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Seven-Part History Course
Thursday evenings, March 8—April 19

“The Union is Dissolved!”: New Hampshire and the Civil War

Thursday, March 8 — Chaos Before the Storm
Antebellum New Hampshire was in a state of turmoil.  Yankee reformers sought means to meet the uncertainties of the times, and, in time, an end to slavery.  Join R. Stuart Wallace, professor of History at New Hampshire Technical Institute, to discuss important events, people, and circumstances leading up to the Civil War.

Thursday, March 15 —  Toward a Disability History of the Civil War
Graham Warder, Assistant Professor of History at Keene State College, will explore why we need to reconceptualize one common aspect of the Civil War experience—disability.

Thursday, March 22 —  New Hampshire’s Civil War in Fiction and Nonfiction
Mark Travis, a veteran journalist and co-author of My Brave Boys, will discuss the limits of facts and imagination in both approaches to understanding New Hampshire’s experience in the Civil War.

Thursday, March 29 —  A New Look at New Hampshire in The Civil War
Mike Pride, author and retired editor of the Concord Monitor, will talk about Our War, his book in progress, focusing on New Hampshire’s Civil War experiences from the perspective of state residents as they lived the events of the war on 50 specific days. 

Thursday, April 5 — Show Trials of the Civil War: Government Prosecution as Partisan Propaganda
Independent scholar and author, William Marvel, will examine how the illegal use of military courts distorted the political process and evolved, finally, into a Republican propaganda bludgeon for manipulating the presidential election of 1864 and the early stages of the Reconstruction process.

Thursday, April 12 —  Herstory in Civil War Quilts
Lynne Zacek Bassett, independent scholar specializing in New England’s historic costume and textiles, will examine how the quilts that women created provide us with a unique insight into the experiences of civilians during the Civil War.

Thursday, April 19 — Voices from the Front: New Hampshire and the Civil War
Join Wesley Balla, the Society’s Director of Collections and Exhibitions, for a tour of important New Hampshire people and events during the war, featuring photographs and objects from the Society’s collections.

Location: 30 Park Street, Concord, NH
Time: 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Cost: $80 for New Hampshire Historical Society members and $120 for non-members.
Registration and Contact: To register by telephone with a credit card, call Education Services Coordinator Stephanie Fortin at 603/856-0604, email her at sfortin@nhhistory.org, You may also download the registration form and mail it in with your payment.