Northern Great Plains History Conference - Brandon - 2008

Errata and Changes to the Program

Members of the NGPHC Council:

• The representative of St. Cloud University is Betsy Glade.

• The representative of the State Historical Society of North Dakota is Kathleen Davison.

• Lori Ann Lahlum represents WHIG (the Women's History Interest Group) on the Council.

Schedule:

• Morning Sessions on Thursday and Friday run from 9:00 - 10:30 and 11:00 - 12:30.

Cancelled Sessions:

• Session 41 has been cancelled.  David Mulligan's paper will be presented in Session 34.

• Session 42 has been cancelled.

Amended Sessions:

Session 10.  Friday, Saturday 26, 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Room TBA

(PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SESSION HAS BEEN MOVED FROM THURSDAY MORNING)

Women Homesteaders on the Northern Plains (sponsored by WHIG and the Coalition for Western Women's History)

Chair:  Anne Kaplan (Minnesota Historical Society)

• Lori Ann Lahlum (Minnesota State University, Mankato), “'Came to Mpls. from the wild west yesterday':  Mina Westbye, New (Norwegian Immigrant) Womanhood, and the Homestead Frontier”

• Sarah Carter (University of Alberta), “South African Scrip Women Homesteaders and the Homesteads-for-Women Campaign in Western Canada, 1909-1914”

Comment:  David B. Danbom (Fargo, ND)

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Session 15.  Thursday, September 25, 11:00 a.m.  Private Dining Room

Twentieth-Century Africa

The Commentator in this session is now Eliakim Sibanda (University of Winnipeg).

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Session 28.  Friday, September 26, 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.  Private Dining Room

Reconsidering the Nineteenth Century Northwest

The Commentator in this session is now James Daschuk (University of Regina).

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Session 34.  Friday, September 26, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.  Room 234

Developing Military Leadership (sponsored by SMH)

Chair:  Stephen Bourque (US Army Command and General Staff  college)

• Donald F. Bittner (USMC Command and Staff College), "Leaders of the Corps from the Age of Napoleon to Kaiser Wilhelm II:  Deputies Adjutant General of the Royal Marines, 1814-1911"

• Alan Lamm (Mount Olive College), "A New Chaplaincy for a New Era:  The Professionalization of the U.S. Army Chaplaincy in the Guilded Age"

• David Mulligan (Bristol Community College and Our Lady of Fatima High School), "Father Joseph T. O'Callahan:  The Postwar Struggle of the Hero Priest"

Comment:  Joseph Fitzharris (University of St. Thomas)

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Session 43.  Saturday, September 27, 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Salon 3

Religion on the Plains

The Chair is now Kristina Oldenburg (Brandon University).