Saturday, January 4, 2:30–4:30 p.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

95. Reconstruction, the Lost Cause, and the Business Community in the New South

Palmer House, Red Lacquer Room

Joint session with the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Chair: Laura Edwards, Duke University

Papers: "The Timely and Judicious Administration of the Laws": Law, Vigilantism, and the Business Community of Reconstruction-Era Spartanburg, South Carolina
Bruce W. Eelman, Siena College

"We Go Forward": Confederate Memory and the New South in Goldsboro, North Carolina, 1894–95
Amy Beth Crow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Remembering Reconstruction Violence in the Progressive Era
Bruce E. Baker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Paradise Regained": The New Social Order in Mississippi's 1904 World's Fair Exhibits
Paul R. Beezley, University of Arizona

Comment: Scott R. Nelson, College of William and Mary

   

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