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2021
- January 20: “Confederate Monuments and Race in America,” Rochambeau, the French International School, Bethesda, Maryland.
- January 27: “Confederate Monuments and Race in America,” Montgomery County Historical Society.
- January 28: “Searching for Black Confederates,” Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, VA.
- February 2: “The Confederate Battle Flag and Civil War Memory, Discussion with students at Endicott College, Beverly, MA.
- February 10: “Civil War Memory After the Monuments Come Down,” Discussion with Dr. Hilary Green Ford’s Theatre.
- February 11: “Telling the History of American Racial Justice,” Newton North High School, Newton, MA.
- February 16: Hosting discussion of the movie Glory for the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Richmond, VA.
- February 18: “Is This Who We Are?: Reflection on the Capitol Insurrection,” Constellation Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA.
- February 23: “Searching for Black Confederates,” Book talk with students at the University of Pennsylvania.
- February 24: “The History and Memory of Confederate Monuments,” Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.
- March 2: “Winning and Losing in the Civil War,” The British School, Den Haag, Netherlands.
- March 2: “Reconstruction and Public Memory,” Discussion with students at the Brooklyn Latin School.
- March 16: Blair Academy, Society of Skeptics.
- March 20: “Searching for Black Confederates,” Catawba County Truth & Reconciliation Committee
- March 25: “Is This Who We Are?: Reflection on the Capitol Insurrection,” Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA.
- March 30: “The History and Memory of Confederate Monuments,” Harvard-Westlake School, Los Angeles, CA.
- April 6: “Uses and Abuses of History,” University of Ottawa.
- April 22: “Searching for Black Confederates,” #sschatreads online discussion at Twitter.
- April 28-29: “Understanding Confederate Monuments,” Castilleja School, Palo Alto, CA.
- May 28: “Confederate Monuments and Race in America,” Walpole High School, Walpole, MA
- July 12: American Civil War Museum/NEH grant supported summer teachers institute on emancipation, Richmond, VA.
- July 30: “Confederate Monuments and Race in America,” Ford’s Theatre, Washington, D.C.
- September 21: “Confederate Monuments and Race in America,” Newburyport Public Library, Newburyport, MA.
- September 30: “Searching for Black Confederates,” Norwich University, Northfield, VT
- October 15: “When Slavery Came to Pennsylvania: The Role of Enslaved Labor During the Gettysburg Campaign,” Chambersburg Civil War Seminars.
- November 4: Book Discussion, Searching for Black Confederates, Gettysburg College.
2020
- February 4: “Searching for Black Confederates,” Filson Historical Society, Louisville, KY. (more info.)
- February 10: “Searching for Black Confederates,” University of Maryland at College Park. (more info.)
- February 15: “Searching for Black Confederates,” National Civil War Center, Harrisburg, PA. (more info.)
- February 19: “Searching for Black Confederates,” Mitchell-McPherson Memorial Lecture at Troy University, AL.
- February 20: “Searching for Black Confederates,” Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL.
- July 21: Webinar, “Teaching the History and Controversy Surrounding Confederate Monuments,” National Council for History Education.
- July 28: Webinar, “Confederate Monuments and Race in America,” Constellation Pharmaceuticals.
- July 29: Interview, Battle of the Crater and Confederate Monuments, National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Facebook Live.
- July 30: “Confederate Monuments and Race in America,” Ford’s Theatre.
- July 30: Discussion with Mitch Landrieu and Eugene Robinson, Ford’s Theatre.
- July 31: Roundtable Discussion: Confederate Monuments, Shepherd University, Facebook Live.
- August 13: “Searching for Black Confederates,” Old Baldy Civil War Round Table.
- September 9: Civil War Monuments discussion with students at Charlotte Latin School, Charlotte, NC.
- September 10: Civil War Monuments discussion with students at The American School in Japan.
- September 17-18: Civil War Monuments discussion with students at Housatonic Valley Regional High School, Falls Village, CT.
- September 22: “Black Confederates and Civil War Monuments,” class discussion with students at Louisiana Tech University.
- September 23: Civil War monuments discussion with students at Ridgefield Academy, CT.
- October 2: Interview with Principal Chief Joseph Hoskins Jr. of the Cherokee Nation on the Removal of Confederate Monuments, Mountain-Plains Museum Association.
- October 16: Panel discussion: “Addressing Contemporary Events Through the Lens of History in the K-12 Classroom,” New England Historical Association.
- October 19: “Confederate Monuments and Race in America,” Log Cabin Village, Fort Worth, TX.
- October 26: Panel on Confederate Monuments, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI.
- October 28: “Confederate Monuments and Race in America,” New England College, Henniker, NH.
- November 18: “Reconsidering Confederate Monuments in the First Capital of the Confederacy,” Old Town Alabama.
- November 19: “Searching for Black Confederates,” Olde Colony Civil War Round Table, Dedham, MA.
- November 20: Civil War monuments discussion with students at New Tech High School, Coppell, TX.
- December 9: “Confederate Monuments and Race in America,” Glenview Public Library, Glenview, Illinois.
2019
- February 2: “Searching for Black Confederate Soldiers,” General Lander Civil War Round Table, Lynn, MA.
- February 27: Guest lecture on public history and Confederate monuments, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
- March 16: “Searching for Black Confederates,” History Camp, Suffolk University, Boston, MA.
- March 22: “Searching for Black Confederates,” Greater Boston Civil War Round Table, Waltham, MA.
- April 7, Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Forum on Independent Historians, Philadelphia, PA.
- April 24: “Searching for Black Confederate Soldiers,” Civil War Round Table of Central Massachusetts, Holden, MA.
- June 14: “The Last Confederate Monuments: The Myths and Lies We Tell About Loyal Slaves and Black Confederates,” Auburn University. (more info.)
- July 21-26, Teacher Workshop on Reconstruction and Historical Memory, Ford’s Theater, Washington, D.C. (more info.)
- August 7-9: Teacher Workshop on Reconstruction, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA. (more info.)
- September 10: Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA. (more info.)
- September 16: Skype discussion about Civil War memory with San Diego school.
- September 18: Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA. (more info.)
- September 24: National Archives, Washington, D.C. (more info.)
- September 25: Teacher Workshop on monuments and memorials at American Civil War Museum, Richmond, Virginia. (more info.)
- September 26: Hood College (co-sponsored with The Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area, Frederick, MD. (more info.)
- September 30: University of Maryland at Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD. (more info.)
- October 1: Virginia Museum of History & Culture, co-sponsored with American Civil War Museum, Richmond, Virginia. (more info.)
- October 22: Skype discussion about Searching for Black Confederates with class at Charleston College.
- October 24: Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters, Cambridge, MA. (more info.)
- October 25: Skype discussion about Searching for Black Confederates with class at Austin Peay State University.
- October 28: North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC.
- October 29: The University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
- October 30: Fly Leaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC. (more info.)
- November 4: Royall House & Slave Quarters, Medford, MA (more info.)
- December 11: Interview with Civil War Talk Radio.
- December 15: “Myth and Memory in Charlottesville’s Confederate Monuments,” St. Anne’s-Belfield School, Charlottesville, Virginia.
2018
- January 16, 2018: “Understanding Confederate Monuments in the Wake of Charlottesville,” Rhode Island Civil War Round Table, Cranston, RI.
- January 19, 2018: Skype discussion with Marquette University High School, Milwaukee, WI.
- February 1, 2018: “Understanding Confederate Monuments in the Wake of Charlottesville,” New Trier Public School, Chicago Ill.
- February 28, 2018: Webinar, “Contested Monuments and Contested Civic Spaces in the United States, 1865 to the 21st Century,” National Humanities Center, w/Prof. W. Fitzhugh Brundage.
- March 9, 2018: “Understanding Confederate Monuments in the Wake of Charlottesville,” General Lander Civil War Round Table, Lynn, MA.
- March 12, 2018, “Contested Memories of the Civil War,” (student workshop), St. Ann’s School, Brooklyn, NY.
- March 15, 2018, Skype discussion with interpretive staff at the Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA.
- March 17, 2018: “Monuments & Historical Memory,” Teacher Workshop, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA.
- March 26-27: Interpreting Freedom and Slavery in New England Workshop, Providence, RI.
- April 19, 2018: Keynote Address, National Council of History Education, San Antonio, TX.
- April 21, 2018: Teaching Reconstruction and Historical Memory w/Ford’s Theatre Staff at National Council for History Education, San Antonio, TX.
- May 30-31: Workshop with students at Walpole High School on Confederate Iconography, Walpole, MA.
- June 2, 2018: “Frederick Douglass and the Fight for Civil War Memory,” Teacher Workshop, Lynn, MA.
- June 6: Walking tour of Boston, Saul Ewing, LLP.
- June 11: Teacher Workshop in Charlottesville, Virginia on teaching Confederate monuments.
- July 11: “The Contested Landscape of Confederate Monuments, Teacher Workshop, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA.
- July 22-27, 2018: Teacher Workshop on Reconstruction and historical memory at Ford’s Theatre, Washington, D.C.
- October 2: Social Media and the Black Confederate Myth, University of Virginia, Nau Center for Civil War Studies, Charlottesville, VA.
2017
- June 21, 2017: NEH/Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, GA.
- July 23-28, 2017: Ford’s Theatre Teacher Workshop on Reconstruction, Washington, D.C.
- December 5, 2017: “Monuments & Historical Memory,” Teacher Workshop, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA.
2016
- February 17: Skype discussion with Professor Jennifer Murray’s Civil War class at University of Virginia at Wise
- February 24: Book talk and Signing, Remembering the Battle of the Crater, Civil War Round Table of Central Massachusetts, Holden, MA
- March 8: Skype discussion with Professor Christine Baron’s class at Teachers College, Columbia University
- March 16: “The History & Memory of the Confederate Battle Flag,” Rhode Island Civil War Round Table, Cranston, RI
- March 28: Webinar discussion on controversy surrounding Confederate monuments, American Association for State and Local History
- March 30: Springfield College/Humanics Lecture, “The History and Memory of the Confederate Battle Flag,” Springfield, MA
- April 6: Talk on the Civil War, Wellesley Middle School, Wellesley, MA
2015
- “The Pay Crisis and the 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry,” Rhode Island Civil War Round Table, Cranston, RI, February 17.
- “Searching for Black Confederate Soldiers,” Medford Historical Society, Medford, MA, April 8.
- “Remembering the Battle of the Crater,” Joshua L. Chamberlain Civil War Roundtable, April 9.
- “Appomattox and Civil War Memory,” Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA, June 19.
- “William Mahone and Virginia’s Reconstruction,” Facing History and Ourselves, September 24.
- “Black Confederates Out of the Attic and Into the Mainstream,” The National Civil War Museum, Harrisburg, PA, September 26.
- Skype Discussion with Chris Lese’s Civil War Class at Marquette University High School, October 14.
- Skype Discussion with Adam Dean’s class at Lynchburg College, October 26.
- Skype Discussion with Chris Lese’s Civil War class at Marquette University High School, October 30.
- “The Future of the Confederate Flag,” General Lander Civil War Round Table, Lynn, MA, December 11.
2014
- January 10: Book Signing and Talk, “Remembering the Battle of the Crater,” North Shore CWRT/GAR Hall, Lynn, MA.
- February 7: “Lincoln, Race, and the Battle of the Crater,” Boston Union Club, Boston, MA.
- February 9: Book Signing and Talk, “Remembering the Battle of the Crater,” Sons of Union Veterans, Concord, MA.
- February 17: Book Signing and Talk, “Remembering the Battle of the Crater,” University of North Carolina at Pembroke/Workshop with area teachers on digital literacy and the myth of the black Confederate soldiers.
- March 15: “Until Every Negro Has Been Slaughtered”: Confederates Assess the Battle of the Crater, Longwood University, Civil War Seminar, Longwood, VA.
- March 19: “Searching for Black Confederate Soldiers,” Rhode Island Civil War Round Table, Cranston, RI.
- April 14: Book Signing and Talk, “Remembering the Battle of the Crater,” Ann Arbor Civil War Round Table, Ann Arbor, MI. (Canceled)
- April 22: “Searching for Black Confederate Soldiers,” New Bedford Civil War Round Table, New Bedford, MA.
- April 23: Skype Discussion with Class at Marquette University High School, Milwaukee, WI.
- May 28: Signing and Talk, “Remembering the Battle of the Crater,” Walpole, MA.
- June 20-25: “The Battle of the Crater in Memory,” Gettysburg College, Civil War Institute, Gettysburg, PA.
- July 5: Gettysburg National Military Park & Gettysburg Foundation: Sacred Trust – 2014 Talks and Book Signing Event, Gettysburg, PA (3:30pm).
- July 9: “The Shaw Memorial and Civil War Memory,” Skype discussion with Civil War Institute students at Marquette University High School.
- August 1: 150th anniversary of the battle of the Crater, Keynote Speaker for National Park Service Commemoration, Petersburg, VA.
- September 18: “Searching for Black Confederate Soldiers,” Olde Colony Civil War Round Table, Dedham, MA.
- September 26: “Forgetting and Remembering Private Louis Martin,” Conference on Illinois History, Springfield, Ill.
2013
- February 27: Skype discussion about the movie Glory with De La Salle Institute, Chicago, Ill.
- March 14-16: Interpreting Issues of Civil War Memory for the Classroom and Museum Audiences, Conference sponsored by the Gettysburg National Park and the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.
- March 22: Talk on the Battle of the Crater and Book Signing, Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, VA.
- April 20: Massacre at the Crater: Addressing the Tough Questions of Civil War History in the Classroom, Civil War Trust, Regional Teacher Institute
- May 15: Book Signing and Talk, “Remembering the Battle of the Crater”, Rhode Island Civil War Round Table, Cranston, RI.
- June 21-25: “The Other Gettysburg Address: An Introduction to Civil War Memory” The Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA.
- July 11: “Remembering and Commemorating Civil War Soldiers,” Framingham History Center, Framingham, MA.
- July 21: “Hey Boston, Embrace Your Civil War Memory,” Boston Harbor Islands Reservation, National Park Service, Boston, MA.
- August 4-14: Teaching American History Grant funded Civil War tour from Nashville to Washington, D.C.
- October 31: Race and the American Civil War, Skype Discussion with Civil War class at Marquette University High School.
- November 4: “Remembering the Battle of the Crater”, The Nevins Memorial Library, Methuen, MA.
2012
- January 19: Topic TBA, Olde Colony Civil War Roundtable, Dedham, Massachusetts.
- January 30: “From Civil War to Civil Rights”, Teaching American History Grant Workshop for teachers from Virginia Beach, Virginia.
- March 6: “Until Ever Negro Has Been Slaughtered”: Remembering United States Colored Troops at the Crater, Genesee Community College, Batavia, New York.
- March 27: Guest in Civil War Memory seminar taught by David Blight and Brian Jordan, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
- April 19-22: Panelist on Civil War Sesquicentennial Working Group sponsored by the American Association for State and Local History at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Milwaukee, WI.
- April 19-22: “Teaching Civil War History Through Film”, Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Milwaukee, WI.
- June, 22-26: “Blogging the American Civil War”, Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- July 12-15: “Teaching Civil War Monuments”, Civil War Trust, National Teacher Institute, Charleston, SC.
- July 15-19: The Richard Bartol, Jr. Educators’ Conference at Gettysburg National Military Park.
- July 28: Book Signing and Discussion, “Remembering the Battle of the Crater”, Abraham Lincoln Bookshop, Chicago (Virtual Book Signing).
- August 4: Book Signing and Discussion, “Remembering the Battle of the Crater”, GAR Hall in Scituate, MA, sponsored by Sons of Union Veterans (11am).
- September 20: Book Signing and Discussion, “Remembering the Battle of the Crater”, Olde Colony Civil War Roundtable, Dedham, Massachusetts
- September 28: Appearance on Civil War Talk Radio with Gerry Prokopowicz (3pm).
- October 10: Book Signing and Discussion, “Remembering the Battle of the Crater”, Merrimack Civil War Roundtable, Newburyport, Massachusetts.
- October 17: Representations of USCTs in Public History, Skype discussion with class in public history at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
- October 26: Book Signing and Discussion, “Remembering the Battle of the Crater”, Civil War Roundtable of Boston, Waltham, Massachusetts.
- October 31: Skype discussion with Civil War memory class at Skidmore College
- November 1: “Black Confederates Out of the Attic”, Charleston, West Virginia (Rescheduled for 2013).
- November 19: Skype discussion with Civil War class at Marquette University High School
- November 27: Book Signing and Discussion, “Remembering the Battle of the Crater”, New Bedford Civil War Roundtable, New Bedford, Massachusetts
- December 1: “Teaching Glory in the Classroom”, John Brown Lives! Educators’ Workshop
- December 10: “Civil War Memory in a web2.0 World”, Guest lecturer for Nina Silber’s Civil War survey course at Boston University.
- December 19: “Book Signing and Discussion, “Remembering the Battle of the Crater”, Civil War Forum of Metropolitan New York, (NYC).