On May 17-18, 2008, FPRI's Wachman Center presented a weekend of discussion on America in the Civil War Era, 1829-77, for 43 teachers selected from across the country, held at and co-sponsored by Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin. Sessions included: (1) Throes of Democracy (Walter A. McDougall); (2) What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Daniel Walker Howe); (3) Teaching about Slavery (Michael Johnson); (4) The Technological Revolution (Maury Klein); (5) Honest Abe: Abraham Lincoln and the Moral Character (Daniel Walker Howe); (6) Women in the Civil War (Jane Schultz); (7) Teaching Military History: The Civil War as Case Study (Karl Walling); and (8) Postwar Reconstruction (Herman Belz.)