Café Conversation | The U.S. Civil War and Global Crisis: Then and Now, Feb. 24

Dr. Brian Schoen. Photo courtesy of the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission

Café Conversation presents Dr. Brian Schoen, Associate Professor of History, discussing “The U.S. Civil War and Global Crisis: Then and Now,” on Wednesday, Feb. 24, at 5 p.m. in the Baker Center Front Room.

“It’s a century in which you have millions of people moving for the first time, a large number of those people moving across the globe,” he said about how globalization accelerated during the 19 ^th century. “You have trade that is not just connecting across one ocean, but across multiple oceans.”

Schoen talks about the state of the United States in the mid-19^th century and some of the issues that are re-emerging now, nearly 200 years later, at his Café Conversation.

Watch on A&S TV.

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