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Society Announces Sachsman Symposium on the Nineteenth Century Press

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!

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

Special Call for Conference Papers/Book Chapters

Call for Conference Papers/Book Chapters

Unexplained! Negotiating the Supernatural in the 19th Century Press

The Symposium Steering Committee invites papers exploring how newspapers spread news about the unexplained. The press created a forum for ideas concerning reality, and, therein, a stage for imagining the outcomes of relying on either science or the supernatural solely for answers. No doubt both served a purpose in building a society where a sense of belonging empowered citizens to develop their potential. Editors published supernatural news items, comments, poems, fictional narratives, illustrations, ads, reviews, and other things often without judging the material. They empowered readers to think freely about forbidden or perverse subjects.

Papers and panel presentations will be considered, with author permission, for inclusion in Unexplained! Negotiating the Supernatural in the 19th Century Press.

Topics include but are not limited to Spiritualism (a popular religious movement suggesting that the dead could communicate with the living), stories about the occult, sightings of fairies and other preternatural beings, and paranormal themes as they appeared in the 19th century press. Because the “supernatural” refers to things visible outside of the physical world or occurring beyond the laws of nature, papers may highlight its many facets (witchcraft, tarot card reading, omens and premonitions, dreams, nightmares, or bizarre weather phenomenon, like crickets pouring from the sky). Writers may pursue earthly manifestations (vampires, werewolves, zombies, ghosts, gods, goddesses, and monsters of all sorts as well as gothic elements that reveal “the macabre, mysterious, or violent.”

We welcome papers dealing with press coverage of celebrities or journalists involved in uncanny pursuits and also seek papers that reflect paranormal beliefs from around the world. Authors may analyze newspapers, magazines, ads, and cartoons, using any methodology or theoretical approach to study supernatural topics in the 19th century press. Research may also analyze aspects of popular culture (e.g., songs and plays, stereopticon slides, magic lantern shows, or dime novels) covered in the press.

For more information please contact:

PAULETTE KILMER

University of Toledo

pkilmer@rockets.utoledo.edu

DEBBIE VAN TYULL

Augusta University

DVANTYULL@augusta.edu

BRIAN GABRIAL

Northwestern State University of Louisiana

gabrialb@nsula.edu

Society Announces Sachsman Symposium on the Nineteenth Century Press

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!

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!

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

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!