NASOH 2008

Wednesday, May 7

4:00-7:00 pm Registration

8:00-10:00 pm NASOH Council Meeting, Grand Central Station, Crowne Plaza

Thursday, May 8

7:00-4:00 Registration

7:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30-9:00 Opening Remarks (Paul DeOrsay, Jim Bradford, Della Scott-Ireton)

9:00-10:20 Session: Gulf Coast Interfaces        

         Chair: Gene Smith                                                                                                     

9:00-9:20      Wayne Abrahamson.  “Up bar! Down! The History and Archaeology of Steam Navigation and Side-Wheel Steamships between Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida”                                   

9:20-9:40     Kendra Kennedy.  “The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Pensacola Waterfront”                      

9:40-10:00   Chuck Meide. “Connections Between the Sea and Inland Waterways at America’s Oldest Port”

10:00-10:20                  Questions

10:20-10:40 Coffee Break

10:40-12:00 Session: New Insights on Old Stories

            Chair: Della Scott-Ireton

            10:40-11:00   Warren Riess. “New Historical Insights From the Ronson Ship”     

                11:00-11:20   Michael Tuttle. “Disease and Discovery: Pre-Cookian Spanish Intercourse with Hawaii.”

                11:20-11:40   Arne Bialuschewski.  “Murky Waters: The Archaeology of Early Modern Piracy”

                11:40-12:00  Questions     

10:40-12:00 Session: Government Service on the Maritime Edge

            Chair: Robert Browning

10:40-11:00  John Rawls.  “The Head of the Passes: A History of the Navigation Engineering at the Mouth of the Mississippi”

11:00-11:20  Jennifer McKinnon. “Serving the Maritime Edge of Florida’s East Coast: U.S. Life Saving Houses of Refuge”

11:20-11:40  John Galluzzo.  “’Forty Years Without a Break in Duty:’ Life with the U.S. Life Saving Service on the Ohio River”

11:40-12:00 Questions

12:00-1:00 Lunch.  Lunch Speaker: Cathy Green, Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary “Exploring Maritime Heritage with NOAAs National Marine Sanctuary Program in the Gulf and Beyond.”

1:00-2:40  Session: International Relations and the Sea

            Chair: Tim Lynch

1:00-1:20  Larry Bartlett. “The Water Witch Incident: ‘A Most Unprovoked, Unwarrantable and Dastardly Attack’”

1:20-1:40  James Knarr. “’Very Good: I Shall Burn Her:’ The 1870 Forward Incident and US-Mexican Relations”

1:40-2:00  Christopher Jerome. “The Decision to Send the Great White Fleet and American Naval Strategy, 1905-1907”

2:00-2:20  Samuel Negus.   “Strategy and Sea Power: British Neutrality and the Union Civil War Blockade”

2:20-2:40  Questions

1:00-2:40 Session: Technology and Action in the Civil War

            Chair: Wilson West

1:00-1:20  Robert Browning.  “’Casting a Shorter Shadow:’ Farragut’s Subordinates at the Battle of New Orleans”

1:20-1:40  Matthew Eng. “Confederate Defeat at the Bluff City: The Battle of Memphis, 6 June 1862”

1:40-2:00  Maurice Melton. “William A. Webb and the Loss of the C.S.S. Atlanta: A Reappraisal “

2:00-2:20  William Thiesen. “USRCS Naugatuck: The First and Only Revenue Cutter Service Ironclad”

2:20-2:40  Questions

2:40-3:00 Break

3:00-4:20  Session: Public and Personal Memory in Naval War

Chair: Deirdre O’Regan

3:00-3:20  Phillip Rutherford. “Of Condensed Milk and Canned Seaweed: Food and Foraging in the PTO”

3:20-3:40  George Billy. “Mariners at War”

3:40-4:00  Ryan Wadle. “The Naval Order of the United States and Naval Public Image”

4:00-4:20 Questions

3:00-4:20  Session: Arcadia Mill

Chair: Chuck Meide

3:00-3:20  John Phillips. “Chronological and Spatial Dynamics and Water-Powered Industry in West Florida”

3:20-3:40  Brian Rucker. “Historical Overview of Arcadia Mill, a Colonial and Early American Water Powered Complex in West Florida”

3:40-4:00  Monica Beck. “’Of a Quality and Value Not Surpassed by That of Any Other Part of the World:’ Exploitation of Northwest Florida’s Timber”

4:00-4:20 Questions

5:30-7:30 CAMM Sponsored Reception at Historic L&N Marine Railway Terminal

Friday, May 9

8:00-4:00 Registration

8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast

9:00-10:20 Session: Modern Stories of Coastal Conflict

            Chair: Sal Mercagliano

             9:00-9:20 Roger Horky. “Naval Operations During the Korean War: Blurring the Margins of Land, Sea and Air”

                9:20-9:40 Edward Marolda. “Green Water-Brown Water Successes and Failures in the Vietnam War”

9:40-10:00 Douglas Kroll. “Searching for Submarines in Sailing Craft: The Story of Greenport, NY ‘Canvas Hangers’”

10:00-10:20 Questions

9:00-10:20 Session: Southern Maritime Heritage I

             Chair: Greg Cook

                9:00-9:20 William Dudley. “Naval Installations on Chesapeake Bay”

                9:20-9:40 Jennifer Speelman. “A Naval Revival: The Charleston Navy Base, 1901-1995”

                9:40-10:00 William Still. “North Carolina Ship/Boat Building: A Study in Southern Maritime Heritage”

                10:00-10:20 Questions

10:20-10:40 Break

10:40-12:00 Session: Antebellum Social and Cultural History

            Chair: Cathy Green

10:40-11:00  Edward Combs. “’Operations are too limited:’ The Labor Questions of the Navy’s Antebellum Southern Shipyards”

11:00-11:20  Kathryn Mudgett. “Driven Into Port: The Trials of Manuel Pereira, Mariner, and Others Imprisoned Under the Negro Seamen Acts”

11:20-11:40 William Pencak. “Uriah Phillips Levy: A Jew in the Nineteenth Century American Navy”

11:40-12:00 Questions

10:40-12:00 Session: Southern Maritime Heritage II

            Chair:

                10:40-11:00 Forrest. “Norfolk Navy Yard and the New Navy-Era”

11:00-11:20 Larry Babits “A Probable North Carolina-Built Skipjack: Archaeological and Historical Research”

11:20-11:40 David Stewart. “The Washington Park Vessel: A Nineteenth-Century North Carolina Centerboard Vessel”

                11:40-12:00 Questions

12:00-1:00 Lunch.  Speaker: Dean Van Galen, Vice President for University Advancement.  “The Vice Admiral John H. Fetterman State of Florida Maritime Museum and Research Center:  A Model for Academic, Governmental, and Private Sector Partnership.”

1:00-2:40 Session: Legacies of Disease

            Chair: Charles Schultz

1:00-1:20 John Beeler. “’The most virulent case of Fever I have ever heard of:’ The Royal Navy, the Caribbean, and Yellow Fever, 1860-1863”

                1:20-1:40 Canney. “Wellness by Isolation: Health of U.S. Africa Squadron, 1842-1861”

                1:40-2:00 Harold Langley. “The Antebellum History of the Pensacola Naval Hospital”

2:00-2:20 John Mitchum. “Patrolling the White Man’s Grave: The Impact of Disease on Anglo-American Naval Operations Against the Slave Trade, 1841-1862”

                2:20-2:40 Questions

1:00-2:40 Session: Redefining Maritime Conflict in the Age of Sail

            Chair: Warren Reiss

                1:00-1:20 Christopher Magra “Naval Strategy During the American Revolution”

1:20-1:40 Kelly Chaves “"National Villains or 'Villians of all Nations'?:  Domestic and International Piracy within the English Common Law”

1:40-2:00 Edward Martin “Thus our Coast is Defended”

                2:00-2:20 Questions

2:40-4:00 Session: French Influences on the Western Edges of the Atlantic World

            Chair: Faye Kert

2:40-3:00 David Head “Slave Smuggling Privateers: The Lafitte Brothers and the Louisiana Slave Trade, 1807-1820”

3:00-3:20  Kurt Knoerl “Stepping into the Same River Twice: Reexamining the Inundated Shoreline at Old Fort Niagara and the Potential for New Research on the Region’s British Maritime History”

3:20-3:40  Daniel Vogel “The Closed Seas Conundrum: Resource Maneuvering and the Frontier’s Effect on Great Lakes Naval Operations During the War of 1812”

                3:40-4:00 Questions

2:40-4:00 Session: Current Research in the Gulf

            Chair:

2:40-3:00 Greg Cook “Emanuel Point II: Methodologies and Hull Construction of the Second Ship from the 1559 Luna Colonization Fleet in Pensacola Bay, Florida”

                3:00-3:20 John Worth “Revisiting the 1559 Colonial Fleet of Tristán De Luna y Arellano:

3:20-3:40 John Bratten “The Emanuel Point Ship II: Discovery and Age Identification of a Sixteenth-century Spanish Vessel in Pensacola, Florida”

                3:40-4:00 Questions

5:30-8:30 Awards Ceremony and SEARCH, Inc. sponsored Reception (with heavy hors d’ oeuvres) at Museum of Commerce and Museum of Industry, Historic Pensacola Village.

Saturday, May 10

8:00-12:00 Registration

8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast

9:00-3:00 CAMM Tour of Naval Aviation Museum and Fort Barrancas

9:00-10:20 Session:  New Light on Transitional Moments

            Chair:

            9:00-9:20 Rodney Carlisle “The Loss of the Healdton: A Spurious Casus Belli for Entry into World War I”

                9:20-9:40  Brian Payne “Policing Coastal Fisheries: The Case of the David J. Adams, 1886”

9:40-10:00  Jamin Wells “The Valentine's Day Wrecks: Shipwrecks, the Sea, and Late Nineteenth-Century American Culture”

                10:00-10:20 Questions

9:00-10:20 Session: Crossing the Combahee-On Land, Underwater and In Between

            Chair: Christopher McCabe

            9:00-9:20 Edward Salo “An Ethnohistory of Ferry Transportation in the South Carolina Lowcountry”

                9:20-9:40  Gordon Watts “Location, Documentation and Reconstruction of a Vessel a Combahee Ferry”

9:40-10:00 Emily Jateff and Eric Poplin. “Combahee Ferry Historic District: A South Carolina Riverine Maritime Cultural Landscape”

                10:00-10:20 Questions

10:20-10:40 Break