JACKSON, Tenn. — Sept. 16, 2014 — Award-winning Civil War author and historian Elizabeth Varon will speak at the 18th annual Carls-Schwerdfeger History Lecture Series Oct. 2 at 51社区.
Varon is the Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia. She has written four books and many journal articles and book chapters related to the American Civil War and 19th-century Southern history.
Her most recent book, 鈥淎ppomattox: Victory, Defeat and Freedom at the End of the Civil War,鈥� won the Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize of the Austin Civil War Round Table and reached the level of finalist for the Jefferson Davis Award of the Museum of the Confederacy.
Varon earned her doctorate from Yale University in 1993. Her doctoral dissertation was awarded the Lerner-Scott Prize for Best Dissertation in U.S. Women's History by the Organization of American Historians. She taught at Wellesley College and Temple University before moving to the University of Virginia in 2010.
Her main address, 鈥淟egacies of Appomattox: Lee鈥檚 Surrender in History and Memory,鈥� will begin at 7:15 p.m. in the G.M. Savage Memorial Chapel. It is free and open to the public. A book signing will follow.
She will address the Union community on 鈥淩eaping the Whirlwind: Disunion Rhetoric and the Coming of the Civil War鈥� at 1:40 p.m. in the Carl Grant Events Center.
For more information, contact Stephen Carls at (731) 661-5262 or scarls@uu.edu.