2011 Annual Symposium:
“Emancipation during the Civil War”

Opening Lecture and Reception

Thursday, May 5, 2011
6:30-8:30 pm
 
LOCATION CHANGE!
New location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room G-50

Please allow time to pass through security when you enter the building.  Dirksen is bounded by C Street, First Street, and Constitution Avenue NE. 
Please use the entrance near 1st and C Streets NE, and try to arrive before 7 pm for an easier entry.

Metro stations: Union Station and Capitol South

Please remember that meeting room temperatures can be chilly. We recommend dressing in layers so as to be prepared for temperature variations.

Opening Speaker: Professor Gary Gallagher, University of Virginia
"'Wherever Our Army Has Been, There Remain No Slaves': Union Military Forces in the Equation of Emancipation"

Free and open to the public. Reservations recommended.
To RSVP, email uschs@uschs.org or call (202) 543-8919 x.38 (automated line; leave message and contact number).
 

All Day Symposium 

Friday, May 6, 2011
9 am - 5 pm (registration begins at 8:30)
Location Capitol Visitor Center, Congressional Auditorium  (Please allow extra time to pass through Capitol Visitor Center security, and note that the following items are prohibited in the CVC: aerosol containers, liquids (except perfume, cream, and lotion) and food, pointed objects except pens and pencils, and luggage and other large bags and backpacks.  More information here.)

Please remember that meeting rooms can be chilly.  Dress in layers so as to be prepared for any temperature.

Symposium Director:
Paul Finkelman, President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy, Albany Law School

Featured speakers:
L. Diane Barnes, Youngstown State University and the Frederick Douglass Papers
Michael Burlingame, Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies, University of Illinois at Springfield
Seymour Drescher, University Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Kate Masur, Northwestern University
Beverly Wilson Palmer, Pomona College and editor, Charles Sumner Correspondence and Thaddeus Stevens Papers
John Stauffer, Chair, History of American Civilization, Harvard University
Jenny Wahl, Carleton College

Tentative Schedule, May 6

8:30-9 am: Registration

9-9:45 am: Opening Keynote
John Stauffer, "The Process and Meaning of Emancipation during the War"

9:45-10:30 am
Michael Burlingame, "Abraham Lincoln: Reluctant Emancipator?"

10:45-11:30 am
Paul Finkelman, "Constitutionalizing Freedom: Lincoln's Road to Emancipation"

11:30 am-12:15 pm
L. Diane Barnes, "Frederick Douglass and the Complications of Emancipation"

12:15-1:30 Lunch Break

1:30-2:15 pm
Kate Masur, "The Fugitive Slave Crisis in Washington, D.C."

2:15-3 pm
Beverly Wilson Palmer, "Stevens, Sumner, and the Journey to Full Emancipation"

3:15-4 pm
Jenny Wahl, "Double Take: Abolition and the Size of Transferred Property Rights"

4-4:45: Closing Keynote
Seymour Drescher, "Peoples and Legislators: Emancipations in Comparative Perspective" (tentative title)

Directions to the Congressional Auditorium in the Capitol Visitor Center:
Use the main Capitol Visitor Center (CVC) entrance at 1st and East Capitol Streets. You may enter through either set of doors.  Please allow extra time to go through security and see above for restrictions on what items may be brought into the building.
Pass through security and go through the first set of double glass doors into the lobby.  Turn around; you'll see "Congressional Auditorium" in large gold letters above the center doors.  Go through the doors and down the stairs.  Keep going straight and look for our registration table and the four large statues.
You may enter the auditorium through the wood doors on either side of pledge of allegiance carved into the far wall.

Please remember that meeting rooms can be chilly; we recommend dressing in layers.


Free and open to the public. Reservations recommended.
To RSVP, email uschs@uschs.org or call (202) 543-8919 x.38 (automated line; leave message and contact number).