Preliminary Program
WEDNESDAY, 15 May 2019
NASOH Council Meeting – 1900-2100
Dinner on your own
THURSDAY, 16 May 2019
REGISTRATION- 0830-1600
New Bedford Whaling Museum Lobby
OPENING REMARKS 0900-0930
SESSION 1 – Port Connections
0930 -
Chair:
Thomas Legg, West Chester University
The Transformation of a Pennsylvania Iron Furnace and Community
Antonieta Reis Leite, University of Coimbra, Coimbra. Portugal
Planning city-sea connections during the Early Portuguese Atlantic settlement process
Tri Tran, University of Tours (France)
Connecting London and the high seas: Trinity House deep-sea pilots and the 19th c. Transport Revolution
SESSION 2 - Dimensions of the Maritime Landscape
Thursday,
Chair:
Cipperly Good, Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport, Maine
Port Paintings: Snapshots of Sea Port Commerce
Daniel Lane, Norwich University
Crowdsourcing Atlantic Commons: Documenting Derelicts in the Late Nineteenth Century
William B. Lees and Rachel Hines, University of West Florida and Florida Public Archaeology Network
Pensacola Bay as a Strategic Landscape Across Five Centuries
SESSION 3, War, Wrecks, and High Tech in the Nineteenth Century Maritime Commons
Thursday,
Chair:
Organizer: Dwight Sturtevant Hughes, Public Historian, Author, and Speaker
John Laurence Busch, Independent Historian
Steaming from Local to Global: Giant Leaps for the First High Technology
Dwight Hughes is a public historian, author, and speaker
Global War, Local Impact: In the Wake of CSS Shenandoah
Anna Gibson Holloway, SEARCH, Inc.
“Saved from the Sea”: Ebenezer Morgan Stoddard of Norfolk
SESSION 4, Operations
Thursday,
Chair:
Jessie Cragg, University of West Florida
Pensacola and the West Indies Squadron
Paul E. Fontenoy, North Carolina Maritime Museums, Beaufort, NC
The First “Great Wall at Sea”: Imperial China’s “Modern Fleet”
William H. Thiesen, Historian, Coast Guard Atlantic Area
United States Coast Guard Operations in the Rum War of Prohibition
LUNCH:
SESSION 5 - Frontier
Thursday,
Chair
Sean Fraga, Princeton University
Mapping Pacific Northwest Maritime Trade Networks During American Settlement, 1851–61
Megan Hagseth, Texas A&M University
The Sailor’s Souppot: Testudines and the Maritime Community
Mike Thomin, Florida Public Archaeology Network and University of West Florida
Panton, Leslie, & Company Shipping in the Age of Revolutions
SESSION 6 – Cultural Narrative and Perception
Thursday,
Chair
Stephen N. Sanfilippo, Maine Maritime Academy
A Goddess of Our Own: Columbia and American Naval Hyper-Identity
Margaret Stack, University of Connecticut
Dissipated and Distinguished: Narratives of Cross-Dressed Female Sailors,
1815 - 1925.
SESSION 7 – Life of Ships
Thursday
Chair
Charles H. Lagerbom, Independent Historian
The Last Voyage of the St. Mary
Sandra P. Ulbrich, independent maritime historian and researcher
The Truth about a New London Slaver
Joseph W. Zarzynski, French & Indian War Society at Lake George, Inc.
Wreck by Arson—Demise of 1909 Half Moon Replica Ship
SESSION 8 - Science, Technology, and Oceanic History
Thursday,
Chair: Helen Rozwadowski, University of Connecticut, Avery Point
Organizer: Penelope K. Hardy, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio
This panel is sponsored by the International Commission of the History of Oceanography.
Penelope K. Hardy, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH
Geology and the Deep Sea on the 1870s Challenger Expedition
Katharine Anderson, York University, Toronto, Canada
A Sub for Science: The Inter-war Expeditions of Vening Meinesz
Sam Robinson, University of Manchester, UK
Anticipation on the Ocean Frontier
Elizabeth Nyman, Texas A&M University at Galveston
Perils of Prediction: Natural Resources, Technology, and International Maritime Law
SESSION 9 - Florida Panhandle Maritime National Heritage Area
Thursday,
Chair: Sorna Khakzad, University of West Florida
Sorna Khakzad and Wade Jeffrey, Florida Public Archaeology Network and University of West Florida
Connecting Rivers, Sea & Land: Panhandle Maritime National Heritage Area
Mike Thomin, Della A. Scott-Ireton, Nicole Grinnan, Florida Public Archaeology Network and University of West Florida
From Sealab to Seagrass: Maritime Heritage in the Florida Panhandle National Maritime Heritage Area
Samantha Poirier, Kirby Calhoun, Jamin Wells, University of West Florida
Northwest Florida: A Tale of Coastal Communities and Their Resilience
SESSION 10 - Trade Protection and Manpower in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Thursday,
Chair: John B. Hattendorf, U.S. Naval War College in Newport, RI
Ryan Mewett, Johns Hopkins University
The Royal Navy’s “Great Prejudice of the Fair Trader,” 1739
Evan Wilson, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, RI
Coastal Communities, Patriotism, and Impressment in Britain: The Sea Fencibles, 1803-1810
J. Ross Dancy, U.S. Naval War College
British Naval Manpower after Two Decades of War
RECEPTION: New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center
Thursday, 1700-1900
Dinner on your own
FRIDAY, 17 May 2019
REGISTRATION
New Bedford Whaling Museum Lobby
Friday, 0830-1400
SESSION 11, (Re)Making Vineyard Haven: Maritime Heritage Meets Rising Seas
Friday, 0900-1020
Organizer A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Martha’s Vineyard Museum
Bonnie Stacy, Martha’s Vineyard Museum
Rise and Fall of a Seaport (1714-1914)
A Bowdoin Van Riper, Martha’s Vineyard Museum
Tourist Town, Working Waterfront (1919-2019)
Cheryl Doble, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY
Seeking a Sustainable Future (2019-2119)
SESSION 12, Atlantic Independence
Friday, 0900-1020
Chair:
Caroline Marris, Columbia University
‘Malouin Suis’: The Sea and Independence in Early Modern Brittany
David More, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON,
Loyal Oarsmen and Sailors: Canadien Inland Mariners 1775 - 1815
Jacob Pomerantz, University of Pittsburgh
Heathish Designes: ports, labor, and conspiracy in late-seventeenth-century Barbados
SESSION 13, U.S. Civil War
Friday, 0900-1020
Chair
Michael W. Kegerreis Texas A&M University
Confederate Asymmetric Warfare at Sea: Privateers, Blockade Runners, and Cruisers
Donald A. Laskey, Fort Delaware State Park
Confederates Defending the Delaware: Galvanized Troops at Fort Delaware
Lori Sanderlin, NC Maritime Museum at Southport
Confederate Privateer in Sailor’s Snug Harbor, New York
SESSION 14 – Social Control
Friday
Chair
Amy Mitchell-Cook, University of West Florida
Walking the Line: A Preliminary Examination of Prostitution in Pensacola’s Red Light District
Johnathan Thayer, Queens College, City University of New York
Sailors Ashore: Sailortowns as Portals to National and Global Reckonings
David Zimmerman, University of Victoria, BC
Anything but Peaceful: Victoria and Esquimalt in the Aftermath of VJ-Day
SESSION 15 – Maritime Archaeology at Different Scales
Friday
Chair
Donald Grady Shomette, Independent Scholar
Fleet Archaeology and Environment
David S. Robinson, University of Rhode Island and David S. Robinson & Associates, Inc.
Ten Years Before the Dredge: Marine Archaeology in the New Bedford Harbor Superfund Site, 2009 to 2019
Jennifer Jones, East Carolina University
Ada K. Damon: Assessing an Historic Ship in a Modern Landscape
SESSION 16 -Shipboard Environment
Friday
Chair
Kendra Lawrence, East Carolina University
Tools of the Trade: A Proposed Study of Shipboard Tools
Jeff Noakes, Independent Historian, Second World War
A Wide-Ranging Talent: William James Roué, 1879-1970
Raymond E. Phillips, New York Medical College
Medicine in the Age of Sail
LUNCH
NMHS Board Meeting
Friday, 1200-1400
SESSION 17 – Naval Imperialsim (Part 1)
Friday
Chair
Roger Bailey, University of Maryland, College Park
“Reckless Adventurers” Filibustering Expeditions and the Navy on American Soil
Larry Bartlett, Texas Christian University
What is a Navy For?: American Naval Officers Debate Strategy, 1874-1890
SESSION 18 - Revisiting Neptune's Garden: Science, Technology, and Environment in Oceanic History
Chair: Helen M. Rozwadowski, University of Connecticut, Avery Point
Panelists: Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of Technology; Katharine Anderson, York University, Toronto, Canada; and Penelope K. Hardy, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio.
This Roundtable is sponsored by the International Commission of the History of Oceanography
SESSION 19 – Naval Imperialism (Part 2)
Friday
Chair
James Holmes, Naval War College, Newport, RI
Reinventing America’s Maritime Past: The War of 1812
David Kohnen, Naval War College in Newport, RI
“‘Cheer Up’ – There is No Naval War College:”: U.S. Navy Captain Dudley W. Knox and the Fight for Education, 1919-1922
Michael Verney, Drury University, Springfield, MO
Selling Empire: Publishing Naval Imperialism in the Early American Republic, 1842-1860
SESSION 20 - The USNA Trophy Flag Collection and the 1871 Korea Expedition
Chair/Commenter: Claude Berube, U.S. Naval Academy Museum, Annapolis, MD
BJ Armstrong, U.S. Naval Academy
Vindicating the Flag: Flags, Failed Diplomacy, and Combat in Korea
Charles Swift, United States Naval Academy Museum
The Presentation of the Naval Academy’s Trophy Flags
Camille Myers Breeze, Museum Textile Services
Amelia Fowler and the History of Flag Preservation
CRUISE and RECEPTION, Cuttyhunk Ferry
Friday, 1700-1900
Dinner on your own
SATURDAY, 18 May 2019
REGISTRATION
New Bedford Whaling Museum Lobby
Saturday, 0830-1100
SESSION 21– Whaling (Part 1)
Saturday, 0900-1030
Chair
Skip Finley, Independent Scholar and Journalist
Whaling Captains of Color – America’s First Meritocracy
Joshua M. Jenkins, Salem State University, Salem, MA
Native Hawaiians on Massachusetts Whaling Ships: The Lost History
Michael Toth, Texas Christian University
Nantucket Whalers in the Economic and Political Early Republic
SESSION 22 - Health
Saturday, 0900-1030
Chair
Mark J. Gabrielson, an independent historian and Harvard University.
The Global Sanitary Archipelago: Harbor Islands as Maritime Cordons Sanitaire
Marti Klein, California State University Fullerton
Nineteenth Century Perceptions of Yellow Fever in Veracruz, Mexico
Mirelle Luecke, Mystic Seaport Museum
Indigents and Insurrectionists: New York in the Age of Revolution
SESSION 23 – Science at Sea
Saturday, 0900-1030
Chair
Samantha Bernard, through East Carolina University and The Oakwood School
For Science! Deep sea exploration and the vessels that make it possible
Kelly P. Bushnell, University of West Florida
Sedna Expedition Recap: The “Blue Humanities” in the Arctic
Brooke Grasberger, Brown University
Wind, Sailors, and Environmental Dynamics in the Nineteenth-century Atlantic
SESSION 24 – Whaling (Part 2)
Saturday, 1045 - 1200
Chair
Justin H. Daley, Flinders University, Adelaide, AU and ACS Archaeological Consulting Services
Yankee Whaling Heritage: The Impact of Capitalism on Preservation / Interpretation
Luke LeBras, East Carolina University
Refit for Active Service: Merchant Vessel Conversion and American Whaling
Jason T. Raupp, East Carolina University
Working on Whalers: Industrialization and the Archaeology of Pelagic Whaling
LUNCH
NASOH Business meeting
Saturday, 1300-1400
Option Tour(s) - TBD
AWARDS RECEPTION AND BANQUET, Wamsutta Club
Saturday, 1700-2100
