The Glatthaar-Kelsey Experience
Well, we are down to the last week and final two programs of the spring season. It has been quite successful from both an attendance and content perspective. Our attendance is up a wee bit over last season, but I think the quality of our lectures has improved dramatically, with Chandra Manning and Dale Van Atta as standout performers so far. We will be announcing our summer schedule very soon, which will include the 2008 version of “7 Weeks, 7 Wars, 7 Objects” (we are putting a new spin on it this time around) and two temporary exhibits on Vietnam (July 1) and Iraq/Afghanistan (September 15). Until then, we hope that you can make the events on Tuesday evening and Friday afternoon, both of which should be very interesting and entertaining. And no, the Glatthaar-Kelsey Experience is not a acid-folk supergroup from the early 70s, although, it would be interesting to host an acid-folk supergroup in the Education Center every once in a while, wouldn’t it?
General Lee’s Army: From Victory to Collapse
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 – 7:00 p.m.
Joseph Glatthaar, Stephenson Distinguished Professor of History, University of North Carolina
Lecture and book signing
Despite nearly 150 years of scholarship about the Army of Northern Virginia, Joseph Glatthaar, using an impressive range of primary sources and statistical databases, has rewritten and reconsidered the story of the Civil War’s most important army. From Manassas to Appomattox, Glatthaar examines how Lee’s army almost led to the South to victory, and, conversely, why it lost.
A 2008 Distinguished Lecture Series Event
Presented in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of History and the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE)
Cadwallader Washburn’s War Behind the Lines
Friday, May 2, 2008 – Noon
Kerck Kelsey, historian
Lecture and discussion
Discover the remarkable story of Major General Cadwallader C. Washburn, the commanding officer of the Second Wisconsin Cavalry during the Civil War. Washburn served in the West, seeing action at Vicksburg, Helena, and Pea Ridge, and later became Commander of the Military District of Western Tennessee. In this capacity, Washburn battled with cotton speculators and crooked Treasury agents, and was even chased down a Memphis street by Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest’s cavalrymen! After the war, Washburn became a two-term Congressman and Governor of Wisconsin, and made millions as one of the founders of General Mills in Minneapolis.
