Gaines M. Foster taught history at LSU for longer than he cares to admit. His publications include Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South; Moral Reconstruction: Federal Legislation of Morality, 1865-1920; and, most recently, The Legacy of the Lost Cause: Essays on Civil War Memory.

Schedule

10:45 am to 11:45 am
Capitol Park Museum, First Floor, Auditorium
Lincoln’s Republic: Election, War, and the Struggle for the Union
A.J. Cade, Death or Victory: The Louisiana Native Guards & the Black Military's Significance in the Civil War
Jonathan Earle, He Has the People: Abraham Lincoln and the Election of 1860
and Scott Ellsworth, Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America
with moderator Gaines Foster

Moderator