2025 Annual Conference: Reconstruction

The Nau Civil War Center's 2025 Annual Conference will take place on Friday, April 11, in UVA's Small Special Collections Library auditorium. The conference will focus on Reconstruction, and it will feature presentations by Hannah Rosen, Justene Hill Edwards, Manisha Sinha, Kidada E. Williams, and Calvin Schermerhorn. It will be free and open to the public.

Conference Schedule

9:45am: Opening remarks from Caroline E. Janney

10am: Calvin Schermerhorn, "Wealth Trap: The Adams-Bentley-Goings Family in the Reconstruction-Era North"

11am: Justene Hill Edwards, "The Freedman's Bank and the (Un)Making of Reconstruction"

noon: Break for lunch

1pm: Hannah Rosen, "Voice and Protest: Black Women, Sexual Assault, and the Difference Made by Reconstruction"

2pm: Kidada Williams, "They Never Intended to Do Me Justice: African American Families in the War against Reconstruction"

3pm: Manisha Sinha, "The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic"

Host or Publisher John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History