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      • “The Civil War and the Shaping of American Medical Science” Saturday February 22, 2025 in The Symposium, “The Civil War and Remaking America, On the Battlefield” The American Civil War Museum, Richmond Virginia (this talk was also featured on C-Span)
      • “Three Critical Points in Civil War Medicine.” Guest lecture, Furman University, March 24, 2021.
      • “Managing Wound Trauma and Studying Disease: The Rise of American Medical Science during the Civil War.” The Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies in Waterloo, ON, December 4, 2019.
      • “James Fulton and Doctoring During the American Civil War”, The National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Frederick, MD, October 16, 2019.
      • “And the Doctor’s Came Home: Smallpox and the Science of Bacteriology in the Post-Civil War South.” Keynote Speaker, The Joint Meeting of the 4th Agnes Dillion Randolph International Nursing History and 21st Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, March 14-16, 2019, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
      • “Death and the American Civil War,” Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, April 29, 2017.
      • “Civil War Medicine and the Making of Mercy Street: Historical Advising on the PBS hit series Mercy Street.” The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, January 17, 2017.
      • “The Civil War and American Medicine: The Development of Public Health Practice and the Rise of the American Hospital,” Keynote Address, Marshfield Clinic Centennial Celebration, Marshfield, Wisconsin, October 13, 2016.
      • Studying Traumatic Wounds and Infectious Diseases in the Civil War Hospitals: The Medical Photography of the Civil War, The Countway Medical Library, Harvard University, November 19, 2015.
      • “To Make Something out of the Dying in this War”: Civil War Medicine and the Rise of American Medical Science, The Tom Watson Brown Book Award Dinner, Little Rock Marriot, Little Rock Arkansas, November 13, 2015.
      • Bodies of War: Civil War Medicine and the Transformation of Medical Science, Wiley-Silver Prize Address, The Center for Civil War Research, The University of Mississippi, October 3, 2015.
      • “Doctoring the Civil War: American Physicians and the Transformation of American Medicine.” The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Health Sciences Library, April 8, 2015.
        Further information:http://hsl.lib.unc.edu/news2014/1427129537
        https://news.unchealthcare.org/som-vital-signs/2015/march-19/doctoring-the-civil-war-american-physicians-and-the-transformation-of-american-medicine
      • “Smallpox and Control in the Civil War South: The New Science of Bacteriology and the Rise of Public Health Practice.” Twenty-Second Annual Conference on Civil War Medicine, Kennesaw Georgia, October 3-5, 2014.
        Further information: http://www.civilwarmed.org/civil-war-medicine-conference/
      • “Photographing Medicine: Clinical Photography, Photomicrography, and the Development of New Investigative Techniques during the American Civil War.” Georgia Tech University, Atlanta Georgia , April 12, 2014.
        Further Information: http://www.hts.gatech.edu/civilwar
      • “The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science.” Western University, March 27, 2014.
        Further Information: https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/medicine/undergraduate/ume-blog/articles/2014/03/26/history-of-medicine-event-tomorrow
    • “Photographing Disease: Civil War Bodies and New Investigative Techniques.” The University of Chicago Medical School, Chicago Biomedical Consortium, October 30, 2013. Further information, please click here.
    • “How Understandings of Disease were transformed during the Civil War.” Captain’s Course, U.S. Army Medical Department Center and School, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, December 6, 2012
    • “How was Knowledge Produced and Disseminated during the American Civil War?: A Discussion on Researching the Civil War and American Medicine,” Pre-Conference Workshop, American Association for the History of Nursing Conference,
      Georgia Southern University, Savannah Georgia, September 27-30, 2012.
    • “Producing Knowledge: Civil War Bodies and the Development of Scientific Medicine in 19th Century America,” Civil War Medicine Symposium to coincide with “Binding Wounds: Pushing Boundaries,: National Library of Medicine’s Travelling Exhibit, Historical Collections & Archives Greenblatt Library of the Georgia Health Sciences University, June 6, 2012.
    • “Civil War Science and the Development of American Medical Practice and Research,” Encore Program, North Carolina State University, May 16, 2012.
    • “Practice and the Science of Medicine: Hospital Gangrene and the American Civil War, 1861-1865,” Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay Ontario, November 24, 2011.
    • Science, Disease and Experimental Medicine: Gangrene and Erysipelas during the American Civil War, 1861-1865,” Duke/UNC Collaborative Speakers Series, Trent History of Medicine Society and Bullitt History of Medicine Club, Duke University, October 11, 2011.
    • “Dissecting the Civil War Body: Autopsies and the American Civil War,” London Medical/Historical Association, December 9, 2010.
    • “Research, Bodies and the Development of Experimental Method: Septic and Zymotic Diseases during the American Civil War, 1861-1865.” Human Experimentation Workshop, Diefenbaker Centre, University of Saskatchewan, October 23, 2009. Part of the “Situating Science, SSHRC funded Strategic Knowledge Cluster.”