Design, oral history and remember what i said about speakers and their commitment to mentorship and to education. Shes the author of essays published in 2018 and 19 in the civil war and the transformation of american citizenship and new perspectives on the union war. As i was preparing this introduction, i read her work in the flagship journal Civil War History as part of a round table discussion about the new civil war revisionism. Her book manuscript mentioned in your printed program is now under contract, im pleased to say, with unc press. It examines how black women strategically used the laws geography of the Nations Capital to make claims to liberty during the civil war. It is from that work that her program today is derived. Freed women, mobilizing emancipation and citizenship and selfmaking in wartime washington, d. C. Ladies and gentlemen, tamkia nunley. [ applause ] thank you. Good afternoon and i should thank you extra because it is after lunch, late in the afternoon and you