Updated 3 August 2021

Upcoming Events: 

Selected Past Lectures, Events, and Media in reverse chronological order. 

• “Civil War Union Noncombatant Personnel:  Teamsters, Laundresses, Nurses, Sutlers, and More.”  National Archives, 8 June 2021 (Video).  Slides (PDF).  Handout (PDF).
• “1950 Census on Track for 2022 Release, Despite Pandemic.”  National Archives News, 30 Apr. 2021.
• Michael E. Ruane, “During the Civil War, the enslaved were given an especially odious job. The pay went to their owners.” Washington Post, July 9, 2020. (Mentioned in article.) 
• “Introduction to Genealogy,” National Archives 2015 Virtual Genealogy Fair, October 21, 2015.
• Using Records of Artificial Limbs for Union Civil War Veterans, 1861-1927. National Archives, 14 May 2015. (Video). Slides (PDF).
• “Introduction to Genealogy,” 2014 National Archives Virtual Genealogy Fair. (Video).
• “Slave Ship Manifests Filed in New Orleans, 1807-1860.”  A blogtalkradio program hosted by Bernice Alexander Bennett, 31 August 2012.
• Hartland and the Civil War, 29 May 2005, at Hartland, Michigan. (PDF).
• “Research Notes:  National Archives.” Association for Great Lakes Maritime History Newsletter, Vol. XXIV, No. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 2007): 7. (Mentioned in article.)