Burrus Carnahan  -  Professorial Lecturer, George Washington University Law School ~ Foreign Affairs Officer, U.S. Department of State
Key Publication: 
  • Lincoln on Trial: Southern Civilians and the Law of War (2010)
  • Act of Justice (on the Emancipation Proclamation)
Symposium Topic:  "Lincoln on Trial? The President and Military Treatment of Southern Civilians"
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Amanda Foreman  - Ph.D., FRSA, Senior Visiting Scholar, AHRB Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Queen Mary, University of London
Key Publications:
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War (2011)
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (1998) , Winner of the Whitbread Book Award for best biography and basis of the 2008 film, The Duchess
Symposium Topic: "Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in England: A Propaganda Tool for the Enemy?"
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David Hirsch  -  J.D., Attorney and former columnist for the ABA Journal
Key Publication: Co-author with Dan Van Haften - Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason (2010)
Symposium Topic: "And the War Came: The Geography of Language"
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James Swanson  -  Senior Legal Scholar, Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, The Heritage Foundation
Key Publications:
Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse (2010)
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (2006)
Symposium Topic: "Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse"
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Jonathan White  -  Ph.D., Assistant Professor and Post-Doctoral Fellow, Christopher Newport University, and ALI Dissertation-Prize Winner (2010)
Key Publications:
Abraham Lincoln and Citizens' Rights in the Civil War: The Trials of John Merryman (Forthcoming: LSU Press, Fall 2011)
Editor, A Philadelphia Perspective: The Civil War Diary of Sidney George Fisher (2007)
Symposium Topic: "John Merryman and Lincoln's Other Habeas Corpus Problem"
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