Dianne Bragg, Hub Burton, and Jennifer Moore join David Bulla for a discussion about the history of the Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression, which was started in the early 1990s by Dr. David Sachsman at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Sachsman was the West Chair of Excellence in the Department of Communication at UTC, and he ran the conference for three decades. A generation of mass communication historians cut their teeth at the conference, and the panelists discuss its impact on their careers. Bragg is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Alabama; Burton is a retired administrator from the University of Maine, and Moore is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Minnesota at Duluth. The Research Report is produced by Jasmine Garcia and Ethan Ballducci. It is recorded in the TVC Lab at Augusta University. It is a production of the AU Department of Communication, for which Bulla serves as chair.

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