The Georgia Historical Society

Presents

Profiles in Leadership: The Civil War Generation

 A Roundtable Discussion about leadership during the Civil War era, 1840s-1870s Featuring a panel of four distinguished and award-winning historians:

Emory Thomas, University of Georgia       Gary Gallagher, University of Virginia

William Davis, Virginia Tech                      Lesley Gordon, University of Akron

June 22, 2006                             7:00 p.m.

Georgia Public Broadcasting

260 14^th Street NE             Atlanta , Georgia

About the panelists . . .

 

Emory Thomas

Regents Professor of History at the University of Georgia (retired).  Mark W. Clark Distinguished Visiting Professor of History at the Citadel, 2002-2004.  Author, Robert E. Lee: A Life, a National Book Critics Circle nominee and a New York Times notable book; author of seven other books on the Civil War

 

Gary Gallagher

John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War, University of Virginia.  Author or editor of 25 books on the Civil War, including The Confederate War, a 1998 Lincoln Prize finalist

 

William Davis

Director of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech University

Author of more than 40 books on the Civil War including Jefferson Davis: The Man & His Hour; twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, three-time winner of the Jefferson Davis Award given for book-length works on Confederate history

 

Lesley Gordon

Associate Professor of History at the University of Akron.  Author of General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend; co-editor of Intimate Strategies: Military Commanders and Their Wives; co-author of This Terrible War: The Civil War and Its Aftermath

 

For more information on this program, please call

(912) 651-2125 x.17 or e-mail ghs@georgiahistory.com