Past Events

Tuesday, February 14, 2017
12 pm, Byrd Morris Room, Special Collections

Graduate student Brian Neumann will be presenting his latest work as part of our Civil War Studies Seminar. This event is open to UVA faculty and students only. Please RSVP to Stephanie Lawton (skl5az@virginia... [...]

Friday, November 11, 2016
9:30 AM to 4:00 PM, Byrd/Morris Seminar Room

The Nau Center is pleased to host a gathering of some of the top Civil War scholars and institutes utilizing digital methods to study and promote awareness of the American Civil War.

Our guest speakers include:

Stephen Berry,... [...]

Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Noon, Nau Hall Room 241

At noon on Wednesday November 2, graduate student Lauren Haumesser will be presenting her latest work to a joint meeting of the Early American Seminar and the Civil War Seminar groups. Note we will be meeting in Nau 241.

Friday, October 28, 2016
Noon, Nau Hall Room 441

J. Matthew Gallman, the inaugural winner of the Nau Center's book prize for 2016, will be on grounds to meet with graduate students over lunch in Nau Hall. Please RSVP if you will attend this event.

For more on the awarding of the 2016 Nau... [...]

Friday, October 21, 2016
Noon, Nau Hall Room 441

We will have a lunch meeting on Friday, October 21 at noon in Nau 441 to discuss Stephanie Lawton's dissertation prospectus. Please email Frank Cirillo to RSVP.

Tuesday, October 18, 2016
3:30 PM, Harrison Institute Small Special Collections Library Auditorium

George C. Rable will give a lecture at 3:30 PM on October 18, 2016, on the topic of wartime debates in the North regarding hatred and vengeance. The lecture, titled "How Much Should We Hate the Rebels?", will extend the analysis in his recent... [...]

Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Noon, Nau Hall Room 441

On October 11 at noon, Will Kurtz will be presenting his latest work on Union General William S. Rosecrans in room 441 of Nau Hall. The paper will be about Rosecrans's faith and family from his antebellum army career through his death in... [...]

Tuesday, September 20, 2016
1:00 PM, Nau Hall Room 441

Clayton Butler will be presenting his latest work on September 20th at 1 PM in Nau Hall, room 441. Please RSVP to Frank Cirillo at  fjc4ae@virginia.edu if you plan to attend.

Thursday, April 28, 2016
Noon, Byrd/Morris Seminar Room, UVA Special Collections

We will be meeting on Thursday, April 28, at noon in the Byrd/Morris Room to discuss Frank Cirillo's first dissertation chapter, “ ‘The Day of Sainthood Has Passed’: American Abolitionists and the Golden Moment of the Civil War, 1861-1865.”

Thursday, April 21, 2016
Noon, Byrd/Morris Seminar Room, UVA Special Collections

Brian Neumann and Ciaran Dean-Jones will be presenting their master's theses back to back on Thursday, April 21 from noon to 1:30 in the Byrd/Morris Room. Brian's talk is "The State of Greenville: The Struggle for Union in Upcountry South... [...]

Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Noon, Nau Hall 441

Adam I.P. Smith – Senior lecturer in American History at University College London and author of No Party Now: Politics in the Civil War North – will be visiting UVA in April.

The Civil War Studies Seminar holds lunch-time... [...]

Wednesday, April 13, 2016
3:30 PM, Harrison Institute Small Special Collections Library Auditorium
Please join the Corcoran Department of History at the 2016 Cross Lecture:
 
Gary W. Gallagher, John L. Nau III Professor of History
"All About Us: Projection, Wishful Thinking, and Anachronism in Recent... [...]
Friday, April 8, 2016
10:00 AM, Byrd/Morris Seminar Room, Small Special Collections Library

The Nau Center, together with Dr. Kathleen Flake, chair of Mormon Studies at UVA, will be hosting a visit from the editors of the Papers of Joseph Smith documentary editing project. This project is not... [...]

Friday, April 1, 2016
8:00AM-5:00PM, Special Collections Auditorium

Every year the Nau Center will host a major conference on a selected theme, open to the UVA community and the general public.  This year’s conference, “War as Muse: Revisiting Iconic Texts of the Civil War,” takes place on Friday April 1, 2016. ... [...]

Thursday, March 24, 2016
Noon, Byrd/Morris Seminar Room, UVA Special Collections

We will be meeting this Thursday, March 24 at noon in the Byrd/Morris seminar room in the special collections library to discuss a paper by Dr. Mike Caires, entitled, "The Problem of the Gold." Please RSVP to Frank Cirillo if you will be able to... [...]

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