7:00-10:00 p.m.

"Between Tradition and Innovation: The Nature of Ante-bellum News in the Courant" -- Robert Dardenne, University of South Florida-St. Petersburg--
Roundtable Discussion: "Did the Antebellum Press Set the Agenda for Civil War?"

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Friday, November 3, 1995:

Meeting in the Raccoon Mountain Room of the UTC University Center

Luncheon and Dinner in the Chickamauga Room (2nd Floor)

8:30-9:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast (Raccoon Mountain Room)

9:00-9:30 a.m.

Opening Remarks from conveners and university officials

9:30-11:00 a.m.

"Uncle Horace and Old Osawatomie Brown" Lloyd Chiasson, Nicholls State

"Between the 'Bank' and the 'Kitchen': The Emergence of a Nonpartisan Ethic in Antebellum America" David T. Z. Mindich, New York University

"Picturing the News: Frank Leslie and the Origins of American Pictorial Journalism" William Huntzicker, University of Minnesota

11:00-12:00

Tour of the Confederate Cemetery (across street from UTC University Center)

12:00-1:30 p.m.

Luncheon in the Chickamauga Room, University Center

"Civil Liberties in the Civil War: Lincoln and the Origins of Presidential Press Restraints" Jeffery A. Smith, University of Iowa

1:30-3:00 p.m.

"Images of Women in Civil War Newspapers Leave the 'Proper Sphere'" Hazel Dicken-Garcia and Janet M. Cramer, University of Minnesota

"Engendering Politics from the Popular: The Antebellum Feminist Magazine as Forum for Transformation" Amy Beth Aronson, Columbia University

"'For Feminine Readers': Images of Women Amid the Newspapers of the Gilded Age, 1865-1890" Susan Inskeep Gray, George Mason University

3:00-3:15 p.m.

Refreshments

3:15-5:30 p.m.

"Western Maryland Newspapers 1820-1860: American Culture in Transition" -- Yvonne Carignan, George Mason University

"'I hear nothing about me now but politics-slavery, and antislavery ad nauseam.': Paul Hamilton and the Editorial Policy of Russell's Magazine 1857-1860" Michael Robertson, University of San Francisco, and Alton Loftis

"The Press Under Pressure: Georgia Newspapers During the Civil War" -- - Eugene Miller, and Christopher J. Schroll, University of Georgia --

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6:00-8:00 p.m.

Dinner in the Chickamauga Room.

"Run Up the Flag Boldly: American Occupation Newspapers in Mexico City, 1847-48" Tom Reilly, California State University, Northridge.

Roundtable: "Wartime Restraints on Free Expression"

8:00-9:00 p.m.

"The Jewish Struggle for Dignity and Equality During the Civil War" Barbara Straus Reed, Rutgers University(Goldman Moses Lecture at Mizpah Congregation on McCallie Avenue)

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Saturday, November 4, 1995

9:00-11:00 a.m.

"William Cullen Bryant's Crusade Against Slavery 1830-1860" Gregg MacDonald, Georgia State University

"Isaac Mayer Wise, The Israelite, and the Civil War" Barbara Straus Reed, Rutgers University

"Northern Political Culture and the Transformation of New York County Weeklies, 1850-1880" -- John F. Kirn, Jr., Virginia Commonwealth/University of Virginia

Meeting of the Symposium Steering Committee

11:00-7:30 p.m.

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

For additional information contact:

Dr. David Sachsman
311 Frist Hall
Communication Department
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37403-2598

e-mail: dsachsma@cecasun.utc.edu

Last updated: March 9, 1998.
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