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Symposium Recap

I served as emcee for the weekend! (photo by Hal Jespersen)

I served as emcee for the weekend! (photo by Hal Jespersen)

from Chris

We’re still recovering from our weekend of Civil War events: the Fourth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge! The theme of the weekend was “Great Defenses of the Civil War.”

C-SPAN taped Friday evening’s programs, and on Saturday, C-SPAN went LIVE all day. If you’d like to see any of the speakers, here’s the run-down:

Ryan Quint on the battle of Monocacy:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?431933-5/union-general-lew-wallaces-monocacy-defense

Dave Powell …

 

Stevenson Ridge on C-SPAN: The Atlanta Campaign

C-SPAN’s coverage of the Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge continues this weekend with Steve Davis’s talk on John Bell Hood’s July 20, 1864, attack outside Atlanta. The talk will air on C-SPAN3 on Saturday, October 22 at 6:00 p.m. Eastern time.

Meanwhile, C-SPAN3 will re-air Dave Powell’s talk on battle tactics on Saturday, October 22 at 3:10 p.m. Eastern time. And Chris Mackowski’s talk on Spotsylvania’s Bloody Angle will re-air on Sunday morning, October 23, at 11:00 a.m. …

 

Stevenson Ridge on C-SPAN: Longstreet in the Wilderness

panel-discussion-2016The next installment from the Third Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge airs this weekend on C-SPAN 3.

The Battle of the Wilderness and Longstreet’s Counterattack, presented by Kris White, will air Saturday night at 6:00 p.m., Eastern.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?413642-2/battle-wilderness-longstreets-counterattack

Also, the “Great Attacks” panel will re-airs Sunday at 1:25 p.m. Eastern, and then Monday morning at 5:55 a.m., Eastern.…

 

Stevenson Ridge on C-SPAN: “Great Attacks of the Civil War”

from Chris

C-SPAN’s coverage of the Third Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge continues this weekend. This Saturday evening at 6:00 p.m., C-SPAN 3 will air the symposium’s panel discussion on “Great Attacks of the Civil War.” Here’s a preview:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?413636-4/great-attacks-civil-war

Also, the keynote address by Jim Ogden on James Longstreet at Chickamauga gets a re-air Saturday at 1:45 p.m.:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?413636-3/general-james-longstreets-assault-chickamauga

Tune in to see Stevenson Ridge on C-SPAN!…

 

 

Stevenson Ridge on C-SPAN

Chris C-SPAN 2015For those who’ve been following C-SPAN’s coverage of the Second Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge, the latest two installments are up:

Phill Greenwalt talked about the formation of the Lost Cause interpretation of the war.

Emmanuel Dabney discussed the mixed legacy of the Freedmen’s Bureau.

Previous installments from last August’s events are also available:

Chris Kolakowski discussed the fall of Richmond and the surrender at Appomattox—and the ongoing legacy of both.

Keynote speaker Dana Shoaf …

 

Stevenson Ridge on C-SPAN

2015-crowdfrom Jenny

In case you missed this year’s Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge, you can catch up on some of the speakers courtesy of C-SPAN. The public-access cable network taped many of the programs and has been airing them during its Saturday evening Civil War time slot.

Stevenson Ridge’s own historian-in-residence, Chris Mackowski, served as the emcee. He appears in each segment to offer introductions of the speakers.

So far, C-SPAN has aired three programs.

Keynote speaker Dana …

 

Symposium Success

2015-crowdfrom Chris

We’re still catching our breath from our Second Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge. Attendees came from as far away as Illinois and Indiana, New York and New Jersey, and South Carolina (and ECW’s Meg Thompson came from California!), spending the weekend discussing the legacies of the Civil War. We posted a recap, as well as a bunch of pictures, at Emerging Civil War.

C-SPAN taped several of the sessions. Once those segments begin to …