An Invitation to:
Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression
November 8 - November 10, 2007 The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
The steering committee of the fifteenth annual Symposium on the 19th
Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression invites you to a
conference featuring papers dealing with U.S. mass media of the 19th
century, the Civil War in fiction and history, images of race and
gender in the 19th century press, presidents and the 19th century
press, and sensationalism and crime in 19th century newspapers.
Selected papers will be presented during the three-day conference in
Chattanooga, Tennessee, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, November
8-10, 2007. The top three papers and the top three student papers
will be honored accordingly.
The purpose of the November conference is to share current research
and to develop a series of monographs on the 19th century press, the
Civil War and the press, the Civil War in fiction and history, 19th
century concepts of free expression, images of race and gender in the
19th century press, presidents and the 19th century press, and
sensationalism and crime in 19th century newspapers. Papers from the
first five conferences were published by Transaction Publishers in
2000 as a book of readings called The Civil War and the Press. Purdue
University Press is publishing conference papers in three distinctly
different books titled Memory and Myth: The Civil War in Fiction and
Film from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Cold Mountain (July 2007), Words at
War: The Civil War and American Journalism (2008), and Seeking a
Voice: Images of Race and Gender in the 19th Century Press (2009).
The symposium is sponsored by the George R. West, Jr. Chair of
Excellence in Communication and Public Affairs, the UT-Chattanooga
Department of Communication, the UT-Chattanooga Department of
History, the Chattanooga Times Free Press, WRCB-TV Channel 3, and the
Hazel Dicken-Garcia Fund for the Symposium, and because of this
sponsorship, no registration fee will be charged.
If you are interested in attending the symposium, please contact:
Dr. David Sachsman
George R. West, Jr. Chair of Excellence in Communication and Public Affairs
212 Frist Hall, Dept. 3003
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
615 McCallie Ave.
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37403-2598
(423) 425-4219
FAX (423) 425-2199
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Symposium on the 19th Century Press,
the Civil War, and Free Expression
Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007 Sheraton Read House Hotel
7:00-11:00 p.m. Opening Remarks: David B. Sachsman, UTC
"Shelby Foote, The South's Homer: 'A Personal
Narrative'" Douglas Cupples, University of Memphis
"Odd, Honest, Independent: Horace Greeley's Heroic
Transcendental Journalism" James Lundberg, Yale University
"'Echoes': The Maine Bugle and Memory of the American
Civil War" Crompton Burton, Marietta College
"A Confederate Journalist in Europe. The Propaganda
Mission of Henry Hotze" Lonnie Burnett,
University of Mobile
"Telling Lincoln's Story as Correspondent and Friend:
Noah Brooks Shares His Personal Observations with America" Malana
Salyer, Louisville
"Homecourt Advantage? Abraham Lincoln and Coverage of
the Emancipation Proclamation by his Hometown Press" Scott Lambert,
Oklahoma State
"'Do Not Place Us Between Two Fires': Connecticut
Soldiers, Connecticut Newspapers, and the Gubernatorial Election of
1863" Laura Lawfer, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
"Sickness from Abroad: Media Framing of New
Immigrants and Disease, 1891-1893" Harriet Moore, Georgia State
University
Panel: "Knights of the Quill: Civil War Correspondents in the South Part 1"
"William Tappan Thompson: Humorist, Entrepreneur,
Soldier, Editor" Wallace Eberhard, University of Georgia
"L.H. Matthews, A.K.A. 'Nemo': Traitor or Hero?"
Henry Schulte, University of South Carolina
Friday, Nov. 9, 2007
Raccoon Mountain Room of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Univ. Center
9:00-10:40 a.m. "Cartoonist Thomas Nast's 1872 Crusade Against
Candidate Horace Greeley" Hazel Dicken-Garcia and Jennifer Moore,
University of Minnesota, and William Huntzicker, St. Cloud State
University
"'Scenes and Sufferings' with Nineteenth-Century
Eyes: Early Images of Andersonville and Civil War Visual Culture,
1864-1867" Douglas Gardner, Indiana University-Purdue University
Columbus
"Widows in Confederate Fiction: 'The Lives of the Men
Would be Changed Comparatively Little'" Jennifer Lynn Gross,
Jacksonville State
"The Newspaper Days of a Future Copperhead:
Clement L. Vallandigham as Editor of the Dayton Western Empire" David
Bulla, Iowa State University
10:40-10:50 a.m. Refreshments
10:50-12:05 p.m"'Independent in Everything - Neutral in Nothing':
Joseph Addison Turner, The Countryman, and the Cultivation of
Confederate Nationalism" Michael Bernath, University of Miami
"'War is Thundering at Our Very Gates': Texas
Newspapers During the Civil War" Mary M. Cronin, New Mexico State
University
"Fortune's New York" Claire Serant, St. John's University
12:05-1:30 p.m. Luncheon in the Chickamauga Room
"Frederick Douglass, James W. Carey, and the Missing
Final Page of Journalism History" David Mindich, St. Michael's College
1:30-3:30 "Beyond Fanatics and Fire-Eaters: Lorman A. Ratner
and the Prosperity/Anxiety Theme in the Mid-1850s Popular Press"
Dwight Teeter, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Panel: "Minority Voices: Women, African Americans,
and a Jewish Editor" Barbara Straus Reed, Rutgers University,
moderator
"Women and Early Development of the Concept of Media
Responsibility" Hazel Dicken-Garcia, University of Minnesota
"A Woman's Place: Defiance and Obedience-Newspaper
Stories about Women during the Trial of John Brown" Brian Gabrial,
Concordia University
"From Slave to Citizen: Visual Depictions of African
Americans in Harper's Weekly during Reconstruction" Jennifer Moore,
Minnesota
"David Naar and New Jersey Democrats during the Civil
War" Barbara Straus Reed, Rutgers University
3:30-3:40 p.m. Refreshments
3:40-6:30 p.m. "Trapped in a Spider's Web: Three Organizations that
Struggled for Free Speech in the Comstock Era" Janice Wood, Texas
Christian University
"Life of the Image/Text: Reading the Sketches of the
Civil War 'Specials'" Nirmal Trivedi, Boston College
"Communities at War: Ohio Republicans' Attacks on
Democratic Newspapers" Brett Barker, University of Wisconsin -
Marathon County
Panel: "Sensationalism and Crime in 19th Century
Newspapers" Jack Breslin, Iona College, moderator
"If It Bled. It Led: Sensationalism in 19th Century
Crime Reporting" Jack Breslin, Iona College
"News, Pictures, and Sensationalism" William
Huntzicker, St. Cloud State University
"Crime, Sensationalism, and the 'Journalism of
Action'" Joe Campbell, American University
"Great Story, Bad Law: Georgia Editors and the
Movement to End Public Hangings" Wallace Eberhard, University of
Georgia
6:30-8:00 p.m. Dinner in the Chickamauga Room
"In Search of Fresh Methodology" Joe Campbell, American Univ.
Saturday, November 10, 2007- Raccoon Mountain Room. University Center
9:00-12:30 p.m. "Civil War Obituaries and the Making of Memory"
Michelle Harper, Readex Director of Product Management
"'A Soldier of the 29th': The Civil War
Correspondence of Texas Editor Charles DeMorse" Mary M. Cronin,
New Mexico State University
"Beyond the Household Gate: Women War Correspondents
in the Confederacy" Debra van Tuyll, Augusta State University
"Cuba's 'Hot Little Rebel' and Spain's 'Criminal
Fugitive': Perspectives on Gender" Carol Wilcox, Virginia State
University
"New Technologies in Printing at the End of the 19th
Century" Chris Harris, Middle Tennessee State University
Panel: "Knights of the Quill: Civil War
Correspondents in the South, Part 2" Ford Risley, Pennsylvania State
University, moderator
Introduction: Debra van Tuyll, Augusta State University
"P.W.A.," "A," and "Sallust" Ford Risley, Pennsylvania State U.
"Elusive Henry Perry" Jinx Broussard and Skye Chance
Cooley, Louisiana State University
"William Wallace Screws" Brad Hamm, Indiana University
"Roving Reporter: Samuel Chester Reid" Mark Dolan, Mississippi
Discussion continues while the group visits Chattanooga's historic
Civil War Sites (includes lunch and dinner).
Sponsored by the West Chair of Excellence, the UTC Communication and
History departments, the Chattanooga Times Free Press, WRCB-TV
Channel 3, and the Hazel Dicken-Garcia Fund for the Symposium. All
paper sessions are free and open to the public.
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David B. Sachsman, Ph.D.
George R. West, Jr. Chair of Excellence in Communication
and Public Affairs and Professor of Communication
210 Frist Hall Dept. 3003
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
615 McCallie Ave.
Chattanooga, TN 37403
423-425-4219 FAX 423-425-2199
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