Welcoming Remarks to “Civil War Lives”
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Steve Hindle and Joan Waugh welcome participants and attendees to the conference “Civil War Lives,” held at the Huntington Library in October 2011. Hindle is the W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at The Huntington, and Waugh is professor of history at UCLA and co-organizer of the conference.
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