Miller, National Defense University
Session 1/Panel 7 Room: Liberty Title: PRESIDENTIAL PANEL (Society of Civil War Historians)
VIOLENCE AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
Chair: Ethan S. Rafuse, US Army Command and General Staff College
A Delightful and Unmolested Trip across the Country: Sherman's Veterans, Violence, and Storytelling Ann Sarah Rubin, University of Maryland-Baltimore
Battlefield Cowardice, Violence, and Memory in the American Civil War Lesley J. Gordon, University of Akron
Under the Shield of the Law of Nations: Black Women Refugees in the Civil War Thavolia Glymph, Duke University
Comments: Susannah J. Ural, University of Southern Mississippi
Session 1/Panel 8 Room: Pershing North Title: "OUR LIVES WERE FOREVER CHANGED": THE LEGACY OF WAR IN THE LIVES OF FAMILIES
Chair: Beth Bailey, Temple University
Pennsylvania Confederates: The Ingrahams in the Civil War Richard B. McCaslin, University of Texas
"My Life Was Over”: The Effects of Combat and Loss on the Family in the Vietnam War Andrew A. Wiest, University of Southern Mississippi
The Experiences of Naval Wives at the Time of the Falklands War Victoria Woodman, University of Portsmouth
Comments: Beth Bailey, Temple University
Session #2: Friday 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
All Day – Chinese Military History Society Room: Pershing South
Session 2/Panel 1 Room: Pershing West Title: INCARCERATION, REDEMPTION, AND REGENERATION: DEVIANTS, COLONIAL SUBJECTS, AND MILITARY SERVICE
Chair: Debra Sheffer, Park University
Criminalizing Irish-American Civil War Veterans: The 1866 Habeas Corpus Suspension Act Jerome Devitt, Trinity College-Dublin
Reshaping Moral Deviance through Military Service: Eastern State Penitentiary and the First World War, 1917-1925 Bobby Wintermute, Queens College-New York
World War I, Manhood, Modernity, and the Remaking of the Puerto-Rico Peasant Harry Franqui-Rivera, Hunter College-CUNY
Comments: Mitchell Yockelson, National Archives and Records Administration
Session 2/Panel 2 Room: Pershing East Title: SUPPLYING MORALE: THREE NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES FROM THE WORLD WARS
Chair: Mike Bechtold, Wilfrid Laurier University
Blockade and Mismanagement: Economic Struggles and the Collapse of Morale at Home and on the Front in WW I Germany Mark Karau, University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan
Bringing the Home to the Front: The Supply of Canadian Soldiers Comforts and Leisure in the Second World War Will J. Pratt, University of Calgary
More Than Hot Chocolate: The Y, the Red Cross and Outsourcing Supply for the American Expeditionary Force in WW I Marian Vlasak, Syracuse University
Comments: Theodore A. Wilson, University of Kansas
Session 2/Panel 3 Room: Penn Valley Title: PRESIDENTIAL PANEL (Bibliographical Society of America)
MILITARY HISTORIANS AND BIBLIOGRAPHERS: OPPORTUNITIES FOR INSIGHT AND COLLABORATION
Chair: Mark H. Danley, University of Memphis
Russell L. Martin III, Southern Methodist University Ira D. Gruber, Rice University
Commentator: Thomas Ward, United States Military Academy
Session 2/Panel 4 Room: Shawnee Title: Military Thought and Doctrine during the Napoleonic Era: The Intellectual Influence on French and American Doctrine from 1780 to the 1820s
Chair: Mark T. Gerges, US Army Command and General Staff College Guibertian Influences on the Reglement of 1791 Jonathan Abel, University of North Texas
Napoleon vs. Petraeus: The COIN Manual Napoleon Would Not Print Jackson Sigler, Florida State University
Light Infantry Drill in Winfield Scott's 1825 Infantry Tactics: A Unique Light Infantry Tradition in the History of American Arms Michael Bonura, US Army
Comments: Kevin Farrell, Independent Scholar
Session 2/Panel 5 Room: Mission Title: THE KOREAN WAR: SOCIETY, MEMORY, AND LEGACY
Chair: Adrian R. Lewis, University of Kansas
Courting Korea: 19th Century American-Korean Relations and their Repercussions in the 20th Century Eric Price, US Army Command and General Staff College
Stalin’s Unspoken Strategy for the Korean War: Maximum Gain/Minimum Risk Kim Young-jun, University of Kansas
Before the Korean War: Experiencing the War before June 25, 1950 Son Kyengho, Korean Defense University
Comments: Adrian R. Lewis, University of Kansas
Session 2/Panel 6 Room: Liberty Title: GLOBAL DIMENSIONS OF THE WAR IN VIETNAM
Chair: James H. Willbanks, US Army Command and General Staff College
From a Coastal Fleet to a Sea Power: The Chinese Navy in the Vietnam War, 1965-1975 Stanley Adamiak, University of Central Oklahoma
The French Chiefs of Staff, European Rearmament and the Indo-China War, 1951-1952 Mark Thompson, Stephens College
Memory and Motivation: Why the North Vietnamese Fought Hai Nguyen, Texas Tech University
Comments: Gregory A. Daddis, United States Military Academy
Session 2/Panel 7 Room: Century B Title: THE INTELLIGENCE LEGACY OF WW I
Chair: Lon Strauss, University of Kansas
Diplomatic Signals and British War Policy towards the US during WW I Daniel Larsen, University of Cambridge
The Birth of Modern American Military Intelligence in 1918 Mark Stout, Johns Hopkins University
Precursor to the UKUSA? Cryptologic Cooperation on the Western Front Betsy Rohaly Smoot, Center for Cryptologic History
The Office of Naval Intelligence during World War II: Domestic Threats, Private Contractors, and Protective Intelligence Eric Setzekorn, George Washington University
From War in the Sinai to Peace at Versailles: British Intelligence and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1917-1920 Steven Wagner, University of Oxford
Comments: John Ferris, University of Calgary
Session #3: Friday 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
All Day – Chinese Military History Society Room: Pershing South
Session 3/Panel 1 Room: Pershing East Title: OTHER FRONTS DURING WORLD WAR I
Chair: Donald F. Bittner, USMC Command and Staff College
Battle of Riga, 1917 James S. Corum, Baltic Defense College
France in the Middle East and the Great War William Dean III, Air Command and Staff College
Comments: Scott Stephenson, US Army Command and General Staff College
Session 3/Panel 2 Room: Penn Valley Title: REVOLUTIONARY WARFARE IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD: DEBATING FOREIGN AUXILIARIES, ENCOUNTERING SLAVES, AND COMPENSATING LOYALISTS, 1775-1785
Chair: Kyle F. Zelner, University of Southern Mississippi
Soldiers Seeing Slavery: Continental Soldiers Encountering Slavery and the Enslaved American Revolution John Ruddiman, Wake Forest University
The King and Parliament were Hunting the World for Barbarians to Destroy It: Popular Responses to Britain’s use of German Troops in the War of American Independence Friederike Baer, Pennsylvania State University-Abington
Distress and Misery: Governor James Wright and the Quest for Loyalist Compensation, 1782- 1785 Greg Brooking, Georgia State University
Comments: Kyle F. Zelner, University of Southern Mississippi
Session 3/Panel 3 Room: Shawnee Title: FORGING THE SWORD: TRANSFORMATIONAL CONFLICTS, THEIR LEGACIES, AND THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
Chair: Eitan Shamir, University of Bar Ilan
With Special Operations as a Midwife: Transformational Conflict Experience and the Birth of the IDF Jacob Stoil, University of Oxford
To Build and Be Built: The 1948 War and the Birth of the Settlement Project Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, University of Calgary
A Malign Legacy? The Case of Israeli Airpower from the Six Day War to the Second Lebanon War Jeffery Collins, Carleton University
Comments: Robert Johnson, University of Oxford
Session 3/Panel 4 Room: Mission Title: THE MARINE CORPS AND THE GREAT WAR: PREPARATION, IMPLEMENTATION, AND COMMEMORATION
Chair: Charles Neimeyer, Marine Corps History Division
The Landing at Vera Cruz after 100 Years: America's Entry into World War I J. Michael Miller, Mary Washington University
Marine Aviators in Search of a Mission, 1917-1918 Geoffry L. Rossano, Salisbury School
Marines and Remembrance of World War I David J. Beetez, Independent Scholar
Comments: Charles Neimeyer, Marine Corps History Division
Session 3/Panel 5 Room: Liberty Title: TRANSFORMATION OR STAGNATION: THE MIXED IMPACT AND FAILURES OF THE FRENCH WARS (1792-1815) ON THE BRITISH, PRUSSIAN, AND HAPSBURG MILITARY ESTABLISHMENTS DURING THE LONG 19TH CENTURY
Chair: Ricardo A. Herrera, School of Advanced Military Studies
"Nothing Except a Battle Lost Can Be Half so Melancholy as a Battle Won": Explaining the Mixed Success of the British Army, 1815-1857 Huw J. Davies, King’s College, Cambridge
Explaining Marshal Forwards: How the Historians of the Prussian and German General Staffs found in Blucher, a Prusso-German Way of War Michael V. Leggiere, University of North Texas
An Unpleasant Surprise: Hapsburg Rejection of Change and Efforts to Adapt in a Post Revolutionary World, 1789-1815 Lee W. Eysturlid, The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Comments: Geoffrey Wawro, University of North Texas
Session 3/Panel 6 Room: Century B Title: NEW INSIGHTS AND PERSPECTIVES ON THE IRAQ WAR: THREE HISTORIANS
Chair: Roger Spiller, University of Kansas
General George Casey USA and OIF: Fox or Hedgehog? Alexander Cochran, University of New Mexico
A View of the Surge from the Iraqi Side Gian Gentile, RAND
The Leading Edge of the Surge: US Offensive Operations in Iraq, 2007-2008 Don Wright, Combat Studies Institute
Comments: Richard Swain, Cameron University
Session #4: Friday 3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
All Day – Chinese Military History Society Room: Pershing South
Session 4/Panel 1 Room: Pershing West Title: OCCUPATION REGIMES IN EASTERN EUROPE, 1914-1918: POLICIES, PRESSURES, LEGACIES
Chair: Robert Nelson, University of Windsor
The Fragility of the Norm of Occupation in World War I: A Look at Occupied Serbia and Ukraine Jonathan Gumz, University of Birmingham
The Fruits of Occupation: Food, Germany, and Romania in World War I David Hamlin, Fordham University
The German Occupation of Poland, 1915-1918 and its Legacy Jesse Kaufman, Eastern Michigan University
Comments: Sophie DeSchaepdrijver, Pennsylvania State University
Session 4/Panel 2 Room: Pershing East Title: INSURGENCIES AND ASYMMETRIC WARFARE Chair: Matthew Morton, Strategic Studies Institute
The Transformational Wars of the Ottoman Empire, 1910 James Tallon, Lewis University
The Greatest Slaughter of Indians by US Troops: Reexamining the Piegan Massacre, Jan 23, 1870 Ed Westermann, Texas A&M University, San Antonio
Counterinsurgency and Culture Contact: Marines and Indians in the Formation of the Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua David Brooks, Department of State
Comments: Debra Sheffer, Hamline University
Session 4/Panel 3 Room: Penn Valley Title: GALLIPOLI
Chair: Bülend Ozen, Turkish Army War College
The Allies' Misconception about the Ottoman Army: The Ottoman Army Reform Movements Between the Balkan Wars and Gallipoli Campaign Akif Onder, Turkish Army War College
The Role of the Ottoman Field Artillery in the Allied Naval Operations of Gallipoli: Why Allied Forces Could Not Pass the Dardanelles Strait Hilmi Kendircilglu, Turkish Army War College
Critique of Defense Plans in Gallipoli Battles: Limon Von Sanders’ Defense Plan, Turkish Commanders' Plan and Conduct of Operations Ferhat Caliskan, Turkish Army War College
Biographical Approach: How Did Military Personality, Experience of the Ottoman Commanders Affect the Gallipoli Campaign? Yavuz Idug, Turkish Army War College
Initiative Usage in Small Unit Level in Gallipoli Campaign and its Effect on the Course of the Campaign Hasan Tahsin Vanli, Turkish Army War College
Comments: Alper Kayaalp, Turkish Army War College
Session 4/Panel 4 Room: Roanoke Title: LOGISTICS, DIPLOMACY, AND INTELLIGENCE IN EARLY MODERN WAR
Chair: Margaret Sankey, Minnesota State University at Moorhead
Feeding Mars in the Indian Ocean: Portuguese Logistics in the 16th Century Roger Lee de Jesus, University of Coimbra, Portugal
A Wilderness of Uncertainty: Intelligence during the Battle of Trenton, 1776 Brice Coates, University of Calgary
The Promise of War: Military Subsidy Treaties and Payments, 1688-1714 Thomas Nora, University of Hull
Comments: Daniel Krebs, University of Louisville
Session 4/Panel 5 Room: Shawnee Title: MILITARY FORCE AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Chair: Brian Holden Reid, King’s College, Cambridge
Army Apostles: Imperial Officers on Loan and the Standardization of the Dominion Armies, 1904-1914 Douglas Delaney, Royal Military College of Canada
British Counter Insurgency and Pseudo Warfare in Palestine, 1936-39 Matthew Hughes, Brunel University
Maintainers of Empire: British Contractors in Oman, 1963-1979 Nikolas Gardner, Royal Military College of Canada
Comments: Russell Hart, Hawaii Pacific University
Session 4/Panel 6 Room: Liberty Title: CROSS CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF TERROR AND SAVAGERY IN WARFARE, CA. 1500-1800
Chair: Joseph F. Guilmartin, Ohio State University
“They Will Burn Us within the Blockhouse while They Escape with Their Lives…": Native American Responses to European Violence in the South East and Beyond Matt Jennings, Macon State College
Death, Savagery, and Survival in Early Modern European Siege Warfare Mario Rizzo, University of Pavia
Terror in Pre Colonial African Warfare Tim Stapleton, University of Trent
Creating a Den for the Yellow Tiger: Accounts of Zhang Xianzhong's "Cleansing of Sichuan" Kenneth M. Swope, University of Southern Mississippi
Comments: Joseph F. Guilmartin, Ohio State University
Session #5: Saturday 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Session 5/Panel 1 Room: Pershing South Title: EDUCATORS, ATTACHES, AND REFUGEES: INTERNATIONAL MILITARY COOPERATION SINCE WORLD WAR I
Chair: Mark A. Stoler, University of Vermont
The Birthplace of Blitzkrieg: Soviet-German Cooperation at Kama, 1926-1933 Ian Johnson, Ohio University
Attaches in Albion: The Building of an Anglo-American Military Alliance, 1938-1941 Tyler Bamford, Temple University
Unintended Humanitarians: 1999 NATO Military Cooperation in Kosovo Mary Elizabeth Walters, University of North Carolina
Comments: Ingo Trauschweizer, Ohio University
Session 5/Panel 2 Room: Pershing East Title: WAR IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
Chair: Sarah Melville, Clarkson University
Building Fear: The Construction of Siege Towers as Psychological Warfare in Classic Antiquity Bryon Nakamura, South Connecticut University
The Role of the Roman Army in Britain Dirk Yarker, Southeastern Community College, Iowa
The Management of Defeat: Definitions and Redefinitions from the Roman Republic Jessica Clark, Florida State University
Comments: Mary Rose Sheldon, Virginia Military Institute
Session 5/Panel 3 Room: Penn Valley Title: THE LEGACY OF WAR IN POST IMPERIAL CHINA
Chair: David A. Graff, Kansas State University
The Impacts and Legacies of China's Border War with Vietnam Xiaoming Zhang, Air War College
The Forgotten War in China: Beijing’s Decision to Send its Forces to Vietnam, 1965 Xiaobing Li, University of Central Oklahoma
Other People's Battles: Some Chinese Views on Amphibious Warfare Peter Lorge, Vanderbilt University
Comments: David A. Graff, Kansas State University
Session 5/Panel 4 Room: Roanoke Title: PRESIDENTIAL PANEL: (Society for Environmental History) ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSIONS OF WORLD WAR I
Chair: Richard Tucker, University of Michigan
The Global Reach of the Great War: An Environmental Approach Tait Keller, Rhodes College
An Organization of Splendid Efficiency: The Incredible Accomplishments of the 10th and 20th Engineers during World War I Byron E. Pearson, West Texas A&M University
The Chemists’ War: Medical and Environmental Consequences of Chemical Warfare during WW I Gerard J. Fitzgerald, George Mason University
Comments: Richard Tucker, University of Michigan
Session 5/Panel 5 Room: Shawnee Title: VIETNAM: A SPECTRUM OF VIEWS ON PACIFICATION
Chair: Richard Jensen, Montana State University
Open Arms, Closed Minds: PSYOP, Chieu Hoi, Signals, Noise, and Tet John Morello, DeVry University
No Peace in War: Pacification in the Republic of Vietnam, 1968-1972 Robert J. Thompson, University of Southern Mississippi
Competing and Incompatible Visions: Revolution, Pacification, and the Political Organization of Space during the Second Indochina War. Martin Clemis, Temple University
Comments: Edward J. Marolda, Georgetown University
Session 5/Panel 6 Room: Mission Title: THE WAR OF 1812 AT 200: INSIGHTS ON GENERALSHIP AND THE OPERATIONAL ART IN 1814
Chair: Joseph R. Fischer, US Army Command and General Staff College
Shortcomings in Command: The American Left Division on the Niagara River, 1814 Richard V. Barbuto, US Army Command and General Staff College
Caution vs. Culture: Eleazar Ripley's Generalship in the Niagara Campaign in 1814 Samuel J. Watson, United States Military Academy
Managing a Three Front War: The Activities within Military District No. 6 in Georgia during the War of 1812 Steven Rauch, US Army Signal Center of Excellence
Comments: Gregory S. Hospodor, US Army Command and General Staff College
Session 5/Panel 7 Room: Liberty Title: PRESIDENTIAL PANEL: (World History Association)
TOPICS IN WORLD MILITARY HISTORY
Chair: Mark Gilbert, Hawaii Pacific University
The Falsest of Truisms: Who Really Does Write History? Richard DiNardo, Marine Corps University
Evolution and Early Human Conflict: A Review of Theories and Evidence Wayne E. Lee, University of North Carolina
Weapons and Empire, 1830-1930 Bruce I. Gudmundsson, Marine Corps University
Integrating Military History into World History: Networks, Hierarchies, Culture Stephen Morillo, Wabash College
Comments: Doug Streusand, Marine Corps University
Session #6: Saturday 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Session 6/Panel 1 Room: Pershing South Title: WARS, NORMS, AND THE TARGETING OF CIVILIANS
Chair: Jonathan E. Gumz, University of Birmingham
Civilians during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815 Philip Dwyer, University of Newcastle, Australia
Civilians and Sieges in the US Civil War Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Louisiana State University
Bombs and Blockades: International Law and the Targeting of Civilians in the First World War Robert L. Nelson and Christopher Waters, University of Windsor
Comments: Kenneth Johnson, US Air Force Air Command and Staff College
Session 6/Panel 2 Room: Pershing West Title: INTELLIGENCE IN WW II
Chair: Dennis Showalter, Colorado College
The Reflection of Their Own Intentions: An Allied Legacy of Misreading of Nazi Ideology and German Operational Art Robert M. Mages, Center of Military History
Operation Market Garden: ULTRA Intelligence in Context Scott C. Farquhar, Center for Army Lessons Learned
Managing Battlefield Images: The Effects of Imagination on American Infantry Development, 1918-1941 Earl J. Catagnus, Jr., Temple University
Comments: Dennis Showalter, Colorado College
Session 6/Panel 3 Room: Pershing East Title: CINEMA STARS AND PAPERBACK HEROES: THE INTERSECTION OF FICTION AND HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION AND UTILITY
Chair: Ryan D. Wadle, US Air Force Air Command and Staff College
Jayhawkers, Bushwhackers, and Guerillas Oh My!: Hollywood’s Characterization of James Montgomery and William Clarke Quantrill Randy Mullis, US Army Command and General Staff College
MiG Alley and Going Downtown; How First Person Fiction Informs the Airpower Narrative John G. Terino, US Air Force Air Command and Staff College
"Reel" Combat Leadership: Using Film to Learn About Leadership in Warfare Marcia Ledlow, US Air Force Air Command and Staff College
Comments: Jacqueline Whitt, US Air Force Air War College
Session 6/Panel 4 Room: Penn Valley Title: AMERICA'S WARS AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN MILITARY MEDICINE
Chair: Dale C. Smith, Uniformed Services University
Surgeon General Joseph Lovell, 1818-1836: Permanently Implementing Medical Lessons Learned from the War of 1812 Stephan Craig, Uniformed Services University
Smallpox and Vaccination in the Civil War South: The New Science of Bacteriology and the Rise of Public Health Practice Shauna Devine, Western Ontario University
Treating Patients to Win Hearts and Minds: The Vietnam War’s Transformation of Medical Care for Civilians and its Repercussions Sanders Marble, Office of Medical History, US Army
Comments: Dale C. Smith, Uniformed Services University
Session 6/Panel 5 Room: Shawnee Title: Marines as Innovators? Developments in the Marine Corps during the 20th Century
Chair: Bruce I. Gudmundsson, Marine Corps University
Rivals or Partners: Integrating Marine Corps Aviation and Naval Aviation during WW I Annette D. Amerman, Marine Corps University
Planning for War: The Marine Corps and Contingency Planning for Indochina and South Vietnam, 1951-1965 Edward Nevgloski, Marine Corps University The Ambivalent Legacy of Small Wars in the United States Marine Corps Nicholas Schlosser, Marine Corps University
Comments: David Ulbrich, Rogers State University
Session 6/Panel 6 Room: Mission Title: TRANSFORMING LEGACIES: COOPERATION, MEMORY, AND WW I
Chair: William B. MacAllister, Georgetown University
The Three Amigos and Beyond: Actions of US Diplomats in France during the First World War Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, Office of the Historian, Department of State
The Necessary Limitations upon Open Diplomacy: Managing Memory of the Great War in the Foreign Relation Series Joshua Botts, Office of the Historian, Department of State
War, Disease, and Diplomacy: Transatlantic Peacemaking and International Health after the First World War Seth Rotramel, Office of the Historian, Department of State
Comments: William B. MacAllister, Georgetown University
Session #7: Saturday 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Session 7/Panel 1 Room: Pershing South Title: MEMORY, VICTORY, AND DEFEAT
Chair: Christopher Stowe, US Army Command and General Staff College
The Fatherland Is in Danger: First World War Propaganda, Social Demobilization, and the German Freikorps, 1918-1919 Matthew Bucholtz, University of Calgary
Misconceptions about the Tuskegee Airmen Daniel L. Haulmann, US Air Force Historical Research Agency
Creating the Memory of Victory: Naval Prints and Political Cartoons of the War of 1812 Robert Doane, Naval War College Museum
Victimization in World War I Memoirs Ian Isherwood, Gettysburg College Comments: Charles Bowery, Independent Scholar
Session 7/Panel 2 Room: Pershing West Title: HARLEM'S RATTERS AND THE GREAT WAR: THE UNDAUNTED 369TH REGIMENT AND THE QUEST FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN EQUALITY
Chair: Mitchell Yockelson, National Archives and Records Administration
Charles Ward Fillmore: The Unsung Hero of the Regiment’s Existence and Restoration Jeffery T. Sammons, New York University
The 15th NYNG/369th Regiment at War in France, January-December 1918 John H. Morrow, Jr., University of Georgia
Comments: Alexander M. Bielakowski, US Army Command and General Staff College
Session 7/Panel 3 Room: Pershing East Title: CENTERS AND PERIPHERIES OF IMPERIAL WARFARE
Chair: Antulio J. Echeverria, II, US Army War College
Two Islands, Two Destinies: Trinidad and Puerto Rico 1797. Prisco Hernandez, US Army Command and General Staff College
World War One and the Transformation of the Indian Army Pradeep Barua, University of Nebraska-Kearney
“This Brief and Fruitful Exercise”:Origins and Ramifications of the 1941 Invasion of Iran Keith Hann
Remembering the China War of 1860 Ines Eben von Rachnitz, Nanjing University
Comments: Antulio J. Echeverria, II, US Army War College
Session 7/Panel 4 Room: Penn Valley Title: ANCIENT WAR AS A TRANSFORMATIVE FORCE
Chair: Lee L. Brice, Western Illinois University
The Influence of Achaemenid Persia on “Multi-troop” Tactical Development in Classical Greece Dan Powers, Independent Scholar
“Rome Goes to Sea”: The Punic Wars and the Naval Transformation of Rome Michael F. Pavkovic, US Naval War College
Hellenistic and Roman Judaism and the Invention of Religious War Jonathan Roth, San Jose State University
Comments: Lee L. Brice, Western Illinois University
Session 7/Panel 5 Room: Roanoke Title: CIVILIAN CONTROL OF THE MILITARY 1812-1918: POWER OVER THOSE WHO WIELD POWER: CIVILIAN CONTROL IN THREE CONTEXTS
Chair: Gregory J. W. Urwin, Temple University
The Precious Germ of Our National Glory: The Navy Department and the War of 1812 Thomas D. Sheppard, Yale University
The Mind of Mallory: The Genesis and Obstacles of Stephen Mallory's Confederate Naval Innovation Gregory Stern, Florida State University
The Imperial Eagle at Sea and on Land: The German Army-Navy Divide, 1890-1914. Jason Bieber, University of Dayton
Comments: Richard N. Grippaldi, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Session 7/Panel 6 Room: Shawnee Title: PROFITABLE BLOODSHED: CONFLICT AND CAPITAL IN THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA Graduate Student Panel Sponsored by the Masséna Society, Inc
Chair: John H. Gill, National Defense University
For Profit and Patriotism: The Naval Intelligence Services of Lloyds of London in the Revolutionary Era Caleb Greinke, Florida State University
France's Bureau of Powder and Saltpeter, and American Mobilization, 1802-1815 Andrew Fagal, State University of New York, Binghamton
The Emergence of Meritocratic Military Organization in Hessen-Kassel Christian Juergens, Florida State University
Comments: John Weinzierl, Lyon College
Session 7/Panel 7 Room: Liberty Title: ROUNDTABLE PRESENTATION ON REFORM IN PROFESSIONAL MILITARY EDUCATION--THE SECOND BURNING OF CARLISLE BARRACKS: LIGHTING THE FIRE OF EDUCATIONAL REFORM
The Reform Agenda at the US Army War College Lance Betros, US Army War College
Cultural Tension in PME between Civilian Academics and Military Educators Tami Biddle, US Army War College
The Analysis of Primary Sources as a Means for Sharpening the Skills of Senior Leaders Conrad Crane, US Army Heritage and Education Center
The Role of Staff Rides in the Education of the Senior Leader Christian B. Keller, US Army War College
Session #8: Saturday 3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Session 8/Panel 1 Room: Pershing South Title: Defense Procurement from the Spanish American War through the First World War
Chair: Gregory R. Zieren, Austin Peay State University
The Inside Man at GE: US Army Emergency Procurement During the Spanish American War Shannon Brown, National Defense University
Procuring a Legend: The British 18pr Acquisition Program, 1900-1908 Andrew Breer, King’s College, Cambridge
British Small Arms Ammunition Purchases in America, 1914-1918 A.O. Edwards, University of Birmingham
Comments: Gregory R. Zieren, Austin Peay State University
Session 8/Panel 2 Room: Pershing West Title: LAW AND HISTORY
Chair: Christopher R. Johnson, US Army Command and General Staff College
Option 17: Military Law and Vigilante Justice in POW Camps during World War II Mark M. Hull, US Army Command and General Staff College
Executed Death Sentences of World War I and II in Europe M. David Egan, Clemson University
External Factors: The Relationship between Military Law and Congress Franklin Rosenblatt, US Army, Judge Advocate General Corps
Comments: William G. Eckhardt, University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of Law
Session 8/Panel 3 Room: Penn Valley Title: IMPERIAL STRATEGY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA
Chair: Michael V. Leggiere, University of North Texas
Conquering the Un-Natural Frontier: The Sambre and Meuse Army and the Left Bank of the Rhine, 1794-1795 Jordan R. Hayworth, University of North Texas
The Specter of Ochakov: British Public Opinion and the Road to War in 1792 Nathaniel Jarrett, University of North Texas
Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples in the French Imperium, 1806-1815 Chad Tomaselli, University of North Texas
Comments: Huw J. Davies, King's College, Cambridge
Session 8/Panel 4 Room: Roanoke Title: DEVELOPING AN AMERICAN CULTURE OF WAR IN THE PACIFIC, 1930-1945
Chair: Thomas Bruscino, US Army Command and General Staff College
The American-Australian Relationship, 1933-1941: The Troublesome Roots of a Wartime Alliance Travis J. Hardy, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Advancing the Brisbane Line: Airdrome Construction and the Papuan Campaign, April- December 1942 Kyle Bracken, Florida State University
Jim Crow Looks at the Rising Sun: African American Attitudes toward Japan and the Japanese, 1941-1945 Chris Dixon, University of Queensland
Comments: Peter R. Mansoor, Ohio State University
Session 8/Panel 5 Room: Shawnee Title: CHANGING THE TIDES: THE 20TH CENTURY TRANSFORMATION OF AMPHIBIOUS WARFARE
Chair: Corbin Williamson, Ohio State University
Turkish Amphibious Operations during the Cyprus War of 1974 Serhat Guvenc, Kadir Has University
The Evolution of Amphibious Warfare in the Pacific during World War II Douglas Nash, Marine Corps University
The Influence of Amphibious Power after the World Wars Paul W. Westermeyer, Marine Corps University
Comments: Charles D. Melson, Marine Corps University
Session 8/Panel 6 Room: Mission Title: PRESIDENTIAL PANEL: (Minerva: Journal of Women and War)
TRANSFORMATIONAL HISTORY: GENDER, MILITARIES, AND WARS ROUNDTABLE:
Moderator: Kara Dixon Vuic, High Point University
D'Ann Campbell, Culver-Stockton College Andrew Huebner, University of Alabama Donna B. Knaff, Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, Honolulu, Hawai’i Laurie S. Stoff, Louisiana Tech University Molly Marie Wood, Wittenberg University
Session 8/Panel 7 Room: Liberty Title: ENGAGING ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR ROUNDTABLE:
Moderator: Jennifer D. Keene, Chapman University
Jeffrey Grey, Australian Defence Force Academy Steven Trout, University of South Alabama Michael S. Neiberg, US Army War College David Silbey, Cornell University, Washington, DC Lon Strauss, University of Kansas
Session #9: Sunday 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Session 9/Panel 1 Room: Pershing South Title: GREAT WAR/MACHINE: MILITARY TECHNOLOGY BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNITY, 1905-1925
Chair: Gregory S. Hospodor, US Army Command and General Staff College
To Die a Fiery Miserable Death: Air War along the Western Trenches, 1918 Charles D. Dusch, United States Air Force Academy
The Silence of Death: Battle of Liege, 5-6 August 1914 Jay Lockenour, Temple University
The Billy Mitchell of the Cavalry: The Conflicted Military Career of Major Malcolm Wheeler Nicholson Robert P. Wettemann, Jr., United States Air Force Academy
Comments: Nicholas Murray, US Army Command and General Staff College
Session 9/Panel 2 Room: Pershing West Title: OLD WINE IN A NEW BOTTLE? HOW THE UNDERSTANDING OF PAST WARS SHAPES THE UNITED STATES ARMY'S ENTRY INTO NEW ONES
Chair: Sharon Tosi-Lacey, US Army Center of Military History
In the South, In the Union: Mexican War Generation Southerners Remember the American Revolution Brett Bell, Washington State University
War and its Legacy in the Invasion of Iraq William Shane Story, US Army Center of Military History
Past Plans and Contemporary Realities: The National Guard in Operation Iraqi Freedom Jon Middaugh, US Army Center of Military History
Comments: Raymond Sun, Washington State University
Session 9/Panel 3 Room: Pershing East Title: REMEMBERING WASHINGTON, GRANT, AND MARSHALL THROUGH THEIR PAPERS: NEW UNDERSTANDINGS OF THREE AMERICAN GENERALS AND STATESMEN
Chair: Edward G. Lengel, University of Virginia
“The Continent at Large is Concerned in our Cordiality" George Washington as Diplomat Benjamin L. Huggins, University of Virginia
If it Takes Me All Summer: Appreciating the Papers of Ulysses S. Grant as a Resource Tom Murphy, Indiana University-South Bend
George C Marshall Mark A. Stoler, University of Vermont
Comments: Edward G. Lengel, University of Virginia
Session 9/Panel 4 Room: Pershing East Title: RECONSIDERING THE GREAT WAR
Chair: Laurie S. Stoff, Louisiana Technical University
Overconfidence and Paranoia in Equal Measure: Decisions for War in Europe's Capital Cities during the July Crisis, 1914 Annika Mombauer, Open University
Command and Control on the Russian Front, 1914-1915 Paul Robinson, University of Ottawa
Reconsidering the Brusilov Offensive Joshua Sanborn, Lafayette College
Comments: David R. Stone, Kansas State University
Session 9/Panel 5 Room: Roanoke Title: WENT OUT AND DRAFTED A BAND: PATRIOTISM, PROPAGANDA, AND POPULAR MUSIC AND DANCE IN WW II ERA EUROPE AND AMERICA
Chair: Joshua First, University of Mississippi
Dancing Democracy in Wartime Britain: 1939-1945 Allison Abra, University of Southern Mississippi
Germany's Syncopated Warfare: The Hour of Popular Music Linda Braun, Johns Hopkins University
Double Victory Disks: African American Contributions to the Americanization of Europe in World War II Kevin Greene, University of Southern Mississippi
Comments: Joshua First, University of Mississippi
Session 9/Panel 6 Room: Shawnee Title: TIMES THAT TRY MEN'S SOULS: WAR AND IDENTITY FORMATION IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION
Chair: Daniel Ingram, Ball State University
Falling Empires: The Suppression of Jesuits in the Wake of French Defeat in the Seven Years War Andrew Dial, McGill University
Caught in the Act: The Homosexuality of Feldprediger Friedrich Fuergerer Alexander Burns, Ball State University
“Civilization or Death to All Savages”: Soldiers, Indians, and Congress's War on the Revolutionary Frontier Nathan Wuertenberg, Ball State University
Comments: Daniel Ingram, Ball State University
Session 9/Panel 7 Room: Mission Title: TRANSFORMATIONAL CONFLICTS IN US MILITARY HISTORY AND THE EVOLUTION OF JOINT OPERATIONS
Chair: S. Mike Pavelec, Joint Advanced Warfighting School
The Peninsula Campaign: New Tools, No Doctrine Jay Briggs, Joint Advanced Warfighting School
Deja Vu All Over Again: Applying Lessons Learned from Interwar Airpower to Joint Advanced Warfighting with Cyberpower Karl Schrader, Joint Advanced Warfighting School
Critical Necessity: Improving the Airborne Capability for Joint Forcible Entry Operations Thomas Sheehan, Joint Advanced Warfighting School
Joining Forces: Preparing to Fight Coalition Air War Joe Kramer, US Air Force
Comments: William T. Allison, US Army War College
Session #10: Sunday 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Session 10/Panel 1 Room: Pershing South Title: PERCEPTIONS OF WAR IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
Chair: John F. Guilmartin, Ohio State University
The American Crisis: Perceptions of War, 1775-1777 Jonathan Romaneski, Ohio State University
Methodical Preparations and Unnecessary Delay: British and Cherokee Perceptions of Warfare in the 1758 Forbes Campaign Jessica Wallance, Ohio State University
The Exact and True Relation of Bloody Battle: English Perceptions of the Nature of the 30 Years War, 1629-37 James Tucker, Ohio State University
A True and Godly Cause: Religion as a Casus Belli in Reformation Europe Denice Fett, University of North Florida
Comments: John F. Guilmartin, Ohio State University
Session 10/Panel 2 Room: Pershing West Title: MEDIEVAL HORSEMAN-CAVALRY AND WWI RECONSIDERED
Chair: Stephen Badsey, University of Wolverhampton
Cavalry in a Sideshow: British Empire Cavalry in the Sinai-Palestine Campaign, 1916-1918 Jean Bou, Australian National University
Necessary Anachronism: Cavalry and Operational Thinking in the German Army, 1914-1918 David Dorondo, Western Carolina University
The Fourth Command, Control, Communication, and Cavalry: Understanding the Performance of British and Empire Cavalry on the Western Front, 1916-1918. David Kenyon, School of History at the University of Kent
Comments: Stephen Badsey, University of Wolverhampton
Session 10/Panel 3 Room: Pershing East Title: MUTINEERS AND MARAUDERS: THE REPUBLICAN AND NATIONAL IDENTITY OF THE CITIZEN SOLDIER IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
Chair: Lorien L. Foote, Texas A&M University
Mutiny at Camp Randall: Political and Ethnic Identity in the 17th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Ryan Keating, California State University, San Bernardino
Soldiers’ Rights at Work: Mutinies by Anglos, German Americans, and African Americans in the Union Army Thaddeus Romansky, Texas A&M University
Prey to Thieves and Robbers. . . . Loyalty and Collective Violence among Mississippi's Confederate Deserters Jarrett Ruminski, Independent Scholar
Comments: Ricardo A. Herrera, US Army Command and General Staff College
Session 10/Panel 4 Room: Penn Valley Title: CRISIS LEADERSHIP: US MILITARY OFFICERS AND DECISION MAKERS IN THE MID-19TH CENTURY
Chair: Matthew S. Muehlbauer, Manhattan College
Separatism and Security in 1850s Panama Ellen Tillman, Texas State College
Before the Band of Brothers: West Point Class of 1829 in the 1850s Paul Springer, US Air Force Air Command and Staff College
"Never Dishonor the Troops under my Command" Edmund Kirby Smith and the Surrender of Camp Colorado Jeffery Prushankin, Millersville University
Comments: Christopher Mortenson, Ouachita Baptist University
Session 10/Panel 5 Room: Roanoke Title: THE INTERWAR EVOLUTION OF JOINT AND ALLIED FIRES, 1917-1945: A LEGACY OF TRANSFORMATION FROM FAILURE TO VICTORY
Chair: Boyd Dastrup, US Army Field Artillery School
In the Wake of Gallipoli: The Development of Joint Doctrine, the Norwegian Campaign of 1940 and the Limits of Operational Experience Joseph Moretz, Independent Scholar
The Legacy of US Army Air Support for Ground Operations from the Argonne to the Hurtgen Christopher Rein, US Air Force Academy
From Rolling Barrages to the Fire for Effect: Transformation in the US Field Artillery Branch from WWI to WW II Mark Calhoun, US Army Command and General Staff College
Comments: Pete J. Schifferle, US Army Command and General Staff College
Session 10/Panel 6 Room: Shawnee Title: AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN WARS: THE SELECTIVE MEMORY OF AMERICAN SOCIETY
Chair: Michael S. Neiberg, US Army War College
Imperfectly Remembered and Hence Forgotten: The Great Narragansett War, 1675-1676 Jason W. Warren, US Army War College
An Honor and a Privilege: Debunking the Myth of an American Lost Generation Edward A. Gutierrez, University of Hartford
An Inconclusive, Ill Understood Conflict: Remembering the Korean War Christine Knauer, Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen
Comments: David Silbey, Cornell University, Washington D.C.
Session 10/Panel 7 Room: Mission Title: ALBION BETWEEN THE WARS, 1748-1756
Chair: Kristofer Ray, Austin Peay State University
The Sources of Military Reform: The British Army and the Inter War Years, 1748-1756 Patrick Speelman, US Merchant Marine Academy
The Defense of British North America between the Wars, 1748-1754 Thomas Agostini, South Dakota State University
Britannia Aggressor?: Posturing for Peace or War in the Atlantic World, 1748-56 Matt Schumann, Eastern Michigan University
Comments: Mark H. Danley, University of Memphis
Session 10/Panel 8 Room: Liberty Title: GENDER AND WORLD WAR I ROUNDTABLE
Jason Crouthamel, Grand Valley State University Susan R. Grayzel, University of Mississippi Tammy Proctor, Utah State University Joshua Sanborn, Lafayette College