2016: "A Just and Lasting Peace": Reconstruction and the Making of Postwar America

"A Just and Lasting Peace": Reconstruction and the Making of Postwar America

The 2016 Conference on the Civil War was hosted in partnership with the History Department’s annual Porter L. Fortune Symposium on History. This year’s conference considered Reconstruction and the aftermath of the Civil War in the United States, and Heather Cox Richardson (Boston College) delivered the keynote address.

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Schedule
2016
Friday, October 7th
8:30 AM

Leadership

A. J. Aiséirithe, Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Community
Todd Arrington, National Park Service. James A. Garfield National Historic Site
Anne Marshall, Mississippi State University

E. F. Yerby Conference Center

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

10:30 AM

Ex-Confederates

Jennifer Ford, University of Mississippi
Jennifer Lynn Gross, Jacksonville State University
Christina Regelski, Rice University

E. F. Yerby Conference Center

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

2:00 PM

Glimpses of a Cultural Reconstruction

Sarah E. Gardener, Mercer University
Krista Kinslow, Boston University
Kathryn McKee, University of Mississippi

E. F. Yerby Conference Center

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

4:00 PM

Republicans

James Fuller, University of Indianapolis
Colin McConarty, Boston College
Jeff Strickland, Montclair State University

E. F. Yerby Conference Center

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

6:00 PM

Keynote Address

Heather Cox Richardson, Boston College

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Saturday, October 8th
8:30 AM

Policy

Patrick Mulford O'Connor, University of Montana
Mitchell Snay, Denison University
Michael J. Steudeman, University of Memphis

E. F. Yerby Conference Center

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

10:30 AM

Race and Violence

Michael Fitzgerald, St. Olaf College
Andrew Slap, East Tennessee State University
Edward Valentin Jr., Rice University

E. F. Yerby Conference Center

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

2:00 PM

American Reconstruction in the World

Niels Eichhorn, Middle Georgia State University
James M. Shinn, Yale University
Ann L. Tucker, University of Mississippi

E. F. Yerby Conference Center

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

4:00 PM

The Free and the Freed

David Hopkins, Midland College
Shawn McAvoy, Patrick Henry Community College
Keith D. McCall, Rice University

E. F. Yerby Conference Center

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM