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

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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 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

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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 , 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

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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

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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 Professor, Butler University [Teaching] 5. Ashley Luskey, Assistant Director of the Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College [Public History] **PLEASE NOTE: This lunch is for graduate students only. (advance registration is required) Sponsored by the Society of Civil War Historians

FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2020, 1:00-2:15 PM

11. WRITING, DEPLOYING, AND MODIFYING REACTING TO THE PAST FOR THE HISTORY CLASSROOM Presiding: Laura Mammina, University of Houston-Victoria Panelists: Margaret Storey, DePaul University Laura June Davis, Southern Utah University Charles Wexler, Motlow State Community College Robert Gudmestad, Colorado State University Organized by the Early Career Committee

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FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2020, 2:30 – 4:30 P.M.

12. ACCIDENTAL AND CONTINGENT CIVIL WAR ARCHIVES: REREADING REMNANTS OF THE POST-CIVIL WAR ERA (roundtable) Presiding: Susan Schulten, University of Denver Panelists: Jim Downs, Connecticut College, Dr. Joseph Jones’s (1867) medical report on smallpox Judith A. Giesberg, Villanova University, The 1870 Census schedule Yael A. Sternhell, Tel Aviv University, Letter (1873) from Thomas Vincent regarding a rainstorm and the Freedmen’s Bureau records Hannah Rosen, William & Mary, A Post-Civil War Cemetery and the Stories It Tells

13. SECTIONALISM, ABOLITIONISM, AND ELECTIONS IN THE CIVIL WAR ERA Presiding: Adam I. P. Smith, University of Oxford Panelists: Frank Towers, University of Calgary, Antislavery Anti-Abolitionists: The Politics of Incrementalism in the Late Antebellum North Laura Ellyn Smith, University of Mississippi, Nullification, Populism and Secession in 1832 South Carolina Frank J. Cirillo, University of Virginia, A Compromised Convention: Abolitionists and the Cleveland Movement of 1864 Response: Stacey M. Robertson, SUNY Geneseo

14. LAND, LABOR, LAW, AND INTERNATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION Presiding: Robert Bonner, Dartmouth College Panelists: Erik Mathisen, University of Kent, Labor, Emancipation and Reconstruction's Global Lens James M. Shinn, Jr., Yale University, Reconstruction at Sea: The Republican Campaign to Reform International Neutrality, 1865-1871 Brooks Swett, Columbia University, Administering “an Enlarged and Exaggerated Ireland”: Congressional Debate over Land Policy in the American South, 1862- 1867 Response: Robert Bonner, Dartmouth College

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FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2020, 2:30 – 4:30 P.M. CONTINUED

15. LIGHTNING ROUND: FUTURE OF THE FIELD Presiding: Anne Sarah Rubin, University of Maryland, Baltimore Mick Gusinde-Duffy, University of Georgia Press Panelists: Tracy Barnett, University of Georgia, Men and Their Guns: The Culture of Self- Deputized Manhood in the South, 1850–1877 Kevin Caprice, The University of Virginia, A Union Veteran and a Democrat: Fracture within the Union Veteran Community Shae Smith Cox, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, “INDIANS WILL ATTEND REUNION”: The Complicated Story of Indigenous Commemoration of Civil War Service and Sacrifice Francis Curran, West Virginia University, Leading Southern Manufacturers, Anti- Liquor Laws, and Social Reform in the Antebellum South Spencer King, University of Mississippi, Defending the Home Front: Competing Masculinities in the Lawrence Massacre James Kopaczewski, Temple University, “The Government never reforms an evil until the people demand it”: The Contraband Policy and the Reshaping of Indian Affairs in the Civil War Era Stephanie Lawton, University of Virginia, Grant’s Tomb in a Global Context: Presidential Memory in the Age of American Empire Shane Makowicki, Texas A&M University, “Governor Stanly is Played Out”: Edward Stanly and the Union Army in North Carolina Lucas Somer, University of Southern Mississippi, The Process of Emancipation in the Upper South Cassy Jane Werking, University of Kentucky, “Erie Excitement: The Confederacy’s Plans to Capture the Great Lake

16. VOTING WITH THEIR FEET: LOCATING RUNAWAYS FROM SLAVERY IN THE POLITICS OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA Presiding: Richard J.M. Blackett, Vanderbilt University Panelists: Scott E. Ackerman, Independent Scholar, The Politics of Runaways: Benjamin Butler, John Phelps, and the Beginnings of Emancipation in the Department of the Gulf Nina Halty, Harvard University, From Slaves to Subjects: Forging Freedom in the Canadian Legal System Evan A. Turiano, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, A Slaveholder's Dilemma: Runaways and Antislavery Jurisprudence at the Virginia Secession Convention Rebecca Ernst Zietlow, J.D., University of Toledo College of Law, Fugitive Slaves as Constitutional Actors Response: Angela F. Murphy, Texas State University page 8

FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2020, 4:45 – 6:15 P.M.

17. PLENARY SESSION: A ROUNDTABLE ON WOMEN AND GENDER IN THE CIVIL WAR ERA Presiding: Nina Silber, Boston University

Panelists: Judy Giesberg, Villanova University Stephanie Jones-Rogers, University of California, Berkeley Stephanie McCurry, Columbia University Fay Yarbrough, Rice University

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2020, 8:30 – 10:30 A.M.

18. MORE THAN PROSPECTORS AND JAYHAWKERS: GOVERNING THE WEST IN THE CIVIL WAR ERA (roundtable) Presiding: Susanna Michele Lee, North Carolina State University Panelists: Stacey Leigh Smith, Oregon State University Michael E. Woods, Marshall University Christopher B. Bean, East Central University Andrew Wayne Wiley, Cumberland University

19. SEXUAL TRANSGRESSIONS AND MILITARY LAW Presiding: Catherine Clinton, University of Texas at San Antonio Panelists: Frances M. Clarke, University of Sydney, and Rebecca Jo Plant, University of California, San Diego, Sexual relations between men and boys in the mid- nineteenth century military Yvonne M. Pitts, Purdue University, Negotiating Local Military Authority: Regulated Prostitution and Jurisdictional Conflict in Occupied Nashville, 1862 - 1866 Samantha de Vera, University of California, San Diego, Black Refugees and Illicit Activities During the Civil War Response: Stephen Berry, University of Georgia

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SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2020, 8:30 – 10:30 A.M. CONTINUED

20. THE GUERRILLA WAR WAS THE WAR Presiding: Lorien Foote, Texas A & M University Panelists: Brian D. McKnight, The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, Guerrilla History as Comparative History: Using Subaltern Theory to Understand Irregular Warfare Robert Gudmestad, Colorado State University, The Mississippi Squadron's War against Guerrillas Joseph Michael Beilein, Jr., Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, A Queered Vision of War: William Clarke Quantrill, Homosocial bonds, and the Creation of Missouri's Guerrilla War Response: Barton Myers, Washington and Lee University

21. INTERPRETING LYNCHING IN WAKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA Local educators and middle school students will discuss the interpretive challenges surrounding their work to memorialize lynching in Wake County.

Panelists: TBA

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2020, 9:30–10:30 A.M.:

22. TIPS FOR SUBMITTING TO ACADEMIC JOURNALS JCWE co-editors Kate Masur and Greg Downs offer suggestions about preparing submissions for academic journals and respond to questions about the process. Open to anyone.

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2020, 10:45 – 12:45 P.M.

23. THE CIVIL WAR AS ECOLOGICAL EVENT (roundtable) Presiding: Judkin Browning, Appalachian State University Panelists: Lisa M. Brady, Boise State University John Mayer Crum, Rice University Brian Allen Drake, The University of Georgia Mark D. Hersey, Mississippi State University Erin Stewart Mauldin, University of South Florida

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SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2020, 10:45 – 12:45 P.M. CONTINUED

24. BEYOND THE NORTH AND SOUTH: INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF THE CIVIL WAR Presiding: Brian Schoen, Ohio University Panelists: Steven B. Davis, University of Kansas, Freedom National, Slavery International: Unfree Foreign Labor as a Factor in Northern Resource Mobilization During the American Civil War Bryson Kisner, Rice University, Raiders of the Lost Cause: Confederate Oceanic Power and the Projection of Cultural Narratives Mallory L. Huard, Penn State University, “The Great Race for Maritime Supremacy’: The Pursuit of American Empire in the Pacific During the Civil War Joshua Morrison, University of Virginia, Omani Succession/American Secession: The Unexpected Effects of the Civil War on the Western Indian Ocean, 1856-1870 Response: Angela Diaz, Utah State University

25. "SHE OUTRANKS ME": A ROUNDTABLE ON GENDER AND MILITARY HISTORY IN HONOR OF ANNE J. BAILEY Presiding: Anne Sarah Rubin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Panelists: Anne J. Bailey, Georgia College and State University, Comments on her own experiences. Donald Frazier, The McWhiney History Education Group and The Texas Center at Schreiner University, Comments on Anne Bailey's work with the McWhiney Foundation. Jeffrey S. Prushankin, Millersville University, Comments on Anne Bailey as a mentor. Anne Sarah Rubin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Comments on Anne Bailey’s scholarship. Angela M. Zombek, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Comments on experiences of women doing military history today.

26. RECKONING WITH EMANCIPATION IN WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION Presiding: TBA Panelists: Marcy S. Sacks, Albion College, Receiving an Education in Race: White Northerners' Encounters with African Americans during the Civil War Hannah Katherine Hicks, Vanderbilt University, “She Prays A Warrant:” Freedwomen and the Criminal Courts in Reconstruction-era Charleston” Amanda Laury Kleintop, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, The Balance of Freedom Response: Joseph Reidy, Howard University

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SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2020, 10:45 – 12:45 P.M. CONTINUED

27. THE STATE, THE LAW, AND THE RELIGIOUS BOUNDARIES OF POLITICAL CULTURE: REFRAMING THE CIVIL WAR ERA

Presiding: April E. Holm, University of Mississippi Panelists: Courtney Buchkoski, University of Oklahoma, Child Removal and the American State: The Children's Aid Society and Westward Expansion Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania, Staying in Place: The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church and Northern African Methodisms in Civil War Era Kentucky Luke E. Harlow, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Lydia Maria Child and the Unitarian Conscience of Radical Republicanism Response: Elizabeth R. Varon, University of Virginia

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2020, 12:00 NOON:

SOCIETY OF CIVIL WAR HISTORIANS ADVISORY BOARD MEETING

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2020, 1:00-2:30 P.M.

28. WORKSHOP: ADVICE FOR THE JOB MARKET Past presidents of the SCWH Caroline E. Janney, University of Virginia, and James Marten, Marquette University, will hold a 90-minute workshop for graduate students (must be ABD or later) and recently minted PhDs who have not yet taken a full-time position. They will discuss the process of preparing and negotiating the job market. Registered participants will submit their CVs and three of their pressing questions about the job market in advance (send them to [email protected] by May 15). Janney and Marten will offer general comments based on those questions and CVs, and then conduct an extended Q and A session.

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2020, 2:30 – 4:30 P.M.

29. RACE, ETHNICITY, AND MEMORY IN THE POPULAR MUSIC OF THE CIVIL WAR Presiding: David T. Gleeson, Northumbria University Panelists: Sarah Gerk, Binghamton University, A Song of Famine and War: Irish Famine Memory in U.S. Civil War Music Catherine Bateson, Durham University, From “Lincoln snakes” to the Sons of “Uncle Abe”: Union Wartime Policies, Irish American Identity and Expressions of Loyalty in Irish American Civil War Songs Christian McWhirter, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, “One of the Best Tunes I Have Ever Heard”: Abraham Lincoln and Minstrelsy Response: Katherine K. Preston, The College of William and Mary page 12

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2020, 2:30 – 4:30 P.M. CONTINUED

30. BEYOND WORDS: A WORKSHOP ON MATERIAL CULTURE AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (roundtable) Presiding: Jason Phillips, West Virginia University Panelists: James J. Broomall, Shepherd University, Through the Artist's Eyes: Historical Paintings and the American Civil War Annelle Brunson, University of Georgia, “A Ring of Rebel Manufacture”: The Curious Life of Civil War Prison Jewelry Joan E. Cashin, Ohio State University, Objects of War Dana B. Shoaf, Civil War Times, Lead Assassins: A New Spin on the Minie Ball Charles Ian Stevenson, Independent Scholar, Beyond the Object: Applying Place to the Study of Civil War Era Material Culture Sarah Jones Weicksel, Smithsonian Institution, “Things we most treasured”: Theft, Destruction, and Material Culture

31. RETHINKING VIOLENCE IN THE CIVIL WAR ERA: BEYOND THE BATTLEFIELD (roundtable) Presiding: W. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Panelists: Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Louisiana State University Felicity M. Turner, Georgia Southern University Adam Malka, University of Oklahoma Paul Quigley, Virginia Tech

32. THE POLITICS OF FAITH: HOW CONTESTS WITHIN SACRED SPACE SHAPED POST- EMANCIPATION SOCIETY Presiding: Charles Irons, University of Maryland Panelists: Peter Porsche, Texas Christian University, First Congregational Church and the Postwar Fight for Equality in the Nation's Capital Nicole Myers Turner, Yale University, Beyond Speeches and Leaders: The Role of Black Churches in the Reconstruction of the United States Caitlin Verboon, University of Maryland, “Irregular Secession”: The Political Nature of Religious Space in the Reconstruction-Era South" Response: Douglas Egerton, Le Moyne University

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SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2020, 2:30 – 4:30 P.M. CONTINUED

33. WRITING HISTORY FOR PUBLIC AUDIENCES (roundtable) Presiding: Panelists: Nicholas W. Sacco, Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, Writing About Public History and the Civil War for Muster Kristen Epps, University of Central Arkansas, Tips and Tricks for Academic Blogging Andrew Seal, University of New Hampshire, Book Reviewing: A Welcome Distraction Sarah E. Handley-Cousins, University at Buffalo, Editorial Processes at Nursing Clio Kate Masur, Northwestern University, Principles of Writing Op-Eds Brandon R. Byrd, Vanderbilt University, Scholarship and Struggle: Writing for Public Audiences from the Black Intellectual Tradition

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2020, 4:30 P.M.

RECEPTION: PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED, CASH BAR AVAILABLE

A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THE HARD-WORKING PROGRAM COMMITTEE FOR ALL OF THEIR EFFORTS IN PUTTING SUCH A GREAT PROGRAM TOGETHER!

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Thomas J. Brown, University of South Carolina Angela Diaz, Utah State University Susanna Michele Lee, North Carolina State University Barton A. Myers, Washington and Lee University Amy Murrell Taylor, University of Kentucky (chair)

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SOCIETY OF CIVIL WAR HISTORIANS ADVISORY BOARD AND COMMITTEES

ADVISORY BOARD: Greg Downs, Co-Editor of the Journal of the Civil War Era, University of California, Davis Stephen D. Engle, Secretary-Treasurer, Florida Atlantic University Patrick Lewis, The Filson Historical Society Kate Masur, Co-Editor of the Journal of the Civil War Era, Northwestern University Paul Quigley, Virginia Tech Rachel Shelden, Director, George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center, Penn State Nina Silber, President, Boston University Manisha Sinha, University of Connecticut Daniel Sutherland, Past President, University of Arkansas Joan Waugh, President-Elect, University of California, Los Angeles

ANNE J. BAILEY DISSERTATION PRIZE COMMITTEE: Barbara Gannon, University of Central Florida Christopher Phillips, (chair), University of Cincinnati Minoa Uffelman, Austin Peay State University

ANTHONY E. KAYE MEMORIAL ESSAY AWARD COMMITTEE: Frances Clarke, The University of Sydney Paul Escott, Wake Forest University Kelly Mezurek, Walsh University

BOARD NOMINATION COMMITTEE: Michael T. Bernath, University of Miami Yael Sternhell, Tel Aviv University Susannah J. Ural, (chair), University of Southern Mississippi

EARLY CAREER COMMITTEE: Megan L. Bever, Missouri Southern State University Maria Angela Diaz, Utah State University Laura Mammina, University of Houston-Victoria Erin Mauldin, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg David K. Thomson, Sacred Heart University

GRADUATE STUDENT CONNECTION COMMITTEE: Shae Cox, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Molly Mersmann, Purdue University Lindsay R. Peterson, University of Southern Mississippi Daniel Sunshine, University of Virginia Cecily Zander (chair), The Pennsylvania State University

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SOCIETY OF CIVIL WAR HISTORIANS ADVISORY BOARD AND COMMITTEES CONTINUED

OUTREACH AND MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE: Megan Bever, Missouri Southern State University Hilary Green, The University of Alabama Ashley Whitehead Luskey, Independent Historian and Consultant James Marten, (chair), Marquette University David K. Thomson, Sacred Heart University Cecily Zander, Penn State University

OUTSTANDING PAPER BY A GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD SELECTION COMMITTEE: David Gleeson, Northumbria University Newcastle Sarah Handley-Cousins, (chair), University at Buffalo Matthew C. Hulbert, Hampden-Sydney College

TOM WATSON BROWN BOOK AWARD COMMITTEE: Tad Brown, Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc. Sarah E. Gardner, Mercer University Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Louisiana State University Brenda Stevenson, University of California, Los Angeles

TOM WATSON BROWN BOOK AWARD

Thanks to the initiative and generosity of Tad Brown of the Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc. of Thomson, Georgia, the Society of Civil War Historians will present the Tom Watson Brown Book Award at the Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting to be held at the Sheraton Memphis Downtown, Memphis, Tennessee, on November 19-22, 2020.

The Society of Civil War Historians presents the $50,000 Tom Watson Brown Book Award annually to the author of the outstanding book on the causes, conduct, and effects, broadly defined, of the Civil War. All genres of scholarship within the field will be eligible, including, but not exclusive to, monographs, synthetic works presenting original interpretations, and biographies. Works of fiction, poetry, and textbooks will not be considered. Jurors will consider nominated works' scholarly and literary merit as well as the extent to which they make original contributions to our understanding of the period.

The prize is presented at the SCWH banquet at the Southern Historical Association annual meeting, where the winner delivers a formal address that will be published in a subsequent issue of the Journal of the Civil War Era.

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PARTICIPANTS

NAME PANEL

Ackerman, Scott ...... 16 Adams, Kevin ...... 6 Astor, Aaron ...... 4 Bailey, Anne J...... 25 Barnett, Tracy ...... 15 Bateson, Catherine ...... 29 Bean, Christopher ...... 18 Beilein, Jr., Joseph ...... 20 Bellows, Amanda ...... 2 Bernath, Michael ...... 2nd book workshop Berry, Stephen...... 19 Blackett, Richard J.M...... 16 Bledsoe, Andrew ...... 1 Blight, David ...... opening plenary Bonner, Christopher...... 3 Bonner, Robert...... 14 Bouldin, Kristin...... 2 Brady, Lisa M...... 23 Brimmer, Brandi ...... 2nd book workshop Broomall, James J...... 30 Browning, Judkin ...... 23 Brundage, W. Fitzhugh ...... 31 Brunson, Annelle ...... 30 Buchkoski, Courtney...... 27 Burke, Eric ...... 1 Butler, Clayton ...... 4 Byrd, Brandon ...... 33 Campbell, John ...... 10 Caprice, Kevin...... 15 Cashin, Joan ...... 30 Cirillo, Frank ...... 13 Clarke, Frances M...... 19 Clinton, Catherine ...... 19 Cooper, Mandy ...... 9 Cox, Karen L...... 8 Cox, Shae Smith...... 15

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PARTICIPANTS CONTINUED

NAME PANEL

Crum, John M ...... 23 Curran, Francis ...... 15 Dabney, Emmanuel ...... 8 Dahlstrand, Katharine ...... 4 Davis, Laura June...... 11 Davis, Steven ...... 24 de Vera, Samantha ...... 19 Devine, Shauna ...... 5 Diaz, Angela ...... 24 Domby, Adam ...... 8 Downs, Gregory ...... 2nd book workshop, 3 & 22 Downs, Jim ...... 12 Drake, Brian Allen ...... 23 Egerton, Douglas...... 32 Epps, Kristen ...... 33 Flannery, Michael A...... 5 Foote, Lorien ...... 20 Frank, Lisa Tendrich ...... 2nd book workshop & 9 Frazier, Donald ...... 25 Gardner, Sarah ...... 3 Gerk, Sarah ...... 29 Giesberg, Judith ...... 12 & 17 Gleeson, David ...... 29 Gordon, Lesley ...... 2nd book workshop & 6 Gordon, Sarah ...... 27 Graham, David ...... 2nd book workshop Greenhill, Stefanie ...... 4 Gudmestad, Robert ...... 11 & 20 Gusinde-Duffy, Mick ...... 15 Halty, Nina ...... 16 Handley-Cousins, Sarah ...... 10 & 33 Harlow, Luke ...... 27 Hersey, Mark ...... 23 Hicks, Hannah ...... 26 Holm, April ...... 2nd book workshop & 27 Hsieh, Wayne ...... 1

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PARTICIPANTS CONTINUED NAME PANEL

Huard, Mallory ...... 24 Hulbert, Matthew ...... 6 Hunter, Antwain ...... 9 & 10 Irons, Charles ...... 32 Janney, Caroline E...... 28 Jones, Jonathan S...... 5 Jones-Rogers, Stephanie ...... 17 Jordan, Brian ...... 6 Keller, Christian ...... 1 Kennington, Kelly ...... 7 King, Spencer ...... 15 Kisner, Bryson ...... 24 Kleintop, Amanda ...... 26 Kopaczewski, James ...... 15 Lande, Jonathan ...... 7 Laski, Gregory ...... 2nd book workshop & 3 Lawton, Stephanie...... 15 Lee, Susanna ...... 18 Lewis, Patrick ...... 8 Luskey, Ashley ...... 10 Makowicki, Shane ...... 15 Malka, Adam ...... 31 Mammina, Laura ...... 11 Marshall, Anne ...... 2nd book workshop Marten, James ...... 28 Masur, Kate ...... 22 & 33 Mathisen, Erik ...... 14 Mauldin, Erin ...... 23 McCurry, Stephanie ...... 17 McKnight, Brian ...... 20 McWhirter, Christian ...... 29 Mezurek, Kelly ...... 2 Morrison, Joshua ...... 24 Murphy, Angela F...... 16 Murray, Jennifer ...... 1 Myers, Barton ...... 20 Nelson, Megan Kate...... 3

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Newhall, Caroline Wood ...... 2 Nicoletti, Cynthia ...... 7 Phillips, Jason ...... 30 Pinheiro, Jr., Holly ...... 2 Pitts, Yvonne ...... 19 Plant, Rebecca Jo ...... 19 Porsche, Peter ...... 32 Preston, Katherine ...... 29 Privette, Lindsay Rae ...... 5 Prushankin, Jeffrey ...... 25 Quigley, Paul ...... 2nd book workshop & 31 Reidy, Joseph ...... 26 Roberts, Alaina ...... 3 Robertson, Stacey M...... 13 Robinson, Thomas ...... 4 Rosen, Hannah ...... 12 Rothera, Evan ...... 9 Rubin, Anne Sarah ...... 15 & 25 Sacco, Nick ...... 33 Sacks, Marcy ...... 26 Sandy, Laura ...... 8 Schoen, Brian ...... 24 Schulten, Susan ...... 12 Seal, Andrew ...... 33 Sheehan-Dean, Aaron ...... 31 Shelden, Rachel ...... 7 Shinn, James ...... 14 Shoaf, Dana B ...... 30 Silber, Nina ...... 17 Simpson-Vos, Mark ...... 10 Smith, Laura Ellyn ...... 13 Smith, Adam I.P...... 13 Smith, Stacey ...... 18 Somer, Lucas ...... 15 Sommerville, Diane ...... 2nd book workshop Sternhell, Yael ...... 12 Stevenson, Charles Ian ...... 30

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Storey, Margaret ...... 4 & 11 Sturkey, William ...... 8 Sweet, Brooks ...... 14 Towers, Frank ...... 13 Trethewey, Natasha ...... opening plenary Turiano, Evan ...... 16 Turner, Felicity ...... 31 Turner, Nicole Myers ...... 32 Twitty, Anne ...... 7 Ural, Susannah J...... 6 Varon, Elizabeth ...... 27 Verboon, Caitlin ...... 32 Weicksel, Sarah Jones ...... 30 Werking, Cassy Jane ...... 15 Wexler, Charles...... 11 Wiley, Andrew ...... 18 Williams, Timothy ...... 2nd book workshop & 3 Woods, Michael E...... 18 Yarbrough, Fay ...... 17 Zietlow, Rebecca E...... 16 Zombek, Angela ...... 2nd book workshop & 25

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