Professor Schwalm welcomes opportunities to speak on college campuses, in classrooms, and to community groups on a wide range of topics related to the era of Civil War and emancipation, including:
- Remembering Slavery and Commemorating Emancipation
- Black Bodies, Medical Science, and the Civil War
- Emancipation and Wartime Migration: Black Freedom-Seekers and the Destruction of Slavery
- Surviving Wartime Emancipation: African Americans and the Cost of Civil War
- U.S. Slavery, Civil War, and Enslaved Motherhood
- Colored Conventions and the unwritten history of Black Iowans
Leslie Schwalm is also a Distinguished Lecturer with the Organization of American Historians.
OAH Distinguished Lecturers may be scheduled for keynote speeches, conferences, public and private lectures, seminars, workshops, and other community events. Contact the Distinguished Lectureship Program coordinator using the link above, for additional information and to inquire about individual speaker fees.
Leslie Schwalm, historian 