Previous Friday Colloquium Schedule
2003
October 10
Professor Amy L. S. Staples, Department of History, Middle Tennessee State University
“From Silence to Action: The Johnson Administration’s Response to the ‘Population Explosion’”
November 7
Darren Hughes, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, University of Tennessee
“The American Left and the Problems of History in Philip Roth’s American Trilogy”
December 5
Anthony Aiello, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Cornell University
“Written in Sand: Myth and Meaning in Gulf War Narratives”
2004
January 23
Professor Michael Birdwell, Department of History, Tennessee Technological University
“Is that a Missile in Your Pocket or are you just Happy to See Me?: The Cold War, Sex, and Popular Culture.”
February 13
Dr. Victoria Ott, Department of History, University of Tennessee
“The Confederacy’s Daughters: Elite Young Women, Work, and Family in the
Civil War South”
March 19
Dr. Edward Lengel, Papers of George Washington, University of Virginia
“George Washington the Soldier: An Assessment”
April 23
Dr. John C. Pinheiro, Papers of George Washington, University of Virginia
“Crusade and Conquest: A Look at ‘Manifest Destiny’ through Anti-Catholic Eyes”
September
Dr. Ralph W. Brown, History Program, Lees-McRae College
October 1
Professor Ralph Brown, Department of History, University of Louisiana Monroe
“The Vienna Mission: A First Look at Vienna Under Soviet Occupation, June 1945”
Brian M. Puaca, Ph.D. candidate, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword?: Student Newspapers and Democracy in Postwar West Germany”
October 15
Professor George Rable, Department of History, University of Alabama
“Religion in the Grand Narrative of the American Civil War”
November 5
Christopher Perry Loss, Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia
“Building a Better University: World War I, Psychological Technologies, and the Reconstruction of Higher Learning in the 1920s”
December 3
Dr. Stephen Ortiz, Department of History, University of Florida
“The Original Veterans Against the War: The Veterans of Foreign Wars and Veteran Anti War Activism in the 1930s”
2005
January 28
Mark Boulton, Ph.D. candidate, University of Tennessee
“Unwilling ‘soldiers in the war on brutal inflation’: Congress, The Veterans, and the Fight with Gerald R. Ford Over the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974”
February 11
Professor Irving Levinson, Department of History, University of Tennessee
“A New Framework for an Old Conflict: Partisan Struggles and Political Settlements of the Mexico-United States War”
March 4
Professor Daniel Aldridge, Department of History, Davidson College
“Black Isolationists and the Development of an African American Foreign Policy Sensibility, 1939-1945”
April 15
Angela Frye Keaton, Ph.D. candidate, University of Tennessee
“Backyard Desperados: American Attitudes Concerning Guns and Children in Cold War America”
Papers for the colloquium will be circulated at least two weeks in advance. Copies of the papers can be obtained by contacting Cynthia Tinker, Project Coordinator for the Center, at ctinker@utk.edu or (865) 974-0128. For more information about the Friday Colloquium contact Kurt Piehler at gpiehler@utk.edu or George White at jwhite16@utk.edu.