59th Annual Utah State History Conference
The Peoples of Utah: Celebrating Diversity
In partnership with the Fort Douglas Military Museum Association
September 9 - 11th, 2011
Fort Douglas
32 Potter Street
Salt Lake City
(click here for directions/map)
Join us for three days of history!
New this year:
Register online for the conference!
Registration is optional, but it only takes a minute!
We will have a name badge waiting for you at the check-in table!
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Please note: The Sunday Black Hawk Field Trip must be registered separately thru Fort Douglas....see tour cost/registration information below.
Conference Schedule
FRIDAY EVENING
SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
HISTORY ADDRESS AND AWARDS PRESENTATION
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
in the
Post Theater
Fort Douglas
Wilson G. Martin, Acting Director
Utah State History
Welcome
Julie Fisher, Executive Director
Department of Community and Culture
Remarks
Philip F. Notarianni
History Address
The Peoples of Utah--Thirty-Five Years Later
Michael W. Homer, Chair
Board of State History
Awards Presentations
SATURDAY
SEPTEMBER 10, 2011
9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
Plenary Session
Officers Club
Chair: Wilson Martin
Introduction: Robert Voyles
Speaker: William P. MacKinnon
Utah’s Civil War(s): Linkages and Connections
9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Break
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
History Sessions
Session 1: Immigrants and Code Talkers
Location: Officers Club (West Room)
Chair: Greg Thompson
Robert McPherson, Under the Eagle: The Life of a Utah Navajo Code Talker
Fred Woods, Icelanders in Utah
Session 2: Public Lands and Taxes
Location: Officers Club (Sourth Room)
Chair: Wilson Martin
Jessie Embry, Enjoying San Juan County Public Lands
Ted Moore, Utah’s First Referendum—The Graduated Tax on Chain Stores
Session 3: Camp Floyd
Location: Officers Club (East Room)
Chair: Robert Voyles
Chuck Mood, Territory on the Brink: The Utah War of 1857-1858
Curtis Allen, Camp Floyd: The Civil War and Beyond
Ephriam Dickson, The View From Barracks Row: The Life of Enlisted Soldiers At Camp Floyd, Utah
Session 4: Phi Alpha Theta, University of Utah, Department of History
Location: Guest House (Room B)
Chair: John Reed
Presentations by three University of Utah students
Sean Goodell: “The Twin Battles of Thermopylae and Artemisium”
Kip Kay: “Economic Heresies: An Argument Against Dogmatic Interpretations of 1950s Affluence”
Lisa Moynihan: “African American Agency: Responses to the Contradiction of Liberalism in Early America”
Session 5: Utah Schools
Location: Guest House (Room C)
Chair: Chris Hansen
Audrey Godfrey, The Logan Academy
Mervin Brewer, A Pictorial History of Public School Buildings in Salt Lake City
Steve Cornell, Ogden High School and the Embodiment of Historic Craft
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Tour of Historic Fort Douglas
Conducted by Ephriam Dickson—Fort Douglas Military Museum
Meet at the Parade Ground Bandstand
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
(on your own, or join other attendess at the Heritage Center)
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
History Sessions
Session 6: Utah Politics
Location: Officers Club (West Room)
Chair: Ron Fox
Chad Orton, “We Will Admit You as a State”: William H. Hooper, Utah, and the Secession Crisis.
Susan Neel, “We Should Have a Tea party”: J. Bracken Lee and the Right Wing Movement of the 1950s
Session 7: 19th Century Utah
Location: Officers Club (South Room)
Chair: Robert S. McPherson
Joseph Soderborg, Cricket in Utah During the Late 19th Century
Lydia Jakovac and Bob Leonard, The Spanish Trail and the Fish Lake Cutoff
Session 8: The Wartime Internment Experience in Utah
Location:
Officers Club (East Room)
Chair: Kent Powell
Dale Denda, Prison Barracks No. 3: A Family Remember
Mike Rose, Salina: A German Prisoner of War Tragedy
Jane Beckwith, The Topaz Internment Camp
Session 9: “Utah in the 1950s,” a panel of papers from the summer 2011 University of Utah Department of History Senior Seminar
Location:
Guest House (Room B)
Chair: John Reed
Shan Apolonio, “Civil Rights in Utah during the Fifties: Limited Progress, Yet a Beginning”
Autumn Duke, “Nuclear Retrospection: Downwinders, Test-Site Workers, and America's Dynamic View of Atomic Energy and the Federal Government”
David Moyes, “The ‘Red’ Rockets Glare: Sputnik and its Impact on the American Public Education System, with a Focus on Utah”
Session 10: Utah History and the Public: Engaging with the Past
Location:
Guest House (Room C)
Chair: Kathryn MacKay
Roundtable Discussion
Rebecca Andersen, Arizona State University, Utah Humanities Beehive Archive Student Intern
Nicholas Demas, Director, Utah State History Fair, Utah State University
Megan Van Frank, Director of the Museum Interpretation Initiative, Utah Humanities Council
3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Break
3:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
History Sessions
Session 11: Saint Mary’s and the Union Pacific Railroad
Location: Officers Club (South Room)
Chair: John Sillito
Andrea Ventilla, The History of Saint Mary’s Academy in Salt Lake City
Daniel Davis, Forgotten Photographs of the Union Pacific Railroad: The Stereographic Images of Andrew Joseph Russell in Weber and Echo Canyons
Session 12: Fashion and Fraternity
Location:
Officers Club (West Room)
Chair: Heidi Orchard
Michelle Hill, Hoop Mania: Johnston’s Army, Eastern Fashions, and Mormon Leaders’ Condemnation
Ardis Parshall, Fraternity, Charity, and Loyalty: Utah’s Grand Army of the Republic
Session 13: The Ethnic Army at Fort Douglas
Location:
Officers Club (East Room)
Chair: Allen Roberts
Robert Voyles, Patrick E. Connor: First Irishman of Utah
Ronald G. Coleman, African Americans at Fort Douglas
Ephriam Dickson, The Indian Soldier Experiment: Company I Sixteenth Infantry at Fort Douglas
Session 14: The Utah State History Fair
Location:
Guest House (Room B)
Chair: Su Richards
Presentations by student award winners
Session 15 Museums and Farmsteads
Location:
Guest House (Room C)
Chair: Craig Fuller
Steve Mayfield, The Salt Lake City Police/Fire Public Safety Building—Its Museum, Archives, and Library
Scott O’Mack, History and Archaeology of a Farmstead Turned Duck Club near Salt Lake City
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Reception
Location: Fort Douglas Military Museum
With Dedication of the Dr. Charles Hibbard Reading Room 5:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Fort Douglas Cemetery Tour
Meet at cemetery entrance
8:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Black Hawk War Field Trip
Tour Guide—John Alton Peterson, author of Utah’s Black Hawk War,
published by the University of Utah Press
The Fort Douglas Museum is conducting a one-day field trip to various sites in central Utah that were important during the Black Hawk War of 1865. Cost is $55 per person, including lunch. Departure is from the museum at 8:00 am, returning at 6:30 pm. Space is limited and reservations are required. For additional information and registration call 801-581-1251, or email admin@fortdouglas.org.
Directions/Map Fort Douglas
From Downtown – Driving
Take 400 South eastbound, climb the hill past the football stadium to Mario Capecchi Dr. Turn seft. Follow Mario Capecchi Dr. toward the University Hospital. Continue through the stop light and take the next right turn at the top of the hill. Take another immediate right turn onto Fort Douglas Blvd. and continue past the Guest House and Chapel to the Officers Club. Parking is behind the Club. For the Friday evening session, please go to the Post Theater. The Officers Club will serve as the registration point for Saturday’s sessions.
From Downtown – TRAX
Take the University Line eastbound. Get off at the Ft. Douglas station. Cross over the Eccles footbridge and walk straight on to the Officers Club.
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