| 7:15
a.m. |
Shuttle
service begins from Harbor Park Baseball
Stadium |
| 7:30 |
Doors
open in Wilder Performing Arts Center
Registration check-in
On-campus meal tickets available for
purchase
Bookstore and information tables open
|
| 8:30 |
Greetings,
Welcome Remarks |
| 9:00 |
Opening
Remarks by James O. Horton
"The Great American Contradiction" |
| 9:15 |
Session
I - "Race, Slavery,
and the Civil War"
- Spencer
Crew - The Role of the Underground
Railroad as a Cause of the Civil
War
|
- Cassandra
Newby-Alexander - Waterways
to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
in Hampton Roads
|
- Edna
Greene Medford - The Quest for
Black Rights in the Midst of War
|
- Ira
Berlin - African American
Soldiers and the Struggle for
Equality
|
- Bruce
Levine - The Myth of Black
Confederates
|
|
| 10:45 |
Break
- submit questions for Q and A |
| 11:15 |
Question
and Answer with Session I panelists |
| 11:45
- 1:20 p.m. |
Lunch
break, with optional activities:
Facilitated Feedback
Discussion Session
Local
Sesquicentennial Committee Roundtable
Harrison B. Wilson Archives Gallery
Exhibit
|
| 1:30 |
Afternoon
Remarks by Dr. Horton
"The Unfinished Civil War" |
| 1:45 |
Session
II: "The Tough
Stuff of American History and Memory"
- James
McPherson - Slavery, Freedom,
and the Union Navy
|
- David
Blight - John Washington;
How, When, Where and Why Emancipation
Happened
|
- Harold
Holzer - The Image of the
Emancipation Proclamation in
Art and Memory
|
- Jean
Fagan Yellin - Harriet Jacobs
in the Refugee Camps
|
- Dwight
Pitcaithley - Addressing
the Causes of the Civil War
in Public History
|
|
| 3:15 |
Break
- submit questions for Q and A |
| 3:45 |
Question
and Answer with Session II panelists |
| 4:15 |
Wrap-up
and conclusion |
| 4:30
- 5:30 |
Book
signing with presenters - Wilder Performing
Arts Center |
