Previous Speakers
Spring 2024
Dr. Angela Esco Elder (Converse College)
"Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss"
Fall 2022
Dr. Stephen W. Berry (University of Georgia)
"Count the Dead: Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death As We Know It"
Spring 2019
Dr. Erin Stewart Mauldin (University of South Florida, St. Petersburg)
"Gone With the Land: The Environmental Consequences of the Civil War and Emancipation"
Spring 2018
Dr. Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz (Eastern Illinois University)
"John Brown's Children: The Long Reach of the Civil War"
Spring 2017
Dr. Michael Thomas Smith (McNeese State University)
"General Benjamin Butler, Politics, Warfare, and Masculinity in the Civil War North"
Spring 2016
Dr. Jaime Martinez (UNC Pembroke)
"Slave Impressment and Political Dissent in Governor Zeb Vance's North Carolina"