The Nau Center hosts an annual Crozer Lecture, which provides an opportunity for students, faculty, and community members to learn from distinguished scholars in the field of Civil War-era history. This lecture series of generously funded by William F. Crozer '07.
Previous Speakers
2026-27: Kevin M. Levin, "A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw"
2025-26: Scott Ellsworth, "Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War"
2024-25: Elizabeth R. Varon, "Reconsidering Longstreet: Gettysburg, Appomattox, New Orleans"
2023-24: Yael Sternhell, "War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War"
2022-23: Lorien Foote, "The Sternest Feature of War: The Ritual of Retaliation in the American Civil War"
2021-22: James Marten, "Soldiers, Civilians, and the Invention of War"
2020-21: Joseph Reidy, "Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery"
2019-20: A. Wilson Greene, "'A Perfect Hell of Blood': The Battle of the Crater"
2018-19: John Marszalek, "The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant"