THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2006
Board of Directors Meeting
Lowman Student Center |
3:00 P.M.
Room 307
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2006
REGISTRATION
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8:00 A.M.
Lowman Student Center
3d Floor Lounge
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SESSION I-Involving Undergraduates in Historical Research
James C. Maroney, Presiding
Lee College , Baytown
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9:00-10:15 A.M.
Room 304 |
Sabrina Slagger, Lee College
"Responding to the Unassuming Storm: the Red Cross and Tropical Storm Allison"
John Britt, Lee College
"Motivating Undergraduates to 'Do History': Research, Writing, and Publishing Opportunities"
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SESSION II-Texas Social History
Gregg Cantrell, Presiding
Texas Christian University |
9:00 – 10:15 A.M.
Room 315 |
Mary L. Fehler, Fort Worth
"This Faith Should Show Its Power: Elise Waerenskjold and the Struggle to Preserve Religious Identity in a New Land"
Robin Tippett, Arlington
"Working Women: The Economic Activities of Women in McLennan County , 1850-1880"
SESSION III-Inner & Outer Space in the Modern Age
Dennis Bradford, Presiding
Stephen F. Austin State University |
10:45-12:00 P.M.
Room 304 |
James Olson, Sam Houston State University
"Making Cancer History: The Origins of M.D. Anderson"
Kevin Brady, Fort Worth
"Space Age Benefits: Technology Derived from the NASA Apollo Program"
SESSION IV-East Texas and the Civil War, Part I
Charles D. Grear, Presiding
Texas A&M University
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10:45-12:00 P.M.
Room 315 |
Michael E. Lynch, Temple University
"Diamonds in the Rough: Mineral Development in the Confederacy During the Civil War"
James R. Reynolds, University of Texas - Dallas
"Missed Opportunities in 1864 Louisiana "
LUNCH BREAK (No Association Luncheon)
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12:00 P.M.-1:30 P.M.
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Session V- East Texas & Reconstruction
Charles Spurlin, Presiding
Victoria College
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1:30 – 2:45 P.M.
Room 315 |
Donaly Brice, Texas State Archives
" 'A Carnival of Blood and Terror': Madison County and the State Police"
Reggie Jayne, The Woodlands University Center
"The Walker County Rebellion"
James Smallwood, Gainesville
"Bob Lee, Reconstruction, and All that Jazz"
SESSION VI-East Texas & the Civil War, Part II
Richard Lowe, Presiding
University of North Texas
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3:00 4:15 P.M.
Room 315 |
Charles D. Grear, Texas A&M University
"Far From Home: The Effects of Multiple Local Attachments on Texans' Decisions to Return to the Trans-Mississippi During the War"
John Lundberg, Texas Christian University
"The Cost of War"
Scott L. Stabler, Grand Valley State University
"A Brief History of a Brief Time in Houston History: Reconstruction in Houston , 1865-1877"
SESSION VIII-Banquet
Dan K. Utley, Presiding
First Vice President
East Texas Historical Association |
6:30 P.M.
Walker Education Center |
Bob Bowman, Lufkin
"Things you might not know about East Texas if you hadn't come to this meeting"
Reception following program - Walker Education Center
| SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2005
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| Women’s History Breakfast |
7:30 A.M.
Austin Hall |
| REGISTRATION |
8:00 A.M.
Lowman Student Center
3d Floor Lounge |
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SESSION VIII-Women Making History
Perky Beisel, Presiding
Stephen F. Austin State University
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9:00 - 10:15 A.M.
Room 304 |
Sue Terry, Lufkin
"Eradicating the Wasp: The Demise of the Women's Airforce Service Pilots Program"
Cynthia Devlin, Zavala
"From the Girl Next Door to Sex Metaphor: The Career Evolution of the Air Hostess"
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SESSION IX- Vignettes of Huntsville History
Ty Cashion, Presiding
Sam Houston State University |
9:00 - 10:15 A.M.
Room 315 |
Bob Shadle & Rosanne Barker, Huntsville
"Sawmill Barrio: A History of Boetcher's Mill"
James Patton, Huntsville
"Anecdotes from the Past: People, Places, and Events"
Jim Willett, Huntsville
"Q&A with Jim Willett, author of Warden: Prison Life & Death from the Inside Out "
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SESSION X-Evolution, The Bible, and Turn-of-the-Century Texas Classrooms
Ken Hendrickson, Jr., Presiding
Midwestern State University
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9:00-10:15 A.M.
Room 307 |
Ken Hendrickson, III, Sam Houston State University
"The Texas Supreme Court and Public School Curricula"
Glenn Sanford, Sam Houston State University
"Modernism Revisited: Teaching Evolution and the Pace of Secularization"
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COFFEE BREAK
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10:15 - 10:45 A.M. |
SESSION XI-East Texas and that Old Time Religion
Ron Ellison, Presiding
Beaumont
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10:45 – 12:00 P.M.
Room 315
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Joe Early, Cumberland College
"Samuel Augustus Hayden: Father of the Baptist Missionary Association"
Archie P. McDonald, Stephen F. Austin State University
"'If We Only Have Love:' Music With A Religious Theme"
SESSION XII-Small Towns, Segregation, and Safe Places
Gene Preuss, Presiding
University of Houston Downtown |
10:45 – 12:00 P.M.
Room 304 |
Bobby Ezell, Sam Houston State University
"Luna: A Forgotten Texas Town and a Pioneer Family That Settled There"
Charles V. Waite, University of Texas-Pan American
"The Segregation Issue in the Texas Governor's Race of 1956"
Mari L. Nicholson-Preuss, University of Houston
"Safe Places: Civil Defense Evacuation Strategies, Louisiana Hospitals , and Hurricane Audrey"
SESSION XIII-LUNCHEON
R. G. Dean, President
East Texas Historical Association
Presiding |
12:15 P.M.
Lowman Student Center Ballroom |
Ricky F. Dobbs, Texas A&M University -Commerce
"Where's Lyndon When You Need Him: the Vanishing Memory of Lyndon Johnson"
Presentation of Awards
