Dwight D. Eisenhower Library 200 SE 4th Street, Abilene, KS 67410; 785-263-6700 or 877RINGIKE

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KAH ANNUAL MEETING EISENHOWER CENTER

Abilene, Kansas April 13 & 14, 2007

The annual meeting of the Kansas Association of Historians will be held at the Eisenhower Library and Museum (Eisenhower Center) on April 13 and 14. All panels will be held in the Library Training Room, Library Auditorium, or the Education Center in the Museum. Registration and exhibits will be in the Library Lobby. FRIDAY, APRIL 13

• 10:00 - 5:00 Registration, Library Lobby • 1:00 - 2:45 Panels (Session I) • 3:00 - 4:45 Panels (Session II)

A special session, Preserving the Victorian Era in Kansas: The Lebold Mansion As A Case Study, will begin at 3:00 on Friday. The Lebold Mansion is a National Register property. The owners, recognized experts in restoration, will provide the tour and commentary. There will be a fee for transportation and admission. Website: http://www.lebold-mansion.com/

• 5:30 Eisenhower Museum Tour (limited tours of storage areas) Prime Rib Buffet Dinner, complimentary wine & beer; cash bar

SATURDAY, APRIL 14

• 8:00 - 9:45 Panels (Session III) • 10:00 - 11:45 Panels (Session IV) • 11:45 - 12:15 Annual Business Meeting, Library Auditorium • 12:30 Lunch, Library Courtyard (catered by Brookville Hotel)

Announcement of Student Paper awards: Isaias McCaffery Speaker: Marion Cott, Founder & Director of the Kansas Humanities Council, 1972-2006 Lodging information & map enclosed or see http://www.abilenekansas.org/

A Presidential Library Administered by the National Archives and Records Administration

KAH 2007 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS Preliminary—Subject to Change—Locations to be Determined Later

A panel of student paper award winners may be added.

Session I: Friday, 1:00 - 2:45 PANEL: CIVIL WAR VETERANS IN KANSAS Chair: ?

• Bruce Kahler, Bethany College—“Our Family: Union Veterans’ Organizations in Late Nineteenth Century Kansas”

• John Mack, Labette County Com. College—“Swords into Ploughshares: Union Veterans and the Settlement of Southeast Kansas”

PANEL: KANSAS HISTORY BY MAIL Chair: ?

• Loren Pennington, Emporia State- “An American Soldier Writes Home: Letters to Mamie, 1942-1945”

• Sam Dicks, Emporia State U.- “My Dear Tom”- “My Dear Will:” The Thomas W. Butcher-William Allen White Correspondence”

Session II: Friday, 3:00 - 4:45 LEBOLD MANSION TOUR CIVIL WAR CEMETERIES PANEL Chair: ?

• John Jackson, Lawrence, U.S. Army (ret.)–[Civil War gravesites] • Ron Redden, Glasco, KS Middle School, [Civil War burials]

PANEL: KANSAS HISTORY ON RAILS Chair: ?

• Keith Sprunger, Bethel College- “Newton and the Santa Fe Railroad: Oral History and Historic Preservation”

• Isaias McCaffery, Independence Com. College.- “Trolley Nostalgia Versus Reality: An Unsentimental Look at Southeast Kansas’ Union Traction Company, 1907-1947”

Session III: Saturday, 8:00 – 9:45

PANEL: STUDENT PAPERS AWARD WINNERS (TO BE ADDED)

PANEL: THEMES ON RURAL AMERICA Chair: ?

• David S. Bovee, Ft. Hays State- “Catholic Rural Settlement in the United States to 1920”

• Joshua R. Haar, Fort Hays State- “John Pendleton Kennedy: Jeffersonian Realist” (*Grad. Student presenting but not competing for a prize) PANEL: COLD WAR REALITY Chair: ?

• Travis Larsen, Oklahoma State University- “In Hindsight: When Contemporary Historiography Is No Longer Contemporary- A Case Study in Cold War Foreign Policy”

• David Haight and Michelle Kopfer, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library- “Documenting Diversity: Cold War History Resources at the Eisenhower Library”

Session IV: Saturday, 10:00 - 11:45

BIOGRAPHY PANEL Chair: Virgil Dean, Kansas State Historical Society

• Kim Perez, Ft. Hays State- “Intimate unconscious boy kind of Knowledge’: Liberty Hyde Bailey and the New Natural History”

• Norman Saul, KU- “Charles R. Crane, Russophile: A Project for a Biography?” PANEL: INTOLERANCE IN HISTORY Chair: ?

• Stacy Prickett, Fort Hays State- “Victorian England and the Female Experience: Physical, Mental, and Sexual Deviance as Madness”

• Kristopher D. Graves, Emporia State- “The World As Your Doorstep: Racialized Language and American Opinion in the Writings of Major General Frederick Funston, 1891-1916”

KAH 2007 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Luncheon Speaker

MARION COTT

Marion Cott founded the Kansas Humanities Council and served as its executive director

for 34 years, from 1972 – 2006. When Marion was selected as the Council’s director, the

public humanities effort was an experimental program of the National Endowment for the

Humanities, and only 13 councils were operative at the time. Now there are 56 councils

in the states and territories.

Marion has been a member of various community groups and professional organizations,

including the Kansas Bicentennial Commission, the Quincentenary Commission, and the

advisory board of the Kansas Sesquicentennial Commission. She was a delegate to the

Mountain/Plains Cultural Tourism 1997 Leadership Forum, served as state evaluator for

the PRIDE community development program, and was a board member of TIAK, the

Travel Industry Association of Kansas.

At the national level, Cott served on the Board of Directors of the Federation of State

Humanities Councils, the professional association of humanities councils, and on the

Board of Directors of the Great Plains Chautauqua Society. She participated as a grants

reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities. In addition, she has taught

Latin American and United States history at Washburn University and Kansas State

University as an adjunct professor.

A native Texan, Marion received her BA and MA from the University of North Texas,

Denton, and continued her graduate studies in Latin American history at the University of

New Mexico. Her research focused on the role of organized labor during the Mexican

Revolution of 1910. She lives in Topeka with her husband Ken Cott, who is professor

emeritus of history, retired from Washburn University.

KAH is grateful to the following for their support of

the 2007 conference:

The Eisenhower Foundation

Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum

And for Hospitality Support:

Houghton Mifflin

Kansas State Historical Society, Inc., Topeka

National Archives and Records Administration

Central Plains Region, Kansas City

University Press of Kansas, Lawrence

KAH ANNUAL MEETING

REGISTRATION OPTIONS Registration Deadline = April 9, 2007

Early Registration, by March 26 $65

Includes conference, $8 membership fee, Friday evening event, Saturday Lunch & Presentation.

Late Registration, after March 26 $75 Includes conference, $8 membership fee, Friday evening event, Saturday Lunch & Presentation.

Friday Evening Event Only $30 Does not include conference/membership/Saturday lunch & presentation.

Student Registration*

Includes Conference and Friday Evening Event $40

Includes Conference Only $20

Saturday Lunch and Presentation by Marion Cott $15 Does not include conference/membership/Friday evening event.

Lebold Mansion Tour, Friday, April 13, 3:00 p.m. $10 Includes transportation & admission; not included in registration fee.

*Student paper award winners will receive separate registration information.

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