Scottsdale Civil War Roundtable November Meeting

On Tuesday, November 17, 2026, the Scottsdale Civil War Roundtable will host Mark Graber. author of Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform After the Civil War (Kansas, 2023). Professor Graber will discuss the Constitution of the Confederate States of America and its role in the conflict within America. He has also authored A New Introduction to American Constitutionalism (Oxford 2013), Dred Scott and
the Problem of Constitutional Evil (Cambridge, 2006), and was co-editor (with Keith Whittington and Howard Gillman) of American Constitutionalism: Structures and Powers and American Constitutionalism: Rights and Powers, both also from Oxford University Press, and co-editor with Mark Tushnet and Sandy Levinson of Constitutional Democracy
in Crisis (Oxford 2018).
Professor Graber held a faculty position in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, from 1993 to 2007 and taught at the University of Maryland School of Law as an adjunct professor beginning in the fall of 2002. In 2004, he was appointed Professor of Government and Law at Maryland Carey Law, a title he held
until May 1, 2015, at which time he received an appointment as the Jacob A. France Professor of Constitutionalism. In 2016, he was named Regents Professor, one of only seven Regents Professors in the history of the University System of Maryland and the only Regents Professor on the UMB campus. Professor Graber received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association in 2023. In 2025, the Guggenheim Foundation awarded him a Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation Fellowship in Constitutional Studies. Professor Graber was appointed as Distinguished University Professor in 2025.
The lecture will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the Copper Auditorium located on the lower level of the Civic Center branch of the Scottsdale Public Library, 3839 N Drinkwater Blvd., Scottsdale. The doors will open at 5:00 p.m., providing an opportunity to meet the speaker, browse our book sale, and view Civil War videos. Parking is free at the adjacent sub-level
covered parking garage accessible off Northbound Drinkwater Blvd.
The public is welcome, free of charge, to attend the monthly meeting of the Scottsdale Civil War Roundtable. To view our upcoming schedule, visit our website: scottsdalecwrt.org. The Roundtable presents speakers monthly from September through May.