Democracy and the American Civil War - Kent State University

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Democracy and the American Civil War - Kent State University

Join bestselling author Jeff Shaara and a panel of Civil War experts
at Kent State University's 13th annual Symposium on Democracy, April
23–25, 2012, on the Kent campus.

5 p.m. Monday, April 23
Keynote - The Civil War as an Enduring Phenomenon
Jeff Shaara, author of Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure

9 a.m., Tuesday, April 24
Race and the Civil War
Mitchell Snay, Denison University, and James Oakes, City University of
New York

1:45 p.m., Tuesday, April 24
The Civil War Home Front
Matt Gallman, University of Florida, and Mark Grimsley, Ohio State
University

9:30 a.m., Tuesday, April 25
Reconstruction and the State of the Nation After the Civil War
Stanley Harrold, South Carolina State University, and Fay Yarbrough,
University of Oklahoma

The event is free and open to the public. For more information visit:

http://www.kent.edu/about/history/May4/symposium/index.cfm