“Dimensions of Freedom in 19th Century America”
Keynote Address:
Dr. Eric Foner (Columbia University) – “The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Forged a Constitutional Revolution”
Confirmed Speakers:
Dr. Richard Bailey (San Jacinto College)
Dr. John Barr (Lone Star College)
Dr. Brian Jordon (Sam Houston State University)
Dr. Raúl A. Ramos (University of Houston)
Dr. Fay Yarbrough (Rice University) – “Uncertain Freedom: Choctaw Freedpeople in Indian Territory in the Aftermath of the Civil War”
2019 Organizing Committee:
Lee Benjamins, Andrew Chau, Art Fitz-Gerald, John Gillespie, Cody Pogue, Doug Simmons, and Monica Yancey