Roberts is on the faculty at WIU and is the author of “This Infernal War,” a well-received edited collection of letters exchanged by the Standards from 1862 until the 1865 Grand Review in Washington D.C. Tim and Emily Roberts who will read and respond to Civil War letters exchanged by William and Jane Standard, a Lewiston, Illinois, couple. Closing the Symposium at 11:20 will be Dr. Sam Wheeler, will tackle the 1847 Matson Case in which Lincoln defended a slave owner. At 10:10, another popular repeat Symposium speaker, Dr. Curt Fields, a Symposium favorite, will talk about Ulysses and Julia Grant. First up at 8:00am on Saturday will be a group of Adams County historians discussing local Civil War topics in the Earlybird session. Following Medford on Friday evening will be Tennessean Cody Engdahl who will offer a history of the Civil War entitled “The Civil War Through Fiddle Tunes. Medford, there will be several other presenters at the two-day event. Grant Association, and is Vice President of the Abraham Lincoln Institute. In 2009 she was named Laureate by the Lincoln Academy of Illinois, thereby receiving the state’s highest award, the “Order of Lincoln.” She currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Lincoln Forum, the Board of the U.S. Medford appears frequently on C-Span as both speaker and panelist. The author of Lincoln and Emancipation and a co-author of The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views, Dr. Her academic specialties include Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, and African-American History. Medford holds degrees from Hampton University, University of Illinois, and University of Maryland. The title of her talk will be, “Dog Whistles, Red Meat and Political Discourse in the Age of Lincoln.”ĭr. Medford served as teacher, department chair and dean. At various times during her distinguished career at Howard, Dr. Edna Greene Medford, Professor Emerita at Howard University in Washington D.C. The keynote presentation will be given at 7:00pm on Friday by Dr. The fourth Civil War Symposium sponsored by the HSQAC and the TSCWRT will be held on Friday and Saturday, April 28 th and 29 th 2023 at the KROC Center at 405 Vermont in Quincy. The program is open to the public free of charge. The Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County is hosting the event which is being sponsored by O’Donnell Cookson Life Celebration Home in Quincy. She sits on the board of the Missouri Archives and Museums Association and is a former member of the Missouri Humanities Council, the Marion County Historical Society, and the Grants Panel for the Missouri Folk Arts Council. With degrees from Oakland University and University of Michigan, Dant has worked more than thirty years in Human Resources. Her inspiration was her own life experiences in the era of segregation, integration, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement. Jim’s Journey: The Huck Finn Freedom Center is fast approaching its 10 th anniversary. She founded Jim’s Journey in 2013 as phase two of the Hannibal African American Life and History Project established in 2011 as northeast Missouri’s first African American history museum. Eells and the Underground Railroad,” Dant says.ĭant, a fifth generation African American Hannibalian and descendent of Missouri slaves, grew up in Douglasville and attended the segregated Douglass School, Hannibal High School, and Hannibal LaGrange College. “I will lift up the belief that Quincy has a story to tell that goes beyond Dr. The program will offer the shared history of two communities, Hannibal and Quincy, and will feature names, places, and events exhibiting a common thread. Faye Dant, Executive Director of Hannibal’s Black History Museum, Jim’s Journey: The Huck Finn Freedom Center, will present Hannibal & Quincy African American History Connections on Sunday, February 19, at the History Museum on the Square, 332 Maine, Quincy, beginning at 2:00 pm.
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