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"The Unvanquished" with Patrick O'Donnell
The Unvanquished: The Untold Story of Lincoln’s Special Forces, the Manhunt for Mosby’s Rangers, and the Shadow War That Forged America’s Special …
Book Talk with Jim Downs - "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine"
Virtual Book Talk Join us as historian Jim Downs reveals that the study of infectious disease depended crucially on the unrecognized contributions …
Book Talk with John Hopkins – "The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913"
Virtual Book Talk The 1913 Gettysburg Reunion is a story of 53,000 old comrades and former foes reunited and of the tension, …
"Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life" with Dr. Elizabeth Leonard
This is an IN-PERSON event at ACWM-Tredegar In a captivating lecture by Dr. Elizabeth Leonard, discover the life and legacy of Benjamin …
Solider of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant
John Reeves is the author of A Fire in the Wilderness and The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee. He has taught European and American history …
Valley Thunder: The Battle of New Market - Book Talk with Charlie Knight
Valley Thunder: The Battle of New Market and the Opening of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, May 1864 Book Talk with Charlie Knight …
Book Talk with Fergus M. Bordewich
At its peak in the early 1870s, the Klan boasted tens of thousands of members. To repel the virulent tidal wave of …
Book Talk with Bradley M. Gottfried
Follow the actions of both armies through the completion of the Overland Campaign. After the Wilderness fighting, the Army of the Potomac …
Book Talk with Derek D. Maxfield - "Man of Fire: William Tecumseh Sherman in the Civil War"
By turns, he has been called a savior and a barbarian, a hero and a villain, a genius and a madman. Condemned …