Rev. Cornelius P. Forster, O.P.
Making History Conference
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Welcoming Reception, 12:30-1:00 Lower Level Harkins
Panel A: Wartime Mentalities
1:00-2:45, Harkins LL 13
Chair: Dr. Patrick Breen
Panel B: Beyond Domesticity
1:00-2:45, Harkins LL 15
Chair: Dr. Alexander Orquiza
The Spirit of the Political Grand Fathers :
The Memory of the American Revolution on
the Eve of the Civil War
Christopher Del Santo
The Acciden
Shannon Moore
The Forgotten Women of the American Revolution
Elizabeth A. Petretti
Ferry
How the Cristero War and the Great Depression
Shaped American Responses toward Mexican
Immigration in the Catholic Church and Civil Society
Gabrielle M. Manion
On the Case of Genocide: Eichmann, Mengele and the
Theory of Doubling
Lionelha Macomber
The Unexpected Alliance: Black and White Women
of the Antebellum South
Taylor Godfrey
The Duality of Mary Todd Lincoln
Kathleen O. Ross
When Mom and Grandma Go Back to School: The
Continuing Education
Program and its Transformation over the First Decade
Lauren Elizabeth Berolini
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Refreshments, 2:45-3:15 Lower Level Harkins
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Panel C: Word Power
3:15-4:45 Harkins LL 13
Chair: Dr. Robin Greene
Wet Stars: Ancient Conceptions of Stars in Golden
Age Latin Poetry
Cecelia K. Lahiff
: Defining Patriotism
in the Ballads of the Temperance Movement
Mackenzie Tor
Los Angeles and NWA: A Story of Civil Rights
Activism
Elaine Carey
Panel D: Foreign Affairs
3:15-4:45 Harkins LL 15
Chair: Dr. Edward E. Andrews
: The Loyalist
Diaspora to the Island of St. John during and
after the American Revolution
Riley Maloney
The Trent Affair: Avoiding a Possible Crisis
during the American Civil War
Alison Patterson
Another Flopnik: The Ford Edsel Flop and the
Sputnik Terror
Nicholas Moran
SPONSORED BY THE P ROVIDENCE C OLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND C LASSICS
THROUGH A GENEROUS ENDOWMENT FROM THE G LADYS B ROOKS F OUNDATION
AND SUPPORT FROM THE DEAN OF A RTS AND SCIENCES AND THE C ENTER FOR ENGAGED L EARNING