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85th Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History Landscapes of War and Peace
April 5 - 8, 2018, Louisville, Kentucky
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Thursday, April 5th, 2018
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Room: Ballroom A Book Exhibit Setup
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Room: Willis Chinese Military History Society Meeting David A. Graff (Meeting Organizer), Kansas State University
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM Room: Nunn SMH Executive Board Lunch & Meeting
12:00 PM - 7:00 PM Room: Meeting/Conference Registration, 2nd Floor, Suite Tower Conference Registration
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Room: Frazier History Museum - 829 W. Main St., Louisville, KY 40202 Opening Reception (Open to registered conference attendees; Buses leaves hotel front door every 10 min between 5:30pm-6:10pm; returns from the Frazier at 7:45pm, 8:15, 8:45, 9:00; 9:15)
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Room: Segell Award Winners Dinner (Invitation Only)
Friday, April 6th, 2018
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM Room: Sampson Journal of Military History - Editorial Breakfast (Invitation Only)
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Room: Meeting/Conference Registration, 2nd Floor, Suite Tower Conference Registration 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Room: Ballroom A Book Exhibit
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Room: Breathitt Learn and Adapt: Defeating the Submarine Menace in the Battle of the Atlantic, 1940-1943 Frank Blazich, National Museum of American History Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Red Epaulets and Real Bombs: Civil Air Patrol Coastal Patrol Operations, 1942-1943 Corbin Williamson, Air War College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: U.S. Navy Observers and the 1942 German Submarine Campaign off North America Richard Hammond, King's College London Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Inter and Intra-Theatre Learning and British Coastal Air Power during the Second World War Ryan Peeks, Naval History and Heritage Command Participant Role: Chair and Commentator
Room: Brown Learning Across Peace and War in the United States Navy of the Early 20th Century Trent C. Hone, Independent Scholar Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Exploring the Options: The Development of U.S. Navy Tactical Doctrine, 1913-1923 Hal M. Friedman, Henry Ford College Participant Role: Commentator Kevin Delamer, Naval War College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Resilience of Mahan: Educating Fleet Leaders Randy Papadopoulos, Department of the Navy Participant Role: Chair Laurence M. Burke, National Air and Space Museum Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Starting Over: U.S. Naval Aviation after the First World War
Room: Carroll Ford The Staff Ride: Learning from the Landscapes of War Michael F. Morris, Texas A&M University Participant Role: Moderator Timothy M. Cullen, Air University Participant Role: Discussant Brian D. Koehr, Naval War College Participant Role: Discussant Eric R. Price, Army University Participant Role: Discussant Wayne A. Sinclair, Marine Corps University Participant Role: Discussant Grace Kim, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies Participant Role: Discussant
Room: Stopher To Honor Their Service and Sacrifice: Federally-Sponsored Commemoration Efforts and the American Veteran Sarah A. Barksdale, Department of Defense Participant Role: Discussant Andrew Ringlee, Department of Defense Participant Role: Discussant James Wright, Dartmouth College Participant Role: Chair and Moderator Eric Marr, American Battle Monuments Commission Participant Role: Discussant
Room: Coe Negotiating and Observing War Mark Calhoun, Command and General Staff College Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Ian Ona Johnson, Yale University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Army of Peace: The Plan to Arm the United Nations and the Origins of NATO Jacopo Pili, University of Leeds Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Britain and Germany in the Reports of Fascist Era Italian Military Attachés Sarah C. Melville, Clarkson University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Starting Wars in the Ancient Near East
Room: Combs Chandler Ancient Strategy in the Near East: From Alexander to Heraclius Everett L. Wheeler, Duke University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Rome vs. Iran: Illusions and Realities in a Superpower Rivalry Fred Naiden, University of North Carolina Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The War Aims of Alexander the Great Paul Johstono, The Citadel Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Hellenistic Strategy, Limited Warfare, and the Rise of Rome John Hosler, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Participant Role: Chair Alex Roland, Duke University Participant Role: Commentator
Room: French Fighting with Allies: Anglo-American Overt and Covert Intervention in the Greater Middle East in the Early Cold War Mary Kathryn Barbier, Mississippi State University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Peaceful Cold War: Freya Stark, the Brotherhood of Freedom, and Cairo, 1945-1954 Richard Garlitz, University of Tennessee at Martin Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Point Four and the Mossadegh Government in Iran: A Reappraisal Richard V. Damms, Mississippi State University - Meridian Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: You are doing a Suez on me': Eisenhower, Macmillan, and the Conundrum of Anglo-American Military Cooperation in the Middle East after Suez Robert Thomas Davis II, Command and General Staff College Participant Role: Chair Dennis E. Showalter, Colorado College Participant Role: Commentator
Room: Nunn Cultural Landscapes of War: Commemorating the First World War in Africa, America, and Australia Jennifer M. Zoebelein, Kansas State University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "A Band Stand for Potomac Park": The D.C. War Memorial and the Cultural Landscape of the National Mall Timothy Clarke, University of Waterloo Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "This Maniacal Insistence": The Mombasa Native War Memorial and Whiteness in Kenya, 1925-1931 William Allison, Georgia Southern University Participant Role: Commentator Roger Lee, Australian War Memorial Participant Role: Chair Steve Marti, Independent Scholar Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "Suitable to the Climate of Australia": The Slouch Hat and the Environment in Australian Commemorations of the First World War
Room: Segell Failed Military Leadership through the Ages: Nicias, Bedford Forrest and Lewis Hyde Brereton Christopher M. Rein, Army University Press Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: 'He is Nothing More Than a Good Raider': The Failed Military Career of Nathan Bedford Forrest John Jennings, U.S. Air Force Academy Participant Role: Commentator Jim Tucci, Air University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Nicias and the Failed Athenian Expedition to Sicily John Abbatiello, U.S. Air Force Academy Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Lewis Hyde Brereton: Controversial Airman Courtney Short, U.S. Army Forces Command Participant Role: Chair
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Coffee Break in the Grand Hall
10:15 AM - 12:30 PM Room: Filson Historical Society - 1310 S. 3rd St., Louisville, KY 40208 Tour: Filson Historical Society (Bus departs at 10.15am in front of hotel and returns at 12.30pm)
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Room: Breathitt Unfamiliar Ground? Displacement and Movement through Wartime Spaces John Curatola, Command and General Staff College Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Eugenie M. Buchan, Independent Historian Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: A Sudden Change of Location: Burma and the Flying Tigers June Mastan, University at Albany, SUNY Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The United States and Canada: Porous Spaces, Fluid Citizenship, and the First World War Gabriel Moss, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Roman Mountain Warfare: Environmental Perspectives on Imperial Control
Room: Brown Insurgency, Decolonization, and Foreign Aid in Vietnam David Bath, University of Mississippi Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Martin G. Clemis, Valley Forge Military College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Agrowar: Rice and Irregular Warfare in South Vietnam Xiaobing Li, University of Central Oklahoma Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Building Ho's Army: Chinese Military Assistance to North Vietnam Kevin Li, Yale University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Violent Entrepreneurship as Political Practice: Empowering the Binh Xuyen during the Decolonization of Vietnam
Room: Carroll Ford The Sensory Landscapes of War Mary Louise Roberts, University of Wisconsin - Madison Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Sensescape of the Second World War: How Infantrymen in the ETO Made Sense of the War Jennifer Keene, Chapman University Participant Role: Chair Lisa M. Mundey, University of St. Thomas Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Sensory Landscape of the Suck: The Experience and Memory of America's Longest (Forgotten) War in Afghanistan David Kieran, Washington & Jefferson College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: 'If you Love the Troops, You Don't Send them Back to Fight with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and a Bottle of Antidepressants': The Sensory Experience of War and the Debate Over Redeployment to Iraq Beth Bailey, University of Kansas Participant Role: Commentator Room: Coe Was the First Crusade an Offensive or Defensive War? John D. Hosler, Army Command and General Staff College Participant Role: Discussant Janet G. Valentine, Army Command and General Staff College Participant Role: Chair and Moderator Lawrence W. Marvin, Berry College Participant Role: Discussant Andrew P. Holt, Florida State College at Jacksonville Participant Role: Discussant Daniel P. Franke, Richard Bland College of William & Mary Participant Role: Discussant
Room: Segell Material Culture and Warfare: The Civil War from a Multi-disciplinary Perspective Earl J. Hess, Lincoln Memorial University Participant Role: Chair Sarah Jones Weicksel, University of Chicago Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Material Culture of Occupation in the American Civil War W. Stephen McBride, Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Soldiers, Sutlers, and Refugees: Archaeology of Camp Nelson, KY (1863-1865) Steven D. Smith, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: South Carolina's Civil War: An Archaeological and Material Culture Perspective Judith A. Giesberg, Villanova University Participant Role: Commentator
Room: Nunn Charting the Landscape of Military Culture Joshua Kyle Akers, UNC Chapel Hill Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "I'm one of those...people who still believes in the old time way": Soldiers' Culture and the Transformation of Alfred Fowler, Jr., in Vietnam, 1968-1969 Eric Michael Burke, UNC Chapel Hill Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "The discordant elements which go to make up our armies": Regimental Culture in Sherman's Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862-1863 Benjamin M. Schneider, George Mason University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "I Didn't Consider Them As Prisoners": Law, Culture, and Refusal of Quarter in the U.S. Army during the Second World War Wayne E. Lee, UNC Chapel Hill Participant Role: Chair Huw Davies, King's College London Participant Role: Commentator
Room: Stopher The Specter of Containment: U.S. Interventions in the Late Cold War and Early Post-Cold War Eras Kate Tietzen, Kansas State University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "The Russian position is much more compassionate with us" : Iraqi-Russian Relations as a Counter to American Hegemony in the 1990s Mary Elizabeth Walters, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Finding Shelter in Kukes: The Intersection of Albanian Grassroots Humanitarianism and U.S. Intervention during the 1999 Kosovo Crisis Heather Salazar, Ohio University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Grenada: A Real Win over Communism? Brian Laslie, North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command Participant Role: Chair Stephen Alan Bourque, United States Army Command and General Staff College Participant Role: Commentator
Room: French Making and Unmaking the Will to Fight: Morale and Motivation in the Armies of the American War for Independence Christian Juergens, Florida State University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Morale and Desertion in the Army of Hessen- Kassel Krysten Blackstone, University of Edinburg Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: He Should Endeavor to Gain the Love of His Men: The Relationship Between Leadership and Morale in the Continental Army Matthew Hollis, Binghamton University SUNY Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Localist Landscapes: Soldiers' Visions and Nostalgic Optimism in the Continental Army Joseph Stoltz, Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington Participant Role: Chair
Room: Combs Chandler The End of the Second World War in Europe and the Transition to Peace Jared Dockery, Harding University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: J. Lawton Collins and VII Corps' Capture of Cologne during World War II George B. Eaton, US Army Sustainment Command Participant Role: Chair Joel R. Bius, Air Command and Staff College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Soldier and the Cigarette in War and Peace Sean P. Klimek, Air Command and Staff College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Outstanding Performance: US Army Air Forces in Operation Varsity Michael E. Weaver, Air Command and Staff College Participant Role: Commentator
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch Break
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Room: Breathitt Presidential Panel co-sponsored by The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies - The Wars of Decolonization and the Dutch Experience: A Comparative Perspective Thijs Brocades Zaalberg, Netherlands Defence Academy / Leiden University Participant Role: Discussant Roel Frakking, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies Participant Role: Discussant Brian McAllister Linn, Texas A&M University Participant Role: Chair and Moderator Martin Thomas, University of Exeter Participant Role: Discussant
Room: Combs Chandler Battlefield Germany: Militarized Landscapes in Cold War Central Europe Adam R. Seipp, Texas A&M University Participant Role: Discussant Jared Donnelly, United States Air Force Air Command and Staff College Participant Role: Discussant Emily Swafford, American Historical Association Participant Role: Chair and Moderator Nicholas Schlosser, US Army Center of Military History Participant Role: Discussant Benjamin Greene, Bowling Green State University Participant Role: Discussant
Room: Brown Women, Race, and Children in 20th Century South Pacific Wars D'Ann Campbell, US Air Force Academy & Culver Stockton College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: American Servicewomen in the Southwest Pacific Theater During WWII Gregory Daddis, Chapman University Participant Role: Chair Courtney A. Short, US Army Forces Command Headquarters Participant Role: Commentator Victoria Grieves, University of Sydney Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Children Born of War: Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality when the USA was in Australia 1941-1945 Heather Marie Stur, University of Southern Mississippi Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: South Vietnamese Women and the Vietnam War
Room: Coe Vignettes on the German Military Experience in the Era of the Two World Wars Russell A. Hart Ph.D., Hawaii Pacific University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: They Did Not Go Quietly into the Night: Vignettes on Nazi End-Stage Operations, April-May 1945 Eugenia Kiesling, US Military Academy Participant Role: Chair Richard L. DiNardo, Command & Staff College, US Marine Corps University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Last Hurrah: The German Cavalry Raid on the Eastern Front, 1915 Steve Waddell, US Military Academy Participant Role: Commentator
Room: Stopher War and Society in West Africa Tim Stapleton, University of Calgary Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Middle Belt and Northern Minorities in Britain's Nigeria Regiment (c.1900-1960) Roy Doron, Winston-Salem State University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Redefining Genocide: Ken Saro-Wiwa, Environmentalism and the Nigerian Civil War Charles Thomas, Air Command and Staff College Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Brian Shellum, Independent Scholar Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Americo-Liberian and Indigenous View: African American Officers in Liberia, 1910-1942
Room: Nunn Landscapes of U.S. Intervention, 1898-1949 Jonathan B Chavanne, United States Naval Academy Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Defense vs State: James Forrestal, George Marshall, and the American Intervention in China, 1945-1949 Scott Mobley, United States Naval Academy Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: By the Force of Our Arms': William D. Leahy and the U.S. Intervention in Nicaragua, 1912 Mark Belson, United States Naval Academy Participant Role: Commentator James Christopher Rentfrow, United States Naval Academy Participant Role: Chair Marko Stawnyczyj, United States Naval Academy Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Battle of Cuzco Wells
Room: Segell Archaeology, Archives and Apaches Robert Neill Watt, University of Birmingham Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Perils of Dihydrogen Monoxide: A Reinterpretation of the Hembrillo Canyon Operation, New Mexico, March-April 1880 William A. Dobak, U.S. Army Center of Military History (Retired) Participant Role: Chair Lance R. Blyth, University of New Mexico Participant Role: Commentator Deni J. Seymour, Independent Researcher Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Stalking the Lieutenant: The 1871 Juh- Cushing Ambush Site Karl W. Laumbach, Human Systems Research Inc. Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Conline's Skirmish: The Forgotten Prelude to the Battle of the Hembrillo Basin
Room: French Transforming Physical Landscapes in Modern War Hayley Fenton, Ohio State University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Langley: Cementing Intelligence onto the Map of Washington DC Richard Lovering, United States Military Academy Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Diem and Mounier in the Mekong Delta: Personalism and the Strategic Hamlet Program Devon Collins, United States Military Academy Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Blueprints for Captivity: Planning versus Reality in British Prisoner of War Camps in World War I Christian Garner, United States Military Academy Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Cotton, Tumbleweeds, and Gliders: American Glider Pilot Training and its Impact on Lamesa, Texas, during World War II Andrew Wiest, University of Southern Mississippi Participant Role: Chair Bryan Gibby, US Military Academy Participant Role: Commentator
Room: Carroll Ford Winter, Jungle, and Bayou: Nature, Ecology, and Environment in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century US Military Decision Making Ricardo A. Herrera, US Army Command and General Staff College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "[P]leas'd with the thoughts of going into winter Quarters": The Environments and the Decision for Valley Forge. Ellen D. Tillman, Texas State University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Union's "Jungle" Crossing: Panama and the Civil War Anthony E. Carlson, US Army Command and General Staff College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "The men...grumbled audibly, and began to fail in health": Disease, Hydrology, and Race at Vicksburg Paul D. Lockhart, Wright State University Participant Role: Chair and Commentator 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Coffee Break in Grand Hall
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Room: Carroll Ford Annual Graduate Student Roundtable: Utilizing Social Media in Academia Cameron G. Zinsou, Mississippi State University Participant Role: Chair and Moderator Kurt Hackemer, University of South Dakota Participant Role: Discussant Jacqueline Whitt, US Army War College Participant Role: Discussant Angela Riotto, University of Akron Participant Role: Discussant
Room: Breathitt Recovering from War in Europe and the United States Michael Pavelec, Air Command and Staff College Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Steven B. Davis, Texas A&M University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Healing the Wounds of War and Expulsion: Grassroots German Expellee Activism and Post-1989 German-Czech Relations Denis Louis Alfin, University of Wisconsin Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Old Soldiers: Veterans' Homes and the Spectacle of Military Discipline, 1883-1917. Christopher Goodwin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Cultural Trauma and the Crisis of Prussian Masculinity during the Napoleonic Era
Room: Combs Chandler Beyond the Western Front in the First World War Lon Strauss, Marine Corps University Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Jeff Schultz, Luzerne County Community College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Sustaining the Kaiser's Askaris: German Adaptation and Improvisation in the East African 'Ice-Cream War,' 1914- 1918 James N. Tallon, Lewis University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: A Unique Landscape in War and Peace: Albania in the First World War Kevin R. Broucke, University of North Texas Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Macedonia 1918, the Year of Victory
Room: Brown U.S. Military Government and Aid to the Civil Power: Seeking Security and Stability, 1787-1902 Samuel J. Watson IV, United States Military Academy Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Federal Military Diplomacy at Vincennes, 1787-1790 Robert Wooster, Texas A&M Corpus Christi Participant Role: Chair Kevin Adams, Kent State University Participant Role: Commentator Durwood Ball, University of New Mexico Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Regulars Return: The U.S. Army's Protection of Lincoln's Journey in February 1861 Mark C. Askew, Texas A&M University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: '"Hopelessly Destructive of the Public Order": Political Dissent under the Military Government of Cuba, 1899
Room: French Institutional Identity, Culture, and the United States Marine Corps Paul W. Westermeyer, Marine Corps University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: A kind of a giddy harumfrodite: Institutional Identity and the United States Marine Corps Jacob Stoil, US Army, Ft. Leavenworth Participant Role: Chair and Commentator David Ulbrich, Norwich University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Paternalism and Progressivism: The U.S. Marines as Colonial Infantry in Haiti, 1915-1934 Allyson Gates, Florida State University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Holland Smith Against the Army: Interservice Rivalries on Saipan
Room: Coe Race and American Civil-Military Relations from World War II to Vietnam Douglas Bristol, University of Southern Mississippi Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "An American Dilemma: The Deployment of Black Troops Overseas and the Image of American Democracy during World War II" Jeremy Maxwell, University of Southern Mississippi Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "The Devolution of Civil-Military Relations during the Vietnam War and the African American Move Away from the Military" William Taylor, Angelo State University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "The Final Push: Leo Bogart, Project Clear, and American Civil-Military Relations during the Korean War" Robert Jefferson, University of New Mexico Participant Role: Chair and Commentator
Room: Nunn Wartime Adaptation and Innovation in the 20th Century Chris Hemler, Texas A&M University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Conductors of Amphibious War: Joint Assault Signal Companies in World War II Andrew Wiest, University of Southern Mississippi Participant Role: Commentator Bryon Greenwald, Joint Advanced Warfighting School, Joint Forces Staff College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Learning to Fight from the Ground Up: American Antiaircraft Artillery in World War II Ron Milam, Texas Tech University Participant Role: Chair John Aylesworth, Texas Tech University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Training of the Vietnamese Marine Corps: 1954-1964
Room: Stopher Symbols of War and Peace: The Tools of Remembrance Derek R. Mallett, US Army Command and General Staff College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Nat Turner's Lost Cause Michael R. Dolski, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Bradley S. Keefer, Kent State University at Ashtabula Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Civil War Reenacting and the Lost Cause Heather M. Haley, Auburn University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Poppyganda: Commonwealth Commemoration of the Great War
Room: Segell Bayonets & Bolos: The Sharp End of Military Culture in the U.S. and the Philippines Garrett Gatzemeyer, University of Kansas Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Making Moral Men Kill: The Bayonet and Progressive Reformers, 1917-1918 James Villanueva, United States Military Academy Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Living with an Edge: The Bolo Knife as a Symbol of Filipino Resistance, 1896-1945 Heather Pace Venable, Air Command and Staff College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Bullets or Bayonets?: The Marine Corps' Cult of the Offensive, 1898-1930 Sebastian H. Lukasik, Air Command and Staff College Participant Role: Chair and Commentator 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Room: Ballroom A Cambridge University Press-sponsored reception at Booth #111 to celebrate the launch of a new book series: Military, War, and Society in Modern American History
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Room: Combs Chandler SMH Annual Membership Meeting
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Room: Whiskey Cellar at Patrick O'Shea's Downtown, 123 W. Main St., Louisville, KY 40202 The Robert Harry Berlin Student Reception at Patrick O'Shea's Whiskey Cellar, 123 W Main St, Louisville, KY 40202 (Students Only - Others by Invitation Only)
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Room: Brown SMH Staff Appreciation Dinner, Galt House Hotel (Invitation Only)
Saturday, April 7th, 2018
7:00 AM - 8:15 AM Room: Café Magnolia, Galt House Hotel The Second World War Research Group North America - Breakfast Meet & Greet at Café Magnolia (Members and anybody interested are welcome - please bring your free breakfast voucher)
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Room: Ballroom A Book Exhibit
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Room: Breathitt Young Scholars Panel - Professional Military Perspectives on Doctrine, Technology, and Innovation Bryon Greenwald, National Defense University Mark Olsen, National Defense University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Line and Rabble: Drill, Doctrine, and Military Books in Revolutionary America Ian Bennett, National Defense University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Tool or Crutch: Advanced Technology, Strategic Hyper Presence, and the Lost Art of Command Daniel Penter, National Defense University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Protecting the Cosmic Commons: Historical Precedent for Securing Commercial Space Enterprise Gregory Miller, National Defense University Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Bryon Greenwald, National Defense University Participant Role: Organizer Room: Nunn Young Scholars Panel - Conversations of War Gregory A. Daddis, Chapman University Participant Role: Organizer Cameron Carlomagno, Chapman University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "Straying from Popular Memory: Exploring the War Experiences of Berry Robison in Vietnam" Sasha Conway, Chapman University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "For Our Boys: Lola Pefley and the contribution of senior USO hostesses in World War II" Nicholas Guitierrez, Chapman University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "Fighting in Their Prime: The Harrowing Experience of Vietnam Service" Mark Grotelueschen, US Air Force Academy Participant Role: Commentator Heather Stur, University of Southern Mississippi Participant Role: Chair
Room: Carroll Ford Young Scholars Panel - Military History at the Service Academies: Three Cadet Perspectives Robert Paul Wettemann Jr., United States Air Force Academy Participant Role: Commentator Steve Waddell, United States Military Academy Participant Role: Chair Robert Mahoney, United States Air Force Academy Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: An American Air War over San Mihiel Kai Starmer, United States Naval Academy Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: John Ericsson: Naval Pioneer Karol Wegrzyn, United States Military Academy Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Pointe du Hoc: An Augmented Reality Peter Worrall, United States Military Academy Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Pointe du Hoc: An Augmented Reality
Room: Stopher Young Scholars Panel - The First Civil War: Loyalists and Patriots During and After the American War of Independence Daniel Krebs, University of Louisville Participant Role: Chair Emma C. Bryan, University of Louisville Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Loyalty and Betrayal: A Look Into the Minds of the American Tories Anna Cecile Pepper, University of Louisville Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: British Counter-Insurgency in the American Revolution: Loyalist Militias and the Escalation of the Carolinas' Civil War Raymond M. Myers IV, University of Louisville Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "Violating the Spirit of the Revolution": The Loyalist Problem and Property Confiscation Laws in Revolutionary New York and Massachusetts T. Cole Jones, Purdue University Participant Role: Commentator
Room: French Young Scholars Panel - Civil and Military Challenges in Leadership and Representation Robin Hardy, Montana State University Participant Role: Chair Alisha Hamel, American Military University Participant's Paper Title: Australian and American Relations and Leadership Difficulties in the Southwest Pacific Theater Kip D. Dean, Chapman University Participant's Paper Title: White House Overextension in 1971: A Period of Miscalculations and Miss Opportunities. Gordon Rudd, US Marine School of Advanced Warfighting Participant Role: Commentator
Room: Segell Young Scholars Panel - Economics, the Press, and Civil Rights: Shaping the Global Cold War Mark Grotelueschen, US Air Force Academy Titus L. Firmin, University of New Orleans Participant's Paper Title: 'Geaux Guard': An Economic Analysis of the Louisiana Army National Guard, 1973-1991 Jessica Dirkson, Georgia Southern University Participant's Paper Title: Savannah and the Vietnam War Gabriela Maduro, Florida State University Participant's Paper Title: The Press and the "Hot Czechoslovakian Summer of 1968": Battles for Legitimacy in the Cold War Seanegan Sculley, US Military Academy Participant Role: Commentator Charles Melson Participant Role: Chair
Room: Coe Young Scholars Panel - Protecting Men and Morals During World War II John Terino, Air Command and Staff College Participant Role: Chair J. Davis Winkie, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Participant's Paper Title: Movies Without Mercy: USMC Combat Morality in WWII Combat Films, 1942-1954 Victoria McGowan, University of Calgary Participant's Paper Title: The "Suicide Corner": Canadian Armour in the Bocage, June to September 1944 Tyler Ryan Webb, The Ohio State University Participant's Paper Title: The Battling Buckeyes of the 37th Infantry Division Thomas Bruscino, Army War College Participant Role: Commentator
Room: Brown Young Scholars Panel - Sowing Unity and Discord: Rhetoric, Sport, and Institutions Joshua Haynes, University of Southern Mississippi Participant Role: Chair Van Knopf, Indiana University Southeast Participant's Paper Title: A Force for Unity: The Austro-Hungarian Army from 1867 to 1914 Jeremy D. Fay, Texas A&M - Central Texas Participant's Paper Title: "Every Czech a Sokol!": The Influence of the Sokol on the Czechoslovak Legions Sarah McCoy, University of Louisville Participant's Paper Title: Realizing the Patriot Cause: The Religious Rhetoric of Common Sense Donald Wright, Army Combat Studies Institute Participant Role: Commentator 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Room: Combs Chandler
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Combs Chandler Poster - Animated Map of Napoleon's 1805 Ulm-Austerlitz Campaign Alex Dracobly, University of Oregon
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Combs Chandler Poster - Armed with Knowledge: The Wartime Schools at Harvard Business School, 1941 - 1946 P. J. Neal, Independent Scholar
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Combs Chandler Poster - Voices Ignored: The Failure of Korean War Prisoners of War (POW)/Missing in Action (MIA) Activism in the 1950s and 1960s Zhaokun Liu, Carnegie Mellon University
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Coffee Break in Grand Hall
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Room: Willis SMH and McConnell Center K-12 Teacher-Scholars Day - Welcome and Orientation (Registered K-12 Teachers Only)
10:15 AM - 12:30 PM Room: Frazier History Museum - 829 W. Main St., Louisville, KY 40202 Tour: Arms and Toy Soldier Collections at the Frazier History Museum (Bus departs at 10.15am in the front of the hotel and returns at 12.30pm)
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Room: Combs Chandler Presidential Panel co-sponsored by the Hemingway Society - World War I: Literature, History, and Memory Steven Trout, University of South Alabama Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Susan McCready, University of South Alabama Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: French Theater and the Memory of World War I Tim Dayton, Kansas State University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Alan Seeger, Byron Comstock, and the Romantic View of War Keith Gandal, City College of New York Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms as a Non-Combatant Text
Room: Coe Conscripts at War 1916-1918: The British, American and Dominion Experience Patrick M. Dennis, Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic and Disarmament Studies Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Canadian Conscripts on the Western Front, 1918 Gary Sheffield, University of Wolverhampton Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The British Army and Conscription, 1916- 1918 Roger Lee, Australian War Memorial Participant Role: Chair Edward G. Lengel, White House Historical Association Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The 77th Division, National Army: Battle Performance of the AEF's Pioneer Conscript Division Robert Stevenson, Australian War Memorial Participant Role: Commentator
Room: Breathitt Forces of the American Revolution: Bureaucrats, Geographers, and the Weather Christopher Rein, Army University Press Participant Role: Chair Cole Jones, Purdue University Participant Role: Commentator Cameron Boutin, University of Kentucky Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Adversary and Ally: The Role of Weather in the Life and Career of George Washington Timothy Charles Hemmis, Texas A&M University - Central Texas Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Mapping the Landscape of War and Peace: Reexamining the Work of Captain Thomas Hutchins, 1766-1789 James J. Gigantino II, University of Arkansas Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Becoming a Wartime Bureaucrat: William Livingston and the Transformation of Government in the American Revolution
Room: Brown Wartime Violence and Physical Landscapes Raymond Sun, Washington State University Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Alexandra Lohse, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Landscapes of Suffering: The Nazi Camp System in World War II Benjamin Nestor, Marquette University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Scales of Environment and Geography in Holocaust 'Täterforschung' Thomas Tormey, Trinity College, Dublin Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Rural insurgent warfare: The IRA in Roscommon 1920-21
Room: Clements Ethos and Victory: Military Culture in Wars Small and Large, 1879 - 1945 Gil Barndollar, Independent Scholar Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Auftragstaktik with Spurs: the British "Cavalry Spirit," 1879 - 1945 Randy Papadopoulos, United States Department of the Navy Participant Role: Commentator Robyn L. Rodriguez, Defense POW/MIAC Accounting Agency Participant Role: Chair Ryan D. Wadle, Air Command and Staff College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Naval Officers First: Generalists versus Specialists in the Interwar US Navy Justin C. Pergolizzi, University at Albany, SUNY Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Snap and Pop in Santo Domingo: Combat, Esprit de Corps, and the Pursuit of Pax Americana in the Dominican Republic, 1917-1919
Room: French The Good, the Bad, and the Misunderstood: Profiles of Civil War Leadership Toby G. Bates, Mississippi State University - Meridian Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "Maintain that position at all hazards": General Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss and a Hazardous Position in Civil War Historiography Jeffery S. Prushankin, Millersville University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Leadership and Statesmanship: Edmund Kirby Smith in the Trans-Mississippi Andrew S. Bledsoe, Lee University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "The Farce Was Complete": Braxton Bragg, Field Orders, and the Language of Command at McLemore's Cove Terry L. Beckenbaugh, Air Command and Staff College Participant Role: Chair David J. Fitzpatrick, Washtenaw Community College Participant Role: Commentator
Room: Stopher The Frontiers of Global Military History: Military Technology and Inner and East Asian Warfare Hyeok Hweon "H.H." Kang, Harvard University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Divergence in an Age of Parity: Musketry and Marksmanship in East Asia and Western Europe Cheng-Heng Lu, Emory University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Military Revolution Marches Steppe: Gunpowder Weapons and Walled-Cities in the Inner Asian Steppe, 1600- 1760 Qichen "Bart" Qian, Columbia University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Benign Bellicosity: A Tibetan Buddhist Pho lha gnas' Militia between 1717-1733 Kenneth Michael Swope, University of Southern Mississippi Participant Role: Chair and Commentator
Room: Segell Coalitions Transforming Landscapes in Three Wars, 1780-1944 Nicholas M. Sambaluk, Air University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Indonesia's Occupation of Mississippi: Lend- Lease, the Netherlands East Indies, and the Pacific Theater Coalition in WWII Joseph F. Stoltz III, Fred W. Smith Library for the Study of George Washington Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Old World Politics, New World Players: French Government Advisors in the American War of Independence Joseph J. Varuolo, Air University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Northern Russian Expedition, Balkanization, and the Failed State Matthew S. Muehlbauer, United States Military Academy Participant Role: Chair Paul Joseph Springer, Air Command and Staff College Participant Role: Commentator
Room: Carroll Ford Scorched Earth as Tactic and Strategy Reina Pennington, Norwich University Participant Role: Discussant Geoffrey Megargee, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Participant Role: Discussant Mark Grimsley, The Ohio State University Participant Role: Discussant Kelly DeVries, Loyola University Maryland Participant Role: Discussant Ty Seidule, United States Military Academy Participant Role: Chair
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch Break
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Room: Nunn SMH and McConnell Center K-12 Teacher-Scholars Day - Lunch & Learn Lecture by David Silbey (Registered K-12 Teachers Only)
12:30 PM - 3:15 PM Room: Locust Grove Historic Home - 561 Blankenbaker Ln, Louisville, KY 40207 Tour: Locust Grove Historic Home (Bus departs at 12.30 in front of the hotel and returns at 3.15pm)
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Room: Brown Fit to Fight? War, Medicine, and Disease Marion Dorsey, University of New Hampshire Participant Role: Commentator Jessica Adler, Florida International University Participant Role: Chair Will Walker, Arkansas State University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Epidemiological Landscape of American Defeat in the Philippines, 1942 Kari L. Boyd, The University of Alabama Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Fruitless Endeavors and Unhealthy Environs: Understanding the Influences of Landscape and the Environment on American Soldier Morale, 1898-1902 Ryan W. Booth, Washington State University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Catalyst for Conflict: Martial Race Theory & Native Americans in the Great War
Room: Carroll Ford Civil War Leadership: Military Leadership on the Battlefield, Executing Policy and Navigating Bureaucracy Terry L. Beckenbaugh, Air Command and Staff College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Walking the Tightrope: Major General Samuel Ryan Curtis' Creative Contraband Policy Jennifer M. Murray, University of Virginia Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: 'Your Golden Opportunity Is Gone': George Gordon Meade's Quest for Decisive Battle Tracy L. Barnett, University of Georgia Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Caught between Friendly Foes: The Confederacy's Mismanagement of State Militia Forces Ethan S. Rafuse, US Army Command and General Staff College Participant Role: Commentator Lisa L. Beckenbaugh, Air Command and Staff College Participant Role: Chair
Room: French Vice Presidential Panel - Mars and Power-Point: Teaching Military History in the Modern Classroom Lee W. Eysturlid, IMSA Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Ideology and Technology: Understanding Technology Choices through Ideological Preference, 1930-1945. Stephen Morrilo, Wabash College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Battle of Hastings and Historical Theory Peter Lorge, Vanderbilt University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Teaching Strategy East and West David J. Silbey, Cornell University Participant Role: Chair Emily Swafford, American Historical Association Participant Role: Commentator
Room: Coe Publishing: Ask the Experts Joyce Harrison, University Press of Kansas Participant Role: Moderator Jay Dew, Texas A&M University Press Participant Role: Discussant Adam Kane, University of Oklahoma Press Participant Role: Discussant Paul Merzlak, Naval Institute Press Participant Role: Discussant
Room: Breathitt New Research on the Training, Professionalization and Experience of the British Army in War 1775-1853 Huw Davies, King's College London Participant Role: Organizer Matthew Zembo, Hudson Valley Community College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Training and Tactics of the British Army in Preparation for the Burgoyne Campaign and the Invasion of New York in 1777: The Case of the Battle of Fort Anne William Fletcher, King's College London Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The First Professional Staff Officers: The Impact of British Army's First Staff College (The Senior Department of the Royal Military College, High Wycombe) on the Peninsular War (1808- 1814) Luke Reynolds, City University of New York Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: A Thousand Waterloos Writ Small? The Legacy of the Napoleonic Wars in British Imperial Service Wayne Lee, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Participant Role: Commentator Hailey A. Stewart, University of North Texas Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Hanover in British Foreign Policy Kenneth Johnson, Air Command and Staff College Participant Role: Chair
Room: Stopher War Crimes and Postwar Justice After 1945 Adam R. Seipp, Texas A&M University Participant Role: Chair David Wildermuth, Shippensburg University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: After the Battle: The German Army and Soviet Justice, 1945 - 1955 Geoffrey Megargee, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Participant Role: Commentator Edward Westermann, Texas A&M San Antonio Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "Terror Bombing" or "Winged Retribution"? Allied Strategic Bombing and European Jewish Responses Connor Sebestyen, University of Toronto Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "Special Concessions and Small Gestures": The Impact of Rank on the Treatment of German War Criminals in Western Allied Custody after the Second World War
Room: Segell Imagining the German Soldier: Engenderment in WWI Visual and Narrative Culture Heather Perry, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Shooting Captives and Framing Men: Depicting the Enemy in WWI America Brian K. Feltman, Georgia Southern University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Illustrating Battlefield Sacrifice: The Visual Culture of Commemoration in WWI Germany Karen Petrone, University of Kentucky Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Jason Crouthamel, Grand Valley State University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Masculinity and Comradeship between Jewish and Gentile Soldiers in the First World War
Room: Nunn The Landscape of the Mind: The Ultimate Battlespace Jonathan Fennell, King's College London Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Landscapes of Meaning: A Quantitative Approach to Historically Tracing the Contours of Combat Motivation Robert Johnson, University of Oxford Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Elusive Enemies: T.E. Lawrence 'of Arabia' and the Desert War, 1917-18 Roderick Bailey, University of Oxford Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: 'Special Duty: Minds Behind the Lines' Antulio Echevarria, US Army War College Participant Role: Chair and Commentator
Room: Combs Chandler Teaching and Researching the Vietnam War in the Wake of Burns & Novick's Film "The Vietnam War" Ron Milam, Texas Tech University Participant Role: Discussant James H. Willbanks, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Participant Role: Discussant Robert J. Thompson, Public Radio International Participant Role: Moderator Uyen Nguyen, Texas Tech University Participant Role: Discussant James Sandy, University of Texas - Arlington Participant Role: Discussant
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Coffee Break in Grand Hall
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Room: Breathitt Women Soldiers, Wives of Servicemen: How the Women's Movement Transformed the Landscape of Military Service in America during the 1970s John Worsencroft, Louisiana Tech University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Working Women, Feminism, and the Military in the All-Volunteer Era Sarah Parry Myers, Saint Francis University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Feminism and Flight: Female World War II Pilots' Perceptions of Equality and Veterans Status Margaret B. Montgomery, University of Alabama Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Mind Your Military Manners: How the WAC Crafted Conservative Femininity in the Midst of Second Wave Feminism Stephen R. Ortiz, Binghamton University Participant Role: Chair and Commentator
Room: Coe Vice Presidential Panel - Harrowing and Heroic Tales from the Front Lines of Military History: The Teaching Assistant as Teacher John W. Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison/Joint Chiefs of Staff Participant Role: Chair Beth Bailey, University of Kansas Participant Role: Moderator Tom Rider, University of Wisconsin-Madison Participant Role: Discussant Lindsey R. Peterson, University of Southern Mississippi Participant Role: Discussant Ryan Peeks, Naval History and Heritage Command Participant Role: Discussant
Room: Combs Chandler Civil War Landscapes Earl J. Hess, Lincoln Memorial University Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Adam Petty, University of Alabama Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Wilderness Myth J. Britt McCarley, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Landscape of War: Preserving and Interpreting the 1862 Siege of Yorktown Michael Burns, Texas Christian University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Liquid Landscape: A Water History of the Second Manassas Campaign
Room: French British and American Experiences in World War I Tyler R. Bamford, Temple University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Becoming Allies: British and American Military Relations in World War I John H. Morrow Jr., University of Georgia Participant Role: Chair Brian F. Neumann, U.S. Army Center of Military History Participant Role: Commentator Mason W. Watson, The Ohio State University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Meaning of Victory: The Hundred Days Offensive in British Military Thought, 1918-1939 Alexander M. Nordlund, University of Georgia Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "I have something which is eternal": A British Courtship, Letter-Writing, and the Experience of the First World War
Room: Brown War Cemeteries in Europe in History and Memory Kate Clarke Lemay, Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Triumph of the Dead: The American War Cemeteries and Mid-Century Modernism Zoe Rose Buonaiuto, Princeton University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Commemorating Enemy Dead: The History of the La Cambe German War Cemetery in Normandy, 1944-2004 Ricardo A. Herrera, School of Advanced Military Studies Participant Role: Chair Glenn Robins, Georgia Southwestern State Univ. Participant Role: Commentator Michael Dolski, POW/MIA Accounting Agency Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: A Final Resting Place?: The Different Fate of Two U.S. Military Cemeteries
Room: Nunn Armies in Transition: The American, British, and Canadian Experiences Brian McAllister Linn, Texas A&M University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The American Army in the Aftermath of War: Decline and Recovery Ian Hope, NATO Defense College, Rome Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Canadian Army in Afghanistan: the generational nature of adaptation in peace and war Robert Citino, National World War 2 Museum Participant Role: Commentator Douglas E. Delaney, Royal Military College of Canada Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Civilian-driven Military Reform: The British Army in the Edwardian Era Bryon E. Greenwald, Joint Forces Staff College Participant Role: Chair Gian Gentile, RAND Corporation Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: 'The Song Remains the Same:' The Problem Between the U.S. Army and the National Guard, 1903-2013
Room: Carroll Ford Landscapes of Signals Intelligence, 1914-18: Lessons Learned, and Not Betsy Rohaly Smoot, National Security Agency Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Right Stuff: The Human Side of Radio Intelligence in the American Expeditionary Forces John R. Ferris, The Univeristy of Calgary Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Canadian Corps and Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence, Reconnaissance and Surveillance, 1917-18 Steven Wagner, Brunel University London Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Signals Intelligence and Crypto-security in the Arab World, 1908-48 David J. Silbey, Cornell University Participant Role: Commentator Dennis E. Showalter, Colorado College Participant Role: Chair
Room: Segell Military Officers and Defense Policy: Leadership and Professionalism Eric Setzekorn, George Washington University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Military Opposition to National Policy: Army Leaders and President Carter's Korea Withdrawal Plan Lisa Mundey, University of St. Thomas Participant Role: Chair Leonard Wong, U.S. Army War College Participant Role: Commentator William Donnelly, U.S. Army Center of Military History Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Integrity and U.S. Army Readiness Reporting, 1946-2000 Ryan Carpenter, Historical Office of the Secretary of Defense Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Budgeting for the Buildup: Caspar Weinberger, the Pentagon, and the Establishment of the Defense Resources Board
Room: Stopher Civil-Military Relations in the Reconstruction South: Three Community Studies Lucas Robert Somers, University of Southern Mississippi Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Franklin Unsettled: Localizing Reconstruction in Tennessee William Thomas Allison, Georgia Southern University Participant Role: Chair Andrew L. Slap, East Tennessee State University Participant Role: Commentator Andrew F. Lang, Mississippi State University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Internationalizing the Domestic: The 1871 Klan Uprising and the Problem of Standing Armies in the Post-Civil War Union Steven E. Nash, East Tennessee State University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: More Booths than One in the Land
Room: Clements Staff Riding in the Twenty-First Century: A Need for Pedagogical Change? Christopher S. Stowe, Command and Staff College, Marine Corps University Participant Role: Discussant Lesley Jill Gordon, The University of Alabama Participant Role: Chair and Moderator Charles R. Bowery Jr., U.S. Army Center of Military History Participant Role: Discussant Ty Seidule, United States Military Academy Participant Role: Discussant Bradford A. Wineman, Command and Staff College, Marine Corps University Participant Role: Discussant
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Room: Ballroom A Brill-Sponsored Reception at Exhibit Booth 302 to Celebrate the Launch of the Journal of African Military History 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Room: Ballroom B/C SMH 2018 Keynote Address and Reception: Southern Cross, North Star - The Politics of Irreconciliation and Civil War Memory in the American Middle Border (co-sponsored by the Filson Historical Society) Christopher Phillips, University of Cincinnati
Sunday, April 8th, 2018
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: Ballroom A Book Exhibit
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Room: Breathitt Marine Corps Culture and Warfare Debra Sheffer, Park University Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Sarah E. Patterson, Florida State University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Marine Corps Bodies in World War II Earl J. Catagnus Jr., Valley Forge Military College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Amphibious Infantry Mind: Assessing the Impact of World War I on the U.S. Marine Corps' Development of Amphibious Warfare, 1918-1941 Mark R. Folse, The University of Alabama Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: U.S. Marines, War, and the Changing Landscapes of American Culture, 1914-1924
Room: Brown Ideology, Race, and War: American Perspectives Matthew S. Muehlbauer, United States Military Academy Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Defending the City on the Hill: Holy War and Just War in Early New England, 1630-55 David Krueger, United States Military Academy Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "The cheapest and best insurance": The Logic of Indian Companies in the United States Army, 1891-1897 Amanda M. Nagel, United States Military Academy Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "Our boys have gone to France": Race, Ideology, and Military Citizenship during World War I J. Casey Doss, United States Military Academy Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Moral Anxiety in North Africa: American Ideology in War, 1942-43 Bobby A. Wintermute, CUNY - Queens College Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Room: Coe Race, Labor, Sex, and Memory from the Confederacy to the Korean War Arwin D. Smallwood, North Carolina A&T State University Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Chris Dixon, Macquarie University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: African Americans and the Korean War: Race, Memory, and the Controversial Case of the 24th Infantry Regiment Kathleen Alfin, University of Wisconsin-Madison Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Uncle Sugar's Belles: Segregation, Sex, and the U.S. Army in Liberia during the Second World War' Caroline Wood Newhall, UNC Chapel Hill Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Worked to Death: Black POWs as Slave Labor in the Confederacy's Carceral Landscape
Room: Carroll Ford Coalition Warfare from the Confederacy to World War II in the Pacific James Thomas, Northwest College-HCCS Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Peter J Dean, The University of Western Australia Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: MacArthur's Command: Coalition Warfare in the Southwest Pacific 1942-45 Jesse Pyles, Independent Scholar Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: British Fictions: The Uncovered History of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps and the Battle of the Lys, 1914-1918 James Tindle, Kansas State University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: A Treaty of Peace and Friendship: Stand Watie and the Confederacy during the Civil War
Room: Combs Chandler Transitions of the Interwar Period, 1919-1943: Out of Fighting, toward Peace, and Back Again Dean A. Nowowiejski, US Army Command and General Staff College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The United States Third Army's Occupation of the German Rhineland, 1919: Transition to Peace in a Country Shaped by War Robert F Baumann, US Army Command and General Staff College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Basmachis, the Red Army and the Soviet Invention of Uzbekistan Gregory S. Hospodor, US Army Command and General Staff College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: 'Our objective is Barrafranca': A Reassessment of US Army Combat Effectiveness in 1943 James H. Willbanks, US Army Command and General Staff College Participant Role: Chair Paul L. Miles, Princeton University Participant Role: Commentator
Room: Nunn Professional Relevance of Official history David B. Crist, Department of Defense Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Bradley Coleman, Virginia Military Institute Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Historians in Haiti: U.S. Military Historians and Operation Unified Response, 2010 Brian C. North, University of Wisconsin-Madison Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Lessons of the Great War: The Influence of the Great War on the Interwar Years which enabled Rapid Task Organization Changes in 1944 Europe Brandon Pinkley, United States Air Force Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Guardians of History: The Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Historians in the Iran-Iraq War
Room: French Transitioning from War to Peace: World War II Graves Registration and Accounting for the Fallen Kevin C. Ruffner, Retired U.S. Government Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Erik D. Carlson, Florida Gulf Coast University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "These Honored Dead: The American Graves Registration Service and the Repatriation of War Dead from the Angaur Cemetery, 1945-47" Ian Michael Spurgeon, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Recovery of the Fallen in the Huertgen Forest Robyn L. Rodriguez, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: U.S. Graves Registration Behind the Iron Curtain
Room: Stopher Security and Allegiance: Populations in the Vietnam Conflict Eric Setzekorn, U.S. Army Center of Military History Participant Role: Chair David Johnson, Texas Tech University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Pacifying the Claque: Winning the Hearts and Minds of Northern Refugees in South Vietnam Qingfei Yin, George Washington University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Sino-Vietnamese State Building and Connections during the Vietnam War, 1965-1975 Robert Thompson, University of Southern Misssissippi Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Defeat in Victory: Geography and the 1971 Battle of Cung Son, Phu Yen Province, Republic of Vietnam Kevin Boylan, Emmanuel College Participant Role: Commentator
Room: Segell The Military Geographic and Economic Complex Zachary M. Matusheski, The Ohio State University Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Augustine Meaher, Air University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Air Force Over Miami Beach: The United States Army Air Forces Occupy Miami Beach Christopher McCune, 460th Space Wing Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Denver's Courtship of the US Military, 1859- 1930 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Coffee Break in Grand Hall
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Room: Breathitt Looking for Shapes in Mushroom Clouds: Nuclear Fear during the Reagan Administration Benjamin Griffin, United States Military Academy Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: War of Imagination: Ronald Reagan, Red Storm Rising, and Reykjavik Simon Miles, Duke Univesity Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The War Scare That Wasn't: Able Archer and the Myths of the Second Cold War Susan Colbourn, University of Toronto Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Of Moons and Green Cheese: Ronald Reagan, the Euromissiles, and the Nuclear Freeze Gail Yoshitani, United States Military Academy Participant Role: Chair and Commentator
Room: Brown An Inconvenient Truth: The Dark Side of Canada's Cold War Matthew Wiseman, University of Toronto Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Arctic Warfare and the Ethics of Military Science at the Dawn of the Cold War Meghan Fitzpatrick, Royal Military College of Canada Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: In Pursuit of Security: The Canadian Defence Research Board, Brainwashing and Sensory Deprivation Research (1950-1974) Alex Souchen, Wilfrid Laurier University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Unexploded Legacies: The Past, Present, and Future of Canada's Underwater Munitions Andrew Burtch, Canadian War Museum/Carleton University Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Louise Tumchewics, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Participant Role: Commentator
Room: Stopher Logistics in Imperial Warfare William M. Waddell, US Air Force War College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: A Grain of Rice, A Drop of Blood: Supply and Strategy in the War for Cochinchina Alexander Lassner, US Air Force War College Participant Role: Chair Graydon Tunstall, University of South Florida Participant Role: Commentator Bill Dean, Air Force Command and Staff College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Technology and French Colonial Warfare 1871-1914 James Campbell, Air Command and Staff College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "Rather a Desperate Undertaking": Indian Army Logistics in the Boxer Relief Expedition
Room: Coe Another Interwar Period: The U.S. Army in the 1990s Stephen Lofgren, U.S. Army Center of Military History Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "Stop the Bleeding": The U.S. Army in the 1990s Kathleen Nawyn, U.S. Army Center of Military History Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Travis Moger, U.S. Army Center of Military History Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Cheat and Retreat: Iraqi Provocation and the U.S. Response in 1994 Miranda Summers Lowe, National Museum of American History Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Reserve Component and Rotational Mobilizations After Operation DESERT STORM
Room: Carroll Ford Warfare and the Media: From World War Two to the Persian Gulf Michael Rouland, Headquarters, Department of the Army Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Michael Patrick Bulfin, Lewis University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Screenification of Conflict: Jean Baudrillard, Virtuality, & the Impending Death of Proximal Warfare Sarah Miller, Texas Christian University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Capturing Warfare: Censorship in the Work of Vietnam War Photographers Kendall Cosley, Marquette University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "These are thrilling times!": The Associated Press and American Neutrality from 1937 to 1941
Room: Combs Chandler Air Power and the Great War: Birth and Re-Birth Mike Bechthold, Wilfrid Laurier University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Somme 1916 to Amiens 1918: The Royal Flying Corps and the Evolution of the Air Campaign Bill March, Canadian Aerospace Warfare Centre Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Skies Above: Vimy Ridge and the Battle of Arras, 1917 Rachel Lea Heide, Department of National Defence, Canada Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Nationalism Takes Wings: Canadian Airmen and the Sense of Identity in the Great War, 1916-1918 Richard Oliver Mayne, Department of National Defence, Canada Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Influence of Empire: A national organization and the birth of the Royal Canadian Air Force, 1918 - 1924 Adam Kane, University of Oklahoma Press Participant Role: Chair and Commentator
Room: French Efforts for Peace During the Second Half of the Cold War Samantha Alisha Taylor, United States Naval War College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: German Reunification and Peace Dividends at the Beginning of the End of the Cold War Nathaniel L Moir, SUNY Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "Bernard Fall, J. William Fulbright, and the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearings on Vietnam, 1966-1967" Max von Bargen, The Ohio State University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: British and American Grand Strategy and Peacekeeping in Lebanon, 1982-1984 Nicholas Murray, United States Naval War College Participant Role: Chair and Commentator
Room: Nunn Using STEM and Digital Technologies to Create Historical Narratives Richard H. Ector, Georgia Southern University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Mathematical Analysis of the Battle of the Atlantic Jan-Ruth Mills, Florida State University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Messerschmitt 262 Production and Slave Labor: The Hidden Landscape of Upper Austria Gregory Burris, Florida State University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Plantation Book to Database: Reconstructing the Environment and Climate of the Civil War from the Shirley Plantation Papers Kristine C. Harper, Florida State University Participant Role: Commentator Michael Pavelec, Air Command and Staff College Participant Role: Chair Room: Segell Words of War in Europe Jordan Hayworth, Air Command and Staff College Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Robert Weldon Whalen, Queens University of Charlotte Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Neither Victims nor Executioners' - Albert Camus and France in 1945 - from Resistance to Vengeance to National Reconciliation Carson Teuscher, Church History Department - LDS Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Forgotten Fronts: The Significance of Scarified Europe in the Aftermath of World War I Benjamin Lukas, University of Toronto Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Writing of War: The Construction of a Martial Ethos Through the Writings of French Noblemen
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM Room: Ballroom A Book Exhibit Teardown EventRebels Online Registration