The Society of the Nineteenth Century Historians in partnership with the Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Augusta University, is proud to present the 33rd Annual Sachsman Symposium on the 19th Century Press.

For more information, please visit the 2025 Call for Papers:

2025 Call For Papers

The Thirty-Second Annual Symposium on the Nineteenth Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression recently concluded on the Augusta University campus highlighted by the Society of Nineteenth Century Historians dedicating the conference in honor of its founder and tireless advocate, the late Dr. David Sachsman. Henceforth, the conference shall be known as the Sachsman Symposium on the Nineteenth Century Press, a fitting tribute to an outstanding scholar and mentor.

Here are some other highlights!

The Society of 19th Century Historians is proud to announce the program for its 32nd Annual Symposium on the Nineteenth Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression.

Beginning Thursday afternoon, November 7, 2024 and continuing for the next two days at Augusta University’s Jaguar Student Activities Center on the Summerville Campus, the conference schedule features paper and panel presentations covering a wide variety of topics and signature lectures by two renowned historians.

Whether you are in the process of submitting a paper for peer review, participating in a panel, or just interested in the presentations of our two renowned scholars, we invite you to register for the conference scheduled for November 7-9 at Augusta University.

To learn more, please visit our registration page located on our Society website.

Esteemed historians Orville Vernon Burton and Harold Holzer will give signature lectures at the 32nd Annual Symposium on the Nineteenth Century Press, the Civil War, and Freedom of Expression at Augusta University.

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The Society of Nineteenth Century Historians, in partnership with the Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Augusta University, presents the 32nd Annual Symposium on the Nineteenth Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression.

For more information, please visit the 2024 Call for Papers!

The Symposium also invites papers exploring how newspapers and other publications spread news and stories about the unexplained. Papers and panel presentations will be considered, with author permission, for inclusion in Unexplained! Negotiating the Supernatural in the 19th Century Press.

For more information, please visit the 2024 “Unexplained!” Call for Papers