The Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression will be held Thursday, November 13 – Saturday, November 15 at the Sheraton Read House Hotel and The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Selected papers will be presented during the three-day conference. All paper sessions are free and open to the public. For the complete program, please visit: http://www.utc.edu/Academic/SymposiumOnThe19thCenturyPress/
“The purpose of the November conference is to share current research and to develop a series of monographs on the 19th century press, the Civil War and the press, the Civil War in fiction and history, 19th century concepts of free expression, images of race and gender in the 19th century press, and sensationalism and crime in 19th century newspapers,” said Dr. David Sachsman, George R. West, Jr. Chair of Excellence in Communication and Public Affairs at UTC.
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. Purdue University Press is publishing conference papers in three distinctly different books titled Memory and Myth: The Civil War in Fiction and Film from Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Cold Mountain (July 2007), Words at War: the Civil War and American Journalism (2008), and Seeking a Voice: Images of Race and Gender in the 19th Century Press (2009).
The symposium is sponsored by the George R. West, Jr. Chair of Excellence in Communication and Public Affairs, the UT-Chattanooga Department of Communication, the UT-Chattanooga Department of History, the Chattanooga Times Free Press, WRCB-TV Channel 3, and the Hazel Dicken-Garcia Fund for the Symposium.
