CIVIL WAR SCHOLARS TO SPEAK AT SEMINAR

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, March 14, 1993                   TAG: 9303110248
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CIVIL WAR SCHOLARS TO SPEAK AT SEMINAR
Two nationally known Civil War scholars and eight regional speakers will talk about "The Civil War: Southwest Virginia - and Beyond" at a free seminar at Emory and Henry College on March 24-27.
Eric Foner, history professor at Columbia University in New York City and author of "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution," will speak March 25 at 8 p.m.
James I. Robertson, Miles Professor of History at Virginia Tech and a widely known author and speaker, will discuss the Civil War in the Appalachian region on March 24 at 8 p.m.
Other speakers and their subjects: Edwin T. Hardison, dean of Virginia Highlands Community College, on the secession crisis of 1861 in Southwest Virginia; Glen McMullen of Iowa University and former head of special collections at the Virginia Tech library, camp conditions during the Civil War; Howard McManus, member of the Roanoke Civil War Roundtable, the 1864 New River expedition and railroad destruction by Union troops; Michael Holmes, Blue Ridge Job Corps instructor, the battles of Saltville in 1864, and Amanda DeHart, archivist and author of a history, on Christiansburg Institute, a Freedmen's Bureau school.
Eugene L. Rasor, Emory & Henry history professor, will give a critique of the controversial slavery study, "Time on the Cross"; Walton H. Owen II, curator at the National Archives, will give a slide lecture on Civil War photography; Brian Wills of Clinch Valley College will talk on Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and William Brownlow, a Union parson.
The seminar will start on March 24 at 8:30 a.m. and extend through noon on March 27 in the college's Wiley Hall auditorium. On March 25, Robertson will travel to Clinch Valley College at Wise for an informal session on the war from 10 a.m. to noon.
A tour of the Saltville battleground will be offered on March 27. The Civil War television documentary by Ken Burnswill be presented. Information on the seminar may be obtained from Rasor at Emory & Henry, telephone 703-944-4121.
The seminar will be sponsored by the college and the Southwest Regional Humanities Council, funded by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB