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Historic Natchez Conference April 17-20 Natchez Eola Hotel
Civil War to Civil Rights
The theme of the 2013 Historic Natchez Conference will commemorate the one-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the Civil War. The keynote speaker will be noted Civil War historian William C. Davis, whose lecture title is "America, the Civil War, and Natchez at 150." A professor at Virginia Tech, Davis has authored or edited over fifty books on the history of the Civil War and the American South and twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. The nominees were Breckinridge: Statesman, Soldier, Symbol and Bull Run.
The conference will offer a full program of free lectures focusing on the history of the Natchez region. Topics relating to antebellum culture set the stage for the conference's focus on the Civil War, extending through Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era and culminating with the Civil Rights Movement. The conference also includes a special archaeological session on Saturday.
The Historic Natchez Conference fosters the study, preservation, and appreciation of the history of the Natchez region by providing a forum for established scholars, graduate students, archivists and the general public to share research, resources and ideas. The Conference continues its tradition of highlighting the role of archival collections in researching and interpreting the history of the American South.
Conference co-sponsors are California State University, Northridge; Dolph Brisce Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin; Historic Natchez Foundation; Louisiana State University, Special Collections; Mississippi Department of Archives and History; Natchez National Historical Park; and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
PROGRAM
Wednesday, April 17
3:00 p.m. Registration, Natchez Eola Hotel
6:00 p.m. Two Museums...One Mississippi The Two New Museums of Mississippi History and Civil Rights
H. T. Holmes, Director, Mississippi Department of Archives and History Jacquelyn Dace, Civil Rights Museum Cindy Gardner, Museum of Mississippi History Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Thursday, April 18
10:00 a.m. Registration, Natchez Eola Hotel
1:00 p.m. Welcome, Historic Natchez Foundation
1:30 p.m. Session 1 Moderator: Ralph Vicero, Dean Emeritus, California State University, Northridge
Builders of the New South: Merchants, Capital, and the Remaking of Natchez, 1865-1914 Aaron Anderson, Alcorn State University
The Continuity of War: Rethinking Violence in the Civil War Era Justin Behrend, State University of New York, Geneseo
3:30 p.m. Session 2 Moderator: Tara Zachary Laver, Louisiana State University Special Collections
The Goat Castle Murder, Jim Crow Justice, and the Saga of Emily Burns Karen Cox, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
The Library of Rosedown Plantation: A Case Study in Researching Nineteenth-Century Private Libraries Michael Taylor, Louisiana State University, Special Collections
6:00 p.m. Keynote Address, Temple B’Nai Israel, 213 South Commerce Street
America, the Civil War, and Natchez at 150 William C. Davis, Virginia Tech
7:00 p.m. Cocktail Reception: Historic Natchez Foundation, 108 South Commerce Street (no charge) Exhibit: St. Catherine Street, Cross-Cultural Gateway to the City
Friday, April 19
9:00 a.m. Session 3 Moderator: Stephanie Malmros, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin
Slaves, Dons, and American Planters: Issues of Slavery and Empire in Colonial Natchez, 1779-1808 Christian Pinnen, Mississippi College
The Boyce Decision and the Responsibility of Common Carriers Toward Slave Cargoes (1829) Kristen Vogel, Texas A & M University
11:00 a.m. Session 4 Moderator: Jim Wiggins, Copiah-Lincoln Community College
The 1965 Natchez Boycott and Its Impact on the Mississippi Freedom Movement Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University
Nothing Less Than an Activist: Marge Baroni, Catholicism, and the Natchez, Mississippi, Civil Rights Movement Eva Walton, Alabama Poverty Project, Birmingham, Alabama
2:00 p.m. Session 5 Moderator: Kathleen Jenkins, Natchez National Historical Park
“One of the prettiest places on earth”: Yankees in Natchez, 1863-1865 Jefferson Mansell, Natchez National Historical Park
Black Men in Navy Blue: African American Sailors in the U. S. Navy’s Mississippi Squadron during the Civil War Joseph P. Reidy, Howard University
4:00 p.m. Session 6 Moderators: Don Carleton and Alison Beck, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
When I Rise, Documentary Screening and Discussion Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas
6:00 p.m. Booze and Barbecue at Bontura, 107 South Broadway Street ($30 ticketed event)
Saturday, April 20
9:00 a.m. Session 7 Student Session Moderator: Julia Marks Young, Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Karissa Bassse, Chyna Bowen, Nicholas Rowland, University of Texas at Austin; Adrian Brettle, University of Virginia, Kashia Arnold, California State University, Northridge
11:00 a.m. Session 8 Moderator: Jim Barnett, Grand Village of the Natchez Indians Mississippi Department of Archives and History
On the Banks of Second Creek: The Prehistory and History of Mazique Daniel LaDu, University of Alabama
The Mississippi Mound Trail John W. O’Hear, O’Hear Consulting Vincas P. Steponaitis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Natchez Archaeology in the 1840s: Montroville Dickeson and the Egan Panorama Vincas P. Steponaitis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2:00 p.m. Session 9 Student Session Moderator: Joyce Broussard, California State University, Northridge
Cheryl Wilkinson, Terra A. Palewicz, Elizabeth A. Sadler, California State University, Northridge
6:00 p.m. Cocktails and Dinner at Longwood, 140 Lower Woodville Road ($30 ticketed event)
A link to the registration form is at the top of the panel on the right.
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All lectures are free and open to the public.
Sponsors California State University Northridge
Dolph
Briscoe Center for American History
Historic Natchez Foundation
Libraries, Special Collections
Mississippi Department of
Natchez National Historical Park
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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