LHA Program (2019)

PROGRAM SIXTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE

LOUISIANA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

and the Regional Meeting of Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society

MARCH 28-30, 2019 GARDEN PLAZA

HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTER 2032 NE Evangeline Throughway Lafayette, La. 70501

LHA Thursday Night Social Thursday, March 28, 6-9pm

Rock ‘N Bowl de Lafayette 905 Jefferson Street, Lafayette, La. 70501 $20, includes food, drink, and bowling.

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hi Alpha

Friday, March 29

Theta Luncheon

Grand Pre Ballroom

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noon-1:00 pm

“‘What Not to Wear’: Feminism and Fashion” Dr. Janet Allured

Professor of History, McNeese State University

Sponsored by the Guilbeau Center for Public History, University of Louisiana at Lafayette For more information on the Guilbeau Center for Public History, please call the Department of History, Geography, and Philosophy at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, (337) 482-6900, or visit them online: history.louisiana.edu

LOUISIANA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM Kevin Fontenot, Austin, Texas Program Chair

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THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2019

Registration Atrium Nominations Committee TBA Publications Committee TBA Teaching Committee TBA Board of Directors Bayou Lafourche

Session I-A

10:00 am – 4:00 pm 10:30–11:00 am 10:30–11:00 am 10:30–11:00 am 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

Amitie

3:00–4:15 pm

Tunica Language Revitalization: A Discussion and Demonstration Judith Maxwell, Tulane University, Chair Members of the Tunica Language Project Comment: The Audience

Session I-B

Caroline

3:00–4:15 pm

Louisiana’s Archival Heritage: Disaster, Digitization, and Dollars A Roundtable Discussion Ian Beamish, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Chair Elizabeth Kelly, Loyola University Jeffrey Rubin, Tulane University Michelle Riggs, LSU-Alexandria Cheylon Woods, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Comment: The Audience 3

LHA THURSDAY NIGHT SOCIAL

6:00–8:00 p.m.

Rock ‘N Bowl de Lafayette (905 Jefferson Street, Lafayette, La.) $20, includes food, drinks, bowling

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FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2019

Registration

Atrium

Session II-A

Amitie

8:00 am – 4:00 pm 9:00–10:15 am

Violence and Forced Labor in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana Brian McGowan, Grambling State University, Chair “So Called Free: The Penal Enslavement of Free Black Mariners and Migrants in Antebellum New Orleans” John Bardes, Tulane University “Attakapas Vigilante Committees: Race, Class, and Extrajudicial Violence in Antebellum Louisiana” Kelsey Couvillon, University of Louisiana at Lafayette “Feuds, Race Riots, and Ethnic Cleansing: Undesirable Equilibrium in Louisiana’s Most Violent Rural Region” Samuel Hyde, Southeastern Louisiana University Comment: Michael Pfeifer, City University of New York

Session II-B

Bergere

9:00–10:15 am

Revolutionary Atlantic Pedagogies, Creole Spatial Networks, and Re-Imagining the Citizen of Public Education in New Orleans, 1791-1841 Mary Niall Mitchell, University of New Orleans, Chair 4

“Exile of Revolution: Imagined Communities and Rogue Curriculums in New Orleans” Petra Munro Hendry, Louisiana State University “In Search of Common Grounds: Creating Communities at the Café des Refugiés” Robyn Andermann, Independent Scholar “A Bequest in the Time of Cholera: Epidemics, Education, and Free Orphans of Color in Antebellum New Orleans” Elizabeth Niedenbach, Lafitte National Historical Park & Preserve Comment: Erin Greenwald, La. Endowment for the Humanities

Session II-C

Caroline

9:00–10:15 am

Civil Rights and the American Right in Louisiana Charles Pellegrin, Northwestern State Univ. of La., Chair “The Shreveport Journal and the Americanist Right, 1960-1964” Ralph Brown, University of Louisiana-Monroe “Congressman Edwin Willis, 1957-1968: HUAC, Civil Rights, and the Ku Klux Klan” David C. Stephens, University of Louisiana at Lafayette “Echoes of Insanity? What the Black Man Wants” Ruth Foote, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Comment: Charles Pellegrin, Northwestern State Univ. of La.

Session III-A

Amitie

10:30–11:45 am

Thundering Hooves: Cattle and Livestock Trade James MacDonald, Northwestern State Univ. of La., Chair 5

“Heavy Live Stock Trade at the Port of New Orleans: American War Horses and Army Mules for the South African War, 1899-1902” Philip A. Homan, Idaho State University “Stockmen, Slaves, and the Old South” Debbie L. Liles, Tarleton University “Walking Cattle to Antebellum Louisiana” Carol Taylor, Independent Scholar Comment: James MacDonald, Northwestern State Univ. of La.

Session III-B

Bergere

10:30–11:45 am

Music, Murder, and Gushing Oil: Sounds of Southern Louisiana Mark Fernandez, Loyola University New Orleans, Chair “Offshore Blues: Oil Field Songs from Pott’s Recording Barn and Starbarn Records” Joe Specht, McMurray University “‘The Death of Oswald’: The Dixie Rambler’s Ballad About a 1934 Murder in Grand Point, Nina, Louisiana” Chad Huval, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Comment: Mark Fernandez, Loyola University

Session III-C

Caroline

10:30–11:45 am

The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana: Preserving the Past to Make Way for the Future, A Roundtable Discussion Denise Bates, Arizona State University, Chair and moderator Ernest Sickey Bertney Langley Linda Langley Marianna Luquette David Sickey Comment: The Audience 6

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Phi Alpha Theta Luncheon

$20

Grand Pre Ballroom

noon-1:00 pm

“‘What Not to Wear’: Feminism and Fashion” Dr. Janet Allured Professor of History, McNeese State University

* * * Sponsored by the Guilbeau Center for Public History * * * University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Session IV-A

Amitie

1:15–2:30 pm

The Occupied and the Occupiers: Louisiana during the Civil War and Reconstruction Charles Swanlund, Blinn College, Chair “Gen. Philip Sheridan and the Crisis of Reconstruction Politics in the Fifth Military District, 1867” Kenneth Howell, Blinn College “A Jewish Southern Belle in Occupied New Orleans” Caroline Gnagy, University of Houston Comment: Henry Robertson, Louisiana College

Session IV-B

Bergere

1:15–2:30 pm

Corinne Broussard Murphey, Historical Participant and Preservationist: Evangeline Records the Official Pilgrimage of Louisiana Acadians to Acadian Reunion Marking the 175th Anniversary of the Expulsion from Acadie, a Discussion Barry Ancelet, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Chair Frank Summers, The Acadian Museum Warren Perrin, The Acadian Museum 7

Session IV-C

Caroline

1:15–2:30 pm

Mulberries, Mud, and Theft: Agriculture and Infrastructure In Louisiana Justin Nystrom, Loyola University New Orleans, Chair “Organize Unrealized: The Red Mulberry, Colonial Louisiana’s Silk Hopes and French Sericulture” Boris Teske, Louisiana Tech University “Scandal on the Docks: The History of Systematic Grain Theft and Mishandling in New Orleans” Chandler Tyler, Louisiana State University “Getting Out of the Mud: Louisiana and Good Roads before 1928” Karen McKinney, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Comment: Scott Marler, University of Memphis

Session V-A

Amitie

2:45–4:00 pm

Flight to Sabine: Memoirs of the Runaway Scrape, a Discussion of Louisiana and the Texas Revolution David Anderson, Louisiana Tech University, Chair Doug Kubicek, Lavaca County Historical Society Caroll Scogin Brincefield, South Texas Historical Association Comments: The Audience

Session V-B

Bergere

2:45–4:00 pm

Together We Can Rock the World: The Women’s Club Movement in Louisiana, 1860-1930 Laura McLemore, Louisiana State Univ.-Shreveport, Chair 8

“There Weren’t Women in the Room: The Women’s Club Movement in Baton Rouge” Faye Philips, Louisiana State University “The Lesche Club of Natchitoches: A Women’s Literary Club” Mary Linn Wernet, Northwestern State University “Parallel Lines: The Changing Focus of African American Women’s Clubs in Twentieth-Century Alexandria in Relation to Their Caucasian Counterparts” Michelle Riggs, Louisiana State University-Alexandria “Northwest Louisiana Black Women’s Clubs” Raegan C. Stearns, Cloud and Clay Cultural Preservation Comments: The Audience

Session V-A

Caroline

2:45–4:00 pm

Louisiana in the Civil War Era Evan C. Rothera, Sam Houston State University, Chair “Milliken’s Bend” Isaiah Tadlock, Sam Houston State University “The Battle Abbey of the South: Memorial Hall Museum and Maintaining Civil War Memory” Joseph D. Ricci, Confederate Memorial Hall Museum “The Screwman Benevolent Association and the Civil War: Camaraderie, Solidarity, and Honor from the Port of New Orleans to the Battlefield” Serena Barbieri, Sam Houston State University Comment: Evan C. Rothera, Sam Houston State University

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Session VI-A

Plenary Session

Port Royal Ballroom

4:15–5:30 pm

“Taking the World by Storm: A Conversation with the Godfather of Swamp Pop, Warren Storm” Yvette Landry, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Chair Comment: The Audience

Cash Bar

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Atrium

6:00–7:00 pm

LHA Annual Banquet

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Port Royal / Louisbourg Ballroom

7:00–9:00 pm

V. Elaine Thompson, Louisiana Tech University, presiding

LHA Presidential Address: “Plastics, Not Pipelines: Government Policy, Natural Gas, and a Vision for Post-World War II Louisiana” Brady Banta, Arkansas State University LHA President

Presidential Reception

Atrium

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9:00–11:00 pm

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SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 2019 Amitie

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9:00–10:15 am

Louisiana Women and Religious Activism Shannon Frystak, East Stroudsburg University, Chair “Theressa Hoover: African American Trailblazer” Janet Allured, McNeese State University “Time, Talent, and Treasure: Women and the New Protestant Landscape of Antebellum Louisiana” Emily Wright, Tulane University Comment: Shannon Frystak, East Stroudsburg University

Session VII-B

Bergere

9:00–10:15 am

Why We Sound the Way We Do Michael S. Martin, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Chair “Indigenous Place Names of Louisiana and Mississippi: A Critical Reanalysis” John DePriest and Shane Lief, Tulane University “Finding ‘Where Y’at’: Origins of a New Orleans Expression” Nathalie Djako, Tulane University Comment: Michael S. Martin, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

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Session VII-C

Caroline

9:00–10:15 am

Asian Americans in Twentieth-Century New Orleans: Race, Community, and Commerce Michael Salgarolo, New York University, Chair “Bourbon and Sake: Japanese in the French Quarter” Greg Robinson, Université du Québec à Montréal “New Orleans China Town: Researching Chinese American History in New Orleans” Winston Ho, University of New Orleans “Filipinos in Louisiana” Michael Salgaraolo, New York University Comment: Randy Gonzales, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Session VIII-A

Amitie

10:30–11:45 am

Citizenship Suspect: Japanese Experience and Internment in WWII Louisiana William Robison, Southeastern Louisiana University, Chair “Hidden in Plain Sight: The Untold Story of Camp Livingston” Hayley Johnson, Louisiana State University and Sarah Simms, Louisiana State University “Japanese Internment in Louisiana: Camp Livingston, Cultural Identities, and War Time Anxieties” Samantha Perez, Southeastern Louisiana University Comment: Jerry Sanson, Louisiana State University-Alexandria 12

Session VIII-B

Caroline

10:30–11:45 am

Beyond Histories of Exceptionalism and Cultures of Authenticity in New Orleans Matt Sakakeeny, Tulane University, Chair “Charles Gayarré and the Imagining of an Exceptional City: The Literary Roots of the Creole City” Rien Fertel, Tulane University “What’s Left for New Orleans? The People’s Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism after Katrina” Cedric Johnson, University of Illinois at Chicago “Queers, Fairies, and Ne’er Do Wells: Rethinking the Notion of a Sexually Liberal New Orleans” Alecia Long, Louisiana State University “Local, Native, Creole, Black: Claiming Belonging, Producing Authenticity in Contemporary New Orleans” Helen Regis, Louisiana State University “The Saga of the Junkyard Dog: Wrestling with the Limits of Authenticity in Congo Square” Bryan Wagner, University of California, Berkley Comments: The Audience

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General Membership Meeting

Bergere

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12:00 pm

FELLOWS OF THE LOUISIANA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Posthumous Fellows: Powell Casey; William Ivy Hair; Kimberly S. Hanger; Otis Hebert; Walter Lowery; Garnie McGinty; Henry F. Morris; Hugh Rankin; Joe Gray Taylor; Samuel Wilson, Jr. 1993 Joy J. Jackson Joseph G. Tregle Philip Uzee Bennett H. Wall John D. Winters 1994 Thomas A. Becnel Mark T. Carleton Hubert Humphreys Morgan Peoples 1995 John Duffy Ernest J. Gaines Judith F. Gentry Amos E. Simpson 1997 Mathé Allain Gilbert C. Din Edward F. Haas Michael L. Kurtz

1998 Arthur Bergeron, Jr. Billy H. Gilley Judith K. Schafer Matthew J. Schott 1999 Carl A. Brasseaux Glenn R. Conrad 2000 Warren M. Billings Patricia Brady Stephen Webre 2001 Philip C. Cook Glen Jeansonne 2002 Carolyn E. De Latte Roman Heleniak Thomas D. Watson

2004 Vaughan Baker M. Scott Legan Charles Vincent 2005 Virginia Gould Michael G. Wade 2008 Jerry Sanson Light T. Cummins 2010 Samuel Shepherd Janet Allured 2011 Paul Hoffman Mark Fernandez 2013 Lawrence Powell 2018 Alecia Long

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GARNIE W. McGINTY MERITORIOUS AWARD

FOR SERVICE TO THE LOUISIANA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

1991 Bennett H. Wall

2000 Michael L. Kurtz

2012 Patricia Brady

1992 Joseph G. Tregle, Jr.

2001 Carl A. Brasseaux

2013 Thomas Watson

1993 Morgan Peoples

2002 Thomas A. Becnel

2014 Vaughan Baker

1994 Gilbert C. Din

2003 Warren M. Billings

2015 Lawrence Powell

1995 Glenn R. Conrad

2004 Judith K. Schafer

2016 Michael Wade

1996 Amos E. Simpson

2005 Roman Heleniak

2017 Stephen Webre

1997 Mathé Allain

2007 Philip Cook

2018 Virginia Gould

1998 John D. Winters

2008 Judith F. Gentry

1999 Edward F. Haas

2011 Paul Hoffman

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KEMPER WILLIAMS PRIZE

FOR BEST BOOK ON LOUISIANA HISTORY

1974 Roger Fischer

1987 Terry Jones

1997 Kimberly Hanger

1975 Joe Gray Taylor

1988 Gilbert Din

1998 Carl Ekberg

1976 John Preston Moore

1989 Lawrence Estaville, Jr.

1999 Gilbert Din

1977 Jay Higginbotham

1990 Michael Kurtz and Morgan Peoples

2000 Lawrence Powell

1978 Peyton McCrary 1980 Thomas Becnel 1981 Edward Haas 1982 Joseph Dawson 1983 Robert Bush 1984 Thomas Cutrer 1986 Annabelle Melville

1991 William Ivy Hair 1992 Ann Patton Malone 1993 Kim Lacy Rogers 1994 Judith Kelleher Schafer 1995 Adam Fairclough

2001 John Rodrigue 2002 Carl Ekberg 2003 John Sacher 2004 Peter Kastor 2005 Rebecca Scott 2006 Mark Souther

1996 Pamela Tyler

2007 Emily Clark

2008 Sophie Burton & F. Todd Smith 2009 Jennifer Spears 2010 Richard Campanella 2011 Lake Douglas 2012 Lawrence Powell 2013 Scott Marler 2014 Michael Ross 2015 Eberhard L. Faber 2016 Rashauna Johnson 2017 Urmi Willoughby

KEMPER WILLIAMS PRIZE (discontinued)

FOR BEST UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT ON LOUISIANA HISTORY

1974 Robert Snyder

1981 Brady Banta

1985 Edward Haas

1989 Kimberly Hanger

1976 Stephen Zink

1982 Michael Kurtz

1986 Eric Arnesen

1990 Donald Frazier

1977 Reinhart Kondert

1983 Terry Jones

1987 John Heitmann

1991 Daniel Usner, Jr.

1978 Carl Brasseaux

1984 Raimund Berchtold

1988 Vaughan Baker

1992 Glenn Conrad

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PRESIDENTS’ MEMORIAL AWARD

FOR BEST ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN LOUISIANA HISTORY

1966 Thomas A. Harwood

1979 Loren Schweninger

1992 Sheridan E. Young

2005 Sarah Russell

1967 Frank M. Lovrich

1980 Carl A. Brasseaux

1993 Kimberly Hanger

2006 Rocky Sexton

1968 Jerry A. Micelli

1981 Alan Brinkley

1994 R. Randall Couch

2007 Philippe Girard

1969 Charles B. Dew

1982 George Rable

1995 Arthé Anthony

2008 Justin Nystrom

1970 Jack D. L. Holmes

1983 Matthew J. Schott

1996 Gilbert C. Din

2009 Lesley-Anne Reed

1971 Raleigh A. Suarez

1984 Stephen Webre

1997 James D. Wilson, Jr.

2010 Kimberly Krupa

1972 Edward F. Haas

1985 Chris Nordmann

1998 Michael G. Wade

2011 Robert Gudmestad

1973 L. E. Estaville, Jr.

1986 Carl A. Brasseaux

1999 James E. Fickle

2012 Elizabeth Shown Mills

1974 Gary B. Mills

1987 Ann Patton Malone

2000 Solomon K. Smith

2013 Michelle Grigsby Coffey

1975 Robert E. Snyder

1988 Paul Lachance

2001 John M. Sacher

2014 Lou Falkner Williams

1976 Joseph G. Tregle, Jr.

1989 Loren Schweninger

2002 Arthé Anthony

2015

Jeroen Dewulf

1977 James H. Dormon

1990 Joseph G. Tregle Jr.

2003 John W. Scott

2016 James E. Wainwright

1978 Gilbert C. Din

1991 Jerah Johnson

2004 Simon Wendt

Elizabeth Ellis

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2017

HUGH F. RANKIN PRIZE

FOR BEST GRADUATE-LEVEL PAPER

1991 1998 Henry O. Robertson, Jr. James D. Wilson, Jr. Louisiana State Univ. Cornell University

2005 Yvonne Brown UL Lafayette

2012 Michael Smith UL Lafayette

2006 James Savage UL Lafayette

2013 David Bennett Michigan St. Univ.

1992 Paul Quin Louisiana State Univ.

1999 Sarah Russell Univ. of Maryland

1993 Theresa Golden Appalachian St. Univ.

2000 2007 Sophie White Michele Grigsby Coffey University of Derby Univ. of South Carolina

2014 Emily Owens Harvard Univ.

1994 2001 2008 2015 Christopher Strain Julia Huston Nguyen Joseph Stoltz Caroline Hymel University of Georgia Louisiana State Univ. Univ. of New Orleans La. Tech Univ.

1995 2002 2016 2009 V. Elaine Thompson J. Mark Souther Henry Wiencek Walter C. Stern Rice University Tulane University Tulane University Univ. Texas at Austin 1996 2003 2017 2010 James D. Wilson, Jr. J. P. Le Glaunec Karen McKinney Beth Kressel USL Univ. de Paris UL Lafayette Univ. of Michigan Law School 1997 2004 Megan Dee Michael Pasquier 2011 Southeastern La. Univ. Florida State Univ. Owen James Hyman Southeastern La. Univ.

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GLENN R. CONRAD PRIZE

FOR BEST PUBLISHED ARTICLE ON LOUISIANA HISTORY

2008-09 Scott Marler

2012-13 Dan Usner

2010-11 Shannon Frystak

2014-15 Samuel Biagetti

2016-17 Jeffery Adler

KIMBERLY S. HANGER AWARD

FOR BEST UNDERGRADUATE-LEVEL PAPER

2000 Katherine Slaikeu

2005 Angelique Hurling

2010 Meghann Landry

2014 Molly Conway

2001 Chris Brown

2006 Lesley-Anne Reed

2011 Linda Bird

2015 Jamie Wright

2002 Keith Manuel

2007 Kathryn Fernandez

2016 Donovan Stone

2003 Katie Clark

2008 Mary Wubbena

2012 Daniel Manuel & Alexandria Seltenrich

2004 Victoria Black & Yvonne Brown

2009 Jason Straight

2013 Chad Landrum & Brenton Gryder

2017 Matthew Flanders

AMOS E. SIMPSON TRAVEL GRANT AWARD FOR RESEARCH ON LOUISIANA HISTORY

2015 Evan Rothera Henry Wiencek

2016 Yvonne Brown Paul Warden

2017 Clayton Butler William Jones

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2018 Elyse D. Gerstenecke Julia Lewandoski

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