Each fall and spring, the Richards Center sponsors a series of Civil War Era Workshops for students and faculty. These workshops familiarize students with the research process by bringing senior scholars from around the country to Penn State to discuss their works in progress. Graduate students have also been invited to share their work or serve as commentators. Through the workshops, the Richards Center has a hand in encouraging the latest research in the Civil War era.

Workshop Schedule
Date	Event	Time	Location
October 3, 2008	Douglas Egerton, LeMoyne College "Death and Liberty: African Americans in Revolutionary America"	4:00 p.m.	102 Weaver
October 23, 2008	Sylviane Diouf, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 1808 Bicentennial Symposium Co-sponsored by The Center for American Literary Studies	TBA	TBA
October 31, 2008	Jonathan Earle, University of Kansas "The Election of 1860"	4:00 p.m.	102 Weaver
January 23, 2009	Graduate Student Workshop: James Adam Rogers "Union Odyssey: The Demobilization and Readjustment of Pennsylvania's Civil War Veterans" Respondents: Rachel Moran, Alfred Wallace	4:00 p.m.	302 Pond Lab
February 27, 2009	Rosanne Adderley, Vanderbilt University "Abolition, Amelioration and Sexual Exploitation: Female African 'Apprentices' in the British Caribbean, 1810-1830" Co-sponsored by the History Department	4:00 p.m.	302 Pond Lab
March 19, 20, and 21, 2009	Carol Reardon, Penn State The Stephen and Janice Brose Distinguished Lecture Series	TBA	Foster Auditorium, Pattee Library
April 3, 2009	Kathi Kern, University of Kentucky "Religious Identities and Women's Rights in the Gilded Age"	4:00 p.m.	102 Weaver