The featured lecturer is Lesley J. Gordon, Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at the University of Alabama and an award-winning Civil War historian. Her talk, “Remember the Hero: Writing ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Noted Civil War experts Brandi C. Brimmer and Judith Giesberg are leading a discussion on the 16th president and the amendment abolishing slavery during the eighth annual Frank and ...

The Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University will host its first House of Learning lecture of winter semester, “Utah and the Civil War” by Kenneth L. Alford, BYU associate professor of Church ...

Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War will be the topic of the next — and next-to-last — Trumbull Town Hall lecture. Louis Masur, a professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University, will ...

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In the early hours of April 27, 1865, mere days after the end of the Civil War, the Sultana — a 260-foot-long wooden steamboat — burst into flames along the Mississippi River. Built in Cincinnati in ...

To recognize the 160th anniversary of the conclusion of the American Civil War, the Elmhurst Choral Union will perform “An American Civil War Memorial,” an oratorio composed by Dr. Michael Karasis, on ...

WATERLOO, Iowa --- The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum, 503 South St., will present part three of the Civil War lecture series from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday. Dr. Terrance Lindell, who teaches ...

Lectures on salt production in Saltville, on Feb. 20, and the saltworks’ importance to the Confederacy, on Feb. 27, round out a four-part lecture series on the Civil War in Southwest Virginia. The ...

CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE – To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War, the Cape May County Museum is sponsoring a Spring Lecture Series on the War. On April 27, Jim ...