The 25th Annual Lampros Lecture on the Civil War Era will be delivered on Monday, October 19,

by Professor Fitzhugh Brundage of the University of North Carolina.

Title: The Prisoner of War Experience during the American Civil War

The lecture is based on Brundage's 2026 book, A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War.  Reviews of this book include:

• "Fitzhugh Brundage, one of our greatest historians in the archive and on the page, has written a masterpiece." -- David W. Blight, Yale University, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
• "Fitzhugh Brundage has taken on the fraught subject of Civil War prisons and has come out a winner. His mastery of sources, critical and balanced evaluations of Union and Confederate policies and governance of prisons and prisoners, clear and lucid writing, and empathetic treatment of prisoners’ traumatic experiences lift this book head and shoulders above other works on the topic." -- James McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era.
• "Gripping… An essential contribution to this rethinking [of the Civil War]."--Drew Gilpin Faust in The Atlantic; author of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.

Monday, Oct. 19
7-8:30 p.m.
Lindquist Hall 101 (formerly known as the Social Sciences Building), Weber State University

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

 

 

 

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