The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is pleased to invite you to attend
the ninth annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free
Expression, Nov. 8-10, 2001:
Thursday, November 8, 2001 The Radisson Read House Hotel
8:00-10:00 p.m. Reception Honoring the Conference Speakers. Coffee
and dessert will be served.
Opening remarks: 'History and Fiction, Memory and Culture' David B.
Sachsman, UTC
"William Gilmore Simms: A Literary Casualty of the Civil War" Phoebe
Davidson, University of South Carolina-Aiken and Debra Reddin van
Tuyll, Augusta State University
"Aunt Phillis, Uncle Tom and the Journalism of Fiction" Robert
Dardenne, U of South Florida St. Petersburg
Friday, November 9, 2001
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 in the Raccoon Mountain Room
9:00-9:15 Opening remarks from conveners and university officials
9:15-10:45 "The Role of the First Lady and the Media: An
Examination of Selected Newspaper Coverage of Dolley Madison,
1809-1817" Katherine E. Roberts, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
"Like Father, Like Sons: The Antislavery Legacy of William Hamilton"
Bernell E. Tripp, U of Florida
"Picturing American Indians: Natives and Images in Newspapers,
1865-1876" William E. Huntzicker
10:45-11:00 Refreshments
11:00-12:00 " 'Ain't Nobody Clean': 'Glory!' and the Politics of Black Agency" W. Scott Poole, U of South Carolina-Aiken
"Snaggle-Tooth Jones, Mace's Hole, and Confederates in Colorado:
Confederate Activity in Colorado During the First Eighteen Months of
the Civil War and the Influence of the Rocky Mountain News" Meredith
Campbell, J. Sergeant Reynolds Community College, Richmond, Va.
12:00-1:30 p.m. Luncheon in the Chickamauga Room, University Center, 2nd Floor
"Crossing the Lines: Treason, Dissent, and Benjamin Wood's Copperhead
New York Daily News" Menahem Blondheim, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
1:30-3:15 "The New York Evening Star: A Different Perspective
on the Press of the 1830s" Thorin Tritter, Princeton U
"A Study of Motherhood in Godey's Magazine: 'A Wonderful Duty and the
Basis of all Moral Culture' " Sarah Smith, University of Minnesota
" 'A High and Holy Mission on the Battle-field of Existence': Frances
Ellen Watkins Harper and the 'Cult of True Womanhood' " Hazel
Dicken-Garcia and Kathryn Neal, University of Minnesota
"Transcending the Boundaries: Grace Greenwood's Washington,
1850-1852" J. Fred Saddler, Temple
3:15-3:30 Refreshments
3:30-6:20 "Of Saints and Sinners: Religion and the Civil War
and Reconstruction Novel" Edward J. Blum, U Kentucky
"A Muckraker at Manassas: Upton Sinclair's Civil War Fiction"
Jessica Dorman, Penn State Harrisburg
"Nineteenth Century Jewish Journalism in England and America"
Barbara Reed, Rutgers University
"Ebony Triangle: Network of Black Newspapers in Kansas, 1878-1900"
Aleen J. Ratzlaff, Tabor College
"The Press and the Mormons: Newspaper Coverage of the 1887
Edmunds-Tucker Act" Walter Atkinson, Northern Illinois University
"Scientific Literacy in the Antebellum South: The Southern Quarterly
Review" Miriam J. Shillingsburg, Indiana University-South Bend
6:20-8:20 Dinner in the Chickamauga Room, University Center, 2nd Floor
"On Whose Responsibility?: The Historical and Literary Underpinnings
of The Red Badge of Courage" Roy Morris, Jr., Editor of America's
Civil War Magazine
Saturday, November 10, 2001
8:30-9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast in the Raccoon Mountain Room
9:00-11:40"The Marketing of the Harrison Presidency: The Log Cabin,
Hard Times, and Hard Cider, Too" Gregory Borchard, University of
Florida
"The Making of a Correspondent: Benjamin Perley Poore's Early Years
in Washington D.C., 1847-1860" Joseph P. McKerns, Ohio State
University
" 'Noisy and Noisome': Know-Nothingism, Rutherford B. Hayes, and the
Press of Northwest Ohio" Michael T. McGill, Jr., Bowling Green State
University
"'Another Copperhead Lie': Marcellus Emery and the Bangor Union and
Democrat" Crompton Burton,OhioU
"The Spiritualist Movement Controversy: A Study of Media Coverage
1850-1866" Frances Masamba, GSU
"The Barren Honor: Four Newspapers' Coverage of Journalist Horace
Greeley as U.S. PresidentialCandidate in 1872" Gary Hornseth,
University of Minnesota
11:40-6:00 p.m. Discussion continues while the group visits
Chattanooga's historic Civil War sites (lunch and dinner)
Sponsored by the West Chair of Excellence, the UTC Communication
Department, the Chattanooga Times Free Press, and WRCB-TV Channel 3.
All paper sessions are free and open to the public.
For more information, e-mail [log in to unmask] or telephone
423-755-4219.
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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
423-755-4219 FAX 423-785-2199
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