McKinley Washington Auditorium
Avery Research Center for African-American History and Culture
College of Charleston
125 Bull Street
Charleston, South Carolina 29401

 
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
ALL SESSIONS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Session 1
Friday, Feb. 6, 2009
5:30-7:00

Wyatt Evans, Drew University
 Obama, Lincoln, and 2008
Conference paper (Password required)
Converted Powerpoint Slideshow (Password required)
            
Mitch Kachun, Western Michigan University
Celebrating Freedom: Juneteenth and the Emancipation Festival Tradition

Conference paper (Password required)

Moderator      
Bernard Powers, College of Charleston

Session 2
Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009
9:00-10:30
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
ALL SESSIONS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Session 1
Friday, Feb. 6, 2009
5:30-7:00

Wyatt Evans, Drew University
 Obama, Lincoln, and 2008
Conference paper (Password required)
Converted Powerpoint Slideshow (Password required)
            
Mitch Kachun, Western Michigan University
Celebrating Freedom: Juneteenth and the Emancipation Festival Tradition

Conference paper (Password required)

Moderator      
Bernard Powers, College of Charleston

Session 2
Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009
9:00-10:30

Robert Brinkmeyer, University of South Carolina
The Civil War in Contemporary Southern Fiction

Conference paper (Password required)

Elizabeth Young, Mount Holyoke College
Lincoln and the Civil War in Twenty-First-Century Photography
Conference paper (Password required)

Converted Powerpoint Slideshow (Password required)

Moderator
Kirk Savage, University of Pittsburgh

Session 3
Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009
10:45-12:15

Cathy Stanton,Tufts University
The Oracle at Gettysburg:
Professional Interpreters at Civil War Battlefields from Veterans to Cultural Resource Managers

Conference paper (Password required)

Gordon Jones, Atlanta History Center
The Social Fabric of Civil War Re-enacting
Conference paper (Password required)

Moderator
W. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Robert Brinkmeyer, University of South Carolina
The Civil War in Contemporary Southern Fiction

Conference paper (Password required)

Elizabeth Young, Mount Holyoke College
Lincoln and the Civil War in Twenty-First-Century Photography
Conference paper (Password required)

Moderator
Kirk Savage, University of Pittsburgh

Session 3
Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009
10:45-12:15

Cathy Stanton,Tufts University
The Oracle at Gettysburg:
Professional Interpreters at Civil War Battlefields from Veterans to Cultural Resource Managers

Conference paper (Password required)

Gordon Jones, Atlanta History Center
The Social Fabric of Civil War Re-enacting
Conference paper (Password required)

Moderator
W. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

   

Sponsored by

Department of History
University of South Carolina
Columbia, S.C.




Endorsed by the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
 

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Banner Image:  Ron English, Abraham Obama, Gallery XIV, Boston, summer 2008