Civil War Conference

 

  

Conference Co-Chairs, Clay Lamphear and Caroline Keenan

April 14-16, Peru State College hosted Phi Alpha Theta's Civil War conference for undergraduates, The Trial of a Nation.  Dr. Sara Crook and Dr. Spencer Davis serve as Faculty Sponsors for Phi Alpha Theta.

I could not attend the entire event because of having to attend NEA's Delegate Assembly.  But on Thursday night, I went to the conference's opening ceremony that featured Dan Holz's singing Civil War Songs--you can watch Dan perform two of the songs on You Tube.

Before leaving town, I also photographed the keynote speaker for the Friday lunch, Peg Keenan, who talked about "The Underground Railroad Quilt."

As the photographs indicate, I also visited the Peru Depot, where Civil War Reenactors displayed their wares and talked about their special areas of interest.

Unfortunately, I could not attend the banquet and consequently missed Paul Finkelman's excellent key note speech. 


The successful undergraduate conference also awarded a number of prizes:

The Trial of a Nation Conference

April 14 & 15, 2011

Presentation of the 1^st and 2^nd Place Awards: Dr. Hanson and Clay Lamphear

Poetry:

         2^nd Place: Brandi Edmond ($100) “Civil War Nursing”

         1^st Place: Amanda Pearson-VanderBroek  ($500) “Spring 1862”

Posters:

2^nd Place: Jessica Manning & Charlotte Wallace (check of $50 to each) “Recipes of the Civil War”

         1^st Place: Megan Bottcher ($500 “Examining Civil War Photography”

Papers:

         2^nd Place: Janet Vaher ($100) “J. Sterling Morton”

         1^st Place: Caroline Keenan ($500) “Kate Stone”

Power Point Presentations:

         2^nd Place: ($100) Katherine Nierman “Habeas Corpus”

            1^st Place: ($500) D. J. Pophams “Contrasting Economic Lifestyles”