{"id":241,"date":"2017-04-16T18:09:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T22:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/?p=241"},"modified":"2025-05-22T07:15:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T11:15:47","slug":"4th-annual-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2017\/04\/16\/4th-annual-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"4th Annual Civil War Era Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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4th<\/sup> Annual Civil War Era Lecture, Thursday, April 20, 5:30 PM<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

University Center Raccoon Mountain Room<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Department of History and the Africana Studies Program hosts\u00a0UTC\u2019s 4th<\/sup> Annual Civil War Era Lecture<\/strong>. The event will take place on\u00a0Thursday, April 20, at 5:30pm in the University Center Raccoon Mountain Room.<\/strong> This year\u2019s speaker will be Jim Downs, Associate Professor of History at Connecticut College. His talk is entitled \u201cDying to Be Free: The Health Conditions of Formerly Enslaved People During the Civil War and Reconstruction.\u201d<\/p>\n

The talk is free and open to the public. Questions may be directed to lecture co-organizer Will Kuby at William-Kuby@utc.edu<\/a>. Attendees in need of accommodations are invited to contact UTC\u2019s Disability Resource Center at 423-425-4006<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more information on Professor Downs, see https:\/\/www.conncoll.edu\/directories\/faculty-profiles\/james-downs\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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