THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND HER PEOPLE
Memphis, Tennessee
March 14-16, 1996
Draft Program (Part 2 of 3)
For hotel and registration information contact:
Meg Hacker, National Archives-Southwest Region
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SESSION A
THURSDAY AFTERNOON (2:00 P.M.-3:30 P.M.)
A1
MISSISSIPPI RIVER WRECKS AND WARFARE:
PREHISTORY TO THE PRESENT
Chair: Stephen R. James, Jr., Underwater Archeologist,
Panamerican Maritime, L.L.C., Memphis
Leslie C. Stewart-Abernathy, Station Archeologist, Arkansas
Archeological Survey, Russellville: "Ghost Boats on the
Mississippi: Opportunity, Obligation, and Watercraft at West
Memphis, Arkansas, in the Drought Summer of 1988."
Jerry O. Potter, Author, *The Sultana Tragedy: America's
Greatest Maritime Disaster*: "The Sultana Disaster."
David Dye, Department of Anthropology, University of
Memphis:
"Prehistoric Mississippian Riverine Warfare."
Comment: Charles Pearson, Senior Archeologist, Coastal
Environments, Inc., Baton Rouge
A2
MILITARY SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER:
EARLY DEVELOPMENT THROUGH RECONSTRUCTION
Chair: Clayton Brown, Professor, Department of History,
Texas
Christian University
Stan McGowen, Doctoral Student, Texas Christian University:
"The Spanish Retreat from the Mississippi, 1763-1794."
Jay Menzoff, Doctoral Student, Texas Christian University:
"The Vicksburg Campaign: Federal Amphibious Operations
1862-1863."
Comment: Audience
A3
THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND
RIVER SCIENCE
Chair: Michael Meier, Archivist, National Archives,
Washington, DC
Robert Meade, Hydrologist, Water Resources Division, U.S.
Geological Survey, Denver: "Tracking Contaminants Down the
Mississippi River, 1987-1992."
Robert B. Jacobson, Research Hydrologist, Missouri District,
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey, Rolla,
Missouri:
"Erosion and Deposition Associated With Levee Breaks, 1993
Flood on the Mississippi River."
Comment: Audience
A4
IMAGES OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND HER PEOPLE
Chair: Ed Frank, Curator of Special Collections, University of
Memphis
John Anfinson, District Historian, St. Paul District, U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers: "Henry Bosse: Art, History and the Upper
Mississippi River."
Claudia K. Kheel, Visual Arts Curator, Louisiana State
Museum, New Orleans: "'The Water Come Through the Levee
like Niagara Falls': The 1922 Mississippi River Levee Break and
Flood of Poydras,
Louisiana Through the Photographs of Claude C. de Brueys."
Comment: Audience
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THURSDAY EVENING (7:30 P.M.-8:30 P.M.)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY A MAJOR WASHINGTON
OFFICIAL(Unconfirmed)
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SESSION B
FRIDAY MORNING (9:00 A.M.-10:30 A.M.)
B1
THE CIVIL WAR ON THE MISSISSIPPI
Chair: Raymond A. Mosley, Assistant Archivist, Office of
Special and Regional Archives, National Archives, Washington,
DC
Roger Busbice, Division of Archives, Baton Rouge: "Baton
Rouge to Buras: War in the Lower Mississippi Delta."
James Newsom, Assistant Professor, Ambassador College, Big
Sandy, Texas: "General Grant and the Battles of Vicksburg and
Port
Hudson."
Comment: Audience
B2
SOCIAL SERVICES IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA
Chair: Peter W. Bunce, Director, National Archives-Great
Lakes
Region, Chicago
Don Hofsommer, St. Cloud University: "Anti-Malaria Control
Program of the Southwestern Railroad, 1916."
Brenda Taylor, Texas Wesleyan University: "New Deal Colony
Building: The Failure of the 'Complete Community' in Dyess
Farms, Arkansas, 1934-1946."
Comment: Audience
B3
ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IN THE MISSISSIPPI
DELTA
Chair: Gayle Peters, Director, National Archives-Southeast
Region, Atlanta
Barbara Allen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: "An
Environmental and Cultural History of the Mississippi River
Chemical Corridor."
Mark Neuzil, Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism
and Mass Communication, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul,
Minnesota:
"Waters of Protest: Media and the Mississippi River in
Comparative History."
Comments: Audience
B4
ENGINEERING STUDIES AND DEVELOPMENTS OF THE
MISSISSIPPI
Chair: Meg Hacker, Assistant Director, National
Archives-Southwest Region, Fort Worth
George Pabis, Doctoral Student, University of Illinois,
Chicago: "Two Visions of Nature in the Engineering Debate
Over Mississippi River Flood Control, 1840-1882."
Matthew Pearcy, Doctoral Student, University of North Texas,
Denton: "A Study of the Mississippi River Commission's
'Levees Only' Policy Through 1927."
Comment: Audience
SESSION C
FRIDAY MORNING (11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.)
C1
RIVER CULTURE: SOURCES AND INTERPRETATIONS
Chair: Beverly Watkins, Archivist, National Archives-Great
Lakes Region, Chicago
Arlene H. Eakle, President and Founder, The Genealogical
Institute, Salt Lake City: "The Mississippi River System and
Your Family Tree."
Sandra Miller Custer, Publisher, *The Egregious Steamboat
Journal*: "Making the Connection Between Steamboats and
Their People Through Records in the National Archives."
Jay C. Martin, Historian: "River Rats, Deck Apes, and Sea
Dogs: Shipboard Life and the Search for Maritime Culture on
the Interior and Saltwater Waterways of the United States
During the Steamboat Era."
Comment: Audience
C2
OBSERVATIONS OF THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA:
ANTEBELLUM ENGINEERING AND RECONSTRUCTION
AGRICULTURE
Chair: Mark Corriston, Assistant Director, National Archives-
Central Plains Region, Kansas City
Michael Meier, Archivist, National Archives, Washington, DC:
"Caleb G. Forshey and the Hydrography of the Mississippi
River Delta
Survey, 1851-1853."
Jeff Kinard, Doctoral Student, Texas Christian University: "A
Southerner's View of Reconstruction: The Letters of J. C.
Moncure."
Comment: Audience
C3
RIVERSCAPE: THE U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS
AND THE LOWER
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
Chair: Col. Gregory G. Bean, Commander, Memphis District,
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Michael Robinson, Chief of Public Affairs and Division
Historian, Mississippi River Commission/Lower Mississippi
Valley Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg :
"The River Engineers: Flood Control and Navigation in the
Lower Mississippi Valley, 1824- 1996."
James R. Tuttle, Chief, Engineering Division (Ret.), Mississippi
River Commission/Lower Mississippi Valley Division, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg (Ret.): "High Water,
Lower Water: The Many Moods of the Mississippi."
George C. Grugett, Executive Vice President, Lower
Mississippi
Valley Flood Control Association: "Partners of the Corps:
Federal and Local Relationship in the Mississippi Valley."
Comment: Col. Gregory G. Bean
C4
THE ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY DELTA INITIATIVE
Chair: Richard McGhee, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Arkansas
State University
Michael B. Dougan, Professor of History, Arkansas State
University: "From Cairo, Illinois, to the Alley Behind the
Peabody: The
Forgotten Delta of the Mississippi."
Jerry Farris, Assistant Professor of Biology, Arkansas State
University: "An Ecological Survey of the Arkansas Delta."
Richard Burns, Assistant Professor of English and Folklore,
Arkansas State University: "A Folklife Survey of the Arkansas
Delta."
Comment: C. Ray Brassieur, Oral Historian/Folklorist,
Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia
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FRIDAY AFTERNOON (2:00 P.M - 5:00 P.M.)
MUD ISLAND MUSEUM AND RIVERWALK
(Admission included in Symposium registration)
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FRIDAY EVENING (7:30 P.M.- 8:30 P.M.)
REMARKS BY SHELBY FOOTE
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