2007 Meeting Highlights
Wednesday,
October 31, 8:00 P.M.
Open
Night Session and Reception
The opening night session will feature a lecture by Roger Wilkins,
who holds the Charles J. Robinson Professorship at George Mason University. A former journalist for
the Washington Post, Wilkins won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Watergate scandal.
He is the author of the highly acclaimed Jefferson’s Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma
of Black Patriotism (2001).
The Local Arrangements Committee invites you to a
reception immediately following the lecture in Salons 1, 2, & 3. The reception is sponsored and
funded by the University of Richmond in honor of its new president, SHA member Edward L. Ayers,
who will welcome the Southern Historical Association to Richmond.
Thursday,
November 1, 5:00-8:30 P.M.
Historical Perspectives on Health Disparities
and African Americans in Virginia
Kontos Medical Science Bldg. Auditorium,
MCV Campus of VCU
Virginia Commonwealth University and the Black History Museum and Cultural Center
of Virginia invite all SHA members to a special session on their Medical College of Virginia campus, a few blocks
east of the hotel. (See map in program – or get directions from the Local Arrangements table.) A reception from
5:00 – 6:00 P.M will precede the program, which begins at 6:00 P.M. Those attending the reception are asked to
RSVP to vphsrsvp@vcu.edu. See session CS3 for details about the program.
Thursday,
November 1, 8:30 P.M.
Presidential
Address and Reception
President Nell Irvin Painter’s address "Was Marie White? Divergent Views of America by
Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont" and
the presentation of all awards and tributes will take place in Capital Ballrooms 4 & 5.
Following her address, Princeton University, W.W. Norton & Co., Harvard University Press, and the University
of North Carolina Press will host a reception in honor of President Painter in the foyer immediately outside
the Capital Ballroom.
Saturday,
November 3, 11:45 A.M.-6:00 P.M.
Tour of Jamestown
Cost - $40
Reservations required by Oct. 15 (use SHA registration form)
In commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Jamestown’s settlement, the SHA
and its Local Arrangements Committee will feature a Saturday afternoon trip to and special tour of the site
where Bill Kelso’s team of archaeologists have spent the past decade uncovering artifacts that are enriching
our understanding of this first permanent English settlement in America. The tour will include the film and
exhibit at the new National Park Service Visitors Center, living history interpreters and guided tours,
commentary by archaeologists on site at the excavated Jamestown fort, and a visit to the stunning new
Archaearium, showcasing many of the recent archaeological finds.
The trip is about an hour’s drive from Richmond. Buses will leave from the 8th Street side of the
Library of Virginia (three blocks east of the Marriott). The $40 fee includes bus trip, site admission, and box
lunches and beverages.
Bus Tours of Richmond
The Local Arrangements Committee, in cooperation with the Valentine
Richmond History Center is offering two special-topic tours of Richmond immediately before and after
the official meeting schedule. These tours offer a convenient and efficient way to see sites connected
with important aspects of the city’s history.
Wednesday, October 31, 3:00 to 5:30 P.M.
African-American Heritage Tour
This tour will examine the role of free blacks and urban slaves, discuss the contributions of African Americans during the Civil War, revisit the African American experience during Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era, and recall the impact of the lives of prominent Richmonders, including Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Maggie L. Walker, Arthur Ashe and Douglas Wilder. The tour includes a trip through historic Jackson Ward, frequently referred to as the "Birthplace of Black Capitalism," and a visit to the Maggie L. Walker Historic Site. The tour will leave from the Marriott Hotel. Cost is $22 per person.
Saturday, November 3, 12:30 to 4:30 P.M.
Civil War Tour
This tour will visit some of important Civil War sites within
Richmond, including a stop at the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar and one of the
battlefield sites on the outskirts of Richmond operated by the National Park Service. Cost is $30
per person.
Reservations are required for both tours and need to be made by
October 15. Reservations can be made by calling (804) 692-3599 or e-mailing
Elizabeth Weakley and then sending a check payable to the Library of Virginia Foundation to:
SHA Conference Tours
c/o Elizabeth Weakley
Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Richmond
Sites of Interest
Also in the Area. . .
(websites include driving directions)
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