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Chair: Kathleen Franz, Smithsonian Institution
Panelists:
• Kathleen Franz, Smithsonian Institution
• Benjamin Alpers, University of Oklahoma
• Adrea Lawrence, University of Montana
• Caleb McDaniel, Rice University
• Sara Clark, Indiana University

Chair: Joshua Rothman
Panelists: Stephen Kantrowitz, Chandra Manning, Kate Masur, Manisha Sinha, and Kidada E. Williams

There has been a proliferation of new work on the movement to abolish slavery in the United States, the process of the emancipation of enslaved people, and the meaning of those changes through the Civil War and beyond. This panel brings together leading scholars to consider these new historiographies, their significance for understanding the history of the nineteenth century, and their lessons for our contemporary politics.

Chair: Marisela Chávez
Panelists: Maylei Blackwell, Matt Garcia, David Montejano, and Lorena Oropeza

Chair and Commentator: Paul Cimbala, Fordham University

An Organization of Brothers: The Grand Army of the Republic, Civil War Veterans, and Coping with War
Kathleen Thompson, West Virginia University

Mapping Loyalty: The Persisting Social Networks of Civil War Veterans
Katharine Dahlstrand, University of Georgia

“Played Out”: Veterans’ Interpretations of Mental Illness
Dillon Carroll, Hunter College, City University of New York