e eleventh annual symposium, "A Just and Lasting
Peace": Ending the Civil War, in the United States Capitol
Historical Society's series, "e National Capital in a Na-
tion Divided: Congress and the District of Columbia Confront
Sectionalism and Slavery," will be held on Friday, May 2,
2014. Since 2004 the Society has conducted a major series of
annual conferences on the important issues that confronted
the national government in the antebellum, Civil War, and Re-
construction eras. Paul Finkelman, the President William
McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy
at Albany Law School, directs the series in consultation with the
Society's Vice President for Scholarship and Education, Donald
Kennon. e annual symposia are held at locations on Capitol
Hill and bring together the best and brightest new scholarship.
e 2014 symposium will be held in the Dirksen Senate Of-
fice Building, Room G50, and will focus attention on Con-
gress and the issues surrounding bringing the Civil War to a close.
In addition to moderator Finkelman, other speakers include
Gregory Downs, City College and Graduate Center, CUNY;
Carole Emberton, Associate Professor of History, Univer-
sity of Buļ¬alo; Matthew Pinsker, Associate Professor of History
and Pohanka Chair in American Civil War History at Dickin-
son College; Anne Sarah Rubin, Associate Professor of His-
tory, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Michael Voren-
berg, Associate Professor of History, Brown University; and
Peter Wallenstein, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University.
Visit our website, www.uschs.org, to pre-register or to get the
latest information on the speakers' topics and program order.
You may also pre-register by emailing uschs@uschs.org or by
calling (202) 543-8919, ext. 38 and leaving a message.
Papers presented at the Society's symposia are published in
collected editions by Ohio University Press. ree volumes in
this series are currently available and may be purchased at the
Society's web site store: Congress and the Emergence of Section-
alism; In the Shadow of Freedom: e Politics of Slavery in the
National Capital; and Congress and the Crisis of the 1850s,
All are edited by Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon.
2014 Annual Symposium Announced
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