"The Legacy of Stones River: Remembering the Civil War" addresses battlefield preservation and Civil War commemoration during the 80th anniversary year of the establishment of Stones River National Battlefield.
The event is set for Saturday, March 31.
Morning sessions will be at the Historic Rutherford County Courthouse. Afternoon activities are planned for Stones River National Battlefield including a Hallowed Ground tour of the National Cemetery, a guided walk to Hazen's Monument and a brass band concert at the park's new band rostrum. Registration is $10 per person.
In addition to excellent speakers, this year's event features the battlefield's most popular public tour and rousing music by the Olde Towne Brass Band of Huntsville, Ala.
Speakers and their topics include:
Miranda L. Fraley, Tennessee State Museum, and Jim B. Lewis, Stones River National Battlefield "Remembering Stones River: From Burying Ground to National Battlefield"
Karen L. Cox, University of North Carolina at Charlotte "Honoring the Generation of the Sixties: Women's Role in Vindicating the Confederacy"
Cox is author of "Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture," which was
winner of the 2004 Julia Cherry Spruill Prize from the Southern Association for Women Historians for the best work published in southern women's history.
William A. Blair, Pennsylvania State University "The Politics of Commemorating the American Civil War"
William Blair is associate professor of history at the Pennsylvania State University, where he is also director of the Richards Civil War Era Center and editor of Civil War History. He specializes in the social history of the Civil War, with special emphases on the home front and the politics of remembering the conflict. He is author of Virginia's Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861-1865 (1998), and Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914 (2004). He also has coedited, with William Pencak, The Making and Remaking of Pennsylvania's Civil War (2001).
A questions and discussion period will follow.
For a downloadable registration brochure click on the following link:
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