ACWRTA RECONSTRUCTION Conference

Very happy to be part of the upcoming American Civil War Roundtable conference on RECONSTRUCTION on Sat 19 March at Williamstown RSL. To secure your seat make payment of $50 to the ACWRTA by direct deposit. BSB 063105 Acct 10133130. Please write Conf in the reference field or alternatively pay by cheque to ACWRTA Inc c/- The Treasurer, 44 Diamond Creek Road, Greensborough, VIC, 3088

RECONSTRUCTION

Order of proceedings

9.30am Registration

10 am President’s welcome

10.10am Mr Warren Ellem Presidential Reconstruction: A Lost Opportunity?

11.00am MORNING TEA

11.20am Mr Chris Hookey The Union Army Occupation: The Second Civil War

12.10pm Dr Juliette Peers Working with Hearts and Hands, a New World to Forge: Some case studies around Women, the Civil War and its aftermath and heritage

1pm LUNCH

1.40pm Dr Keith Wilson “You ain’t go no mistis and no master”: African American Voices from the Reconstruction Era

2.30pm Dr Ross Brooks The Klan: Before the White Sheets and Hats

3.20pm AFTERNOON TEA

3.40 pm Dr Dale Blair Unreconstructed Rebels?: Confederate migration in the post war period

4.30pm President’s closing address

6pm Conference dinner at attendees cost