# Event Details

- **Event Name**: AHC Railroad Speaker Series: "Binding the Nation: Civil War Politics and the Promise of the Pac. RR 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 24 Mar, 2026 at 05:30 pm – Tue, 24 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: The Civil War didn't just reshape the nation on the battlefield—it unleashed an unprecedented expansion of federal authority into the American West. This talk traces how wartime politics enabled the Pacific Railroad, revealing how congressional Republicans leveraged secession and military crisis to advance a transcontinental project that had been stalled for years by sectional conflict, and what that project meant for the communities and landscapes in its path.

About the speaker: Cecily Zander is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming. She also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. Her first book The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era, won the 2024 Wiley-Silver Prize for the best first book in Civil War History. Her next book, a history of Abraham Lincoln and the American West, will be published by Liveright. She is also working on a short history of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. In addition to teaching and writing, she edits the History in an Afternoon series at Louisiana State University Press.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/laramie/ahc-railroad-speaker-series-binding-the-nation-civil-war-politics-and-the-promise-of-the-pac-rr/200029779776839
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- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 26

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Laramie
- **state**: WY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 2111 E. Willett Dr., Laramie, WY, United States, Wyoming 82071
- **lat**: 41.31417
- **long**: -105.56812
- **full address**: 2111 E. Willett Dr., Laramie, WY, United States, Wyoming 82071

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is AHC Railroad Speaker Series: "Binding the Nation: Civil War Politics and the Promise of the Pac. RR  being held?
  - **A:** AHC Railroad Speaker Series: "Binding the Nation: Civil War Politics and the Promise of the Pac. RR  takes place on Tue, 24 Mar, 2026 at 05:30 pm to Tue, 24 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm at 2111 E. Willett Dr., Laramie, WY, United States, Wyoming 82071.
- **Q**: Who is organizing AHC Railroad Speaker Series: "Binding the Nation: Civil War Politics and the Promise of the Pac. RR ?
  - **A:** AHC Railroad Speaker Series: "Binding the Nation: Civil War Politics and the Promise of the Pac. RR  is organized by American Heritage Center.

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