BGuthrie Photos: USCHS -- Annual Symposium 2017 "Congress Begins to Reconstruct the Nation" -- Presentation 1: Award Presentation (Fafa Nutor) and Paul Finkelman (Thaddeus Stevens)

USCHS -- Annual Symposium 2017 "Congress Begins to Reconstruct the Nation" -- Presentation 1: Award Presentation (Fafa Nutor) and Paul Finkelman (Thaddeus Stevens):

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Description of Pictures: USCHS Annual Spring Symposium:
Congress Begins to Reconstruct the Nation
The U.S. Capitol Historical Society will present its annual symposium May 11 and 12 on Capitol Hill. Scholars from around the country will start to explore the post-Civil War period in “Congress Begins to Reconstruct the Nation.”

Presentation 1:
Award Presentation:
Fafa Nutor, Making Democracy Work Essay Contest Winner. Presented by Chuck diGiacomantonio, Chief Historian, US Capitol Historical Society.

Symposium Introduction:
Paul Finkelman and Brook Thomas, Symposium Directors

Paul Finkelman, John E. Murray Visiting Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
“Thaddeus Stevens, the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, and the Revolution of 1866”

Paul Finkelman is the John E. Murray Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He has published more than 200 scholarly articles and books on the law of American slavery, the First Amendment, American race relations, American legal history, the U.S. Constitution, freedom of religion, baseball and the law, and a biography of Millard Fillmore. His work on legal history and constitutional law has been cited four times by the United States Supreme Court, numerous other courts, and in many appellate briefs. Finkelman has most recently served as scholar-in-residence at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia and as a senior fellow in the University of Pennsylvania Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and the Constitution. He has previously served as a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Saskatchewan, Duke Law School, Miami Law School, and Brooklyn Law School, and served as a tenured professor of law and the President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy from 2006-2013 at Albany Law School.

Brook Thomas’s most recent publications include Civic Myths: A Law and Literature Approach to Citizenship (University of North Carolina Press, 2007) and “The Unfinished Task of Grounding Reconstruction’s Promise” (The Journal of the Civil War Era, 2017). Now at the University of California at Irvine, most of his research has been on US law and literature and literature and history. He is adamantly opposed to a reflection theory of literature; instead, he is fascinated with how, by creating imaginary worlds, literary works make political arguments, not by arguing a thesis, but by formally placing the various forces at play in a period in different proportions and relations. “Cross-examining” the law and literature of a period allows exploration of how difficult it is to find remedies for wrongs, even those universally condemned today. His newer work, “The Ambassadors of Reconstruction,” explores how Reconstruction’s politics and memory of its politics affected US foreign policy. He has held numerous fellowships, including Von Humboldt Fellow; Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow; ACLS Fellowship; and NEH Fellowship.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. CHSP1_170512_009.JPG: Chuck diGiacomantonio meeting with the family of Fafa Nutor, Making Democracy Work Essay Contest Winner
2. CHSP1_170512_014.JPG: User comment: Glenn Marcus and Paul Finkelman
3. CHSP1_170512_018.JPG: Chuck diGiacomantonio and Fafa Nutor, Making Democracy Work Essay Contest Winner
4. CHSP1_170512_075.JPG: Eric Foner
5. CHSP1_170512_085.JPG: John Elliff and Paul Finkelman
6. CHSP1_170512_222.JPG: Paul Finkelman
7. CHSP1_170512_258.JPG: Don Kennon
8. CHSP1_170512_304.JPG: Jon Willen
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