Tonya Archey of our list sent them to me and I would like to pass the information on to you. Sandi >Subject: First Annual Civil War Lecture > >First Annual Civil War Lecture >Thursday, October 13, 7:00 p.m. >Gary Ransdell Hall > > On Thursday evening, October 13, 2011, the Institute > for Civil War Studies and the Department of History at Western > Kentucky University will host the First Annual Civil War > Lecture. The lecture will take place at 7:00 p.m. in the > auditorium of Gary A. Ransdell Hall on campus. The inaugural > lecture will be delivered by Michael Vorenberg, Associate Professor > of History at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. His > topic will be "American by War: The People and Their Nations > during the Civil War." The lecture will offer a preview of > Professor Vorenberg's forthcoming book on how the Civil War > influenced modern definitions and perceptions of U.S. > citizenship. Admission to the lecture is free, and the public is > invited to attend. > > Professor Vorenberg received his A.B. and Ph.D. degrees > from Harvard University. After receiving his Ph.D., Professor > Vorenberg was a postdoctoral fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois > Institute at Harvard, and then an Assistant Professor of History at > the State University of New York at Buffalo. He began teaching at > Brown University in 1999, became the Vartan Gregorian Assistant > Professor in 2002, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2004. > His first book, Final Freedom: The Civil War, the > Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment was published by > Cambridge University Press in 2001 and was a Finalist for the > Lincoln Prize. He is also the author of The Emancipation > Proclamation: A Brief History with Documents, forthcoming from > Bedford Books/St. Martin's. Currently, he is at work on a book > about the impact of the Civil War on American citizenship. That > project has received funding from the American Council of Learned > Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American > Antiquarian Society, and Brown University's Cogut Center for the > Humanities Institute. He has published numerous essays and articles > on topics ranging from Lincoln's plans for the colonization of > African Americans to the meaning of rights and privileges under the > Fourteenth Amendment. > From 2004 to 2007, Professor Vorenberg was a member of > Brown University's Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. He > currently is a member of the Advisory Committee of the United > States Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial and is on the Board of Editors > of Law and History Review. He lives in Barrington, Rhode Island, > with his wife and daughter. > > The Bowling Green Civil War Round Table has moved its > meeting date from the third Thursday of the month to the second > Thursday in order to take advantage of Professor Vorenberg's > lecture; the BG CWRT will convene at the lecture for its official > October gathering. Civil War enthusiasts and reenactors in the > Bowling Green area will be interested in this important > presentation by one of the country's leading experts on the war, > Abraham Lincoln, and the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth > Amendments to the Constitution. > > The Institute for Civil War Studies was established by > the Department of History at Western Kentucky University for the > purpose of promoting scholarship on Civil War topics of all kinds, > including military, political, and social subjects. Its emphasis > is on the study of the Civil War in the Western Theater (west of > the Appalachian Mountains) and particularly on how the war played > out in Kentucky. The First Annual Civil War Lecture focuses on a > broader theme: Union and Confederate citizenship during the war > era, and how our understanding of the rights of citizens has been > shaped by the war and its aftermath. > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Text inserted by Panda IS 2012: > > This message has NOT been classified as spam. If it is unsolicited > mail (spam), click on the following link to reclassify it: > http://localhost:6083/Panda?ID=pav_1218&SPAM=true&path=C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\Administrator\Local%20Settings\Application%20Data\Panda%20Security\Panda%20Internet%20Security%202012\AntiSpam >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sandi's Puzzlers: http://www.gensoup.org/gorinpuzzles/index.php Sandi's site: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky