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Material from past lectures, including featured reading by guest speakers.March 9, 2010
Maury Klein, author of Days of Defiance, will scrutinize the tense days from Secession to the battle for Fort Sumter. Book signing.
Books by this speaker include:
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Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War. New York: Vintage Books, 1999.
The Change Makers: From Carnegie to Gates: How the Great Entrepreneurs Transformed Ideas into Industries. New York: Times Books, 2003.
Edward Porter Alexander. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1971.
The Great Richmond Terminal: A Study in Businessmen and Business Strategy.Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1970.
History of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. New York: Macmillan, 1972.
March 9, 2010 Lecture:
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February 23, 2010
Historian Gordon Rhea will tell the story of McGowan's Brigade of SC Infantrymen during the Civil War.
Books by this speaker include:
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The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994.
The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern May 7-12, 1864. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1997.
Carrying the flag : The Story of Private Charles Whilden,the Confederacy's Unlikely Hero.New York: Basic Books, 2004
Cold Harbor : Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
To the North Anna River : Grant and Lee, May 13-25, 1864. Baton Rouge: Lousiana State University Press, 2000.