NASOH Annual Conference
St. Charles, Mo 20-23 May, 2018
Draft Program
Sunday, May 20
3:00 – 5:30 Registration
Monday, May 21
8:00 – 12:00 Registration
8:30 – 9:00 Opening remarks
9:15 – 10:45 Breakout Session 1
Panel 1: By the Brackish Waters: Visiting and Interpreting Coastal Landscapes
Chair: William B. Lees, Florida Public Archaeology Network
Comment: Laura Clark, Florida Public Archaeology Network
Jamin Wells, University of West Florida “Invalids, Pleasure Seekers, and Wreckers: The Brackish Origins of American Beach Tourism and Recreation”
Mike Thomin, Florida Public Archaeology Network “Promoting Pirates Along Santa Rosa Sound”
Laura Clark and Sorna Khakzad, University of West Florida “Promoting Cultural Tourism through Maritime Cultural Landscape”
Mike Thomin, Florida Public Archaeology Network and Sorna Khakzad, University of West Florida “Connecting Rivers, Sea, and Land: Panhandle National Maritime Heritage Area”
Panel 2: The Presence of the Past: Maritime Places, Pirates, and ‘Pendages
Chair: Michael Verney, Library Company of Philadelphia
Marti Klein, California State University Fullerton “The Leg I Left Behind Me…All on the Plains of Mexico”
Elizabeth Nyman, Texas A&M—Galveston “Piracy Through the Ages: Looking to the Past for Modern Solutions”
Amy Mitchell-Cook, University of West Florida “Mother Mother Ocean: Utilizing an Online Educational Platform to Connect Audiences with Research Regarding the Gulf of Mexico”
Della Scott-Ireton, Florida Public Archaeology Network “A Walk on the Waterfront: Interpreting Pensacola’s Maritime Heritage for Passersby”
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:15 Breakout Session 2 Roundtable: Underwater Archaeology on Lakes and Rivers: Methods, Practice, Projects
Moderator: Alicia Caporaso, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Panelists: Allison Fields, University of Oklahoma, William Lees, Florida Public Archaeology Network, Michael C. Tuttle, Independent Scholar
12:15 – 1:00 Travel to Great Rivers Museum
1:00 – 2:00 Catered lunch at the museum
2:00 – 4:00 Tour the museum on your own
4:00 – 5:00 Presentation on steamboat Montana – Annalies Corbin and reception
5:00 – 5:30 Travel to hotel
Tuesday, May 22
8:00 – 12:00 Registration
8:30 – 10:00 Breakout Session 3
Panel 3 Indigenous Waters: The Place and Power of the Maritime among Native Peoples
Chair: Jamin Wells, University of West Florida
Alicia Caporaso, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management “The Submerged Cypress Forest and the Paleolandscape of the Gulf of Mexico”
Erin W. Stone, University of West Florida “A Watery Refuge: The Role of Bodies of Water in Taino Cosmology and Rebellion”
T. Kurt Knoerl, Georgia Southern University—Armstrong “Networks of Water: Exploring a Native American Maritime Cultural Landscape in the Late Eighteenth Century”
Eduardo Erazo Acosta, University of Nariño “Indigenous Women of the Indigenous Regional Council of Cauca in the Defense of Water, Ontoecologies, for the Common Good”
Panel 4 Riverine Machines: Maritime Technologies in Critical and Comparative Perspectives
Chair: Sharon Graf, University of Illinois—Springfield
Brianna Patterson, University of West Florida “At the Water’s Edge: The Rise and Fall of Lumber”
John O. Jensen, University of West Florida“From Oceans, Lakes, and Rivers: The Atlantic Heritage of the Great Lakes Lumber Frontier”
Mark Rice, Alaska Office of History and Archaeology “The Consumerization of Alaska’s Rivers”
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 11:45 Breakout Session 4
Panel 5 Confluence and Watersheds: Conceptualizing Inland Maritime History through Diverse Approaches
Chair: Larry Bartlett, Texas Christian University
Lincoln Paine, Independent Scholar “American Rivers and the Making of History”
Allison Fields, University of Oklahoma “Reimagining the Frontier West through Missouri Steamboat Shipwrecks”
Daniel Lane, Norwich University “Boyton the Bouyant: Captain Paul A. Boyton’s Immersive Excursions in the Mississippi Watershed”
Sharon Graf, University of Illinois–Springfield “Navigating the Great Loop: Unveiling Invisible Maritime Commerce in the U.S. Inland and Intracoastal Waterways”
Panel 6 Promise and Peril: Steamboats on Eastern and Western Rivers
Chair: Michael C. Tuttle, Gray & Pape, Inc.
Joshua M. Smith, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy “Steamboat Disasters: By the Numbers, 1807-1860”
Larry Bartlett, Texas Christian University “People, Profit, and Peril: Steamboats on the Missouri River”
Paul Fontenoy, North Carolina Maritime Museum “Running Like Clockwork: Packet Sloops, Steamboats, and Competition on the Hudson River, 1800-1835”
Sandra Ulbrich, Independent Scholar “Trying to Stay Alive: The Hartford and New York Transportation Company on the Connecticut River”
11:45 – 12:45 Catered lunch at the hotel
12:45 – 2:15 Breakout Session 5
Panel 7 Currents of Warfare: The Role of Rivers in American Wars from the Civil War to the Great War
Chair: Paul Fontenoy, North Carolina Maritime Museum
William B. Lees, Florida Public Archaeology Network “A Maritime Perspective on the 1861 Confederate Attack on the Union Garrison on Santa Rosa Island, Florida”
Michael C. Tuttle, Gray & Pape, Inc. “The Battle of Johnsonville: Where Cavalry Destroys an Army and a Navy”
Dwight S. Hughes, Independent Scholar “War on the Rivers”
Jonathan Quann, Princeton University “Reviving an Abandoned System: World War I and the Inland Waterways Corporation”
Panel 8:
Reimagining the Maritime: Image and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
Chair: Penelope Hardy, Xavier University
Virginia W. Lunsford, U.S. Naval Academy “The Battle of New Orleans, the Myth of Piracy, and the Transformation of Jean Lafitte”
Margaret Stack, University of Connecticut “Horrible Calamity! Awful Affecting Incident! The American Press, the Evolution of the United States Navy, and the 1844 Explosion Aboard USS Princeton”
Michael Verney, Drury University “’The Universal Yankee Nation:’ Proslavery Expeditions to South America, 1850-1860”
Roger Bailey, University of Maryland “Links in the ‘Great Chain:’ U.S. Naval Exploration in South America and Public Discourse, 1851-1861”
2:15 – 2:30 Break
2:30 – 4:00 Breakout Session 6 Roundtable: Teaching the Maritime from the Middle
Moderator: Penelope Hardy, Xavier University
Panelists: James Revell Carr, University of Kentucky, Sharon Graf, University of Illinois—Springfield, Peter Shapinsky, University of Illinois—Springfield
4:00 – 4:15 Break
4:15 – 5:00 NASOH annual business meeting
Wednesday, May 23
9:00 – 10:15 Breakout Session 7
Panel 9 The Importance of the US-Mexico Borderlands during the American Civil War
Chair: Marti Klein, California State University Fullerton
Robin Lynn Galloso, Texas A&M University “Civil War History, Hurricanes, and Archaeology of Brazos Santiago, Texas”
Miguel Gutierrez. SWCA Environmental Consultants Brownsville During the American Civil War: Cotton the Middle of an Economic Struggle”
Samantha Bernard, East Carolina University “Port of Matamoros: Trade and Commerce during the American Civil War”
Panel 10
The U.S. Navy on Coastal and Inland Waters: Three Cases from the Nineteenth Century
Chair: Joshua M. Smith, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
B.J. Armstrong, U.S. Naval Academy “‘Liberty of the Seas will be the Happiness of the Earth:’ Robert Fulton’s Writings on Coastal and Inshore Defense”
Thomas Legg, West Chester University “Reactions to Joint Navy-Army Operations in the Mississippi River Valley in the Civil War: A Cause of Inter-Service Rivalry”
Jason W. Smith, Southern Connecticut State University “‘In Gay Battle Array:’ The Mock Battleship Illinois and American Navalism in the Midwest”
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:45 Breakout Session 8 Roundtable: The State of Inland and Coastal Maritime History
Moderator: Michael Chiarappa, Quinnipiac University
Panelists: B.J. Armstrong, U.S. Naval Academy, John O. Jensen, University of West Florida, Lincoln Paine, Independent Scholar
11:45 – 1:00 Catered lunch at the hotel
1:00 – 1:30 Travel to cruise terminal
2:00 – 4:00 Mississippi River cruise/ St. Louis Arch/Museum
4:15 – 4:45 Travel to hotel
6:30 – 9:30 Awards banquet
