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Connected by Water: Inland Waterways and Maritime Endeavors

Erie Maritime Museum in Erie, Pennsylvania – 14-18 May 2014

Co-sponsored with NASOH and NMHS

Programme

Wednesday, 14 May

Evening

Registration and Welcome Reception at the Sheraton Erie Bayfront Hotel

NASOH Council Meeting
CNRS Executive Committee Meeting

Dinner on your own

Thursday, 15 May

Morning

Registration and Continental Breakfast at the Erie Maritime Museum (EMM)

Opening Remarks

Session 1 : Rethinking Connections

They Swim Among Us: Anguilla Rostrata Across Context, Kristi Leora Gansworth, Antioch University Seattle

Rivers in American History, Lincoln Paine, Independent Scholar

Prairie Schooners and Waves of Grain: Thalassic Metaphor in North American Inland Encounters, Rebecca Shimoni-Stoil, The Johns Hopkins University

Session 2 : Inland Waterways on the Global Scale

Remarks on a Cultural History of Inland Waterway Shipping in Contrast to Coastal and Ocean Shipping, Ingo Heidbrink, Old Dominion University

Surpassing the Mother Country of Improvement: The Cultural Stakes of Canal Building in the Early United States, Daniel Kanhofer, New York University

Inland Waterways as Conduits of Empire: Merseyside Canals during the American Revolution, 1763-1783, Simon Hill, Liverpool John Moores University

Session 3 : Insights on Maritime Endeavors

"Owners, Shippers, Masters of Vessels are Hereby Warned," Timber Thievery and other Smuggling in Florida Waters during the Early Republic, Daniel Vogel, Texas Christian University

Lost in Transportation: Shipwrecks, Cargoes, and Entangled Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean, Carrie Atkins Fulton, Cornell University

"We All Live By Wrecking:" Marine Salvage, Capitalism, and US Expansion in Key West, Florida (1821-1860, Yevan Terrien, University of Pittsburgh

Afternoon

Lunch

Session 4 : Evolving Mercantile Ventures

The Transition between Sail and Steam on the Great Lakes, 1817-1900, Walter Lewis, Independent Scholar

"A Large and Prosperous Freight Line:" The Canada Interlake Line and its Antecedents, James Pritchard, Queen's University

From Selling Lifeboats to Selling Beer: The Money behind Singlehanded Sailing, 1866-1901, Donald A. Laskey, Central Michigan University

Mercantile Waterways: George Morgan’s Adventure into the Illinois Country 1766-1771, Timothy C. Hemmis, University of Southern Mississippi

Session 5 : Coffins of the Brave (Part One)

Two Hundred Years Later: U.S. Navy Shipbuilding on the Lakes in 1814, Kevin Crisman, Texas A&M University

1814: The Battle For Lake Champlain and its Archaeological Legacy, Art Cohn, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum

Reconstructing the Story of Linnet: From the War of 1812 to the Role of Maritime Heritage Today, Erika Washburn, Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve

Niagara, Then and Now: What’s the Same, What’s Different, Walter Rybka, Erie Maritime Museum

Session 6 : Law on the Maritime Landscape

"A Dead Failure": The U.S. African Squadron and the Slave Trade, Sarah Batterson, Misericordia University

Muscat Dhows in Historical Perspective, Rodney Carlisle, Rutgers University

"Our Field of Fame:" John Quincy Adams and American Naval Exploration of the Pacific, Michael Verney, University of New Hampshire

Session 7 : Coffins of the Brave (Part Two)

His Majesty’s Transport Schooner Nancy (1789-1814), Chris Sabick, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum

The Royal Navy Brig General Hunter, Ken Cassavoy, Trent University and Bruce County Museum

Border Tensions: H.M. Schooners Newash and Tecumseth, LeeAnne Gordon, Independent Scholar

Evening

Reception and Gallery Lecture ERIE MARITIME MUSEUM

What to remember about the War of 1812, and the Battle of Lake Erie, Walter Rybka, Erie Maritime Museum

Dinner on your own

Friday, 17 May

Morning

Registration and Continental Breakfast

Session 8 : Archaeological Voices in the Landscape

Fishing at the Rapids: Resource Procurement at the Draper Park Site (20SC40), Rob Richardson, St. Clair County Community College

Patrol, Privateer, Patriot, Pirate, Prize: Potential Identities of the Monterrey Shipwrecks, Alicia Caporaso, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Four Pre-1850 Steamboat Wrecks in Shelburne Shipyard, Carolyn Kennedy, Texas A&M University

Session 9 : Defensive Strategies, Offensive Actions

"Showing the Flag": The New Orleans Naval Station, 1806-1815, Larry Bartlett, Texas Christian University

Fighting for Freedom: The Slaves’ Chesapeake Gamble during the War of 1812, Gene Smith, Texas Christian University

The British Raid on Essex: The Forgotten Battle of the War of 1812, Jerry Robert, Independent Maritime Historian/Author

Session 10 : From Commissary to Battlefield

A Determination Worthy of a Better Cause: Naval Action at the Battle of Roanoke Island 7 February 1862, Lucas Simonds, East Carolina University

Common Men in Uncommon Times:  Examining Archaeological and Historical Evidence to Reconstruct the Daily Lives of Civil War Sailors, Stephanie Koenig, Texas A&M University

Victuals and Libations in the U.S. Navy During the Age of Sail and Early Steam, Dennis J. Ringle, Henry Ford Community College

Session 11 : Advancing Maritime Education

The British Prisoner of War Navigation Training School At Givet, France 1804-1813 Mark J. Gabrielson, Harvard University Extension School

"Captain Henry May and Fred Jane's 1898 Naval War Game", Chris Madsen, Canadian Forces College and Royal Military College of Canada

A Corps of Observers at Sea: Matthew Fontaine Maury and Citizen-Science in the Nineteenth Century, Penelope Hardy, the Johns Hopkins University

Afternoon

Lunch

NMHS Board Meeting

Session 12 : Law, Waterfronts and Ports

"Harbors to Make Greater Chicago": Chicago, Lake Calumet and the Re-Visioning of the City, 1908-1921, Elisabeth Meier, Sultana Foundation

Silting at the Dock of the Bay: Mud, Mudslinging, and the Fight for San Francisco’s Waterfront, 1853 -1863, Derek Lee Nelson, University of New Hampshire

Connected by Water: A Case Study of Krishnapatnam Port, Poornima Nannam, University of Hyderabad

Session 13 : Lecture and Demonstration onboard U.S. Brig Niagara

What do we learn sailing the Niagara, how the Sailing School Vessel program operates and what makes it unique, Walter Rybka, Erie Maritime Museum

Session 14 : Keynote Authors – Panel on the War of 1812

The War of 1812: What We Shouldn’t Forget From the Forgotten War

Chair: William Dudley (original editor of the multi-volume Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History)

George Daughan (1812: The Navy's War; and The Shining Sea)

Colonel David Fitz-Enz of the USMA (The Final Battle; Plattsburgh, the War of 1812's Most Decisive Battle and Hacks, Sycophants, Adventurers, and Heroes: Madison's Commanders in the War of 1812)

William H. White (And Our Flag was Still There), plus a series of War of 1812 articles in Sea History magazine. Of relevant historical fiction Bill White wrote a War of 1812 Trilogy (A Press of Canvas, A Fine Tops'l Breeze, and The Evening Gun.)

Evening

Dine Around (sign-up at registration)

Dinner on your own

Saturday, 18 May

Morning

Registration and Continental Breakfast

Session 15 : Naval Response and Preparedness

The British Bateau in North America, Nathan Gallagher, Texas A&M University

Commissioner Barrie, the American threat and a British postwar response to the War of 1812, Maurice Smith, Marine Museum of the Great Lakes

C.C.1 and C.C.2 Centenary Celebrations: Acquiring Canada’s First Submarines from the United States on the Eve of the Great War, Ambjörn L. Adomeit, Royal Military College of Canada

COIN Theory and Asymmetric Warfare at Sea, Michael Kegerreis, Texas A&M University

Session 16 : Understanding Maritime Connections

Warwick: A Preliminary Rigging Reconstruction of an English Galleon from 1619, Grace Tsai, Texas A&M University

Inspecting the Inspectors: A Historical Perspective of United States Coast Guard Station New York, Brian Seymour, Michael Baker International

A New Method of Rapidly Surveying Submerged Archaeological Sites in Northwestern Michigan, Mark W. Holley, Northwestern Michigan College

Great Lakes Geology and Hydrography: 1820s Keys to Knowledge, Peace, and Stability, David Spanagel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

NASOH Business Meeting
CNRS Business Meeting
NMHS Business Meeting

Afternoon

Lunch

Maritime Landscape Tour of Three Lighthouses

Evening

Reception and Awards Banquet at the AMBASSADOR CENTER

Dinner provided, Cash Bar

Keynote Speaker, Dr. James Delgado

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