Jonathan’s research has been presented at meetings of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the African American Intellectual History Society, and the Southern Historical Association, among other organizations. He also spoke at the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.
Watch Jonathan describe the travails of Black men in the U.S. army during the Civil War in “U.S. Colored Troops and Desertion during the Civil War.
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Full List of Speaking
INVITED LECTURES and WORKSHOPS
“More Than Glory: Desertion and Freedom in the USCT,” Camp Tippecanoe Civil War Round Table, March 2022
“USCT Service,” Guest Lecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, February 2022
“Lincoln and Douglass,” Aletheia Honors Club, Weber State University, February 2020
“Black Military Service during the American Civil War,” New-York Historical Society Colloquium, New York, New York, May 2019
“Black Rebels in Union Blue,” Weber State University History, Ogden, Utah, April 2019
“‘Lighting Up the Path of Liberty and Justice’: Black Abolitionists’ July Fourth Celebrations and the Construction of an Insurgent Nationalism, 1827-1865,” New School History Workshop, New York, New York, February 2019
“USCT Desertion,” Civil War Institute Summer Conference, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, June 2018
“African American Deserters and the Problem of Military Freedom in the American Civil War,” University of Texas, San Antonio, November 13, 2017
“Recruiting and Organizing African American Soldiers in the U.S. Civil War,” Historical Society of Pennsylvania Colloquium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 14, 2017
“Black Resistance in the Union Army,” Massachusetts Historical Society Colloquium, Boston, Massachusetts, August 17, 2016
“African American Desertion and Mutiny in the U.S. Civil War,” Connecticut Historical Society Colloquium, Hartford, Connecticut, May 26, 2016
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Conferences Organized
Legal Studies Graduate Student Conference, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 2017
Legal History Graduate Student Conference, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 2016
Panels Organized
“Bounded Liberty: Black Captives and their War for Freedom,” Society of Civil War Historians, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2022
“Defining Freedom in the Law during the Civil War and Reconstruction,” Society of Civil War Historians, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2020
“Cultures of Occupations: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Resentment during Early Reconstruction,” American Historical Association, New York, New York, 2020
“Thought Currents in the Black Atlantic: Ideas of Mobility Among the Enslaved, Excluded, and Empowered,” African American Intellectual History Society, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2019
“The Limitations of Frederick Douglass’ Freedom Vision,” Frederick Douglass Across and Against Times, Places, and Disciplines, Paris, France, 2018
“Freedom Tactics: Inventing Alternatives to Enslavement and Race in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Black Atlantic,” American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., 2018
“The Politics of Emancipation: Abolition from Above, Abolition from Below,” Society of Civil War Historians, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 2016
Papers Presented
“Worthy of Freedom: Black Jurisprudence and Resisting Disciplinary Violence in the Courts-Martial during the US Civil War,” Military Justice in the Modern Era, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany July 2022
“‘In Hopes of Obtaining Justice’: Incarcerated Black Soldiers and Inmate Activism in U.S. Army Prisons Society of Civil War Historians,” Society of Civil War Historians, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 2022
“Leaves of Freedom and Black Caregivers in the Union Ranks during Emancipation,” The Great Strike: Slavery During the American Civil War, Virginia Center for Civil War Studies, Blacksburg, Virginia, April 2022
“The Execution of Black Mutineers and Problem of Freedom in the Army during the Civil War,” Organization of American Historians, Boston, Massachusetts, 2022
“Caregiver Manhood and the Deserting Black Fathers and Husbands of the U.S. Civil War,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 2021
“He Stands Proudly the Blackest of the Black”: Black Power and Patriotism in Frances Rollin’s Post-Civil War Biography of Martin Delany,” Southern Historical Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2021
“Freedom on Trial: Black Jurisprudence in the U.S. Army Courts-Martial,” Society of Civil War Historians, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2021
“‘Nature Marked Him for Combat’: Gender and Racial Politics in Frances Rollin’s Post-Civil War Biography of Martin Delany,” American Historical Association, New York, New York, 2020
“Slave Soldiers of the U.S. Civil War, Movement Amidst Emancipation, and the ‘Lure of Freedom,’” African American Intellectual History Society, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2019
“Deserting Douglass: Frederick Douglass’s Freedom Vision and the Slave Soldiers Who Fled Military Service,” Frederick Douglass Across and Against Times, Places, and Disciplines, Paris, France, 2018
“‘The Long List of Glory’: African American Intellectuals, Civil War History, and the Struggle for Freedom from Reconstruction to the Great War,” Organization of American Historians, Sacramento, California, 2018
“Resistance Among Union Army Slave Soldiers,” American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., 2018
“Deserting Freedom: African American Runaways in the Union Army,” Southern Historical Association, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2016
“Black Mutineers and Freedom in the Union Army,” Society of Civil War Historians, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 2016
“The Black Badge of Courage: The Intellectual History of Black Soldiers in the Civil War,” African American Intellectual History Society, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2016
“What, to the American Slave, is the Fourth of July?,” British American Nineteenth Century History Conference, Newcastle, England, 2012
Panel Comment
Comment, “Manhood & Empire,” Temple University Graduate Student History Conference, Philadelphia, 2012
Panel Chair
“Legal Movements: From Radicalism to New Conservatism,” Legal Studies Graduate Student Conference, Brown University, 2017
“Law, Labor, and Commerce,” Legal History Graduate Student Conference, Brown University, 2016
“Interpreting ‘Others,’” 9th Annual Graduate Student Conference, Brown University, 2015
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