Thursday, October 12 (afternoon)

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12:30-1:35 p.m. Awards Lunch
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1:50-2:50 p.m. Choice of two sessions

PAPER SESSION: New Paths for Extraordinary Women
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Moderator: Carol Sue Humphrey, Oklahoma Baptist University

Felecia Jones Ross, Ohio State University
In Plain Sight: How the African-American Covered Extraordinary Women as Figures in the Community

Teri Finneman, South Dakota State University
The Greatest of Its Kind Ever Witnessed in America: The Press and the 1913 Women’s March on Washington

Kim Mangun, University of Utah
Florabel Muir, the ‘Newspaperman in Skirts’ (1889-1970)

PANEL: Fake News, First Amendment Assaults, and Political Polarization: Teaching Journalism History in Tumultuous Times
Abstract

Moderator: Gerry Lanosga, Indiana University Media School

Berrin Beasley, University of North Florida
Jon Marshall, Northwestern University
Earnest L. Perry, University of Missouri

3-4 p.m. Choice of two sessions

PAPER SESSION: From Abolitionism to Closed Society: Race Issues in American Journalism
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Moderator: Ford Risley, Penn State University

Dianne Bragg, University of Alabama
Newspaper Coverage of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Abolitionist Movement in the 1850s

Ulf Jonas Bjork, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Race War Flares Up: Chicago’s Swedish Press, the Great Migration, and the 1919 Riots

Jason A. Peterson, Jacksonville State University
Mississippi’s Forgotten Son: Billy Barton and his Journalistic Battle for Redemption in the Closed Society

PANEL: Taking Your History Class on the Road: Inspiring Students with a Sense of Place Research
Abstract

Moderator: Kim Mangun, University of Utah

Mike Conway, Indiana University
Dale Cressman, Brigham Young University
Aimee Edmondson, Ohio University

4:10-5:10 Choice of two sessions

PAPER SESSION: Aliens, Espionage, and Anti-War Radicals: Dilemmas for a Free Press
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Moderator: James Aucoin, University of South Alabama

Brendon Floyd, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
The Worst Kind of Democrats This Side of Hell: John Daly Burk, the United Irishmen, the Federalist Party, and American Identity in the Early Republic

Erika Pribanic-Smith, University of Texas-Arlington, and Jared Schroeder, Southern Methodist University
Manifestos, Meetings, and Mother Earth: Emma Goldman's No-Conscription League and the First Amendment in 1917

Pat Washburn and Mike Sweeney, Ohio University
Grand Jury Transcripts in the Chicago Tribune’s 1942 Espionage Act Case: What Is Missing Is Significant

LOCAL PANEL:
Sixty Years Later: The Arkansas Gazette’s Coverage of the Desegregation of Little Rock Central High School
Abstract

Moderator: Donna Lampkin Stephens, University of Central Arkansas

Panelists (all former Arkansas Gazette journalists):

Jerry Dhonau
Bill Lewis
Ray Moseley
Jerry McConnell
Gene Foreman
Roy Reed

5:30-7:30 p.m. Local Journalist Award Reception
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