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