History department announces fall 2008 lecture series
The Department of History will present a series of lectures this fall. Lectures are free and open to the general public. Directions and a campus map are available online.
Bottimore Lecture: “The Treason Trial of Jefferson Davis: A Panel Discussion”
Thursday, September 25 at 7:30 p.m.
Keller Hall Reception Room
Panelists Kent Masterson Brown, a constitutional lawyer and historian; Clint Johnson, a historian; and Cynthia Nicoletti, a graduate student at the University of Virginia, discuss the trial of Jefferson Davis.
Freeman Lecture I: “The American South in the Age of Revolutionary Nationalism”
Thursday, October 30 at 7:30 p.m.
Keller Hall Reception Room
The 2008-2009 Douglas Southall Freeman Professor of History, Don H. Doyle of the University of South Carolina, gives the first lecture of a two-part series.
Don Doyle is a historian of the United States history and has a special interest in the American South, and nationalism in the Americas and Europe. His publications include The Social Order of a Frontier Community; Nashville in the New South; Nashville Since the 1920s; New Men, New Cities, New South; The South as an American Problem (co-edited with Larry Griffin); Faulkner's County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawph; Nations Divided: America, Italy, and the Southern Question; and Nationalism in the New World (co-edited with Marco Pamplona).
The Douglas Southall Freeman Professorship of History honors one of the University of Richmond's most illustrious alumni. For sixteen years Rector of the University Board of Trustees, Freeman, Class of 1904, earned distinction as the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of biographies of Robert E. Lee and George Washington, as the decades-long editor-in-chief of the Richmond New Leader, and as a daily radio news analyst.
Freeman Lecture II: “America’s International Civil War”
Thursday, November 6 at 7:30 p.m.
Keller Hall Reception Room
The 2008-2009 Douglas Southall Freeman Professor of History, Don H. Doyle of the University of South Carolina, gives the second lecture of a two-part series.
“What Are We Fighting For? The Vietnam War from Multiple Perspectives”
Thursday, November 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Jepson Hall, Room 118
University of Massachusetts associate professor of history Chris Appy is the author of the acclaimed book Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam (1993) as well as Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945-1966 (2001). His newest book, Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides (2003), is the first oral history to bring together a diversity of voices and viewpoints that dramatically reveal the war’s impact on millions of men, women and children; civilians and combatants; Americans and Vietnamese. It was a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and won the 2004 Massachusetts Book Award for Non-Fiction.
Posted September 2, 2008