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9th
Annual
Symposium
"Great Controversies of the Civil War"
October 15 - 16, 2005
Nationally-renowned historians discuss some of the most controversial
aspects of the Civil War. Reservations and fee required.
Program:
- What Caused the Civil War and Could
the War Have Been Avoided?
Jim McPherson, Pulitzer Prize Winner
- Why Did Citizens Become Soldiers?
John Coski, Historian and Library Director
of the Museum of the Confederacy
- The Lost Cause: Myth or Reality?
Richard Sommers, U.S. Army Military
Institute, Chief Archivist
- Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg:
Who's to Blame?
Pete Carmichael, Professor of History,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Did the Confederacy Lose the Will
to Win the War and Was the Loss of Morale a Significant
Factor in Confederate Defeat?
George Rable, Professor of History,
University of Alabama
- Grant's Generalship in 1864: Butcher
or Brilliant?
Will Greene, Executive Director, Pamplin
Historical Park
Symposium location: Pamplin
Historical Park and the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier,
Petersburg, Virginia
Symposium registration: $195, includes lectures,
tours and meals
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