An invitation to:
Symposium on the 19th Century Press,
the Civil War, and Free Expression
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Tenth Annual Symposium
on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression will be
held Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, October 31-November 2, 2002.
The purpose of the conference is to share current research and to
develop a series of monographs on the 19th century press, the Civil
War and the press, and 19th century concepts of free expression.
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. This year the symposium and UTC's Homecoming festivities will
take place concurrently and the conference will be part of the
Homecoming program.
We would like to invite you to attend the symposium. In particular,
we hope you will decide to join us for the Friday luncheon to hear
University of Minnesota Professor Hazel Dicken-Garcia's paper on
African Americans and the Civil War. Professor Dicken-Garcia is one
of the foremost journalism historians in the U.S. and a regular
presenter at our conference. We recommend that you arrive as early
as you can Friday morning and stay as long as possible after the
luncheon. On Saturday, Jim Ogden, the historian of the Chickamauga &
Chattanooga National Military Park will take us on a tour of historic
Civil War sites. We invite you to join us for this as well. Please
call me at (423) 425-4219 if you will be able to join us for the
Friday luncheon, dinner, or the Saturday tour (and barbecue dinner).
Sincerely,
David B. Sachsman
West Chair of Excellence
and Professor of Communication
Thursday, October 31, 2002 The Read House
8:00-10:00 p.m.Reception honoring conference speakers. Coffee and
dessert will be served. Remarks David Sachsman, UTC.
"History Thrice Removed: Popular Perception of Joshua Chamberlain and
the Defense of Little Round Top"
Crompton B. Burton, Ohio University
" 'Henry Adams' Civil War': Despair and Democracy: An American Novel"
W. Scott Poole, Col of Charleston
Friday, November 1, 2002 The Read House
9:00-10:45 a.m. Opening remarks from conveners and university officials
"Technology Revisited: A Fresh Examination of the 1830s Penny Press
and Printing Presses" Donald K.
Brazeal, University of Minnesota
"Murder and Mayhem: Violence, Press Coverage and the Mobilization of
the Republican Party in 1856"
Katherine A. Pierce, University of Virginia
"Keep Cool: The Curious Stand of the New Orleans Daily Picayune
during the Election of 1860" Nancy
McKenzie Dupont, Loyola University New Orleans
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 "Killing the Serpent Speedily: Governor Morton, General
Hascall, and the Suppression of the Democratic
Press in Indiana, 1863" Stephen E. Towne, Indiana University Purdue
University Indianapolis
"Between Fiction and Fact: Ben Wood's Journalism, Oratory, and
Fiction and Civil War America" Menahem
Blondheim, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
12:00-1:30 p.m. Luncheon
"African Americans and the Civil War as reflected in the Christian
Recorder, 1861-1862" Hazel Dicken-Garcia
and Linus Abraham, University of Minnesota
1:30-3:45 "Hydra or Hercules? Mythologizing Nathan Bedford
Forrest in Civil War Fiction" Paul Ashdown and
Edward Caudill, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
"'This Inherited Misfortune': Gender, Race, and Slavery in Uncle
Tom's Cabin and Gone With the Wind"
William E. Huntzicker, Minneapolis
"The Search for Community and Justice: Robert Penn Warren, Race
Relations, and the Civil War"
Edward J. Blum and Sarah Hardin, University of Kentucky
"'Draw Him Up, Boys': A Historical Review of Lynching Coverage in
Select Virginia Newspapers, 1880-
1900" James E. Hall, Virginia Commonwealth University
"Lewis Tappan and the Friends of Amistad: The Crusade to Save the
Abolitionist Movement" Bernell E. Tripp,
University of Florida
3:45-4:00 Break
4:00-6:00 Panel: "Before J-Schools: The 19th Century Craft of
Journalism" Hazel Dicken-Garcia, Menahem Blondheim,
Joseph McKerns, William Huntzicker, Barbara Straus Reed
"The London Jewish Chronicle Coverage of the Civil War" Barbara
Straus Reed, Rutgers University
"Copperheadism and Community Conflict in Two Rivertowns: Civil War
Press Battles in Prairie Du Chien and
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, 1861-65" Phillip J. Tichenor, University of Minnesota
6:00-8:00 Dinner
"A Press Insider's View of Reconstruction Era Journalism in
Washington, D.C., 1865-1877" Joseph P. McKerns,
Ohio State University
Saturday, November 2, 2002 The Read House
9:00-11:45 a.m. "Inordinate Vanity vs. Unblemished Morality:
Editorial Representation of Presidential Candidate Horace Greeley in
Four U.S. Newspapers in 1872" Gary Hornseth, University of Minnesota
"Anglophobia as Art: Free Trade and Protection in Grover Cleveland
Political Cartoons" Harlen Makemson,Elon
"Social Issues Treated in the Catholic World Magazine During the
1884-1897 Transition Period of the
American Catholic Press" Jack Breslin, Iona College
"Inheritors of a Sentimental Mantle: The 19th-Century Roots of
Progressive Era Muckraking" Jessica Dorman,
Penn State Harrisburg
"Ida Craddock: Sentenced to free-speech martydom" Janice Wood,
Southern Illinois University
"Dreiser of The Globe A Reassessment of Theodore Dreiser's Role as a
Literary Journalist" Mike Conway, Texas
11:45-12:30 p.m. Luncheon: Remarks James Ogden, Historian,
Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park
12:30-7:00 Discussion continues while the group visits
Chattanooga's historic Civil War sites (includes 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.
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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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