The Politics of the Middle

Tim Rives, Deputy Director, Eisenhower Presidential Library

Proposal Type

Panel

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • 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

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • 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

Community Oral Histories

Elizabeth Gritter, Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Local and Oral History, Indiana University Southeast

Proposal Type

Panel

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
Related Topics
  • Oral History
  • Place
  • Memory
Abstract

I am seeking presenters involved in community ( defined broadly) oral history projects in order to present the results of t heir work. Read More

Repeat Photography: Understanding our Place through Sequential Observation

Craig S. Campbell, Dr, Youngstown State University

Proposal Type

Pecha Kucha

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
Related Topics
  • Material Culture
  • Place
  • Memory
Abstract

About 1950, George R. Stewart, Professor of English at Berkeley, photographed many different types of landscapes along Highway 40. Read More

From Davis Bend to Mound Bayou

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

Proposal Type

Panel

Seeking
  • 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