The Nau Center is pleased to announce the details of our three book panels at the Virginia Festival of the Book for 2017.
All three panels, like most events at the Festival, are free and open to the public.
For more information, please see the links below to learn more about each panel, read short reviews of each book, and discover other great Festival events to attend at the Festival’s official website.
Thursday, March 23
(1) 10:00-11:30 AM: “Fresh Perspectives on the Civil War”
Location: Harrison Small Special Collections Library, Auditorium, University of Virginia
Moderated by: Elizabeth R. Varon
Authors & Books:
D. H. Dilbeck, A More Civil War: How the Union Waged a Just War
Jon Grinspan, The Virgin Vote: How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century
Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Northern Character: College Educated New-Englanders, Honor, Nationalism, and Leadership in the Civil War Era
(2) 4:00- 5:30 PM: “Civil War: The Governors and Commanders”
Location: City Council Chambers, Charlottesville, VA
Moderated by: George H. Gilliam
Authors & Books:
Stephen D. Engle, Gathering to Save a Nation: Lincoln and the Union’s War Governors
Wayne Hsieh and Williamson Murray, A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War
Friday, March 24
(3) 10:00-11:30 AM: “Civil War: Southern Women, Black Regiments, and Night Vision”
Location: Harrison Small Special Collections Library, Auditorium, University of Virginia
Moderated by: Gary W. Gallagher
Authors & Books:
Catherine Clinton, Stepdaughters of History: Southern Women and the American Civil War
Douglas Egerton, Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
Jonathan W. White, Midnight in America; Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War