Conference Program (subject to change)

The Legacy of the Civil War: An Interdisciplinary Conference Date: November 10–12, 2011 Conference Venue: Chestnut Hill College, Commonwealth Chateau at Sugarloaf Hill November 10, Thursday Pre-Conference Events Theatre Performance The Whipping Man (Arden Theatre, ) 8:00 p.m. performance; van leaves 6:00 p.m. from Chestnut Hill College

Movie and Light Refreshments The Conspirator (Robin Wright, James McAvoy, Kevin Kline, and Tom Wilkinson) directed by Robert Redford and written by James Solomon 7:00 p.m. — Chestnut Hill College, Commonwealth Chateau at Sugarloaf Hill

November 11, Friday

8:30–10:00 Breakfast/Conference Registration 10:00–11:30 Session I n Panel I n Salon A Preserving the Past: Diaries & Battlefields Chair: Sr. Barbara Nolan, Chestnut Hill College 1. “From Emancipation to Freedom: Analyzing the 1863–1865 Pocket Diaries of Emilie F. Davis” Karsonya Wise Whitehead , Loyola University Maryland 2. “All But Forgotten: The Battle of Wyse Forks” Rebecca Zimmer , University of Southern Mississippi

Session I n Panel II n Salon B American Diversity and the Civil War: Reconciling Splits Within Minority Communities Chair: William T. Walker, Chestnut Hill College 1. “German Americans, African Americans, and the Legacy of Emancipation in St. Louis” Kristen Anderson , Webster University 2. “Missed Opportunity? The Legacy of the for Northern Roman Catholics” William Kurtz , University of Virginia

Session I n Panel III n Grand Salon The Legacy of the Disabled Veterans of the Civil War Chair: Richard Straw, Radford University 1. “Relics of War: The Image of the Wounded Veteran in Post-Civil War America” John Casey , University of Illinois at Chicago 2. “Wounded Warriors, Public Wards: The Socio-Economic Implications of Civil War Service” Ryan Keating , Fordham University 11:30–1:30 Informal Lunch/Lecture by Dr. Donald Cresswell of The Philadelphia Print Shop “The Impact of Portrait Prints of During the Civil War” 1:30–3:00 Session II n Panel I n Salon A The Civil War’s Legacy for Women I Chair: Lorraine Coons, Chestnut Hill College 1. “A Maternal Holiday Born of War : Ann Reeves Jarvis and the Origins of Mother’s Day” Katharine Lane Antolini , West Virginia Wesleyan College 2. “Louisa May Alcott's ‘Little’ Revolution: A Look at How the Civil War Influenced the Classic Tale Little Women ” Meghan Fitzgerald , The State University 3. “From Ugly Factory Ducklings to Domestic Swans: The Role of the Civil War in the Acceptance of Sewing Machines” Amy Breakwell , Johns Hopkins University Session II n Panel II n Salon B The Civil War Legacies for the Law and the Constitution Chair: Juliane Troicki, Chestnut Hill College 1. “Debating the Civil War’s Constitutional Legacy: The ‘War Amendments’ in American Politics and Public Memory, 1890–1920” Stephen A.West , Catholic University of America 2. “The Corporate Law Legacy” John C. Cameron , The Pennsylvania State University Session II n Panel III n Grand Salon Interpreting the Declaration’s Assertion that “All Men Are Created Equal” Chair: Philip McGovern, Chestnut Hill College 1. “The Dred Scott Case: Precursor to the Civil War“ Stephen E. Medvec , Holy Family College 2. “Lincoln, Darwin, and the Quest for Human Equality” David Contosta , Chestnut Hill College 3. “What the Civil War Stands For: The Diverging Ideologies of William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, 1860–1865” Eunsun Han , Brown University 3:00–3:30 Refreshment Break 3:30–5:15 Session III n Panel I n Grand Salon The Legacy of Camp William Penn Chair: Gerald Miller, Chestnut Hill College 1. “Abolitionists and Camp William Penn: The Beginning and the Battles as Reported by the Newspapers” Donald Scott , Community College of Philadelphia 2. “When the CWP Soldiers Took the Field: Contributions of the Soldiers in the Final Victory” James M. Paradis , 3. “Bringing the CWP Story into the Classrooms of Our Schools” Lise Marlowe, Elkins Park School 4. “The Continuing Legacy of the CWP Soldiers in the U.S. Army” William F. Chambrés , Historian Laureate, La Mott, Pennsylvania Session III n Panel II n Salon A Strategy and Leadership in the North Chair: Jacqueline Reich, Chestnut Hill College 1. “Gettysburg and the Army of the Potomac in Memory” Andrew Miller , Neumann University 2. “Mississippi Fever: The Legacy of General Grant in Jackson, Mississippi” Angela M. Riotto , University of Southern Mississippi 3. “Lincoln, the Civil War, and Presidential Power During Wartime” Samuel B. Hoff , Delaware State University 4. “Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 and 1864 Losses in New Jersey: A New Interpretation” William R. Marsch , Monmouth University

2 Session III n Panel III n Salon B The Civil War’s Legacy for Women II Chair: Cynthia Wachtell, Yale University 1. “The Sisters of Charity: Civil War Nurses and Philanthropic Pioneers” Katherine Coon , Indiana University 2. “Legacy of the Catholic Sister War Nurses: The Philadelphia Connection” Sr. Kathleen Szpila , Chestnut Hill College 5:30 Reception 6:30 Dinner Banquet 8:00 Conference Address “Legacies of Appomattox: Lee’s Surrender in History and Memory” Elizabeth Varon, Ph.D. Professor of History, University of Virginia

November 12, Saturday

8:30–9:00 Breakfast 9:00–10:30 Session I n Panel I n Salon A American Diversity and the Civil War: The Irish Community Chair: Marie Conn, Chestnut Hill College 1. “History for Which Our Children Will Have Reason to Blush: Irish Americans and Slavery in the Civil War” Ian Delahanty , Boston College 2. “The Life of Paddy Yank: The Common Irish-American Soldier of the ” James Zibro , The Catholic University of America Session I n Panel II n Salon B Post-War Sectional Reconciliation Chair: Michael Martorelli, Drexel University 1. “‘Grand Armies of the Republic’: The Veteran Re-enactors” Christopher Bates , UCLA 2. “The Friend to Friend Masonic Memorial: An Innovative Civil War Monument and New Direction for Civil War Remembrance” Jay Donis , Lehigh University 3. “Children of Notoriety: Interpreting the War’s Legacy at the Deaths of Owen Brown and Winnie Davis“ Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz , Appalachian State University Session I n Panel III n Grand Salon Preserving the Past Through Visual Images Chair: Susanna Gold, Tyler School of Art, Temple University 1. “Pro-Union Sympathies in Plaster: John Rogers’ Civil War Statuettes” Cynthia H. Veloric , Philadelphia Museum of Art 2. “‘Terrible Fascination’: Stereographs of the Dead” Emily Godbey , Iowa State University 3. “Landscape Photography and the Civil War: Industrial/Environmental Warfare and Its Documentation” Frank Fucile , Temple University 10:30–11:00 Refreshment Break

3 11:00–12:30 Session II n Panel I n Salon A Andersonville Confederate Prison: Victims/Perpetrators Chair: Kristi Johnston, Chestnut Hill College 1. “Glorious Discontentment: Civil War Atrocities and the Work of Remembrance” Brian Matthew Jordan , Yale University 2. “The Prosecution of Henry Wirz” Harry M. Rhea , The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Session II n Panel II n Salon B Civil Wars: A Comparative Perspective Chair: Alexander Varias, Villanova University 1. “Failed Rebellions, Their Causes, and Their Legacies: An Episode in United States and Argentine Comparative History” Evan C. Rothera , The Pennsylvania State University 2. “‘If we are wrong, then Lincoln was wrong’: Anglo-Irish Legacies of the American Civil War, 1870–1922” Nimrod Tal , Oxford University Session II n Panel III n Grand Salon The Civil War in American Culture Chair: John Casey, University of Illinois at Chicago 1. “Glorious Summer: The Civil War in Constructing the National Pastime” Aaron W. Miller , Ivy Tech Columbus 2. “One-Hundred Years Later: Presentations of the Civil War in 1960s’ American Television” Erwin F. Erhardt, III , Thomas More College 3. “Tenting On the Old Camp Ground: Civil War Memory and the Early Outdoor Education Movement” Paul J. Hutchinson , Boston University Session II n Panel IV n Library The Civil Rights Movement Chair: David Contosta, Chestnut Hill College 1. “The Battle of Franklin: A Reconstruction Narrative” James Jones , Tennessee Historical Commission 2. “Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Human Foot: the Southern Black Churches and the Struggle for Civil Rights” Marie Conn , Chestnut Hill College 3. “The Meaning of John Brown to a New Generation” James M. Paradis , Arcadia University 12:30 Luncheon 1:30 Conference Address: “Lincoln and the Civil War” Michael Burlingame, Ph.D. Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies University of Illinois at Springfield

Post-Conference Event: Theatre Performance The Whipping Man (Arden Theatre, Philadelphia) 8:00 p.m. performance; van leaves 6:00 p.m. from Chestnut Hill College

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