Northern Great Plains History Conference

10. Communities of the Midwest and Frontier
The Loft
Chair: J. Michael McCormack, Bismarck State College
“Wrangled Bonds: The Evolution of Community Connections in a Rural
Wisconsin Town from the 1930s to Today”
Heidi Ann Heideman, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
“Snow, North Dakota: Making a Meaningful Life in “Devil’s Country”
Troy P. Reisenauer, North Dakota State University
“The Saloon as the Center of Society in the Old West”
Jeffrey S. Williams, St. Cloud State University
Comment: James Mochoruk, University of North Dakota
11. Suffrage Centennials: Starting A Conversation
(A Roundtable Discussion Sponsored by the Women’s History
Interest Group)
Metropolitan
Moderator: Anne Kaplan, Minnesota Historical Society
Panelists: Bethany Andreasen, Minot State University
Kristin Mapel Bloomberg, Hamline University
Kitty Green, Morningside College
Erik L. Holland, State Historical Society of North Dakota
Joy K. Lintelman, Concordia College
Comment: The Audience
12. Early American Wars
(Sponsored by the Society for Military History)
Prairie Rose A
Chair: Kathleen Broome Williams, Cogswell Polytechnical College
“For Fighting or Flaunting? Firearms on the Great Plains through the Early
Contact Period”
Michael Dax, University of Montana
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