DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
2012 LAMPROS LECTURE SERIES
Presents
DR. CRAIG L. SYMONDS
Professor Emeritus, U.S. Naval Academy
“Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief: Three Examples”
Though Lincoln had no military experience, his entire administration was dominated by the most ubiquitous war in American history. In the midst of Civil War he had to re-invent the role assigned him by the Constitution: that of “Commander-in-Chief of the Army and the Navy.” Unsurprisingly, many aspects of his role were, and have remained controversial. Though much has been written about how Lincoln managed his generals, Professor Craig L. Symonds, professor emeritus at the U.S. Naval Academy will discuss how he managed the naval side of the war, including American relations with foreign powers, the blockade and the war along the coast, and the war on the western rivers.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012, 7-9:00 pm
WSU Hurst Center for Lifelong Learning, Dumke Hall
LECTURE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
PAST LECTURES
2011 LAMPROS LECTURE SERIES
Presents
DR. WILLIAM W. FREEHLING
Senior Fellow, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
“EXCRUCIATING LABOR:
HOW THE SECESSIONIST MINORITY OF SOUTHERNERS BROKE UP THE UNION”
Secession hardly resulted from a spontaneous storm in the South, sweeping up most Southerners in the conviction that Abraham Lincoln’s election to the presidency was a menace to slavery. On the contrary, most Southerners, for good reason, doubted Lincoln’s immediate menace and considered disunion a greater danger. To triumph over the South’s Unionist majority took very hard labor. The tale of how the South’s secessionist minority pulled it off is one of the most important American stories.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
7-9:00 pm
Weber State University Hurst Center for Lifelong Learning, Dumke Room
2010
DR. DONALD STOKER
Professor of Strategy & Politics, U.S. Naval War College
“THE GRAND DESIGN:
STRATEGY AND THE U.S. CIVIL WAR”
2008
2007
Trinity University
"Last in Their Class: The Goats of West Point and the American Civil War"
2006
Michael Holt
University of Virginia
"A Time of Uncertainty: The Civil War Era and America's Two-Party System"
2005
Howard Jones
University of Alabama
"Toward a More Perfect Union: Lincoln and the Death of Slavery"
2004
Carol Reardon
Penn State University
"Pickett's Charge in American Memory"
2003
David Brion Davis
Yale University
"Some New Thoughts on Events Leading to the Civil War"
2002
William C. Davis
Virginia Tech
"A New Look at Confederate Democracy"
2001
Eric Foner
Columbia University
"The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Meaning of American Freedom"
2000
James M. McPherson
Princeton University
"Was Blood Thicker than Water? Ethnic and Civic Nationalism in the Civil War"
For more information contact the Department of History at 801-626-6706