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Eighth Biannual Conference
June 20-22, 2024 Sheraton Raleigh Hotel 421 S. Salisbury Street You can register for the Conference Here!
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Officers of the Society: President: Lesley J. Gordon, University of Alabama President-Elect: Jason Phillips, West Virginia University Past-President: Joan Waugh, University of California, Los Angeles Acting Executive Director: James Marten, Marquette University
The following sponsors have helped us provide graduate student registration free of charge:
Lorien Foote, Patricia & Bookman Peters Professor in History, Texas A & M University Lesley Gordon, PhD., Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History, University of Alabama Nau Center for Civil War History, University of Virginia Jason Phillips, Eberly Professor of Civil War Studies, West Virginia University Nina Silber, Jon Westling Professor of History, Boston University Susannah Ural, Frank & Virginia Williams Chair for Abraham Lincoln & Civil War Studies, Mississippi State University
The opening reception is co-sponsored by the Journal of the Civil War Era, the Richards Center at Pennsylvania State University, and the University of North Carolina Press.
Executive Council Scott Hancock, Gettysburg College Chandra Manning, Georgetown University David Silkenat, University of Edinburgh/University of Florida Amy Murrell Taylor, University of Kentucky Sarah Gardner, Mercer University Hilary Green, Davidson College Susanna Lee, North Carolina State University Non-Voting Members Secretary-Treasurer: Andrew Lang, Mississippi State University Communications Director: David K. Thomson, Sacred Heart University Early Career Committee: Shae Smith Cox, Nicholls State University Graduate Student Council: Kathryn Angelica, University of Connecticut Co-Editors of the Journal of the Civil War Era Greg Downs, University of California-Davis Kate Masur, Northwestern University
Program Committee: Timothy Williams, University of Oregon (Chair) Robert Bland, University of Tennessee Kurt Hackemer, University of South Dakota Scott Hancock, Gettysburg College Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders, University of Colorado Rebecca Toy, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park
Conference Committee: Susanna Lee, North Carolina State University (Chair) Hilary Green, Davidson College David Silkenat, University of Edinburgh/University of Florida Angela Zombek, University of North Carolina Wilmington Brittany Hutchinson, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Ernest Dollar, Executive Director, City of Raleigh Museum CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Thursday, June 20—4:00-6:00 Registration (free drink tickets will be distributed at registration) Esplanade (outside Oak Forest Ballroom, Third Floor
5:00-7:00 Opening Reception (RSVP) Oak Forest Ballroom Welcome Remarks: President Lesley J. Gordon
Friday, June 21--8:30-10:00
Hanover 2 Roundtable: The Future of the Past: Graduate Students' Perspectives on the Study of the Civil War Era in 2024 Moderator: Matthew E. Stanley, University of Arkansas Panelists: Kathryn Angelica, University of Connecticut Brian Martin, University of Alabama Cameron Sauers, Pennsylvania State University Madelaine Setiawan, Texas A&M University Sarah West, Mississippi State University
Governors 1 New Directions in Secession Studies Chair: James Marten, Marquette University
“That They Were Men and Freemen”: Criminal Extradition and Slavery on the Eve of Secession Daniele Celano, University of Virginia
“Talking Politicks”: Elite White Womanhood and the Navigation of Secession Politics in South Carolina Melissa DeVelvis, Augusta University
“Common Safety Shape their Course Southward”: Slavery and Secession in the Southern Press Kevin McPartland, University of Missouri-Columbia.
A World Full of Mutations: Loyalty, Citizenship, and Movement in the Antebellum Borderland Charles R. Welsko, Kentucky Historical Society
Governors 2 Memory, Identity, and Nation: Pursuing African American Equality in the Civil War Era Chair: Susanna Lee, North Carolina State University Comment: Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders, University of Colorado
Narrating Emancipation: William Andrew Jackson, Identity, and the Wartime Fight for Black Equality Robert Colby, University of Mississippi
The “Black Douglass” and the “White Douglas”: Frederick, Stephen, and the Embodiment of Unionism after the Civil War Joshua Lynn, Eastern Kentucky University
“The family has always taken part in the wars of the nation”: African American Military Lineages from the Revolution to the Civil War Caroline Wood Newhall, Oberlin College
Friday, June 21--10:15-11:45
Hanover 2 Experiencing History: Finding Foods, Words, and Relics during the Civil War Era Chair: Jason Phillips, West Virginia University Comment: Lorien Foote, Texas A&M University
“Enough & not enough to eat”: Rations and Resistance in Union Contraband Camps Anne Sarah Rubin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The Written War: How the Writing Process Shaped the Experience of Irish American Soldiers in the Union Army Daniel P. Kotzin, William Jewell College
‘Some…were heavily laden with relics of stone, brass, and iron”: “Yankee relic-hunters” at Fort Sumter and the Meanings of Artifacts Mike Emett, University of South Carolina
Governors 1 Youth, Race, Manhood, and the Enduring Civil War Chair: Frances M. Clarke, University of Sydney Comment: Rebecca Jo Plant, University of California, San Diego
“He Always Carried His Boyhood with Him”: Memory Influences of Former Youth Soldiers Andrew Turner, UNC-Greensboro
“To Prove Themselves Not Unworthy Descendants”: Cherokee Youth and Volunteerism in the Civil War Southeast Stuart Marshall, University of the South
Diplomats at Sea: Junior Officers of the U.S. Navy, Manliness, and International Law, 1861-1865 Benjamin Roy, University of Georgia
Governors 2 A New Reality? Conflicting Visions of the Post-Civil War World Chair and Comment: Just Behrend, Professor, SUNY Geneseo
“Justice for Myself and Children”: Forging Legacies of Independence through Child Support Cases and Property Disputes between Freedwomen and Former Enslavers Ashley Towle, University of Southern Maine
The Verdict of the War: Ex-Rebels, Black Petitioners, and Reconstruction’s Contested Promise Heath Anderson, Mississippi State University
“Suffrage is the legal sequence of emancipation”: The Push for Equality in Norfolk, Virginia, in the Civil War’s Aftermath Brianna Frakes, University of Virginia
“They was free”: Spreading Emancipation, Guerrilla Warfare, and the Continuous Struggle of Black Union Army Regiments to Secure Freedom Wyatt Erchak, Carnegie Mellon University
Willow Oak Roundtable: Beyond Forty Acres: Manifestations & Memory of Land Reform in the Civil War Era Moderator: Alexandra E. Stern, City College of New York, CUNY
Panelists: Noah Ramage, University of California-Berkeley Vivien Tejada, Duke University Katie Wu, University of Virginia
Friday, June 21—12:00-1:15
The First Six Years and Beyond: What to Expect in Your First Academic Job Early Career/Graduate Student Luncheon, Noon, Friday, June 20 Oak Forest Ballroom
Box lunch provided; RSVP required.
Megan Bever, Missouri Southern State University Mandy Cooper, UNC-Greensboro Scott Hancock, Gettysburg College Caroline E. Janney, University of Virginia James Marten, Marquette University (Moderator)
Friday, June 21—1:30-3:00
Hanover 2 Roundtable: Teaching Banned History: The Last Seen Project and Collaborations with Educators
Panelists: Judith Giesberg, Villanova University (Moderator) Signe Peterson Fourmy, University of Texas at Austin Abigail Henry, Mastery Charter Shoemaker Campus, Philadelphia
Governors 1 Roundtable: Beyond Academia Moderator: Shae Smith Cox, Nichols State University
Panelists: National Parks: Richard Condon, National Parks Service Digital Humanities: Jen Andrella, Knox College Public History: Anne Mitchell Whisnant, Duke University Libraries: Lindsey R. Peterson, University of South Dakota Museums: Kathleen Thompson, West Virginia University Publishing: Clayton Butler, University of Virginia Press
Governors 2 The Fourth Estate in a Divided Republic: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Civil War and Reconstruction-Era Press Chair: Frank Towers, University of Calgary Comment: David W. Bulla, Augusta University
Black Newspapers During the Civil War: Sources of Information and Activism Valerie Kasper, Saint Leo University
Marketing Reaction: Newspaper Subscriber Clubs and Mobilization against Reconstruction Michael E. Woods, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
“Photographs Exchanged if Desired”: Black Soldiers’ and Women’s Search for Relationships through Newspaper Personal Ads Angela Zombek: University of North Carolina-Wilmington
Capital Roundtable: Reconstruction Historians in the Courtroom: A Roundtable about History, Gun Laws, and the Constitution in the Wake of the Bruen Decision Moderator: Carole Emberton, University of Buffalo
Panelists: Darrell A. H. Miller, Duke University School of Law Brennan Gardner Rivas, Independent Scholar Michael Vorenberg, Brown University
Friday June 21--3:15-4:45
Hanover 2 "Care for him who shall have borne the battle": The Limitations of Pension Care in Post-Civil War America Chair: Bradley D. Proctor, Evergreen State College Comment: Gregory Mixon, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
“Vicious Habits”: Opiate Addiction and Civil War Pensions Jonathan S. Jones, James Madison University
Tending to “the fires of patriotism”: Caring for the Legacy of the Grand Army of the Republic Shae Smith Cox, Nicholls State University
Mother-Guardian: Localized and Maternal Care Solutions for Civil War Veterans Megan VanGorder, Governors State University
Governors 1 Race & Freedom in Wartime Chair and Comment: Amy Murrell Taylor, University of Kentucky
Freedom’s Isle: Attempts at African American Colonization in Haiti during the American Civil War Bradley White, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Navigating Emancipation: Escape, Networks, and Naval Service in North Carolina and Greater Atlantic David Kay, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
“He Sacrificed His Life for Christ, His Country, and His Race”: Obituaries of Black Civil War Soldiers Published in The Christian Recorder James Scythes and Steven G. Gimber, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Governors 2 Roundtable: Applied Civil War History: Addressing the "So What" Question Moderator: Christian Keller, United States Army War College
Panelists: Christopher Stowe, Marine Corps University Command and Staff College Angela Riotto, Defense Security Cooperation University Zachery Fry, U.S. Army Command & General Staff College
Willow Oak Religion in the Civil War Era Chair and Comment:Sarah Purcell, Grinnell College
“They Still Stood Side by Side in Brotherly Love”: Black and White Abolitionists and the Ecumenical Turn in American Antislavery” James Howard, Baylor University
North Carolina Presbyterians and the Secession Crisis Matthew Tuininga, Calvin Seminary
“I, for one, shall make no acknowledgment of wrong”: Race and Reconstruction in the Reunion of the Episcopal Church, 1865-1866 Josh Waddell, University of Georgia
Capital Borders, Boundaries, and Frontiers in Civil War America Chair: Fay Yarborough, Rice University Comment: Jen Andrella, Knox College
Leveraging Citizenship to Navigate Empire: The Ottawa Indians and the Treaty of 1862 David Dry, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Civilians, the Army, and the Creation of Occupation on the Civil War Border April Holm, University of Mississippi
The Limits of Charles Sumner's Progressive Thought: Indigenous People and Expansion Freddie Ping, University of Kent
Friday, June 20--5:00-6:30
SCWH Presidential Keynote Address “To Leave is Death, To Remain is to Suffer: African Americans in the War against Reconstruction” Kadida E. Williams, Wayne State University
Copies of Dr. Williams’ book, I Saw Death Coming, will be available for purchase at the registration table on Friday, June 21.
Reception to follow at City of Raleigh Museum 220 Fayetteville St. Walk north on S. Salisbury St. to W. Martin St., turn right. Then turn left on Fayetteville St. (Approximately 5-minute walk)
Saturday, June 22—8:30-10:00
Hanover 2 Innovation in Warfighting Chair and Comment: Lesley Gordon, University of Alabama
Contextualizing General Order No. 11 in Civil War Missouri: Population Transfer as a Counterinsurgency Tactic Jeremy Knoll, Ohio State University
From Information to Intelligence: The Bureau of Military Information and the First Intelligence Process in American Military History Benjamin Lyman, United States Military Academy/Ohio State University
Purchasing Victory: Certificates of Indebtedness and the Revolution in U.S. Military Procurement, 1862-1865 John Wendt, Independent Scholar
Governors 1 Reconstructing the Federal State: Reform Politics, Political Opinion, and the Freedmen's Bureau Chair and Comment: Kate Masur, Northwestern University
The Legislative History of the Two “Second” Freedmen’s Bureau Bills and its Consequences Corey M. Brooks, York College of Pennsylvania
“To Keep Good Faith with New-Made Citizens”: The Republican Party and the Soldiers of the Freedmen’s Bureau Cecily N. Zander, Texas Women’s University
Religion, the Freedmen’s Bureau, and the Limits of Moral Reform in Reconstruction Luke Harlow, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
The Freedmen’s Bureau on Trial: The 1870 House Investigation of Bureau Commissioner Oliver O. Howard and the Retreat from Reconstruction Peter Porsche, Baylor University
Governors 2 Experiences of Freedom Chair and Comment: Diane Miller Sommerville, Binghamton University, SUNY
“Virginia Should Not Call in Vain": Borderland Perceptions and Experiences of Slavery and Freedom during the Maryland Campaign Rachael Nicholas, West Virginia University
The Primer Brigade at Appomattox: The Freedmen Bureau School at Appomattox Court House, Virginia David Wooldridge, Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
Willow Oak Memory, Region, and Identity Chair and Comment: Anne Marshall, Mississippi State University
Seeking Our Identity: Civil War Legacies in American Western Monuments Quincy Balius, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park/Independent Scholar
“We Are Living in Revolutionary Times”: Historical Memory as Political Mobilization and Threats In Reconstruction Wilmington Matthew Poirier, Auburn University
A Moment of Mercy: Redemption, Reconciliation, and Crafting a Heritage John Rochford, Ohio State University
Saturday, June 22—10:15-11:45
Hanover 2 Roundtable: The Unexceptional Civil War: Placing the Military History of the Civil War Era in a Broad Historical Context J. P. Clark, United States Army War College Susannah Ural, Mississippi State University (Moderator) Megan L. Bever, Missouri Southern State University Le’ Trice Donaldson, Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi Shane Makowicki, Texas A & M University
Governors 1 The Civil War & History Chair and Comment: Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Louisiana State University
Shakespeare at War Sarah E. Gardner, Mercer University
“We Died Here, Obedient to Her Laws:” The Reception of Sparta in the Lost Cause and Confederate Memorialization Jase Sutton, Texas State Technical College
Being Historical in Civil War Prisons Timothy J. Williams, University of Oregon
Governors 2 Glory after Appomattox: Black Soldiers' Fight for Liberation during Reconstruction Chair and Comment: Elizabeth R. Varon, University of Virginia
“We Will Never Stop!”: Black Military Resistance during the Long Reconstruction of New Orleans A. J. Cade, USMC/US Government (retired)
Black Power, Patriotism, and Masculinity in Frances Rollin’s Reconstruction Biography of Martin Delany Jonathan Lande, Purdue University
Beyond the Limits of the Fort: Black Soldiers, Mobility, and Reconstruction in the West Edward Valentin Jr., National Museum of the United States Navy
Willow Oak Roundtable: Getting the Little Wars into the Books: A Roundtable on Civil War Era Community Studies Moderators: Matthew M. Stith, University of Texas at Tyler, and G. David Schieffler, Crowder College
Panelists: Madeleine Forrest Ramsey, Virginia Military Institute Barton Myers, Washington and Lee University Christopher Phillips, University of Cincinnati
Capital The Long Civil War Era Chair and Comment: Stephen Berry, University of Georgia
Digging up Bones: Confederate Grave Desecration and Civil War Reconciliation during the Spanish American War Kari Boyd-Weisenberger, University of Alabama
Bad Men, Good Lawyers: Ex-Confederates and Memory in New York City Ian Pettus, Auburn University
Saturday, June 22—12:00-1:15 Graduate Student/Early Career Luncheon Oak Forest Ballroom
Box lunch will be provided; RSVP Required
Saturday, June 22—1:30-3:00
Hanover 2 Black Internationalism in the Age of Emancipation Chair: Brandon Byrd, Vanderbilt University
“I don’t know what will be my lot”: Transnational Migration and Unfree Labor in Early America Bianca Dang, University of Washington
In the Shadow of Haiti: US Black Internationalism in the Dominican Republic, 1860-1904 Christian Davidson, University of Southern California
"Shall I Go?": Colonization and Reconstruction in the Black Pacific Guy Emerson Mount, Wake Forest University
Worldmaking after Slavery: A Proposition Samantha Payne, College of Charleston
Governors 1 New Ways of Engaging with Civil War Era History Chair and Comment: David Silkenat, University of Edinburgh/University of Florida
Devastation or Desolation?: Mapping Wartime Agricultural Changes Jeremy Nelson, University of Virginia
Two-Bit History at 8-Bit Speed: Civil War Memory in North & South During the Resurgence of Console Gaming James “Trae” Welborn III, Georgia College and State University
How to Read a Cookbook: Reconstructing the Life of Malinda Russell Dani Willcut, Michigan State University
Governors 2 Roundtable: Recreating the Republic: Constitutional Reform and the Fourteenth Amendment Charlton Copeland, University of Miami Mark Graber, University of Maryland Cynthia Nicoletti, University of Virginia Franita Tolson, University of Southern California Rebecca Zietlow, University of Toledo (Moderator)
Willow Oak New Directions in Civil War Memory Chair and Comment: Caroline E. Janney, University of Virginia
Race, Space, and Remembrances at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute Timothy Case, College of William and Mary
The Legacy of a Disgruntled Rebel and Galvanized Yankee During the Jubilee: Revealing and Concealing, Disloyalty and Desertion Gary Edwards, Arkansas State University
Memory of the “Loyal Women” of the Civil War: Gender and Humanitarian Nationalism in the Progressive Era Mark Elliott, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Capital Roundtable: Joining Forces: Developing Principles and Practices for Productive Collaboration Between the Society of Civil War Historians and the National Park Service Gregory Downs, University of California-Davis Hilary N. Green, Davidson College Chris Gwinn, Gettysburg National Military Park Scott Hancock, Gettysburg College Chandra Manning, Georgetown University (Moderator) Rebecca Capobiano Toy, National Park Service Kevin Patti, Clara Barton National Historic Site Cooper Wingert, Georgetown University Paul J. Zwirecki, Organization of American Historians
Saturday, June 22—4:00 Closing Reception Oak Forest Ballroom
SCWH 2024 Conference Schedule At-a-Glance
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