Historic Natchez Conference
October 8-10, 2009
Natchez Eola Hotel
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JOURNEY STORIES
The 2009 Historic Natchez Conference share the title of the Smithsonian traveling exhibit, Journey Stories, which will be a feature of the conference. The exhibit is produced in cooperation with the Mississippi Humanities Council and co-sponsored by the Goldring/Woldenberg Institution of Southern Jewish Life and the Historic Natchez Foundation.
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.
The conference is an outgrowth of the Adams County Courthouse Records Project, a public records preservation and research program initiated in 1992 by California State University, Northridge, and the Historic Natchez Foundation, with major funding and assistance provided by the Natchez National Historical Park. Graduate students serve as interns in a comprehensive summer program involving conservation, research, and interpretation of multiple manuscript sources. Most of the student papers presented at the conference are products of that program.
THE PROGRAM
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8
9:00 a.m. Registration Opens ,
Natchez Eola Hotel
10:00
a.m. Student Session
Session #1:
Antebellum Meanderings
Lydia Dowell, Entrepreneur in Antebellum Natchez
The Claiborne Connection: An Intersection in Black and White
Session #2:
Post-Bellum Explorations
Natchez College: Its Untold History Historic Natchez Photography: From the Normans to the
Gandys 1:00 p.m.
Welcome. Eola Hotel Ballroom 1:15
p.m. Session #3:
Post-bellum Crosscurrents: Prosperity and Pestilence Archives and History
Builders of the New South: Merchants, Capital, and the
Aaron Anderson, Alcorn State University
Yellow Fever in Mississippi and the Epidemic of 1878
3:00 p.m. Session #4: In Search of Place: The Southern Jewish Experience Temple B’nai Israel, 213 South Commerce Street Moderator: Julia Young, Mississippi Department of Archives and History
The Wandering Jew Stuart Rockoff, Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life
Jewish Roots in Southern Soil Mark Greenberg, University of South Florida
5:00 p.m.
Cocktail Reception Celebrating 20 Years of Natchez Natchez Visitors Center, 640 South Canal Street
7:00 p.m.
Session #5:
Bringing
the Past to Life: The Natchez Interpretive Experience
Moderator: Art Frederick, Deputy Regional Director, National Park
Bringing the Past to Life
Interpreting and Reinterpreting the Natchez Past Ronald L. F. Davis, California State University, Northridge
Comments: Mimi Miller, Historic Natchez Foundation Stuart Johnson, Stones River National Battlefield Bob Dodson, Fort Sumter National Monument Keith Whisenant, Everglades National Park Kathleen Jenkins, Natchez National Hist. Park
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9
9:00 a.m. Student Session Session #6: Burrowing into the Past Moderator: John O’Hear, Mississippi State University
Of Pots
and People: Excavations at Feltus Mounds, Jefferson Meg Kassenbaum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Glass Site: A Late Prehistoric Mound Center in Warren County Lauren Downs, University of Alabama
10:00 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. Session #7: Archaeological Expeditions Moderator: Jim Barnett, Grand Village of the Natchez Indians, Mississippi Department of Archives and History
The Diaspora of the Natchez Indians: Refugees, Resettlement, and the Archaeology of Identity Brad Lieb, Division of History and Culture, the Chickasaw Nation
Mapping the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1682 –1730 Vincas Steponaitis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
12:30 p.m. Sandwiches and Student Workshop Natchez Museum of African American History, 301 Main Street
Session #8: Student Ventures: Students from California State University, Northridge, Introduce Their Research Topics Moderator: Darrell White
Colonial Natchez: The Development of a Slave Society, 1720-1800 Devan Brown
The Intellectualism of Elite Women: Education and the Role of Books in Antebellum Natchez Rebekah Harding
The African American Experience in Natchez, 1930-1940 Samantha Jones
Behind the Southern Badge: Post-bellum Law Enforcement in Natchez Darren Raspa
Yellow Plague: Yellow Fever’s Attack on 19th-Century Natchez Beth Sadler
African American Teachers in Natchez During School Integration Kha Tara Steen
Natchez Civil War Veterans: Tracings Across the Years for Soldiers Black and White Cheryl L. Wilkinson
2:30 p.m. Session #9: Slavery and the Episcopal Church Trinity Episcopal Church, 305 South Commerce Street Moderator: The Rt. Rev. Alfred E. Marble, Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina
The Episcopal Church and Slavery in the Natchez District: Racism, Paternalism, and Civil Disobedience in a Southern Diocese Edward L. Bond, Alabama A & M University
“Hitherto excluded for want of room:” Efforts of later Mississippi Bishop William Mercer Green to Accommodate the Enslaved Population within the North Carolina Episcopal Church, 1820-1850 The Rev. Brooks Graebner, Historiographer, Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina
Comments: The Rev. Walter Brownridge, University of the South
4:00 p.m. Exhibit Opening and Refreshments The First Presbyterian Church: A Witness to Natchez and Natchez In Historic Photographs First Presbyterian Church, 117 South Pearl Street
6:00 p.m. Session #10: Civil War Detours: New Perspectives on an Old Story First Presbyterian Church, 117 South Pearl Street
Occupied Natchez, Elite Women, and the Feminization of the Civil War Joyce Broussard, California State University, Northridge
U. S. Grant’s Peaceful Return to Mississippi Michael B. Ballard, Associate Editor, U. S. Grant Papers Projects, Mississippi State University
7:30 p.m. Cocktail Buffet and Smithsonian Exhibit: Journey Stories Co-sponsored by Mississippi Humanities Council and Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life Historic Natchez Foundation, 108 South Commerce Street
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10
8:30 a.m. Session #11: Confronting Jim Crow: The Journey Forward Moderator: Don Carleton, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas, Austin
The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement Lance Hill, Southern Institute for Education and Research, Tulane University
Black Natchez: Filming History in 1965 Ed Pincus, Documentary Filmmaker
10:30 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. Session #12: Following Archival Trails Moderator: Tom Scarborough, Historic Natchez Foundation
Plantation Spinster: The Antebellum Diary of Eliza L. Magruder Tara Zachary Laver, Louisiana State University Libraries, Special Collections
New Collections and New Sources on the Natchez Region and the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History Brenda Gunn, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
2:00 p.m. Session #13: Family Caravans: Doing Genealogical History Judge George Armstrong Library, 214 South Commerce Street
Teri Tillman, Certified Geneologist, Historic Natchez Foundation,
6:00 p.m. Cocktail Buffet: Journey’s End Brandon Hall on the Natchez Trace Honoring the Natchez Trace Parkway and Celebrating Mississippi’s Largest Donation for Historic Preservation
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All lectures are free and open to the public. The conference has the support of the following sponsors: California State University Northridge
Dolph
Briscoe Center for American History Historic Natchez Foundation
Libraries, Special Collections
Mississippi Department of Mississippi Humanities Council Natchez National Historical Park
Southern Historical and Folklife Collections University of Southern Mississippi
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