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16 1 2006 Midwest Regional Conference <br />Lincoln, Nebraska - July 2006 <br />Slavery, Race, and Politics in Nineteenth - Century America: <br />A ribute to James A. Rawley <br />Lancaster 1 -III <br />Vernon Volpe, University of Nebraska, Kearney <br />Kenneth Winkle, University of Nebraska, Lincoln <br />James A. Rawley, a widely respected historian of <br />the Civil War era and American race relations and a <br />biographer of Abraham Lincoln, died in November <br />2005, at the age of eighty-nine. During his twenty- <br />three years on the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, <br />faculty, Rawley won most of the highest honors that <br />the university can bestow. Upon retiring in 1987, he <br />continued to research and write, mentor junior colleagues, and contribute <br />to the historical profession at large. Renowned for his generous support for <br />scholars throughout our profession, Rawley was an ideal colleague and a <br />warm friend to all who knew him. Join Professor Rawley's colleagues and <br />friends to pay tribute to his scholarship and contributions to the profession. <br />Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth- and Twentieth - <br />Century Indiana <br />Hawthorne <br />Presiding. Anita Ashendel, Indiana University- Purdue University, Indianapolis <br />"Going to bed of cold nights, a lone, I do not like ": Practicality, Sexuality, and <br />Marriage in Rural Indiana, 1860 - 1880" <br />Barbara Steinson, DePauw University <br />"Dear Dr. Kinsey": Jeannette Howard Foster and the Study o f Female <br />Sexuality, 1941 -1952 <br />Joanne Passet, Indiana University East <br />Comment: Anita Ashendel <br />Gender, the Civil War, and the Midwestern Homefront:Women <br />and Families Dealing with Disruptions <br />Grand Ballroom B <br />Presiding: Lesley J. Gordon, University of Akron <br />"The Vacant Chair ". Women's Roles and Farm Management on Iowa Farms <br />During the Civil War <br />Joseph Anderson, Iowa State University <br />"Well, You're Gone": Midwestern Women Coping With Disruption During <br />the Civil War <br />Ginette Aley, University of Southern Indiana <br />"In the absence of my soldier beau": The Civil War's Influence on Constructions <br />of Gender Appropriate Behavior on the Minnesota Home front <br />Andrea Foroughi, Union College <br />Comment: Thomas Burnell Colbert, Marshalltown Community College <br />