14th Annual Confederate Heritage Conference
May 2004
This years conference was started with the Thursday
evening Patron's Banquet, where author/speaker Madison Jones gave
an interesting lecture entitled "Reminescences of Andrew N. Lytle
and Donald Davidson" where he spoke in personal detail of these two
great authors with whom he has had personal relationships with. As
the conference official started the next evening , he gave his second
lecture for the weekend, entitled "Nashville: 1864 & the Degredation
of Language" which included reading excerpts from his book "Nashville:
1864."
A.J.
Conyers gave two insightful lectures over the weekends, the first
entitled "The Character of Religion in the South," where he discussed
some of the roots of Southern religion, compared to historical religion
across the nation. Lecture two was entitled "Slavery as the Eldest
Child of Modernity," looking at issues surrounding the slavery issue
in and out of the Southern states.
The fun and excitement really started when John Eidsmoe
took the podium. With his usual wit and story-telling, he was surely
a highlight for this weekend, giving his first lecture entitled "John
C. Calhoun & the Constitution," he gave us some insights
on an important figure that is often overlooked by most. His second
lecture was entitled
"Thomas Goode Jones: Warrior, Statesman & Jurist," giving
insight into yet another overlooked figure in Southern history; based
upon his latest book at the time, entitled "Thomas
Goode Jones: Warrior, Statesman & Jurist for the South."
And ending the lecture series of this conference was
again the host and always delighting Rev. Steve Wilkins. This time
around his lecture was entitled "Edmund Burke: The Cassandra of Modernity."
Edmund Burke wrote some excellent books looking at the French Revolution
and it's influence, so is am important figure that everyone should
be aware of in our readings.
As always, if you missed this stellar conference,
you can relive much of it by listening to the audio lectures, as always,
provided by Apologia
Book Shoppe.
A.J.
Conyers gave two insightful lectures over the weekends, the first
entitled "The Character of Religion in the South," where he discussed
some of the roots of Southern religion, compared to historical religion
across the nation. Lecture two was entitled "Slavery as the Eldest
Child of Modernity," looking at issues surrounding the slavery issue
in and out of the Southern states. 
And ending the lecture series of this conference was
again the host and always delighting Rev. Steve Wilkins. This time
around his lecture was entitled "Edmund Burke: The Cassandra of Modernity."
Edmund Burke wrote some excellent books looking at the French Revolution
and it's influence, so is am important figure that everyone should
be aware of in our readings.