GALLAGHER • HOLZER • WAUGH • SYMONDS • RHEA
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Gary GallagherA prolific author, and Professor in the History of the American Civil War, Emeritus Director, John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. Biography
Craig SymondsProfessor Emeritus of History at the United States Naval Academy, where he taught for over 30 years. He received Pritzker Military Museum & Library’s 2023 Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement Military Writing. Biography
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Harold HolzerWriter, lecturer, and winner of the 2015 Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize, he is one of the country's leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. Biography
Gordon RheaA former Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington D.C. and the Virgin Islands, he has written a magisterial five-volume campaign study of the 1864 Overland Campaign. Biography
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Joan WaughProfessor Emeritus at UCLA she researches and writes about nineteenth-century America, specializing in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age eras. Biography
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Stanton Theatre
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JUST ADDED: An original and deeply engaging presentation
has been included in the Saturday afternoon session, featuring:
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Evan C. JonesEvan C. Jones completed his undergraduate work at the University of Virginia, where he graduated with "Highest Distinction." He is co-editor of the Civil War Monitor "Best Book," Gateway to the Confederacy. LSU Press.
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What’s included: Friday night (March 1) Art Gallery admission, wine & cheese reception in the gallery, and author panel in the theater. Full schedule of eleven presentations in the theater, six on Saturday (March 2), and five on Sunday (March 3).
What’s not included: meals, or hotel accommodations.
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SCHEDULE
(subject to change)
FRIDAY (March 1, 2024)
6:30-7:30 p.m. (2nd Floor Gallery) REGISTRATION; Wine and cheese reception in art gallery adjacent to the theater.
7:45-9:00 p.m. (Theatre): Introduction of presenters, panel discussion: Reflections on1864 & War’s End.
SATURDAY (March 2, 2024)
(All presentations will be held in the Stanton Center Theater)
9:00-9:45 — JOAN WAUGH
The Confederacy Totters to Its Destruction: Vicksburg as a Turning Point
10:00-10:45 — HAROLD HOLZER
So Much Savage Feeling: Lincoln, Nativism, and Immigration
11:00-11:45 — GARY GALLAGHER (via Zoom in the theater)
Robert E. Lee and the Question of Loyalty
11:45-1:30 — LUNCH BREAK (on your own). Enjoy one of the many fine eateries in the vicinity of the Plaza, downtown, or nearby at the Old Fisherman’s Wharf
1:45-2:30 — GORDON RHEA
Assessing the Stormy Relationship Between Grant and Meade
2:45-3:30 — CRAIG SYMONDS
The Georgia Campaign, 1864: Sherman vs. Johnston
3:45-4:30 — EVAN C. JONES
Andersonville Rediscovered: Etchings of a Confederate Prison Turned Freedmen's Community
4:45–5:30 — BOOK SIGNING IN THE LOBBY
SUNDAY (March 3, 2024)
9:00-9:45 — GORDON RHEA
Comparing the Generalship of Grant and Lee in the Overland Campaign
10:00-10:45 — HAROLD HOLZER
Lincoln vs. the Press, 1840-1865
11:00-11:45 — CRAIG SYMONDS
The Navy and the River War
11:45-1:30 — LUNCH BREAK (on your own). Enjoy one of the many fine eateries in the neighborhood of the Plaza, downtown, or nearby at the Old Fisherman’s Wharf
1:45-2:30 — JOAN WAUGH
General Grant’s Appomattox Surrender Revisited
2:45-3:30 — GARY GALLAGHER (via Zoom in the theater)
The Grand Review
3:30 Closing Comments: end of conference
6:30-7:30 p.m. (2nd Floor Gallery) REGISTRATION; Wine and cheese reception in art gallery adjacent to the theater.
7:45-9:00 p.m. (Theatre): Introduction of presenters, panel discussion: Reflections on1864 & War’s End.
SATURDAY (March 2, 2024)
(All presentations will be held in the Stanton Center Theater)
9:00-9:45 — JOAN WAUGH
The Confederacy Totters to Its Destruction: Vicksburg as a Turning Point
10:00-10:45 — HAROLD HOLZER
So Much Savage Feeling: Lincoln, Nativism, and Immigration
11:00-11:45 — GARY GALLAGHER (via Zoom in the theater)
Robert E. Lee and the Question of Loyalty
11:45-1:30 — LUNCH BREAK (on your own). Enjoy one of the many fine eateries in the vicinity of the Plaza, downtown, or nearby at the Old Fisherman’s Wharf
1:45-2:30 — GORDON RHEA
Assessing the Stormy Relationship Between Grant and Meade
2:45-3:30 — CRAIG SYMONDS
The Georgia Campaign, 1864: Sherman vs. Johnston
3:45-4:30 — EVAN C. JONES
Andersonville Rediscovered: Etchings of a Confederate Prison Turned Freedmen's Community
4:45–5:30 — BOOK SIGNING IN THE LOBBY
SUNDAY (March 3, 2024)
9:00-9:45 — GORDON RHEA
Comparing the Generalship of Grant and Lee in the Overland Campaign
10:00-10:45 — HAROLD HOLZER
Lincoln vs. the Press, 1840-1865
11:00-11:45 — CRAIG SYMONDS
The Navy and the River War
11:45-1:30 — LUNCH BREAK (on your own). Enjoy one of the many fine eateries in the neighborhood of the Plaza, downtown, or nearby at the Old Fisherman’s Wharf
1:45-2:30 — JOAN WAUGH
General Grant’s Appomattox Surrender Revisited
2:45-3:30 — GARY GALLAGHER (via Zoom in the theater)
The Grand Review
3:30 Closing Comments: end of conference
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