Moderator: Ken Price, University Professor and Hillegass Chair, Co-Director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska

"The Mannahatta Project: Integrating History, Geography and Natural Science to Explore the Place of Cities in Nature," Eric Sanderson, Senior Conservation Ecologist, Wildlife Conservation Society, New York City

“Deep Historical Regionalism: Los Angeles and the Institutional Ecology of a Global Metropolis,” Philip Ethington, Professor of History, University of California at Los Angeles

"Civil War Washington: Interpreting a National Capital in Crisis and Transformation," Kenneth Winkle, Sorensen Professor History, University of Nebraska.