8:00-10:00 p.m.
"Class, Free Speech and the Civil War"
Kittrell Rushing, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Roundtable discussion:
"Did the Antebellum Press Play a Role in Causing
the Civil War?"Moderator: David Sachsman, West Chair of Excellence,
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
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8:30-9:00 a.m. ***Continental Breakfast (Raccoon Mountain Room)***
9:00-9:15 a.m. Opening Remarks from conveners and university officials
9:15-10:45 a.m.
Debra Reddin van Tuyll, Augusta State University
"Devil to Clown: News Coverage of the Capture of Jefferson Davis"
Robert Dardenne, USF at St. Petersburg
"'John Brown Still Lives!': The Case of John Brown"
Bernell E. Tripp, University of Florida
10:45-11:00 a.m. ****Refreshments****
11:00-12:00
"For Women and the War: Content, Structure, and Functions
of the Mayflower"Janet M. Cramer, University of Minnesota
"Visibility of Women in Newspaper Advertisements During the Civil War"
Hazel Dicken-Garcia, University of Minnesota
12:00-1:30 p.m. ****Luncheon in the Chickamauga Room, University Center***
"Knights in Blue and Butternut: Mosby, Myth and History in Television's Civil Wars"
Paul Ashdown, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Kate E. Roberts, University of Minnesota
"Samuel Chester Reid Jr.: Confederate Correspondent, 1861-1864"
Lisa Daigle, Georgia State University
"Republican Newspapers and Freedom of the Press in the Reconstruction South"
Richard Abbott, Eastern Michigan
3:00-3:15 p.m. ****Refreshments****
3:15-5:30 p.m.
"Preserving a Denomination: The Promotion of Women by North Carolina's Antebellum Baptist Press"
David A. Copeland, Emory & Henry College
"'Napoleon of the Press:' Thomas Ritchie and The Richmond Enquirer"
Wade Shaffer, West Texas A&M
"William Benjamin Townsend: Personal Journalist and 'Cynical Seer' of North Georgia"
Betty Hall, Ohio University
6:00-7:30 p.m. *****Dinner in the Chickamauga Room*****
"Regulating Freedom of the Press: Congress vs. the Telegraph-News Monopoly, 1866-1900"
Menahem Blondheim, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
7:30-10:00 p.m. *****Reception at home of David Sachsman*****
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8:30-9:00 a.m. *****Continental Breakfast (Raccoon Mountain Room)*****
9:00-11:00 a.m.
"Opportunity Lost: The U.S. Press and the Vanquished Philippine Republic"
Christopher A. Vaughan, Rutgers University
"Ida B.Wells: Crusader Against Lynch Law, 1892-1894"
Aleen J. Ratzlaff, University of Florida
"Frontier Editors: Typesetters and Gunfighters"
Alex Nagy, Middle Tennessee State University
"Locating Sources Relating to the Nineteenth Century Press"
Holly Hodges, Archivist,
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga,
Lupton Library Special Collections11:00-7:00 p.m.
Discussion continues while the group visits Chattanooga's historic Civil War sites
(includes lunch and dinner)
Symposium sponsored by the West Chair of Excellence and the UTC Department
of Communication.
All paper sessions are free and open to the public.
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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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