{"id":9231,"date":"2013-09-26T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T18:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=9231"},"modified":"2026-06-10T14:23:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:23:30","slug":"ole-miss-to-host-conference-on-the-civil-war-october-3-5-2013-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ole-miss-to-host-conference-on-the-civil-war-october-3-5-2013-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ole Miss to host “Conference on the Civil War” October 3-5, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNIVERSITY, Miss. (CCWR) \u2014\u00a0The Center for Civil War Research<\/strong> at the University of Mississippi<\/strong> invites you to attend the 2013 Conference on the Civil War, October 3-5.\u00a0\u00a0This year\u2019s conference begins with a keynote address on \u201cThe Emancipation of Abraham Lincoln,\u201d by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner<\/strong> (Columbia University).\u00a0\u00a0Professor Foner\u2019s address will begin at\u00a06 pm\u00a0in Nutt Auditorium (350 University Ave).\u00a0\"Eric<\/a><\/p>\n

Eric Foner is a prominent historian of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.\u00a0\u00a0He is the author of the influential\u00a0Reconstruction: America\u2019s Unfinished Revolution.<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0His most recent book,\u00a0The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery<\/i>(2010), received, among other awards, the Bancroft Prize, the Pulitzer Prize for History, and the Lincoln Prize.<\/p>\n

The conference, entitled \u201cThis Terrible War,\u201d\u00a0will continue\u00a0October 4 and 5\u00a0with panels both days from\u00a08:30 am to 6:00 pm\u00a0in Butler Auditorium in the Triplett Alumni Center (651 Grove Loop).\u00a0\u00a0Speakers include Nina Silber<\/strong> (Boston University), Wendy Hamand Venet<\/strong> (Georgia State University), Jim Downs<\/strong> (Connecticut College), and J. David Hacker<\/strong> (SUNY Binghampton).\u00a0\u00a0All events are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

The 2013 Conference is the Center\u2019s seventh Conference on the Civil War.\u00a0\u00a0It is presented in conjunction with the History Department\u2019s Porter Fortune Jr. Symposium<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0The conference is free and open to the public. \u00a0For more information about the event, visit: \u00a0http:\/\/www.civilwarcenter.olemiss.edu\/conference2013.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Thursday, October 3<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Nutt Auditorium<\/h2>\n
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Columbia University professor Eric Foner will give the keynote address on Thursday, October 3, 2013 at the University of Mississippi’s “Conference on the Civil War.” Foner is the author of the award winning book, “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Keynote Address, 6:00<\/span>
\nThe Emancipation of Abraham Lincoln<\/em><\/span>
\nEric Foner, Columbia University<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, October 4<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Butler Auditorium: Panel Sessions<\/h2>\n

First Panel, 8:30-10:00: Contrabands of War<\/strong><\/span>
\nJim Downs, Connecticut College
\nAbigail Cooper, Brandeis University<\/p>\n

Second Panel, 10:30-12:00: International Response to War<\/strong><\/span>
\nWas \u201cThis Terrible War\u201d This Terrible?\u00a0 A Global Comparative Perspective\u00a0<\/em>
\nNiels Eichhorn, Middle Georgia State College
\nAn Act of Colonization: Danish American Negotiations Concerning \u201cLaborers of African Extraction\u201d and the Virgin Islands between 1860 and 1867<\/em>
\nAnders Bo Rasmussen, University of Southern Denmark
\nThe Lawrence Massacre of 1863, General Ewing\u2019s Order No. 11, and European Press Opinion on Guerilla Violence and Reprisals in the American Civil War<\/em>
\nChristopher D. Wilkins, William Jewell College<\/p>\n

Lunch<\/p>\n

Third Panel, 2:00-3:30: Northern and Southern Women at War<\/strong><\/span>
\nNina Silber, Boston University
\n\u201cEnlisted for the War\u201d?: Divided Loyalties among Atlanta\u2019s White Women during the Civil War\u00a0<\/em>
\nWendy Hamand Venet, Georgia State University<\/p>\n

Fourth Panel, 4:00-5:30: Southern Civilians and Slavery in War<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u201cThese Negroes Are All the Property She Has:\u201d White Slaveowning Women and the Pecuniary Destruction of Civil War<\/em>
\nStephanie Jones-Rogers, University of Iowa
\nThe Politics of Slavery and Southern Nationalism Among the Yeoman Soldiers of Western Tennessee<\/em>
\nGary T. Edwards, Arkansas State University<\/p>\n

Saturday, October 5<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Butler Auditorium: Panel Sessions<\/h2>\n

First Panel, 8:30-10:00: New Insights into the Military Conduct of War<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u201cThis is the Last Time I Shall Ever Leave My Family\u201d: The Burdens of Soldiering on Union and Confederate Fathers<\/em>
\nJohn Patrick Riley, Binghamton University, SUNY
\n\u201cJustice Mingled With Kindness:\u201d Missouri and the Union Army\u2019s Hard and Humane War<\/em>
\nD. H. Dilbeck, University of Virginia
\nSpurring on Victory: The United States Cavalry Bureau, 1863-1866<\/em>
\nDavid J. Gerleman, The Papers of Abraham Lincoln<\/p>\n

Second Panel, 10:30-12:00: Quantifying War<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u201cNotorious and Palatable\u201d: Francis Amasa Walker and the Demographic Impact of the American Civil War<\/em>
\nJ. David Hacker, University of Minnesota
\nThe Sacred Debt: The Meaning and Significance of Wartime Popular Loans in the Civil War North<\/em>
\nFranklin Noll, Noll Historical Consulting<\/p>\n

Lunch<\/p>\n

Third Panel, 2:00-3:30: Interpretations of the War Presidents<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u201cWe Have No Need For Men, We Have Principles:\u201d Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Cabinet<\/em>
\nGeoffrey Cunningham, Louisiana State University
\nTriumph of a Railsplitter: Northern Masculinity in Lincoln\u2019s White House<\/em>
\nDavid Demaree, Kent State University<\/p>\n

Fourth Panel, 4:00-5:30: Loyalty and Dissent in War<\/strong><\/span>
\nNorthern Alabama Unionists and the Price of Dissent<\/em>
\nSusan Deily-Swearingen, University of New Hampshire
\nCopperheads and Black Republicans: The Twin Snakes of Loyalty in Eastern Pennsylvania<\/em>
\nCharles R. Welsko, III, West Virginia University<\/p>\n

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