Conference Program (subject to change)
86th Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History
“Soldiers and Civilians in the Cauldron of War”
May 9 – 12, 2019, Columbus, Ohio
Thursday 05/09/2019
8 am – 6 pm
Bellows Ballroom ABC: Book Exhibit Setup
8:30 am – 5 pm
Burkhart A: Chinese Military History Society Meeting
12 pm – 5 pm
Burkhart B: SMH Executive Board Lunch and Meeting
12 pm – 6 pm
Registration Desk (Lower Level): Conference Registration
6 pm – 9 pm
Ohio Statehouse Atrium and Rotunda: SMH Annual Meeting Opening Reception
(1 Capitol Square: a walkable .7 miles away)
Buses depart from the Lower Level Alley every ten minutes between 5:30 pm and 6:30 pm
Return from Statehouse every fifteen minutes beginning at 7:00 and ending at 9:15 pm
8 pm – 10 pm
Bellows Ballroom DEF: SMH Awards Banquet (Ticketed Event)
Friday 05/10/2019
7 am – 8 am
Private Dining Room (Second Floor): Editorial Committee Breakfast
8 am – 6 pm
Registration Desk, Lower Level: Conference Registration
8 am – 6 pm
Bellows Ballroom ABC: Book Exhibit
9 am – 5 pm
Departure point: Lower Level Alley: Tour of National Museum of the U.S. Air Force (Dayton)
8:30 am – 10 am
Hayden: Beyond Soldiers and Civilians: Animals and War
Frank Blazich (National Museum of American History): Feathers of Honor: U.S. Army Signal Corps Pigeon Service in World War I, 1917-1918
Laurence Burke II (National Air and Space Museum): The First Naval Aviators: Pigeons and Pigeoneers in the U.S. Navy
Gordon Calhoun (National Museum of the United States Navy): A Softer and Gentler Steel Navy: The Golden Age of Navy Mascots
Erik Villard (U.S. Army Center of Military History): Panel Chair and Commenter
King: Beyond the Battlefield: Military Service, Civilian Life, and the Continental Army
Steven Elliott (Rutgers University-Newark): “Having Borne Much of the Burden of the War”: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Problem of Shelter during the War of Independence
David Ward (College of William & Mary): The Continental Army: Leadership School for the Early Republic
Rachel Engl (Lehigh University): Soldiers as Civilians: Re-examining the Legacy of the American Revolution
T. Cole Jones (Purdue University): Panel Chair and Commenter
Hopkins: Saigon under Siege: Social, Economic, and Cultural Occupation of South Vietnam by Allies
Uyen Nguyen (Texas Tech University): Lotus Petals in the Storm: South Vietnamese Women, American Soldiers, and their Local Allies in the Cauldron of War
Martin Clemis (Valley Forge Military College): “A Sudden, Subtle, and Totally Unexpected Social Revolution”: Disruption, Displacement, and Urban Crisis in South Vietnam, 1965-1975
Bill Allison (Georgia Southern University): ROK Use of Comfort Women in Vietnam: Media, Evidence, and the Use of History
Heather Stur (University of Southern Mississippi): Panel Chair
Ron Milam (Texas Tech University): Panel Commenter
Pierce A: Is There a Chinese Way of War? (Roundtable)
Peter Lorge (Vanderbilt University): Discussant
Harold Tanner (University of North Texas): Discussant
ChunQiao Ke (PLA Academy of Military Science): Discussant
Sherman Lai (Royal Military College of Canada/Queen’s University): Discussant
Xiaobing Li (University of Central Oklahoma): Panel Organizer
Stanley Adamiak (University of Central Oklahoma): Panel Chair
Pierce B: School of the Soldier: Collaboration, Culture, and Command in the Italian Campaign of World War II
Carson Teuscher (The Ohio State University): Samba and Skis: The 10th Mountain Division and Brazilian-American Collaboration in Italy, 1944-45
Guido Rossi (The Ohio State University): Reconnecting with their Roots: Italian-American Servicemen in Wartime Italy, 1943-45
Robert T. Davis II (School of Advanced Military Studies): In the Shadow of the Eagle: Alfred Gruenther and the Challenges of Coalition Warfare in Italy
Allison Abra (University of Southern Mississippi): Panel Chair
Corbin Williamson (Air War College): Panel Commenter
Burkhart A: World War II: Traditional and Non-Traditional Fighting
Fred Coventry (Ohio University): Ungentlemanly Warfare: SOE, MI-9, and Civilian Resistance in Europe
Andrew Stewart (King’s College-London): With the British at the Bulge – Closing the Conneux Pocket
Huw Davies (King’s College-London) Panel Chair and Commenter
Burkhart B: Soldiers and Civilians in the Age of Reason: New Perspectives on the Military-Civil Relationship in the Mid-Eighteenth Century and Beyond
Jim McIntyre (Morain Valley Community College): Atrocity in the Seven Years War in Europe: A Critical Reevaluation
Alex Burns (West Virginia University): Kabinettskriege and (Early) Modern War: Contextualizing Mid-Eighteenth-Century Violence against Civilians
Chris Juergens (Florida State University): Rebels, Loyalists, and Mercenaries: Hessian Troops and American Civilians during the American War of Independence
Christy Pichichero (George Mason University): Panel Chair
Stanley Carpenter (U.S. Naval War College): Panel Commenter
GCCC A210: When Choice is Lost: Prisoners and Conscripts
Gregory Kupsky (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency): Assets or Liabilities? Civilian Internees in the Pacific Theater of World War II
David Campmier (The Graduate Center, CUNY): Citizen Complaints and Confederate Impressment and Conscription, 1862-1865
Jonathan Chavanne (Independent Scholar): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A211: Treating the Troops: Medical, Moral, Spiritual, and Psychological Support to Soldiers in the Great War
Rachel Heide (Department of National Defence (Canada)): Labeling Malingers, Cowards, Defectives, and the Mentally Weak: The Legacy of the Great War’s Treatment of Shell Shock
Jay Boyd (U.S. Army Chaplains Center and School): Fellow Travellers: U.S. Army Chaplains, the Medical Department, Civilian Welfare, and Religious Organizations, and the Great War 1917-1919
Harold Allen Skinner (U.S. Army Reserve 81st Readiness Division): A Disease That Walks By Night: The U.S. Army’s Campaign to Eliminate Venereal Diseases during the Great War
John Tim Collins (University of North Alabama): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A212: So Far from Home: Allied Flight Training by U.S. Army Air Forces in the United States during World War II
Robert Kane (Air University): Lafayette Has Returned: Free French Flight Training in Alabama during World War II
Forrest Marion (Air Force Historical Research Agency): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A213: War at Our Doorstep: Civil-Military Interaction during the U.S.-Mexico War Era, 1846-1860
Christopher Menking (University of North Texas): Wagon and Forage Masters: The Influence of Civilian Contractors on South Texas After the U.S.-Mexico War
Patrick Troester (Southern Methodist University): Gendered Violence and the Nation-as-Family in the U.S.-Mexico War
Luis Alberto Garcia Garcia (Universidad de Monterrey): The U.S.-Mexico War: Its Influence in the Political and Military Reorganization of Northeastern Mexico
Peter Guardino (Indiana University): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A214: In the Shadow of War: Veteran Activity and the Boundaries of Soldier and Civilian
Zachery Fry (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College): The Unsung Union Army: Wartime Returning Veterans and the Election of 1864
Barbara Gannon (University of Central Florida): Veterans of (other) Foreign Wars: Spanish War Veterans and the World Wars
Devon Collins (U.S. Military Academy-West Point): Captivity of the Mind: World War I and the Repatriation of British POWs
Brian Jordan (Sam Houston State University): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A215: Food and War
Mara Kozelsky (University of South Alabama): From Sevastopol: A Philosophy of Food and War
Joseph Miller (University of Maine): “It is Madness in the Extreme to Attempt to Carry on War with such a System”: 1812, a War for Calories
Jing Sun (University of Pennsylvania): Soldiers’ Recipes: Army, Food, and the National Dream of a Robust Japan, 1890-1920
David Selnick (Tiffin University): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A216: Postwar Societies in the Aftermath of the First World War
John Mitcham (Duquesne University): An Anglo-American Commonwealth and Visions of a New World Order
David Johnson (University of North Carolina-Charlotte): Imperial Debris: The Imperial War Graves Commission in India
Heather Perry (University of North Carolina-Charlotte): Nourishing the Volk: War, Food, and the New Nutritional Order
Michelle Moyd (Indiana University): Panel Chair
Michael Neiberg (U.S. Army War College): Panel Commenter
10:30 am – 12 pm
Hayden: American Ethnic, Racial, and Gender Minorities in Two Wars
Piotr Derengowski (University of Gdansk): Qualifications of Officers in the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) in the Light of the Proceeding of the Examining Boards
Cameron McCoy (Brigham Young University): Wartime Measure: The Coming of Lincoln’s Soldiers in the Summer of 1863
Laura Oviedo (Texas A&M University): “Eramos Atrevidas, We Were Daring”: Tejanas and Puertorriqueñas in the Women’s Army Corps during World War II
Debra Sheffer (Park University): Panel Chair
Alexander Bielakowski (University of Houston-Downtown): Panel Commenter
King: Soldiers and Civilians in the Cauldron of Occupation, 1815-1945
Christine Haynes (University of North Carolina-Charlotte): A “large family” in “circumstances of interest and excitement”: British Troops in the Occupation of France after Napoleon, 1815-1818
David Hamlin (Fordham University): Occupation and the Rhetoric of Modernization German Occupation of Romania 1917-18
Aviel Roshwald (Georgetown University): The Parameters of the Patriotically Plausible: Contested Conceptions of Nationhood under Axis Occupation in the Second World War
Jonathan Gumz (University of Birmingham): Panel Chair
Martha Hanna (University of Colorado-Boulder): Panel Commenter
Hopkins: In Words and Pictures: Propaganda and Graphic Art
Donald Eberle (Defiance College): “There is no danger of Mutt and Jeff being drafted”: The Newspaper Comic Strip during the World Wars
Erik Lakomaa (Stockholm School of Economics): Propaganda as Defense: The Origins and Development of a War Information Service
Jacopo Pili (University of Leeds): Anti-British Propaganda and its Reception in Wartime Fascist Italy
Jonathan Fennell (King’s College-London): Panel Chair and Commenter
Pierce A: The War Stories We Tell: World War II and the Vietnam War in Myth and Memory (Roundtable)
Heather Stur (University of Southern Mississippi): Discussant
Allison Abra (University of Southern Mississippi): Discussant
Rob Citino (The National World War II Museum): Discussant
Ariel Natalo-Lifton (Temple University): Discussant
Bill Allison (Georgia Southern University): Panel Chair
Pierce B: Families, Laborers, and Communities in Eighteenth Century Imperial Warfare
Daniel Krebs (University of Louisville): Back Home: The Families and Communities of German Auxiliaries Hired by Great Britain for the American War of Independence, 1776 – 1783
Sascha Moebius (Independent Scholar): Prussian Kantonisten and Their Families in the Seven Years’ War
Ricardo Herrera (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College): Panel Chair
Kyle F. Zelner (University of Southern Mississippi): Panel Commenter
Burkhart A: Between Occupier and Occupied: Indigenous Forces in War from the 1600s to the War in Afghanistan
Jacob Stoil (U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies): From Refugees to Commandos, From Allied to Occupied: The German Unit in Palestine Mandate
Jason Warren (U.S. Army): Breaking the Mirror: The American Experience with Building Indigenous Forces
James Tindle (Kansas State University):”Perfect Harmony”: Examining the Cherokee-Confederate Coalition in the Civil War
Amanda Nagel (U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies): Panel Chair
Ellen Tillman (Texas State University): Panel Commenter
Burkhart B: Public Relations and the U.S. Military in World War I
Thomas Sheppard (U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command): “To Explain Things on the Other Side”: William Sims, the U.S Navy, and the Press in World War I
Charles Bowery (U.S. Army Center of Military History): “Not Unpopular in the Vicinity of the Camp”: Army Installation Names and Civil War Memory in the World War Era
Richard Hulver (U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command): A Bluejacket at Chateau Thierry: A Case of Stolen Valor
Bradford Wineman (U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A210: Battlefields of Memory, Past and Present: Institutional, Individual, Cultural, Public
Alexander Nordlund (University of Georgia): ‘A Mass of Uninteresting Correspondence’: The Memory and Realities of British Military Mail Censorship in the First World War
Cavender Sutton (East Tennessee State University): False Memories and Real Tragedy: German Decision-Making and the Schlieffen Plan
Mattias Eken (University of St. Andrews): The Exhibit that Bombed: The Enola Gay Controversy and Contested Memory
Michele Robertson (Texas Christian University): War Stories: The Narratives of the Global War on Terrorism
John Lynn (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign): Panel Chair
Andrew Wiest (University of Southern Mississippi): Panel Commenter
GCCC A211: Military Veterans in Northeast Asia: Wartime Legacies and Peacetime Tensions
Edward McCord (George Washington University): Troop Demobilization in Warlord China: Political Considerations and Social Costs
Sherman Lai (Royal Military College of Canada/Queen’s University): Growing and Dangerous Frustration: Veterans in Post-Mao China
Eric Setzekorn (U.S. Army Center of Military History): Veterans Affairs in Taiwan under the KMT: Honoring Service or Entrenching Authoritarianism?
Gregory Kupsky (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency): Panel Chair
James McNaughton (Independent Scholar): Panel Commenter
GCCC A212: Ideology, Racism, Violence, and War Crimes: Vignettes on National Socialist Germany at War, 1933-1945
Russell Hart (Hawaii Pacific University): Hitler’s Most Faithful Paladin: Admiral Dönitz, the Kriegsmarine, and the Final Weeks of the Ground War in Europe, April-May 1945
Geoff Megargee (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum): The Nazi Camp Universe and the Wehrmacht, 1933-1945
Richard DiNardo (Marine Corps University): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A213: Guns, Butter, and Plutonium: Soldiers and Civilians at the Dawn of the Cold War
Richard Damms (Mississippi State University-Meridian): “An evil thing considered in any light”: Expert Advice, Dissent, and Fall-Out over the H-Bomb in the Early Cold War
David Mills (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College): Fighting Hunger, Not the People: Postwar German Occupation Policy
John M. Curatola (U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies): A Dangerous Season: Autumn 1949 and the Politics of Fear
Janet Valentine (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College): Panel Chair
Lisa Beckenbaugh (U.S. Air Command and Staff College): Panel Commenter
GCCC A214: A Few Good Men: Masculinity and the United States Marine Corps
Paul Westermeyer (Marine Corps University): Making Marines on Screen: Marine Drill Instructors as Cinematic Father Figures
Breanne Robertson (Marine Corps University): Every Marine a Rifleman: Kris Kuksi’s “Battles Won” Sculpture and U.S. Marine Corps Masculinity
Mark Folse (U.S. Naval Academy): “To Build up a Class of Men”: Marines and Post-War American Manhood 1919-1924
Julie Prieto (U.S. Army Center of Military History): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A215: Variety of Post-Cold War Conflict
Patricia Blocksome (U.S. Naval War College-Monterey): From the LTTE Air Tigers to ISIS Drones: Insurgent Airpower in the Post-Cold War Era
Lauren Merkel (U.S. Military Academy-West Point): Operation Provide Comfort — Shi’a Need Not Apply
Robert Tomlinson (U.S. Naval War College-Monterey): “Our military apparatus is not separate from our overall social fabric”: Hezbollah’s Shifting Strategy in the Post-Cold War Era
Gordon Rudd (Marine Corps University School of Advanced Warfighting): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A216: Militarizing Civilians: Changing Attitudes Toward Noncombatants, 1930-1945
Katie Brown (University of Akron): Manly Pacifists and the Interwar Quest for Peace, 1930-1939
Luke Truxal (University of North Texas): Weaponizing Refugees: Targeting Civilian Railroads in Romania, 1944
Mark Calhoun (U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies): U.S. Army Inductee Policy and the Army Ground Forces in World War II
Michael Hankins (Air University eSchool of Graduate PME): Panel Chair
Stephen Bourque (U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies): Panel Commenter
12 pm – 1:30 pm
Bellows Ballroom DEF: NEH Chairman Address
National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Jon Parrish Peede
“Why Military History is Essential to the Academy”
(Note: Purchase of boxed lunch is optional – on the registration page)
1:30 pm – 3 pm
Hayden: Why Keep Up the Fight: Motivations for and Perceptions of Service from Late-War Union Volunteers, USCT Soldiers, and Occupation Troops
Angela Zombek (University of North Carolina-Wilmington): The Defense of Key West: Motivations for and Challenges of Enforcing Martial Law
Alexandre Caillot (Temple University): The 17th Vermont Volunteer Infantry Regiment and the Problem of “Eleventh-Hour Soldiers”: A Preliminary Investigation
Kelly Mezurek (Walsh University): “Since I have put on Lincoln blue”: The Personal Military Experiences of Black Civil War Soldiers Expressed in their Private Letters Home
Gregory J.W. Urwin (Temple University): Panel Chair
Lorien Foote (Texas A&M University): Panel Commenter
King: The Strategic Challenge of Nuclear Weapons, 1949-1964
Benjamin Allison (Kent State University): Constrained by Reality: Tactical Nuclear Weapons Under Truman and Eisenhower
Timothy McDonnell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): ‘Shoot First or Fail Deadly’: Changes in U.S. Nuclear Posture in the Eisenhower Administration
Ryan Musto (George Washington University): The West and the Quest for Counterproposals to the Rapacki Plan for the Denuclearization of Central Europe, 1957-1959
Edward Kaplan (U.S. Army War College): Getting Our Hair Mussed: The Net Evaluation Subcommittee of the NSC, and the Winning-Victory Gap, 1953-1964
Ian Johnson (Yale University): Panel Chair and Commenter
Hopkins: The Citizen-Soldier
Glenn F. Williams (U.S. Army Center of Military History): Dumore’s War and the Citizen Soldiers of Colonial Virginia
Leif A. Torkelsen (Belmont University): Cogs in the Machine: The United States Army and the Citizen-Soldier in the Age of Industry, 1877-1918
David Fitzgerald (University College-Cork, Ireland): ‘Now the universe offers us no more enemies, what may be the fate of the Republic?’: The Army Recruiting Crisis of the 1990s and Debates over Military Service
Titus Firmin (University of Kansas): Panel Organizer
Geoffrey Jensen (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University): Panel Chair
Lee Eysturid (Independent Scholar): Panel Commenter
Pierce A: Demystifying Academic Publishing Roundtable
Jessica Newman (University of North Carolina Press): Discussant
Randy Schmidt (University of British Columbia Press): Discussant
Emily Andrew (Cornell University Press): Panel Moderator
Pierce B: NEH Grants Workshop: “Standing Together: The Humanities and the Experience of War”
John D. Cox (Deputy Director, Division of Education Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities)
Burkhart A: 1919: War After War
Matthew Schwonek (U.S. Air Command and Staff College): Poland Moves Against the Bolsheviks: The Wilno and Belorussian Campaigns of 1919
William Dean (U.S. Air Command and Staff College): War at the End of the Great War: France and Syria 1919-20
Kevin Holzimmer (U.S. Air Command and Staff College): An Historiographical Evaluation of the American Intervention in Russia, 1918-1920
Richard DiNardo (Marine Corps University): Panel Chair
Craig Morris (U.S. Air Force Academy): Panel Commenter
Burkhart B: The German Army and Occupation in the Soviet Union: Between Ideology and Pragmatism
Jeff Rutherford (Wheeling Jesuit University): “Total war demands the total employment of all labour power”: The German Army, the Battle of Kursk, and Total War
David Wildermuth (Shippensburg University): “We gradually succeeded in instilling in the population a sense of trust towards the Wehrmacht…”: General Weikersthal and the Negotiation of Occupation Policy on the Eastern Front
Adrian Wettstein (Military Academy at ETH Zurich): The Two German Evacuations of Kharkov in 1943
David Harrisville (Furman University): Panel Chair
Adam Seipp (Texas A&M University): Panel Commenter
GCCC A210: Eighteenth-Century Resonance in the Modern Era: Prisoners, Non-State Actors, and Planning
Erica Charters (Oxford University): Public Opinion, Humanitarianism, and Prisoners of War in the Eighteenth Century
Kylie Hulbert (Texas A&M University-Kingsville): “Hardy Sons of Mars”: The Unique Combatant Status of Privateers in the American Revolution
Ricardo Herrera (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College): George Washington and Councils of War: Contingency Planning in the Continental Army
Christy Pichichero (George Mason University): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A211: Occupation and Agency During the First World War
Jesse Kauffman (Eastern Michigan University): State Building, Elite Cooperation, and the Dynamics of Occupation: The cases of OberOst, the Kingdom of Poland, and Eastern Galicia in the First World War
Elisabeth Piller (University College-Dublin): Occupation as Opportunity? Global Outreach, Competitive Victimhood and the Agency of the Occupied: Belgium and Germany, 1914-25
John McNay (University of Cincinnati): Panel Chair
Tammy Proctor (Utah State University): Panel Commenter
GCCC A212: Race, Gender and Sexuality: U.S. Soldiers and Civilians, 1940-1993
Sandra Bolzenius (Independent Scholar): Racial and Gender Military Policies and the Efficient Utilization of WACs during World War II
Heather Haley (Auburn University): Sexclusions: Homosexual and Female (In)Visibility in the United States Navy, 1991-1993
Daniel Krebs (University of Louisville): Panel Chair
Anthony Carlson (U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies): Panel Commenter
GCCC A213: People’s War: Soldiers and Civilians in the Cauldron of Vietnam
Mike Morris (Texas A&M University): Fighting the Corps in a Hybrid War: III MAF in Vietnam
Hayley Hasik (University of Southern Mississippi): From Combat to Cultural Icon: Unraveling the Legacy of the Helicopter in Vietnam War
Michael Westermeier (Marine Corps History Division): The Fight for the Sea: Combined Action Platoons, Pacification, and the Fight for the People of South Vietnam
Ron Milam (Texas Tech University): Panel Chair
Daniel Marston (Marine Corps University): Panel Commenter
GCCC A214: Changes in Nontraditional Warfare over Time and Space
Roger Bailey (University of Maryland): Conflicted Constables: The U.S. Navy and William Walker’s Invasion of Mexico, 1853-1854
Michael Kegerreis (East Carolina University): Twin U.S. Counterinsurgency Failures in the Cold War: Cuba and Nicaragua
William Waddell (Air War College): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A215: The Citizen vs the Soldier? Cold War Conflicts and Their Legacy
Fred Allison (U.S. Marine Corps History Division): Full Circle: Death and Closure in North Vietnam
Andrew Harris (King’s College-London): Fighting the Cold War by Committee: Soldiers and Civilians Working Together in an Ambiguous Conflict
Jared Wigton (U.S. Military Academy-West Point): All the King’s Men: ROTC, Berkeley, and the Decline of the Citizen-Soldier, 1962-1971
Jared Donnelly (U.S. Air Command and Staff College): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A216: Logistics and Modernization: The Management of Military Supplies
James Perrin (Independent Scholar): Hawks and Buzzards: Disorganized Supply in the War of 1812
A.J. Murphy (Columbia University): Corporatizing Defense: Management Expertise in the Cold War U.S. Military
Kelly DeVries (Loyola University Maryland): Panel Chair
Paul Johstono (The Citadel): Panel Commenter
3:30 pm – 5 pm
Hayden: Imperialism in 19th and 20th Century Asia
Daniel Curzon (U.S. Army Center of Military History): “Eggshells loaded with Dynamite”: The Siberian Intervention and the Shifting Power Balance in the Far East
Terry L. Beckenbaugh (U.S. Air Command and Staff College): The First (American) to Fight: Philo Norton McGiffin at the Battle of the Yalu River, 17 September 1894
Ryan Schultz (The Ohio State University): Betrayal and Defeat along the Heavenly Road: The Last Stand of the Manchukuo Army, 1944-1945
Eric Setzekorn (U.S. Army Center of Military History): Panel Chair
Katherine Reist (University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown): Panel Commenter
King: New Perspectives on Air War and its Consequences, 1936-1945
David Messenger (University of South Alabama): Take Cover! Civilian Defense in Barcelona, 1936-1939
Timothy Schultz (U.S. Naval War College): Human-versus-Machine and the Pursuit of Unmanned Bombing in WWII
Daniel Haulman (Air Force Historical Research Agency): Forgotten Atrocities: Fire-Bombing Raids on Cities at Night in WWII
Robert Kane (Air University): Panel Chair and Commenter
Hopkins: Making Men, Making Warriors: British and American Masculinities in World War I
Sarah E. Patterson (Florida State University): ‘The Marines Have Landed and Have the Situation Well in Hand’: Marine Corps Bodies and Masculinity in World War I
Ian Isherwood (Gettysburg College): “We have carried along”: H.J.C. Peirs and Emotional Resiliency in the Trenches
Miriam Mora (Wayne State University): Jewish American Manhood and WWI
Miranda Summers Lowe (Smithsonian): Panel Chair and Commenter
Pierce A: Vice-Presidential Panel: Civilians in the DoD Cauldron: A Roundtable on Federal Service Careers
Robyn Rodriguez (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency): Discussant
Bianka Adams (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers): Discussant
S. Mike Pavelec (U.S. Air Command and Staff College): Discussant
John Hall (Vice President, SMH; Joint Chiefs of Staff; University of Wisconsin-Madison): Moderator
Pierce B: Strategy and Operations in the Napoleonic Wars
Michael Leggiere (University of North Texas): Napoleon and the Strategy of the Single Point in the 1813 Campaign
Alexander Mikaberidze (Louisiana State University-Shreveport): Napoleon’s Missed Opportunity: The Vilna Maneuver of 1812
Huw Davies (Kings College-London): The Military Enlightenment, Strategic Debate and the Foundations of Wellington’s Strategy in the Peninsular War
John Gill (National Defense University): Panel Chair and Commenter
Burkhart A: The Evolution of Military Occupations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Steven Ramold (Eastern Michigan University): Short-term Lease: Union Goals in the Occupied Confederacy
Andrew Kless (University of Rochester): Military or Civil-Military Occupation? Contradictory Priorities on Germany’s First World War Eastern Front
Adam Seipp (Texas A&M University): Conquistadors and Social Workers: Occupying Germany, 1949-1955
Jesse Kauffman (Eastern Michigan University): Panel Chair
Jonathan Gumz (University of Birmingham): Panel Commenter
Burkhart B: Reevaluating 1940
Jonathan Epstein (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY): The Importance of Fort Eben-Emael to the Campaign in the West: A Reassessment
Kurt Dalmo (Arctic University of Norway): The Norwegian Campaign 1940
Wim Klinkert (Netherlands Defence Academy): No Trespassing! The South-eastern Dutch Provinces as Guardians for European Peace
James Slaughter (University of Wolverhampton): The French Air Battle in 1940: A Reassessment
Robert Doughty (Independent Scholar): Panel Chair
Dennis Showalter (Independent Scholar): Panel Commenter
GCCC A210: Martyrs, Victims, and Heroes: POW/MIA Issues
Greg Eanes (Hampden-Sydney College): Bringing Them Home: American Expeditionary Force POW/MIA Accounting
Zhaokun Liu (Carnegie Mellon University): Honoring the Martyrs, Dishonoring the Defectors: PRC’s Policies of Caring for Its Deceased Personnel and Accounting for its Missing Soldiers in the 1950s
Aaron Dilday (Texas A&M University): “I Fear They will Prove an Elephant”: Ulysses S. Grant and the Consequences of Unconditional Surrender
Patrick Gallagher (St. Joseph’s University-Philadelphia): Appropriated Victimhood: POWs and the Politics of National Redemption
Leo Daugherty (U.S. Army Cadet Command): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A211: Early Modern Warfare and Aspects of State Power
Robert Fulton (Emmanuel College): The Rise of the Professionals: The Changing Nature of Professional Administration in the French War Department under Louis XIV
Caleb Karges (Concordia University-Irvine): Great Britain and Prisoners of War in the Spanish Succession
Mark H. Danley (U.S. Military Academy Library-West Point): South Asian Perspectives on the 1756-57 Campaign in Bengal
Patrick Speelman (U.S. Merchant Marine Academy): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A212: Visions of Future War: Transformation and 20th Century U.S. Naval Military Culture
Trent Hone (Excella): “A Vast and Efficient Organism”: Art of Command in the Pacific Fleet During World War II
John T. Kuehn (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College): Cultural Revolutions and One Counterrevolution: U.S. Navy Institutional Culture after World War II
Allyson Gates (Florida State University): Belligerent Brass: The Navy in the Fight Against Defense Unification
Ryan Wadle (U.S. Air Command and Staff College): Establishing the Navy’s Way of War Planning: Captain Harry Yarnell, the Planning Section, and the War Plans Division, 1917-1920
Scott Mobley (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Panel Chair
Randy Papadopoulos (Department of the Navy): Panel Commenter
GCCC A213: (De)Militarizing the System: Soldiers, Civilians, and Martial Citizenship in Cold War America
Amy Rutenberg (Iowa State University): The Right Not to Fight: Draft Counseling and Martial Citizenship During the Vietnam War
Sarah Robey (Idaho State University): Veterans as a Nuclear Front Line? Martial Citizenship and the Creation of Civil Defense, 1945-1950
Jessica Adler (Florida International University): “Help Without Hassles”: Vietnam Veterans and Community-Based Care in Cold War America
Stephen Ortiz (Binghamton University (SUNY)): Comrades in Arms: Veterans, Martial Citizenship, and the Reagan Revolution
Beth Bailey (University of Kansas): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A214: Relating to Others: Occupation, Liberation, and War
Scott Ackerman (The Graduate Center, CUNY): “‘All The Abolitionists Here Assist Me’: Benjamin Butler, Nathaniel Banks, and Occupied Louisiana, 1862-1865
Kevin Broucke (University of North Texas): A Fraternity of Arms: Franco-Serbian Relationships during the First World War Era
Robert Fuller (Independent Scholar): No More Wine and Roses: The French Weary of Their American Liberators, 1944-1945
Samuel Watson (U.S. Military Academy-West Point): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A216: War, Defense, & the Economy
M. Houston Johnson (Virginia Military Institute): Strategic Foundations: The DLAND Program’s Contributions to American Aviation Infrastructure
Patrick Chung (University of Maryland): From Supply-Lines to Supply-Chains: The U.S. Military and the Origins of South Korea’s Export Boom
Michael Stricof (Aix-Marseille Université): Civilians for Defense Infrastructure: BRAC and the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
Gail Yoshitani (United States Military Academy-West Point): Panel Chair and Commenter
5 pm – 6 pm
Bellows Ballroom DEF: SMH Annual Membership Meeting
6 pm – 9 pm
Barley’s Brewing Company (467 N High Street (one block north of hotel; lower level bar)): The Robert Harry Berlin Student Reception (students 21+ and invited guests only)
8 pm – 9:30 pm
Private Dining Room (in hotel restaurant adjacent to bar, 2nd floor): SMH Staff Appreciation Dinner (invitation only)
8 pm – 11 pm
Gordon Biersch Brewery (401 N. Front St., #120): The Ohio State University Alumni Reception
Saturday 05/11/2019
7 am – 8:15 am
Vice Presidential Suite: SMH Regional Coordinators Meeting
7 am – 8:15 am
Hospitality Suite (#410): Second World War Research Group, North America
8 am – 6 pm
Registration Desk, Lower Level: Conference Registration
8 am – 6 pm
Bellows Ballroom ABC: Book Exhibit
9 am – 5 pm
Departure point: Lower Level Alley: Tour of National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
(Dayton)
Tour of the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center and the Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument (Wilberforce)
8:30 am – 10 am
Hayden: Teacher Day Orientation and Pedagogy Session
Tanya Roth (Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School): Wielding Womanpower: Teaching Women in the U.S. Military
King: The Interplay of Intelligence and Operations on the Western Front in World War I
Mark Stout (Johns Hopkins University): Reassessing the American Expeditionary Forces’ St. Mihiel Offensive, August 1918 in the Light of Deception Theory
Andrea Siotto (Temple University): Intelligence in the Trenches: Knowledge and Observation of the Enemy in the British Trenches during the First World War
Betsy Rohaly Smoot (Independent Scholar): Armies in the Ether: The Subtle Art of Radio Deception in the American Expeditionary Forces
Jonathan Winkler (Wright State University): Panel Chair
Thomas Bruscino, Jr. (U.S. Army War College): Panel Commenter
Hopkins: Civilian Governance and Military Affairs in the American Revolution
Timothy Leech (Mary Baker Eddy Library, Windsor): A Turning Point in the Revolutionary War: October 1775
Colin Williams (Defense Logistics Agency): Planning for Peace: Fears and Questions Surrounding the Evacuation of the British from New York City, November 1783
Holly Mayer (Duquesne University): Panel Chair
Benjamin L. Carp (Brooklyn College, CUNY): Panel Commenter
Pierce A: New Directions in the Study of U.S. Civil War Veterans (Roundtable)
Susannah Ural (University of Southern Mississippi): Discussant
Sarah Gardner (Mercer University): Discussant
Kurt Hackemer (University of South Dakota): Discussant
Ian Isherwood (Gettysburg College): Panel Chair
Pierce B: Learning About Warfare During Conflict, Between Conflicts, and Today
Mark Grotelueschen (U.S. Air Force Academy): Learning from Victory: American Lesson-Learning after St. Mihiel, 1918
William Nance (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College): Learning Out of Contact: The United States Cavalry in the Great War Era
Thomas Hanson (Independent Scholar): Panel Chair
Burkhart A: Neither Soldiers nor Civilians: The Role of the Militia and National Guard in the United States
Tracy Barnett (University of Georgia): To Serve Home and Family: Militiamen and Local Defense in the Confederacy
Matthew Margis (U.S. Army Center of Military History): Local No More: The National Guard and Centralized Authority
Jonathan Harton (University of Southern Mississippi): A Worthy Sacrifice: North Carolina, Militia Pensions, and the Value of Loss in the Age of Revolution
Jim Piecuch (Kennesaw State University): Panel Chair
Jon Middaugh (Naval History and Heritage Command): Panel Commenter
Burkhart B: SMH Graduate Student Roundtable: Navigating the Academic Job Market and Mastering the Academic Job Interview
Sarah Myers (Saint Francis University/Messiah College): Discussant
Kyle F. Zelner (University of Southern Mississippi): Discussant
Christian Keller (U.S. Army War College): Discussant
Jessica J. Sheets (Penn State University-Harrisburg; U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center): Chair and Moderator
GCCC A210: Armored Warfare: Evolution and Adaptation
Westin Robeson (Independent Scholar): Bastard Battalions Analyses of the Role and Efficacy of American General Headquarters Tank Battalions during World War II
Vernon Yates (U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy): Armored Warfare Ready or Not: Doctrine vs Reality
Georges Daverat (Sorbonne Université): Louis Renault Plunged into the Cauldron of War: From Ouvrier-Militaire to Industrialist
Erik Villard (U.S. Army Center of Military History): Every FT Tells a Story: Using Photographic and Geospatial Analysis to Study the AEF Tank Corps
William Taylor (Angelo State University): Panel Chair
Duane Young (National Intelligence University): Panel Commenter
GCCC A211: Young Scholars Panel: Outsiders and War
Kaleigh McLaughlin (University of South Dakota): Prisoners of War and Interned Enemy Aliens at Fort Douglas Utah, 1917-1920
Lee Morrison (Florida State University): “Now I Am the Foreigner”: The American G.I. and the European Collective Memory of the Middle Ages
Joshua Isbell (Independent Scholar): Panel Chair
Nikolas Gardner (National Defense College of the UAE): Panel Commenter
GCCC A212: Young Scholars Panel: Memory, Motivation, and Perception
Brennan Kuehl (University of Southern Mississippi): From Machine to Memory: Exploring the Memphis Belle’s Impact on the City of Memphis and the Formation of the Myth of the Good War
Michael S. Thompson (Rogers State University): Taking Their Last Revenge: A Synthesis of the Massacre at Hayes’ Station on November 19, 1781 and its Historical Significance
Bryan Gibby (U.S. Military Academy-West Point): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A213: Young Scholars Panel: Law, Policy, and Debate in War and Post-War Periods
Emily Messimore (Baylor University): The Enemy Came From Nui Ba Den
Peter Casey (Texas A&M University): “Following the Spirit of the Law”: Col. Eberhard P. Deutsch and the Legal Division of the United States Forces in Austria, 1945-1946
Maxwell Fenton (Grinnell College): Staring Down the Barrel: The Failure of Arms Control in Occupied Iraq
Molly Dorsey (University of New Hampshire): Panel Chair
Pat Proctor (Benedictine College): Panel Commenter
GCCC A214: Young Scholars Panel: The Mosaic of the Vietnam War: American Advisors, Vietnamese Military, and Vietnamese Citizens Analyzed Through Oral History
Georgia Cervantes (U.S. Military Academy-West Point): The Vietnamese Military and the Struggle to Defend Their Country
Jacqueline Martin (U.S. Military Academy-West Point): Vietnamese Civilians and their Lives at Home During and After the War and their Refugee Journey to America
Jake Stoffel (U.S. Military Academy-West Point): American Advisors and their Relationship with their Vietnamese Counterparts
David Siry (U.S. Military Academy-West Point): Panel Chair
Scott Granger (U.S. Military Academy-West Point): Panel Commenter
GCCC A215: Young Scholars Panel: The Thrills and Horrors of War
Kalie Rudolph (Chapman University): Battling Disease and the Germans: A Soldier’s Struggle to Maintain Good Health During the Great War
Robert Del Toro (Chapman University): Duality of Man: What Identity Takes Over in Combat?
Montserrate Gastelum (Chapman University): The Patriotic Volunteer
Martha Hanna (University of Colorado-Boulder): Panel Chair
Edward Lengel (Independent Scholar): Panel Commenter
GCCC A216: Young Scholars Panel: Psychological and Physical Challenges and World War II
Ron MacNeil (University of Vermont): The Psychological Life of Women in the Siege of Leningrad: Emotions, Motivation, and Mental Disorders
Gabriela Maduro (Florida State University): “And what I have told you is not even half of what happened”: Epistolary Sources, Censorship, and Memory in World War II
Anna McIntyre (Georgia Southern University): U-Boats on the Horizon
Mark R. Jacobson (Amherst College): Panel Chair and Commenter
10:30 am – 12 pm
Hayden: Beyond the Limits of Air Power: Air Effects for Humanitarian Aid and Civilian Defense
Michael Hankins (Air University eSchool of Graduate PME): To Fly, Provide, and Restore: Building Civilian-Military Connections through Humanitarian Airlift
Brian Laslie (North American Aerospace Defense Command): Non-Traditional Air Power: Defense Support of Civil Authorities and the Changing Nature of American Air Power
Mary Elizabeth Walters (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill): Constructing Air Power: Air Force Civil Engineers during Operation Allied Force and Operation Shining Hope, 1999
Daniel Haulman (Air Force Historical Research Agency): Panel Chair
John Terino (U.S. Air Command and Staff College): Panel Commenter
King: Roots of the Global War on Terror
Michael Brill (Princeton University): After the Storm: Regional Views and Regime Change in Iraq, 1991
Kate Tietzen (Kansas State University): “Probably the Staunchest Backer of the Eritrean Cause”: American Responses to Iraqi-Eritrean Cooperation in the Ethiopian-Eritrean Conflict
Christopher Carey (Army University Press): The Bombing of the USS Cole: The Clash of American Military Policy and al-Qaeda Strategy
Anthony Carlson (U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies): Panel Chair
Angela Riotto (Army University Press): Panel Commenter
Hopkins: Perceptions of Threat and Limits of Action in the Early Cold War
David Hadley (Ashland University): The Holohan Murder and American Intelligence
Jodie Mader (Thomas More College): Dr. Strangelove‘s 1960s: Stanley Kubrick’s Film in an Era of Cold War Paranoia
Aaron Moulton (Stephen F. Austin State University): A Caribbean Operation Condor? Military Intelligence-Sharing among Caribbean Basin Regimes, 1947-1952
Phyllis Soybel (College of Lake County): Panel Chair and Commenter
Pierce A: Presidential Panel: Winning the Peace: The Aftermath of World War I (Roundtable; CoSponsored by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR))
Adam Seipp (Texas A&M University): Discussant
Erez Manela (Harvard University): Discussant
Michael Neiberg (U.S. Army War College): Discussant
Nicole Phelps (University of Vermont): Discussant
Jennifer D. Keene (President, SMH; Chapman University): Moderator
Peter Hahn (The Ohio State University and President, SHAFR): Moderator
Pierce B: In the Throes of War: Soldiers and Civilians of French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars (Sponsored by the Massena Society)
Erik Lewis (Florida State University): The Cantalauze Kidnapping: Migration Tactics in the Shadow of War
Ben Goff (Florida State University): Military Medicine and the Relationship between Knowledge and Empire
Andrew Zwilling (U.S. Naval War College): Not Just a Stepping Stone: British and Maltese Civil-Military Interaction, 1798-1803
Kenneth Johnson (U.S. Air Command and Staff College): Panel Chair
Christy Pichichero (George Mason University): Panel Commenter
Burkhart A: Blurring the Lines: Warfare, Civilians, and Visual Imagery
James Sandy (University of Texas-Arlington): Unending War: Comic Books, Images of Warfare, and Young American Audiences
Amber Batura (Texas Tech University): Intimate Relations: Pornography and Identity in War
Caryn Neumann (Miami University of Ohio): Portrayals of PTSD in War Comic Books
Janet Valentine (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College): Panel Chair and Commenter
Burkhart B: Engaging Students and the Public: Teaching Military History Through Museum Exhibits, Podcasts, and Digital Humanities Projects (Roundtable)
Sarah Myers (Saint Francis University/Messiah College): Discussant
Ed Gitre (Virginia Tech University): Discussant
Kate Lemay (The National Portrait Gallery): Discussant
Jacqueline Whitt (U.S. Army War College): Discussant
Rob Citino (The National World War II Museum): Moderator
GCCC A210: Drivers of Change in British Air Power
Steven Paget (University of Portsmouth): Air Control: Maintaining the Royal Air Force’s Independence through Close Cooperation
Matthew Powell (University of Portsmouth): Royalties, Patents, and Sub-Contracting: The Curious Case of the Hawker Hart, 1926-1935
Andrew Conway (University of Portsmouth): Throwing Snowballs into Hell? Civil-Military Relations and American Support of British Air Power in the Mediterranean Theatre, 1939-1941
John M. Curatola (School of Advanced Military Studies): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A211: Resistance, Occupation, and Combat in Italy, 1943-1945
Ben Shepherd (Glasgow Caledonian University): The Twilight of the German Army in Italy, 1944-1945: A Division-Level Case Study
Emanuele Sica (Royal Military College of Canada): Loyal to the King or to the Axis: The Difficult Choice of Italian Soldiers after the 8 September 1943 Armistice
Carlo Gentile (University of Cologne): German Soldiers and Civilians: The Experience of Mass Violence in Italy in Summer 1944
Robert Clemm (Air University eSchool of Graduate PME): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A212: The Post-Cold War Era: New Problems
Jeremy Kasper (University of Texas-Austin): Consolidating Victory: U.S. Post-Combat Operations in Panama, 1989-1994
J.D. Work (Marine Corps University): Echoes of Ababil: Re-examining Formative History of Cyber Conflict and its Implications for Future Engagements
Matt Dietz (University of North Texas): How America Understands Its Air Force: The U.S. Air Force in the American Mind
Robert J. Thompson (Army University Press): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A213: Who’s Influencing Whom: The Military-Media Relationship in World War II and the Korean War
Alexander Lovelace (Ohio University): Total Coverage: Command Decisions and Press during World War II
Brad St. Croix (University of Ottawa): Black and White and Red All Over: The Newspaper Media’s Impact on the Canadian Decision to send Troops to Hong Kong, 1941
Katy Doll (Indiana University): An “Ad Agency in Khaki”: The Influence of Advertising and Media Practices on U.S. Psychological Operations during the Korean War
Philipp Fraund (University of Konstanz): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A214: A Global History of Relocation in Counterinsurgency Warfare
Mark Askew (U.S. Military Academy-West Point): War Must Be Answered with War: An Evaluation of the Strategic Effectiveness of Spanish Population Relocation During the Cuban War for Independence
John Sheehan (SUNY-Cortland): The Boer War: Methods of Barbarism (1899-1902)
James Tallon (Lewis University): Relocation, Villagization, and Concentration
Nathan Packard (Marine Corps University): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A215: Civil War Women
James Scythes (West Chester University of Pennsylvania): Letters to Lizzie: The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the One Girl who Connected them All
Stephen Edwards (Texas Christian University): The Belle and the Beast: Eugenia Levy Phillips, Benjamin Butler, and the Struggle for Public Opinion During the Federal Occupation of New Orleans
Jack Verhayden (Mississippi State University): In the Shadows of Rebellion: Rose Greenhow and Union Policy toward Confederate Spies
Lorien Foote (Texas A&M University): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A216: Civilian Representation of War on the Homefront
Mary Alison Reilly (Florida State University): MoMA in the Service of America: Exhibitions in World War II
Mallory Nanny (Florida State University): An-My Lê’s Small Wars: Remembering and Forgetting the Vietnam War
Charissa Threat (Chapman University): Panel Chair and Commenter
12 pm – 1:30 pm
Private Dining Room: John F. Guilmartin, Jr. Festschrift Celebration Luncheon (By Invitation Only)
Burkhart B: Teacher Day Lunch and Pedagogy Session
Geoff Megargee (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum): Key Issues and Resources for Teaching about the Holocaust
1:30 pm – 3 pm
Hayden: Influencing Change: George C. Marshall’s Impact on Leaders and Policies during the Korean War
Jeremy Maxwell (University of Southern Mississippi): Marshall, Ridgway, and Moves Toward Integration in Korea
William Taylor (Angelo State University): The Obligation to Serve: George C. Marshall and Universal Military Training during the Early Cold War
Jared Dockery (Harding University): George C. Marshall and the Korean War
David Ulbrich (Norwich University): Panel Chair
Katherine Reist (University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown): Panel Commenter
King: New Perspectives on the American Citizen-Soldier
Krysten E. Blackstone (University of Edinburgh): ‘We should suffer everything for their benefit’: Civilians and the Continental Army
Tom Bishop (University of Lincoln): Every Home a Fortress: Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter in Cold War America
James Brookes (University of Nottingham): Images in Conflict: Soldier-Artists and the Depiction of the Battle of Stones River
C. C. Felker (SMH Executive Director): Panel Chair
Hopkins: The Economic Impact of WWI on Citizens and Soldiers
John Steinberg (Austin Peay State University): The End of Russian Military Effectiveness in World War I, 1917
Gregory Zieren (Austin Peay State University): Economist as Cassandra: Karl Helfferich’s Risk Calculation for Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Jennifer Siegel (The Ohio State University): “Blood and Iron” vs. “Bread and Money”: Financial Power and the Fighting of the First World War
Brian Feltman (Georgia Southern University): Panel Chair
Michael Birdwell (Tennessee Technological University): Panel Commenter
Pierce A: Presidential Panel: Mastering USAJobs: A Workshop (Roundtable; CoSponsored by the Society for History in the Federal Government)
Jon Hoffman (U.S. Army Center of Military History): Discussant
Glen Asner (Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense): Discussant
Jacqueline Whitt (U.S. Army War College): Panel Chair
Beth Bailey (University of Kansas): Panel Organizer
Pierce B: The American War for Independence Reconsidered: Leadership, Discipline, and Divided Families
Seanegan Sculley (U.S. Military Academy-West Point): We Will Not Be Coerced: Courts-Martial and Punishment in the Continental Army
Mark Edward Lender (Kean University): The Usual Suspects: General Washington, His Critics, and the Conway Cabal Reconsidered
Jessica J. Sheets (Penn State University-Harrisburg; U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center): “I know we do not agree in political Sentiments quite”: The Divided Tilghman Family in the Revolutionary War
James Kirby Martin (University of Houston): Panel Chair
Matthew Muehlbauer (U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies): Panel Commenter
Burkhart A: “In a Conquered Land”: American Soldiers and European Civilians in World War II
Ruth Lawlor (University of Cambridge): ‘Too Hard to Think About’: A Transnational History of Rape in the European Theatre of Operations, World War II
Benjamin Schneider (George Mason University): “A Country Where Everyone is the Enemy”: Murder, Manslaughter, and Provocation in U.S. Occupied Germany, 1945
Douglas Bristol (University of Southern Mississippi): Race Relations in Combat Zones: African American Service Units and Civilians in the European Theater of Operations during World War II
Kara Dixon Vuic (Texas Christian University): Panel Chair
Mary Louise Roberts (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Panel Commenter
Burkhart B: Soldiers and Civilians in the Vietnam War’s Final Years (Roundtable)
Robert Brigham (Vassar College): Discussant
Lien-Hang Nguyen (Columbia University): Discussant
James Willbanks (Emeritus, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College): Discussant
Gregory Daddis (Chapman University): Organizer
Gian Gentile (RAND Corporation): Moderator
GCCC A210: War in the American South
Charles Bolton (University of North Carolina-Greensboro): Camp Van Dorn and the 364th Infantry Regiment: Training Black Troops in the Deep South During World War II
Adam Petty (Church of Latter-Day Saints): Unraveling the Battle of the Wilderness Through the Mine Run Campaign
Cameron Boutin (University of Kentucky): Contending with the Elements: The Role of Weather in the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Christopher Mortenson (Ouachita Baptist University): Panel Chair
Ethan Rafuse (U.S. Military Academy-West Point): Panel Commenter
GCCC A211: Ideology and Intelligence in the Shadow of the Third Reich
Robert Hutchinson (U.S. Naval War College): ‘Drawing Broad Conclusions from Inadequate Evidence’: The Gehlen Organization’s Reports on the Soviet Union
Derek Mallett (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College): PO Box 1142: German Prisoners of War and American Military Intelligence in World War II
Michael Bigelow (U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A212: From Action to Representation to History: The German Navies, 1914-1945
Randy Papadopoulos (Department of the Navy): From Nothing to Something New? Using Institutional Memory in the German Navies, 1918-1945
Jason Hines (University of Potsdam): The Development of a Communications Intelligence Capability in the Imperial German Navy
Tobias Philbin (Independent Scholar): Admiral Hipper as Naval Commander: A Retrospect
Antulio Echevarria (Parameters): Panel Chair
Keith Bird (Chancellor Emeritus, Kentucky Community and Technical College System): Panel Commenter
GCCC A213: Emerging from the Army’s Shadow: The Early USAF’s Quest for Technological Independence
Philip Shackelford (South Arkansas Community College): “We Moved the Whole Outfit”: The U.S. Air Force Security Service and its Global Cold War Mission
Roy Houchin (Air War College): The Military Missions of Dyna-Soar: A Legacy to the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle
David Bath (Rogers State University): Ultimate Long-Range Bombers: The USAF and the Pursuit of Ballistic Nuclear Missiles
Brian Price (Hawaii Pacific University): Panel Chair
Paul Springer (U.S. Air Command and Staff College): Panel Commenter
GCCC A214: Legacies of World War I
Jeff Schultz (Luzerne County Community College): Amerikansky Dobra: Contrasting American Perspectives on Wilsonian Interventions, Bolshevism, and Coalition Warfare in Russia, 1918-1920
Jason Engle (Southern New Hampshire State University): The Halstead Mission: A Case Study of American Failure to Win the Peace in Post-World War I Central Europe
Timothy Clarke (University of Waterloo): ‘Our Public Constructive Work’: The East African Women’s League and Remembrance Practices in Kenya, 1923-1939
Heather Perry (University of North Carolina-Charlotte): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A215: Confronting Violence: Questions of Morality, Justice, and Professionalism in the Civil War
Mary Decredico (U. S. Naval Academy): Leadership and the Challenge to Moral Values during the American Civil War
Shane Makowicki (Texas A&M University): “Have Every Rebel Shot”: The Brutalization of the Civil War in Eastern North Carolina, 1862-1865
Victoria Stewart (Northwest Florida State College): Union War Clubs: Community Efforts to Combat Conscription
Timothy Snell (Texas Christian University): Struggling for Air: The Union Balloon Corps, Informational-Warfare, and the Clash between Civilian Expertise and Military Professionalism
Lisa Mundey (University of St. Thomas): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A216: Soldiers and the Question of Inequality
Kari Boyd (University of Alabama): “A Class of People far Superior”: Soldiers, Civilians, and Perceptions of Race and Class in the Spanish-American War
Bruce Cohen (Independent Scholar): The JWV and the RJF: Parallel Origins and Tragic Contrasts
Titus Firmin (University of Kansas): The All-Volunteer Force and Inequality
J. Marc Milner (University of New Brunswick): Panel Chair
3:30 pm – 5 pm
Hayden: Culture and Clash during and after World War II
Douglas Bell (Texas A&M University): Hunting American Style: Debates over American Hunting in Occupied Germany, 1945-1949
Alexandra Lohse (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum): Experiencing Defeat: Germany, 1945
Douglas Peifer (Air War College): Panel Chair and Commenter
King: Traces of War: The Allied and American Demobilizations of World War I
Cameron Givens (The Ohio State University): From Boche to Bolsheviki: Anti-radicalism and Remobilization in the United States, 1918-1919
Julie Powell (The Ohio State University): Demobilizing/Remobilizing the Disabled Soldier: Manliness and Allied Rehabilitation Propaganda in the First World War
Bruno Cabanes (The Ohio State University): Panel Chair
Jennifer Zoebelein (National World War I Museum and Memorial): Panel Commenter
Hopkins: Intellectuals, Literature, and War
Deividas Šlekys (Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University): From Peasants to Warriors: Lithuanian Intellectual Reflections as a War-Coping Mechanism
Luke Reynolds (The Graduate Center, CUNY): “That magnificent piece of tom-foolery”: The Army Officer in Mid-19th Century British Literary Satire
Robert Whalen (Queen’s University of Charlotte): The Occupiers and the Occupied: German Soldiers in French Resistance Novels from World War II
John Beeler (University of Alabama): Panel Chair and Commenter
Pierce A: Living in the Cauldron of the World Wars (Roundtable)
Kara Dixon Vuic (Texas Christian University): Discussant
Michele Curran Cornell (Kent State University): Discussant
Richard Fogarty (University at Albany): Discussant
Michelle Moyd (Indiana University): Discussant
Susan Grayzel (Utah State University): Moderator
Pierce B: Vice-Presidential Panel: Beyond Drums and Trumpets: Innovative Approaches to Teaching Military History
Alex Dracobly (University of Oregon): A Documentary Approach to Teaching Military Operations during the Napoleonic Wars
Matthew McDonough (Coastal Carolina University): Crisis!! Using Military History Simulations in the Classroom
Robert Kirchubel (Purdue University): Mapping Military Operations for Digital Study and Research
Brian Laslie (North American Aerospace Defense Command): Panel Chair and Commenter
Burkhart A: “Through a Glass, Darkly”: Film Portrayals of the Cauldron of War
Mary Kathryn Barbier (Mississippi State University): The ‘Right’ of the Occupied vs the ‘Might’ of the Occupier: The Propaganda Message in WWII-era Movies
Nicholas Warner (Claremont McKenna College): Civilians at War in Three Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Dennis Showalter (Independent Scholar): Not Our War – Until It Is: The U.S. Film Industry’s Response to a Developing Catastrophe
David Burford (Mississippi State University): Panel Chair and Commenter
Burkhart B: Publishing Military History in the 21st Century: A Roundtable
David Silbey (Cornell University): Discussant
Deborah Gershenowitz (Cambridge University Press): Discussant
Joyce Harrison (University Press of Kansas): Discussant
Beth Bailey (University of Kansas): Moderator
GCCC A210: The Sea Service, the State, and American Society: Social and Cultural Approaches to the Growth of American Sea Power, 1882-1923
Jason Smith (Southern Connecticut State University): ‘Oughtn’t We All Feel Proud’: The Great White Fleet, the American People, and Rooseveltian Navalism, 1907-1909
Thomas Jamison (Harvard University): Selling the New Navy: ‘Little Chili,’ Big China and the View from California, 1882-1892
David Ulbrich (Norwich University): Panel Chair
Joshua Wolf (Benedictine College): Panel Commenter
GCCC A211: U.S. Air Force Technology, Doctrine, and Civil-Military Relations in the Early Cold War
James Perry (Independent Scholar): U.S. Air Force Strategic Bomber Requirements, 1947 – 1962
Jerry Martin (Independent Scholar): Strike Force: U.S. Air Force Tactical Nuclear Forces in the Eisenhower Administration, Service Concepts of War Fighting and Deterrence
Dana Cushing (Independent Scholar): Cold War/Hot City: USAF-NORAD Nuclear Operations in the City of Toronto, 1945-1965
Zachary Matusheski (The Ohio State University): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A212: Challenges Beyond the War Itself in American Military History
Christopher Rein (Army University Press): Alabamians in Blue: Freedman, Unionists, and the Struggle for a Southern Landscape
Rhonda Smith-Daugherty (Alice Lloyd College): Right Stuff-Wrong Color: The Trials of Eugene Bullard-First African American Combat Pilot
Eric Burke (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill): Guides, Informants, and Pioneers: The Operational Contributions of Freedmen to the XV Union Army Corps at Vicksburg
Jennifer Murray (Oklahoma State University): Panel Chair
GCCC A213: Eighteenth-Century Conflict
Jordan Hayworth (U.S. Air Command and Staff College): Strategic Turning Point in the French Revolutionary Wars: Lazare Carnot and the 1794 Campaign
Daniel Boone (Independent Scholar): Conflicting Cultures in War: British Soldiers, American Colonists, and Native Tribes During the Seven Years’ War
Timothy Hemmis (Texas A&M University-Central Texas): An American Informant: Captain Thomas Hutchins and American Spy Ring in London during the War for Independence, 1778-1783
James Campbell (U.S. Air Command and Staff College): Panel Chair
John Roche (U.S. Air Force Academy): Panel Commenter
GCCC A214: Global Looks at Insurgency, Guerrillas, and Civil Wars
Jacien Carr (School of Oriental and African Studies): Poro War: What History Informs Us About the First Liberian Civil War
Jonathan Roth (San Jose State University): Clans, Castes, and Outcasts: Factionalism in Ancient Insurgency
Thomas Tormey (Trinity College, Dublin): Urban Guerrillas and Civilian Cover: Dublin, Ireland, 1921
Laura Davis (Southern Utah University): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A215: Disaster on the Don: Comparing the Romanian, Italian, and Hungarian Armies’ Experiences during the Soviet Winter Counteroffensive of 1942-1943
Grant Harward (U.S. Army Medical Department Center of History and Heritage): Fighting to the Last: Romanian Third Army’s Stand on the Don and Fourth Army’s Support of Operation Winter Storm
Nicolò Da Lio (Università degli Studi di Padova): A Crusade against Bolshevism: The Italian Soldiers’ Experience in the Soviet Union 1941-1943
Ákos Fóris (Eötvös Loránd University-Budapest; Clio Institute-Budapest): “The Sacrificed Army”: The Hungarian Second Army between Memory and History
Geoff Megargee (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum): Panel Chair
Ben Shepherd (Glasgow Caledonian University): Panel Commenter
GCCC A216: Loyalty and Identity in Multi-Ethnic Armies
John Fahey (Georgia Military College): Imperial Villages: Promoting Loyalty in Rural Habsburg Galicia (1867-1914)
Laurent Ditmann (Georgia State University): Laisses-pour compte: The Misfits of the Corps Francs d’Afrique in the Tunisian Campaign of 1942-1943
Carole Butcher (North Dakota State University): In the Service of Empire: Indigenous Troops in Colonial Armies
Steven Davis (Air Command and Staff College): Panel Chair and Commenter
6 pm – 9 pm
Bellows Ballroom DEF: Keynote Address and Reception
Recognition of Simmons and Morison Awards Recipients
Keynote Address: “Is the Military Revolution Dead Yet?”
Geoffrey Parker (Distinguished University Professor and Andreas Dorpalen Professor of European History, The Ohio State University)
Sunday 05/12/2019
8 am – 12 pm
Bellows Ballroom ABC: Book Exhibit
8:30 am – 10 am
King: New Currents in Occupation Studies
Cameron Zinsou (Mississippi State University): Prelude to Occupation: French Army Quartering in Montélimar, 1939-40
Dave Musick (University of North Texas): American Stability Operations in the Philippines 1944-1946
Marjorie Galelli (University of Kansas): Liberators or Occupiers? How Popular Narratives of WWII Helped Make the Case for the Invasion of Iraq
Nicholas Schlosser (U.S. Army Center of Military History): Panel Chair
Rob Citino (The National World War II Museum): Panel Commenter
Hopkins: Labor and War
Harold Selesky (University of Alabama): The Morphology of Mobilization: South-East Massachusetts in the War for American Independence
Chris Harrison (Northern Arizona University): The British Substitution Scheme of World War I: A Case of Wastage Conscription
Stephanie Hinnershitz (Cleveland State University): The Army, “Forced Labor,” and Japanese American Incarceration during WWII
Nicholas Sambaluk (Air University): Panel Chair and Commenter
Pierce A: The Impact of African American Soldiers on HBCUs: A Case Study of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (Roundtable)
Darien Wellman (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University): Discussant
Marcus Allen (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University): Discussant
Charles Johnson (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University): Discussant
Brian Robinson (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University): Discussant
Arwin Smallwood (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University): Panel Chair and Moderator
Pierce B: Soldiers and Statesmen: British Civil-Military Relations and the Battleground of Public Opinion in the World War I Era
Arjun Awasthi (The Ohio State University): The Downward Spiral of 1917: The Effect of Propaganda and Censorship on the British Civil-Military Relationship
Mason Watson (U.S. Army Center of Military History): “Hands off the Army!”: The British Army and its Critics, 1916-1918
Bradley Cesario (Texas A&M University): ‘Public Opinion as an Avalanche:’ Directed Navalism and the Admiralty in the Edwardian Era
William Sanders Marble (Office of Medical History, U.S. Army): Panel Chair and Commenter
Burkhart A: After the War: Recalling and Replacing
Tyler Johnson (Sowela Technical Community College): Honored and Honorable Soldiers: Ethnic Volunteers and the Memory of the U.S.-Mexican War
Selika Ducksworth-Lawton (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire): Selected African American Oral Testimonies from the Korean Conflict, 1950
Michael Rouland (Joint Chiefs of Staff; Georgetown University): Panel Chair and Commenter
Burkhart B: Crafting a Twenty-First Century History of the Napoleonic Wars (Roundtable)
Alan Forrest (University of York, UK): Discussant
Philip Dwyer (University of Newcastle): Discussant
Alexander Mikaberidze (Louisiana State University-Shreveport): Panel Chair and Moderator
GCCC A211: Young Scholars Panel: Contributors to the Civil War
John Sarvela (University of Southern Mississippi): Soldaten des Westens: An Analysis of the Wartime Experiences of Three German-American Regiments from the St. Louis-Belleville Region
William V. Scott (University of Texas-San Antonio): Texas Cattle that Supported the Confederate Cause
Julia Wall (Gettysburg College): “History Will Not Let That Smiling Splendid Boy Die in Vain”: Heroism, Commemoration, and the “Good Death” in the Class of June 1861 at the Battle of Gettysburg
Mary Kathryn Barbier (Mississippi State University): Panel Chair
Frank Wetta (Kean University): Panel Commenter
GCCC A212: Young Scholars Panel: History at the Service Academies: Three Perspectives
Charles Estep (U.S. Air Force Academy): Wilsonian Idealism and the Failure of American Policy in Northern Russia
Lydia LaRue (U.S. Military Academy-West Point): Fortress West Point: An Augmented Reality
Joshua Walton & Alicia Zhou (U.S. Naval Academy): Unearthing the Battle of Cuzco Wells
Robert Wettemann (U.S. Air Force Academy): Panel Coordinator
Marko J. Stawnyczyj (U.S. Naval Academy): Panel Chair and Commenter
GCCC A213: Young Scholars Panel: VMI Cadets Explore the Cauldron of War
Madden Chapman (Virginia Military Institute): From Gallipoli to Tarawa: How the Marine Corps Took the Defended Beachhead, 1920-1935
Andrew Hunt (Virginia Military Institute): A Historiographical Understanding of Fascism
Cameron McNeil (Virginia Military Institute): Forging the New Zimbabwe in Mozambique
Andrew Schifalacqua (Virginia Military Institute): Guns from Above: Former VMI Cadets and the Implementation of Airborne Artillery in Sicily
M. Houston Johnson (Virginia Military Institute): Panel Chair
Bradford Wineman (U.S. Marine Corps Command & Staff College): Panel Commenter
GCCC A214: Young Scholars Panel: The Cauldron of War: Reflections of Society in War Letters
Lara Jacobson (Chapman University): Naivety in the Pacific
Jesse Faugstad (Chapman University): Fighting to Live: The American Dream at War
Dominic So (Chapman University): Humanity Amidst the Inhumanity of the Vietnam War
William Taylor (Angelo State University): Panel Chair
Bill Allison (Georgia Southern University): Panel Commenter
GCCC A215: Young Scholars Panel: Ungentlemanly Warfare: Reassessing Wartime Gender Identity in the Modern Era
Cameron Carlomagno (Chapman University): Women in a Man’s War: The Employment of Female Agents in the Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946
Cameron Daddis (Vassar College): Men Among “Man-Eaters’: The Tiger in the British Imperial Imagination of Nineteenth-Century India
Paige Gulley (Chapman University): “After all, who takes care of the Red Cross’s morale?”: The Importance of Camaraderie among Red Cross Clubmobile Workers during World War II
Kara Dixon Vuic (Texas Christian University): Panel Chair
Allison Abra (University of Southern Mississippi): Panel Commenter
GCCC A216: Interpreting Our Past: Three Case Studies in the Shaping of Military and Naval History in the Twentieth Century
Howard J. Fuller (University of Wolverhampton): To ‘Strangle Bolshevism in its Cradle’: British Naval Power-Projection in the Baltic During the Russian Civil War, 1919
John Buckley (University of Wolverhampton): Cornelius Ryan, A Bridge Too Far, and Operation Market Garden: History, Memory, and Reality
Spencer Jones (University of Wolverhampton): Brigadier-General James Edmonds and the First Volume of the British Official History of the Great War
Sam Edwards (Manchester Metropolitan University): Panel Chair and Commenter
10:30 am – 12 pm
Hayden: Indians’ Wars: Masculinity, Disease, and Refugees in the Cauldron of War
Joshua Haynes (University of Southern Mississippi): “The Creeks Come and Take Away Our Scalps with Impunity:” Soldiers and Civilians in the Cauldron of the Creek-Choctaw War, 1765-1777
Matthew Sparacio (Auburn University): Pox Chahta: The Choctaw Civil War as a Bio-Social Event
Jamie Myers Mize (University of North Carolina-Pembroke): “an Agreement to war upon the Osage”: Conflict, Captive Taking, and Cherokee Masculinity in the Cherokee-Osage War
Lance Blyth (North American Aerospace Defense Command): Panel Chair
Susan Abram (Western Carolina University): Panel Commenter
King: Is the War Over? Resistance and Reprisal
Stephen Connor (Nipissing University): “A Taste of their Own Medicine”: The Canadian Army and Reprisal in Germany, 1945 and After
Kevin Conley Ruffner (Independent Scholar): Murder in the Schweizer Holz: A Deadly Encounter between American GIs and DPs in Occupied Bavaria
Alexander Vazansky (University of Nebraska-Lincoln): “Fight Back”: GI Organizing in West Germany, 1968-1975
Thomas Hanson (Independent Scholar): Panel Chair and Commenter
Hopkins: Small War and Military Occupation from Flanders to Russia circa 1700
Steven Beckman (The Ohio State University): Occupying the Palatine: General Boufflers and the French Occupations of the Rhineland 1677-78 and 1688-90
John Stapleton (U.S. Military Academy-West Point): Partisan Warfare, Spanish Collapse, and the Emergence of an Anglo-Dutch Army in the Low Countries, 1689-1692
Jamel Ostwald (Eastern Connecticut State University): Panel Chair and Commenter
Burkhart A: Backup Soldiers: Troop Deployments Beyond the Primary Theater of War
Ashley Vance (Texas A&M University): Memories of Guilt: American Soldiers in Germany during the Korean War
Amanda Nagel (U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies): Not ‘Over There’: United Stated Regular Army Regiments in the Philippines during World War I
Kevin Sliwoski (University of California-Riverside): Battlefield Adjacent: Fighting the Vietnam War in the Philippines
Amy Laurel Fluker (Youngstown State University): Panel Chair and Commenter