Dr. Kristopher Teters to Speak on “An Army of Liberation: How Western Union Officers Carried out and Felt about Emancipation during the Civil War”

Poster image for this talk showing Krist Teters smiling with you book cover in the background.Please join us on February 27, at Noon, to welcome Dr. Kristopher Teters for his lunch talk, An Army of Liberation: How Western Union Officers Carried out and Felt about Emancipation during the Civil War.”

Dr. Kristopher Teters earned his Ph.D. in 2012 at The University of Alabama, working with Dr. George Rable. The focus of his work is the Civil War era. His book, Practical Liberatorswhich came out in 2018, looks at the Union army and emancipation in the Western Theater. He is a course faculty member at Western Governors University, where he teaches American History.

This event is sponsored by the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History.

If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to japrather@crimson.ua.edu by Tuesday, February 25th at 5pm.