Riddick House at Stevenson Ridge.
Last week, we announced our keynote speaker for the Second Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium. Dana Shoaf will be presenting “Give Them the Cold Steel (or not): A Military and Cultural History of the Bayonet.”
Today, we are pleased to announce our speaker series. The Speaker Series will begin on Friday evening and will be followed by a panel discussion on the war in 1865. The series will resume Saturday morning and continue through the day.
The speakers and their topics are:
Emmanuel Dabney: Contracts, Education and Racial Violence: The Freedmen’s Bureau in Virginia
Daniel T. Davis: One of the Longest and Most Important Marches in a Civilized Country: The Memory and Civil War Legacy of William Tecumseh Sherman
Phillip Greenwalt: Winning the War by Writing: The Formation of the Lost Cause
Chris Kolakowski: 1865: An End and a Beginning
Dave Powell: The Legacy of John Bell Hood: The Confederacy’s Most Controversial Commander
Meg Thompson: A Legacy of Caring: Dr. Letterman and Battlefield Medicine
To register for the event, please e-mail emergingcivilwar@gmail.com.
