We caught up with Amy Murrell Taylor, Ph.D. to ask her some questions about her work and research. Amy Murrell Taylor is a Professor of History at the University of Kentucky and a recent Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner for her book, Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps. You can see Amy Murrell Taylor at our upcoming Foundry Series on Nov. 21, Living in "Temporary" Shelters.

This month's Foundry Series, The US Military and Rebuilding after War, Cecily Zander, Ph.D. candidate, Pennsylvania State University. We reached out to get more insight into what influences her work.

How did you become interested in your topic and what about your work still fascinates you?

This month's Foundry Series event, Politics and the Supreme Court, features Timothy Huebner of Rhodes College. Dr. Huebner was kind enough to answer a couple questions before the event. Make plans to join us on the 24th.

How did you become interested in your topic and what about your work still fascinates you?

We're looking forward to Michael K. Shaffer speaking at both Appomattox and Richmond later this month. Make plans to come out on October 26^th in Richmond and October 27^th in Appomattox. Dr.

Ahead of our annual Elizabeth Roller Bottimore lecture, we asked our two speakers - Dr. Edward Ayers and Dr. Gary Gallagher - to answer two questions. The lecture is currently sold out, but you can sign up for the waiting list now. 

Have the intense public discussion about the Civil War in the wake of Charleston and Charlottesville affected your own approaches to the study of the Civil War?

Make plans to join us for a book talk this Saturday with John Reeves. In his book, The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee, Reeves tells the story of the forgotten legal and moral case that was made against the Confederate general after the Civil War. The actual indictment went missing for 72 years. Over the past 150 years, the indictment against Lee after the War has both literally and figuratively disappeared from our national consciousness. The talk is included with Museum admission. Mr.

Join us this Saturday for a Book Talk with Michael Hardy. Mr. Hardy was kind enough to answer a couple questions ahead of this Saturday's talk. 

How did you become interested in your topic and what about your work still fascinates you?

Plan to come out for this Thursday's Foundry Series, The 14th Amendment and Birthright Citizenship, with Dr. Martha Jones of Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Jones was kind enough to answer a couple questions to get you thinking before the event on Thursday night.

By Guest Blogger Brig. Gen. John Mountcastle 

On April 3, 1865, Federal troops prepared to march into Richmond. A cavalry detachment under Majors Stevens and Graves moved up the Osborne Turnpike, east of Richmond. Here they met Richmond Mayor Joseph Mayo and a small party moving toward them in a carriage flying a white flag.  The Mayor passed a note to Stevens advising him that Confederate forces had withdrawn from Richmond and asking that Federal troops occupy the city, some parts of which were on fire.