To the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Community:

The Department of Communication and the West Chair of Excellence
invite you to the Eleventh Annual Symposium on the 19th Century
Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression. The symposium will begin
on Thursday night, October 30, 2003 and run through Saturday evening,
November 1, 2003. All presentations will be held at the Read House in
downtown Chattanooga. The formal presentations will end at 11:30
Saturday morning and the conference will conclude with a tour of some
of Chattanooga's historical Civil War sites and battlefields Saturday
afternoon. If you are interested in attending the Friday luncheon or
dinner, or the Saturday tour please contact Dr. David Sachsman at
425-4219 or [log in to unmask] We look forward to seeing you.

>An invitation to:
>
>Symposium on the 19th Century Press,
>the Civil War, and Free Expression
>
>
>Thursday, October 30, 2003  The Read House Hotel
>8:00-10:00 p.m.        Reception honoring conference speakers.
>Coffee and dessert will be served.
>Panel: "Are the Public's Images of the Civil War Based on Fiction or
>History?"  David B. Sachsman, S. Kittrell
>Rushing, Fran Bender, Verbie Prevost, UTC, Paul Ashdown, UTK, Gene
>Wiggins, Southern Miss,
>William E. Huntzicker, St. Cloud State University
>
>Friday, October 31, 2003  The Read House Hotel
>9:00-10:45 a.m.        Opening remarks from conveners and university officials
>"Method, Memory and the Old Chesnut: Critics, Chroniclers, and
>Conferencers, Forging Connections" Debra
>Reddin van Tuyll, Augusta State University and Phebe Davidson,
>University of South Carolina-Aiken
>"Perishable News and Perishable Newspapers" Donald K. Brazeal,
>University of Minnesota
>"Dueling Editors: The Nullification Plot of 1832" Patricia G.
>McNeely, University of South Carolina
>10:45-11:00                            Break
>11:00-12:00  "No History So Unerring as a Bundle of Old Letters:
>Clay's Alabama Letters Make Mud of the New York Tribune's 1844
>Election Predictions" Gregory Alan Borchard, University of Nevada,
>Las Vegas
>"North Carolina Newspapers and Secession" T. Harrell Allen, East
>Carolina University
>
>12:00-1:30 p.m.                                Luncheon
>"Fighting Words, North and South:  Newspaper Invective & the Coming
>of the Civil War" Dwight Teeter,
>University of Tennessee at Knoxville
>1:30-3:30       "Works of Indiscretion: Violence against the Press
>in Indiana during the Civil War" Stephen E. Towne,
>Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
>"The Hascall-Edgerton Dialogues: A free expression debate in Civil
>War Indiana" David W. Bulla,
>University of Florida
>"Hurrah, I am a Conscript!: Maine, The Draft and the Kingfield
>Rebellion" Crompton Burton, Athens, Ohio
>"How Wicked and Cruel this Prejudice:  Race, Class Gender in Civil
>War Era-related Fiction of Frances Ellen
>Watkins Harper" Linda Jean Kensicki and Hazel Dicken Garcia,
>University of Minnesota
>3:30-3:45                              Break
>3:45-6:00 Panel: "Not Just a Man's Fight: Two Recent Books about
>Women Fighters in the Civil War Era" Ann Colbert, Indiana - Purdue
>University, Hazel Dicken-Garcia, University of Minnesota, Barbara
>Strauss Reed, Rutgers
>"'One flag, one country': References to National Identity in
>Selected Media During the Civil War" Hazel
>Dicken-Garcia and Jennifer Moore, University of Minnesota and Sanjay
>Asthana, MTSU
>"Images of the U.S. Flag as a Symbol During the Civil War" Jennifer
>Moore and Hazel Dicken-Garcia, University of Minnesota
>6:00-8:00                              Dinner
>"What Can We Say of Such a Hero? Nathan Bedford Forrest and the
>Press" Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill,
>University of Tennessee at Knoxville
>
>Saturday, November 1, 2003  The Read House Hotel
>9:00-10:40 a.m.        "The 'Haystack Excitement': Moral Panics and
>the 'Hysterical style of the press' after Harper's Ferry" Brian
>Gabrial, University of Minnesota
>"The American and British Jewish Press Coverage of the First Wave of
>Pogroms" Barbara Straus Reed, Rutgers
>"Julia A. A. Wood, Minnesota territorial pioneer: Her anti-suffrage
>rhetoric as editor of the New Era, 1860-
>1861" Dianne Blake, University of Minnesota
>"The Atlantic Cable and the 19th Century Press" Menahem Blondheim,
>Hebrew University, Jerusalem
>10:40-11:30 Brunch: Remarks James Ogden, Historian, Chickamauga &
>Chattanooga National Military Park
>11:30-7:00 p.m.        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.