2013 Signature Conference: The American Civil War at Home April 20, 2013

This Signature Conference -- the fifth in an annual series -- brings together noted Civil War historians to consider how the Civil War changed Virginia and the nation 150 years ago in the year of the war’s turning point, 1863. This path-breaking program asks what civil war really was, and how fully it could break down society, both in Virginia and the nation as a whole.

Keynote Address

Eric Foner: How the Civil War Changed the Constitution

Panel I: Emancipation and Its Limits

Panelists will consider how slavery ended, the relative significance of the Union Army and the slaves themselves in bringing it about, and the Union Army's unwillingness to fully use black soldiers as agents of emancipation.

Panel II: Internal Dissent in the Confederacy and the Union

Presenters consider how the war caused both Union and Confederate home fronts to fracture from within.

Official Website: http://www.virginiacivilwar.org/2013conference_registration_firefox.php