Annual Cashin Memorial Wilson Symposium

Join us for a free, two-day symposium exploring the voices, correspondence, and leadership that shaped Georgia during the Revolutionary Era, featuring distinguished scholars and curators. The symposium will be held at the Morris Museum of Art’s first-floor auditorium, located at 1 10th Street, Augusta, GA 30901.

Sponsored by Augusta University Center for the Study of Georgia History, Historic Augusta, Inc., The Morris Museum of Art, the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History, and the Augusta Historical Society.

Friday, November 13 — 6 PM

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Alice Taylor-Colbert

Lecture Title — “Trade, Treaties, and Tumult: Native Peoples and Revolutionary Augusta”

Reception to follow.

Saturday, November 14 — 9 AM–1 PM

Speakers:

9:30 AM – Thomas Heard Robertson, Jr.

Lecture Title — “Loyalists in Backcountry Georgia”

10:30 AM – Melissa DeVelvis, PhD | Assistant Professor of History, Augusta University

Lecture Title — “The Revolutionary Legacy and ‘Spirit of ’76’ during Secession”

11:30 AM – Bobby Donaldson, PhD | Associate Professor of History, University of South Carolina

Lecture Title — “There is a River: Revolution, Religion and the Black Church”