| 8:00 am |
Registration |
| 8:35 am |
Welcome, introduction and opening speaker
Robert Ficken: "Reflections on telling the territorial story" |
9:15 am
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Territorial capitalism
Moderator: Karyl Winn |
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Julia Eulenberg: "The young adventurers: Jewish entrepreneurs look at
Washington Territory" |
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Jan Eakins: "We are in fair progress: Sawmills in the early territorial
period" |
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Religious life
Moderator: Christine Taylor |
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Roberta Brown: "Why bother with a bishop I? Religion and complex
cultural realities in the Oregon Territory, 1846-53" |
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Patricia Killen: "Why bother with a bishop II? Religion, identity and
social conflict during Washington's territorial period, 1853-89" |
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Diane Wells: "Called to mission: The Episcopal Church in Western
Washington, 1853-1859" |
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Boosting the territory
Moderator: Glenn Mason |
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Tom Edwards: "Cumtux touts Wallula, Washington Territory, 1866-1867" |
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Kathy Mendelson: "Cultivating Eden? Giant vegetables, bumper drops and
the real story of agriculture in territorial Washington" |
| 10:45 am |
Territorial timelines, territorial records
(Plenary session)
Moderator: Sam Reed, Washington Secretary of State |
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David Nicandri: "Territorial timelines" |
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Laila Miletic-Vejzovic: "Overview of Washington State University
collections related to Washington Territory" |
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Carla Rickerson: "Washington Territory historical resources at the
University of Washington Libraries" |
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Jerry Handfield: "Democracy, the secretary and the scholar: 150 years of
sex, crime and violence at the valuable State Archives" |
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Candace Lein-Hayes: "Searching for Washington territorial records in the
National Archives" |
| 12:15 pm |
Lunch
Keynote speaker: Timothy Egan, New York Times reporter "There is no
death, only a change in worlds: A skeptic's view of how we Northwesterners tell
our own story" |
| 1:30 pm |
Military influences
Moderator: Kent Richards |
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Bill Woodward: "The territorial militia and the treaty wars of the
1850s" |
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Karen Meador: "An unlikely champion: Jefferson Davis and the Pacific
Northwest" |
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Territorial metaphors
Moderator: Walt Crowley |
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Paul Dorpat: "Playing the pioneer pedal: Ivar Haglund’s use of
territorial history" |
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Roger Van Ooster: "Seattle public art: Exploring territorial themes" |
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Lorraine McConaghy: "Engine of conquest: The steam engine in western
Washington Territory" |
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Cultural encounters
Moderator: Coll Thrush |
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Dale Soden: "The Women's Christian Temperance Union in Washington
Territory: The battle between Victorian and immigrant working class cultures" |
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Drew Crooks: "Voyage of the brig Orbit/Recovery: Maritime
adventures and misadventures in the mid-nineteenth century" |
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Robert Foxcurran: "Meti immigration into Washington Territory" |
| 3:15 pm |
Facing the domestic
Moderator: Jacqueline Williams |
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Kay Reinartz: "A look through the window: Women and their lives in
territorial days" |
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Denise Ottoson: "Looking for Mary: The life of Mary Kays Boren" |
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John H. Ferry: "They always have pudding or pies: Timber beats, sawdust
savages, and the cookhouse" |
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Moving the territory
Moderator: Daniel E. Turbeville III |
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Judith Bentley: "The Cascade passes: Crossing to statehood" |
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Bob Chenoweth: "Canoes of the territorial period" |
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Junius Rochester: "Transportation routes in Washington Territory" |
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African Americans in territorial days
Moderator: Darrell Millner |
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Ed Diaz: "George Bush, George Washington, et al., and Washington
history" |
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Rev. Thomas Murphy: "The Pig War as race war: Northwest blacks and their
reaction to the boundary dispute in the San Juans, 1859-1860" |
conferences
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