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OLD STATE HOUSE MUSEUM

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REGISTER NOW FOR THE ANNUAL CIVIL WAR SEMINAR AT THE OLD STATE HOUSE MUSEUM
Sub: This year’s seminar sheds light on the contentious road to war

FOR IMMEDIATE CENTRAL ARKANSAS RELEASE – July 18, 2006

LITTLE ROCK, AR - Enthusiasts of Arkansas and Civil War history need to register soon for the Old State House Museum’s annual Civil War seminar. This year’s seminar will take place Saturday, August 19, 2006, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the Old State House Museum, 300 West Markham Street, in downtown Little Rock. Entitled “’The Die is Cast’: Arkansas Goes to War, 1861”, this year’s offerings focus on the road to war, and will feature the following sessions:
• “An eternal chitter chatter kept up in the galleries”: The Arkansas Secession Convention in Action, March-June, 1861 by Dr. Michael Dougan
• Domesticity Goes Public: Southern Women and the Secession Crisis by Dr. Lisa Tendrich Frank
• Arkansas’s Confederate Soldiers: Why They Fought by Dr. Carl Moneyhon
• A “Remarkably Strong Union Sentiment”: Unionism in Arkansas in 1861 by Dr. Tom DeBlack
• “When the Arks. boys goes by they take the rags off the bush”: Arkansas Soldiers in the Wilson’s Creek Campaign, 1861 by Dr. William G. Piston
The cost for this year’s seminar is $20, and includes lunch. Reservations are required by August 14, 2006. Call (501) 324-8641 to register.

About the Old State House Museum
The Old State House Museum is a museum of the Department of Arkansas Heritage and shares the goal of all seven Department of Arkansas Heritage agencies, that of preserving and enhancing the heritage of the state of Arkansas. The agencies are Arkansas Arts Council, Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission, Delta Cultural Center in Helena, Historic Arkansas Museum, Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, and the Old State House Museum.
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