BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:18256-f31d53c7060b107af926aa50075b1264@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260307T153534Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260303T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260303T130000 SUMMARY:“Battlegrounds of Print: Materiality and the Civil War Soldier Press” DESCRIPTION:\nDuring the Civil War\, printers in Union regiments often c ommandeered local printing offices to start their own soldier newspapers . Turning the newspaper page into a print battleground\, they symbolical ly occupied Confederate imaginative space just as they physically occupi ed the South. Soldier-printers grasped the cultural agency of print\, us ing their papers to assert military authority over occupied towns\, to c ritique Confederate leaders and generals\, and to taunt Southern editors in the pages and with the abandoned presses of their once fire-eating n ews rags. However\, the material constraints on printing—scarcity of pap er and ink\, ransacked printing offices\, already-set type\, untimely de partures —had unforeseen effects along these paper fronts in the war. Th e formal particularities of a Union paper published on the half-printed detritus of a Southern newspaper office could destabilize and disrupt th e very assertions of national reunion or martial authority for which the papers were printed. Such instability\, prompted by the affordances of wartime printing and manifest in the material relationships on the page\ , demonstrates what Berkey argues is the material agency of print and pe riodical form during wartime.\n\n \;\n\nFor more details: https://ev ents.la.psu.edu/event/battlegrounds-of-print/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

During the Civi l War, printers in Union regiments often commandeered local printing off ices to start their own soldier newspapers. Turning the newspaper page i nto a print battleground, they symbolically occupied Confederate imagina tive space just as they physically occupied the South. Soldier-printers grasped the cultural agency of print, using their papers to assert milit ary authority over occupied towns, to critique Confederate leaders and g enerals, and to taunt Southern editors in the pages and with the abandon ed presses of their once fire-eating news rags. However, the material co nstraints on printing—scarcity of paper and ink, ransacked printing offi ces, already-set type, untimely departures —had unforeseen effects along these paper fronts in the war. The formal particularities of a Union pa per published on the half-printed detritus of a Southern newspaper offic e could destabilize and disrupt the very assertions of national reunion or martial authority for which the papers were printed. Such instability , prompted by the affordances of wartime printing and manifest in the ma terial relationships on the page, demonstrates what Berkey argues is the material agency of print and periodical form during wartime.

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