8:00-10:00 p.m.

Opening remarks: "History and Fiction, Memory and Culture"
David B. Sachsman, UTC

"William Gilmore Simms: A Literary Casualty of the Civil War"
Phoebe Davidson, University of South Carolina-Aiken and
Debra Reddin van Tuyll, Augusta State University

"Aunt Phillis, Uncle Tom and the Journalism of Fiction"
Robert Dardenne, U of South Florida St. Petersburg

8:30-9:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast in the Raccoon Mountain Room

9:00-9:15

Opening remarks from conveners and university officials

9:15-10:45

"The Role of the First Lady and the Media: An Examination of Selected Newspaper Coverage of Dolley Madison, 1809-1817"
Katherine Roberts, Universityh of Minnesota-Twin Cities

"Like father, Like sons: The Antislavery Legacy of William Hamilton"
Bernell Tripp, University of Florida

"Picturing American Indians: Natives and Images of Newspapers, 1865-1876"
William E. Huntzicker

10:45-11:00

Refreshments

11:00-12:00

"'Ain’t Nobody Clean': 'Glory!' and the Politics of Black Agency"
W. Scott Poole, U of South Carolina-Aiken

"Snaggle-Tooth Jones, Mace's Hole, and Confederates in Colorado: Confederate Activity in Colorado During the First Eighteen Months of the Civil War and the Influence of the Rocky Mountain News"
Meredith Campbell, J. Sergeant
Reynolds Community College, Richmond, Va.

12:00-1:30 p.m.

Luncheon in the Chickamauga Room, University Center, 2^nd Floor

"Crossing the Lines: Treason, Dissent, and Benjamin Wood's Copperhead New York Daily News"
Menahem Blondheim, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1:30-3:15

"The New York Evening Star: A Different Perspective on the Press of the 1830s"
Thorin Tritter, Princeton U

"A Study of Motherhood in Godey's Magazine: 'A Wonderful Duty and the Basis of all Moral Culture' ”"
Sarah Smith, University of Minnesota

"'A High and Holy Mission on the Battle-field of Existence': Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the 'Cult of True Womanhood'"
Hazel Dicken-Garcia and Kathryn Neal, University of Minnesota

"Transcending the Boundaries: Grace Greenwood's Washington, 1850-1852"
J. Fred Saddler, Temple U

3:15-3:30

Refreshments

3:30-6:20

"Of Saints and Sinners: Religion and the Civil War and Reconstruction Novel"
Edward J. Blum, U Kentucky

"A Muckraker at Manassas: Upton Sinclair's Civil War Fiction"
Jessica Dorman, Penn State Harrisburg

"Nineteenth Century Jewish Journalism in England and America"
Barbara Reed, Rutgers University

"Ebony Triangle: Network of Black Newspapers in Kansas, 1878-1900"
Aleen J. Ratzlaff, Tabor College

"The Press and the Mormons: Newspaper Coverage of the 1887 Edmunds-Tucker Act"
Walter Atkinson, Northern Illinois University

"Scientific Literacy in the Antebellum South: The Southern Quarterly Review"
Miriam J. Shillingsburg, Indiana University-South Bend

6:20-8:20

Dinner in the Chickamauga Room, University Center, 2^nd Floor

"On Whose Responsibility?: The Historical and Literary Underpinnings of The Red Badge of Courage"
Roy Morris, Jr., Editor of America's Civil War Magazine

8:30-9:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast in the Raccoon Mountain Room

9:00-11:40

"The Marketing of the Harrison Presidency: The Log Cabin, Hard Times, and Hard Cider, Too"
Gregory Borchard, University of Florida

"The Making of a Correspondent: Benjamin Perley Poore's Early Years in Washington D.C., 1847-1860"
Joseph P. McKerns, Ohio State University

"'Noisy and Noisome': Know-Nothingism, Rutherford B. Hayes, and the Press of Northwest Ohio"
Michael T. McGill, Jr., Bowling Green State University

"'Another Copperhead Lie': Marcellus Emery and the Bangor Union and Democrat"
Crompton Burton,OhioUniversity

"The Spiritualist Movement Controversy: A Study of Media Coverage 1850-1866"
Frances Masamba, Georgia State University

"The Barren Honor: Four Newspapers' Coverage of Journalist Horace Greeley as U.S. Presidential Candidate in 1872"
Gary Hornseth, University of Minnesota

11:40-6:00 p.m.

Discussion continues while the group visits Chattanooga's historic Civil War sites (lunch provided)

After the tour of historic sites -