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22 1 2006 Midwest Regional Conference <br />Lincoln, Nebraska • July 2006 <br />Race, Class, and Gender in the Southern System of Justice <br />after the Civil War <br />Lancaster IV VI <br />Race, Class, Gender, and the Southern Convict Lease System: Exploring the Role <br />o f Female and White Convicts in the Post - Slavery South, 1865 -1910 <br />Talitha LeFlouria, Howard University <br />Doing Justice in Virginia: George P. Cather as a Deputy Sheriff in Post -Civil War <br />Frederick County <br />Ann P. Tschetter, University of Nebraska, Lincoln <br />African American Activism in the Civil War Era Midwest <br />Hawthorne <br />Presiding: Christopher Reed, Roosevelt University <br />"Doing the great work of freedom": Regional Political Mobilization <br />at Nineteenth - Century African American Emancipation Celebrations <br />Mitch Kachun, Western Michigan University <br />"Some of the Disabilities Laid Upon Negroes [are] a Living Active Reality": <br />African American Organizational and Protest Activity in the 1850s <br />Jennifer Harbour, University of Iowa <br />Comment: Christopher Reed <br />Reinvigorating the Interpretation of the Civil War <br />at Public History Sites <br />Arbor <br />Susan Ferentinos, Organization of American Historians <br />Terrence Winschel, Vicksburg National Military Park <br />George Ewert, Museum of Mobile <br />World War II and the Cold War <br />Lancaster 1 -III <br />Presiding: Frederick Adams, Drake University <br />Japanese Military Blunder: Bacteriological Warfare in China During WWII <br />Tomomi Ishihara, Claremont Graduate University, California State University <br />The Democrats During the Korean War: A Party in Name Only <br />Larry Blomstedt, Texas A &M University <br />Comment: Frederick Adams <br />Building a Home: Discovering the Architecture of the National <br />Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers <br />Grand Ballroom B <br />Cosponsored by the National Council on Public History <br />Suzanne Julin, Independent Scholar <br />Brian McCutchen, National Park Service <br />