CFI

This presentation of the Crowe Academy provides a thorough and wide-ranging look at the conflict between North and South as it affected and was affected by the southern Indiana, northern Kentucky and southern Ohio region.

With the help of some outstanding scholars, we will relive battles, look at the lives of ordinary citizens, study the experiences of African-Americans, and examine the political history of the region at the time.

We will also tour Civil War sites in nearby Madison, Indiana. There will be plenty of opportunity for lively interaction and discussion. There will also be ample opportunity to enjoy the serene beauty of Hanover College's 650 acre wooded campus.

A symposium offering an extensive study of "The War Between the States" in Indiana and Kentucky.

Registration and dinner, followed by keynote address: "An Overview of the Civil War in Kentuckiana," Marion Lucas.

10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. "J.F.D. Lanier and Civil War Politics in Indiana," Thomas Rodgers

2:30 to 5:00 p.m. Walking tour of Madison, Indiana Civil War sites and the Lanier Mansion

Kent Masterson Brown, J.D. A practicing constitutional lawyer, Mr. Brown was founder and editor of The Civil War, of the Civil War Society. He has lectured and written many articles and books about the Civil War with special interest in the Battle of Gettysburg. He is also chairman of the Perryville, Ky. Battlefield Commission. "The Civil War in Kentucky: A Collection of Essays" is due to be published in 1999 as is "Lee's Retreat from Gettysburg."

James J. Holmberg, curator of special collections, The Filson Club Historical Society, Louisville. Mr. Holmberg is a consulting editor of The Louisville Encyclopedia, and instructor of history at the University of Louisville.

Lester V. Horwitz, author of "The Longest Raid of the Civil War," the definitive text on John Hunt Morgan's raid through Indiana and Ohio in 1863. Mr. Horwitz will explain details of Morgan's crossing of the Ohio River at Brandenburg, Kentucky, the Battle of Corydon and why R.O.T.C. at Indiana University includes study of Morgan's Raid in its curriculum.

Marion B. Lucas, Ph.D., professor of history, Western Kentucky University. Dr. Lucas has authored "History of Blacks in Kentucky" and "Sherman and the Burning of Columbia" in addition to many articles on Kentucky and the Civil War, with special emphasis on slave life and the experience of African-Americans.

Thomas E. Rodgers, Ph.D., instructor of history, University of Southern Indiana. Dr. Rodgers has published many articles and papers about Indiana's Civil War history, including a dissertation, "Northern Political Ideologies in the Civil War Era: West Central Indiana, 1860-66."

Steven Weisenburger, Ph.D., Department of English, University of Kentucky. Dr. Weisenburger has authored many articles and books, including "Modern Medea: A Study of Slavery and Child murder from the Old South," which relates the case of a runaway slave mother who murdered her child rather than allow her to be recaptured -- a case that helped galvanize antislavery feeling in the North.