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Join us in September for this acclaimed and popular program featuring renowned Living Historians Dr. Curt Fields and Thomas Jessee. As long-time portrayers of Generals Grant and Lee, they have presented nationwide separately and together for many years, and they […]
In the summer of 1862, partisan ranger warfare entered western Kentucky as Adam Rankin Johnson attempted to raise a regiment behind Union lines. A partisan ranger regiment operated differently than a typical cavalry regiment, mostly since their activities were behind […]
Stuart W. Sanders will be speaking about his book Anatomy of a Duel: Secession, Civil War, and the Evolution of Kentucky Violence, which examines a duel fought with Colt Revolving Rifles near Maysville, Kentucky, in 1862 between a Union colonel […]
John David Smith is the Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has written or edited thirty-one books, including An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, […]
Laurance B. VanMeter, of Lexington, Kentucky, served on the Kentucky Supreme Court from 2017 to 2025 where he was just the third Justice to have served at all four levels of the Kentucky unified court system. His fellow justices elected […]
Charles H. Bogart grew up in Newport and Ft. Thomas, Kentucky, and now lives in Frankfort, Kentucky. He has a BA in History from Thomas More University and a MCP from The Ohio State University. He retired from the Kentucky […]
Phillip Seyfrit is a lifelong resident of Richmond and Madison County. He is a graduate of Model Laboratory School, Eastern Kentucky University and the Mid-America College of Funeral Service. After over two decades in funeral service, Phillip took the position of […]
Donna Dodd Terrell, of Lexington, KY, graduated from University of Kentucky with her B.A. in Education and Journalism, and thereafter earned her J.D. from University of Kentucky School of Law. She became Law Clerk to Chief Justice Robert F. Stephens […]
Caroline E. Janney is the John L. Nau III Professor of the American Civil War and Director of the John L. Nau Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. A graduate of the University of Virginia, she […]
In November, Roundtable members will be treated to a fine, informative, and entertaining presentation by Dr. Curt Fields as he portrays General Ulysses S. Grant. Dr. Fields, a physician from Collierville, Tennessee, has cultivated the persona of General Grant to […]
I am pleased to present to the Kentucky Civil War Roundtable our speakers for the upcoming 2024/2025 Season. Beginning on September 9, 2024, we will have two speakers: Bryan Bush, the Manager of the Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site, and […]
A Kentucky native, Mack Cox is a collector and an independent scholar of early Kentucky material culture. He received his BS and MS degrees in geology from Eastern Kentucky University and pursued an oil and gas career from which he […]