{"id":7536,"date":"2012-11-08T17:01:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T21:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=7536"},"modified":"2013-02-05T11:12:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T15:12:39","slug":"symposium-on-the-19th-century-press-the-civil-war-and-free-expression-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2012\/11\/symposium-on-the-19th-century-press-the-civil-war-and-free-expression-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga\u2019s Twentieth Annual Symposium on the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression will be held Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, November 8-10.\u00a0 The conference will begin Thursday afternoon at the Sheraton Read House Hotel and continue Friday and Saturday at the UTC University Center.\u00a0 All paper sessions are free and open to the public. \u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The symposium will feature 44 speakers from across the nation including distinguished historians and communication scholars such as Donald L. Shaw of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Dwight Teeter of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted that so many of our old friends from across the nation will be joining us this year to celebrate our twentieth symposium,\u201d said David B. Sachsman, the director of the conference and holder of the UTC West Chair of Excellence.<\/p>\n<p>The Friday luncheon speaker will be Gregory A. Borchard, University of Nevada Las Vegas, whose topic is \u201cThe Campaign from Candidate to President: Abraham Lincoln and the Press, 1858-1861.\u201d Borchard co-authored <em>Journalism in the Civil War Era <\/em>(2010) and wrote <em>Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley<\/em> (2011).<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the conference is to share current research and to develop a series of monographs on the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century press, the Civil War and the press, and 19<sup>th<\/sup> century concepts of free expression.<\/p>\n<p>Papers from the first five conferences were published by Transaction Publishers in 2000 as a book of readings called <em>The Civil War and the Press<\/em>. More recently, Purdue University Press published papers from past conferences in three distinctly different books titled <em>Memory and Myth: The Civil War in Fiction and Film from<\/em> <em>Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin to Cold Mountain<\/em> (2007), <em>Words at War: The Civil War and American Journalism<\/em> (2008), and <em>Seeking a Voice: Images of Race and Gender in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Century Press<\/em> (2009). A new book, <em>Sensationalism: Murder, Mayhem, Mudslinging, Scandals, and Disasters in 19th Century Reporting,<\/em> will be published by Transaction Publishers in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>To view the complete list of presentations for the 2012 Civil War Press Symposium, please visit<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utc.edu\/Academic\/WestChairOfExcellenceInCommunication\/Symposium\/\">http:\/\/www.utc.edu\/Academic\/WestChairOfExcellenceInCommunication\/Symposium\/<\/a>\u00a0 and click \u201c2012 program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday afternoon the group visits Chattanooga\u2019s historic Civil War sites in a tour led by James Ogden, historian of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium is sponsored by the West Chair of Excellence, the UTC communication and history departments, the Walter and Leona Schmitt Family Foundation Research Fund, and the Hazel Dicken-Garcia Fund for the Symposium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga\u2019s Twentieth Annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression will be held Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, November 8-10.\u00a0 The conference will begin Thursday afternoon at the Sheraton Read House Hotel and continue Friday and Saturday at the UTC University Center.\u00a0 All paper sessions are&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2012\/11\/symposium-on-the-19th-century-press-the-civil-war-and-free-expression-3\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12659,7712],"tags":[8312],"class_list":{"0":"post-7536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-events-entertainment","7":"category-faculty-and-staff","8":"tag-symposium-on-the-19th-century-press","9":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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