The Civil War Round Table of New York

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Cocktails: 5:00 pm
   Dinner: 6:00 pm
Speaker: 7:00 pm

at
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3 West 51st Street - 3rd floor
New York City

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
 JUBILEE YEAR
 49th Annual Barondess/Lincoln Prize to
 Exhibit: 
 "Lincoln and New York" at 
 The New-York Historical Society
 Recipients:
 Dr. Louise Mirrer, President & CEO
 Harold Holzer, Chief Historian
 Richard Rabinowitz, Chief Curator

Lincoln's memory is all too frequently preserved only by his words and in books. Now he can be seen and felt through the artifacts and memorabilia on display in the blockbuster exhibit, "Lincoln and New York" on view at the New-York Historical Society.  The show takes us back in time to the visit he paid to New York in February, 1860 to deliver his Presidential credentials speech at the Cooper Institute.

Room after evocative room reveals our home town then and the political whirl over the impending Presidential election. You step right into another dimension be it a saloon and its spittoons or the handbills advertising the excitement of this new man's appearance.

Dr. Louise Mirrer, the President and CEO of the New York Historical Society, acted the role of a Hollywood producer in making sure "Lincoln and New York" came to life. Harold Holzer, Lincoln scholar extraordinaire, as chief historian guaranteed the accuracy of the history on display. Richard Rabinowitz, and expert on historical exhibitions, as chief curator laid out the format of the show so that it grabs your interest from start to finish.  A perfect team effort with the wallop of intellectual integrity.

Thank you and congratulations!

 

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Speaker: Richard McMurry

Topic - A Georgina Looks at Sherman

Richard M. McMurry is a native of Atlanta. He attended the public schools in that city and in Decatur, GA. In 1961 he received the B.A. degree in history from VMI. He served two years active duty in the US Army, most of the time as the Personnel Management Officer at Fort Campbell, Ky (1961-1963). He received an honorable discharge from the Reserves in 1967. Entering graduate school at Emory University in Sept 1963, he received the M.A. degree in June 1964 and the Ph.D. in June 1967.

From 1967 until 1981 MuMurry taught history at Valdosta (Georgia) State College. He taught as an adjunct professor at North Carolina State from 1981-1988. Since 1988 he has been a freelance writer and speaker and has served as a guide/historian for many tour and cruise groups.

McMurry's field of specialization is the American Civil War. He has authored more than one hundred articles on various facets of that great conflict. In 1994 two of his books - John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence and Two Great Rebel Armies: An Essay in Confederate Military History - were listed among the one hundred best modern Civil War books as selected by the magazine United Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Fletcher Pratt Award, presented by the New York Civil War Round Table. In 1999 MuMurry published Virginia Military Institute Alumni in the Civil War: In Bello Praesidium. His history of the 1864 military operations in North Georgia - Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy - was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2000 as a volume in the Great Campaigns of the Civil War Series. The Austin (Texas) Civil War Round Table selected the book for the 2001 Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Prize awarded for distinguished scholarship and writing on the military or political history of the Civil War. McMurry's book, The Fourth Battle of Winchester: Toward a New Civil War Paradigm, was published in 2002 by Kent State University Press. McMurry has also edited or co-edited several works - notably Footprints of a Regiment (1987) by William H. Andrews; An Uncompromising Secessionist: The Civil War of George Knox Miller, 8th (Wade's) Confederate Cavalry (2007); and (with Gordon B. McKinney) the microfilm edition of The Papers of Zebulon B. Vance (1996). In 2005 the Civil War Round Table of Chicago presented McMurry with its Nevins-Freeman Award for outstanding work in Civil War history.

Richard McMurry has spoken to Civil War groups; high school, college, and university students; historical, literary, and library societies; and civic clubs in thirty states and the District of Columbia. He is a member of numerous historical societies and is active in such organizations as the Civil War Preservation Trust and the Civil War Education Association. He presently lives and writes in Dalton, GA.

 
 

 
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Speaker: Peter Cozzens
Topic: The Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1862

Peter Cozzens, the peerless historian of the Civil War's Western Theater, has brought his talents to bear for the first time on the war in the East.

His latest work, "The Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1862" gives new and refreshing insight into the fighting that helped save Richmond from capture. Above all we can sense that this campaign was not a foregone conclusion in the South's favor. It was, at last to be revealed, a very closely run affair. The North's efforts come into full view not as the plaything of Jackson but as having merit beyond any credit heretofore given. This is exciting.

Mr. Cozzens is a full time Foreign Affairs officer in the State Department making him one of that valiant band known as Public Intellectuals. His numerous works include the terrific "That Terrible Sound," "No Better Place to Die" and "The Shipwreck of Their Hopes."  (topically: Chicamauga, Stones River, Chattanooga)

 

 
 
 
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 Fletcher-Pratt Award
 
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 - TBA

 

 


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