“LINCOLN: THE MYTH, THE SYMBOL, THE LEGACY”

The Young-Sanders Center
Franklin, Louisiana

July 7 - 12, 2005
Thursday, July 7
5:00-6:30 Registration and Conviviality (Best Western Forest Hotel 337-828-1810)
6:30-7:30 Supper
7:30-8:30 "The Morality and Legality of Lincoln Conquest of the South to Prevent Secession"
Prof. Donald Livingston
Friday, July 8
9:00-10:00 "The Lincoln Fable"
Prof. Clyde Wilson
10:15-11:00 "Lincoln Myth and Civil Religion"
Prof. William Wilson
11:30-12:30 "Lincoln Myth, Southern Saga"
Prof. William Wilson
12:30-2:30 Dinner
2:30-3:30 "Alternate Worlds: Northern Discussion of Multiple Confederacies During the 1861 Secession Winter"
Dr. Scott Trask
3:45-4:45 "The Reign of Terror: Republican Efforts to Suppress Northern Opposition to the War"
Dr. Scott Trask
5:00-6:30 Conviviality and Supper (The Young-Sanders Center)
7:30-8:30 "Lincoln on Race and Slavery"
Prof. Donald Livingston
Saturday, July 9
9:00-10:00 "Lincoln and the Republican Party"
Prof. Clyde Wilson
10:15-11:00 "Lincoln and the Modern State: A European Perspective"
Prof. Marco Bassani
11:30-12:30 "Lincoln and Socialism: A European Prospective"
Prof. Marco Bassani
12:30-3:30 Dinner and Tour of Gravenberg House
3:30-4:30 "Was the Lincoln Administration Guilty of War Crimes?"
Joseph Stromberg
4:45-5:45 "Hegelian Justifications for the North's Conquest of the South"
Joseph Stromberg
6:30-7:30 Supper
7:30-8:30 "Lincoln in the Eye of His Contemporaries" (a slide presentation of 19th century Lincoln images)
Prof. Carey Roberts
Sunday, July 10
9:00-12:30 Free time to attend worship services
12:30-1:30 Dinner
2:00-3:00 "Lincoln and the Triumph of Mercantilism"
Prof. Thomas DiLorenzo
3:15-4:15 "Lincoln's Second American Revolution"
Prof. Thomas DiLorenzo
4:30-6:00 Student Seminar
6:30-7:30 Supper
7:30-8:30 "Lincoln Enthroned: Lincoln Images in the 20th Century" (a slide presentation of Lincoln images)
Prof. Carey Roberts
Monday, July 11
9:00-10:00 "Lincoln and the Marxists"
Roger Busbice
10:15-11:15 "Lincoln's Reconstruction of Louisiana"
Roger Busbice
11:30-12:30 "Presidential Powers and the Lincoln Presidency: The Derailment of Constitutional Constraints"
Prof. Marshall DeRosa
12:30-2:30 Dinner
2:30-3:30 "Slavery and the Rule of Law: The Prospects for Meaningful Emancipation Without National Intervention"
Prof. Marshall DeRosa
4:00-6:00 Student Seminar
6:00- Conviviality and Supper with Ante-bellum music
Tuesday, July 12
Departure

THE FACULTY

Marco Bassani, History of Political Thought, University of Milan, Italy

Roger Busbice, History, Nicholls State University

Marshall DeRosa, Political Science, Florida Atlantic University

Thomas DiLorenzo, Economics, Loyola College, Maryland

Donald Livingston, Philosophy, Emory University

Carey Roberts, History, Arkansas State University

Joseph Stromberg, Author and Historian

Scott Trask, Author and Historian

Clyde Wilson, History, University of South Carolina

William Wilson, Religious Studies, University of Virginia

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