2018

Annual Meeting

April 13-14

In cooperation with the
Alabama Historical Association

DoubleTree Hilton Inn

808 20th Street, South

Birmingham, Alabama

Friday 13 April

(All at the DoubleTree Hilton Inn, Birmingham)

Registration 3:00 pm

Cash Bar with AHA 6:00 pm

AHA Annual Awards Banquet 7:00 pm

Session 1 (4:00-5:30 pm)

1.1: Digital Instruction and Resources

Chair:  Wesley Garmon (ADAH)

Ron Fritze (Athens State)

Teaching History in a Distance Learning Format Using Quality Matters

Elizabeth Dill (Troy Dothan)

Creating OER Textbooks -- an Initiative

Jennifer Pate & Stephanie Vickers (UNA)

Historic Scholarship in the Digital Age: Using an Institutional Repository to Promote Access and Interest in History Programs

 

1.2:  US Civil War in Alabama

Chair: Richard Schellhammer (UWA)

Whitney Snow (MWSU)

The Civil War Diary of Marshall County Native Catherine Fennell

Kayla Scott (UA)

Demoralization in Action: Mutiny and Desertion in Confederate Alabama

Justin Zimlich (USA)

The Last Charge of the War: The Battle of Blakeley and the Medal of Honor

 

 

Saturday 14 April

Registration 8:30 am

AAH-AHA Luncheon, 11:45 am

AAH Business Meeting 2:30—3:15 pm

Session 2 (10:30—11:45 am)

2.1: Herding Cats: Publishing Student Based Academic Journals

Chair:  Marty Olliff (Troy Dothan)

Panelists:

Dr. Karen Ross (Troy)
Sarah Craddock (UA)
Dr. Steven Gish (AUM)

 

2.2: Projects from the Archives

Chair:  Tim Pennycuff (UAB)

Haley Aaron (ADAH) & Rebekah Davis (Limestone Co. Archives)

Sharing Our Stories: Using Archival Collections to Develop Commemorative Events

Dallas Hanbury (Montgomery Co. Archives)

Montgomery County Slave Holder Affidavits

 

2.3: Reflections on Europe

Chair:  Jeffrey Bibbee (UNA)

Robert Barone (UM) & Karli Morris (UM)

Robert Recorde: Teaching Mathematics in the Tudor Age

Clark Hultquist  (UM)

French Media Representations of the United States in the Great War in 1918

Leilani Harris (Troy)

The Atlanta Jewish Community: Cases of Exceptionalism in the Era of the Holocaust