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UPCOMING EVENTS
TENTH ANNUAL ABBEVILLE INSTITUTE SCHOLARS’ CONFERENCE
“THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES: OTHER VOICES, OTHER VIEWS"
Stone Mountain, Georgia
February, 23-26, 2012
TOPIC: Nationalist historians for 150 years have protected Americans from confronting the stark immorality of prosecuting what French philosopher Bertrand de Jouvenel called, “a war such as Europe had never yet seen” to force eleven States into a federation from which their people had voted to secede. Should eleven American States secede today and form a federation of their own, such a war would be judged criminal.
Northern opposition to the war was more extensive, complex and had more respectable adherents than the mainline account allows, e.g., Governor Seymour of New York, 1861: “Indeed, Can we so entirely forget the past history of our country, that we can stand upon the point of pride against states whose citizens battled with our fathers and poured out their blood upon the soil of our state. Upon whom are we to wage war? Our own countrymen….”
Lincoln and his party often acted as an embattled minority in the North. The Sesquicentennial offers an opportunity to explore the view point of the most neglected and misrepresented segment of American opinion on the great conflict at the center of our history.
Learn about the resistance of President Franklin Pierce and New York Governor Horatio Seymour. Midwestern “Copperheads.” Christian reaction to the bloodthirsty rhetoric of pro-war Republican preachers. Pro-Union opposition to the Republican Party. Resistance in the border States. Gradations and conflicts in Northern opinion, especially among ethnic groups. Treatment of black soldiers by the Union army during and after the war. And much more.
SPEAKERS. Douglas Bostick, Kent Masterson Brown , Richard Gamble, Marshall Derosa, Donald Livingston, Brion McClanahan, Allen Mendenhall, Joseph Stromberg, Robert Valentine, Jonathan White, Clyde Wilson,
PLACE. Beautiful Stone Mountain Park, built to commemorate the Confederacy. Visit the memorial to Lee, Jackson, and Davis which is the largest stone carving in the world. Much to see and do, so bring the family.
COST. Rooms: very special rate of $106 a day, single or double (rate ends February 1). Conference fee is $225 for Abbeville members and $275 for others. Make checks payable to Abbeville Institute, P.O. Box 10, McClellanville, S.C. 29458 (fee includes tuition, park entrance fee, reception, breakfast, continuous snacks and refreshments and supper on Thursday and Saturday). Make room reservations at Evergreen Marriott Conference Resort 770-879-9900. SCHOLARSHIPS. A few scholarships are available for college and graduate students who are encouraged to apply.
INQUIRIES: contactus@abbevilleinstitute.org or 843-323-0690. For lecture titles and schedule see abbevilleinstitute.org.
SEE THE SCHEDULE
RECENT EVENTS
- Ninth Annual Abbeville Scholar's Conference: February 24-27, 2011. The topic was "The South and America's Wars," a neglected topic that explored the strong, if not dominant, Southern resistance to foreign wars.
- Ninth Annual Abbeville Summer School: “The Greatness of Southern Literature ”
Saint Christopher Conference Center, Seabrook Island, South Carolina, July 24-29, 2011.
- Lindenwood Seminar: "Classical Liberalism and the Federal Soul" Lindenwood University, St. Charles, Missouri, April 15 - 17, 2011.
- Jefferson Seminar: "Can a State Lawfully Nullify an Unconstitutional Act of the Central Government?"
Myrtle Hall, Eutaw, Alabama, May 27-28, 2011
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