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 <[log in to unmask]> 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 *** THURSDAY EVENING (7:30 P.M.-8:30 P.M.) KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY A MAJOR WASHINGTON OFFICIAL(Unconfirmed) *** 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 *** FRIDAY AFTERNOON (2:00 P.M - 5:00 P.M.) MUD ISLAND MUSEUM AND RIVERWALK (Admission included in Symposium registration) *** FRIDAY EVENING (7:30 P.M.- 8:30 P.M.) 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