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The Bridgewater College
Civil War Institute presents:
John Brown and the Coming Storm
A one-day symposium featuring:
Janet Kemper Beck
Prof. Beck teaches English at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC.
She is the author of Creating the John Brown Legend: Emerson, Thoreau,
Douglass, Child and Higginson in Defense of the Raid on Harpers Ferry.
She has also written an essay about poet Ishmael Reed and has given
presentations on slave narratives and John Brown at several locations.
At Appalachian State, Prof. Beck has designed several summer writing
programs and interdisciplinary workshops. Prof. Beck is a member of the
Harpers Ferry Historical Society, the Thoreau Society, and the Ralph
Waldo Emerson Society.
Dennis Frye
Mr. Frye is Chief Historian at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
and past president of a national battlefield preservation organization
that is today's Civil War Preservation Trust. Mr. Frye has written over
fifty articles and four books on the war, his latest entitled Antietam
Revealed. He has served as a battlefield guide for National Geographic,
the Smithsonian, major universities, and Civil War Round Tables across
the country. He has appeared on the History Channel's Civil War Journal
and Ken Burn's Civil War series. He also worked as Associate Producer
and historical consultant for the movie Gods and Generals.
Jonathan Noyalas
Prof. Noyalas is a history professor at Lord Fairfax Community College
in Middletown, Virginia where he also serves as Director of the
College's Institute of Culture and History and the Center for Civil War
History. He is the author of Plagued by War: Winchester, Virginia,
During the Civil War and "My Will is Absolute Law": A Biography of Union
General Robert H. Milroy. He was the editor and contributing author for
the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation's "If this Valley is Lost,
Virginia is Lost": Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. He has authored
numerous reviews, academic papers, essays, and articles that have
appeared in publications such as America's Civil War, Civil War Book
Review, and Blue & Gray.
Brian Steel Wills
A member of the University of Virginia's College at Wise faculty since
1992, Dr. Wills is the 2000 recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award
presented by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. He also
received the UVA-Wise Outstanding Teaching Award in 1998 and the
Outstanding Research Award in 1995. In 2003, he was named the Kenneth
Asbury Professor of History in recognition of his accomplishments as a
scholar, teacher, and leader. Dr. Wills is a nationally recognized Civil
War historian and author of several books.
Schedule:
April 17, 2010
Bridgewater College
McKinney Center for Science
and Mathematics Room 100
402 E. College St., Bridgewater, VA 22812
9:00am Welcome
9:30-10:30 Dennis Frye, "John Brown: The Spark that Ignited
the Powder Keg"
10:30-11:00 coffee break
11:00-12:00 Brian Steel Wills, "John Brown as portrayed in the
Cinema"
12:00-1:30pm break for lunch
1:30-2:30 Janet Kemper Beck, "Creating the John Brown
Legend: Frederick Douglass Before (and
After) the Raid on Harpers Ferry"
2:30-2:45 coffee break
2:45-3:45 Jonathan Noyalas, "'The effect was immediate':
The Impact of Brown's Raid on the Valley's Population"
3:45-4:00 Closing Remarks
Sessions are free of charge and open to the public
For further information,
contact Nick Picerno at 540-828-5761 or [log in to unmask]
Kara Dixon Vuic
Assistant Professor of History
Bridgewater College
402 E. College St.
Bridgewater, VA 22812
540-515-3791
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