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Summersell Chair Sponsors two Visits in February

Dr. Lesley Gordon, Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History, welcomed two visitors to The University of Alabama Department of History during the month of February. Matthew Christopher Hulbert (Ph.D., UGA, 2015) is an Assistant Professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College. Dr. Hulbert delivered his lecture “Irregular Recollections: Civil War and Guerrilla Memory in the Missouri-Kansas Borderlands” to a crowd of faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students. Based on his award-winning book, The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers […]

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

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 Liberators, which came out in 2018, looks at the Union army and emancipation in the Western […]

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