Augusta University
David Bulla
C-SPAN will telecast a lecture by historian Orville Vernon Burton of Clemson and two panels from the Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War and Free Expression on Saturday, March 29, at 2 p.m. (EDT).
The symposium was held in November of last year, and these sections of the conference were on Thursday, Nov. 7.
Burton gave the inaugural Hazel Dicken-Garcia Distinguished Lecture: “Lincoln, Liberty, Reconstruction, and the Supreme Court’s Deferral of Justice in the Nineteenth Century.” Dicken-Garcia was a mass media historian from the University of Minnesota and a frequent presenter at the symposium. She also mentored a generation of mass communication historians.
In addition to Burton’s lecture, panels on the Civil War-era press and the impact of the war on media.
Burton, who was born in Royston (Ga.) and grew up in Ninety-Six, S.C., is the author of many books on the Civil War, including The Age of Lincoln. He was educated at Furman and Princeton. Burton is a major leader in the digital humanities.
The Symposium was held in the Williams Ballroom and the Coffeehouse of the JSAC.
The event is run by Hub Burton from the University of Maine, and Gregory A. Borchard of UNLV is the president of the Society of Nineteenth Century Historians, which maintains and sponsors the conference. It was started by Dr. David Sachsman at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in the early 1990s. It was held at UTC for three decades before moving to Augusta University in 2023.
Dr. Debbie van Tuyll, professor emerita, and Dr. David W. Bulla, chair of the Department of Communication, are the AU representatives on the society board. Dr. Kim Davies, dean of Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, has supported the conference since it moved to AU.
IT plays a major role in the hybrid conference. Janice DeLoach and Gordon Spivey provided assistance for the symposium, which henceforth will be known as the Sachsman Symposium on the 19th Century Press.
