
SCHA 2023 Newberry College
Saturday, March 04
Center for Teacher Education (CTE) at the former Speers Street Elementary School
1121 Speers Street, Newberry, SC
Registration & Continental 8:00-9:00
Breakfast
Gnann Conference Center, CTE 118
Session One 9:00–10:15
Panel One: “Aspects of Colonial Life”—CTE Room 111
Chair and Discussant: Alice Taylor-Colbert
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Elizabeth Sanford, Independent Scholar
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“’The Popery of Government’: The Entanglement of Transatlantic Anticlericalism and Identity Formation in the Chesapeake Colonies”
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Michael Morris, College of Coastal Georgia
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“William Henry Lyttelton and the road to the Fort Prince George Massacre”
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Panel Two: “South Carolina in Black and White:” A Roundtable—CTE Room 113
Moderator: Alexia Helsley
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“South Carolina in Black and White: Changing Narratives in History and Political Science at Newberry College”
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Laura Roost, Creighton University
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Ramon Jackson, Newberry College
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J. Tracy Power, Newberry College
Panel Three: "Teaching the Past”—CTE Room 115
Moderator: Fritz Hamer
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Elizabeth Georgian, University of South Carolina Aiken
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“Ellenton, SC: Helping Students Remember those left Behind by the Cold War”
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Travis D. Boyce, San Jose State University
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"Assessing Student Learning in an Emerging Ethnic Studies Curriculum: A Rebuttal of Nikki Haley."
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Session Two 10:30– 11:45
Panel Four: “New Perspectives on the American Revolution”—CTE 111
Chair and Discussant: Michael Morris
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Robert S. Davis, Wallace State College
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“Fathers of Failure: The Architects of the British Southern Strategy of the American Revolution, 1775-1782”
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Jeffrey Leatherwood, American Military University
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“Encounter at Big Glades: a Tale of Rescue and Race from the Revolutionary War”
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Panel Five: “Twentieth Century: Change, Protest & Memory”—CTE 113
Chair and Discussant: Melissa DeVelvis
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Harris Bailey, Clemson University
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“The Battle of Sommocolonia: The African American Alamo”
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Joe Dunn, Converse University
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“’History Must be Kept Alive…Lest We Forget’: The 1969 and 1970 Voorhees College Student Protests”
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Fritz Hamer, South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum
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“Vietnam Veterans’ Experience and Memories: Comparative Study of War, Memory, and National Reconciliation”
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Lunch, Keynote, Business 12:00–1:45
Meeting
Gnann Conference Center, CTE 118
Keynote address: "Plymouth or Jamestown: Where Did Democracy Really Begin?"
Dr. Joseph P. Kelly, Professor, Department of English; Director of Irish and Irish American Studies, College of Charleston
Business meeting to follow.
Session Three 2:00– 3:15
Panel Six: “Slavery: Then & Now”—CTE 111
Chair and Discussant: Felice Knight
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Brent Morris, Clemson University
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““The Celebrated Bandit Joe”: Conspiracies, Marronage, and the Precarity of Slavery in South Carolina, 1821-1823”
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Jordan Stenger, Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site
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“A Quilt of Many Stories”
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Panel Seven: “A World of Violence”—CTE 115
Chair and Discussant: Jeffrey Leatherwood
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John Paul Hill, Toccoa Falls College
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“Baseball and the Outlaw: George P. Dovey, Jesse James, and the 1880 Mercer, Kentucky, Robbery”
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Carol Loar, University of South Carolina Upstate
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“A Tale of Two Wives: Domestic Violence, Reputation, and Lynching in Nineteenth Century South Carolina”
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Session Four 3:30– 4:45
Panel Eight: “The Civil War and Its Aftermath”—CTE 113
Chair and Discussant: Trae Welborn
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Rodney J. Steward, University of South Carolina Salkehatchie
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“Confiscating the Home Front: The Confederate Act of Sequestration”
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Kenneth Alford, Brigham Young University
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“Saving Utah from Itself: The Grand Army of the Republic’s Anti‐Polygamy Campaign”
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Edwin C. Breeden, South Carolina Department of Archives and History
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“Liberia of Marlboro: Conceptualizing and Documenting a “Suburban” Freedmen’s Village in the South Carolina Pee Dee”
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Panel Nine: “Women’s Issues”—CTE 115
Chair and Discussant: Victoria Musheff
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Melissa DeVelvis, Augusta University
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“Secession Through Washington's Eyes: The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and the Rhetoric of Revolution on the Eve of the Civil War”
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Alexia Helsley, University of South Carolina Aiken
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“The Short & Eventful Life of Mary Eleanor Laurens Pinckney”
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