Reporting from the SHA: “Sanitation, Statistics, and State-Building in Reconstruction America”

Reporting from the SHA: “Sanitation, Statistics, and State-Building in Reconstruction America”

The panelists were Judith Giesberg (Villanova University), “‘A Muster Roll of the American People’: The Making of the 1870 Census and Postwar National Sovereignty”; Evan A. Kutzler (Georgia Southwestern State University), “‘Seeing like a State,’ Smelling like a Sanitarian: The Landscape of Health in Civil War Prisons”; and James Kopaczewski (Temple University), “‘The Seed of Robbery…Reaps Its Harvest of Blood’: Placing Grant’s Peace Policy within Reconstruction America.”

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