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Oct. 5-6 symposium to examine state's role in First World War
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The University of South Carolina will host a symposium on South Carolina's role in World War I Oct. 5-6 in the Campus Room of Capstone House.
"Forward Together: South Carolina and the Nation in World War I," will provide the public with a better understanding of South Carolina's experiences during the war, as well as larger national issues at the time, including the influenza pandemic, contributions of women and African Americans, and President Woodrow Wilson's wartime leadership and legacy.
In addition to lectures, retired University history professor Ed Beardsley will present a living history performance on President Woodrow Wilson at 4:30 p.m., Oct. 5 in Room 153 of Gambrell Hall.
The symposium will feature many University of South Carolina historians, as well as historians from elsewhere in the state, North Carolina, Mississippi, Washington, and Massachusetts. The complete symposium schedule can be found online at www.scforwardtogether.org/schedule.html.
Registration is $25, which includes a reception on Friday, lunch on Saturday, and passes to the South Carolina State Museum and the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum. The deadline for registration is Sept. 26.
The symposium is part of a multiple institution project titled, "Forward Together: South Carolina in World War I." The project commemorates the 90th anniversary of the United State's entry into the Great War through museum and library exhibitions, public lectures, a documentary and living history performances. All events focus on the involvement of the Palmetto State in "the war to end all wars."
The project partnership is comprised of the University's South Caroliniana Library and McKissick Museum, the South Carolina State Museum, the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum, the Historic Columbia Foundation, and South Carolina Educational Television. Most of the institutions have exhibitions on display that run through the fall.
"Forward Together" is funded in part by the Partnership for a Nation of Learners, a leadership initiative by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Beardsley's performance at the symposium is made possible with funding from the South Carolina Humanities Council.
For more information, call Elizabeth West at 7-5158.
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Friday, Oct. 5
- 12:30 p.m., Registration, Campus Room, Capstone
- 1 p.m., Welcome
- 1:30 p.m., Kendrick Clements, University of South Carolina, "Woodrow Wilson: His wartime administration and his attempts at post-war peace," and Patrick Maney, Boston College, "Civil Liberties and the Great War"
- 3 p.m., William Still Jr., East Carolina University, "U.S. Navy planning and strategy for World War I: Its Success and Failures," and Jennifer Speelman, The Citadel, "Charleston as a Naval and Maritime Center during World War I"
- 4:30 p.m., Living history performance by Edward Beardsley, University of South Carolina, "A Frustration of High Hopes: Woodrow Wilson, the Great War, and America's Rejection of the League of Nations," Gambrell Hall, Room 153
- 5:30 p.m. Reception, South Caroliniana Library
Saturday, Oct. 6
- 10 a.m., Welcome, Campus Room, Capstone
- 10:30 a.m., Nancy Bristow, University of Puget Sound. "The Whole World Seems Upside Down: Americans Cope with the Great Influenza Epidemic," and Robert Cowley, scholar, Sherman CT, "Old Hickory: The Thirtieth Infantry Division"
- Noon, lunch
- 1:30 p.m., Jim Megginson, scholar, Jackson, Miss., "African American Servicemen from South Carolina and their contributions to Military success on the Western Front," and Bobby Donaldson, University of South Carolina, "African American Society during the Great War: Contributions and Frustrations"
- 3 p.m., Valinda Littlefield, University of South Carolina, "Women's Organizations and their contributions to the American Society in World War I," and Marjorie J. Spruill, University of South Carolina, "Victory at Home and Abroad: The final push for Women's Suffrage in the Midst of World War I"
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