The Center for Civil War Research and the History Department at the University of Mississippi invites attendees to the 2025 Conference on the Civil War (a Porter Fortune Symposium), to be held October 16-18, 2025 in Oxford, Mississippi.  All events are free and open to the public; no registration is required. Visit our website for a full conference program.

PROGRAM:

Thursday, October 16

2:30-3:45: Panel 1: U.S. Law and the World (Butler Auditorium)

4:00-5:30: Special Roundtable on the Legal History of the Civil War Era (Butler Auditorium)

Featuring Cynthia Nicoletti (University of Virginia),  Gautham Rao (American University), and Anne Twitty (Stanford University)

5:45: Opening Reception Begins (University Archives and Special Collections)

6:00: Wiley-Silver Award Presentation: Cecily Zander (University of Wyoming) for The Army Under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era (University Archives and Special Collections)

6:45-8:00 Opening Reception Continues (University Archives and Special Collections)

Friday, October 17

9:00-10:30     Panel 2: Laws of War (Butler Auditorium)

10:45-12:00   Panel 3: New Interpretations of the Reconstruction Amendments (Butler Auditorium)

2:30-4:00       Panel 4: Freedom Seekers and Emancipation (Butler Auditorium)

5:00-6:30       Keynote Address: Ariela Gross, University of California, Los Angeles: “Erasing Slavery, Rewriting Freedom: How Stories of Slavery and Emancipation Shape Battles Over the Constitution” (Student Union Auditorium, Room 124)

Saturday, October 18

9:00-10:15     Panel 5: Civil Rights in the Civil War North (Butler Auditorium)

10:30-12:00   Panel 6: Enforcing Reconstruction Legislation (Butler Auditorium)