University of Missouri-St. Louis, Division of Continuing Education

Location: J.C. Penney Conference Center, Summit Lounge

• 09:00-09:20 a.m. | Welcome and Introductions, Kathleen Nigro, University of Missouri–St. Louis
• 09:30-10:30 a.m. | Kathryn Red Corn | The Osage History and Presence in the Midwest
• 10:30-11:15 a.m. | Kenneth Winn | The Prairie Puritan's Concubine: George Sibley, Breach of Marital Promise, and Anglo-Francophone Conflict on the Missouri Frontier
• 11:30-12:30 p.m. | Lunch
• 12:30-02:00 p.m. | Midwestern Masculinity
  • Chair:  Hyun-Jin Lim, UMSL
    
    • Lauren Chesnut, Bowling Green State University | Johnny Appleseed: Manhood and American Mythology
    • Rebecca Bayer, Texas State University–San Marcos | Searching for Leadership in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    • Mark M. Carroll, University of Missouri–Columbia) | The Gendered Politics and Perils of Sexual Slander in Late Antebellum Missouri
• 02:15-03:00 p.m. | Men’s Studies Program & Academic Leadership, A Discussion About Challenges: Part II: Feminist Frontiers: Women Who Shaped the Midwest
  • Chair: Sally Barr Ebest, University of Missouri–St. Louis
  • Yvonne Johnson, STLCC-Meramec | The Positive Impact of Diverse Leadership on Curriculum and Program Development at Institutions of Higher Learning: Missouri Case Studies | Dr. Johnson will discuss her edited collection of biographical essays about women leaders in the Midwest who challenged gender, racial, class, and ethnic boundaries
    
• 03:30 p.m. | Docent Tour of the Mercantile Library
• 07:00 p.m. | Freedom Suite and Harriet’s Story: Original Music Compositions by Dr. Barbara Harbach. Preceded by a presentation by Mrs. Lynne Jackson, Dred Scott’s great-great granddaughter, of the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation (FREE and open to the public.)
  • Freedom Suite is a musical tribute in three movements for String Quintet honoring the lives of Harriet, Dred, Eliza, and Lizzie Scott with the Dickson String Quarter and Charles Clements on bass. This piece had its debut in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on 18 January 2011 at UMSL.
  • Harriet’s Story, a dramatic song cycle, is written for soprano, violin and piano, in three movements.  I created the lyrics to the first two movements in the voice of Harriet Scott, and the third movement uses actual quotes of Harriet Tubman. Marlissa Hudson is the soprano with Alla Voskoboynikova on piano.  This evening marks the debut of this composition.  
  • Location: Unity Lutheran Church, Bel Nor Map & Directions

• 09:00-10:15 a.m.
  • Gary Fuenfhausen (J.C. Penney 222) | Little Cabins: Slave Dwelling Architecture in Missouri’s Little Dixie
    • Architectural and cultural historian Gary Fuenfhausen presents “Little Cabins: Slave Dwelling Architecture in Missouri’s Little Dixie.” This presentation will include images of Missouri’s Little Dixie plantations and “big houses,” as well as the four distinct slave dwelling styles of the era and how they compare with the slave quarters found across the American South.
      
  • Ann Hazelwood (J.C. Penney 78) | AWoman's Work is Never Done
    • Quilt historian Ann Hazelwood will discuss quilt making in the Midwest, not only as an eventual art form but also how women used their materials for both expression and economy.  Ann invites the audience to bring their heirloom quilts. As part of her presentation, Ann will place them chronologically and discuss their unique features.
      
• 10:15-11:45 a.m. | Midwestern Racialized Identities (J.C. Penney 222)
  
  • Chair: Bryonie Carter, STLCC at Meramec 
    
    • Kate Boudreau, Saint Louis University | Busing for Desegregation: Race, Space, and Schools in St. Louis, 1995-1996
    • Keona K. Ervin, Luther College | In This All-Out Struggle for Freedom: African American Women Workers and the March on Washington Movement in St. Louis, 1941-1946
    • Peggy Jones, University of Nebraska at Omaha | But All of Us are Brave: Exploring Racial, Gender, and Sexual Identity of a Black Woman in the White Midwest
    • Rebecca Preiss Odom, Saint Louis University | Assigned an Appropriate Place: Race, Gender, and Class in the St. Charles, Missouri World War I Parades
• 10:15-11:45 a.m. | Panel Presentation (J.C. Penney 78) | Constructions of Respectability: Race, Gender and Sex in the Midwest at the Dawn of the 20th Century
  • Chair: Trevin Jones, Saint Louis University
    
    • Kim Schreck, Washington University | Race, Sex and Family in the Construction of a New South Masculinity
    • Andrea Weingartner, University of Missouri-Columbia | Men Against Sex Slavery: Feminists in the American Heartland from 1880-1900
    • Leroy M. Rowe, University of Missouri-Columbia | Sex, Race and Poverty: Juvenile Deliquency and Institutional Control at the State Tipton Industrial Home for Negro Girls at Tipton Missouri from 19-016-1940
      
• 11:45-01:00 p.m. | Tours of the Mercantile and Western Manuscripts Exhibits and Lunch
• 01:00-02:15 p.m. | Keynote Speaker: Robert Moore (Auditorium) | They Love Liberty: What Court Documents Tell Us about the Lives of African American Women in Antebellum St. Louis (FREE and open to the public.)
  
  • The almost wholly intact court records of the City of St. Louis present an incredible picture of what life was like for African Americans in this border city before the Civil War.  Data and stories recovered from records chronicling emancipations, suits for freedom, probate auctions of human beings, lawsuits against persons assisting slaves to escape to free territories, and mandatory licenses obtained by free persons of color tell us much about the lives and culture of people who sought liberty in diverse ways during this tumultuous period in American history.
    
• 02:15-03:15 p.m. | Film Screening (Auditorium)
  • Oh Freedom After Awhile | A historical documentary about a dramatic 1939 roadside protest by Missouri Bootheel sharecroppers--black and white--and the repercussions it had in politics and in their lives. Lynn Rubright, script consultant and co-producer. Please remain after the screening for a discussion with Shirley Whitfield Farmer and Mikki Whitfield Henson, members of the family featured in the film. 
• 03:30-04:45 p.m. | Literacy Workshop (Auditorium) Presented by Lynn Rubright 

Keynote speaker, Dr. Robert Moore has been interested in the stories contained within St. Louis’ court documents since his arrival in this city in 1991.  He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University, and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in history from Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches as an adjunct professor.  He has written articles for national magazines on Lewis and Clark, westward expansion and Dred Scott.  He is the author of eight books, including The Gateway Arch: An Architectural Dream, published in 2005.  Working as the historian at Jefferson National Expansion Memorial has given Dr. Moore the unique opportunity of consulting and interviewing many of the principal designers, engineers and craftspersons who created the Gateway Arch and its landscape.

Born and raised in Oriskany, New York, Dr. Moore has been employed by the National Park Service for over 25 years, working at such diverse areas as Saratoga, Yorktown, Morristown, Gettysburg, and Theodore Roosevelt’s home at Sagamore Hill.

Plenary Presenter, Gary Fuenfhausen, has served as Curator at the Andrew County Historical Society, Savannah, Missouri; Executive Director of the Historic Kansas City Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri; and an Assistant Director with Shoal Creek Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri.

Plenary Presenter, Ann. M. Hazelwood, is a writer, historian and quilt appraiser certified by the American Quilting Society, a founding member of the Professional Association of Appraisers and Quilted Textiles (serving as the official textiles appraiser for the Antiques Road Show in Saint Louis), and serves on the board of the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky.

Plenary Speaker, Kathryn Red Corn, director of the Osage Tribal Museum and Archives. The adaptive reuse of the building to a museum was funded as a Public Works Administration (WPA) project. At the time of its opening in 1938, it was the only museum in the world owned by an American Indian tribe.

Plenary Presenter, Lynn Rubright, recipient of the National Storytelling Network’s 2007 ORACLE Award for Lifetime Achievement; professor emerita, Webster University; a co-producer of  2001 EMMY award winning video documentary,  "Oh Freedom After While:  Sharecropper Protest in Southeast Missouri in 1939"; author of  children's chapter book, Mama's Window and  Beyond the Beanstalk: Interdisciplinary Learning through Storytelling;  Designer and Director of Project TELL: Teaching English through Living Language for Kirkwood School District; presently,  author - artist in residence for COCA with focus on literacy through the arts

Plenary Presenter, Kenneth H. Winn is the Director of the Library and Public Services for the Missouri Supreme Court and Senior Lecturer in American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. For sixteen years he sixteen years he served as the State Archivist of Missouri. Dr. Winn is the author or co-editor of a number of books and articles on American and Missouri history, including "Arsenic Eaters of the Nineteenth Century: Dying to Be Pretty."

This conference has been made possible through the generous support of the Missouri Humanities Council, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Campus partners include the Gender Studies Program, the Department of History, the Pierre Laclede Honors College, the College of Arts and Sciences, and Women in the Arts.