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Cameron Sauers – F. Scott Fitzgerald & the American Civil War
Cameron Sauers is a summa cum laude graduate in History from Gettysburg College under our friend and frequent speaker Dr. Peter Carmichael and is studying for his master’s degree and doctorate in History at the […]
KCWRT Member Wins Best in Show
Congratulations to KCWRT Member Phil McCoy. This past May, Phil’s display of “Photographs and Relics of John Hunt Morgan and His Men” won Best of Show at the 44th Annual Ohio Civil War and World […]
Remembering Dr. G. Hambleton Tapp
Dr. G. Hambleton Tapp was a founder and first Secretary of the Kentucky Civil War Roundtable, elected at its first meeting on November 18, 1953. He served as Secretary until 1984, the longest tenure of […]
Dr. Gary Gallagher
Gary W. Gallagher is the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War Emeritus at the University of Virginia. He taught at Penn State University for twelve years before joining […]
Eulogy to Charles Pierce Roland
To me he was Charlie. We were close friends for more than forty years. What brought us together was a mutual love for American History, and Civil War History in particular. Charlie was born in […]
Dr. Kenneth Noe – The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War
Dr. Kenneth Noe has become one of our most notable historians of the American /Civil War. A native of Montgomery County, Virginia, he is a graduate of Emory and Henry College. He earned master’s degrees […]
Brad Asher – The Most Hated Man in Kentucky: The Lost Cause and the Legacy of Union General Stephen Burbridge
Brad Asher earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has taught history at a number of colleges and universities, including the University of Puget Sound, the University of Pennsylvania, Widener University, and Jefferson […]
Stephen M. Hood – Patriots Twice: Former Confederates and the building of America after the Civil War
In this age when Confederate statues are torn down and the memory of the Confederate soldiers is undergoing a systematic attempt at erasure, I wonder about all those Confederates, famous and obscure, who, after the […]
Kent M. Brown – Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command
The speaker for the September 13, 2021 meeting is our own Kent Masterson Brown. He has promised to bring several copies of his new book Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command. He will be […]
Steve T. Phan – Park Ranger & Historian
Steve T. Phan is a Park Ranger and Historian at the Civil War Defenses of Washington. He recently served as acting Chief of Interpretation at Camp Nelson National Monument. He has also worked at Gettysburg […]
The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies
Peter S. Carmichael is the Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies at Gettysburg College and the Director of the Civil War Institute. Peter’s books include: Lee’s Young Artillerist: William R.J. Pegram, and, Audacity […]
Dr. Stephen Davis – Photographs Taken by George N. Barnard during the occupation of Atlanta by General William T. Sherman’s army in the summer of 1864
The members of the Kentucky Civil War Roundtable heard a wonderful lecture in November by Gordon Jones. He spoke about the great Cyclorama of the July 22, 1864 Battle of Atlanta. Gordon refused to accept […]