JSU to Host Annual Meeting of Historians Feb. 2 & 3
Jacksonville State University’s Houston Cole Library will be the site of the annual meeting of the Alabama Association of Historians on February 2 & 3.  Presentations on the Civil War, Women’s History, European History, Alabama History and Teaching Techniques will begin on Friday afternoon at 3:30 on the eleventh floor of the library.  Panels will continue on Saturday morning starting at 8:30. 

Students, faculty and staff are invited to attend any panel of interest as listed below.

Alabama Association of Historian (AAH) Panels
February 2&3
11th Floor - Houston Cole Library
Jacksonville State University

1. Patterns of Martyrdom: Cross Cultural Contexts
   Friday, February 2,  3:30, Room 1103A
   Moderator: William J. Wallace, Samford University
   
   
   • “Jus Primae Noctis in the Middle Kingdom:
     A Critical Account of Chinese Accusations of Rape
     against Martyr Alberic Crescitelli (Gui Xide)”
     Anthony Clark, University of Alabama
     
     
   • "Germany’s Eternal Son: Ernst Thalmann”
     Russel Lemmons, Jacksonville State University
     
     
   • “Medieval Christian Conceptions of Martyrdom”
     Donald Prudlo, Jacksonville State University
   
   
2. Graduate Student Panel
   Friday, February 2, 3:30, Room 1103 C
   Moderator: Hardy Jackson, Jacksonville State University
   
   
   • “Mantle of Glory:
     Cardinal Gil Alvarez Carillo de Albornoz
     and the Conquest of the Papal States, 1353 - 1367”
     Loren Girman
     
     
   • “Big Jim Folsom & Alabama Constitutional Reform”
     Brain Reed
     
     
   • "Marshal Ney Summer of 1812"
     Jeff Kretzschmar, Jacksonville State University
   
   
3. Breaking the Mold – Women outside the Stereotype
   Friday, February 2,  3:30 Room 1101A
   Moderator:  Jennifer Gross, Jacksonville State University
   
   
   • “Representations of Feminine Violence in the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century”
     Margo Bond Collins, Jacksonville State University
     
     
   • “Fighting Women in the American Revolution
     and Civil War”
     Tamara Levi, Jacksonville State University
   
   
4. Battlefields as Teaching Tools
   Saturday, February 3, 8:30 Room 1103 A
   Moderator: George Lauderbaugh, Jacksonville State University
   
   
   • “Conducting ‘Staff Rides’ of Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield for Future Army Officers”
     Llewellyn D. Cook, Jacksonville State University
     
     
   • “Walking Civil War Terrain: Shiloh & Chickamauga Battlefields”
     Jim Day and Ruth Truss, University of Montevallo
   
   
5. Memories & Legacies of the Civil War
   Saturday, February 3, 8:30 Room 1103 C
   Moderator: Marty Olliff, Troy University-Dothan
   
   
   • "Confederate Monuments and Claiming Space”
     Paul Beezley, Jacksonville State University
     
     
   • “The Use & Misuse of the Confederate Flag”
     John Davis, Donaho School
     
     
   • “Whoa Boys? We Got the Wrong Flag!”
     Bob England, Northwest-Shoals Community College
   
   
6. Civil War Alabama
   Saturday, February 3, 10:30 Room 1103 A
   Moderator: Paul Beezley, Jacksonville State University
   
   
   • “Slavery in the Chattahoochee Valley"
     Anthony Gene Carey, Auburn University
     
     
   • “Effects of Union War Policy on the Citizens
     of Athens, Alabama"
     Chris Paysinger, American History Institution
     Sparkman High School, Madison County, AL
   
   
7. Innovative Teaching Approaches
   Saturday, February 3, 10:30 Room 1103 C
   Moderator: Marty Olliff, Troy University-Dothan
   
   
   • "Unwrapping the Gift:
     Discovering the Past in the Present:
     Applying Family History to the Classroom”
     Rene Day
     
     
   • “Current Events and the Classroom:
     Applying the Past to the Present.”
     Elizabeth “Scout” Blum, Troy University
     
     
   • "Alabama History Day”
     Dr. Karen Riley, Auburn University-Montgomery
   
   
   
   
   

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