We seek an additional panelist for a proposal for the 2007 Southern Historical Association meeting in Richmond, Virginia. The panel will explore competing memories of Reconstruction articulated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Current panelists focus primarily on southern white memories. The first panelist will analyze the depiction of Reconstruction by the Mississippi Historical Society, dominated by the state’s elite, who utilized memories of the period to counter political and social threats posed by their social inferiors. The second panelist will compare the competing visions of the Ku Klux Klan articulated by Albion Tourgee and Thomas Dixon, tracing the process of sectional reunion and the evolution of North and South’s shared racial outlook. We seek a third panelist whose work may provide another perspective on turn-of-the-century memories of Reconstruction. Please send a brief abstract and a c.v. to Bland Whitley or Vince Lowery by August 25, 2006.