GENERAL HISTORICAL PROGRAMS 2006-2008
SEPTEMBER 2007-AUGUST 2009
September 2007-CSA National Flags and Protocol - UDC Handbook ; Our
Confederate Flag: Traditions and Code for the Correct Use of the
Confederate Flag, UDC
October 2007- Confederate Ghosts-Civil War Ghost Stories, Angus Konstam;
Civil War Ghosts and Legends, Nancy Roberts (Program idea: gather round,
dim the lights and tell Confederate Ghost stories)
November 2007- Thanksgiving, Lincoln and Sarah Hale- Our Sister Editors:
Sarah J. Hale and the Tradition of Nineteenth-century American Women
Editors, Patricia Okker; Miss Millie’s Scrapbook, Mildred Lewis
Rutherford
December 2007- Christmas Songs as Yankee Propaganda - Stories Behind the
Best-loved Songs of Christmas, Ace Collins
January 2008- Black Comrades Who Attended the UCV Reunions-Confederate
Veteran Magazine; Newspapers
February 2008- Rebecca Felton- Heroines of Georgia 1861-1865 Vol. I,
Compiled and Edited by Tommie Phillips LaCavera; Rebecca Latimer Felton:
Nine Stormy Decades, John E. Talmadge
March 2008- Flag Conservation- Hallowed Banners: Historic Flags in the
Georgia Capitol Collection, Georgia Capitol Museum, 2005; video “Flag
Conservation Georgia State Capitol Museum”
April 2008-Confederate Monuments- Dealers, Designs and Fund Raising- The
Standing Army, Frank M. McKenny; UDC Magazine; Confederate Veteran
Magazine (Program idea: give the history of your local Confederate
monument.)
May 2008- Clothing the Troops- Uniforms of the Civil War, Ron Field &
Robin Smith; Confederate Reminiscences and Letters 1861-1865, Georgia
Division UDC
June-2008- Jefferson Davis’ 200th Birthday-Looking Back at Past
Celebrations-Confederate Veteran Magazine, UDC Magazine, newspapers
(Program idea: give the history of local celebrations.)
July 2008 – Grand Treasures of the Memorial Building - UDC Magazine, UDC
General Minutes
(July and August Programs may be combined)
August 2008- Tiny Treasures of the Memorial Building- UDC Magazine, UDC
General Minutes
September 2008- Diseases, the Impartial Killer- Two Confederate
Hospitals and Their Patients, Jack D. Welsh, M.D.; Chimborazo, The
Confederacy’s Largest Hospital, Carol C. Green; Doctors in Gray, The
Confederate Medical Service, H.H. Cunningham
October 2008-We Can’t All Be Scarlet- Average People of the South-
Confederate Reminiscences and Letters 1861-1865, Georgia Division UDC,
U.S. Census Records, Slave Schedules
November 2008- “Vittles”- Rebel Cornbread and Yankee Coffee, Garry
Fisher; Civil War Cooking: the Confederacy, Dozier Susan (Program idea:
serve up some authentic refreshments)
December 2008- Traveling During the War- Military and Civilian-The
Railroads of the Confederacy, Robert C. Black, III; Newspapers; Letters;
Diaries
January 2009- Out of Salt- Confederate Reminiscences and Letters
1861-1865, Georgia Division UDC
February 2009- Phoebe Pember Heroines of Georgia 1861-1865 Vol. I,
Compiled and Edited by Tommie Phillips LaCavera; Civil War Sites in
Georgia, Jim Miles; A Southern Woman’s Story, Phoebe Yates Pember
March 2009-Innovations in Warfare-Civil War Weapons and Equipment, Russ
A. Pritchard, Jr.; The Civil War Military Machine, Ian Drury and Tony
Gibbons
April 2009- Burying the Dead- Heroines of Georgia 1861-1865 Vol. I.,
Compiled and Edited by Tommie Phillips LaCavera
May 2009- Freemasons and the War- House Undivided, the Story of
Freemasonry and the Civil War, Roberts, Allen E.; Confederate
Reminiscences and Letters 1861-1865, Georgia Division UDC
June 2009- CSS Alabama-The Naval History of the Civil War, Admiral David
D. Porter, U.S. Navy; France and the Confederate Navy 1862-1866, John
Bigelow; The French Connection, Margaret Foster, Preservation Magazine
January/February 2004
July-2009- July 4th,Thoughts on Independence Day in the South During the
War- Confederate Reminiscences and Letters 1861-1865, Georgia Division
UDC
August 2009-- General Henry L. Benning , Civil War Sites in Georgia, Jim
Miles; General Henry Lewis Benning: This was a Man, J. David Dameron
September 2009- Mail Call-Confederate Currency and Stamps, Claud E.
Fuller; Confederate Reminiscences and Letters 1861-1865, Georgia
Division UDC
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General Historical Programs Essay Awards
2007
The Historian shall supervise the historical work of the Division and Chapters and endeavor to create interest in the study of the history of the South and the War Between the States. She shall assist Chapters in planning historical programs and shall serve as Chairman of the Historical Essay Contest.
She shall cooperate with the Preservation of Confederate Records Committee in the collecting of Confederate Records of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and unpublished records of the Confederacy, especially those relating to Florida and encourage Chapter Historians to do the same.
She shall have a file of past Division Officers, Conventions, Programs and Minutes. She shall have charge of all historical papers belonging to the Division.
She shall be responsible for preparation of the Division Scrapbook each year of her term and may appoint a committee to assist her with this duty.
She shall process applications for the Jefferson Davis Historical Medal. She shall forward approved applications, accompanied by checks (SEE STANDING RULES) made payable to “Treasurer General UDC” to the Historian General.
At Annual Division Convention, she shall be in charge of Historical Evening and Banquet and in cooperation with the Division President and Convention Chairman, plan the program and preside at the Banquet.
She shall submit a report to the Annual Division Convention.