2007 CIC/Gilder Lehrman American History Seminar

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2007 CIC/Gilder Lehrman American History Seminar: "The Civil War in Global Context"

June 24–30, 2007
New York University
Nomination Deadline: Friday, February 16, 2007

Directed by Thomas Bender, Professor of History and Director of the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University

Gilder Lehrman History Seminar Brochure and Nomination Form
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The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History are pleased to announce a week-long seminar for college teachers of history and related fields on The Civil War in Global Context. The seminar will be held at New York University in New York City and is open to faculty members in history and related disciplines at CIC member institutions. For those accepted to participate in the seminar, all expenses of participation except travel to and from New York will be covered by the Gilder Lehrman Institute.

The Civil War is the central national event of American history and a distinctively American experience. It is also, however, part of larger liberal and nationalist developments in the mid-nineteenth century that occurred on every continent: creating modern nation-states, extending new political and economic freedoms, and defining national citizenship. This seminar will examine these transnational and global aspects of the American Civil War and consider how such study enriches our understanding of the sectional crisis, the breakup of the Union, and the limits of Reconstruction. It is expected that seminar participants will benefit from the seminar in their teaching and research.

Thomas Bender, professor of history and director of the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University, will lead the seminar. A recent Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, he is the author of numerous books including A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History (2006); The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea (2002); and Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States (1993). His 1975 book, Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth Century America, received the Frederick Jackson Turner prize from the Organization of American Historians.

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