Sponsored by the Office for History of Science and Technology (UC Berkeley)
And the History of Health Sciences Program (UCSF)
Timothy Haggerty
Carnegie Mellon University
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Becoming Disabled: Civil War Veterans and the Politics of Infirmity
For soldiers fighting in the Union forces during the Civil War, invalid pensions went from being a stopgap measure to bolster reenlistment to the single largest expenditure of the federal government in the decades following the war. The changing cultural construction of veteran disability and its enduring political ramifications are examined, utilizing data collected by the Bureau of Pensions, the Census Bureau, and contemporary accounts.
4:00PM
Monday, March 20, 2006
140 Barrows Hall
UC Berkeley
Office for History of Science and Technology, 543 Stephens Hall #2350
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2350
tel: (510) 642-4581, e-mail: diana@berkeley.edu
