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2020 Program June 4–6, 2020 2020 PROGRAM SOCIETY OF CIVIL WAR HISTORIANS BIENNIAL MEETING JUNE 4–6, 2020 THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 2020 1:00 P.M.: REGISTRATION OPENS 1:00-2:30 P.M.: TOUR #1: TROLLEY TOUR OF RALEIGH-AREA CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION SITES 2:45-4:30 P.M.: TOUR #2: GUIDED TOUR OF MORDECAI HISTORIC PARK Tour participants should meet in the lobby of the Sheraton Raleigh. Pre-registration is required, $5.00 per tour, limited seating. Participants can sign up for both tours. 1:00-4:00 P.M.: SECOND-BOOK WRITERS’ WORKSHOP (Mentors and participants listed below will meet in the Capital Room at 1:00 p.m. and then break out into the smaller groups in the rooms listed below) The SCWH is pleased to host their first Second-Book Writers’ Workshop. Three senior scholar mentors will each facilitate a workshop session for second-book writers working in the areas of slavery, abolition, sectional conflict, Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. GROUP 1 (Capital Room) Mentor: Gregory Downs, University of California, Davis Participants: David Graham, Snow College Gregory Laski, United States Air Force Academy Timothy Williams, University of Oregon Angela Zombek, University of North Carolina, Wilmington GROUP 2 (Pin Oak) Mentor: Lesley Gordon, University of Alabama Participants: Michael Bernath, University of Miami Anne Marshall, Mississippi State University Paul Quigley, Virginia Tech GROUP 3 (Willow Oak) Mentor: Diane Sommerville, Binghamton University Participants: Brandi Brimmer, Spelman College Lisa Tendrich Frank, Independent Historian April Holm, University of Mississippi 4:00 P.M.: GRADUATE STUDENT MEET AND GREET THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 2020 CONTINUED 5:00 P.M.: RECEPTION (cash bar available) 5:45 P.M.: WELCOME: NINA SILBER President, Society of Civil War Historians ❖ Introduction of New President-Elect ❖ Presentation of the Outstanding Paper by a Graduate Student Award ❖ Tom Watson Brown Book Award Announcement ❖ The Anthony E. Kaye Memorial Essay Award The Outstanding Paper by a Graduate Student Award is funded by the Society of Civil War Historians and honors the graduate student presenting the best paper at the 2020 conference. The Anthony E. Kaye Memorial Essay Award honors Tony Kaye (1962-2017), a pioneering scholar of slavery at Penn State University and the National Humanities Center. Tony was an active member of the Society of Civil War Historians and one of the founding editors of the Journal of the Civil War Era. Tony’s contributions helped to make the journal an immediate success, engaging scholars across a wide variety of fields. The George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center, the Journal of the Civil War Era, and the Society of Civil War Historians created this award to honor Tony’s passion for putting scholars in disparate fields in conversation with each other to enrich our understanding of the past 6:15 P.M.: DINNER SPONSORED BY THE SOCIETY OF CIVIL WAR HISTORIANS Pre-registration by May 15 required; cash bar available 7:00 P.M.: PLENARY SESSION: THE CIVIL WAR IN POETRY AND HISTORY Panelists: Natasha Trethewey, Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University, 19th Poet Laureate of the United States David Blight, Sterling Professor of History, Yale University page 2 FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2020, 8:30 – 10:30 A.M. 1. NEW PERSPECTIVES IN CIVIL WAR MILITARY HISTORY (roundtable) Presiding: Christian B. Keller, U.S. Army War College Panelists: Wayne Hsieh, U.S. Naval Academy, Transnational Perspectives on the Operational History of the American Civil War Jennifer M. Murray, Oklahoma State University, “I Think More of General Meade Than Ever”: A Soldiers' Perspective of George Gordon Meade's Leadership Eric Michael Burke, Amy University Press – Combat Studies Institute, “The Way in Which They Attempted to Go”: Regimental Tactical Cultures and Civil War Combat Christian B. Keller, U.S. Army War College, Southern Strategies: Analyzing Confederate Defeat Using Strategic Theory Andrew S. “Drew” Bledsoe, Lee University, Contingency and Traditional Civil War Military History 2. FAMILIES ON ALL FRONTS: AFRICAN AMERICANS' COMMUNAL FREEDOM STRUGGLES DURING THE CIVIL WAR ERA Presiding: Kelly Mezurek, Walsh University Panelists: Kristin Bouldin, The University of Mississippi, “Is This Freedom?”: Contraband Camps, Plantation Leasing, and the Development of Freedmen's Bureau Policy in Mississippi Caroline Wood Newhall, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Dear old master. .”: Black POWs' Social Creativity in the Confederate and Postwar South Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr., Augusta University, The Fractured Home Front: An Economic War on African American Families in the Civil War Era Response: Amanda Bellows, The New School 3. KEYWORDS FOR NEW DIRECTIONS IN CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION STUDIES (roundtable) Presiding: Sarah E. Gardner, Mercer University Panelists: Christopher J. Bonner, University of Maryland, Citizenship Alaina E. Roberts, University of Pittsburgh, Land Sarah E. Gardner, Mercer University, Literature Timothy J. Williams, University of Oregon, Memory Gregory Laski, United States Air Force Academy, Revenge Gregory Downs, University of California, Davis, Revolution Megan Kate Nelson, Writer and Historian, West page 3 FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2020, 8:30 – 10:30 A.M. CONTINUED 4. DISSENT AND DISPLACEMENT DURING THE CIVIL WAR Presiding: Margaret Storey, DePaul University Panelists: Thomas W. Robinson, Tallahassee Community College and Museum of Florida History, Dissent, Identity, and the Roots of Georgia’s Middle Class Katharine S. Dahlstrand, University of Georgia, The Undisguised Loyalties of a Union Spy and His Family Stefanie Greenhill, University of Kentucky, Fraternal Flight: Civil War Loyalty and Displacement Through the Experiences of the Watson Brothers Clayton Butler, University of Virginia, “We Are True Blue”: White Unionist Regiments in the Deep South during the Civil War Response: Aaron Astor, Maryville College FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2020, 10:45 – 12:45 P.M. 5. THE NEW CIVIL WAR MEDICINE: CHANGING INTERPRETATIONS AND NEW DIRECTIONS IN CIVIL WAR-ERA HEALTH AND MEDICINE (roundtable) Presiding: Michael A. Flannery, University of Alabama at Birmingham Panelists: Shauna Devine, Western University and Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Science in Civil War-era Medicine and Health Lindsay Rae Smith Privette, Anderson University, Civil War Military Medicine Jonathan S. Jones, Binghamton University, Gender in Civil War-era Medicine and Health 6. A DISCUSSION OF CIVIL WAR UNIT HISTORIES (roundtable) Presiding: Kevin Adams, Kent State University Panelists: Lesley Jill Gordon, University of Alabama, In Defense of the Regimental History Matthew Christopher Hulbert, Hampden-Sydney College, Infamy and (Mis)Representation: The Pitfalls of Irregular Unit Histories Brian Matthew Jordan, Sam Houston State University, New Sources for Old Questions: Rethinking Unit Histories Susannah J. Ural, The University of Southern Mississippi, Studying Occupation through Civil War Units page 4 FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2020, 10:45 – 12:45 P.M. CONTINUED 7. DEFINING FREEDOM IN THE LAW DURING THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION Presiding: Rachel A. Shelden, Penn State University Panelists: Cynthia L. Nicoletti, University of Virginia School of Law, William Henry Trescot and Land Redistribution in South Carolina, 1865-1866 Anne Silverwood Twitty, University of Mississippi, Saying their Names: Voter Suppression and the Ratification of Reconstruction Constitutions Jonathan Lande, Weber State University, Emancipation and Black Jurisprudence in the U.S. Army Courts-Martial Response: Kelly Kennington, Auburn University 8. WE CANNOT BE SILENT: A ROUNDTABLE ON ENGAGING THE PUBLIC Presiding: TBD Panelists: Karen L. Cox, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Patrick A. Lewis, The Filson Historical Society William Sturkey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Laura Sandy, University of Liverpool Adam H. Domby, College of Charleston Emmanuel Kenton Dabney, Petersburg National Battlefield 9. "RETHINKING FAMILY DURING THE CIVIL WAR ERA" Presiding: Lisa Tendrich Frank, Independent Scholar Panelists: Mandy L. Cooper, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, “The land of my father”: Family Identity and Sectional Loyalty in the Civil War Era Antwain K. Hunter, Butler University, “No one ever had better servants than I have”: Labor, Race, and Manhood in Civil War North Carolina Evan C. Rothera, University of Arkansas, Fort Smith, “General Treviño and lady are expected here towards the end of the weeks”: Jeŕonimo Treviño, Roberta Ord, and Marriage in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands Response: Lisa Tendrich Frank, Independent Scholar page 5 FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2020, 12:45 – 2:15 P.M.: GRADUATE STUDENT LUNCHEON 10. MEET THE FUTURE: CAREERS IN CIVIL WAR HISTORY This year’s luncheon will feature a range of table leads who work in the field of Civil War history. Attendees will have the opportunity to speak with archivists, publishers, podcasters, and professors who have found careers researching, writing, and teaching about the Civil War Era. We will have open seating, so find a conference buddy and join us for a fantastic networking opportunity. All grad students are welcome! Organized by the Graduate Student Connection Committee. Table Leads: 1. Mark Simpson-Vos, Editorial Director at UNC Press [Publishing] 2. Sarah Handley-Cousins, Associate Director of the Center for Disability Studies, University at Buffalo and Producer of DIG: A History Podcast [Podcasting and Outreach] 3. John Campbell, Curator at the North Carolina History Museum [Archives and Museums] 4. Antwain Hunter, Assistant
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