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Chattanooga Civil War Round Table
15th Annual Symposium
on the 19th Century Press,
The Civil War, and Free Expression

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October 11, 2007

Please make plans to attend this year's:

15th Annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press,
The Civil War, and Free Expression
[Advance Press Release - Subject to Change]

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.

Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007 The Sheraton Read House Hotel

7:00-11:00 p.m.

Opening Remarks: “Memories and Myths” David B. Sachsman, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
“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 University
“’Telling President Lincoln's Story as both Civil War Correspondent and Friend: Noah Brooks Shares His
            Personal Observations with America” Malana Salyer, University of Louisville
“Homecourt Advantage? Abraham Lincoln and Coverage of the Emancipation Proclamation by his
           Hometown Press” Scott Lambert, Oklahoma State University
"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: How Media Framing of New Immigrants and Disease Fueled the Immigration Debate,
            1891-1893" Harriet Moore, Georgia State University
Panel: "Knights of the Quill: Civil War Correspondents in the South, Part 1"
           "Topic to be announced" 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 UTC University 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, Sr., 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 Gross, Jacksonville State University
"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 a.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 Lamonica,
New Mexico State University
"Writing Racial Wrongs: T. Thomas Fortune" Claire Serant, St. John's University

12:05-1:30 p.m.

Luncheon in the Chickamauga Room, University Center, Second Floor
“Frederick Douglass, James W. Carey, and the Missing Final Page of Journalism History"
David Mindich, St. Michael's College

1:30-3:30 p.m.

“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: ???? Bargara 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, University of 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 Stuggled 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 Crime Reporting" Jack Breslin, Iona College, Moderator

"If It Bled, It Led: Sensationalism in 19th Century Crime Reporting" Jack Breslin, Iona College
"News, Pictures, and Sensation" William Huntzicker, St. Cound 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 University

Saturday, November 10, 2007 - Raccoon Mountain Room of the UTC University Center

9:00 a.m.-12:30

"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 Lamonica,
            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': The Prison Escape of Evangelina Cisneros in 1897"
            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, Moderator --

Introduction - Debra van Tuyll, Augusta State University
"P.W.A.," "A," and "Sallust" Ford Risley, Pennsylvania State
"Elusive Henry Perry" Jinx Broussard and Skye Chance Cooley, Louisiana State University
"William Wallace Screws" Brad Hamm, Indiana??
"Sparta," "Ora," and "290" Mark Dolan, University of Mississippi

12:30-6:00 p.m.

Discussion continues while the group visits Chattanooga’s historic Civil War Sites (includes lunch and dinner)