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 Runaway slave graphic | The American Contradiction: Slavery & the Origins of the American Republic
David BlightLocation: ACES Professional Development Center Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009
4:30 PM to 8:30 PM Yale University professor David Blight will introduce some of the major historical questions to be studied during the 2009-10 ACES TAHG Grant. Contact Person: Joanne Manginelli
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 Whitney's Cotton Gin | Slavery and the Northern Economy
Seth RockmanLocation: ACES Professional Development Center Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009
4:00 PM to 8:00 PM Brown University professor Seth Rockman will discuss the way in which the economies of New England were tired to the Cotton South. Contact Person: Joanne Manginelli
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 Fortune as he may have looked in life. | Field Trip to Mattatuck MuseumLocation: Leaving from ACES Professional Development Center Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Time: TBA Online Resources
Contact Person: Joanne Manginelli
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 | Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War
Harry S. StoutLocation: ACES Professional Development Center Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009
4:00 PM to 8:00 PM Both sides in the Civil War believed that they marched under the banner of God. Professor Stout (Yale University) will discuss the war as a test of ideas. Contact Person: Joanne Manginelli
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 | The Abolitionists and American Slavery
Stacey RobertsonLocation: ACES Professional Development Center Date: Thursday, January 21, 2009
4:00 PM to 8:00 PM Professor Robertson (Bradley University) will discuss abolitionists, their convictions, and the social bases for their actions. Contact Person: Joanne Manginelli
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 "Emancipation," Engraving by Thomas Nast | Emancipation and Freedom's Contested Meanings
Susan O'DonovanLocation: ACES Professional Development Center Date: Thursday, February 25, 2009
4:00 PM to 8:00 PM Professor O'Donovan (University of Memphis) will talk about the way in which the political and economic consequences of emancipation were shaped by the freedmen and their former masters. Contact Person: Joanne Manginelli
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 The caning of Sumner | The Coming of the Civil War
Gary KornblithLocation: ACES Professional Development Center Date: Thursday, March 18, 2009
4:00 PM to 8:00 PM Professor Kornblith (Oberlin College) will consider some of the common explanations historians have given for the coming of the Civil War. Contact Person: Joanne Manginelli
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 | Field Trip to the Harriett Beecher Stowe CenterLocation: Leaving from ACES Professional Development Center Date: Saturday, March 27, 2009
Time: TBA Online Resources
Contact Person: Joanne Manginelli
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 | The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War
Edward RugemarLocation: ACES Professional Development Center Date: Thursday, April 22, 2009
4:00 PM to 8:00 PM Professor Rugemar (Yale University) will talk about the significant impact that the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies had on the political contest over slavery in the United States and shaped the coming of the Civil War. Contact Person: Joanne Manginelli
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 Detail from the Massachusetts 54th memorial, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens | Field Trip to Boston MassachusettsLeaving from ACES Professional Development Center Date: Saturday, May 8, 2009
Time: TBA Contact Person: Joanne Manginelli
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 Portrait of Philadephia minister and abolitionish Richard Allen | African Americans and Abolitionism
Richard NewmanLocation: ACES Professional Development Center Date: May 13, 2009
4:00 PM to 8:00 PM Professor Newman (Rochester Institute of Technology) will discuss the influential role African Americans played in the movement to abolish slavery. Contact Person: Joanne Manginelli
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 Gettysburg National Military Park | Slavery, Civil War, and Emancipation:
Summer InstituteLocation: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and Charleston, South Carolina Dates: Sunday, June 27 to Saturday, July 3, 2009 Contact Person: Joanne Manginelli
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