ECHOES of the
Civil War
Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013
A SYMPOSIUM at the Chester County Historical Society
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
8:30-9:00 Registration & Coffee
9:00-9:10 Welcome
a Rob Lukens, PhD, CCHS President
11:20-12:20 “Human Bondage:
Slavery and Human Trafficking”
a tonya thames taylor, PhD: “Slavery Then,
Human Trafficking Now”
9:10-10:00 Keynote
“Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics a C. James Trotman, EdD: “When the Saints
in the Civil War South”
Go Marching In: Frederick Douglass and His
Recruitment of the Black Soldier”
a Stephanie McCurry, PhD
12:20-12:30 Wrap-up & Comments
10:00-10:10 Break
12:30 Lunch on your own in West Chester
10:10-11:10 “The Press, Partisanship, and
Objectivity: The Civil War and Today”
2:00 Walking tour of Civil War sites in West
Chester with Jim Jones, PhD (included in
a Ford Risley, PhD: “The Role of the Press registration)
in the Civil War”
–OR–
aDaniel R. Biddle: “Objectivity and Today’s
2:00 Tour of On the Edge of Battle:
Newspapers”
11:10-11:20 Break
Chester County and the Civil War
(included in registration)
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 Society
225 N. High Street, West Chester, PA 19380
610.692.4800
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