the Program, Schedule, Registration Form, and Directions.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
200 SE 4th Street, Abilene, KS 67410; 785-263-6700 or 877RINGIKE
www.eisenhower.archives.gov
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
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10:00 - 5:00
1:00 - 2:45
3:00 - 4:45
Registration, Library Lobby
Panels (Session I)
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/
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5:30
Eisenhower Museum Tour (limited tours of storage areas)
Prime Rib Buffet Dinner, complimentary wine & beer; cash bar
SATURDAY, APRIL 14
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8:00 - 9:45
10:00 - 11:45
11:45 - 12:15
12:30
Panels (Session III)
Panels (Session IV)
Annual Business Meeting, Library Auditorium
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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Payment by check is preferred; payable to the Eisenhower Foundation; mail to
KAH, Eisenhower Library, 200 S.E. 4th Street, Abilene, KS 67410.
Refunds: In full if requested by April 4; 50% thereafter.