Friday, February 21, 2025
1:00 PM-5:00 PM: Registration
Location: Main Lobby
Session One: Friday, 2:00 PM-3:45 PM
Panel 1A: Regionalism, Culture, and Society in the United States
Meeting Room: Peace A
The Alliance Colony: Jewish Farming in Southern New Jersey
Patricia Chappine, Stockton University
Wet With the Dew of Heaven: Examining Liminal Spaces and Lived Religion in Southern Appalachia
Christopher Adkins, University of South Florida
Chair: Thomas Donaldson, Florida Southwestern State College
Comments: Audience
Panel 1B: Beyond Misinterpretations of Latin America
Meeting Room: Peace B
When a Country with No Military Helped End Two Wars: Costa Rica and the Peace of Esquipulas
Philip Travis, State College of Florida
Terror and Pardon in Argentina during the Rosas Era: Aftermath of the Rebellion of 1840
Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University
Chair and Discussant: Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University
Panel 1C: Trade and Expansion in the Americas before and after Contact
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Myakka B
The Dutch In The New World:
Exploring the Economic Trade and Sociocultural Characteristics of Rensselaerwyck
Haley Wrye, University of Central Florida
Drought Management Through Conquest:
The Relationship Between the Little Ice Age and Aztec Imperial Expansion
Matthew Coleman, Florida Gulf Coast University
One And All: The Sunken Lives of Rogue Seamen Who Sailed Under the Black Flag
Morgan Botts, Southeastern University
Chair and Discussant: David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College
Panel 1D: “Fair Tampa”: Popular Culture and Civic Identity in Tampa, 1890s-1990s
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Myakka A
Triumph of the Black Hussar: Operetta and Civic Identity in Nineteenth-Century Tampa and
New York
Michael Skarupa, University of Tampa
Performing Royalty: Gasparilla, Ethnic Appropriation, and Elite Identity in 1920s Tampa
Kerrin Fitzgerald, University of Tampa
Breaking Barriers: Gasparilla, the Super Bowl, and the Legacy of Segregation in Tampa
Lily Fridl, University of Tampa
Chair: Charles McGraw Groh, University of Tampa
Discussant: Patrick O'Brien, University of Tampa
Session Two: Friday, 4:00-5:15 PM
Panel 2A: Urban Landscapes in Florida
Meeting Room: Myakka A
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Lingering Shadows: Illuminating the Lynching of John Thomas in St. Petersburg, Florida
Laurie Humpel, University of South Florida
Serving the Living By Honoring the Dead:
Jim Crow and Rosa G. Holmes Walker's Entrepreneurial Activism During the 1920s
Savanna Courtney-Durrett, University of North Florida
Chair and Discussant: Sean McMahon, Florida Gateway College
Panel 2B: The Feminine Multi-verse: Iconic American Women and Culture
Meeting Room: Myakka B
Flagship Fastrack: The Unusual Circumstances of Wonder Woman's Market Elevation During the Golden Age of Superhero Comics
Thomas Donaldson, Florida Southwestern State College
Chair and Discussant: Jennifer Zoebelein, Charlotte County Historian
Panel 2C: The Material Turn: Innovative Studies in Public History
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Peace A
The Ancient Question: Culture of the Classical World in Art and Architecture
Collin Farwell, Florida Southern College
Palaces to Public: Revolutionary Origins of Museums in France and China
Karina Syc, Florida Atlantic University
Pillaging Benin: A Historical Legal Perspective on the Restitution of Colonial Collections
Thomas Testa, Florida Atlantic University
Chair and Discussant: Marco Rimanelli, Saint Leo University
Panel 2D: Nineteenth Century American Expansionism
Meeting Room: Peace B
America's Egyptian Expedition
John Klein, Eastern Florida State College
Beseeching or Besieging: Tracing the Common Origins of Filibuster Expeditions and Filibuster Speeches From the Florida, to Texas, to Kansas Territories
Evan Johnson, Florida Southwestern State College
Freedom in Florida from the Hispanic Perspective: Contesting Andrew Jackson's Invasion
Alec Ainsworth, The University of Texas at Austin
Chair and Discussant: David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College
5:30 PM-7:00 PM:
Welcome Reception
Appetizers and Refreshments
Cash Bar
Pre-Registration Available
Agenda: Update on Civic Literacy
Dr. David Proctor, Tallahassee State College
Location:
TT’s Tiki Bar
TT’s Tiki Bar is an open air restaurant and bar along the beautiful Charlotte Harbor. Great sunsets, cocktails, top notch cuisine and Punta Gorda's best line up of live entertainment. TT’s Tiki Bar is located next to the Four Points by Sheraton, Punta Gorda Harborside. The server will direct you to our private area. We will start off the reception with appetizers, but you may also order food and drinks from the bar menu.
Saturday, February 22, 2025
8:00 AM-12:00 PM: Registration
Location: Main Lobby
Refreshments will be provided during the morning sessions in Hibiscus Hall C
Museum Display: This museum quality exhibit on loan from StatutesandStories.com will contain an array of primary sources dating back to America’s founding including the Stamp Act of 1765, the Tea Act of 1773, a contemporaneous copy of the U.S. Constitution, the Constitution’s Cover Letter, Federalist 1, the Acts of the First Congress, the Residence Act of 1790, Hamilton’s Report on the Public Credit, the Act sending the Bill of Rights to the States, Washington’s Farwell Address, the Alien and Sedition Acts, the Judiciary Act of 1801 (giving rise to the case of Marbury v. Madison), New York’s anti-dueling laws, the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (America’s first civil rights law), and other artifacts that help tell America’s story as we approach the semiquincentennial in 2026.
Location: Concourse Area
Session Three: Saturday, 8:00 AM-9:15 AM
Panel 3A: Florida Newspaper Discovery #1
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Myakka A
Key West in a Time of Progress and Change, The Key West Citizen examines Military, Economic, Environmental, and Social issues in 1939
Alexander Holt, Florida Southern College
Examining Environmental, Political, Labor, and Educational Transformation through the Columns of the Sanford Herald, 1970
Emery Perry, Florida Southern College
Rise from the Ashes:
Race, Economics, Education, and Politics Through the Columns of the Jacksonville Sun, 1909
Johnathan Zines, Florida Southern College
Chair: Richards Plavnieks, Florida Southern College
Discussant: James Denham, Florida Southern College
Panel 3B: Histories of Indigenous People and Cultural Survival
Meeting Room: Myakka B
“You Took A Swamp Girl And Put Her In Utah”:
Institutional Paternalism and Education of the Florida Seminoles, 1897-1955
Hayley McCulloch, Florida Gulf Coast University
Sacred Womanhood: Dakota Beadwork As Cultural Survival
Claire Lavarreda, Northeastern University
The Duty to Consult and The Land Based Practices of Indigenous Men and Women in a North American Context
Emma Posca, York University
Chair: Michael Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University
Discussant: Megan McShane, Florida Gulf Coast University
Panel 3C: Transnational Movements in the Modern Era
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Peace B
Exiled in the Asylum: The Influence of Castroism for the Black Panther Movement Through the Lens of Angela Davis, Eldridge Cleaver, and Huey Newton
Alondra Jordan, Wesleyan College
The Reds Get the Blues: Blues Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
Austin Miller, Brewton-Parker College
Chair and Discussant: Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University
Session Four: Saturday, 9:30 AM-10:45 AM
Panel 4A: Voices of Modern Africa
Meeting Room: Peace A
Ruinous Town: Mining, Environment, and Land Appropriation in a Ghanaian Mining Town,
1897-1935
Frimpong Asamoah, University of Miami
“We shall be ready with one voice to proclaim, ‘The New Africa’”:
British West African Students & The Pan-African Period (1940-1945)
Giltrecia Head, University of Miami
Manufacturing a New Future: Lessons from Ghana's 1960s Industrial Initiatives
Adelina Tratarou, University of Miami
Chair: Thomas Donaldson, Florida Southwestern State College
Comments: Audience
Panel 4B: Power, Culture, and the Early Modern Era
Meeting Room: Peace B
Henry VIII: How Insecurity Created a Tyrant
Carol Ann Lloyd, Independent Scholar
Global Astrometeorology:
Defining Climate in John Goad's Astro-Meteorologica and His Weather Notebooks, 1652-1689
Justin Niermeier-Dohoney, Florida Institute of Technology
Memories of Martyrdom: How the Past Guided Anabaptists in the Palatinate, 1690-1712
Brendan Jordan, University of Central Florida
Chair and Discussant: Anna Caney, Florida Southern College
Panel 4C: Gendered Histories of Florida
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Myakka A
Florida's Louise R. Pinnel and Other Early American Women Lawyers:
"It took no small degree of courage to fly in the face of tradition"
Kimberly Voss and Lance Speere, University of Central Florida
"Come to My Sunland": Thinking Ecologically About Florida
Gary DeSantis, State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota
Poisoned Paradise: Pollution and Cancer on Florida's Space Coast
Charles Closmann, University of North Florida
Chair and Discussant: Sean McMahon, Florida Gateway College
Panel 4D: America's Founding Hosts:
The First Family of Hospitality Celebrating America 250 in Philadelphia and Florida
Meeting Room: Myakka B
America's Founding Hosts: A Brief History of Taverns, Inns and Colonial Boarding Houses
Adam Levinson, Attorney and Founder of Statutesandstories.com
A True Original: Gouverneur Morris, the Founders’ Founder
Tim Schantz, Board member of Smithsonian & Historical Society of Pennsylvania
The 14th Colony
Roger Smith, Flagler College and University of Florida
Chair: Dara Hatten, Florida NSDAR Chair for President General's Project
Comments: Audience
Session Five: Saturday, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Panel 5A: Voices from the Past in Museums and in the Classroom
Special Interest Section: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Meeting Room: Myakka A
International Political Art by the Historical Chiurazzi Bronze Foundry of Naples-Rome (Pompeii; Naples; Rome; Ringling Museum in Sarasota, FL; Getty Museums in Los Angeles, CA), 1840s-2000s
Marco Rimanelli, Saint Leo University
“We have passed our lives in Serious Times”:
Undergraduate Student Reflections on Why We Should Study the Past
Christopher Berg, Florida Southwestern State College
Chair and Discussant: David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College
Panel 5B: Roundtable on Writing for Publication
Meeting Room: Myakka B
Michael Butler, Flagler College
Megan McShane, Florida Gulf Coast University
Michael Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University
Blaine Browne, Broward College (Emeritus)
Session Six: Saturday, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Panel 6A: Plenary Poster Session
Meeting Room: Peace A
Reframing Jewish Feminism in America:
An Analysis of American Jewish Women and the Negotiation of Their Jewish and Feminist Identities Pre-World War 2 to Post-World War 2
Adithi Nythruva, The University of Houston
Rockets and Racism: Memorializing the Space Race and German Scientists in Rocket City, USA
Jacob Winton, Florida State University
Way Out of The Way: Finding Entertainment and Community at Smitty’s Club
Hope Evans, Florida State University
Dutch Raiders and Spanish Ruin: Economic Struggles in 17th Century Florida
Larry Soza, Miami Dade College
Comments: Members of the McTague Award Committee
LUNCH OPTIONS: ON YOUR OWN
Options within blocks of Four Points by Sheraton
FCH BUSINESS MEETING, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Session Seven: Saturday, 1:00 PM-2:15 PM
Panel 7A: Body Centered Approaches to History
Meeting Room: Peace A
Bodies in Motion: Runaways during the Loyalist Period in The Bahamas
Sasha Wells, Florida International University
Selling 'New Freedom: Connecting Twentieth-Century Menstrual Advertising to Feminist History
Courtney Weis, Florida International University
New Land, New Fears:
Newspaper Narratives and the Daily Lives of Cuban Migrants in the United States, 1980
Sikiru Yusuff, Florida International University
Chair and Discussant: David Harvey, New College of Florida
Panel 7B: Studies on Modern War and Colonialism
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Peace B
The Union Minerie Haut Katanga and Social Control in the Belgian Congo
Jackson Cassidy, Florida Southern College
“Let us hope we ‘carry on’”:
The Unexpected Account of William T. Usinger's 'Over There' during the Great War
Kendra Belton, Florida Southern College
A Cycle of Retaliation: The Violence and Terror the Spanish Government and ETA Inflicted Upon Each Other in the Franco Era (1956-1975)
Gavin Dunsby, Florida Atlantic University
Chair and Discussant: Charles Closmann, University of North Florida
Panel 7C: How Sweet It Is: Icons and Images of Historic Florida
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Myakka A
The History of Newspaper Wine Journalism, Florida and Across the Country
Kimberly Voss, University of Central Florida
Freshly Squeezed: The Rise of the Florida Citrus Industry
Michael Hoyt, Liberty University
From Ponce de Leόn to Pan-Americanism:
The Florida Historical Society and Spanish Florida, 1902-1941
Lyn Hemmingway, University of Georgia
Chair and Discussant: Sean McMahon, Florida Gateway College
Panel 7D: Re-Thinking the Medieval Era
Meeting Room: Myakka B
The Formation of Crusading Vows during the First Crusade
Paul Aitchison, Florida College
Imagery and Blood
Alex Reid, Independent Scholar
Finding Christina: Reconnecting St. Leonard to the Vita of Christina of Markyate
Joshua Britt, Southeastern University
Chair: Thomas Donaldson, Florida Southwestern State College
Comments: Audience
Session Eight: Saturday, 2:30 PM-3:45 PM
Panel 8A: Florida Newspaper Discovery #2
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Peace A
“She was a Cold-Blooded Murderer”:
Homicide in Polk County and Environs as Depicted in the Lakeland Evening Telegram, 1911
Bonnie Paige Robinson, Florida Southern College
Murder in the Florida Boom:
Homicides in Punta Gorda, Florida as Depicted in the Punta Gorda Herald, 1920
Sarah Stephens, Florida Southern College
Race, Gender, Economics, and Politics through the Columns of the Jacksonville Sun, 1909
Emily Evans, Florida Southern College
Chair: James M. Denham, Florida Southern College
Discussant: Richards Plavnieks, Florida Southern College
Panel 8B: Executive Privilege: Culture, Policy, and the Modern Presidency
Meeting Room: Peace B
Peace Through Strength: The Goldwater- Reagan Relationship and Foreign Policy
Kevin Alexander, Independent Scholar
“Nice Beard, Mr. Vice President!”: Presidential Elections and Facial Hair
Constantinos Scaros, St. Petersburg College
A Constellation of Controversy:
Reactions to Methadone Maintenance in the American Public Sphere, 1971-1974
Devin Hernandez, University of North Florida
Chair and Discussant: Blaine Browne, Broward College (Emeritus)
Panel 8C: Violence and Racism in the Twentieth Century
Meeting Room: Myakka A
The Case of Stanley Puryear and Violence against White Women in Jim Crow Memphis
Brandon Jett, Florida Southwestern State College
Khomeini and the KKK: The Political Machinations of Strange Bedfellows
Anna Caney, Florida Southern College
Chair and Discussant: Kimberly Voss, University of Central Florida
Panel 8D: History Happening Now: History, Politics, and Current Events
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Myakka B
Russia's Use of State-Sponsored Terrorism as Acts of Covert Warfare to Avoid a Large-Scale Conflict
Jasmine Kelly, Saint Leo University
The Russian Civil War and its Modern Day Implications
Brandon Tabala, Saint Leo University
Global Currents of Extreme Political Ideology and Polarization in the 21st Century
Hadassa Ferreira, Saint Leo University
Chair: Marissa Rhodes, Saint Leo University
Discussant: Daniel DuBois, Saint Leo University
Session Nine: Saturday, 4:00 PM-5:15 PM
Panel 9A: Gender, Power, and Marginalization: A Transnational Perspective
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Peace A
Female Rage and the 15th Amendment: Suffragists’ Responses to African American Male Suffrage
Alizabeth Ruiz, Saint Leo University
Influence of the Taliban on Women's Rights Post-Soviet Occupation
Haley Gardner, Saint Leo University
The Influence of the Southern Border Crisis on International Sex Trafficking
Jacqueline Pollok, Saint Leo University
Chair: Daniel DuBois, Saint Leo University
Discussant: Marissa Rhodes, Saint Leo University
Panel 9B: The Whip and the Crucifix: Slavery and the Church in Colonial Latin America
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Myakka A
Cuban Slavery, from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
Maria Armengol, New College of Florida
Protector or Enforcer? The Role of the Church in Colonial Latin America
Ciara McIlvenny, New College of Florida
Chair: Alicia Mercado-Harvey, New College of Florida
Discussant: Michael Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University
Punta Gorda Historic Mural Walking Tour
Tour: 4:15-5:30 pm
Pick-Up Location: Outside Entrance of the Conference Center
Over the past 30 years, the Punta Gorda Historic Mural Society has created 32 public murals in Punta Gorda, each capturing a slice of the area’s rich history. The Society is offering a 1-hour walking tour (approximately 1 mile in length) that will visit a number of the murals and a few historic locations in the downtown area. There is a maximum of 24 people on the tour. Participation is FREE for those who sign up when you pick up your badge and program.
6:30 PM-7:30 PM: Banquet and Awards
Punta Gorda Charlotte Library
401 Shreve Street
Directions: From the Event Center, take US-41 S to W. Virginia Avenue and turn right. Virginia will end at Shreve Street; turn left and you will see the library in front of you/on the right. Once in the parking lot, enter through the main entrance and present your FCH badge. Library staff will direct you to the banquet area and the meeting room. Attendees and Guests will meet first in then proceed to the buffet line for dinner.
Welcoming Remarks
Dr. Thomas Donaldson
Florida Southwestern State College
FCH President, 2025-2026
Presentation of Awards
John J. “Jack” McTague Award for Best Poster
Presented by Dr. Marco Rimanelli, Saint Leo University
J. Calvitt Clarke III Award for Best Undergraduate Student Paper
Presented by Dr. Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University
Blaine T. Browne Award for Best Graduate Student Paper
Presented by Dr. Blaine T. Browne, Broward College (Emeritus)
Thomas M. Campbell Award for Best Professional Paper
Presented by Dr. David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College
Douglas Astolfi Undergraduate Grant Award
Presented by Dr. Daniel DuBois, Saint Leo University
Remarks on the FCH Annals
Dr. Michael S. Cole
Florida Gulf Coast University
Senior Editor, FCH Annals
Remarks on the 2026 FCH Annual Meeting
Dr. Thomas Donaldson
Florida Southwestern State College
7:30 PM-8:30 PM: Keynote Address
Punta Gorda Charlotte Library
Punta Gorda, Florida
Meeting Room: Lecture Hall
Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Thomas Donaldson
Florida Southwestern State College
Keynote Address
Dr. Jason Vuic
The Swamp Peddlers:
How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream
Originally from Punta Gorda, FL, Dr. Vuic is an award-winning author and historian based in Fort Worth, Texas. He has written four books, including The Yugo: the Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History (2010), The Sarajevo Olympics: A History of the 1984 Winter Games (2015). The Yucks! Two Years in Tampa with the Losingest Team in NFL History (2016), and most recently, with the University of North Carolina Press, The Swamp Peddlers: How Lots Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream, which won the Phillip and Dana Zimmerman Gold Medal Prize for Florida Nonfiction at the 2021 Florida Book Awards, as well as the 2021 Charlton Tebeau Award for outstanding general interest book from the Florida Historical Society. Jason is a graduate of Wake Forest University, and holds an M.A. in history from the University of Richmond and a Ph.D. in history from Indiana University Bloomington.
Sunday, February 23, 2025
8:30 AM-12:00 PM: Registration
Location: Main Lobby
Refreshments will be provided during the morning sessions in Hibiscus Hall C
Session Ten: Sunday, 9:00 AM-10:15 AM
Panel 10A: Contours of Colonial Latin American History
Meeting Room: Myakka A
Early Mexico-Tenochtitlan as a Crucible of Cultural Hybridization
Michael Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University
Gold for Secrets: The Hartlib Circle and the West Indies, 1620-1660
Timothy Miller, Brewton-Parker College
Chair and Discussant: Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University
Panel 10B: Lights, Camera, Action!
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Special Interest Section: Media, Arts, and Culture
Meeting Room: Myakka B
Dirty Movies and Dirty Money: Jacksonville's War on Porn, 1977-1978
David Nelson, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College-Bainbridge
Chair and Discussant: Sean McMahon, Florida Gateway College
Panel 10C: New Research on Medieval Europe
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Peace A
Raymond du Puy: The Blessed Fra
Nelson Price, Southeastern University
Reassessing the Black Death: Archaeological Insights into Mortality in England
Mary Cousineau, Wofford College
Chair: David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College
Comments: Audience
Panel 10D: Rights and Culture in United States History
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Peace B
Lincoln's Life On the Silver Screen: An Analysis
José M. Roa, Florida Southwestern State College
NOTE: This is a documentary (11 minutes)
De Universalibus In Iure Occidentali: Natural Rights within the United States
John Carroll, Brewton-Parker College
The Second Red Scare Hollywood and the Making of American Culture
Logan Izzo, Florida Gulf Coast University
Chair and Discussant: Thomas Donaldson, Florida Southwestern State College
Session Eleven: Sunday, 10:30 AM-11:45 AM
Panel 11A: Florida at the Periphery of War
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Myakka A
Mudd at Fort Jefferson
David Trevino, Independent Scholar
Lakeland and The War: The Role of Small-Town America in Winning the Second World War
Adam Rock, Hillsborough Community College
“More exciting than any movie or television show you have ever seen”: A Stasi Spy on Tampa Bay
Augustine Meaher, Air University
Chair and Discussant: Sean McMahon, Florida Gateway College
Panel 11B: ‘Cultura’ and Politics in Modern Florida
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Myakka B
Nuestra Organización: A Cultural Analysis of Ybor City in 1936
Jacob Cutler, Florida Southern College
Race, Class, and Politics in Cold War Miami, 1948-1949
Eleora Funk, Florida Southern College
Abre Tu Boca, Juzga con Justicia y Defiende La Causa del Pobre y del Menesteroso:
The Farmworker Association of Florida, the Farmworker Health and Safety Institute, and Latin American Farmworkers in Florida, 1990s-2000s
Jibranth Espanol, University of North Florida
Chair: Jennifer Zoebelein, Charlotte County Historian
Comments: Audience
Panel 11C: Models of Repression in the Modern Era
Meeting Room: Peace A
The Rent is Too Damn High:
Irish Nationalist Reactions to British Land Reform Measures, 1870-1903
Michael Vernon, Florida State University
Depraved Science: The History of Nazi Experimentation
Matthew Motes, Florida Gulf Coast University
Imprisoned at the Crossroads of Identity: A Cultural History of the Rohwer War Relocation Center
Aiden Jones, University of North Florida
Chair and Discussant: David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College
Panel 11D: At the Top of Their Game: Sports, Nation, and Society in the Modern Era
Meeting Room: Peace B
The 1936 Olympics: Deception and Appeasement
Mark Brown, Independent Scholar
Harnessing Honors Education as an Engine for Sport History and Scholarship
Dan DuBois, Saint Leo University
Chair: Dan DuBois, Saint Leo University
Comments: Audience
Our Special Thanks To:
Jonathan Westbrook, Librarian Supervisor,
Punta Gorda Charlotte Library
Friends of the Punta Gorda Charlotte Library
Clare Riggs and the Staff at the
Charlotte Harbor Event and Conference Center
Jax Press Printing, Inc.
Community First Credit Union
Jason Horowitz
Event Prep
Staff at TT Tiki’s Restaurant
Pioneer Pizza
Janet Emmett, Food and Beverage Manager
SAVOR…Charlotte Harbor
Kelly Gaylord and the
Punta Gorda Historic Mural Society
We hope to see you again for the
2026 annual meeting!
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1:00 PM-5:00 PM: Registration
Location: Main Lobby
Session One: Friday, 2:00 PM-3:45 PM
Panel 1A: Regionalism, Culture, and Society in the United States
Meeting Room: Peace A
The Alliance Colony: Jewish Farming in Southern New Jersey
Patricia Chappine, Stockton University
Wet With the Dew of Heaven: Examining Liminal Spaces and Lived Religion in Southern Appalachia
Christopher Adkins, University of South Florida
Chair: Thomas Donaldson, Florida Southwestern State College
Comments: Audience
Panel 1B: Beyond Misinterpretations of Latin America
Meeting Room: Peace B
When a Country with No Military Helped End Two Wars: Costa Rica and the Peace of Esquipulas
Philip Travis, State College of Florida
Terror and Pardon in Argentina during the Rosas Era: Aftermath of the Rebellion of 1840
Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University
Chair and Discussant: Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University
Panel 1C: Trade and Expansion in the Americas before and after Contact
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Myakka B
The Dutch In The New World:
Exploring the Economic Trade and Sociocultural Characteristics of Rensselaerwyck
Haley Wrye, University of Central Florida
Drought Management Through Conquest:
The Relationship Between the Little Ice Age and Aztec Imperial Expansion
Matthew Coleman, Florida Gulf Coast University
One And All: The Sunken Lives of Rogue Seamen Who Sailed Under the Black Flag
Morgan Botts, Southeastern University
Chair and Discussant: David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College
Panel 1D: “Fair Tampa”: Popular Culture and Civic Identity in Tampa, 1890s-1990s
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Myakka A
Triumph of the Black Hussar: Operetta and Civic Identity in Nineteenth-Century Tampa and
New York
Michael Skarupa, University of Tampa
Performing Royalty: Gasparilla, Ethnic Appropriation, and Elite Identity in 1920s Tampa
Kerrin Fitzgerald, University of Tampa
Breaking Barriers: Gasparilla, the Super Bowl, and the Legacy of Segregation in Tampa
Lily Fridl, University of Tampa
Chair: Charles McGraw Groh, University of Tampa
Discussant: Patrick O'Brien, University of Tampa
Session Two: Friday, 4:00-5:15 PM
Panel 2A: Urban Landscapes in Florida
Meeting Room: Myakka A
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Lingering Shadows: Illuminating the Lynching of John Thomas in St. Petersburg, Florida
Laurie Humpel, University of South Florida
Serving the Living By Honoring the Dead:
Jim Crow and Rosa G. Holmes Walker's Entrepreneurial Activism During the 1920s
Savanna Courtney-Durrett, University of North Florida
Chair and Discussant: Sean McMahon, Florida Gateway College
Panel 2B: The Feminine Multi-verse: Iconic American Women and Culture
Meeting Room: Myakka B
Flagship Fastrack: The Unusual Circumstances of Wonder Woman's Market Elevation During the Golden Age of Superhero Comics
Thomas Donaldson, Florida Southwestern State College
Chair and Discussant: Jennifer Zoebelein, Charlotte County Historian
Panel 2C: The Material Turn: Innovative Studies in Public History
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Peace A
The Ancient Question: Culture of the Classical World in Art and Architecture
Collin Farwell, Florida Southern College
Palaces to Public: Revolutionary Origins of Museums in France and China
Karina Syc, Florida Atlantic University
Pillaging Benin: A Historical Legal Perspective on the Restitution of Colonial Collections
Thomas Testa, Florida Atlantic University
Chair and Discussant: Marco Rimanelli, Saint Leo University
Panel 2D: Nineteenth Century American Expansionism
Meeting Room: Peace B
America's Egyptian Expedition
John Klein, Eastern Florida State College
Beseeching or Besieging: Tracing the Common Origins of Filibuster Expeditions and Filibuster Speeches From the Florida, to Texas, to Kansas Territories
Evan Johnson, Florida Southwestern State College
Freedom in Florida from the Hispanic Perspective: Contesting Andrew Jackson's Invasion
Alec Ainsworth, The University of Texas at Austin
Chair and Discussant: David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College
5:30 PM-7:00 PM:
Welcome Reception
Appetizers and Refreshments
Cash Bar
Pre-Registration Available
Agenda: Update on Civic Literacy
Dr. David Proctor, Tallahassee State College
Location:
TT’s Tiki Bar
TT’s Tiki Bar is an open air restaurant and bar along the beautiful Charlotte Harbor. Great sunsets, cocktails, top notch cuisine and Punta Gorda's best line up of live entertainment. TT’s Tiki Bar is located next to the Four Points by Sheraton, Punta Gorda Harborside. The server will direct you to our private area. We will start off the reception with appetizers, but you may also order food and drinks from the bar menu.
Saturday, February 22, 2025
8:00 AM-12:00 PM: Registration
Location: Main Lobby
Refreshments will be provided during the morning sessions in Hibiscus Hall C
Museum Display: This museum quality exhibit on loan from StatutesandStories.com will contain an array of primary sources dating back to America’s founding including the Stamp Act of 1765, the Tea Act of 1773, a contemporaneous copy of the U.S. Constitution, the Constitution’s Cover Letter, Federalist 1, the Acts of the First Congress, the Residence Act of 1790, Hamilton’s Report on the Public Credit, the Act sending the Bill of Rights to the States, Washington’s Farwell Address, the Alien and Sedition Acts, the Judiciary Act of 1801 (giving rise to the case of Marbury v. Madison), New York’s anti-dueling laws, the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (America’s first civil rights law), and other artifacts that help tell America’s story as we approach the semiquincentennial in 2026.
Location: Concourse Area
Session Three: Saturday, 8:00 AM-9:15 AM
Panel 3A: Florida Newspaper Discovery #1
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Myakka A
Key West in a Time of Progress and Change, The Key West Citizen examines Military, Economic, Environmental, and Social issues in 1939
Alexander Holt, Florida Southern College
Examining Environmental, Political, Labor, and Educational Transformation through the Columns of the Sanford Herald, 1970
Emery Perry, Florida Southern College
Rise from the Ashes:
Race, Economics, Education, and Politics Through the Columns of the Jacksonville Sun, 1909
Johnathan Zines, Florida Southern College
Chair: Richards Plavnieks, Florida Southern College
Discussant: James Denham, Florida Southern College
Panel 3B: Histories of Indigenous People and Cultural Survival
Meeting Room: Myakka B
“You Took A Swamp Girl And Put Her In Utah”:
Institutional Paternalism and Education of the Florida Seminoles, 1897-1955
Hayley McCulloch, Florida Gulf Coast University
Sacred Womanhood: Dakota Beadwork As Cultural Survival
Claire Lavarreda, Northeastern University
The Duty to Consult and The Land Based Practices of Indigenous Men and Women in a North American Context
Emma Posca, York University
Chair: Michael Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University
Discussant: Megan McShane, Florida Gulf Coast University
Panel 3C: Transnational Movements in the Modern Era
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Peace B
Exiled in the Asylum: The Influence of Castroism for the Black Panther Movement Through the Lens of Angela Davis, Eldridge Cleaver, and Huey Newton
Alondra Jordan, Wesleyan College
The Reds Get the Blues: Blues Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
Austin Miller, Brewton-Parker College
Chair and Discussant: Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University
Session Four: Saturday, 9:30 AM-10:45 AM
Panel 4A: Voices of Modern Africa
Meeting Room: Peace A
Ruinous Town: Mining, Environment, and Land Appropriation in a Ghanaian Mining Town,
1897-1935
Frimpong Asamoah, University of Miami
“We shall be ready with one voice to proclaim, ‘The New Africa’”:
British West African Students & The Pan-African Period (1940-1945)
Giltrecia Head, University of Miami
Manufacturing a New Future: Lessons from Ghana's 1960s Industrial Initiatives
Adelina Tratarou, University of Miami
Chair: Thomas Donaldson, Florida Southwestern State College
Comments: Audience
Panel 4B: Power, Culture, and the Early Modern Era
Meeting Room: Peace B
Henry VIII: How Insecurity Created a Tyrant
Carol Ann Lloyd, Independent Scholar
Global Astrometeorology:
Defining Climate in John Goad's Astro-Meteorologica and His Weather Notebooks, 1652-1689
Justin Niermeier-Dohoney, Florida Institute of Technology
Memories of Martyrdom: How the Past Guided Anabaptists in the Palatinate, 1690-1712
Brendan Jordan, University of Central Florida
Chair and Discussant: Anna Caney, Florida Southern College
Panel 4C: Gendered Histories of Florida
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Myakka A
Florida's Louise R. Pinnel and Other Early American Women Lawyers:
"It took no small degree of courage to fly in the face of tradition"
Kimberly Voss and Lance Speere, University of Central Florida
"Come to My Sunland": Thinking Ecologically About Florida
Gary DeSantis, State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota
Poisoned Paradise: Pollution and Cancer on Florida's Space Coast
Charles Closmann, University of North Florida
Chair and Discussant: Sean McMahon, Florida Gateway College
Panel 4D: America's Founding Hosts:
The First Family of Hospitality Celebrating America 250 in Philadelphia and Florida
Meeting Room: Myakka B
America's Founding Hosts: A Brief History of Taverns, Inns and Colonial Boarding Houses
Adam Levinson, Attorney and Founder of Statutesandstories.com
A True Original: Gouverneur Morris, the Founders’ Founder
Tim Schantz, Board member of Smithsonian & Historical Society of Pennsylvania
The 14th Colony
Roger Smith, Flagler College and University of Florida
Chair: Dara Hatten, Florida NSDAR Chair for President General's Project
Comments: Audience
Session Five: Saturday, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Panel 5A: Voices from the Past in Museums and in the Classroom
Special Interest Section: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Meeting Room: Myakka A
International Political Art by the Historical Chiurazzi Bronze Foundry of Naples-Rome (Pompeii; Naples; Rome; Ringling Museum in Sarasota, FL; Getty Museums in Los Angeles, CA), 1840s-2000s
Marco Rimanelli, Saint Leo University
“We have passed our lives in Serious Times”:
Undergraduate Student Reflections on Why We Should Study the Past
Christopher Berg, Florida Southwestern State College
Chair and Discussant: David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College
Panel 5B: Roundtable on Writing for Publication
Meeting Room: Myakka B
Michael Butler, Flagler College
Megan McShane, Florida Gulf Coast University
Michael Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University
Blaine Browne, Broward College (Emeritus)
Session Six: Saturday, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Panel 6A: Plenary Poster Session
Meeting Room: Peace A
Reframing Jewish Feminism in America:
An Analysis of American Jewish Women and the Negotiation of Their Jewish and Feminist Identities Pre-World War 2 to Post-World War 2
Adithi Nythruva, The University of Houston
Rockets and Racism: Memorializing the Space Race and German Scientists in Rocket City, USA
Jacob Winton, Florida State University
Way Out of The Way: Finding Entertainment and Community at Smitty’s Club
Hope Evans, Florida State University
Dutch Raiders and Spanish Ruin: Economic Struggles in 17th Century Florida
Larry Soza, Miami Dade College
Comments: Members of the McTague Award Committee
LUNCH OPTIONS: ON YOUR OWN
Options within blocks of Four Points by Sheraton
- Spinnaker Patio Dining (formerly Dockside)
- Laishley Crab House
- Perch 360 Rooftop Restaurant and Bar
- River City Grill
FCH BUSINESS MEETING, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
- Spinnaker Patio Dining (formerly Dockside)
Session Seven: Saturday, 1:00 PM-2:15 PM
Panel 7A: Body Centered Approaches to History
Meeting Room: Peace A
Bodies in Motion: Runaways during the Loyalist Period in The Bahamas
Sasha Wells, Florida International University
Selling 'New Freedom: Connecting Twentieth-Century Menstrual Advertising to Feminist History
Courtney Weis, Florida International University
New Land, New Fears:
Newspaper Narratives and the Daily Lives of Cuban Migrants in the United States, 1980
Sikiru Yusuff, Florida International University
Chair and Discussant: David Harvey, New College of Florida
Panel 7B: Studies on Modern War and Colonialism
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Peace B
The Union Minerie Haut Katanga and Social Control in the Belgian Congo
Jackson Cassidy, Florida Southern College
“Let us hope we ‘carry on’”:
The Unexpected Account of William T. Usinger's 'Over There' during the Great War
Kendra Belton, Florida Southern College
A Cycle of Retaliation: The Violence and Terror the Spanish Government and ETA Inflicted Upon Each Other in the Franco Era (1956-1975)
Gavin Dunsby, Florida Atlantic University
Chair and Discussant: Charles Closmann, University of North Florida
Panel 7C: How Sweet It Is: Icons and Images of Historic Florida
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Myakka A
The History of Newspaper Wine Journalism, Florida and Across the Country
Kimberly Voss, University of Central Florida
Freshly Squeezed: The Rise of the Florida Citrus Industry
Michael Hoyt, Liberty University
From Ponce de Leόn to Pan-Americanism:
The Florida Historical Society and Spanish Florida, 1902-1941
Lyn Hemmingway, University of Georgia
Chair and Discussant: Sean McMahon, Florida Gateway College
Panel 7D: Re-Thinking the Medieval Era
Meeting Room: Myakka B
The Formation of Crusading Vows during the First Crusade
Paul Aitchison, Florida College
Imagery and Blood
Alex Reid, Independent Scholar
Finding Christina: Reconnecting St. Leonard to the Vita of Christina of Markyate
Joshua Britt, Southeastern University
Chair: Thomas Donaldson, Florida Southwestern State College
Comments: Audience
Session Eight: Saturday, 2:30 PM-3:45 PM
Panel 8A: Florida Newspaper Discovery #2
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Peace A
“She was a Cold-Blooded Murderer”:
Homicide in Polk County and Environs as Depicted in the Lakeland Evening Telegram, 1911
Bonnie Paige Robinson, Florida Southern College
Murder in the Florida Boom:
Homicides in Punta Gorda, Florida as Depicted in the Punta Gorda Herald, 1920
Sarah Stephens, Florida Southern College
Race, Gender, Economics, and Politics through the Columns of the Jacksonville Sun, 1909
Emily Evans, Florida Southern College
Chair: James M. Denham, Florida Southern College
Discussant: Richards Plavnieks, Florida Southern College
Panel 8B: Executive Privilege: Culture, Policy, and the Modern Presidency
Meeting Room: Peace B
Peace Through Strength: The Goldwater- Reagan Relationship and Foreign Policy
Kevin Alexander, Independent Scholar
“Nice Beard, Mr. Vice President!”: Presidential Elections and Facial Hair
Constantinos Scaros, St. Petersburg College
A Constellation of Controversy:
Reactions to Methadone Maintenance in the American Public Sphere, 1971-1974
Devin Hernandez, University of North Florida
Chair and Discussant: Blaine Browne, Broward College (Emeritus)
Panel 8C: Violence and Racism in the Twentieth Century
Meeting Room: Myakka A
The Case of Stanley Puryear and Violence against White Women in Jim Crow Memphis
Brandon Jett, Florida Southwestern State College
Khomeini and the KKK: The Political Machinations of Strange Bedfellows
Anna Caney, Florida Southern College
Chair and Discussant: Kimberly Voss, University of Central Florida
Panel 8D: History Happening Now: History, Politics, and Current Events
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Myakka B
Russia's Use of State-Sponsored Terrorism as Acts of Covert Warfare to Avoid a Large-Scale Conflict
Jasmine Kelly, Saint Leo University
The Russian Civil War and its Modern Day Implications
Brandon Tabala, Saint Leo University
Global Currents of Extreme Political Ideology and Polarization in the 21st Century
Hadassa Ferreira, Saint Leo University
Chair: Marissa Rhodes, Saint Leo University
Discussant: Daniel DuBois, Saint Leo University
Session Nine: Saturday, 4:00 PM-5:15 PM
Panel 9A: Gender, Power, and Marginalization: A Transnational Perspective
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Peace A
Female Rage and the 15th Amendment: Suffragists’ Responses to African American Male Suffrage
Alizabeth Ruiz, Saint Leo University
Influence of the Taliban on Women's Rights Post-Soviet Occupation
Haley Gardner, Saint Leo University
The Influence of the Southern Border Crisis on International Sex Trafficking
Jacqueline Pollok, Saint Leo University
Chair: Daniel DuBois, Saint Leo University
Discussant: Marissa Rhodes, Saint Leo University
Panel 9B: The Whip and the Crucifix: Slavery and the Church in Colonial Latin America
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Myakka A
Cuban Slavery, from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
Maria Armengol, New College of Florida
Protector or Enforcer? The Role of the Church in Colonial Latin America
Ciara McIlvenny, New College of Florida
Chair: Alicia Mercado-Harvey, New College of Florida
Discussant: Michael Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University
Punta Gorda Historic Mural Walking Tour
Tour: 4:15-5:30 pm
Pick-Up Location: Outside Entrance of the Conference Center
Over the past 30 years, the Punta Gorda Historic Mural Society has created 32 public murals in Punta Gorda, each capturing a slice of the area’s rich history. The Society is offering a 1-hour walking tour (approximately 1 mile in length) that will visit a number of the murals and a few historic locations in the downtown area. There is a maximum of 24 people on the tour. Participation is FREE for those who sign up when you pick up your badge and program.
6:30 PM-7:30 PM: Banquet and Awards
Punta Gorda Charlotte Library
401 Shreve Street
Directions: From the Event Center, take US-41 S to W. Virginia Avenue and turn right. Virginia will end at Shreve Street; turn left and you will see the library in front of you/on the right. Once in the parking lot, enter through the main entrance and present your FCH badge. Library staff will direct you to the banquet area and the meeting room. Attendees and Guests will meet first in then proceed to the buffet line for dinner.
Welcoming Remarks
Dr. Thomas Donaldson
Florida Southwestern State College
FCH President, 2025-2026
Presentation of Awards
John J. “Jack” McTague Award for Best Poster
Presented by Dr. Marco Rimanelli, Saint Leo University
J. Calvitt Clarke III Award for Best Undergraduate Student Paper
Presented by Dr. Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University
Blaine T. Browne Award for Best Graduate Student Paper
Presented by Dr. Blaine T. Browne, Broward College (Emeritus)
Thomas M. Campbell Award for Best Professional Paper
Presented by Dr. David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College
Douglas Astolfi Undergraduate Grant Award
Presented by Dr. Daniel DuBois, Saint Leo University
Remarks on the FCH Annals
Dr. Michael S. Cole
Florida Gulf Coast University
Senior Editor, FCH Annals
Remarks on the 2026 FCH Annual Meeting
Dr. Thomas Donaldson
Florida Southwestern State College
7:30 PM-8:30 PM: Keynote Address
Punta Gorda Charlotte Library
Punta Gorda, Florida
Meeting Room: Lecture Hall
Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Thomas Donaldson
Florida Southwestern State College
Keynote Address
Dr. Jason Vuic
The Swamp Peddlers:
How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream
Originally from Punta Gorda, FL, Dr. Vuic is an award-winning author and historian based in Fort Worth, Texas. He has written four books, including The Yugo: the Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History (2010), The Sarajevo Olympics: A History of the 1984 Winter Games (2015). The Yucks! Two Years in Tampa with the Losingest Team in NFL History (2016), and most recently, with the University of North Carolina Press, The Swamp Peddlers: How Lots Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream, which won the Phillip and Dana Zimmerman Gold Medal Prize for Florida Nonfiction at the 2021 Florida Book Awards, as well as the 2021 Charlton Tebeau Award for outstanding general interest book from the Florida Historical Society. Jason is a graduate of Wake Forest University, and holds an M.A. in history from the University of Richmond and a Ph.D. in history from Indiana University Bloomington.
Sunday, February 23, 2025
8:30 AM-12:00 PM: Registration
Location: Main Lobby
Refreshments will be provided during the morning sessions in Hibiscus Hall C
Session Ten: Sunday, 9:00 AM-10:15 AM
Panel 10A: Contours of Colonial Latin American History
Meeting Room: Myakka A
Early Mexico-Tenochtitlan as a Crucible of Cultural Hybridization
Michael Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University
Gold for Secrets: The Hartlib Circle and the West Indies, 1620-1660
Timothy Miller, Brewton-Parker College
Chair and Discussant: Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University
Panel 10B: Lights, Camera, Action!
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Special Interest Section: Media, Arts, and Culture
Meeting Room: Myakka B
Dirty Movies and Dirty Money: Jacksonville's War on Porn, 1977-1978
David Nelson, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College-Bainbridge
Chair and Discussant: Sean McMahon, Florida Gateway College
Panel 10C: New Research on Medieval Europe
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Peace A
Raymond du Puy: The Blessed Fra
Nelson Price, Southeastern University
Reassessing the Black Death: Archaeological Insights into Mortality in England
Mary Cousineau, Wofford College
Chair: David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College
Comments: Audience
Panel 10D: Rights and Culture in United States History
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Peace B
Lincoln's Life On the Silver Screen: An Analysis
José M. Roa, Florida Southwestern State College
NOTE: This is a documentary (11 minutes)
De Universalibus In Iure Occidentali: Natural Rights within the United States
John Carroll, Brewton-Parker College
The Second Red Scare Hollywood and the Making of American Culture
Logan Izzo, Florida Gulf Coast University
Chair and Discussant: Thomas Donaldson, Florida Southwestern State College
Session Eleven: Sunday, 10:30 AM-11:45 AM
Panel 11A: Florida at the Periphery of War
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Myakka A
Mudd at Fort Jefferson
David Trevino, Independent Scholar
Lakeland and The War: The Role of Small-Town America in Winning the Second World War
Adam Rock, Hillsborough Community College
“More exciting than any movie or television show you have ever seen”: A Stasi Spy on Tampa Bay
Augustine Meaher, Air University
Chair and Discussant: Sean McMahon, Florida Gateway College
Panel 11B: ‘Cultura’ and Politics in Modern Florida
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Myakka B
Nuestra Organización: A Cultural Analysis of Ybor City in 1936
Jacob Cutler, Florida Southern College
Race, Class, and Politics in Cold War Miami, 1948-1949
Eleora Funk, Florida Southern College
Abre Tu Boca, Juzga con Justicia y Defiende La Causa del Pobre y del Menesteroso:
The Farmworker Association of Florida, the Farmworker Health and Safety Institute, and Latin American Farmworkers in Florida, 1990s-2000s
Jibranth Espanol, University of North Florida
Chair: Jennifer Zoebelein, Charlotte County Historian
Comments: Audience
Panel 11C: Models of Repression in the Modern Era
Meeting Room: Peace A
The Rent is Too Damn High:
Irish Nationalist Reactions to British Land Reform Measures, 1870-1903
Michael Vernon, Florida State University
Depraved Science: The History of Nazi Experimentation
Matthew Motes, Florida Gulf Coast University
Imprisoned at the Crossroads of Identity: A Cultural History of the Rohwer War Relocation Center
Aiden Jones, University of North Florida
Chair and Discussant: David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College
Panel 11D: At the Top of Their Game: Sports, Nation, and Society in the Modern Era
Meeting Room: Peace B
The 1936 Olympics: Deception and Appeasement
Mark Brown, Independent Scholar
Harnessing Honors Education as an Engine for Sport History and Scholarship
Dan DuBois, Saint Leo University
Chair: Dan DuBois, Saint Leo University
Comments: Audience
Our Special Thanks To:
Jonathan Westbrook, Librarian Supervisor,
Punta Gorda Charlotte Library
Friends of the Punta Gorda Charlotte Library
Clare Riggs and the Staff at the
Charlotte Harbor Event and Conference Center
Jax Press Printing, Inc.
Community First Credit Union
Jason Horowitz
Event Prep
Staff at TT Tiki’s Restaurant
Pioneer Pizza
Janet Emmett, Food and Beverage Manager
SAVOR…Charlotte Harbor
Kelly Gaylord and the
Punta Gorda Historic Mural Society
We hope to see you again for the
2026 annual meeting!
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