Friday, October 5

12:30-1:00       Registration, Campus Room, Capstone House

1:00-1:30         Welcome and announcements

1:30-2:45         Kendrick Clements, University of South Carolina, Woodrow Wilson: His wartime Administration and his attempts at post-war peace

Patrick Maney, Boston College, Civil Liberties and the Great War
                       
2:45-3:00         Break

3:00-4:15         William Still, Jr., East Carolina University, US Navy planning and strategy for WWI: Its successes and failures

Jennifer Speelman, The Citadel, Charleston as a Naval and Maritime center during WWI

4:30-5:30         A Frustration of High Hopes: Woodrow Wilson, the Great War, and American Rejection of the League of Nations - A living history performance by Edward Beardsley, retired professor of history from the University of South Carolina. Gambrell Hall Room 153

5:30-7:30         Reception at South Caroliniana Library 

 
Saturday, October 6

10:00-10:30     Welcome, Campus Room, Capstone House

10:30-11:45     Nancy Bristow, University of Puget Sound, The Whole World Seems Upside Down:  Americans Cope with the Great Influenza Epidemic.

Robert Cowley, Old Hickory – The Thirtieth Infantry Division

12:00-1:30    Lunch – Top of Carolina, Capstone House

1:30-2:45      Jim Megginson, Independent Scholar, Jackson MS, African American Servicemen from South Carolina and their contributions to Military success on the Western Front

Bobby Donaldson, University of South Carolina, African American Society
during the Great War: Contributions and Frustrations

2:45-3:00      Break

3:00-4:15      Valinda Littlefield, University of South Carolina, Women’s Organizations and their contributions to the American society in WWI

Marjorie J. Spruill, University of South Carolina, Victory at Home and Abroad: The final push for Woman Suffrage in the Midst of World War I          
   
4:15                Closing remarks