Shepherd University

Shepherd's George Tyler Moore Center to host Civil War seminar

ISSUED: 1 April 2005
CONTACT: Valerie Owens
304/876-5465
(Shepherd's George Tyler Moore Center to host Civil War seminar)

Shepherdstown, WV--Shepherd University's George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War will host Lighting the Fuse: The Causes of the Civil War and the Opening Battles, Thursday, June 23-Sunday, June 26.

Dr. Charles B. Dew will serve as the scholar in residence. Dew is the Ephraim Williams professor of American history at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he teaches courses on the American south, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. His keynote lecture will draw on his research for his most recent book, Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War, for which he received the 2001 Fletcher Pratt Award. Dew's other works include Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge and Ironmaker to the Confederacy: Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Iron Works.

The seminar will also feature a tour of Harpers Ferry by Dennis Frye, chief of interpretation at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, focusing on John Brown's raid and 1861 capture, and a tour of First Manassas and Balls Bluff by Dr. Ethan Rafuse, associate professor of military history, Department of Military History, Command, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Other presenters at the seminar include David Ward, assistant library director at Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut; Dr. Thomas Clemens, professor of history and political science at Hagerstown Community College; Colonel Robert Dalessandro, director of United States Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, Pennsylvania; Dr. Chistopher Stowe, former Nethken Fellow at the George Tyler Moore Center; and Dr. Mark Snell, George Tyler Moore Center director.

Plans include $425 double occupancy, $550 single occupancy, and a $275 commuter plan. Resident plans include tuition, accommodations, meals, and transportation. The commuter plan includes tuition and transportation. A meal plan is available for an additional fee. A $50 deposit is required by Friday, May 27 to secure a space for the seminar. For more information, contact the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War at 304/876-5429.

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