Papers & Talks

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  • February 2011: “Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt,” invited talk for the Lincoln Club of Portland, Maine, on the 202nd anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth.
  • January 2011: “Joseph Holt and Redford’s ‘The Conspirator,’” invited talk to the History Teachers Association luncheon, American Historical Association’s annual conference, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • April 2009: “Lincoln the Teacher: Lessons Learned,” invited talk for the Huntington Library Conference on “A Lincoln for our Time,” San Marino, California.
  • March 2009: “The Aftermath of the Lincoln Assassination,” invited talk for the Maine Humanities Council, Portland, Maine.
  • March 2009: “An Ally on the Team of Rivals: Lincoln’s Point Man for Military Justice, Joseph Holt,” invited talk for the Library of Congress Lincoln Symposium, Washington, D. C.
  • November 2008: “Doing the Nation’s Work: Postwar Black Regulars and the Fort Davis Experience,” invited talk for the Georgetown Seminar in Nineteenth-Century U. S. History, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C.
  • June 2008: “Expanding Frontiers, Limited Horizons: Black Regulars at Post-Civil War Fort Davis, Texas,” panel presentation at the Society for Civil War Historians Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • February 2008: “The U. S. Army after the Civil War,” invited talk for the Civil War Round Table of new Hampshire, Epping, New Hampshire.
  • November 2007: One of three main presenters (with Chandra Manning and Matthew Gallman) on the topic “Vermont and the Civil War Home Front,” at the Vermont Humanities Council’s Fall Conference, Burlington, Vermont.
  • March 2007: “Answering Anthony’s Question: Thoughts on the U. S. Army after the Civil War,” invited talk to the Joshua Chamberlain Civil War Round Table, Brunswick, Maine. (I gave a version of this talk again, in February 2008, to the Civil War Round Table of New Hampshire, in Epping, NH.)
  • October 2006: “Gender and Tocqueville,” invited talk for the Tocqueville Symposium, Rochester Instituted of Technology, Rochester, New York. (My participation in this event was, at the last minute, prevented by bad weather.)
  • October 2006: “It is Sad News”: Abraham Lincoln’s Death and its Meaning for Reconstruction,” invited talk, for the annual Lincoln Symposium, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tennessee.
  • September 2006: “Joseph Holt and the Lincoln Assassination,” invited talk presented at Robert Todd Lincoln’s family home, “Hildene,” in Manchester, Vermont.
  • December 2005: Guest, Civil War Talk Radio (host: Gerald Prokopowicz), discussing my book, Lincoln’s Avengers.
  • November 2005: “Joseph Holt and Abraham Lincoln,” invited talk presented at the Lincoln Forum’s annual symposium, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. This talk was filmed and broadcast on C-SPAN’s “BookTV” and will also be published in the Forum’s 2005 Proceedings.
  • October 2005: “Women and the Civil War,” invited talk for the History Department Graduate Students Association, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine.
  • June 2005: “On Women Spies and Soldiers in the Civil War,” presented to the 2005 Society, Slavery, and Civil War Seminar, sponsored by the University of Illinois at Springfield, Illinois.
  • April 2005: “On Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Theories,” panel discussion event for the public, sponsored by the International Spy Museum, at Ford’s Theater, Washington, D. C.
  • March 2005: “Joseph Holt and Abraham Lincoln,” presented to the annual symposium of the Abraham Lincoln Institute, College Park, Maryland.
  • October 2004: “Teaching about Women in the Civil War,” presented to a symposium of public high school teachers at Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
  • June 2004: “Joseph Holt: Lincoln’s Avenger,” presented at the National Archives, Washington, D. C. This talk was videotaped and broadcast on C-SPAN’s “Book TV” Program in August 2004.
  • March 2004: “Joseph Holt: Lincoln’s Avenger,” presented to the Surratt Society Conference on the Lincoln Assassination, Clinton, Maryland.
  • March 2004: “Women in the Civil War,” presented for Women’s History Month at the Springfield Armory National Historic Site, Springfield, Massachusetts.
  • November 2003: “Lincoln’s Avengers: The Federal Government and the Assassination of Lincoln,” Keynote Lecture, Rhode Island Civil War Round Table, Providence, Rhode Island.
  • November 2003: “Lincoln’s Avengers: The Federal Government and the Assassination of Lincoln,” Joshua L. Chamberlain Civil War Round Table, Brunswick, Maine.
  • August 2003: “Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Joshua L. Chamberlain Days Conference, Penobscot Historical Society, Brunswick, Maine.
  • May 2003: “Teaching the Civil War,” Society for Military History Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee.
  • March 2003: “Women and the Civil War,” Winthrop area Business and Professional Women’s Club, Winthrop, Maine. (This event was cancelled due to weather.)
  • March 2003: “Women Spies of the Civil War,” Gettysburg National Monument “Women in the Civil War” Conference, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
  • February 2003: “Women’s Work in the Civil War,” The Interim Club, Waterville, Maine.
  • December 2002: “Mary Surratt and the Lincoln Assassination,” Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Civil War Round Table, Brunswick, Maine. (This event was cancelled due to weather).
  • October 2002: “Maine, Women, Leadership, and Democracy in 19th Century: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Dorothea Dix,” Legacy of Leadership Conference, Washburn-Norlands Living History Center, Livermore Falls, Maine.
  • October 2001: “Mary Surratt and the Assassination of Lincoln,” Maine Retired Teachers Association Annual Conference, Augusta, Maine.
  • June 2001: Invited response to a talk on General Ulysses Grant, Gettysburg Institute, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
  • April 2001: “ Mary Surratt and the Lincoln Assassination,” New Hampshire Civil War Roundtable, Epping, New Hampshire.
  • March 2001: “Mary Surratt and the Lincoln Assassination,” invited talk for a three-day conference (“War Makes Rattling Good History”) held in Wittenberg, Germany, by the Institute for American Studies.
  • March 2001: “Women and the Civil War,” University of Maine’s Women’s History Month Celebration.
  • December 2000: “Mary Surratt and the Plot to Assassinate Lincoln,” Joshua Chamberlain Civil War Roundtable in Brunswick, Maine, on my work on Mary Surratt. (The event was cancelled due to weather.)
  • October 2000: “Women Soldiers, Spies, and Activists,” Maine Retired Teachers Association Annual Conference, Augusta, Maine.
  • October 2000: Keynote speaker, 13th Annual All Servicewomen Past & Present Luncheon, sponsored by Maine Unit #41, Waves National, Augusta, Maine.
  • July 2000: “All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies,” National Archives, Washington, D. C. This talk was videotaped and broadcast by C-Span’s “Booknotes.”
  • March 2000: Keynote speaker, Maine Women’s Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Augusta, Maine.
  • October 1999: “The Civil War: A Women’s War, Too,” Colby College Family Weekend Faculty Lecture.
  • September 1999: “The Importance of Archives and Museums for Historical Research,” Maine Archives and Museums 1999 Fall Conference, Colby College, Waterville, Maine.
  • September 1999: “Women and the Civil War,” Augusta Area Business and Professional Women’s Club, Augusta, Maine.
  • September 1999: “The Women of All the Daring of the Soldier,” North Shore Civil War Roundtable, Huntington, New York.
  • July 1999: “Women and the Civil War,” Colby Alumni College 1999, Waterville, Maine.
  • June 1999: “Women and the Civil War,” Washburn Humanities Conference, Livermore, Maine.
  • March 1999: “Women and the Civil War,” Waterville Area Business & Professional Women’s Club, Waterville, Maine.
  • May 1998: “On Writing Yankee Women,” American and New England Studies End of the Year Gathering, University of Southern Maine, Freeport, Maine.
  • April 1998: “Women’s Participation in the Civil War,” Civil War Roundtable of New Hampshire, Epping, New Hampshire.
  • February 1998: “Women Confront the Civil War,” Maine Historical Society Speakers Series, Portland, Maine.
  • January 1998: “She-Rebels and Other Female Activists in Civil War Espionage and Resistance,” Joshua L. Chamberlain Civil War Roundtable, Brunswick, Maine.
  • June 1997: “What’s in a Name? Gendering the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies in the Civil War,” Conference on Women in the Civil War, Frederick, Maryland.
  • April 1997: “‘She-Rebels’ and other Female Activists in the Civil
  • War: The Testimony of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies,” Organization of American Historians, San Francisco, California. (James McPherson, Chair.)
  • June 1996: “‘Half-Soldier Heroines”: Women in the Civil War Military and Victorian Notions of Gender,” 1996 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  • December 1994: “The Women of Yankee Women,” National Archives, Washington, D. C.
  • June 1994: “‘Men to the Musket, Women to the Needle’: Annie Wittenmyer’s Civil War,” Iowa Cultural Heritage Expo, Des Moines, Iowa.
  • April 1994: “Civil War Nurse, Civil War Nursing: Rebecca Usher of Maine,” New England Historical Association, Waltham, Massachusetts.
  • June 1993: “Extreme Pressure and Limited Tolerance: The Civil War Story of Mary Edwards Walker, M. D.,” 1993 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Vassar College.
  • October 1992: “Northern Women of the Civil War,” Colby College Women’s Studies Colloquium.
  • June 1991: “Northern Women and Gender Boundaries in the Civil War,” Western Association of Women Historians Conference, Asilomar, California.