“City of Brotherly Love at War:  Philadelphia’s Contribution to Freedom”

Temple University, Feb. 10-11, 2006

Friday, (2/10/06): Diamond Club, Mitten Hall -Temple Main Campus

Registration form

Information about the participants

5:00 pm Registration and cocktails

6:00 Dinner

7:00 Welcome—Greetings from conference sponsors and from Dean Phil Alperson of the College of Liberal Arts; Introduction of  Richard Newman by Prof. Bettye Collier-Thomas, Temple

7:15 Keynote Address by Richard Newman : “The First Underground Railroad: Runaway Slaves and Abolitionists on the Pennsylvania Borderland"

Saturday, (2/11/06): Walk Auditorium, Ritter Hall -Temple Main Campus

8:00AM: Registration and coffee; browse the book displays

9:00:  Welcome & Greetings

9:15:  Murray Dubin & Dan Biddle, "April 14, 1865:  Octavius V. Catto and the End of the Civil War”

10:00: Break; browse the book displays

10:15: Judith Ann Giesberg, “Civil War-Civil Rights:  Philadelphia Women’s Street Car Battle, 1861-67”

11:00: Break; browse the book displays

11:15: Panel on Underground Railroad

Chris Densmore, “The Kidnapping of Thomas Mitchell, 1849:  Exploring Underground Railroad Networks from Baltimore, Md., to Chester County, Pa.”

Fergus Bordewich, “Underground Nation:  Philadelphia in the National Context” 

            Moderator:  Prof. Wilbert Jenkins, Temple

12:30PM: Lunch (provided); browse the book displays

1:15:  Millicent Sparks portrays Harriet Tubman

1:45: Break; browse the book displays

2:00: James McGowan, “Compiling a Database on William Still’s Underground Railroad”

2:45: Break; browse the book displays

3:00-4:30: Panel on “African Americans and the Battlefront:  From Philadelphia to Gettysburg,” with Jim Paradis, Craig Caba and David Orr; Moderator: Prof. Gregory Urwin, Temple U. 

4:30: Final Questions