The Politics of the Middle

Tim Rives, Deputy Director, Eisenhower Presidential Library

Proposal Type

Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • General Feedback and Interest
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  • Civic Engagement
  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Memory
Abstract

The panel will discuss the “politics of the middle.” President Dwight D. Eisenhower is a representative figure. Read More

Interpreting the Layers of Indian Removal

Savannah Grandey, Director of Interpretation, Historic Westville

Proposal Type

Pecha Kucha

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • General Feedback and Interest
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  • Museums/Exhibits
  • Oral History
  • Place
  • Memory
Abstract

“Indian Removal” as articulated by Andrew Jackson and comrades was a monumental idea and federal policy that irrevocably shaped the southeastern United States. Read More

From Davis Bend to Mound Bayou

Sade Turnipseed, Executive Director / History Professor, Khafre, Inc / MVSU

Proposal Type

Panel

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Material Culture
  • Place
  • Memory
Abstract

By studying the cotton plantation system of the Old South and operations owned by Joseph and Jefferson Davis, juxtaposed t o the self-determined agency of Benjamin Montgomery, and how Davis Bend became what was considered an “imagined community” in the historical township of Mound Bayou. Read More