History of the Symposium

History of the Symposeum

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 Community of Scholars for More than Three Decades

In November 1993, a steering committee of journalism historians met in Chattanooga to organize what has evolved into an annual meeting. The 1993 group included (from the left on the back row) David Mindich, New York University; Dwight Teeter, University of Tennessee Knoxville; Ed Caudill, UT Knoxville; David Sachsman, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; Lloyd Chaisson, Nichols State University; Don Reynolds, East Texas State University; Kit Rushing, UT Chattanooga; Edd Applegate, Middle Tennessee State University; Gene Wiggins, University of Southern Mississippi; Bob Dardenne, University of South Florida; Jim Ogden, United States Park Service; Joe Trahan, UT Chattanooga.

Also attending the 1993 meeting, but not on the field trip to Lookout Mountain where this photograph was taken, were Barbara Straus Reed, Rutgers University; and Leonard Ray Teel, Georgia State University.