Augusta, Ga. – The Center for the Study of Georgia History at Augusta State University will present a two-day symposium in honor of its founder and director Edward J. Cashin. The Edward J. Cashin Memorial Symposium, being held Friday and Saturday, Oct. 16-17, will be held at several venues throughout the city. It is sponsored in conjunction with the Georgia History Consortium.
On Friday, it begins at 10 a.m. at the Augusta Museum of History, with Dr. Julie Anne Sweet, Baylor University, presenting William Stephens: A Man of Duty. That presentation will be followed by a presentation by Dr. Michael Morris, Dalton State University, titled Mary Musgrove: A Dangerous Sovereignty. Other presentations taking place at the museum include Newspapers, Court, and Labor Violence: The Case of the Ogeechee Insurrection, 1868-1869 by Dr. Jonathan Bryant, Georgia Southern University, and The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts: A Social History of Three African American Neighborhoods in Savannah by Dr. Martha Keber, Georgia College & State University.
Dr. Betty Wood, Cambridge University, will deliver the keynote address titled Rumor, Race, and the Coming of the American Revolution in Georgia at 6 p.m. in 170 University Hall at Augusta State.
The conference continues on Saturday, beginning at 10 a.m. in 170 University Hall with a presentation by Dr. Bobby Donaldson, University of South Carolina, Evidence of Things Not Seen: Uncovering Augusta, Georgia’s Long Civil Rights History and followed by Johnny Mercer’s Georgia, presented by Dr. Glenn Eskew, Georgia State University. From 2-4 p.m., sessions will focus on Dr. Cashin, The Legacy of a Scholar. The three sessions include a presentation by Dr. John Inscoe, University of Georgia, Edward Cashin: An Appreciation, a presentation titled Happy Warriors: Berry Benson and His Biographer by Dr. William H. Bragg, Georgia College & State University (Retired), and One Who Tells an Important Story: Edward Cashin and his Story of Augusta by Dr. Kathryn Braund, Auburn University.
For more information about the Center, call ASU’s Center for the Study of Georgia History at 706-667-4101. This event is free and open to the public.
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October 15th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
What a wonderful event to showcase such as gifted and admired gentleman and historian. I am so thankful this is taking place, I only wish I could attend. Thanks to all the speakers for memorializing such a great teacher.
October 18th, 2009 at 7:34 am
When will our military get the just thanks they deserve? ASU is founded on military traditions and throughout my life I never been at one place where they don’t acknowledge military like they do here at ASU. We need our military members who served to come together and start a much needed Veterans group to bring about the problems that ASU won’t themselves fix. Being in the Marine Corps is the toughest job I have encountered and the people who died out there and still dying out there are being left forgotten. Remember September 11th well remember the ones who went out and fought the fight because everyone who hasn’t served you really can’t understand the experience til you go out there and do something for your country. We fight and defend our country so the rest of America can do things like go to school and get good jobs. Sorry but I do believe we need more rememberance of our military because we are safe.