UTC Symposium on the Antebellum Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression

Department of Communication & the West Chair of Excellence in Communication and Public Affairs

Symposium on the 19th Century Press,
the Civil War, and Free Expression

1996 ConferenceProgram

Symposium on the Antebellum Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression

November 7, 8, and 9, 1996

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Thursday, November 7, 1996:

The West Room of the Radisson Read House Hotel, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Dinner for invited conference presenters.
8:00-10:00 p.m.: "Chattanooga: A City of Newspapers" Kit Rushing, UTC and Luke Powers, Tennessee State University; Roundtable discussion: "Did the Antebellum Press Set the Agenda for Civil War?"
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Friday, November 8, 1996: Meeting in the Raccoon Mountain Room of the 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
9:30-10:45 a.m.: "A Window on the Antebellum Press" Jeb Byrne, Alexandria, Va.; "The Pre-Penny Press in Virginia...in the 1830s" Richard Stillson, Reston, Va.; "Popular Women's Magazines During the Civil War" Regina Canty, St. Louis, Mo.
10:45-11:00 a.m.: Refreshments
11:00-12:00: "'So Many, Many Needless Dead': The Civil War Witness of Ambrose Bierce" Roy Morris Jr., Editor, America's Civil War
12:00-1:30 p.m.: Luncheon in the Chickamauga Room, University Center; "Mississippi Fire-Eating Editor and the Election of 1860" Nancy M. DuPont, Loyola University
1:30-3:30 p.m.: "The 'Hard Bargains' of Freedom" Dale Herbeck, Boston Coll. and C. Morris, Penn St.; "Trollope on the Civil War" Judith Knelman, University of Western Ontario; "Wanted Dead or Alive:...Jesse James" Cathy M. Jackson, Univ. of Missouri; "An Irresponsible Press: Memphis...1866 Riot" Marius Carriere,Christian Brothers Univ. Memphis
3:30-3:45 p.m.: Refreshments
3:45-5:30 p.m.: "Virginia and Andrew Jackson's Proclamation" Douglas W. Cupples, Bartlett, Tenn.; "Jefferson Davis and the Richmond Press" Joseph V. Trahan, University Tennessee at Chattanooga; "Private Lives, Public Virtues: Civil War...Obituaries" Janice Hume, U of Missouri; "Two Men, Two Minds:...Sherman's March" Debra Reddin van Tuyll, Augusta College
6:00-7:30 p.m.: Dinner in the Chickamauga Room.; "Jewish Press Coverage of an Anti-Semitic Act: Grant's Order No. 11" Barbara Straus Reed, Rutgers University
7:30-10:00 p.m.: Reception at home of David Sachsman, 1002 Centennial Drive
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Saturday, November 9, 1996
8:30- 9:00 a.m.: Continental Breakfast (Raccoon Mountain Room)
9:00-11:00 a.m.: "Constantine Rea: An Antebellum Editor" Laura Nan Fairley, Auburn Univ.; "Samuel Medary and the Crisis: The Right to Dissent"James S. Baugess, Ohio St.U; "Singing for Freedom: The Negro Spiritual" Rachelle C. Prioleau, USC-Spartanburg; "Censorship, Racism, and the Antebellum Press" Robert Kennedy, Norfolk, Va.; Meeting of the Symposium Steering Committee
11:00-7:00 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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