The Civil War Study Group will hold its 6th Annual Symposium at The Filson Historical Society in Louisville, Kentucky, on Saturday, September 14, 2013. Participants in this informal symposium should read Don E. Fehrenbacher, _The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government’s Relations to Slavery_ (2001), in preparation for discussion of the book and its themes.

With the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation in mind, the organizing committee seeks proposals for papers that investigate such topics as wartime anxieties about emancipation and constitutionalism in the western border states, Kentucky Unionism and slavery, the draft, African American soldiers, and the coming of the Thirteenth Amendment in the border states.

Please send a one-page proposal and a curriculum vita by mail to:

R. Darrell Meadows, Director
Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition
Kentucky Historical Society
100 W. Broadway
Frankfort, KY 40601

or by e-mail to:

darrell.meadows@ky.gov

by April 15, 2013. Presenters will be notified by May 1.