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2024 Conference Program Now Available!

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.

To learn more about this outstanding event, please visit the program schedule for details.

Free Registration Now Open for the Thirty-Second Annual Symposium

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.

Renowned Scholars to Highlight Thirty-Second Annual Symposium

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.

For more infomation, please see the release!

2024 Call for Papers Now Available!

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!

Opportunities to Participate in an Exciting Project!

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

A Long History of Published Scholarship

Since 2000, the Symposium, formerly hosted at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga under the auspices of the George R. West, Junior Chair of Excellence in Communications and Public Affairs, the late Dr. David Sachsman, has produced nine different books of readings covering a broad range of subjects.

These works have become a hallmark of the Symposium and demonstrate both the diversity of topics and academic rigor of their presentations.

Here is a list of those publications with links to more information and where they may be purchased.

The Civil War and the Press

ed. David B. Sachsman, S. Kittrell Rushing, and Debra Reddin van Tuyll, Routledge

[1999]

Memory and Myth

The Civil War in Fiction and Film from Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Cold Mountain
ed. David B. Sachsman, S. Kittrell Rushing, and Roy Morris, Jr., Purdue University Press

[2007]

Words at War

The Civil War and American Journalism
ed. David B. Sachsman, S. Kittrell Rushing, and Roy Morris, Jr., Purdue University Press

[2008]

Seeking a Voice

Images of Race and Gender in the 19th Century Press

ed. David B. Sachsman, S. Kittrell Rushing, and Roy Morris, Jr., Purdue University Press

[2009]

Sensationalism

Murder, Mayhem, Mudslinging, Scandals, and Disasters in 19th-Century Reporting

ed. David B. Sachsman and David W. Bulla, Transaction/Routledge

[2013]

A Press Divided

Newspaper Coverage of the Civil War

ed. David B. Sachsman, Transaction/Routledge

[2014]

After the War

The Press in a Changing America, 1865-1900

ed. David B. Sachsman, Routledge

[2017]

The Antebellum Press

Setting the Stage for Civil War

ed. David B. Sachsman and Gregory A. Borchard, Routledge/Taylor & Francis

[2019]

The Civil War Soldier and the Press

ed. Katrina J. Quinn and David B. Sachsman

[Routledge, 2023]