What’s included: Friday night (March 1) Art Gallery admission, wine & cheese reception in the gallery, and author panel in the theater. Full schedule of ten presentations in the theater, five on Saturday (March 2), and five on Sunday (March 3). What’s not included: meals, or hotel accommodations. Visit “Places to Stay in Monterey County”: https://www.seemonterey.com/hotels/
FRIDAY (March 1, 2024) 6:30-8:00 (2nd Floor Gallery) REGISTRATION; Wine and cheese reception in art gallery adjacent to the theater. 8:00-9:00 (Theatre): Introduction of presenters, panel discussion: Reflections on1864 & War’s End Book sales and signing SATURDAY (March 2, 2024) (All presentations will be held in the Stanton Center Theatre) 9:00-9:30 — JOAN WAUGH The Confederacy Totters to Its Destruction: Vicksburg as a Turning Point 10:00-10:30 — HAROLD HOLZER So Much Savage Feeling: Lincoln, Nativism, and Immigration 11:00-11:30 — GARY GALLAGHER Robert E. Lee and the Question of Loyalty 11:45-1:30 — LUNCH BREAK (on your own). Enjoy one of the many fine eateries in the vicinity of the Plaza, downtown, or nearby at the Old Fisherman’s Wharf 1:45-2:15 — GORDON RHEA Assessing the Stormy Relationship Between Grant and Meade 2:45-3:15 — CRAIG SYMONDS The Georgia Campaign, 1864: Sherman vs. Johnston
— Optional Saturday evening events and venues to be announced --
SUNDAY (March 3, 2024) 9:00-9:30 — GORDON RHEA Comparing the Generalship of Grant and Lee in the Overland Campaign 10:00-10:30 — HAROLD HOLZER Lincoln vs. the Press, 1840-1865 11:00-11:30 — CRAIG SYMONDS The Navy and the River War 11:45-1:30 — LUNCH BREAK (on your own). Enjoy one of the many fine eateries in the neighborhood of the Plaza, downtown, or nearby at the Old Fisherman’s Wharf 1:45-2:15 — JOAN WAUGH General Grant’s Appomattox Surrender Revisited 2:45-3:15 — GARY GALLAGHER The Grand Review 3:30 Closing Comments: end of conference