The Southern Industrialization Project (SIP) seeks to foster a greater understanding of the history and culture of industrialization in the American South. SIP primarily consists of a discussion list of more than 100 academic and public historians with research interests that encompass many industries, eras, and geographic locations. Each year we meet to hear scholarly papers and to propose methods for promoting research in Southern industrial history. Co-sponsored by KSU's Center for Regional History & Culture

Southern Industrialization Project Conference Kennesaw State University June 13-14, 2008   Friday, June 13                      3:15-5:00 Session I:  Industrial Projects in Public History Roundtable Social Science 3029     Chair: Ray Luce, Director of the Historic Preservation Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources Jack Wynn, North Georgia College & State University; also Executive Director of Friends of Scull Shoals Margaret Calhoon, Georgia Power Corporate Archives Karen Utz, Curator, Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark Comment: Randall Gooden, Clayton State University   5:30-7:00        Reception and Keynote, Jolley Lodge 7:00-8:00 Keynote "Apologies, Regrets and Reparations" Stanley Engerman, President, Southern Industrialization Project   Saturday, June 14 Session II, 8:30-10:00: New South Entrepreneurs Social Science 3029 Chair: Michael Gagnon, Georgia Gwinnett College "Georgia's Etowah River Valley as Seedbed of the New South: Gold, Iron, Coal, and the Impetus for Birmingham" G. Richard Wright and Kenneth H. Wheeler, Reinhardt College "Mining Black Diamonds: Extracting Coal from North-Central Alabama, 1866-1890" James Sanders Day, University of Montevallo "Sawmilling and the Courts in Antebellum New Orleans: A Study of the Firm of Miller & Shepherd" John Robert Keeling, III, McNeese State University Comment: Randy Patton, Kennesaw State University Saturday, June 14 8:30 a.m.-10:00 Session III:  Southern Labor Studies Association Session Social Science 3007 Chair: Michelle Haberland, Georgia Southern University "'Bearing arms to repel invasion is a part of our great American Heritage': NASCAR, Bill France, and the Drivers' Union Movements of the 1960s" Dan Pierce, University of North Carolina, Asheville Comment: Richard Starnes, Western Carolina University Comment: Michelle Haberland, Georgia Southern University   10:15-11:45 Session IV: Conflicting Views of Southern Industrialization Social Science 3029 Chair: Michele Gillespie, Wake Forest University Religious Criticism of Southern Industry: "An Appeal to the Industrial Leaders of the South" Bart Dredge, Austin College "An Industrious Generation: The Watauga Club and Industrial Education, 1884-1912" Samuel L. Schaffer, Yale University Comment: Angela Lakwete, Auburn University   10:15-11:45 Session V: Environmental Aspects of Southern Industrialization Social Science 3007 Chair: Steven Reich, James Madison University "Yellow Jack Rides the Rails: Jacksonville's Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1888 and Florida's Railroads" R. Scott Huffard, Jr., University of Florida "'You learnt to spin and you learnt to hear:' Sensory History, Soundscapes and the Lives of Southern Millhands, 1915-1940" Gerard J. Fitzgerald, New York University Comment: Steven Reich 12:00-1:30 Lunch 1:30-3:00 Panel Discussion:  Assessing the State of Southern Economic History Social Science 3029 Moderator: Louis Kyriakoudes, University of Southern Mississippi Gavin Wright, Stanford University David L. Carlton, Vanderbilt University Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester Susanna Delfino, University of Genoa   3:30-5:30 Field Trip Caravan to tour the Etowah Iron Works (antebellum iron works) at nearby Red Top Mountain State Park   Sponsors: Southern Industrialization Project Shaw Industries Chair Center for Regional History & Culture

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