To mark the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War era, Cleveland State University will host 9-10 September 2011 Ohio Goes to War: The Sectional Crisis and the Fight for Freedom. The conference will focus issues relating to the Civil War and Ohio.
All conference events will take place on the third floor of the the new CSU Student Center on Euclid Avenue between East 21st and East 22nd streets.
The conference will feature scholarly panels Friday and Saturday that the social, cultural, military, and political issues of the age of sectionalism, focusing especially on such issues as Ohio’s abolition movement, the Underground Railroad, the Secession Crisis, military mobilization, and the home front. Friday night will feature a talk by historian John Stauffer of Harvard University, author of the prize-winning book The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race and GIANTS: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln; Saturday at lunchtime features Christine Dee of Fitchburg State University and editor of “Feel the Bonds That Draw” Images of the Civil War at the Western Reserve Historical Society and Ohio’s War: The Civil War in Documents. Both talks are free and open to the public.
For more details, contact Dr. Robert Shelton at r.s.shelton@csuohio.edu or visit the Registration page.
Made possible in part by the Ohio Humanities Council and the following sponsors: the Butchel College of Arts and Sciences and the History Department at the University of Akron; the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, the History Department and the Black Studies Program at Cleveland State University; the History Department at Kent State University; and the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and the History Department at Youngstown State University; and by Kent State University Press.
