9/6/12 3:49 PM Making War: November 9–10, 2012 November Southern Industrialization Southern Symposium Series

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Director and Curator, U.S. U.S. Curator, and Director Gordon Blaker PhD, Associate Professor of History, History, of Professor Associate PhD, Symposium Series Symposium Gordon Blaker, 11:30 a.m.–12:45 p.m.: Lunch and “Interpret and Lunch 11:30 a.m.–12:45 p.m.: to personal vehicles by Travel 12:45–1:00 p.m.: guided boat Petersburg 3:00 p.m.: or 1:30 p.m. Gun Make to “How 3:00 p.m.: or 1:30 p.m. Augus book and fair Civil War 1:15–4:30 p.m.: 10:30–11:15 a.m.: “Rebel Genius: The The Genius: Con 10:30–11:15 a.m.: “Rebel ta Canal Interpretive Center self-guided tour self-guided tour Center ta Canal Interpretive by Artillery Oklahoma Sill, Army Fort Museum, the 21st for Works Powder the Confederate ing Heritage Canal National the Augusta Century,” sesquicenten Works a Powder for plans Area’s plaza. nial interpretive Center Canal Interpretive Augusta Au Firepower: and Fabric tour:canal “Food, the Civil War” Canalgusta and Blow Not and Steps in 18 Not-So-Easy powder Come,” Else Kingdom to Everyone and Yourself by lecture Look Like a Little Lowell’: The Textile Industry Textile The Look Lowell’: Like a Little by lecture 1861–1865,” in Augusta, hannon, Georgia West of University lecture Augusta,” at Works Powder federate Saturday’s events are $35 per events participant are and Saturday’s include all the lectures, and boat lunch, tour. call is required; registration Holley Advance Canal, 706-823-0440, the Augusta at Madden ext. 7. •  •  Afternoon Session at Center Interpretive Canal Augusta The Location: Check in • 1:00–1:15 p.m.: •  •  •  •  - -

- Civil War War Civil Friday’s key Friday’s ”. Mary DeCredico, and the Augusta Augusta The leading heritage and cultural institutions in institutions and cultural heritage leading The 8:30–9:00 a.m.: Registration Really Begins to 9:00–10:15 a.m.: “‘Augusta •  •  Saturday, November 10, 2012 November Saturday, Morning Session Augusta Center, Kroc The Location: free and open to the public. Seating is limited; limited; is Seating the public. to open free and required. is preregistration Academy, presents “Georgia’s Industrialization Industrialization “Georgia’s presents Academy, Effort War the Confederate and book are signing and reception, address, note and Historic Augusta, Inc. Inc. Augusta, Historic and Naval States United History, of Professor PhD, Wilson Lecture Wilson of the Study for the Center by Sponsored University State Augusta at Georgia History Location: The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta Art, of Museum Morris The Location: reception 7:30 p.m. lecture, • 6:30 p.m. Woodrow Cashin Memorial J. Edward The ate forces. forces. ate 9, 2012 November Friday, industrialization, reflecting Augusta’s significant significant Augusta’s reflecting industrialization, ordnance, gunpowder, of in the manufacture role the Confeder for materiel other and ammunition, scholars, tours, and visits to historic sites. This sites. historic to visits and tours, scholars, focuses Southern on War,” “Making theme, year’s war and the social changes it produced. Annually, Annually, produced. it the social and war changes is a theme sesquicentennial, the Civil War’s during recognized nationally by lectures through explored War, a symposium series focused the a symposium Civil on War, Au The series frames this city. on impact War’s the of context experience the larger within gusta’s Augusta, Georgia, present Augusta and the Civil and Augusta Georgia, present Augusta, civil-war-bro12.indd 1 Boykin Chesnut: A Confederate Woman’s Life Keith Bohannon, PhD, Registration Information (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002; Madison House, associate professor of Friday’s keynote address, reception, and book 1996), and many chapters to books and articles history at the University signing are free and open to the public. Satur- for refereed journals. of West Georgia, teaches day’s events are $35 per participant and include A member of the Board of Directors and the courses on the history all lectures, lunch, and the boat tour. Advisory Council of the National Civil War of Georgia, the antebel- Registration is required for both days. Museum, the Georgia Historical Society, the lum South, Jacksonian Southern Historical Association, the Museum America, and the United There are three ways to register: of the Confederacy, and the Society of Civil States Civil War and Reconstruction. His 1. Call: 706-823-0440, ext. 7 War Historians, she currently focuses on the research focuses on the interaction between soldiers and civilians on the battlefield and 2. E-mail: [email protected] Unknown, Confederate Honor Roll, detail, ca. 1890. Morris Richmond, Virginia, home front during the home front, particularly in Georgia, during the Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia. American Civil War. 3. Mail a check or money order (made Civil War. Dr. Bohannon, historian and exhibits out to the Authority) planner, received his PhD in American history Gordon Blaker to Holley Madden, Augusta Canal, from Pennsylvania State University in 2001. He Meet the Presenters is the director and cura- 1450 Greene Street, Suite 400, Au- coedited Campaigning with “Old Stonewall”: tor of the U.S. Army gusta, Georgia, 30901. Include your Keynote Speaker: Confederate Captain Ujanirtus Allen’s Letters Artillery Museum in name, address, phone number, e-mail Mary DeCredico, PhD, to His Wife (Louisiana State University Press, Fort Sill, Oklahoma. 1998) and coauthored Hallowed Banners: address, the number of attendees, and a professor of history at The 38,000-square-foot Historic Flags in the Georgia Capitol Collection the days you wish to attend. the United States Naval facility houses seventy- (Georgia Capitol Museum, Office of the Secre- Academy in Annapolis, five artillery pieces dating tary of State, 2005). Maryland, where she has The registration deadline is from the sixteenth century to the present, November 5, 2012. taught since 1986, earned with another eighty-five artillery pieces in the her PhD in American outdoor museum park. A retired army offi- history from Vanderbilt University in Nash- cer, Blaker is best known to Augustans as the Participating organizations include the Augus- ville, Tennessee. Her first book,Patriotism for director of curatorial services at the Augusta ta Canal National Heritage Area, the Augusta Profit: Georgia’s Urban Entrepreneurs and the Museum of History from 1997 to 2006. Blaker Civil War Roundtable, the Augusta-Richmond Confederate War Effort (University of North coauthored the definitive book on the Con- County Historical Society, the Augusta Museum Carolina Press, 1990) received the Museum federate States Powder Works, Never for Want of History, Historic Augusta, Inc., the Center of the Confederacy’s Jefferson Davis Award of Powder: The Confederate Powder Works in for the Study of Georgia History, the Lucy Craft in 1991 for outstanding scholarship on the Augusta, Georgia (University of South Carolina Laney Museum of Black History, and the Morris Thomas Satterwhite Noble,The Price of Blood,1868. Morris Museum Confederacy. She is also the author of Mary Press, 2007). of Art, Augusta, Georgia. Museum of Art.

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