DAY ONE
November 12, 2002

4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Opening program (Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building)

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Opening Remarks
James H. Billington, The Librarian of Congress

Symposium Keynote Address
"A Contested Historical Landscape: Understanding and Interpreting the Civil War"
by Gary W. Gallagher, the John L. Nau III, professor of the History of the American Civil War, University of Virginia, and is a coeditor of The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference. He is also editor of the "Civil War America" series at the University of North Carolina Press; author of The Confederate War (1997), Lee and His Army in Confederate History (2001); shared the 1998 Lincoln Prize, and received the 1999 Fletcher Pratt Award for the best nonfiction book on the Civil War.