Letter from the Chair, 2002 Anita Shelton

History at EasternThe Annual Newsletter of the History Department at Eastern Illinois University

Charleston, IL July 2002

Newest Professors 2Faculty News 2Teachers Conference 3Hist. Admin. Conference 3P.A.T. Regional Conference 4P.A.T. Banquet and Awards 4African-American Exhibit 5Summertime: An Exhibit 5Historia 6Graduate News 6HA Students 8MA Students 10Alumni News 10Telefund Donors 11History and September 11 12History Club 12

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Greetings, Alumni andFriends!

Teacher Certification was ourhighest priority this past year as thedepartment 1) successfully gained re-accreditation by NCATE (NationalCouncil for the Assessment of TeacherEducation), and (2) worked to remodelits teacher certification programs tomeet a challenging new set of guide-lines and requirements issued by theIllinois State Board of Education(ISBE). Both are large accomplish-ments. The first requires no explana-tion; the second does as it is resultingin major changes to our programs start-ing in Fall 2002.

The changes mandated bythe ISBE are two-fold. First, the ISBEwould like to see new teachers trainedto teach a broader range of subjectsthan in the past, so that rather thanpreparing biology, history, or Englishteachers, universities will be preparing(general) sciences, social sciences, orlanguage arts teachers. The studentswanting to become Social Scienceteachers must take coursework in allof the following areas: economics, ge-ography, history, political science, psy-chology, and sociology/ anthropology.At the same time, each student will bedesignating a major area on which tofocus (which, for many if not most stu-dents, will be history). Since in ourdepartment we have long offered par-allel majors in History with TeacherCertification and Social Sciences withTeacher Certification, our challengewas to combine the best of both ofthese programs without overwhelmingthe students with required semesterhours. With the cooperation and col-laboration of the chairs and curricu-lum committees in all of the social sci-

ence departments, we managed to de-velop new curricula for our futureteachers that can be completed in justfour-and-a-half years (including thestudent teaching semester), but whichstill cover material with the necessarybreadth. This was not an easy task!The second part of the ISBE’s man-date is that all teacher certification can-didates pass extensive standardizedtests covering all the areas within theircurriculum to demonstrate their com-petence. We have every confidencethat our students will be prepared todo this, and our department will buildon its reputation for producing the besthistory and social science teachers inthe state.

I should express specialthanks to Charles Titus, the director ofour teacher certification programs inhistory and the social sciences, for hishard and successful work preparing ourportfolios for NCATE and leading ourcurriculum revisions for the ISBE. Iwould also like to acknowledge thededication of our faculty, especially onthe departmental curriculum commit-tee, who took on the task of re-think-ing the curriculum with energy and cre-ativity. Proof of their effectiveness isthat the ISBE has been holding up EIU’shistory and social science program re-visions as models for our counterpartselsewhere in the state to follow.

Changing the subject com-pletely, it is my pleasure to introducethe newest member of the faculty inour history department: MichelleLemaster, Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins,will join us in the Fall to teach colonialand revolutionary America. Dr.Lemaster’s research focuses on Indian-white relations in the colonial south-east. She will enhance our curriculum

with courses on Native American his-tory and possibly comparative colo-nial history, and bring the perspectivesof race and gender to the standardcolonial and revolutionary Americasurveys. We are looking forward towelcoming her.

Finally, I want to turn to you,the alumni of our programs in Historyand Social Science, and thank you foryour continued financial support. Ourfund-raising campaign last year raised

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History Faculty at Eastern Illinois University

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The History Department’s Newest Professorsby Brian Gordon

The History Department welcomes two new professors who just com-pleted their first year at Eastern Illinois.

Dr. Scott Levi comes to us from the University of Wisconsin in Madison,with a major field of study in South Asian History and a minor field in CulturalAnthropology. His dissertation became the basis of his recently-published book,

The Indian Diaspora inCentral Asia and itsTrade, 1550-1900(Leiden, 2002). His lan-guages include Hindu,Urdu, Persian, Russian,and various Turkic dia-lects. Dr. Levi has lived,traveled, and researchedin such places as Indiaand Uzbekistan. Duringthe 2001-02 academic year,he delivered a number of

papers, including one at an invited workshop on “Territorialism in the MiddleEast” at the European University Institute in Florence. He teaches courses onworld history, the making of the Islamic World, and Terrorism. Dr. Levi returned toTashkent, Uzbekistan this summer to conduct research for his next book, tenta-tively titled, Khoqand: from Khanate to Colony in the Farghana Valley.

Terry A. Barnhart published a bookchapter, two journal articles, three bookreviews, presented papers, and servedas a commentator at a historical con-ference this past year. His essay “To-ward a Science of Man: European In-fluences on the Archaeology ofEphraim George Squier” appeared inNew Perspectives on the Origins ofAmericanist Archaeology, ed. DavidL. Browman and Stephen Williams (Uni-versity of Alabama, 2002). He presented“‘Elegant and Useful Learning’: TheAntiquarian and Historical Society ofIllinois, 1827-1829” at the 22nd AnnualIllinois History Symposium at Spring-field in November 2001, which formspart of the Spring 2002 Journal of theIllinois State Historical Society. His“Educating the Masses: The Normal-School Movement and the Origins ofEastern Illinois University, 1895-1899”appeared in Journal of Illinois History(Autumn 2001). He presented “‘ACommon Feeling’: Regional Identityand Historical Consciousness in theOld Northwest” at the 2002 Great LakesAmerican Studies Conference, OhioUniversity, Athens, April 12, 2002. Dr.Barnhart was promoted from associateprofessor to professor in April2002,and continues to teach activelyin the undergraduate program and theM.A. in Historical Administration Pro-gram.

Roger Beck was reelected as Treasurerto the World History Association inJanuary. He gave a talkback followingthe performance of “Master Harold andthe Boys.” Last summer, he chaired apanel for the World History Associa-tion in Salt Lake City. He had a chapterpublished in Christian Missionariesand the State in Third World, entitled“ Cape Colonial Officials and ChristianMissionaries in the early NineteenthCentury.” He finished the 2nd editionof a 9th and 10th grade World Historytextbook entitled World History: Pat-terns of Introduction.

Joy Kammerling had numerous bookreviews published this year. She refer-eed submitted articles for the journalChurch History. She continued workon her book Andreas Osiander and the

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Dr. José Deustua is a special-ist in Andean and Latin American His-tory and Sociology, a native of Peru,with a doctorate from the University ofParis. He wrote his dissertation on“Mines, Money, and Men in theAndes: an Economic and Social His-tory of Mining in Peru in the NineteenthCentury,” which became the basis forhis book The Bewitchment of Silver:Mining and the Social Economy in19th-century Peru (Athens, Ohio,2000). His languages include Spanish,French, English, Quechua, Portuguese,and Italian. Currently, he is completing a project about mercury mining and thesocial economy in the 19th-century Peru. He also has been invited to presentpapers at the XIII International Congress of Economic History in Buenos Aires,and at the U.S. Mining History Association’s next meeting in Wallace, Peru. Hisnext project will take him to Mexico to elaborate on a comparative mining exporthistory between that nation and Andean Peru. He teaches courses in Latin Ameri-can history and also has been very active this year on the building of EIU LatinAmerican and Latino Studies Committee (he was named its Secretary in Spring2002). Professor Deustua is looking forward to recruiting new history studentsinterested in those fields for Eastern’s Master of Arts in History program.

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History Teachers Conference Fall 2001by Jen Hyser

The History Department hosted the twenty-second annual HistoryTeachers Conference in the Martin Luther King, Jr. University Union on 10 Octo-ber. Middle and High School level history and social studies teachers enjoyed anumber of presentations relating to the conference’s theme “Exploring Pathwaysto Excellence.” Keynote speaker Mr. Tom Vance, Site Manager of the Lincoln LogCabin Historic Site, gave a talk on “Hands on History: Using Historic Sites asExperiential History Laboratories.” Other presenters included:

Henry H. Glassie–Distinguished Speaker at 25thAnnual HA Symposium

Henry H. Glassie, noted folklorist, author, and professor at Indiana Uni-versity reflected on 25 years of material culture studies at the 25th Annual Sympo-sium of EIU’s Historical Administration Program. Glassie challenged the 64 regis-trants to overcome the criticisms levied against museums–that they are capitalist,colonialist, western-centric, and conservative–by contextualizing objects so theycan tell evocative stories of makers, consumers, and communities.

Three museum professionals followed, each addressing the conferencetopic, “the Ever Changing Museum Field.” Nancy Bryk, Curator of Domestic Lifeat Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, focused on the importance of flexibil-ity. Maria Quine Leiby, Curator of Exhibits at the Michigan Historical Museum,described the changes that occurred at the Detroit Historical Society, and theways that different meanings of history and memories of the past shape collec-tions. Tara Williams, Counselor at the Family Service Association, discussedtrends in non-profit management over the past 25 years.

The symposium concluded with a banquet and auction to support theHistorical Administration Program Association’s scholarship fund.

l to r: Pete Noll, HA, class of 2001-02; Dr. Pravina Shukla, Asst. Prof.of Folklore, Indiana University; Dr. Henry H. Glassie, College Prof. ofFolklore and Co-Dir. of Turkish Studies, Indiana University; Dr. DebraA. Reid; Gordon Oyer, Accounting, University of Illinois, Saturday, April27, 2002, following Dr. Glassie's keynote address.

Faculty cont’d.Jews, to be published by ConcordiaAcademic Press. She was awarded theDean of Adult and ContinuingEducation’s Award for Service forTeachers and was nominated for theDistinguished Honors Faculty Award.

Newton Key finished the last of his bi-ographies for the Oxford Dictionaryof National Biography, forthcoming in2004, and he and his co-author RobertBucholz submitted the manuscript forEarly Modern England: A NarrativeHistory to Blackwell Publishers, andhave nearly completed the companionsourcebook. He also presented talkson social revolution (in Chicago, alsosolicited for a book collection), feasts(in Toronto), and Monmouth magis-trates (in Houston). He continues asbook review editor of H-Albion, andas webmaster of the department, ofLocalitiés/Localities, and of the Mid-west Conference on British Studies.Perhaps the high point of teaching thisyear, which included British History,Revolutions, and Historical Publica-tions, was taking the latter class to R.R.Donnelley’s Mattoon plant whichprints, binds, and mails out some 20million magazines each month.

John McElligott has been spending histime developing a new course on theSeventeenth Century Scientific Revo-lution.

Andrew Nolan taught classes in colo-nial and Revolutionary America and onthe U.S. Constitution. He successfullydefended his dissertation at the Uni-versity of Illinois on the Scopes Trial,and is working on an article that ex-plores historical memory as a livingmonument embedded within ongoingcultural discussions about the natureof national identity. He accepted a po-sition at the University of Nevada,Reno, where he will teach the historyof the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.He has enjoyed being a member of ourDepartment and will miss all its mem-bers.

Onaiwu W. Ogbomo published “TheEvolution of an Ethnic Identity: TheOwan of Midwestern Nigeria,” in TheTransformation of Nigeria, ed.Adebayo Oyebade (Trenton, 2002). Hecurated a photographic exhibit on Af-rican Americans in Coles County (see

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· Richard Hansen of Mt. Zion High School who demonstratedhow artifacts can be used in history classes;

· Dr. Fred Isele of Western Illinois University’s Regional Centerat Moline who presented “E-Packs,” and “Powerful Delivery ofSocial Studies Standards”;

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Faculty cont’d.related article). At a conference on Fa-therhood Today in the AfricanDiaspora held in October in Halifax,Canada, he presented a paper titled“Fatherhood in African American Fami-lies: A Historical Perspective.” In No-vember 2001 at the African StudiesAssociation annual meeting in Hous-ton Texas, he gave a paper on “BritishColonial Forestry Policy in Benin Prov-ince, Nigeria, 1897 to 1960,” and inMarch 2002 at a conference on Nigeriain Austin he gave a presentation on“The Colonizers and `The Natives’:Isolation and Exclusion Practices inColonial Nigeria.”

Debra A. Reid coordinated a newproject in material culture documenta-tion during Fall 2001 that involvedgraduate students in the HistoricalAdministration program, staff of theIllinois Amish Interpretive Center, andAmish residents in Arthur and Arcola.She published the following: “It TakesTwo: Interpreting Women and Men atOpen Air Museums in the Midwest,”Midwest Open Air Magazine, 22, 3 (Fall2001); “African-Americans, Commu-nity Building, and the Role of the Statein Rural Reform in Texas, 1890’s-1930’s,” in The Countryside in the Ageof the Modern State: Political Histo-ries of Rural America, ed. CatherineMcNicol Stock and Robert D. Johnson(Cornell University Press); “The Ne-gro Extension Service in Texas and Bio-logical Progress in Agriculture 1915-1935,” Biological Progress in Agricul-ture, Proceedings of CIMA XII: TheInternational Congress of Agricul-tural Museums, Poznan, Poland, 12-16 October 1998 (National Museumof Agriculture and Food Industry,Szreniawa); and a couple of pieces inthe Fall 2001 ALHFAM Bulletin (Asso-ciation for Living History Farms andAgricultural Museums). She presentedpapers at several history and museumstudies conferences including the thirdWho Owns America? conference spon-sored by the Land Tenure Center atthe University of Wisconsin-Madison,the 2001 ALHFAM conference inWilliamsburg, the triennial meeting ofIAMA in Linlar, Germany, and the Fall2001 MOMCC conference in Grayling,Michigan. Dr. Reid is a new member ofthe Board of the Illinois Amish Inter-pretive Center, Arcola, and was elected

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Phi Alpha Theta Regional History Conferenceby Jen Hyser

On Saturday, April 20, 2002 Eastern’s Epsilon-Mu chapter hosted PhiAlpha Theta’s combined Southern and Northern Illinois Regional History Confer-ence in Buzzard Hall. The event was attended by members, alumni, and facultyadvisors from Eastern Illinois University, Bradley University, Illinois State Univer-sity, McKendree College, Northern Illinois University, Rockford College, SouthernIllinois University at Carbondale, and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Students presented 27 papers on a variety of topics; Eastern was well representedwith presentations by Harley Jones, Mirjam Mueller, and Louis Baczewski.

Phi Alpha Theta National Representative Dr. Gregory Guzman ad-dressed the conference with a report on recent national level news and changeswithin the society. The convention concluded with an awards ceremony, at whichEastern Illinois’ Louis Baczewski was awarded second prize in the category ofundergraduate United States history for his paper on the International Brother-hood of Electrical Workers local 309, 1965-2002. Faculty Advisor Dr. MichaelShirley made concluding remarks thanking the all those involved for helping tomake the conference a success. Particularly indispensable to Dr. Shirley in orga-nizing the conferencewas outgoing Epsi-lon-Mu ChapterPresident, TeresaCribelar. David Bellwill be the next Chap-ter President for Epsi-lon-Mu.

Dr. Michael Shirley awards Lou Baczewski secondprize for undergraduate U.S. history paper.

Phi Alpha Theta Banquet and Student Awardsby Jen Hyser

On April 19, 2002, Epsilon Mu, Eastern Illinois’ chapter of Phi AlphaTheta, and Eastern’s History Club co-hosted the annual History Department Ban-quet, at Richard’s Farm in Casey. Featured speaker Dr. Alfred J. Andrea, Distin-guished Scholar-In-Residence at the University of Louisville, delivered a slidelecture on “Crusaders asViewed by Byzantines andMuslims.” Dr. Andrea, whooversees Phi Alpha Theta’sannual student journalcompetition, also notedEastern’s repeated finesubmissions in that contest(see Historia article). Epsi-lon Mu inducted LouisBaczewski, MichaelBalestri, Lauren Berggren,

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l to r: Drs. Roger Beck, Alfred Andrea, and AnitaShelton at the Phi Alpha Theta banquet, Casey.

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Faculty cont’d.as the United States Alternate to thePresidium of the AssociationInternationale Des Musees’D’Agriculture an organizational affili-ate of the International Council of Mu-seums. She continues as the treasurerfor the Rural Women’s Studies Asso-ciation and the Midwest Open AirMuseums Coordinating Council, andas publications chair for ALHFAM.

Rick Riccio designed several exhibitsand displays for the Morton Arbore-tum, Jane Addams Hull House, CahokiaMounds State Historic Site, and Lin-coln Log Cabin State Historic Site. Atthe former, his design of the Big RockVisitor Station won an Illinois MuseumAssociation Superior AchievementAward.

Anita Shelton, now completing herseventh(!) year as chair, was nominatedthis year by the College of Arts andHumanities as Chair of the Year. In ad-dition to her usual chairing duties, shehas written several book reviews andis completing a chapter for a collectionof Polish historians of the 19th and 20th

centuries. She helped to design a newcurriculum for secondary teacher certi-fication in history and the social sci-ences that is being implemented Fall2002 (see Letter from Chair). She alsoworked on the portfolio that gained thehistory department’s secondary teachercertification programs re-accreditationby NCATE. She serves on both theHumanities and History panels of theIllinois Board of Higher Education inSpringfield. This summer, she traveledto Cape Town, South Africa to estab-lish a study abroad connection for thestudents of EIU, which she ferventlyhopes students will want to take ad-vantage of.

Michael Shirley continues to serve asthe department’s undergraduate advi-sor and as faculty advisor to our Epsi-lon Mu chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, thenational history honor society; in April,Epsilon Mu hosted the combinedSouthern and Northern Illinois RegionalPhi Alpha Theta Student History Con-ference for 2001-02. He and CharlesTitus together received a UniversityTEDE grant this year for a Macintoshcomputer system and video equipmentto use in the Social Science educationprogram.

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Coles County African-American Photo Exhibitby Duane Smith

One of the newest professors in the History Department has hit theground running. Dr. Onaiwu Wilson Ogbomo, Associate Professor of History anddirector of the Eastern Illinois University African American Studies program, startedworking at Eastern Illinois in Fall 2000 and immediately began collecting imagesand information on the African Americans in Coles County.

As a result of his work, the exhibit “Photographic Images and the His-tory of African Americans in Coles County” was hosted by the Tarble Arts Centerfrom January through March. The exhibit presented the wide range of photo-graphs Dr. Ogbomo compiled from family albums, church archives, Eastern IllinoisUniversity archives, newspapers, and the Coles County Historical Society. Atthe exhibit’s opening on January 31, 2002 guest speaker Dr. Marianne Woods,spoke about a similar exhibit she produced with Dr. Ogbomo’s assistance, “ASignificant Past: Photographs of African Americans in Crawford County, Pennsyl-vania, 1850-1950.” Dr. Ogbomo himself presented a curator’s lecture on the sub-ject on February 20.

The photographs and an es-say will be available shortly at the Afri-can-American studies website <http://

www.eiu.edu/~afriamer/> andLocalités/Localities website, <http://www.eiu.edu/~localite>.

Sketches of Summertime: An Exhibitby Laurie Peterson

How dynamic was an 1840s family on the Illinois prairie during the sum-mertime? The answer to this question is found in Lincoln Log Cabin’s newestexhibit, “Sketches of Summertime: Family Life on the 1840s Illinois Prairie.” His-torical Administration students planned and built this exhibit, which is the latestin a series of exhibits examining life on the prairie through the four seasons.

The exhibit takes visitors through one day in the life of an 1840s family.Morning begins with the painstaking task of hauling water from the well to do the

laundry and other house-hold chores. An interac-tive exhibit provides visi-tors with a chance to ex-perience the dauntingtask of hauling water.Also included are dis-plays on Summer agricul-tural activities, the noon-time family dinner, wood-working, the Fourth ofJuly celebration, and1840s sleeping habits.Each display includes

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Faculty cont’d.Nora Pat Small’s book manuscript,Beauty and Convenience: Architec-ture and Order in the New Republic,has been accepted for publication bythe University of Tennessee Press. Theanticipated publication date is Spring2003. She is completing her first yearas Historical Administration ProgramCoordinator, and is looking forward towelcoming the H.A. class of 2002-03.Dr. Small and her husband, Rick Riccio,have purchased the old farmhouse for-merly owned by Dr. Duane Elbert nearLincoln Log Cabin, and so will neverlack for historic preservation projectsof their own.

David Smith has been busy with nu-merous activities. He taught thedepartment’s “technology enhanced”course–an investigation of the historyof the Atlantic Slave Trade. He hascontinued his work directing the web-based organization for professionalhistorians of France, H-France, serv-ing as book review editor and as listeditor, as well as overseeing a struc-tural re-organization of the organiza-tion. He also has been busy with copyeditors in seeing to completion a two-volume collection of primary sourcedocuments, The West and the WiderWorld, which will appear from BedfordBooks in August 2002 and his “Struc-turing Politics in Early Eighteenth-Cen-tury France: The Political Innovationsof the French Council of Commerce”will be published in the Journal ofModem History in September 2002.

Charles Titus wrote a book review ofPerryville:This Grand Havoc of Battlefor the Journal of Illinois History. Heserved as a member of the Board ofTrustees of the Coles County Histori-cal Society, and on the Board of Direc-tors of the Excellence in EducationFoundation, as well as advisor to theHistory Club (see related article), andon the ROTC Advisory Council. Heorganized the 22nd Annual HistoryTeachers Conference (see related ar-ticle) and teaches Illinois History, Mili-tary History, and Teaching Methods.

Mark Voss-Hubbard this Fall both tookover as Graduate Program Coordina-tor and finished his book, BeyondParty: Cultures of Antipartisanship inNorthern Politics Before the Civil War(forthcoming from The Johns

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Graduate Student News

April might be the cruelest month, but not for the attendees of the week-long Graduate Student Exposition and culminating award ceremony. At the 2002Distinguished Graduate Student Reception, Genia Hesser and Mirjam Muellerreceived Distinguished Graduate Student Awards for Historical Administrationand History respectively. (Mirjam also received the Distinguished InternationalStudent Award for History.) Incoming MA in History student David Bell (justcompleting his Eastern BA in History and Social Science) received this year’sFrances Meyer Hampton Graduate Scholarship ($20,000 for two-year’s study), ina university-wide competition. Last year’s awardee of a Graduate School Re-search/Creativity Award, Christopher Bailey, successfully defended his thesis onSaxo Grammaticus this April. Further, Mirjam Mueller and Aaron Osborne pre-sented a poster on the “Top Five” legal cases in Coles County, 1800-1900, whichthey had developed for a student research day at Springfield, and are now turninginto an online pedagogical exercise as part of Localités/Localities <http://www.eiu.edu/~localite>. Rob Martin, Peter Noll, Genia Hesser, and Nathan Kemler

Mirjam Mueller andAaron Osborne present Crimeand Punishment in Illinois atSpringfiled Research Day.

gave a PowerPoint presentation onselected projects done by this year’sHistorical Administration class.

History Clubby Angela Chard

Eastern’s History Club has been busy. Students attended twopublic lectures: Dr. Scott Levi on Terrorism and Dr. Dan McMillan on theHolocaust. The History Club also sponsored several films, includingGlory in the Spring Semester. After the September 11th attacks, theHistory Club made a contribution to the United Way of New York toassist the families of the victims.

For further History Club information check out their bulletinboard, which posts information on history topics, faculty biographies,and Mysteries in History. The club also publishes a newsletter “His-tory as it Happens,” and maintains a History Club page at the address<http://www.eiu.edu/~history/historyclub/>.

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Faculty cont’d.Hopkins University Press). He alsocompleted “Third Parties in AmericanPresidential Elections,” forthcomingthis December in American Presiden-tial Campaigns & Elections, ed. Will-iam G. Shade and Ballard C.Campbell(M.E. Sharpe). In addition, he publishedbook reviews in the Journal of Ameri-can History, Journal of Illinois His-tory, and North Carolina HistoricalReview and delivered comments on apanel at the 2001 Mid-America Con-ference on History. By far his proud-est moment, however, occurred onApril 29th 2001, when his wife Ankegave birth to their son, Maximilian.

Edmund Wehrle published an articleentitled “No More Pressing Task ThanOrganization in Southeast Asia: TheAFL-CIO Approaches the Vietnam War,1947-1964,” in Labor History 42 (Au-gust 2001). He delivered papers at theJune 2001 Annual Meeting of Societyfor Historians of American Foreign Re-lations and Fall 2001 Annual Meetingof North American Labor History Con-ference. He continues to prepare amanuscript for publication dealing withthe American organized labor and theVietnam War.

Bailey K. Young was promoted to therank of Professor in May, 2001, and re-ceived the Faculty Achievement andContribution Award in the BalancedCategory in November. His “SacredTopography: The Impact of theFunerary Basilica in Late Antique Gaul,”was published in Revisiting Late Ro-man Gaul, ed. Ralph Mathisen andDanuta Shanzer (Ashgate, 2001); aswas his “Autun and the CivitasAeduorum: Maintaining and Trans-forming a Regional Identity in LateAntiquity,” in Urban Centers and Ru-ral Contexts in Late Antiquity, ed. Tho-mas Burns and John Eadie (MichiganState, 2001). In July 2001 he directedThe EIU/UCL Summer ArchaeologyProgram at Walhain Castle, in Belgium,for the third time, and he co-authored ashort report on Walhain inArchaeologia Medievalis, Activités2000, 22 (Tervuren, Belgium, 2001). Hegave an invited paper at an internationalconference on Funerary Archaeologyheld at the site of a famous Iron-AgeCeltic fortress in central France onceoccupied by Julius Caesar, and he or-ganized a session at the Kalamazoo

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Faculty cont’d.Medieval Conference. He mentored theresearch of Chris Bailey, who wasawarded his Master’s with distinction.He was appointed to a three-year termas Advisor to the Board of the Interna-tional Council on Medieval Art (ICMA),based at the Cloisters Museum, NewYork. Dr. Young also completed a three-year term as Faculty Senator, andserved as Vice-President of the Phi BetaKappa Association of East Central Illi-nois.

Historical AdministrationStudents

Andrew Cougill will satisfy his six-month internship as the Manager ofCollections and Interpretation at theGrissom Air Museum in Peru, Indiana.Andy will be busy, as he is respon-sible for creating collections policiesand procedures, implementing effec-tive collections care practices, devel-oping educational programming, andmaintaining exhibits.

Genia Hesser came to Eastern Illinoisfrom Macalester College where sheobtained a B.A. in English and History,and she spent two seasons at the Min-nesota Historical Society at Forestville.Her article “Being Productive: AnAnalysis of an Amish Sewing Roomand its Tools in the 21st Century,” ap-peared in Midwest Open Air MuseumsMagazine (Fall 2001). She will intern atthe New Glarus Swiss Historical Villagein Wisconsin.

Jamie Hoeland received the ChesterA. Brown Memorial Scholarship fromthe Elgin Genealogical Society of Elgin,Illinois. She will intern as CollectionsManager at the downers Grove ParkDistrict Museum and will also workwith collections at the Elmhurst His-torical Museum.

Nathan Kemler, this year’s Technol-ogy in History Assistant, will intern atthe Ten Chimneys Foundation inGenesee Depot, Wisconsin.

Lindsey McCallister has a nine-monthcollections management internship atthe Amherst Museum (New York).

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Telefund cont’d.

1986 Lynnita Brown (& 1988), Linda Fransen, Timothy Greiter, BrianHackett, Douglas Quivey (& 1991)

1987 Robert Mullen, David Seiler (& 1996)1988 Charles LeCount, Rebecca Matticks, Mark Sims, Linda Suits, James

Watson (& 1990)1989 Felicia Burns, William Harshbarger, Veronica Kandl1990 David Hasty, Suzanne Hope, Seth James (& Education Admin, 1991),

Bruce Janu (& 1991)1991 Ellen Endslow, Thomas Hensley, Connie McCammon, Barbara Schafer,

Eve Weipert1992 Cheryl Branyan (& 1995), Michael Grady, Gregg Larsen, Mary

Maronde, David Sullivan, Brent Wielt (& 1999)1993 Kristan Crawford (& 1995), Thomas Kerschner (& 1994), Henry

Podzimek, Stuart Tart (& Journalism)1994 Thomas Kroemer1995 Aaron Hill (& Education Admin, 1999), Lain Vandermyde1996 Brent Cole (& French), Kathy Evavold, Christina Greiner (& Spanish),

Derrick Helmbacher (& 1998), John Naese, Sharon Raboin1997 Shari Caine, Thomas Hardiek, Brad Hettich, Gregory Landry (& 2001),

Rachel San Filidpo, Kenneth Sidlowski, Matthew Thrun1998 Gregory Aydt (& 1999), Ryan McAllister, Timothy Miller, Jeffrey

Murray, Daren Rich1999 Brandon Barnes, Steven Doyle, Thomas Mitchell, Mark Mulcahey,

William Schubert2000 Julie Breu, Stephanie Chontos, Shannon Taylor2001 Teresa Cribelar, Andrew Stupperich, Joel Van HaaftenAlso GE Fund Matching Gift Center, Kemper Matching Gift Program, State

Farm Companies Foundation, SunTrust Bank Atlanta Foundation,Kathryn Anthony, Cindy Baloh, Susan Breitzer, Michael Budiansky,Jeffrey Cook, Amalia Durante, Pat Gill, Kit Kinports, LynneaMagnuson, Barbara Marini, Michael Murray, Josephine Pintozzi,Donna Pittman, Felicia Riccio, James Sack, Aphrodite Sarelas, SariSchnitzlein, Paula Treichler, Allen Venet, Wendy Venet, Ruth Wilson

Jamie Bolander, Gregg Delgadillo, Jeremy Dirksmeyer, Lacey Garman,Ryan Gidley, Kevin Haarman, Scott Kocher, Lindsey MacAllister, Troy Malecki,Kristopher Maulden, Sarah Richards, Angela Stanford, and Amy Willenborg intothe national honor society.

Several scholarships and prizes were awarded at the banquet. Receivingawards and scholarships were:

Harley Jones (the Ardath Fogelsanger History Scholarship),Peter Noll and Teresa Cribelar (the Lavern M. Hamand Graduate Writing

Award),Kelli Rutger (the Anne Frank Award),Lou Baczewski (the Alexander Hamilton Paper in American History),Mirjam Mueller (the Wolfgang and Barbara Schlauch European History

Scholarship),Jennifer Hyser and Jamie Bolander (the Robert and Julie Sterling History

Scholarship),Teresa Cribelar and Philip Caposey (the Rex Syndergaard Scholarship),Martin Ruhaak (the Elisha and Estella Ziegler Baumgartner Scholarship),Kris Maulden, David Bell, and Jennifer Lancaster (the Errett and Mazie

Warner Presidential Award in History), andAmy Willenborg (William B. Reid History Education Scholarship).

In addition, it was announced that the Graduate School had awardedDavid Bell the prestigious Hampton Scholarship for two years’ study in our M.A.in History program (see Graduate Student News).

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in excess of $8,000, money which we used to support student scholarships, thepublication of Historia and this Newsletter, field trips for students, and bringingguest lecturers to campus. As usual, the History Department kept costs of theTelefund down by doing most of our own (volunteer) calling (rather than usingthe paid student staff at EIU Foundation), so over 90% of the money you contrib-uted was actually paid into our accounts and used directly to enhance our pro-grams and support our students. In fact, it is our current plan to develop inpartnership with the College of Arts and Humanities ten new $500 scholarshipsspecifically designated for entering students (freshmen or transfer) in History tocomplement our existing scholarships for students further along in the programs.This is only possible because of your support. Please know that all of us–facultyand current students together–warmly appreciate your generosity.

Chair’s Message cont’d.

· Dr. Michelle Olsen of Eastern Illinois who explored ways archi-tecture can be integrated into a social studies curriculum;

· Marshall Schacht of St. Joseph-Ogden High School who ex-plained how activity-based history curriculum can be used toreach Illinois state learning standards;

· Dr. Karen Wink of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy who dis-cussed important techniques for giving feedback student writ-ing assignments; and

· Craig Garner of Marshall High School who hosted the alwayspopular Swap Shop of Ideas, Methods and Materials.

historic livestock breed Tobias Fellow,will work with Conner Prairie staff toraise endangered breeds of historicallysignificant livestock.

Pete Noll headed to Maine to theWashburn Norlands Living HistoryCenter, Livermore, in June. He will fo-cus on museum education/interpreta-tion, and hopes to work with collec-tion and archives as well. He receivedthe Historical Administration Scholar-ship for the 2001-02 class. His paperon the German Element in SouthernHumboldt Township was published inHistoria and shared the 2002 LavernM. Hamand Graduate Writing Award.

Laurie Peterson will intern with theElwood House Museum in DeKalb.

Clay Shelley heads back to Utah forhis six-month internship with the ParkCity Museum and the Summit CountyHistorical Society, Park City, Utah.

Duane Smith accepted an internshipoffer to work at Old Salem, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He will work withtheir newly formed interpretation de-partment. He will interpret as well, andwill learn from skilled craftsmen in thewoodwork and blacksmith shops. Hereceived one of nine fellowships to at-tend the Association for Living His-tory, Farm and Agriculture Museumconference in Nova Scotia (June 2002).

Angela Stanford, who published anarticle on Vietnam Veterans in Historiaand who organized an on-campus dis-cussion with vets this Spring, will beworking at the Boulder Museum of His-tory. She will help the staff design andimplement storage and documentationplans for their collection of about10,000 objects. She received the His-torical Administration Program Asso-ciation Scholarship for 2001-02.

HA Students cont’d.Rob Martin will be the first of twoRandall L. Tobias Foundation RuralHistory Fellows. HA alumnus DanSchoenenburg (1997), Historic AreaManager, Conner Prairie, will work withthe fellows in program development as-sociated with the new historic area atConner Prairie, Library Corner, an 1886rural crossroads and farm. Rob, as the

engaging graphics and insightful facts and commentary about 1840s farm life.For more information and a behind-the-scenes gander at its construc-

tion, visit <http://www.eiu.edu/~history/ha/exhibits/2001_02/index.htm>.

Summertime Exhibit cont’d.

This year’s confer-ence, focusing on new and cre-ative ways to expand the bound-aries of your classroom, will beheld on Friday, November 1,2002. Information may be ob-tained from Charles Titus (581-6362) or Jo Ellen Hickenbottom(581-7418).

Teachers Conference cont’d.

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MA in History Students

Christopher Bailey defended his the-sis, “Saxo Grammaticus: History andthe Rise of National Identity in Medi-eval Denmark,” under the direction ofDr. Bailey Young, the research for whichwas partially funded by a GraduateSchool Research/Creativity Award.

Teresa Cribelar a co-winner of theLavern M. Hamand Graduate WritingAward for 2001-02, served as the His-tory Department’s representative to theGraduate Student Advisory Council,and seeks a teaching position.

Julie Kelderhouse served as an internfor the Illinois Regional Archives De-pository.

Mirjam Mueller, named DistinguishedGraduate Student in History, and Dis-tinguished International Student inHistory, plans to seek a Ph.D. in his-tory in Austria.

Herb Meeker continues to teach inEastern Illinois’ Journalism Department.

Kristy Dahl Yates, Mirjam Mueller,and Aaron Osborne worked onLocalités/Localities and the ColesCounty Legal History Project under theSummer Assistantships.

Alumni News 2002

Margaret Allen (BA, 1971), assistant superintendent to Bond County schools inGreenville, notes that her son, Chris, played on the University of Illinois footballteam at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans this past year.

Gregory Aydt (MA 1999) formerly taught at St. Pauls Junior High School inDanville, and is now working at Eastern’s Advising Center.

Kim Bauer (MA 1991), a historical research specialist with the Historic Preserva-tion Agency in Springfield, organize a Lincoln Conference in Decatur this June aswell as digitization grant projects.

Felicia A. Burns (BA 1989) and her husband, Matthew, are proud parents oftwins, now some 20 months old.

John Burroughs (MA 1997) is a graduate assistant in the Public AdministrationProgram at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.

Kristan Crawford (MA 1995) is a social studies teacher at Waubonsie ValleyHigh School in Aurora.

Jenny Crider (MA 2000) is civilian historian for the U.S. Air Force, Randolf AFB,San Antonio.

Jamie Draper (HA 2001) has taken a job of Collections Manager at the RockCounty Historical Society in Janesville, Wisconsin.

Elizabeth Engle (HA 2000) joined the staff at the Circus World Museum in Baraboo,Wisconsin as their curator of artifacts.

Jeffrey Kampfl (MA 1999) is in the Ph.D. program in Natural Archaeology atTexas A & M. His dissertation research will focus on metal conservation.

Jill Lauerman (MA 2001) is a staff member of the Poplar Creek Library inStreamwood, Illinois.

Connie McCammon (MA 1991) is publications manager for the Sisters of Provi-dence in Terre Haute.

Keith Pogue (Illinois Wesleyan 1989, Washington University School of Law1992, teaching certificate Eastern Illinois 1999), teaches Government & Lawand History at Mahomet-Seymour High School.

Daren Rich (BA 1998) teaches World History at Robert E. Lee High School inBaytown, Texas, where he uses the World History textbook co-written by our ownRoger Beck.

Michael Sarna (HA 1991) is now the director of exhibits at the Peggy NotebaertNature Museum, Chicago Academy of Sciences.

Mark Schmeltzer (MA 1994), erstwhile campaign writer for the Field Museum inChicago, continues to write and perform in “Second City” comedy lab workshops.

David Seiler (MA 1996) is an instructor at Lakeland Community College.

Ken Sidlowski (BA 1997) runs a video production unit for McDonald’s (whichmeans his studio is located at the old Hamburger University outside Chicago!).

Keep Eastern’s History Department informed of your news by sendingyour name, year of graduation, and news to <history@eiu.edu>.

History at Eastern Staff

Editors: Douglas BibleBrian Gordon

Jennifer HyserEditorial Board: Angela Chard

Teresa CribelarJosh Ehrnwald

Harley JonesDuane Smith

Advisor: Newton KeyThanks to: History Department

Deb ReidDonna Nichols

Note: Written by HIS 4900 class,composed with Adobe Pagemaker

6.5, version available at<http://www.eiu.edu/~histnews>.

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History Department Telefund, 2001-2002Once again the Department is indebted to its generous alumni (see Letter from the Chair) who have responded generouslyto the once a year phone calls from faculty and students to discover what they had been doing (see Alumni News), and toask for donations to help fund Department scholarships, classroom equipment, public lectures, field trips, and studentpublications. The list below recognizes all those who contributed between May 1, 2001 and June 30, 2002, and are listedby year of graduation (all are History, Historical Administration, or Social Science B.A. or M.A. graduates, except wherenoted). Thanks to all who continue to support History at Eastern Illinois. Enclosed is a mail-in donation form.

1934 Harry Fitzhugh1936 Roy Wilson1938 James Sherrick1945 Bartley Greenwood (& U, 1951)1947 Martha Johnson (& Education Admin, 1978),

Harold Maris, Donald Tingley1948 James Bailey, Robert Decker, John

Muthersbough, Maurice O’Donnell, Elva Weston1949 Donald Johnson (Physical Education & 1952)1950 Lawrence Camfield (& 1957), Donald Griffin (&

1960), Frederick Waltrip1951 James Gregory, Robert Sterling & 1954)1952 Russel Heckel, James Kehias1953 Elizabeth Fuller, Norman Patberg1954 Patricia Casey, John Dively (& 1957)1955 John Dowling (& 1968), Sandra Greenhalgh, J

Tichnenor (& 1959)1956 Donald Stelzer (& 1974)1957 Terrence Allen (& Geography), Thomas Juravich,

Gerald Williams1958 John Keiser, Neal Tucker (& 1967)1959 C Ferrill, Dan Hockman (& 1975), Robert Jachino,

Dale Rutan1960 Ralph Ankenbrand (Physical Education, &

Guidance and Counseling, 1963), Joseph Delaney(& Guidance and Counseling, 1968), HarveyHurst

1961 John Balgenorth (& 1967), Carolyn Jenkins,Donald Shepardson (& 1970)

1962 Nancy Becher (& Elementary Education), CraigChambers, Darold Herdes, Lucille Lance (& 1964),Samuel Lilly (& Geography)

1963 Donald Drake (& 1969), James Jennings (& 1978),Nancy Owen (& 1972), Carl Vaupel

1964 Ronald Robinson (& Guidance and Counseling,1967)

1965 William Eaton, Carole Gaston, James Kincaid,Terril Walker (& 1968), Wilbur Wilhelm (& 1969),John Worthy (& 1967)

1966 James Astle (& 1974), Jennifer Baur, Frank Weber1967 William Ambrose, Warren Brazas, Jean Hines,

George Ruhle (& 1973), Larry Shobe, LarryUnderwood

1968 Jack Davis (& Med Tech , 1988), Glen Donaldson(& Education Admin, 1979), Martin Elzy (& 1969),Mary Freeland (& Guidance and Counseling,1969), G Hanneken (& Instructional Media, 1975),Paul Hunt, Garry Junker (& 1974), John McNary(& Guidance and Counseling, 1971), Jane Mullins(& 1975), Vicky Smith (& Instructional Media,1981), Jay Stortzum (& 1971), Dennis Vidoni

1969 Coy Angelo, John Buckley, Dennis Drew (&1973), Daniel Hinkle, David Hinton, BrendaHolmes, Stephen Hutton (& 1971), GregoryMumm, Byron Nelson, Gary Puckett, GeorgeRoberts, Denny Schillings (& 1973), KarenSchillings (& 1972), Thomas Shinn, MarkSorensen, Eddie Steffey (& 1975), Darrell Tucker

(& Education Admin, 1981)1970 Randall Bennett, Paul Deters, John Finfrock,

John Herbek, Eric Smith, Steven Weber (&1973)

1971 Margaret Allan (& 1975), John Bacone (&1973), Joyce Bacone, Charles Beckman, PatriciaGoranflo, William Hoffman, Michael Petrouski,Linda Roy (& Guidance and Counseling, 1972),Ruth Thompson, Randall Welch (& Guidanceand Counseling, 1974)

1972 Kay Acklin, Richard Cavanaugh, Curtis Clark,Lawrence Gernon, Rebecca Goeckner, JohnGrzechowiak, Leslie Hall, Thomas Hawkins,Donald Hays, William Heiser, Michael Metzen(& Guidance and Counseling, 1974), JohnPastor, Kathleen Patten (& InformationServices & Technology, 1988), DonaldSamford, Lora Short, James Walker

1973 Ruth Baldock, Diane Cullen-Ruck, Gary Haas,Melinda Hataway, Gary Hicks, Shirley Hoener,Steven Moore (& 1979), Timothy Schoenborn,Donald Sniegowski, Frances Strickland,Michael Warnick, Christopher Williams

1973 Alicia Winder1974 David Biggs, Charles Bradburn, Sanford Field

(& Information Services & Technology, 1988),Kathie Gersch, David Holford, John Homerin(& 1976), Richard Morton, Connie Sorn, LynnThomas

1975 David Davis (& 1997), Debra Hutton, WilliamYocum (& Political Science)

1976 Samuel Bandy, Stephen Berry, William Bloom(& 1979), John Cullen, Michael Gersch, DavidPotenziani, Julie Sterling (Psychology, &Guidance and Counseling, 1977), MarciaSteward (& Guidance and Counseling, 1977)

1977 Betty Best, John Duenser, Michael Jennings1978 Stephen Bartlett (& 1979), Joan Bohnhoff,

Thomas Grubaugh (& 1981), Lisa Hill-Festa1979 Mark Hepner (& 1984), Mary Meneghini, E

Netzer (& MBA, 1983)1980 Michael Cambruzzi, John Dively (& Education

Admin, 1990), Julia Horak (Botany & 1982),Cynthia Owen, Erik Robinson, Thomas Vance

1981 Bruce Beard, Bonnie Bijak Norush, JohnEichacker, Carolyn Frank, Patrick Ogorman,Brett Prior, Jane Rozek, Josephine Scibetta-Sergent, Leo Van Cleve (& 1986)

1982 Mary Eberspacher (1984), Elizabeth Grubaugh,Joanne Patterson, Jeffrey Schultz, ConnieSteinhoff, Glenn Sunderland

1983 Kim Bauer (& 1991), Sheila Marks, RayStewardson, Christine Westerlund, DanielWhiteman

1984 Laurel Fant, Michael Knecht1985 Thomas Becker (& Speech Communication, &

1991), Cherie Cook, Mark Poettgen (& 1986),James Prosser, Mary Talbott

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History Responds ToSeptember 11

Members of the History community at EasternIllinois responded in different ways to the events ofSeptember 11, 2001. Just a few days after the attacks,Drs. Scott Levi and Dan McMillan participated in a publicpanel on “Causes and Consequences of the RecentTerrorist Actions,” attended by a standing-room-only

audience. Drs. Levi and Newton Key showed the movie“Battle of Algiers” and discussed the difficulties of anywar on terrorism. In subsequent months, Dr. Levi lec-tured across our campus on the current conflict, and healso taught a course on “Terrorism: A Comparative andGlobal History.” Finally, the History Club collectedmoney for the victims of the attacks on September 11.

Historiaby Douglas W. Bible

Now in its eleventh edition since 1992, Historia, thestudent history journal of Eastern Illinois University and theEpsilon Mu Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, tries to present the bestwriting on historical topics by undergraduates and graduate stu-dents majoring in many disciplines and it has been successful.Historia has won the Gerald Nash Student Journal Award in twopast years. This year’s volume contains articles covering areasranging from England and France, to St. Louis and even Humboltin Coles County (below); time periods from the Middle Ages tothe late 20th Century; and topics including trade unions, war, thepoor, alchemy, Native Americans, and architecture. Historia alsocan be found online at <http://www.eiu.edu/~historia>, whichnow includes information and many articles from all volumes.

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Humbolt, Illinois