ECHOES of the

Civil War

8:30-9:00 Registration & Coffee

9:00-9:10 Welcomea Rob Lukens, PhD, CCHS President

9:10-10:00 Keynote “Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South”

a Stephanie McCurry, PhD

10:00-10:10 Break

10:10-11:10 “The Press, Partisanship, and Objectivity: The Civil War and Today”

a Ford Risley, PhD: “The Role of the Press in the Civil War”

aDaniel R. Biddle: “Objectivity and Today’s Newspapers”

11:10-11:20 Break

11:20-12:20 “Human Bondage: Slavery and Human Trafficking”

a tonya thames taylor, PhD: “Slavery Then, Human Trafficking Now”

a C. James Trotman, EdD: “When the Saints Go Marching In: Frederick Douglass and His Recruitment of the Black Soldier”

12:20-12:30 Wrap-up & Comments 12:30 Lunch on your own in West Chester

2:00 Walking tour of Civil War sites in West Chester with Jim Jones, PhD (included in registration)

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2:00 Tour of On the Edge of Battle: Chester County and the Civil War (included in registration)

Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013 A SYMPOSIUM at the Chester County Historical Society

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Cost: $10 CCHS members, $20 non-members, students free with ID.Please RSVP by September 14th

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Stephanie McCurry, PhD, is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent book is Confederate

Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (Harvard, 2010).

Ford Risley, PhD, is head of the Journalism Department at Penn State University. His publications include Abolition and the Press; The Moral Struggle Against Slavery

(Northwestern, 2008) and Civil War Journalism (Praeger, 2012).

Daniel R. Biddle, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, is currently the politics editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer. He is the co-author, with Murray Dubin,

of Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America (Temple, 2010).

tonya thames taylor, PhD, is an Associate Professor of History at West Chester University and a School Director of the Coatesville Area School Board. Her essay on Ida B. Wells appears in The University of Mississippi’s Mississippi Encyclopedia.

An active Quaker, she serves as the President of the Coatesville Area NAACP and on the Executive Board of NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference.

C. James Trotman, EdD, is Professor Emeritus of English and the Founding Director of the Frederick Douglass Institute at West Chester University. His

Frederick Douglass: A Biography was published in 2011 by Greenwood.

Jim Jones, PhD, has taught history at West Chester University for more than twenty years, during which time he has immersed himself in the history of West Chester. In

addition to hosting a radio program (“Jim Class”) and publishing two books about West Chester in the 19th and 20th centuries, he has designed and led more than a

dozen walking tours covering a variety of subjects and time periods.

This symposium is held in conjunction with the exhibition On the Edge of Battle: Chester County and the Civil War

and is made possible with funding from

Exhibition sponsors: DNB First, The Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation, The Fox Chase Bank Charitable Foundation, Pennsylvania Humanities Council, The Haverford Trust Company,

Chester County Conference & Visitors Bureau Foundation, Jimmy Duffy Catering, Dr. Florence K. Williams, Quaker City Foundation, Fig®West Chester, Gaadt Perspectives llc

Chester County Historical Society225 N. High Street, West Chester, PA 19380610.692.4800ChesterCoHistorical.orgcchs@chestercohistorical.org