Friday, 4 May & Saturday, 5 May 2007

Kennesaw State University, New Social Science Building #22 (Auditorium Rm. 1021), Campus Loop Road, Parking available in the West Parking Deck, Adjacent to the Building

Sponsored by KSU’s Center for the Study of the Civil War Era; The Center for Regional History & Culture; Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park; and Kennesaw Mountain Historical Association

Keynote Speaker:

Dr. George Rable of the University of Alabama

Other Distinguished Speakers:

Dr. Victoria Bynum of Texas State University (San Marcos)

Dr. Kenneth Noe of Auburn University

Dr. LeeAnn Whites of the University of Missouri (Columbia)

For more information on the symposium visit the KSU History Department Web Site at the following address: http://www.kennesaw.edu/history/

To register for the symposium, visit the KSU Mall web page. Click on the link for the Center for the Study of the Civil War Era:

https://epay.kennesaw.edu/C20923_ustores/web/index.jsp

The cost is $15, which includes a box lunch on Saturday

For more information, please contact Dr. John Fowler, Dept. of History & Philosophy, Social Science Building #2206, Kennesaw, GA 30144, telephone 770-423-6244, e-mail jfowler2@kennesaw.edu

ITINERARY

Friday, May 4:

7:00-8:00 pm Keynote Address by Professor George Rable: “Blended History: New Approaches to Studying the Confederate Home Front”

8:00-8:30 pm Professor Rable answers audience questions

Saturday, May 5:

9:00-9:30 am Professor Victoria Bynum

"Guerrilla Wars: Plain Folk Resistance to the Confederacy”

9:30-10:00 am Professor Kenneth Noe

"The Origins of Guerrilla War in West Virginia"

10:00-10:15 am Coffee Break

10:15-10:45 am Professor LeeAnn Whites

"'Corresponding to the Enemy:' The Home Front as a Relational Field of Battle"

10:45-11:30 am Book signings, Outside of Auditorium

11:30 am-1:00 pm Lunch

1:00-2:00 pm Round Table Discussion with audience questions

Biographies for Speakers of Third Annual Symposium

New Interpretations of the American Civil War

“The Struggle Within: The Confederate Home Front”

George Rable (Keynote Speaker)

George C. Rable is the Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History at the University of Alabama. A native of Lima, Ohio, he received his B.A from Bluffton College (1972), his M.A from Louisiana State University (1973), and his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University (1978). He is currently the President of the Society of Civil War Historians. His books include: Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! (University of North Carolina Press, 2002), which won the Lincoln Prize, the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award in American Military History, the Jefferson Davis Award, the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award, and was a History Book Club selection; The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics (University of North Carolina Press, 1994), which was a History Book Club selection; Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (University of Illinois Press, 1989), which won the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize and the Jefferson Davis Award; and But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction. (University of Georgia Press, 1984). He is currently writing a book with the working title, “A Religious History of the American Civil War.”

Victoria Bynum

Victoria E. Bynum is professor of history at Texas State University at San Marcos. She received her B.A. from the California State University at Chico (1978), and her M.A. (1979) and Ph.D (1987) from the University of California at San Diego. Her research and teaching interests center on the nineteenth-century South, with an emphasis on race, class, gender, and dissent in the Civil War era. She is the author of two books, Unruly Women: the Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South (1992), which won Phi Alpha Theta's "best first book" award, and The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War (2001). Both books were published by the University of North Carolina Press, which will also publish Bynum's book-in-progress, Communities At War: Southern Dissent in the Civil War Era. In 2000, Bynum received a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship to finish writing The Free State of Jones. In February 2007, Universal Pictures purchased the rights to Free State of Jones from the University of North Carolina Press to use as a resource for writing a screenplay for their proposed movie, The Kingdom of Jones. Bynum serves on the Board of Editors of The Journal of Southern History and on the Advisory Council of the Lincoln Prize, Gettysburg College.

Kenneth Noe

A native of Virginia, Kenneth W. Noe taught at West Georgia College for ten years before coming to Auburn University in 2000. His major publications include Politics and Culture of the Civil War Era: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Johannsen, co-edited with Daniel J. McDonough; Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle; The Civil War in Appalachia: Collected Essays, co-edited with Shannon H. Wilson; A Southern Boy in
Blue: The Memoir of Marcus Woodcock, 9th Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.); and
Southwest Virginia's Railroad: Modernization and the Sectional Crisis. He is a Pulitzer Prize nominee and the winner of the 2003 Kentucky Governor’s Award, the 2002 Peter Seaborg Book Award for Civil War Non-fiction, and the 1997 Tennessee History Book Award, as well as several teaching awards. His current research involves the motivations of Civil War soldiers who did not enlist until at least 1862, and also the memory of the war as constructed by former general (and Auburn professor) James Henry Lane. Dr. Noe is a frequent speaker on the Civil War Round Table circuit and a participant in the Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lectureship Program.

LeeAnn Whites

LeeAnn Whites is a Professor of History at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She received all her advanced degrees from the University of California-Irvine and has taught courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction and the history of gender relations at the University of Missouri since 1989. She is the author of many books and articles having to do with the Civil War, nineteenth century gender relations, and the history of the U.S. South, including her book, The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender: Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1890, and most recently, Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction and the Making of the New South, (Palgrave McMillen, 2005). She is the recipient of many grants and fellowships, including awards from the Rockefeller, Woodrow Wilson, and Andrew Mellon Foundations. She is perhaps most pleased with her Fulbright, which allowed her to spend a semester teaching at the University of Rome.