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Soldiers and others in front of the U.S. Christian Commission office, Washington, DC, April 1865. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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Distinguished Lecturers
Edward L. Ayers
University of Richmond
Stephen Berry
University of Georgia
Marjorie Wall Bingham
Hamline University, Emerita and St. Louis Park High School, Retired
Richard J. M. Blackett
Vanderbilt University
William A. Blair
Penn State University
David W. Blight
Yale University
Anne M. Boylan
University of Delaware
Leslie Brown
Williams College
Thomas J. Brown
University of South Carolina
W. Fitzhugh Brundage
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Charles F. Bryan Jr.
Virginia Historical Society, Emeritus
Edwin G. Burrows
Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Orville Vernon Burton
Clemson University
Victoria E. Bynum
Texas State University - San Marcos, Emerita
Peter S. Carmichael
Gettysburg College
Richard Carwardine
Corpus Christi College and Oxford University
Andrew Cayton
Miami University
Bruce Chadwick
New Jersey City University
Margaret Creighton
Bates College
Spencer Crew
George Mason University
William Deverell
University of Southern California
Don H. Doyle
University of South Carolina
Laura F. Edwards
Duke University
Stephen D. Engle
Florida Atlantic University
C. Wyatt Evans
Drew University
Alice Fahs
University of California, Irvine
Michael Fellman
Simon Fraser University, Emeritus
Paul Finkelman
Albany Law School
Joseph T. Glatthaar
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thavolia Glymph
Duke University
David Goldfield
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Edward E. Gordon
Independent Historian
Lesley J. Gordon
University of Akron
Michael S. Green
College of Southern Nevada
Mark Grimsley
The Ohio State University
Ariela J. Gross
University of Southern California
Steven Hahn
University of Pennsylvania
Kristin Hoganson
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John C. Inscoe
University of Georgia
Caroline E. Janney
Purdue University
Michael P. Johnson
Johns Hopkins University
Walter D. Kamphoefner
Texas A&M University
Stephen Kantrowitz
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wilma King
University of Missouri-Columbia
Michael J. Klarman
Harvard University
Peter Kolchin
University of Delaware
Glenn W. LaFantasie
Western Kentucky University
Elizabeth D. Leonard
Colby College
Bruce Levine
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Leon F. Litwack
University of California, Berkeley
James W. Loewen
University of Vermont, Emeritus
Trish Loughran
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chandra Manning
Georgetown University
James Marten
Marquette University
Stephanie McCurry
University of Pennsylvania
Edna Greene Medford
Howard University
Joanne Pope Melish
University of Kentucky
Maria E. Montoya
New York University
Mark E. Neely Jr.
Penn State University
Scott Reynolds Nelson
College of William and Mary
Richard Newman
Rochester Institute of Technology
Kenneth W. Noe
Auburn University
Susan O’Donovan
University of Memphis
James Oakes
Graduate Center, City University of New York
T. Michael Parrish
Baylor University
William Pencak
Penn State University, Emeritus
Dylan C. Penningroth
Northwestern University
Christopher W. Phillips
University of Cincinnati
Matthew Pinsker
Dickinson College
Dwight T. Pitcaithley
New Mexico State University
Patrick Rael
Bowdoin College
Carol Reardon
Penn State University
Heather Cox Richardson
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Adam Rothman
Georgetown University
Anne Sarah Rubin
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Robert W. Rydell
Montana State University
Constance B. Schulz
University of South Carolina, Emerita
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
West Virginia University
Nina Silber
Boston University
Brooks D. Simpson
Arizona State University
Manisha Sinha
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Merritt Roe Smith
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marjorie J. Spruill
University of South Carolina
William G. Thomas
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Elizabeth R. Varon
University of Virginia
Michael Vorenberg
Brown University
Harry L. Watson
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Barbara Y. Welke
University of Minnesota
Jeannie Whayne
University of Arkansas
LeeAnn Whites
University of Missouri-Columbia
Kenneth J. Winkle
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Steven E. Woodworth
Texas Christian University
