November 2003: “Lincoln’s Avengers: The Federal Government and the Assassination of Lincoln,” Keynote Lecture, Rhode Island Civil War Round Table, Providence, Rhode Island. November 2003: “Lincoln’s Avengers: The Federal Government and the Assassination of Lincoln,” Joshua L. Chamberlain Civil War Round Table, Brunswick, Maine. August 2003: “Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Joshua L. Chamberlain Days Conference, Penobscot Historical Society, Brunswick, Maine.
May 2003: “Teaching the Civil War,” Society for Military History Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee. March 2003: “Women and the Civil War,” Winthrop area Business and Professional Women’s Club, Winthrop, Maine. (This event was cancelled due to weather.) March 2003: “Women Spies of the Civil War,” Gettysburg National Monument “Women in the Civil War” Conference, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. February 2003: “Women’s Work in the Civil War,” The Interim Club, Waterville, Maine. December 2002: “Mary Surratt and the Lincoln Assassination,” Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Civil War Round Table, Brunswick, Maine. (This event was cancelled due to weather). October 2002: “Maine, Women, Leadership, and Democracy in 19th Century: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Dorothea Dix,” Legacy of Leadership Conference, Washburn-Norlands Living History Center, Livermore Falls, Maine. October 2001: “Mary Surratt and the Assassination of Lincoln,” Maine Retired Teachers Association Annual Conference, Augusta, Maine. June 2001: Invited response to a talk on General Ulysses Grant, Gettysburg Institute, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. April 2001: “ Mary Surratt and the Lincoln Assassination,” New Hampshire Civil War Roundtable, Epping, New Hampshire. March 2001: “Mary Surratt and the Lincoln Assassination,” invited talk for a three-day conference (“War Makes Rattling Good History”) held in Wittenberg, Germany, by the Institute for American Studies. March 2001: “Women and the Civil War,” University of Maine’s Women’s History Month Celebration. December 2000: “Mary Surratt and the Plot to Assassinate Lincoln,” Joshua Chamberlain Civil War Roundtable in Brunswick, Maine, on my work on Mary Surratt. (The event was cancelled due to weather.) October 2000: “Women Soldiers, Spies, and Activists,” Maine Retired Teachers Association Annual Conference, Augusta, Maine. October 2000: Keynote speaker, 13th Annual All Servicewomen Past & Present Luncheon, sponsored by Maine Unit #41, Waves National, Augusta, Maine. July 2000: “All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies,” National Archives, Washington, D. C. This talk was videotaped and broadcast by C-Span’s “Booknotes.”
March 2000: Keynote speaker, Maine Women’s Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Augusta, Maine. October 1999: “The Civil War: A Women’s War, Too,” Colby College Family Weekend Faculty Lecture. September 1999: “The Importance of Archives and Museums for Historical Research,” Maine Archives and Museums 1999 Fall Conference, Colby College, Waterville, Maine. September 1999: “Women and the Civil War,” Augusta Area Business and Professional Women’s Club, Augusta, Maine. September 1999: “The Women of All the Daring of the Soldier,” North Shore Civil War Roundtable, Huntington, New York.
July 1999: “Women and the Civil War,” Colby Alumni College 1999, Waterville, Maine. June 1999: “Women and the Civil War,” Washburn Humanities Conference, Livermore, Maine. March 1999: “Women and the Civil War,” Waterville Area Business & Professional Women’s Club, Waterville, Maine. May 1998: “On Writing Yankee Women,” American and New England Studies End of the Year Gathering, University of Southern Maine, Freeport, Maine. April 1998: “Women’s Participation in the Civil War,” Civil War Roundtable of New Hampshire, Epping, New Hampshire. February 1998: “Women Confront the Civil War,” Maine Historical Society Speakers Series, Portland, Maine. January 1998: “She-Rebels and Other Female Activists in Civil War Espionage and Resistance,” Joshua L. Chamberlain Civil War Roundtable, Brunswick, Maine. June 1997: "What's in a Name? Gendering the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies in the Civil War," Conference on Women in the Civil War, Frederick, Maryland. April 1997: "'She-Rebels' and other Female Activists in the Civil War: The Testimony of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies," Organization of American Historians, San Francisco, California. (James McPherson, Chair.) June 1996: "'Half-Soldier Heroines": Women in the Civil War Military and Victorian Notions of Gender," 1996 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. December 1994: "The Women of Yankee Women," National Archives, Washington, D. C. June 1994: "'Men to the Musket, Women to the Needle': Annie Wittenmyer's Civil War," Iowa Cultural Heritage Expo, Des Moines, Iowa. April 1994: "Civil War Nurse, Civil War Nursing: Rebecca Usher of Maine," New England Historical Association, Waltham, Massachusetts. June 1993: "Extreme Pressure and Limited Tolerance: The Civil War Story of Mary Edwards Walker, M. D.," 1993 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Vassar College. October 1992: "Northern Women of the Civil War," Colby College Women's Studies Colloquium. June 1991: "Northern Women and Gender Boundaries in the Civil War," Western Association of Women Historians Conference, Asilomar, California.
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Lincoln’s Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion after the Civil War (W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., March 2004). Elizabeth D. Leonard tells the dramatic story of the assassination, the roundup of suspects, and the ensuring trials of those involved in the crimes of April 14. Did the federal government mete out justice or revenge in response to Lincoln's assassination?
Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse, and Spy: A Woman’s Adventures in Union Army, by Sarah Emma Edmonds (originally published in 1864), editor and author of introduction. (Northern Illinois University Press, 1999.) Among the hundreds of women who, disguised as men, enlisted to serve in the union army, only Sarah Edmons is known to have written a memoir recounting her experiences. As "Franklin Thompson" she joined the 2nd Michigan Infantry Regiment ion l861, then fought in some of the bloodiest struggles of the Civil War, from the first battle of Bull Run to the Kentucky Campaign of l863. 
All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies (W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1999; paperback: Penguin Books, 2001). This book was also chosen as a selection for the History Book Club, the Book of the Month Club, and the Quality Paperback Book Club. These are the fascinating stories of the women who worked as spies, as daughters of the regiments, or, disguised, as male soldiers to play their heroic part in the Civil War. Historian Leonard has combed archives, memoirs, and histories to unearth the stories of the hidden and forgotten women who risked their lives for the blue or gray. 
Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War (W. W. Norton & Co., 1994), cloth and paper. Leonard portrays the muiltiple ways in which women dedicated themselves to the union. by delving deeply into the lives of three women-Sophronia Bucklin, Annie Wittenmyer, and Mary Walker - Leonard brings to life the daily manifestations of women's wartime service. 
