Thursday, September 3, 3:30-5pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Recent protests over racial issues have rekindled efforts to rename the 10 U.S. Army bases that honor officers of the Confederate States Army, plus one named after a local plantation. Please join the Mershon Center for International Security Studies for a virtual conversation about the background of the people for whom these bases are named, the Jim Crow-era politics that influenced their creation, and guidelines for selection of potential replacements.

Speakers

• Mark Grimsley, an Associate Professor at The Ohio State University who specializes in 19th century American military history

• Hasan Kwame Jeffries, an Associate Professor at The Ohio State University who specializes in African-American history

• Peter Mansoor, the General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair of Military History at The Ohio State University and a senior faculty fellow at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies

• Jennifer Siegel (panel chair), a Professor of History at The Ohio State University and a senior faculty fellow at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies

Register for this event by using this link.

If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Kyle McCray at <mccray.44@osu.edu>. Requests made two weeks before the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

Hosted by Mershon Center for International Security Studies.