DAY THREE
November 14, 2002
All sessions were held in the Montpelier Room, James Madison Memorial Building

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
PANEL 5
The Civil War and American Law: Civil Liberties, Habeas Corpus, and the Roots of Freedom

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participants

• Leonard Richards, University of Massachusetts Amherst; author of The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860 (Moderator)
• Michael Kent Curtis, Wake Forest University School of Law; author of Free Speech, "the People's Darling Privilege"; No State Shall Abridge: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights (Presenter)
• William M. Wiecek, Chester Adgate Congdon Professor of Public Law and Legislation and professor of history, Syracuse University College of Law, author of Liberty under Law: The Supreme Court in American Life, coauthor, with Harold M. Hyman, of Equal Justice under Law: Constitutional Development, 1835–1875 (Presenter)
• Robert Cottrol, Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law and Professor of History, George Washington University, editor of From African to Yankee: Narratives of Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum New England, author of Afro-Yankees: Providence's Black Community in the Antebellum Era

10:45 a.m – 12:15 p.m.
PANEL 6
Reconstruction and Race: The Extended Tragedy of the Civil War Era

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participants

• Debra Newman Ham, Morgan State University; editor of The African American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture and African-American Odyssey (Moderator)
• David W. Blight, Amherst College; author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, Frederick Douglass's Civil War (Presenter)
• Thavolia Glymph, Duke University; author of "‘This Species of Property': Female Slave Contrabands in the War," in A Woman's War: Southern Women, Civil War, and the Confederate Legacy (Commentator)
• Wang Xi, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; author of The Trial of Democracy: Black Suffrage and Northern Republicans, 1860-1910 (Commentator)

12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch break

1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
PANEL 7
Reshaping the Civil War: Changing Views from Generation to Generation

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participants

• John David Smith, North Carolina State University; author of Slavery, Race, and American History, coeditor of A Mythic Land Apart: Reassessing Southerners and Their History (Moderator)
• Joan Waugh, University of California at Los Angeles. Author of Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell, U.S. Grant and the Union Cause (forthcoming), co-editor of The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture; seminars include "The Soldier's History of the Civil War" (Presenter)
• Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic (Commentator)
• George Rable, University of Alabama; author of Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg, The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics, Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (Commentator)

3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
PANEL 8
Can We know the Civil War? Methods and Pitfalls of Civil War Research – Panel Discussion

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participants

• Drew Gilpin Faust, Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; author of Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Moderator)
• Brooks D. Simpson, Arizona State University; author of Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868, coeditor, with Anne Bailey, of the University of Nebraska Press Great Campaigns of the Civil War series
• David Eicher, compiler, with John Eicher, of Civil War High Commands, author of The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War
• Nina D. Silber, Boston University; author of The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900, coeditor, with Catherine Clinton, of Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War
• William C. Davis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; author of An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government, Lincoln's Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation

5:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
CONCLUDING ADDRESS

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