8:30-9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast (Raccoon Mountain
Room
9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks from conveners and university officials
9:15-10:45
"Southern v. Northern News about Territories, Sections,
& Slavery: A Newspaper Case Study of Historical Agenda Setting
1820-1860" Donald Shaw, Randy Patnode and Diana Knott, U.
North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"The Arrest and Trial of Clement
L. Vallandigham: Journalists' Discussion of Freedom of Expression
and Hated Ideas in the Civil War" Giovanna Dell Orto,
University of Minnesota
"Coverage of Lynching in Selected
Mainstream Newspapers, 1892-1894" Aleen J. Ratzlaff,
University of Florida
10:45-11:00 Refreshments
11:00-12:00
"Money Matters: Financial Structure
in the Civil War Era and the Dominance of the Big City Daily"
Thorin Tritter, Columbia University
"Coverage of Three Censorship
Episodes Involving the Baltimore Press and Journalists' Discussion
of Freedom of the Press in Civil War Newspapers in 1861 and 1862"
Giovanna Dell-Orto and Hazel Dicken-Garcia, Minnesota
12:00-1:30 Luncheon in the Chickamauga Room, University
Center
"Tales in Black and White: The Two
Faces of 19th Century Abolitionist James Redpath" Bernell
E. Tripp, Florida
1:30-3:00
"Wartime News over Southern Wires:
The Confederate Press Association" Ford Risley, Penn
State University
"Partners in Crime: Southern Newspaper
Editors and the Ku Klux Klan" G. M. Bush, North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
"Taking No Rights For Granted:
The Southern Press and the 15th Amendment" Gregory Borchard,
Florida
3:00-3:15 Refreshments
3:15-5:30
"Our All is at Stake: Mississippi
Newspaper Arguments Against Secession" Nancy McKenzie
Dupont, Loyola, NO
"The Terror of Poe: Slavery, the
Southern Gentleman, and the Status Quo" Eve Dunbar,
U. Texas, Austin
"Literature and Propaganda:
Simms in the Richmond Weeklies" Miriam J. Shillingsburg,
Lamar University
"Media Coverage of First Ladies:
A Quantitative Analysis of Indexed New York Times Coverage
of Wives of U.S. Presidents, 1853-1991" Katherine E. Roberts, University of Minnesota
"Francis W. Dawson: Dueling with
the Code of Honor" Patricia G. McNeely, University of
South Carolina
6:00-8:00 Dinner in the Chickamauga Room
"The Politics of Information Control in the Civil War
and the Bogus Proclamation of 1864" Menahem Blondheim, Hebrew
University. Roundtable discussion: Did the Press Set the Agenda
for Civil War? David Sachsman, UTC
8:30-9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast (Raccoon Mountain
Room)
9:00-11:30
"Damning Voices: The Press, the
Politicians, and the Mankato Indian Trials of 1862"
Brian R. Gabriel, Minnesota
"Little Bighorn Coverage in Kansas
Newspapers: Last Stand for a Partisan Press" James E.
Mueller, Pittsburg State
"Still Another A Horror! A Study
of Death in 19th Century Newspapers" Les Sillars, University
of Texas, Austin
"Attitudes to Marriage The Subtext
of Coverage of the Maybrick Case" Judith Knelman, U.
of Western Ontario
"The Jesus Newspaper: How Charles
M. Sheldon Integrated a Christian Approach in The Topeka Daily
Capital March 13-17, 1900" Michael R. Smith, Regent
University
12:00-6:00 p.m. Discussion continues while the group visits
Chattanooga's historic Civil War sites (includes lunch
and dinner)