Ithaca College

On April 6-8, Assistant Professor of History Pearl Ponce was invited to present at a Border Wars Symposium at Kansas University's Hall Center for the Humanities sponsored by their Peace, War, & Global Change Seminar.

The symposium gathered scholars of the Kansas-Missouri border region whose work focuses on the "Bleeding Kansas," Civil War, and Reconstruction eras to discuss how societies fragmented by ideology splinter and then are rebuilt.  Professor Ponce presented on the controversy surrounding Kansas' proslavery Lecompton Constitution during during Session I (Making the Border Bleed:  Slavery, Politics, and Geography in Territorial Kansas).

More information about the symposium can be found at:

http://www.hallcenter.ku.edu/~hallcenter/cgi-bin/index.php/calendar/event/border-wars-symposium