Shenandoah Valley Regional Studies Seminar Records, 1990-2009
Descriptive Summary
Repository: Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University
Title: Shenandoah Valley Regional Studies Seminar Records, 1990-2009
Collection No.: SC 0205
Creator: Shenandoah Valley Regional Studies Seminar
Extent: 5 boxes; 1.65 cubic feet
Language: English
Abstract: This collection consists of administrative records and papers by scholars from colleges, libraries and other institutions for the monthly presentations of the Shenandoah Valley Regional Studies Seminar (SVRSS). The collection contains financial records, announcements, correspondence, information about presenters, and academic papers.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions: Collection is open for research. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection. Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the James Madison University Special Collections Library to use this collection.
Use Restrictions: The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collections Library. The authors retain the copyrights on their papers. The user is responsible to obtain clearance from the copyright holder for permission to use any materials in excess of fair use.For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).
Preferred Citation: [identification of item], [box #, folder #], Shenandoah Valley Regional Studies Seminar Records, 1990-2009, SC 0205, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.
Acquisition Information: The collection was donated in 2008 by Joseph Whitehorne, one of the organizers of
SVRSS and a faculty member at Lord Fairfax Community College. Several papers were
added after the initial donation.
Processing Information: In order to streamline the process of applying collection numbers, Special Collections
staff completed a large-scale renumbering campaign in 2017-2018. This collection was
previously cataloged as SC 5027.
Administrative History:
The Shenandoah Regional Studies Seminar (SVRSS) has been held during the academic year since 1988, usually at James Madison University. Papers presented have covered a wide range of historical and regional subjects from colonial developments to the details of rural life in the twentieth century. The primary goal of SVRSS has been to provide an informed and interested audience for scholars from a variety of fields such as history, archaeology, geography, folklore, and ethnography. SVRSS provides a regular forum for scholars and attendees at which to consider topics of regional interest, pertinent, but not restricted, to the Shenandoah Valley. SVRSS met monthly during the academic year, at least through the spring of 2017. Beginning in the fall of 2017, the schedule and location of SVRSS became less concrete with lectures occurring just once per semester at the Frontier Culture Museum in Stauton, Virginia.
Scope and Content:
The Shenandoah Valley Regional Studies Seminar Records, 1990-2009, includes administrative records and scholarly papers organized by academic year. Some years represented in the collection have limited contents. The bulk of the collection consists of material that was distributed to a select group, likely previous SVRSS attendees and other interested persons, before a presentation. These materials generally include a copy of an academic paper with information on the presenter. The collection includes files for most of the presentations from 1995 to 2009. Additional SVRSS papers were collected prior to 1995 (and prior to the donation) by the then Special Collections Librarian. These papers were added to the collection.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged into two series:
Series 1: Administrative Records, 1995-2009
Series 2: Papers, 1990-2009
Series 1 is arranged chronologically by academic year. Series 2 is arranged into subseries
according to academic year and further arranged alphabetically by author's surname.
Related Material:
Shenandoah Valley Regional Studies Seminar Collection, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA.
Contents:
Series 1: Administrative Records, 1995-2009
| Folder Title |
Box : Folder
|
| Administrative Records, 1995-1996 |
1:1
|
| Administrative Records, 1996-1997 |
1:2
|
| Administrative Records, 1997-1998 |
1:3
|
| Administrative Records, 1998-1999 |
1:4
|
| Administrative Records, 1999-2000 |
1:5
|
| Administrative Records, 2000-2001 |
1:6
|
| Administrative Records, 2001-2002 |
1:7
|
| Administrative Records, 2002-2003 |
1:8
|
| Administrative Records, 2003-2004 |
1:9
|
| Administrative Records, 2004-2005 |
1:10
|
| Administrative Records, 2005-2006 |
1:11
|
| Administrative ephemera filed with Olson paper, 2007 |
1:12
|
| Administrative Records, 2008-2009 |
1:13
|
Series 2: Papers, 1990-2009
| Folder Title |
Box : Folder
|
| Subseries: Papers, 1995-1997 | |
| Joan C. Browning, Getting to the Springs of Virginia: A Survey of Transportation from Horse-Litter to Concord Coach, April 18, 1997 |
1:14
|
| Robert Calhoun, The Southern Back Country Origins of Political Moderation in America, September 19, 1997
With "Political Moderation as an Anglo-American Ideology" |
1:15
|
| Thomas Costa, Paradise on the Clinch? Land Speculators and the Early Settlement of Russell County, March 21, 1997 |
1:16
|
| Ann Denkler, How Others See Each Other: Skyland and the Mountain Culture, April 19, 1996
Short description of project only |
1:17
|
| Christine Devine, Crossroads of Exchange: Anglo-Indian Diplomacy and Trade in Northern
Carolina, October 17, 1997
With CV |
1:18
|
| J. Brooks Flippen, The Promise of Late Antebellum Rockbridge: Overtaken by Events, February 16, 1996 |
1:19
|
| Ben Fordney, Two Generals in Blue: The Reconstruction Policies of Generals John Schofield and George Stone[man] in Virginia, 1866-1969, May 17, 1996 |
1:20
|
| John Frantz, The Religious Development of the Early German Settlers in the Shenandoah
Valley, November 15, 1996
With published copy in "Pennsylvania History" 2001 |
1:21
|
| Timothy Hanson, Cultural Commerce: Scottish Immigrants, Trade and Politics in 18th Century North Carolina, January 17, 1997 |
2:1
|
| Dean Herrin, Breaking the Stillness?: The Coal Industry and the Transformation of Appalachian Virginia, 1880-1920, November 17, 1995 |
2:2
|
| Christine Hoepfner, The Shenandoah National Park Displacements: Stories from Swift Run Gap, October 20, 1995 |
2:3
|
| Andrew C. Holman, Professional Gentlemen…and Others: Rural Practitioners and the Transformation of the Medical Community in Rockbridge County, Virginia, 1840-1890, January 19, 1996 |
2:4
|
| Audrey Horning, Material Culture and the Mountain Folk Image: Archaeological Explorations in Virginia's Blue Ridge, September 20, 1996 |
2:5
|
| David C. Hsiung, Death on the Juniata: Indian-White Relations in Colonial Pennsylvania, October 18, 1996 |
2:6
|
| David James Kiracofe, Claypole's Rebellion: Patriotism and Treason in a Virginia Backcountry Community, 1781-1782, May 16, 1997 |
2:7
|
| Ann McCleary, Reassessing the Home Demonstration Program and its Impact on Rural Women
and Communities: A Case Study of Augusta County, November 21, 1997
Several chapters from her dissertation only |
2:8
|
| L. Daniel Mouer, Rebecca's Children: New Myths and Old Myths about Indians and Virginia's History, February 21, 1997 |
2:9
|
| Sheila Phipps, Of Necessity: Salt on the Virginia Frontier, 1750-1815, September 16, 1995 |
2:10
|
| J. Suzanne Simmons, The Intersection of the Freed Black and Slave Communities in Augusta County, Virginia, March 15, 1996 |
2:11
|
| Nancy Sorrells, A Christian Soldier for the Confederacy: Fighting the Civil War on
the Home Front, December 8, 1995
Thesis chapter only |
2:12
|
| Subseries: Papers, 1998-2000 | |
| Bea Naff Bailey, A Mission from Within: The Phoebe Needles Memorial School, April 21, 2000 |
2:13
|
| Charles Ballard, Dismissing the Peculiar Institution: Assessing Slavery in Page and Rockingham Counties, Virginia, April 17, 1998 |
2:14
|
| Chris Bolgiano, Tanbark Harvesting as an Economic and Environmental Factor in Appalachia, January 22, 1999 |
2:15
|
| Leila O. W. Boyer, Frederick County Probate Inventories, 1744-1754, February 20, 1998 |
2:16
|
| Seth C. Bruggeman, The Shenandoah River Gundalow and the Politics of Material Reuse, February 18, 2000 |
2:17
|
| A. Glenn Crothers, "To Make Our Youth Intimately Acquainted with their Country": Public
Culture and the Diffusion of Knowledge in Post-Revolutionary Northern Virginia, April 16, 1999
With CV |
2:18
|
| Philip D. Dillard, Confederate Nationalism Meets Philip Sheridan, September 15, 2000 |
2:19
|
| John Fea, Rethinking a Classic Source of Plantation Virginia: A Note on Morals, Sociability,
and Reading in the Writings of Philip Vickers Fithian, March 20, 1998
With CV |
2:20
|
| Jamie L. Ferguson, Lunatics on the West Side: Dr. Francis Stribling and the Western Lunatic Asylum, November 17, 2000 |
2:21
|
| Clarence R. Geier, What Went Ye Into the Wilderness to See? Military Fortification and Troop Deployment at Fort Edward Johnson, Shenandoah Mountain, April 1862, October 15, 1999 |
2:22
|
| George H. Gilliam and William G. Thomas, The Ground Beneath Our Feet. Pilot Episode:
The New Deal Comes to Virginia, September 18, 1998
Video script with abstract and 2 CVs |
2:23
|
| Philip A. Grant Jr., President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Dedication of the Shenandoah National Park, October 20, 2000 |
2:24
|
| Dale F. Harter, The Memoirs of John T. Harris, U.S. Congressman, 1859-1861, 1871-1881:
Reliable Record or Random Recollections, October 16, 1998
Includes timeline and pictures |
3:1
|
| Kevin L. Harter, Shenandoah Valley String Music, January 21, 2000
With CV |
3:2
|
| John L. Heatwole, Witch Lore of the Mountains and Valleys of the Virginias, March 17, 2000 |
3:3
|
| Trenton E. Hizer, The Reform Movement and the Virginia Constitutional Convention,
1829-1830, March 19, 1999
With CV |
3:4
|
| Christian B. Keller, Old Germans and New Germans: Differing Attitudes of Persons of
German Descent in Pennsylvania and Virginia during the Civil War, May 21, 1999
With CV |
3:5
|
| Stephen Longenecker, The Parameters of Presbyterian Outsiderness in the Shenandoah
Valley, 1776-1861, September 17, 1999
With CV |
3:6
|
| Paul D. McDermott, Conococheague Manor: A Study of Early Frontier Settlement in the
Backcountry, November 19, 1999
With CV statement |
3:7
|
| Nancy Sorrells, Muley Cows & Sandy Sows: An Analysis of the Augusta County Estray Books, 1775-1815, January 16, 1998 |
3:8
|
| Jewel Spangler, "A Spring Seald, A Fountain Shut Up?": Evangelicals and Community in Southampton County, Virginia, 1774-1802, November 20, 1998 |
3:9
|
| Danielle M. Torisky, Feeding the Family: Home Front Challenges in Civil War Virginia, February 19, 1999 |
3:10
|
| Joseph W. A. Whitehorne, "Baptists and Yams Did Not Grow Well in the Shenandoah Valley": Regional Differences in the Baptist Movement in Colonial Virginia, May 15, 1998 |
3:11
|
| Subseries: Papers, 2001-2003 | |
| Jonathan M. Berkey, When Killing Is Not Murder: The Politics of Wartime Identity in
Virginia's Lower Shenandoah Valley, 1865-1870, March 16, 2001
With CV |
3:12
|
| Joan C. Browning, Mountaineers are [not] Always Free: Historical Rx for Healing with Local History by Combining and Reconciling European and African 'Histories' of Slavery and the Civil War, April 19, 2002 |
3:13
|
| Ellen Eslinger, The Brief Career of Rufus W. Bailey, African Colonization Society Agent in Virginia, April 20, 2001 |
3:14
|
| Douglas Gomery, Moviegoing in the Shenandoah Valley: A Case Study of Place, Transportation, Audiences, Racism, Censorship & Blue Laws, March 21, 2003 |
3:15
|
| Timothy Hack, Shaping a Revolution: The County Committees in Virginia, 1774-776, February 15, 2002
With abstract |
3:16
|
| Kevin R. Hardwick, Narratives of Villainy and Virtue in Early Virginia: Governor Francis Nicholson and the Character of the Good Ruler, October 26, 2001 |
3:17
|
| Warren R. Hofstra, "All Things Being Equal": The Exchange Economy of the Early Shenandoah
Valley, September 20, 2002
With abstract |
3:18
|
| John C. Kincheloe, The Changing Nature of the Cherokee Trade: Cherokee and English Relations, 1673-1776, January 17, 2003 |
3:19
|
| Kenneth E. Koons,Laboring Classes in the Valley of Virginia during the Age of Grain, April 18, 2003
With update to Figure 11 |
3:20
|
| Creston S. Long, Corridor and Source: The Valley of Virginia and the Eighteenth-Century
Migration to the Backcountry South, February 21, 2003
With CV |
3:21
|
| John R. Maas, "But What Can I Do Without Men": Nathanael Greene, Thomas Jefferson
and the Mobilization of the Virginia Militia, 1780-1781, November 21, 2003
With copy containing handwritten note and CV |
3:22
|
| Paul D. McDermott, The People of Elizabeth Hundred, November 16, 2001
With abstract |
3:23
|
| Charles A. Miller, Ellen Glasgow's Shenandoah Valley Novels: Learning from Literature, October 24, 2003
With abstract and envelope containing note and computer disk |
3:24
|
| Lynn A. Nelson, 'The Coffey Gang' and the Tye River Forks Community: Evolution of
Yeoman Families in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, 1800-1860, March 15, 2002
With abstract |
4:1
|
| Kip Redick, Wilderness and Communitas: Pilgrims on the Appalachian Trail NCA Panel:
"New Radicals: Spiritual Communities and the Environment", October 22, 2001
With emailed abstract |
4:2
|
| Edward J. Redmond, The Mapmaker from Mount Vernon, February 16, 2001
With abstract |
4:3
|
| Stacey L. Schneider, Deconstructing Legend: The Underground Railroad in Virginia, January 18, 2002
With abstract |
4:4
|
| Patrick K. Spero, The Paxton Boy's Pamphlet War and the Restructuring of Colonial Pennsylvania's Political Landscape, October 25, 2002 |
4:5
|
| Dan Stickley, John Hindman, the Racing Parson, January 19, 2001 |
4:6
|
| Bradford Wineman, J.T.L. Preston, VMI and the Revolution in Virginia Education, 1834-1839, September 19, 2003
With CV and emailed abstract |
4:7
|
| Subseries: Papers, 2004-2006 | |
| Alison Bell and Laura J. Galke, Traces of Negotiation: Archaeological, Archival and
Oral Historical Investigations into the Dynamics of Labor at the Longdale Mining Complex,
ca. 1827-1911, March 18, 2005
With abstract |
4:8
|
| Thomas J. Christoffel, Community, Security and Regional Cooperation in the Shenandoah
Valley, February 20, 2004
PowerPoint slides with CV |
4:9
|
| Casey Clabough, Mysteries of the Shenandoah Valley: Following the Warrior's Path, September 15, 2006 |
4:10
|
| Christopher M. Curtis, Jefferson's Vision Altered: Charles Faulkner and the Legal
Foundations of Agricultural Reform in the Shenandoah Valley, March 19, 2004
With CV |
4:11
|
| Anne Denkler, African Americans and Slavery in Page County, Virginia, October 14, 2005
Emailed abstract only |
4:12
|
| Sherman L. Fleek, Latter-Day Saints in Virginia and the Shenandoah Area, October 20, 2006 |
4:13
|
| Frank E. Grizzard Jr., Origin and Preservation of the George Washington Papers, January 16, 2004
Published article with presentation abstract |
4:14
|
| Mary Ellen Henry, Institutionalizing the Valley Poor: the Rockbridge and Shenandoah Experience, 1870-1930, October 22, 2004 |
4:15
|
| Anna Elizabeth Kiefer, "Through an Almost Impenetrable Wood"': Logistics and the British
Army in North America, November 17, 2006
University of New Hampshire thesis |
4:16
|
| Geraldine Wojno Kiefer, The Sublimity of Battle, the Quietude of Remembrance: Paintings,
Drawings, Maps and Photographs of the Shenandoah Valley as a Theater of War, February 18, 2005
PowerPoint slides, exhibit brochure, and CD |
4:17
|
| Kenneth E. Koons, Bonds of Family, Friendship, and Community: Social Life and Patterns of Leisure in the Nineteenth-Century Valley of Virginia, February 17, 2006 |
4:18
|
| Greg Lekavich,Serving the People: The Role of the Judiciary and Law Enforcement in Defining the Augusta County Ordinance, April 15, 2005 |
4:19
|
| Stephen Longenecker, Otelia's Hoops: Gettysburg Dunkers and the Civil War, November 18, 2005
With abstract |
4:20
|
| Sarah Meacham, "My Little Bird Is My Closest Friend": Emotions and Petkeeping in Early Virginia, March 17, 2006 |
4:21
|
| Betsy Mendelsohn, Early Apple Growing on Apple Pie Ridge, 1900-1930, November 19, 2004 |
4:22
|
| Byron C. Smith, The Minnick-Zirkle Newtown Wagon: Its Rediscovery and Attribution, September 16, 2005
With abstract |
4:23
|
| Scott Hamilton Suter, The Real Thing: Tradition and Technology in the Shenandoah Valley, September 17, 2004
With emailed abstract |
4:24
|
| George Thompson, Publishing in the Valley, January 20, 2006
Project proposal only |
4:25
|
| Catherine A. Tisinger, Phoenix Rising: A 20th Century Valley Tale, One Manufacturing Plant and Three Owners, April 21, 2006 |
4:26
|
| Subseries: Papers, 2007-2009 | |
| Donna Dodenhoff, African Americans' Pursuit of Citizenship in the Northern Shenandoah
Valley: Reconstruction to the World War II Period, April 17, 2009
With emailed abstract |
4:27
|
| Walter Ghant, "Colored" Teachers in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, Virginia,
1900-1940: Pedagogy of Service and Learning, February 15, 2008
With emailed abstract |
5:1
|
| Dale Harter, 'Hell No, We Won't Go' … Back: The Rockingham Rebellion, Spring 1862, February 20, 2009
Emailed abstract only |
5:2
|
| Mary Ellen Henry, Shuttering the Poorhouse Door: Virginia's Second District Home, 1927, March 20, 2009 |
5:3
|
| Warren Hofstra and Mike Foreman, Country Music and Cultural History in 1950s Winchester,
Virginia. The Life and Times of Patsy Cline, January 16, 2009
Abstract only |
5:4
|
| Wesley T. Joyner, Who Is Peter Francisco and Why Does He Matter?, October 26, 2007
With book abstract |
5:5
|
| Geraldine Wojno Kiefer, Frances Benjamin Johnston and The Ladies' Home Journal Visit
the Country of Sheridan's Ride, September 21, 2007
PowerPoint slides and 2 CDs |
5:6
|
| Kenneth E. Koons, Processing the Bounty of Field and Forest: Manufacturing in the
Nineteenth-Century Valley of Virginia, February 16, 2007
With abstract |
5:7
|
| Charles A. Miller, The Classics in the Appalachians – The Case of the Shenandoah Valley, April 18, 2008
With abstract |
5:8
|
| Ted Olson, Blue Ridge Folklife: The Region's Most Distinctive Verbal, Customary, and
Material Culture Traditions—Past, Present, and Future, April 20, 2007
With ephemera (moved to Administrative Records 2007) and emailed biography |
5:9
|
| Laura Ping, Life in a Divided City: Women in Winchester, VA During the Civil War, March 16, 2007
Thesis with abstract and emailed biography |
5:10
|
| Scott Hamilton Suter, 'Steeped in the Traditions of the Past': Material Culture and the Marketing of the Shenandoah Valley, October 17, 2008 |
5:11
|
| Matthew J. Trogdon, The Editors and the Insurrection: Political Rivalry and the Newspaper
Reactions to Nat Turner's Rebellion, January 19, 2007
With abstract |
5:12
|
| Joseph W. A. Whitehorne, The Battle of Cedar Creek: Action Affecting Areas 1 and 5, Quarry Property, September 19, 2008 |
5:13
|
| Subseries: Papers, 1990-1994 | |
| Terry Alford, John Wilkes Boothe and the John Brown Raid: An Episode and its Portents, October 18, 1991
Contains email re: paper not to be copied/distributed until Dr. Alford's book publication |
5:14
|
| Lisa Hill, Germanic Customs of the Easter Season: Folklore and Traditions, August 10, 1990 |
5:15
|
| Warren R. Hofstra, Domestic Architecture and the Early Shenandoah Valley, February 20, 1992 |
5:16
|
| Stephen L. Longnecker, Religion, Pluralism, and Democracy among Germans in the Shenandoah Valley, 1700-1850, November 15, 1991 |
5:17
|
| Scott H. Suter, Tradition and Progress in Nineteenth-Century Rockingham County: The Case of Emanuel Suter, September 17, 1993 |
5:18
|
| Gail S. Terry,"If it is Within My Power": Women's Experience In the Virginia Backcountry, January 18, 1991 |
5:19
|
| John R. Vineyard, Virginia's Conestoga: Defining Shenandoah Freight Wagons, 1750-1850, September 16, 1992 |
5:20
|
| James W. Wilson, The Mossy Creek Iron Works, February 14, 1994 |
5:21
|
| Nate Yoder, Virginia Mennonites: From Traditionalists to Fundamentalists, January 24, 1994 |
5:22
|
Compiled by: Mark Peterson, February 2012