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Lesley Gordon Appears on C-SPAN to Discuss George Pickett

Professor Lesley Gordon, the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History, spoke at Pamplin Historical Park, in Petersburg, Virginia, several months ago. She discussed Confederate General George Pickett and his third wife, LaSalle Corbell Pickett, whose extensive writing about her late husband shaped his historical legacy in significant ways. Gordon is the author of George E. Pickett in Life and Legend (The University of North Carolina Press, 1998).

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The Department of History is Pleased to Welcome Dr. Lesley J. Gordon, the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History, to the department.

Dr. Lesley J. Gordon is the new Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at The University of Alabama, filling the position once held by Dr. George C. Rable, who retired at the end of the 2015-16 school year. Dr. Gordon is from Connecticut, originally, but has spent thirteen years in the South; she attended the College of William and Mary for her undergraduate degree and the University of Georgia for her Ph.D.; her first teaching position was at Murray […]

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